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
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Speaker 1: David Vase.
Speaker 2: Last we are live at Target Field after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: blow out the Twins twelve to three. Welcome the Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk David Vasse with you until nine thirty tonight here
Speaker 2: on AM five seventy LA Sports and streaming all along
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app wherever you may be. Coming up later
Speaker 2: in the show. In fact, in fifteen minutes you will
Speaker 2: hear my extended conversation with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, had a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: It's the most we've had together as far as a
Speaker 2: conversation and interview anything the entire first half of the year.
Speaker 3: So I got a greater appreciation for Kyle.
Speaker 2: Tucker and I'm hoping you take away understanding who Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker is better after listening to the interview than you
Speaker 2: did before listening to the interview. So I look forward
Speaker 2: to sharing that with you in fifteen minutes. Also coming
Speaker 2: up later in the show, we will we will get
Speaker 2: you a ta Oscar Hernandez update, who played his first
Speaker 2: rehab game for Oklahoma City tonight, and Taoskar is expected
Speaker 2: to be activated when the Dodgers are in Sacramento at
Speaker 2: the end of this nine game road trip. But tonight,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were able to win twelve to three by
Speaker 2: hitting only one late home run that was by Alex
Speaker 2: call By having a season high seventeen hits and scored
Speaker 2: twelve runs tonight without Will Smith, without Teoscar Hernandez, and
Speaker 2: without Kyle Tucker in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Alex Call, though, who went to high school.
Speaker 2: An hour out of downtown here in Minneapolis, was on
Speaker 2: base four times tonight. He was the Dodger that homered
Speaker 2: late in the game. He was on base four times tonight,
Speaker 2: he scored three times, So quite a homecoming for Alex
Speaker 2: Call who also made two really nice catches in the
Speaker 2: first inning tonight. And you know, Freddie Freeman on base
Speaker 2: four times tonight, Andy Pie has three for five, three
Speaker 2: runs scored. He had an RBI in the first inning.
Speaker 2: So loved what I saw from the Dodger lineup tonight,
Speaker 2: who were not swinging for the fences. They were just
Speaker 2: being hitters and taking what was given to them tonight.
Speaker 2: So a really good win for the Dodgers. After a
Speaker 2: twenty minute rain delay that prevented the start of this
Speaker 2: game on time, this game was supposed to start at
Speaker 2: four forty Pacific, it didn't start until five zho five Pacific,
Speaker 2: which was a surprise to all of us because all
Speaker 2: day long we heard that there wasn't much of a
Speaker 2: window to play this game, and if they did play
Speaker 2: this game, it wouldn't start until nine o'clock or ten
Speaker 2: o'clock Central time, which nobody was looking forward to. And
Speaker 2: there was even some talk yesterday amongst the players that
Speaker 2: there may be a doubleheader tomorrow. So all in all,
Speaker 2: a twenty eight minute rain delay to begin the game
Speaker 2: is a huge victory for the Dodgers because they did
Speaker 2: not want to have to play a doubleheader tomorrow. They
Speaker 2: did not want to have to make up this game
Speaker 2: on Thursday, and they certainly did not want to have
Speaker 2: to come back to Minneapolis at some point in time
Speaker 2: later in the summer. So this was a win on
Speaker 2: two different fronts. They got all nine innings in and
Speaker 2: they blew out the Twins twelve to three. I mentioned
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman three hits on base four times.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: He had two doubles, passing Carlos Beltran for the twenty
Speaker 2: eighth most doubles in baseball history five hundred and sixty six.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from
Speaker 2: the future Hall of Famer on sports at LA.
Speaker 4: I've always seen to play well here and I didn't
Speaker 4: know it's that high, but I guess it's high. But
Speaker 4: hopefully we can con doe that tomorrow. But we're all
Speaker 4: just a nice place to play, and you know, I've
Speaker 4: obviously done well, So hopefully there's the.
Speaker 5: Two doubles tonight. You now stand at twenty eighth all time.
Speaker 5: You look at the record when it comes to your
Speaker 5: doubles you have, do you want to know how many
Speaker 5: you have?
Speaker 3: Do you know already?
Speaker 5: Well? Of course that okay, hie hundred is five hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty six. Just when you look at your achievements,
Speaker 5: what does that just mean to you.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it's it's it's you know, it means
Speaker 4: a lot. Be able to stay healthy a long time,
Speaker 4: play this game a long time. Obviously you have to
Speaker 4: continued success throughout the course of my career. So numbers
Speaker 4: are starting to pile, which is pretty cool. So we
Speaker 4: keep hearing these numbers that you're approaching and people you're
Speaker 4: kind of strong and doing a certain thing instead of
Speaker 4: it's hard not to take a step back and appreciate.
Speaker 4: So as I get old, in my old age, I
Speaker 4: started to, you know, appreciate the things I've been able
Speaker 4: to accomplish over these seventeen years, and hopefully we got
Speaker 4: a few more years left to accomplish some more things.
Speaker 6: And I thought, good again about being a little bit
Speaker 6: frustrated the crisis approaches. The last couple of night's been
Speaker 6: a better example of like what you guys can be
Speaker 6: obviously offensive.
Speaker 4: Leachs Heirerston asked me about this yesterday. I just we
Speaker 4: can all have opinions. I just thought it was just
Speaker 4: two games that happens over the course of the season.
Speaker 4: We didn't really do much anything different. You just hit
Speaker 4: the ball and they fell. I wish I could give
Speaker 4: you a real answer. It's just new day, new results,
Speaker 4: different pictures. That's gonna happen, So hopefully he's happy with
Speaker 4: us tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the question from or somebody relaying what
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts had to say about the offense in the
Speaker 2: last two weeks. And this is the first Dodger win
Speaker 2: by the way. I don't know if I mentioned this
Speaker 2: before we heard from Freddy, but I'll repeat it again.
Speaker 2: It's the first Dodger win that wasn't decided by one
Speaker 2: run since two weeks ago, two Saturdays ago in Chicago
Speaker 2: against the White Sox. So it's been since what June
Speaker 2: thirteenth the Dodgers have won a game that wasn't decided
Speaker 2: by one run, So obviously Dave Roberts was happy with
Speaker 2: the twelve run output by the Dodgers and only hitting
Speaker 2: one home run. By the way, Freddy said he likes
Speaker 2: hitting in this ballpark. In twelve games now in this
Speaker 2: ballpark target field, Freddie Freeman hitting four sixty one, has
Speaker 2: far five home runs and now six doubles, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I would say he likes sitting in this ballpark. Tonight's
Speaker 2: game brought to you by Modello the modello the mark
Speaker 2: of a fighter. I got to share something else with
Speaker 2: you as far as Freddy Freeman goes, because look, this
Speaker 2: guy's going to the Hall of Fame, and he's starting
Speaker 2: to rack up a lot of milestones in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: Twenty five hundred hits. He's gonna hit his four hundredth
Speaker 2: home run, if not by the end of this year,
Speaker 2: next year in a Dodger uniform. And I asked our producer, engineer,
Speaker 2: and baseball whiz Dwayne McDonald this question to look it up,
Speaker 2: because Freddie's only twenty home runs away from four hundred.
Speaker 2: He has five hundred and sixty six doubles in his career.
Speaker 2: So I asked, Dwayne, do you know how many players
Speaker 2: in baseball history have hit four hundred home runs and
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty doubles? And of course Dwayne got
Speaker 2: the answer. Twelve players. Only twelve players in baseball history
Speaker 2: have hit four home runs and five hundred and fifty doubles.
Speaker 2: No surprise, they're all Hall of famers. Freddie Freeman, one
Speaker 2: he hits his four hundredth home run, will become just
Speaker 2: the thirteenth player in baseball history to have four hundred
Speaker 2: home runs and five hundred and fifty doubles.
Speaker 3: Let that sink in. Let it sink in.
Speaker 2: You are watching one of the all time great hitters
Speaker 2: in baseball history, and one of the all time great
Speaker 2: players to have two signature moments in his Dodger career
Speaker 2: in baseball career, his walkoff grand Slam in Game one
Speaker 2: of the World Series, only player to do that in
Speaker 2: baseball history, and his eighteenth inning walk off home run
Speaker 2: in Game three of last year's World Series, which made
Speaker 2: him him and gave him the distinction of being the
Speaker 2: only player in baseball history to have two walk off
Speaker 2: home runs in World Series games. All these things are
Speaker 2: happening while you are witnessing it, and Freddie's not a
Speaker 2: guy that's gonna do, you know, everything that other players
Speaker 2: do on the basis he does it with class. And
Speaker 2: I think that's why everybody appreciates it. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: They appreciate it. But sometimes you overlook it, especially when
Speaker 2: you're on the same team with shohey Otani who's doing
Speaker 2: spectacular things that we have never seen before. Don't take
Speaker 2: for granted what Freddie Freeman is doing and what he
Speaker 2: has accomplished over the lifetime of his career. Let's hit
Speaker 2: out to Bob and Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David Vassey.
Speaker 3: Hi Bob.
Speaker 7: Today, Thanks for getting me on and I man, you know,
Speaker 7: in addition to stat you just pointed out about Freddie
Speaker 7: joining one of twelve other players I believe, Rick and
Speaker 7: Tim pointed out that if he also achieves three thousand hits,
Speaker 7: he'll become one of only seven other players in that club.
Speaker 7: So the guy's racking up these stats left and right.
Speaker 7: It's amazing to see.
Speaker 2: Well, three thousand hits. I mean, he would have a
Speaker 2: better chance at three thousand hits if there were more
Speaker 2: than sixty games played in twenty twenty and of course
Speaker 2: the looming lockout coming for twenty twenty seven, it's gonna
Speaker 2: make it tough for him to get to three thousand hits.
Speaker 2: But I'm pretty certain he's gonna hit twenty more home runs.
Speaker 7: I'm with you on that, Dave, Dad Colin in tonight
Speaker 7: wanted to get your opinion. We're seeing so many amazing
Speaker 7: things from Robleski this year's He's pitching like the dog
Speaker 7: that he is does he get the All Star knob
Speaker 7: this year?
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to talk about that. How does
Speaker 2: he not get an All Star nod? And thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call, Bob, and thank you for bringing
Speaker 2: that up. You look at where Justin Robleski ranks in
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, not just the National League. Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: has the tenth lowest ERA.
Speaker 3: In all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: I mean we're talking about names like Yamamoto, Rasmussen, Eduardo Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: Chris Saal, Chase Burns, Christopher Sanchez, Cam Schlittler, Jacob Bizarowski.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski he's in that category. And when you talk
Speaker 2: about wins, tonight was his ninth win of the year,
Speaker 2: and you get wins by staying in the game, and
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski has stayed in the game, went seven innings tonight.
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski is tied with guys name Christopher Sanchez, Sonny Gray,
Speaker 2: Chase Burns, Andre Polante for the second most wins and
Speaker 2: actually tied with these guys as far as the most
Speaker 2: wins as start because Aaron Ashby has ten wins as
Speaker 2: a reliever as a longman. All that, so Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: has the most wins as a starter, tied with those
Speaker 2: other guys. So I don't know how you keep Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski off this roster. Yamamoto and Justin Robleski have got
Speaker 2: to be two pitchers on this staff that goes to
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. And also you talk about Otani,
Speaker 2: He's in his own category, and Otani's not going to pitch,
Speaker 2: so Otani's the dight. He's gonna get voted in. Why
Speaker 2: shouldn't there be Robleski and Yamamoto? And I know you
Speaker 2: can't have the whole team full of Dodgers, but Robleski
Speaker 2: deserves to be on it. I don't care if Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman gets voted in by the fans. I don't care
Speaker 2: if Pahz and Munsey get voted in by the fans.
Speaker 2: Robleski deserves to be part of the National League All
Speaker 2: Star pitching staff. And there's a lot more starts to
Speaker 2: go between now and then, But I believe the players
Speaker 2: are getting their ballots around this time to start voting
Speaker 2: here in the next couple of weeks, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how they don't vote them eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, by
Speaker 2: the way. All right, before we get you that ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez update, let's hear from Justin Robleski, who spoke
Speaker 2: to the media moments ago on Sports and at LA.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, you know, I always watched when he
Speaker 8: pitches before me. I think it's kind of a good
Speaker 8: you know, just see what they're doing against lefties. Obviously
Speaker 8: we're a little different in the way that we pitch
Speaker 8: and stuff's a little different, but at the same time,
Speaker 8: there's a little bit you can take away. And yeah,
Speaker 8: I think we did a good job, you know, Chucky
Speaker 8: Mark myself, just kind of adjusting on the fly and
Speaker 8: kind of changing the mix a little bit on on
Speaker 8: that second third time through, and yeah, it was it
Speaker 8: worked out well and you did that.
Speaker 5: I mean, what were you seeing kind of that first
Speaker 5: time that made you want to make those adjustments.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just kind of the swings they were taken. You
Speaker 8: could kind of kind of had a feeling of where
Speaker 8: they started to look and where they started to kind
Speaker 8: of keyhole, and so we just kind of pivoted from
Speaker 8: from what the plan was a little bit and it
Speaker 8: worked out really well.
Speaker 5: It's probably spent around for the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: But what do you think of the way that he's
Speaker 5: integrated in here as you guys have had those injuries.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Chuck, he's caught me I think probably four or
Speaker 8: five times. I threw him in the minor league a
Speaker 8: couple of times, so he kind of has an idea of,
Speaker 8: you know, how to call games for me, and he's
Speaker 8: always done a good job back there for me. So yeah,
Speaker 8: he's a great dude. He's really easy to kind of
Speaker 8: work with and talk to during the game, and he
Speaker 8: does a great job just kind of studying himself and
Speaker 8: just kind of knowing what we want to do and
Speaker 8: kind of feel in the game.
Speaker 3: So he's he does a great job.
Speaker 8: And yeah, he had a good day offensively today too,
Speaker 8: So that was cool to watch.
Speaker 1: Might seem a little less significant after you guys score
Speaker 1: twelve runs, But that play at the plate, Mookie's relay,
Speaker 1: How huge is that?
Speaker 9: What did that?
Speaker 3: What kind of boost did that give you? Yeah? It's huge.
Speaker 8: I mean sometimes you know, even on the bench, I
Speaker 8: get a little confused at why people like they are
Speaker 8: so quick to send when Pat Hayes gets the ball,
Speaker 8: because he's so good at getting it in and like
Speaker 8: he just does a great job at that part of
Speaker 8: the relay.
Speaker 3: And then obviously Muki made a great throw.
Speaker 8: But it's tough tough to do against against Andy scoring
Speaker 8: from first, you're not going to do it very often. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, and he makes a great throw in. Then
Speaker 8: obviously Move makes a great throw home and we get
Speaker 8: the guy out. And that's always great as a picture
Speaker 8: because it saves a run and it's an out, so
Speaker 8: it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: Great night tonight, Freddie Freeman, another great night at the plate.
Speaker 2: They score twelve runs, they have seventeen hits. But I
Speaker 2: am declaring this the Chucky Robinson game. It's the game
Speaker 2: I'm going to remember as the Chucky Robinson game because
Speaker 2: Chuckie Robinson has had a cup of coffee a couple
Speaker 2: of different times in his major league career, got his
Speaker 2: first hits as a Dodger, had to play at the
Speaker 2: plate in the third inning, had a squeeze play where
Speaker 2: he got the bunt down to score a run, and
Speaker 2: I mean caught seven innings from Justin Robleski. So to me,
Speaker 2: this is the Chucky Robinson game. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Twins twelve to three. When we continue live
Speaker 2: from Target Field, we will share our conversation with Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: who was not in the starting lineup tonight and likely
Speaker 2: will not be in the starting lineup until Friday in
Speaker 2: San Diego with those backspasms. You will get to know
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker a little bit better, in fact a lot
Speaker 2: better after.
Speaker 3: Listening to this interview.
Speaker 2: And also we will get you an update on ta
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez, who played his first rehab game for Oklahoma
Speaker 2: City on his way back to the Dodgers, probably in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat Minnesota tonight twelve to three on a five
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Speaker 3: Seven.
Speaker 10: Two Dodgers in front, now the pitch, Swanghan Belt at
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Speaker 10: One for Alex Carl He hits his first home run
Speaker 10: of the season right near host hometown and the Dodgers
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Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez homeward in his first rehab game for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3: It came with two outs. It was a two run
Speaker 3: home run.
Speaker 2: Ti Oscar Hernandez played five innings tonight, got three at
Speaker 2: bats in his first rehab appearance, and there's a very
Speaker 2: good chance to Oscar Hernandez will be at ctivated when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers end this nine game road trip in Sacramento
Speaker 2: against the A's. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Twins
Speaker 2: tonight twelve to three, and they did that without tay
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez, without Will Smith, without Dalton Rushing, and without
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker who left yesterday's game with backspasms.
Speaker 3: And when I walked into the.
Speaker 2: Dodger clubhouse today, Kyle Tucker was right where I wanted him,
Speaker 2: in a chair getting his back, you know, treated with
Speaker 2: some machine that he said, with some stem machine.
Speaker 3: So he was stuck.
Speaker 2: He was sitting there in the corner of the clubhouse
Speaker 2: and I said, Hey, I've been looking for you. Let's
Speaker 2: have a little talk here, and he knew I was coming.
Speaker 2: It wasn't an ambush. And I wanted to share this
Speaker 2: with you because I was able to ask him the
Speaker 2: questions that really I've been wanting to ask him for
Speaker 2: quite some time. So here is our conversation with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: And also after we get through the base ball I
Speaker 2: feel like you'll get to know Kyle Tucker a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
Speaker 9: Thanks for recordering me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, right, you're buckled in. They you can't
Speaker 2: go anywhere. You're stuck talking to me.
Speaker 9: Oh, perfect, right where I want to be.
Speaker 3: So what's this machine doing for your back? Right now?
Speaker 6: It's just like a PMF machine, just kind of just pulses.
Speaker 6: So there's like a couple of different like attachments that
Speaker 6: you can do to it, and a couple guy like
Speaker 6: a couple guys mostly pictures kind of use it. But
Speaker 6: it's just kind of like the electromagnetic waves and pulses
Speaker 6: through you. So I just came came here, sat down
Speaker 6: for a little bit to use.
Speaker 2: It, and then I saw you, and then I saw
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund doing this yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not bad. I mean you just kind of
Speaker 6: sit down and hang out and let it, let it
Speaker 6: do his thing.
Speaker 2: How's the bag feeling today? You're not in the starting lineup.
Speaker 2: Good day to choose not to be in the starting
Speaker 2: lineup with this rain.
Speaker 3: But how's the bag feeling?
Speaker 6: It feels better. Kind of locked up yesterday and was
Speaker 6: kind of tight and sore. Today it's better, so kind
Speaker 6: of sore and bothers to kind of rotate a little bit,
Speaker 6: but it's better yesterday.
Speaker 9: So that's good improvement.
Speaker 3: Kyle.
Speaker 2: Okay, A lot of people have asked you a lot
Speaker 2: of different questions that I'm not sure I would ask
Speaker 2: as far as your hitting goes, But I do have
Speaker 2: specific questions to ask you that nobody's asked.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 2: You're swinging at the first pitch more than you ever
Speaker 2: have in your career. Why do you think that is?
Speaker 6: I was I think at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 6: I mean, it kind of just depends. I mean, if
Speaker 6: sometimes that's the best pitch you're going to get in
Speaker 6: that bat. I mean, if they're throwing it in the
Speaker 6: middle ish part of the zone, like I might as
Speaker 6: well swing at that, then take that and then have
Speaker 6: to swing at pitches on the corner. So I just
Speaker 6: gotta probably do a little bit petter job at not
Speaker 6: missing those ones.
Speaker 2: I guess Dave Roberts said yesterday, you're a guy that
Speaker 2: would run counts deep, you know, be very selective.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like.
Speaker 2: If you get back to doing that and maybe going
Speaker 2: back to who Kyle Tucker was swinging at the first
Speaker 2: pitch thirty four percent of the time, that could help
Speaker 2: you moving forward.
Speaker 9: I mean it just depends.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you get first pitched fastball in the middle,
Speaker 6: I mean that, like I said, it could be the
Speaker 6: best pitch that you're gonna see.
Speaker 9: That at bat.
Speaker 6: So you just take your chances of that, and you know,
Speaker 6: if they throw something out of the zone, then you
Speaker 6: can work deeper into accounts, So it kind of just
Speaker 6: depends on the ad bat and how it goes. I mean,
Speaker 6: if you have four bats and the first pitch is all,
Speaker 6: you know, fastball or something right down the middle, and
Speaker 6: you see four pitches like I mean, you at least
Speaker 6: swung out the ones you wanted to swing at.
Speaker 9: It just kind of as a matter of.
Speaker 6: Fact of putting the barrel to the ball a little
Speaker 6: bit better and making things happen.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like pitchers are pitching you differently this
Speaker 2: year because it feels like those first pitches are a
Speaker 2: lot more spin than they were fastballs in years past.
Speaker 9: I think it just depends.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm sure teams look at how other teams
Speaker 6: pitched me and see whatever success that someone's had or
Speaker 6: what worked. So kind of kind of just depends on
Speaker 6: the pitcher the catcher, and like the team and their
Speaker 6: game plan and stuff. So I remember regards the second
Speaker 6: got to hit it either way.
Speaker 2: All right, here's a right, hey, Miguel Rojas endorsing this
Speaker 2: interview right now in the rain delay with Kyle Tucker. Okay,
Speaker 2: so here's another one everybody trying to diagnose. Be Kyle
Speaker 2: Tucker's number one hitting coach no Mare Garciapara did a
Speaker 2: whole thing on TV about just the way that your
Speaker 2: stride seems to be more than it has been in
Speaker 2: years past. Is that something that you're conscious of, Is
Speaker 2: it something that you're trying to shorten up? What do
Speaker 2: you say about the stride being too big this year?
Speaker 9: I mean, I'm sure it has.
Speaker 6: I mean has varied throughout my career, and sometimes I'm taller,
Speaker 6: sometimes I'm more closed or open. Sometimes its strides a
Speaker 6: little bit bigger, shorter. Kind of depends, and honestly, whatever's
Speaker 6: feeling right that day or whatever's working at the time,
Speaker 6: I just kind of ride with it.
Speaker 9: But this year kind of been.
Speaker 6: Searching for what's worked and trying to make that consistent
Speaker 6: every single time. So it's kind of just been trying
Speaker 6: to find something that's that's working and just try and
Speaker 6: hold on to it.
Speaker 2: Last day at home, I thought it was amazing. I
Speaker 2: was waiting for you, Tucker, in front of your locker,
Speaker 2: and I was told that right after the final out
Speaker 2: of the game, you went into the cage to work
Speaker 2: to try to figure out whatever You're trying to figure out,
Speaker 2: Where does that come from? And do you believe too
Speaker 2: many swings can be counterproductive.
Speaker 9: I mean maybe at times.
Speaker 6: I mean I mean I've hit after the game a
Speaker 6: couple of times, just trying to figure it out or
Speaker 6: hoping that something clicks so I go into the next
Speaker 6: day feeling better. So I mean, I mean hittings at constant.
Speaker 9: Trying to get better.
Speaker 6: You're never gonna be perfect, but I'm just trying to
Speaker 6: find something that helps.
Speaker 2: I feel like All Star break could help you reset,
Speaker 2: clear your mind, not have to talk to people like
Speaker 2: David Vass saying come back at Yankee Stadium and be
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, obviously I'd like to not have the
Speaker 6: time off ter an ulcer break because that means you
Speaker 6: played pretty well in the first half and you get
Speaker 6: the opportunity to play in the Alstar Game. But She's
Speaker 6: kinda most important thing is just trying to play better
Speaker 6: throughout the year, get to the playoffs and really take
Speaker 6: off from there.
Speaker 2: It feels like your teammates have continued to support you,
Speaker 2: love on you.
Speaker 3: How much has that meant?
Speaker 9: That's awesome.
Speaker 6: I mean this seems full of great talent and great people,
Speaker 6: So I mean everyone's here to try and one of
Speaker 6: another World's Series and get back to the highest point
Speaker 6: in baseball. So I mean everyone's here to support each
Speaker 6: other and get better individually and as a group overall.
Speaker 3: All right, Kyle Tucker is our guest. It's a rain delay.
Speaker 2: He's in a chair that he can't move front for
Speaker 2: his back. So we're gonna find out about Kyle Tucker here.
Speaker 2: And he's such an introvert. We don't know a lot
Speaker 2: about you, but you told me that you love to travel,
Speaker 2: and you've actually been to countries like Italy, and you've
Speaker 2: been to Florence, You've been to Rome. So are you
Speaker 2: a guy that is inquisitive you want to know about
Speaker 2: history or do you want to just see and taste
Speaker 2: all the great food in Europe?
Speaker 6: More of the latter. I mean, history is such cool.
Speaker 6: It's not like my number one thing. But ILL like
Speaker 6: going around, like especially the off season. You don't have
Speaker 6: that much much of an off season, so you just
Speaker 6: try and take advantage of it, like go on some vacations,
Speaker 6: traveling around and seeing some places I haven't been to.
Speaker 6: So probably do some more of that this next offseason,
Speaker 6: you know, later on. But I'm in school, I try
Speaker 6: I try and find different things that I've never tried.
Speaker 9: Before, seen before, and do my research on the stuff.
Speaker 2: How adventurous were you as far as eating in Europe?
Speaker 3: Would you go squid? How far will Kyle Tucker go?
Speaker 2: As far as the delicacies of European life?
Speaker 6: I mean, I'll try majority of things. If it's like
Speaker 6: too weird or just not up my alley, I'm out.
Speaker 6: But I mean you can know is just find some
Speaker 6: places that are you know, you can find all over
Speaker 6: the place, all over the world, and.
Speaker 9: Like the safe the safe go tos.
Speaker 6: But I'm always up to trying different restaurants and different
Speaker 6: foods and stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, was the best part of your trip to Rome?
Speaker 2: If you're trying to give us a scattering report on Rome?
Speaker 2: Was it the call of was it just seeing the Vaticans?
Speaker 2: Seeing the people? What was it about Rome that people
Speaker 2: hyped up that the Tuckers loved.
Speaker 6: I mean we stayed at a place like kind of
Speaker 6: near a bunch of other attractions, so we were able
Speaker 6: to walk around the streets and kind of just not
Speaker 6: have like a set like timeframe or like excursion or anything.
Speaker 6: We just kind of walked around and did around thing
Speaker 6: for a couple of days. And then to ended up
Speaker 6: doing a tour of Vatican City and going through the
Speaker 6: church and everything. So, I mean the place is massive.
Speaker 6: I've never been there before than that one.
Speaker 9: Time, so it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 6: So we did a tour through there one day and
Speaker 6: kind of just going around seeing the city, try and
Speaker 6: find some cool restaurants and stuff and or like scenes
Speaker 6: to go check out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was nightlife like in Rome? Was there any
Speaker 2: nightlife for you and and your wife?
Speaker 6: We weren't going out and like partying in the clubs.
Speaker 9: Out in Rome.
Speaker 2: You didn't they call them disco text, Tucker, and.
Speaker 6: We weren't going to the disco text. But we had
Speaker 6: We had a good time.
Speaker 9: It was fun, all right.
Speaker 3: So Vatican City.
Speaker 2: Were you there when Pope Leo was the pope or
Speaker 2: was it still in between popes? Because Pope Leo big
Speaker 2: baseball fan, big White Sox fan, he might know who
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker is.
Speaker 6: I mean we went at the very end of twenty.
Speaker 3: Three, Okay, I don't think he was there yet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I mean it was cool just to go
Speaker 6: check out places. I mean, we try and try and
Speaker 6: go over there whenever we can or find enough time.
Speaker 6: I know, we got a you know, three and a
Speaker 6: half month old now, so it's definitely gonna make it
Speaker 6: a little tough for traveling around.
Speaker 9: We try and do it before like.
Speaker 6: The tough stages kind of really start kicking in, we
Speaker 6: don't have enough time to go over and do things.
Speaker 6: So we're hopefully trying to go over there again soon.
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker is a big golfer.
Speaker 2: Have you gone over there and golfed in Scotland or
Speaker 2: Ireland yet?
Speaker 6: I haven't played golf over there yet. My family and
Speaker 6: I went over there like years ago, maybe like eight
Speaker 6: ten years ago or something. We ended up going to
Speaker 6: place in Scotland and it was pouring rain and we
Speaker 6: were staying out like I guess it was like a
Speaker 6: golfer's order something. But was looking outside and it was
Speaker 6: pouring rain and I see people like walking the course
Speaker 6: and I was like that that kind of looks miserable.
Speaker 6: But I guess it's relatively normal over there with the
Speaker 6: weather and people loving to go play.
Speaker 9: Golf and that might be your only.
Speaker 6: Opportunity to play that course in such a prestigious place,
Speaker 6: So I get it. But I mean, if it's pouring
Speaker 6: and lightning and thought it like I'm I'm, I'm good
Speaker 6: to go inside.
Speaker 9: I'm I'm My round's probably over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. At least we agree on that, Tucker.
Speaker 2: We agree on a lot. Maybe you and me will
Speaker 2: go on to European vacation this offseason. You could say
Speaker 2: you're bringing your wife, I'm bringing my wife and kids,
Speaker 2: and you know, we could we could have a wingman
Speaker 2: for each other there.
Speaker 3: I'm going in November, Tucker. Maybe you want to plan that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, perfect. We might cross paths.
Speaker 3: So I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that a lot of people are giving us
Speaker 2: weird looks walking by this chat. I mean, has nobody
Speaker 2: ever seen a guy getting some back therapy and doing
Speaker 2: an interview?
Speaker 9: I don't know. It might be first time.
Speaker 3: Alright, love it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Vessia, he's a big Vassa fan. Don't let him
Speaker 2: fool you right there, Tucker Dave.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that you're doing this interview while you're
Speaker 4: on Tucker's.
Speaker 9: Back right now.
Speaker 3: I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: Man, let him rest, Okay, I feel like I'm great
Speaker 2: therapy for his back.
Speaker 3: Vessia, Oh way, no way, absolutely not. Please let the
Speaker 3: man rest, Okay, you've never seen him smile this big
Speaker 3: since he got here. Since that's a lie, that is
Speaker 3: an absolute lie.
Speaker 9: I've seen Tuck smile many times, actually many. That helps
Speaker 9: with the smiling for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, evaluate the beard. You think the beard there's like
Speaker 2: a bird nesting in the beard, Tucker.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's definitely getting getting a little long and scruffy right now.
Speaker 3: Multiple people talk about me shaving it, cutting it.
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do it, all right. I love it.
Speaker 2: Defining Vessia, defiant Vesia right there, Tucker.
Speaker 3: See you didn't get this Houston or Chicago.
Speaker 9: Tucker, You're you're definitely one of the con.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time. Great to share you
Speaker 2: with Dodger fans. It's not all about baseball. Tucker's a
Speaker 2: well rounded man right here. Hope the back feels better,
Speaker 2: and I feel like, definitely this is going to help
Speaker 2: you get ready for San Diego. Here's my recommendation. I
Speaker 2: know the trainers around here can appreciate this.
Speaker 3: Take it easy. We'll see We'll see you Friday in
Speaker 3: San Diego.
Speaker 9: Awesome, sounds good.
Speaker 3: Thanks, So there you go.
Speaker 2: That was the longest conversation I have had with Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate the fact that I was able to
Speaker 2: ask the questions directly and he answered them directly, and
Speaker 2: I fully appreciate that, and I did fact check him.
Speaker 2: He is one hundred percent right. He is swinging at
Speaker 2: the first pitch a lot less since the end of
Speaker 2: May than he has been the entire first half forty
Speaker 2: seven percent before May thirtieth. Since May thirtieth, more like
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker only swinging at the first pitch thirty six
Speaker 2: percent of the time.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that you have a.
Speaker 2: Better appreciation for who Kyle Tucker is and appreciate the
Speaker 2: fact that he didn't shy away from any of the
Speaker 2: questions that we all had. All right, Tomorrow, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will go for the sweep with Otani on the mound
Speaker 2: going up against Joe Ryan, and Kyle Tucker will not
Speaker 2: be in there tomorrow. He's expected back in the lineup
Speaker 2: on Friday Night against the Padres. Otani will also lead
Speaker 2: off in DH for the Dodgers, going up against Joe Ryan,
Speaker 2: one of the best in all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at three point thirty tomorrow, with first
Speaker 2: pitch at four forty thanks to Colinye back at our
Speaker 2: Burbank studios, thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at target Field,
Speaker 2: and thanks to you for listening. In case you missed
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Speaker 2: Field in downtown Minneapolis. The Dodgers defeat the Twins twelve
Speaker 2: to three. Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 3: See you for years. Everything it's so pass to.
Speaker 9: As you went with looking at It's truth.
Speaker 3: Time said it away, The time said it