WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (6-23-26) 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.840 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.920 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:11.399 three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:12.479 the fifth fifth. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.040 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.079 Here we go again. We're got to running back to. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.599 Get in on the show called eight six six, nine 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.440 eighty seven two five seven, and be sure to follow 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.880 Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:28.280 David Vase. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:34.440 Last we are live at Target Field after the Dodgers 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:39.120 blow out the Twins twelve to three. Welcome the Dodger 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.720 Talk David Vasse with you until nine thirty tonight here 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.280 on AM five seventy LA Sports and streaming all along 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:51.040 the iHeartRadio app wherever you may be. Coming up later 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.480 in the show. In fact, in fifteen minutes you will 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.000 hear my extended conversation with Kyle Tucker. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.080 Yeah, had a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.039 It's the most we've had together as far as a 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.720 conversation and interview anything the entire first half of the year. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.720 So I got a greater appreciation for Kyle. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.080 Tucker and I'm hoping you take away understanding who Kyle 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.080 Tucker is better after listening to the interview than you 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.480 did before listening to the interview. So I look forward 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.959 to sharing that with you in fifteen minutes. Also coming 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.119 up later in the show, we will we will get 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.720 you a ta Oscar Hernandez update, who played his first 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.679 rehab game for Oklahoma City tonight, and Taoskar is expected 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.080 to be activated when the Dodgers are in Sacramento at 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.800 the end of this nine game road trip. But tonight, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.800 the Dodgers were able to win twelve to three by 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.639 hitting only one late home run that was by Alex 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.960 call By having a season high seventeen hits and scored 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:06.160 twelve runs tonight without Will Smith, without Teoscar Hernandez, and 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.639 without Kyle Tucker in the lineup. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.560 Alex Call, though, who went to high school. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.080 An hour out of downtown here in Minneapolis, was on 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.040 base four times tonight. He was the Dodger that homered 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.440 late in the game. He was on base four times tonight, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.920 he scored three times, So quite a homecoming for Alex 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.640 Call who also made two really nice catches in the 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.560 first inning tonight. And you know, Freddie Freeman on base 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.200 four times tonight, Andy Pie has three for five, three 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.560 runs scored. He had an RBI in the first inning. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.320 So loved what I saw from the Dodger lineup tonight, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.800 who were not swinging for the fences. They were just 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.680 being hitters and taking what was given to them tonight. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.280 So a really good win for the Dodgers. After a 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:00.320 twenty minute rain delay that prevented the start of this 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.000 game on time, this game was supposed to start at 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.040 four forty Pacific, it didn't start until five zho five Pacific, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.560 which was a surprise to all of us because all 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.040 day long we heard that there wasn't much of a 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.040 window to play this game, and if they did play 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.280 this game, it wouldn't start until nine o'clock or ten 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:25.000 o'clock Central time, which nobody was looking forward to. And 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.760 there was even some talk yesterday amongst the players that 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.399 there may be a doubleheader tomorrow. So all in all, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.680 a twenty eight minute rain delay to begin the game 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.960 is a huge victory for the Dodgers because they did 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.720 not want to have to play a doubleheader tomorrow. They 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.840 did not want to have to make up this game 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.360 on Thursday, and they certainly did not want to have 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.840 to come back to Minneapolis at some point in time 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.600 later in the summer. So this was a win on 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.080 two different fronts. They got all nine innings in and 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.440 they blew out the Twins twelve to three. I mentioned 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.680 Freddy Freeman three hits on base four times. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:07.160 Today. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:12.080 He had two doubles, passing Carlos Beltran for the twenty 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.080 eighth most doubles in baseball history five hundred and sixty six. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.000 Let's head downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.640 the future Hall of Famer on sports at LA. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.440 I've always seen to play well here and I didn't 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.520 know it's that high, but I guess it's high. But 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.760 hopefully we can con doe that tomorrow. But we're all 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.640 just a nice place to play, and you know, I've 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.880 obviously done well, So hopefully there's the. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.040 Two doubles tonight. You now stand at twenty eighth all time. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.720 You look at the record when it comes to your 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.560 doubles you have, do you want to know how many 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:44.880 you have? 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:45.640 Do you know already? 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.520 Well? Of course that okay, hie hundred is five hundred 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.040 and sixty six. Just when you look at your achievements, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.240 what does that just mean to you. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.960 I mean, obviously it's it's it's you know, it means 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.680 a lot. Be able to stay healthy a long time, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.160 play this game a long time. Obviously you have to 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.159 continued success throughout the course of my career. So numbers 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.800 are starting to pile, which is pretty cool. So we 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.720 keep hearing these numbers that you're approaching and people you're 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.880 kind of strong and doing a certain thing instead of 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.560 it's hard not to take a step back and appreciate. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.720 So as I get old, in my old age, I 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.440 started to, you know, appreciate the things I've been able 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.279 to accomplish over these seventeen years, and hopefully we got 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.520 a few more years left to accomplish some more things. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.880 And I thought, good again about being a little bit 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.000 frustrated the crisis approaches. The last couple of night's been 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.800 a better example of like what you guys can be 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.320 obviously offensive. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:46.280 Leachs Heirerston asked me about this yesterday. I just we 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.760 can all have opinions. I just thought it was just 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.440 two games that happens over the course of the season. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.440 We didn't really do much anything different. You just hit 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.160 the ball and they fell. I wish I could give 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.680 you a real answer. It's just new day, new results, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:07.760 different pictures. That's gonna happen, So hopefully he's happy with 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.279 us tonight. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:15.080 Yeah, that was the question from or somebody relaying what 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.440 Dave Roberts had to say about the offense in the 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.560 last two weeks. And this is the first Dodger win 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.240 by the way. I don't know if I mentioned this 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.760 before we heard from Freddy, but I'll repeat it again. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.400 It's the first Dodger win that wasn't decided by one 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:33.480 run since two weeks ago, two Saturdays ago in Chicago 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.680 against the White Sox. So it's been since what June 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.840 thirteenth the Dodgers have won a game that wasn't decided 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.680 by one run, So obviously Dave Roberts was happy with 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.520 the twelve run output by the Dodgers and only hitting 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.440 one home run. By the way, Freddy said he likes 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.800 hitting in this ballpark. In twelve games now in this 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:59.560 ballpark target field, Freddie Freeman hitting four sixty one, has 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.480 far five home runs and now six doubles, So yeah, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.880 I would say he likes sitting in this ballpark. Tonight's 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.200 game brought to you by Modello the modello the mark 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.040 of a fighter. I got to share something else with 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.640 you as far as Freddy Freeman goes, because look, this 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.920 guy's going to the Hall of Fame, and he's starting 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.760 to rack up a lot of milestones in a Dodger uniform. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.000 Twenty five hundred hits. He's gonna hit his four hundredth 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.720 home run, if not by the end of this year, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.520 next year in a Dodger uniform. And I asked our producer, engineer, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:37.120 and baseball whiz Dwayne McDonald this question to look it up, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.360 because Freddie's only twenty home runs away from four hundred. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.680 He has five hundred and sixty six doubles in his career. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.800 So I asked, Dwayne, do you know how many players 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.080 in baseball history have hit four hundred home runs and 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:58.200 five hundred and fifty doubles? And of course Dwayne got 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:05.239 the answer. Twelve players. Only twelve players in baseball history 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.520 have hit four home runs and five hundred and fifty doubles. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.400 No surprise, they're all Hall of famers. Freddie Freeman, one 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.320 he hits his four hundredth home run, will become just 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:25.280 the thirteenth player in baseball history to have four hundred 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.240 home runs and five hundred and fifty doubles. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.640 Let that sink in. Let it sink in. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.800 You are watching one of the all time great hitters 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.439 in baseball history, and one of the all time great 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.960 players to have two signature moments in his Dodger career 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.360 in baseball career, his walkoff grand Slam in Game one 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.600 of the World Series, only player to do that in 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.760 baseball history, and his eighteenth inning walk off home run 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.800 in Game three of last year's World Series, which made 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:04.000 him him and gave him the distinction of being the 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.760 only player in baseball history to have two walk off 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:13.120 home runs in World Series games. All these things are 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.120 happening while you are witnessing it, and Freddie's not a 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.840 guy that's gonna do, you know, everything that other players 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.560 do on the basis he does it with class. And 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.920 I think that's why everybody appreciates it. Eight sixty six 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.559 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.840 They appreciate it. But sometimes you overlook it, especially when 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.000 you're on the same team with shohey Otani who's doing 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.640 spectacular things that we have never seen before. Don't take 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.920 for granted what Freddie Freeman is doing and what he 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.679 has accomplished over the lifetime of his career. Let's hit 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.199 out to Bob and Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk with 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:55.079 David Vassey. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:55.800 Hi Bob. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.120 Today, Thanks for getting me on and I man, you know, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.920 in addition to stat you just pointed out about Freddie 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.560 joining one of twelve other players I believe, Rick and 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.800 Tim pointed out that if he also achieves three thousand hits, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.960 he'll become one of only seven other players in that club. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.480 So the guy's racking up these stats left and right. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.000 It's amazing to see. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.640 Well, three thousand hits. I mean, he would have a 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.120 better chance at three thousand hits if there were more 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.760 than sixty games played in twenty twenty and of course 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.480 the looming lockout coming for twenty twenty seven, it's gonna 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.720 make it tough for him to get to three thousand hits. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.400 But I'm pretty certain he's gonna hit twenty more home runs. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.600 I'm with you on that, Dave, Dad Colin in tonight 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.640 wanted to get your opinion. We're seeing so many amazing 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.520 things from Robleski this year's He's pitching like the dog 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.079 that he is does he get the All Star knob 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:52.520 this year? 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.680 Well, I was going to talk about that. How does 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.079 he not get an All Star nod? And thank you 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.040 for the phone call, Bob, and thank you for bringing 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:06.680 that up. You look at where Justin Robleski ranks in 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.200 Major League Baseball, not just the National League. Justin Robleski 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.240 has the tenth lowest ERA. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.920 In all of Major League Baseball. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.960 I mean we're talking about names like Yamamoto, Rasmussen, Eduardo Rodriguez, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:28.240 Chris Saal, Chase Burns, Christopher Sanchez, Cam Schlittler, Jacob Bizarowski. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.080 Justin Robleski he's in that category. And when you talk 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.720 about wins, tonight was his ninth win of the year, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.800 and you get wins by staying in the game, and 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.840 Justin Robleski has stayed in the game, went seven innings tonight. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:49.839 Justin Robleski is tied with guys name Christopher Sanchez, Sonny Gray, 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.439 Chase Burns, Andre Polante for the second most wins and 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.320 actually tied with these guys as far as the most 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:03.160 wins as start because Aaron Ashby has ten wins as 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.000 a reliever as a longman. All that, so Justin Robleski 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.560 has the most wins as a starter, tied with those 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.000 other guys. So I don't know how you keep Justin 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:20.120 Robleski off this roster. Yamamoto and Justin Robleski have got 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.200 to be two pitchers on this staff that goes to 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.920 the All Star Game. And also you talk about Otani, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.199 He's in his own category, and Otani's not going to pitch, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.280 so Otani's the dight. He's gonna get voted in. Why 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.320 shouldn't there be Robleski and Yamamoto? And I know you 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.679 can't have the whole team full of Dodgers, but Robleski 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.040 deserves to be on it. I don't care if Freddie 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.720 Freeman gets voted in by the fans. I don't care 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.440 if Pahz and Munsey get voted in by the fans. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.520 Robleski deserves to be part of the National League All 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.400 Star pitching staff. And there's a lot more starts to 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.640 go between now and then, But I believe the players 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.480 are getting their ballots around this time to start voting 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.800 here in the next couple of weeks, and I don't 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.120 know how they don't vote them eight six six nine, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.800 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, by 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.600 the way. All right, before we get you that ta 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.680 Oscar Hernandez update, let's hear from Justin Robleski, who spoke 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.160 to the media moments ago on Sports and at LA. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:23.760 Yeah. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.800 I mean, obviously, you know, I always watched when he 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.720 pitches before me. I think it's kind of a good 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.160 you know, just see what they're doing against lefties. Obviously 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.760 we're a little different in the way that we pitch 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.640 and stuff's a little different, but at the same time, 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.080 there's a little bit you can take away. And yeah, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.680 I think we did a good job, you know, Chucky 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.200 Mark myself, just kind of adjusting on the fly and 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.120 kind of changing the mix a little bit on on 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.040 that second third time through, and yeah, it was it 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.400 worked out well and you did that. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:47.800 I mean, what were you seeing kind of that first 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.680 time that made you want to make those adjustments. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.360 Yeah, just kind of the swings they were taken. You 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.160 could kind of kind of had a feeling of where 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:55.760 they started to look and where they started to kind 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.080 of keyhole, and so we just kind of pivoted from 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.120 from what the plan was a little bit and it 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:01.160 worked out really well. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.400 It's probably spent around for the last couple of years. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.760 But what do you think of the way that he's 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.280 integrated in here as you guys have had those injuries. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.920 Yeah, Chuck, he's caught me I think probably four or 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.599 five times. I threw him in the minor league a 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.079 couple of times, so he kind of has an idea of, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.120 you know, how to call games for me, and he's 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.400 always done a good job back there for me. So yeah, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.760 he's a great dude. He's really easy to kind of 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.960 work with and talk to during the game, and he 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.080 does a great job just kind of studying himself and 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.000 just kind of knowing what we want to do and 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:28.840 kind of feel in the game. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.080 So he's he does a great job. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.400 And yeah, he had a good day offensively today too, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.240 So that was cool to watch. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.600 Might seem a little less significant after you guys score 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.520 twelve runs, But that play at the plate, Mookie's relay, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:39.200 How huge is that? 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:39.600 What did that? 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.000 What kind of boost did that give you? Yeah? It's huge. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.840 I mean sometimes you know, even on the bench, I 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.840 get a little confused at why people like they are 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.720 so quick to send when Pat Hayes gets the ball, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.520 because he's so good at getting it in and like 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.880 he just does a great job at that part of 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:54.240 the relay. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:55.720 And then obviously Muki made a great throw. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.040 But it's tough tough to do against against Andy scoring 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.040 from first, you're not going to do it very often. Yeah, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.760 you know, and he makes a great throw in. Then 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.720 obviously Move makes a great throw home and we get 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.240 the guy out. And that's always great as a picture 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.800 because it saves a run and it's an out, so 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:08.400 it's beautiful. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.600 Yeah, it was Justin Robleski. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.120 Great night tonight, Freddie Freeman, another great night at the plate. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.840 They score twelve runs, they have seventeen hits. But I 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.320 am declaring this the Chucky Robinson game. It's the game 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.440 I'm going to remember as the Chucky Robinson game because 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.760 Chuckie Robinson has had a cup of coffee a couple 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.720 of different times in his major league career, got his 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.280 first hits as a Dodger, had to play at the 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.320 plate in the third inning, had a squeeze play where 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.920 he got the bunt down to score a run, and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.160 I mean caught seven innings from Justin Robleski. So to me, 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.840 this is the Chucky Robinson game. Eight six six nine 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.920 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.200 beat the Twins twelve to three. When we continue live 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.000 from Target Field, we will share our conversation with Kyle Tucker, 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.080 who was not in the starting lineup tonight and likely 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.320 will not be in the starting lineup until Friday in 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.880 San Diego with those backspasms. You will get to know 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.920 Kyle Tucker a little bit better, in fact a lot 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.280 better after. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.200 Listening to this interview. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.680 And also we will get you an update on ta 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.600 Oscar Hernandez, who played his first rehab game for Oklahoma 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.960 City on his way back to the Dodgers, probably in Sacramento. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.640 Dodgers beat Minnesota tonight twelve to three on a five 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:36.920 to seventy LA Sports. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.280 On air at AM five seventy, online at amfive seventy 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.320 LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on the 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.040 iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:47.840 Seven. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.840 Two Dodgers in front, now the pitch, Swanghan Belt at 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.920 the left, Indeed, Bestbaul heading. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.760 Back to the wall. Gone home run number. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:02.520 One for Alex Carl He hits his first home run 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.920 of the season right near host hometown and the Dodgers 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.680 lead at eight to two. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.000 Alex call what a day for him going back to 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.879 his old high school just an hour away from Target Field, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.840 and then gets on bas four times. Tonight, Homers scores 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.639 three times and the Dodgers beat the Twins twelve to three. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.320 Daniels Jewelers presents the home run Forecast for your chance 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.600 to win a fifty dollars Daniels Jeweler's gift card visit 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.680 AM five seventy LA sports dot Com used the keyword 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.640 home run and to your name you could win. Daniels 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.800 Jewelers own the dream. And speaking of home runs, ti 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:47.280 Oscar Hernandez homeward in his first rehab game for Oklahoma City. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.800 It came with two outs. It was a two run 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:50.400 home run. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.320 Ti Oscar Hernandez played five innings tonight, got three at 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.480 bats in his first rehab appearance, and there's a very 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.720 good chance to Oscar Hernandez will be at ctivated when 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.360 the Dodgers end this nine game road trip in Sacramento 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.480 against the A's. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.280 five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Twins 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.920 tonight twelve to three, and they did that without tay 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.560 Oscar Hernandez, without Will Smith, without Dalton Rushing, and without 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.240 Kyle Tucker who left yesterday's game with backspasms. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:24.400 And when I walked into the. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.400 Dodger clubhouse today, Kyle Tucker was right where I wanted him, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.199 in a chair getting his back, you know, treated with 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.760 some machine that he said, with some stem machine. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.159 So he was stuck. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.520 He was sitting there in the corner of the clubhouse 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.320 and I said, Hey, I've been looking for you. Let's 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.680 have a little talk here, and he knew I was coming. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.359 It wasn't an ambush. And I wanted to share this 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.879 with you because I was able to ask him the 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.080 questions that really I've been wanting to ask him for 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.240 quite some time. So here is our conversation with Kyle Tucker. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.840 And also after we get through the base ball I 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.960 feel like you'll get to know Kyle Tucker a little 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:03.400 bit more. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:04.840 Thanks for recordering me. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.120 Yeah, I know, right, you're buckled in. They you can't 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:08.720 go anywhere. You're stuck talking to me. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:10.879 Oh, perfect, right where I want to be. 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.920 So what's this machine doing for your back? Right now? 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.480 It's just like a PMF machine, just kind of just pulses. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.199 So there's like a couple of different like attachments that 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:22.720 you can do to it, and a couple guy like 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.560 a couple guys mostly pictures kind of use it. But 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.640 it's just kind of like the electromagnetic waves and pulses 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.480 through you. So I just came came here, sat down 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:34.280 for a little bit to use. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.040 It, and then I saw you, and then I saw 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.720 Tommy Edmund doing this yesterday. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.359 Yeah, it's not bad. I mean you just kind of 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.280 sit down and hang out and let it, let it 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:42.760 do his thing. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.800 How's the bag feeling today? You're not in the starting lineup. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.439 Good day to choose not to be in the starting 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:49.320 lineup with this rain. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:50.600 But how's the bag feeling? 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.480 It feels better. Kind of locked up yesterday and was 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.159 kind of tight and sore. Today it's better, so kind 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.199 of sore and bothers to kind of rotate a little bit, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:00.479 but it's better yesterday. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:01.880 So that's good improvement. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:02.680 Kyle. 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.600 Okay, A lot of people have asked you a lot 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.920 of different questions that I'm not sure I would ask 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.240 as far as your hitting goes, But I do have 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.879 specific questions to ask you that nobody's asked. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:13.800 Number one. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.360 You're swinging at the first pitch more than you ever 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.000 have in your career. Why do you think that is? 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.199 I was I think at the beginning of the season. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.080 I mean, it kind of just depends. I mean, if 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.359 sometimes that's the best pitch you're going to get in 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.480 that bat. I mean, if they're throwing it in the 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:34.800 middle ish part of the zone, like I might as 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.280 well swing at that, then take that and then have 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:38.960 to swing at pitches on the corner. So I just 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.720 gotta probably do a little bit petter job at not 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:42.679 missing those ones. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.280 I guess Dave Roberts said yesterday, you're a guy that 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.040 would run counts deep, you know, be very selective. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:50.120