WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (7-5-26) 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.840 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:11.360 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.520 the fifth. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.040 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.120 Here we go again. We're gonta running back to. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.680 Get in on the show called eight six six, nine 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.239 eighty seven two five seven day, and be sure to 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.279 follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch short podcasts. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.760 Here's your host, David Vasse. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:29.280 Last Day. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:31.520 Welcome to Dodger Talk. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.920 David Vasse with you until nine o'clock tonight here on 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.760 AM five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers dropped 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.599 the final game of this four game series five to 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.680 two to the Padres, who snap their season long eight 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.760 game losing streak, but are still a game under five 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.760 hundred and are now fourteen games back of the Dodgers 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.800 in the NL last eight six six nine, eight seven 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.360 two five seven is the phone number. The Padres and 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.600 Diamondbacks are both fourteen games back of the Dodgers in 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.199 the NL West. The Dodgers fifty nine to thirty two 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.600 and still have not played an extra innings game so 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.160 far this season. That's ninety one games to open up 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.880 the year without playing extra frame. So there's that little 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.600 side note to all this as well. Eight six six nine, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.240 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.199 Later in the show, we'll check in with Jose Mota. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.640 You'll hear from Edwin Diaz, who faced hitters for the 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.520 first time since going on the il after having surgery 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.440 to remove those loose bodies in his right pitching arms. 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.160 So we'll hear from the Dodgers closer about how he 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.080 felt today and when he may return. Also, we'll get 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.160 to the birthday Boys show. Hey Otani, he was back 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.600 in the starting lineup tonight. He was one for three 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.240 with an RBI in the seventh inning. He turns thirty 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.200 two today, and will get into how the Dodgers may 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.880 manage Otani the rest of the season. I have my thoughts, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.120 want to hear yours eight sixty six nine eight seven 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.919 two five seventy. But let's talk about one of the 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.720 personal sides of this game tonight, and that was late 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:25.800 Eliza Alfonso, who got his start today behind the plate. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.040 He got called up. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:32.720 Yesterday, making his major league debut tonight, and hours before 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.760 he took the field, he got the unfortunate news that, yes, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.920 his sixteen year old sister and his stepmom were found 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.560 today in Venezuela, but they were found dead, and that 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.400 is a crushing blow to him, to his dad, and 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.119 to his entire family. And then here he was tonight 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.680 making his major league debut, achieving his dream, not only 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.040 the dream he had, but even possibly the dream that 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.200 his sixteen year old sister was telling him about before 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.080 those massive earthquakes in Venezuela. We had a chance to 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.000 talk to Eliza Alfonso yesterday before the game to hear 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.480 his journey and his thoughts. Yesterday you could find it 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.840 on the iHeartRadio app, but he caught up with reporters 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.840 after tonight's game as well, walked us. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.399 Through kind of what today was like and what went 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.240 into your process of deciding. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:29.760 Is so flick. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:04:08.480 The very well he loai, I mean momentous, deficial, but 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.840 like I said, yeah. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.520 Just a really tough day, you know, tough day for 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.159 me and my family. Obviously things are out of our control. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.400 I was very grateful and thankful to God for the 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.719 opportunity to make my debut and play in this game, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.880 but obviously things didn't go well baseball, But yeah, all overall, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.599 just a very difficult day. Just you. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:38.840 Listen today what we kind of screamed on. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:58.120 Link Yea, Venezuela. One of you that make me know? 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.120 Man? 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.120 I just. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.679 Yeah, I was talking to my dad and my brother 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.920 in Venezuela. Obviously, my agent, my my girlfriend are here 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.520 and they've been helping me through this, just trying to 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.160 navigate through this whole day, and and they've been just 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.320 kind of telling me, you're asking me to enjoy the moment, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.880 enjoy this time, and just kind of processing that. But 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.640 I've had great support from my teammates as well ever 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:33.800 since I got here yesterday. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.720 How do you have to honor your family going forward? 0:05:39.680 --> 0:06:05.320 Jo shimpre. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.320 Yeah, just going out there and doing the best Liken, 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.120 you know, just remembering how my sister supported me, and 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.200 how her dream was to watch me play in these 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.560 games or playing the big leagues, and just hearing her 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.440 screams or hearing her cheers, just something that's going to 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.400 keep me pushing forward. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:12.760 All right. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.320 There's Eliza Alfonso, the Dodger rookie who made his major 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.360 league debut tonight catching Emma Sheen and unfortunately lost his 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.039 sixteen year old sister and his stepmom who are found 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:31.000 today in Venezuela after those horrific earthquakes over the magnitude 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.200 of seven point zero seven point one. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.080 Just horrible, horrible situation. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.560 There, and our thoughts and prayers are with Eliza and 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.400 his family and of course everyone in Venezuela who are 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.400 still going through all that. It's not something that just 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.880 happens overnight. This is going to be a long process 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.960 for that country, and our thoughts and prayers go out 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.839 to all of those people. Like I mentioned last night 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.120 on Dodger Talk, Miguel Rojas actually played with Alfonso's dad 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.960 in Venezuela and explain to me how Alfonso's dad, Eliza Senior, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.200 is a legend baseball legend in Venezuela. And also the 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.600 fact that Rojas knows the family is a good thing 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.680 for Alfonso right now to have him and have his 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.400 locker right next to Miggi's. And if you saw the 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.520 broadcast tonight, Rojas had something written on his cap for 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:32.800 the Alfonso family, and so did Eliza. So seriously, just 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:38.200 an incredible, incredible wave of emotions, and certainly, you know, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.800 I can't understand the feelings he had tonight making his 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.600 major league debut under those circumstances. But he has a 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.800 good baseball family around him, and it starts with Miguel Rojas. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:51.760 Good news. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.080 Like we mentioned last night, Miguel told me that his 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.280 wife and kids made it back from Venezuela yesterday morning. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.280 They actually had drive five hours to another Venezuelan airport 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.960 to be able to get a flight to Miami. So 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.280 they should be or will be on their way to 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.320 Los Angeles to be with Miguel. So that's a weight 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.720 off his shoulders that his wife and kids are safe 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.600 in the United States and they were just a building 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.000 over from a couple that collapsed when those earthquakes hit. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.000 So I'm certainly happy for Miguel Rojas, but right now 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.320 he has a lot of empathy and sympathy for Alfonso 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.400 and all the other people in Venezuela who are going 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.360 through a horrific time after those horrible earthquakes. Eight six 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.839 six seven two five seventy is the phone number. We're 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.240 gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.840 we come back, we'll take your phone calls. We'll check 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.560 in with Jose Mota. You'll hear from Edwin Diaz, and 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:53.000 we'll get into how the Dodgers should manage Otani the 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.400 rest of the first half and the rest of the 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.920 second half of the season. Dodgers fall to the Padres today, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:08.680 five to two, five seventy LA Sports. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.600 On air at AM five seventy, online at amfive seventy 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.640 LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on the 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:13.840 iHeartRadio app. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.920 This is Dodger Talk with David Massy. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.560 Dodgers fall to the Padres tonight by a final score 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.439 of five to two. The Dodgers take three out of 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.280 four from San Diego. The first two games of this series, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.840 the Dodgers came back in dramatic fashion. They were down 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.080 six to nothing in Game one on Thursday and came 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.840 back to beat San Diego twelve to seven. And then 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.160 on Friday night, ta Oscar Hernandez Is go ahay grand 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.480 slam in the seventh inning sunk the Padres. And then 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.400 last night at jem from Yamamoto, seven shutout innings with 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.240 ten strikeouts, beat San Diego three to nothing. And today 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.920 the Padres snapped their eight game losing streak behind Manny 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.760 Machado's big a three run home run in the seventh 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.559 inning off of Kyle Hurt put the Dodgers away tonight 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.880 as they beat LA for the first time in the 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.920 series five to two. 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And his 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.800 next start is scheduled to be on Friday against the 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.880 Arizona Diamondbacks, and there are some that are believing that 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.160 the Dodgers and Otani should skip his final start, considering 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.000 the scare couple nights ago, with him coming out of 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.240 the game with some bicep tightness and by the way, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.520 his right bicep that's his pitching arm, and I would 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.199 lean to agree with that. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.040 There's no reason to pitch on Friday. And here's an idea. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.040 Everybody keeps talking about, Well, the Dodgers don't want to 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.600 risk him being run down going into October. They should 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.600 shut him down from pitching completely in the second half 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.280 of the season. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:25.640 Well, here's an idea. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.040 The Dodgers did a great job last year when he 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.960 was starting to ramp up, and remember he would make 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.440 starts for an inning, maybe two innings. Why can't the 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.320 Dodgers manage it that way? It doesn't necessarily have to 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.680 be Otani pitching every ten days now instead of once 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.760 a week. You could still have him pitch once a 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.280 week and keep everybody on turn and in a routine 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.840 at least until Blake Snell returns at the end of 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.360 July or early August, and then you could reassess how 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.840 o'toni's looking and how the rest of your rotation's looking. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.800 But to come out of the gates, I would still 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.480 have Otani pitch once a week, but you can minimize 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.000 the number of innings and pitches every start that he's 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.760 out there. There's no reason to have him try to 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.880 go seven innings and throw one hundred and ten pitches 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.520 like he did in his last start, the left knee, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.720 the blister, now the right bicep. How about manage the 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.400 innings for five innings, maybe six if the pitch count 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.400 is economic enough. But how about do something similar to 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.520 what the Dodgers did last year and eventually Otani was 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.120 built up for the postseason. I see no reason why 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.800 they can't decelerate from him doing what he's doing right now, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.079 trying to go into the seventh inning, and that really 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:49.199 hasn't happened too often. And look, the reality is Christopher 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.800 Sanchez and Jacob Mizerowski. If the voting for the cy 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.880 Young was today, there's a good chance that one of 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.880 those two guys would beat out Otani for the cy Young. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.920 And if that can continues to trend in that direction, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.560 maybe Otani recognizes, I'm not gonna win the cy Young 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:07.000 this year. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:07.720 Uh. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.480 I've got to do what's best for myself for the 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.520 postseason and what's best for the team. And I don't 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:17.200 see him shutting down from pitching. That just isn't in 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.080 his DNA. I just feel like the Dodgers and Otani 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.640 can find some common ground here where he pitches once 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.480 a week, but there's no reason to push him more 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.720 than five innings every start. Eight six, six, nine, eight 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.720 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.720 out to Long Beach, Corey. You're on Dodger Talk with 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:37.840 David vasse Hi. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:43.240 Corey. Hey, David, that's a great point with Otani. I 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.000 agree with you one hundred percent. I hadn't thought of 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:46.880 that here. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.560 Yeah, there's just a thick outside of the box. Instead 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.440 of just making a black or white issue where you know, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.880 you shut him down or you just have him keep going, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.719 or he pitches once every ten days, there's gonna be 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.719 a lot of rust on him and it throws off 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:05.240 the tire rotation if he's pitching just once every ten days. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:10.280 So here is my question. I'm I'm livid, I'm upset. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.920 I'm not gonna use foul language, but why is my 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.280 boy Robo not on the All Star team? 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:18.840 Yeah? 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.880 You know what the players always complain about the players, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.320 the fans voting. You know, over the years, I think 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.320 the players have gotten a lot wrong as well. And 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.720 I don't know if they weren't paying attention to what 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.640 Robleski's done. Because I got news for you, Corey. I'm 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.120 not sure they have the stats on their phone laid 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.920 out or if they're looking at their laptop. But the 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.960 reality is five Dodgers kind of hurt Robleski in the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.840 initial selection process, I believe. But because ya, I'm amoto 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.680 likely won't be able to pitch. I'm starting to hear 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 that Misowski the way he's lined up, won't be able 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.040 to pitch. There may be openings for Robleski to be 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.560 a laid ad, So I wouldn't give up hope on that. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.680 They're better be And last thing, God bless the Alfonso 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.280 family and thank you very much for taking my call. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.600 All right, Corey, Yeah, that's a good way to end 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.200 the call. Definitely, we're thinking about the Alfonso family. Eight 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.000 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.840 phone number I mentioned. Last night on the show, Dave 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.200 Roberts talked about Evan Phillips being activated today. Well, I 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.360 got news for you. Dave Roberts said it's going to 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.280 be tomorrow. Evan Phillips will be activated tomorrow and will 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.120 be in the Dodgers' bullpen. So the Dodgers recently got 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.640 brought Stewart back on the last road trip. They're getting 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.160 Evan Phillips back tomorrow. And Edwin Diaz through the hitters 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.000 for the first time. He was in his full uniform 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.480 earlier today and that was cool to see number three 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.280 in the home whites getting ready to face hitters, including 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.440 his buddy Keithy Hernandez. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:56.480 And here's what Edwin. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.280 Diaz had to say about how he felt today and 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.960 when he may return to close games. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.480 Feel great, so a little bit hard about finally back 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.920 on the mount. Throwing feel really good, like throwing good pitches. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.320 So it's like good start. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.080 We keep hearing after the All Star break, But will 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.520 it be the first game after the All Star break? 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.480 Do you have a sense of when when exactly you'll return? 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.680 Not not really, I just I just know, you know, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.240 Azar break start next week, so I start doing rehab assignment, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.560 So any any moment after the AZAR break, I hope 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.440 I can be back with the team. As now, we 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.960 are on schedule, so everything we go in the posiitic duration, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.720 so I can't see them shape measing that the fastball. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.960 You know, that's something I couldn't do early in the 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.640 season because you know it wasn't right now. I just 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.240 gotta keep throwing right, making pitches, you know, to try 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:45.920 to throw my sltterer a little bit more first, right, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.920 like I didn't I didn't do it today, But I 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.680 feel great. My football Shay was good. They give me 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:52.920 good feedbacks. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:53.920 All right. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.280 So Edwin Diaz feeling good about his fastball, still trying 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.960 to get the field for his slider. And my under 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.480 standing is Edwin Diaz when he said he should be 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.240 returning shortly after the All Star break, it likely will 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.200 not be on that first road trip in New York 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:13.359 Philly and New York City Field his own, his old 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.440 home ballpark. He should be returning towards the end of 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:21.080 July early August. So uh, that is encouraging, and he 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.840 has a lot of life on his pitches. Let's go 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:30.000 out to Glendale. Calvin, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Calvin, Hey. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:35.000 David, I'm good. I just wanted to talk about Show 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.959 Hayes managing Show Hayes workload. And I was wondering if 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.280 you could see them doing a kind of what the 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.280 Seattle Mariners have been doing, doing like a piggyback start, 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.320 maybe having like Will Klein or someone pitched the first 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.920 like one or two innings and then having a Tony 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.880 comment and take over and that's something you can see. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.440 But then no, I can't see going that way, Calvin. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.280 Remember last year, Otani would start the games, and then 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.720 a guy like Justin Robleski, who was phenomenal last year 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.439 piggybacking Otani would be the guy on the back end 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.760 of games. And that's when Justin Robleski really became a 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.399 valuable part of the Dodgers' pitching staff because he's so 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.879 nimble and flexible and versatile to be able to start 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.359 games or come out of the bullpen as a long 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.080 man behind an Otani abbreviated start, and he pitched five 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.879 games in that seven game World Series coming out of 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.040 the bullpen, didn't give up a single run, including in 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.080 Game seven. So if the Dodgers were to do a 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:40.399 piggyback situation similar to last year, Otani's not going to 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.720 come out of the bullpen. He's going to start the game. 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.960 But let's say it's a four inning start, if that's 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.960 what they settle on, or a five inning start, then 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.480 somebody would come in after him, But no, Otani would 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.399 not come in out of the bullpen. You would have 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.520 him start the game. Because that Otani role starts to 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.560 get sticky as well. And look, come on, Otani's not 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.000 coming out to the bullpen for an opener. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.160 Right, No, yeah, I don't think you'd be about that. 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:08.640 Well, you suggested that. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.960 I was just wondering if, like you know, we could 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.600 see it happen. It seems like it's worked out for 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.800 the Mariners, but I know some of their pitches haven't 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.879 been too happy about it too, So I don't know. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.680 I feel like we talked this out, Calvin. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.000 I feel like we talked this out and you realize 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.880 Otani would not go for an opener and that idea 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.320 probably wouldn't be the solution to managing Otani. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.919 True, fair enough. Were you at Brand Boulevard? Where are 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:35.879 you going? Didn't I funk. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:37.080 Me? 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.880 I'm actually doing some deliveries right now. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.440 All right, be safe out there, Calvin. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.640 Thanks David, bye, Hi. 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:47.720 Thanks for listening. Yeah. 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.200 I don't have no opener for Otani. It would be 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.440 my suggestion would be Otani starts the game and goes 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.000 five innings. There's no need to push him even to 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.280 ninety pitches some nights, no need to even push to 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.320 push him to one hundred pitches. It's about the long game. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.159 The Dodgers have a fourteen game lead in the NLS. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.240 They don't need Otani to be a hero and go 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.280 for a complete game. That that's just not in the cards. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.960 Eight six, six, seven, two, five seventy is the phone number. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.159 Dodgers fall to the Padres tonight five to two, but 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.040 they win three out of four against San Diego and 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:24.760 they are returning. 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.919 Down South, sad. Let's go out to Jose Mota. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.639 It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.040 All right, Jose Mota, let's start with the birthday boy. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.359 What do you believe would be the best way to 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.320 manage Otani's workload as a pitcher the second half of 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:42.920 the season. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.040 Everything you said there was running the money. It's been 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:51.040 done before with previous players, previous pitchers, sometimes on effectiveness 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.240 or lack of after this six or seventh inning and 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.560 mold management. I mean, you have to manage Otani differently 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.440 you do manage anybody else in baseball. We're talking about 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.520 a guy that needs to have every single moment and 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.960 minute of his day planned out the way he likes 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.680 it to be able to perform, and if you really 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.160 explain it to him and is the right path to take, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.439 I am right with you on what they should do. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.920 Remember last year there was a change of plans. Altani 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.080 was in to pitch in early May that would push 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.040 back ALTONI was throwing full bullpens in the you know 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.320 spring twenty and twenty twenty five. They pushed him back 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.520 a little bit. He understood why then instead of throwing 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.720 all those sim games or you know, live vps against 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.480 his team, is like, why don't we just take that 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.719 into the game and save those arm well litsten and 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.600 get me back in mentality of attacking. So, yeah, David 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.040 makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.400 sense to go out there and just manage him. Understand 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.120 that body needs obviously a little bit more rest. Nowadays, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.120 he's full board with everything that goes on. The saw 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.760 Young talked is great. That takes a secondary face to 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.679 me and show he needs to understand that, you know, 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.920 whatever they do, and hope they manage it that way. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:02.760 They could just let him loose and you know, give 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.240 him a longer lease in the postseason and let him 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:06.840 go after. But you got to get there first, and 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:08.560 hopefully you want to get there with a very healthy 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:09.720 and productive show. 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:14.720 Hail toney E LIESI Alfonso Jose, what a day for him, 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.800 What emoments must have been going through him as he 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.480 was announced when he took his first at bat. I 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.080 give the Dodger Stadium crowd here a lot of credit 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.440 for understanding the circumstances. And that was pretty special as well. 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.160 Yes, and quite sad. I mean Elierzera got to meet 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.240 his father and got to cover him and talk to 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.879 him many times, and it is hard to even imagine 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.439 what he's gone through and what happened this morning, just 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:42.760 you know, and to listen to your interview and to 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.800 listen to him talk to the media after the game 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.080 or before the game about this. His little sister yelling 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.320 at him to hit the ball hard. I mean, Dave, 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.760 that stays with you forever, man, And you know, for 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:55.960