Speaker 1: The quest for the three feat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
Speaker 1: This is World Champion Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again. We're going to running back.
Speaker 4: To get in on the show called eight six six
Speaker 4: eighty seven two five seven d and be sure to
Speaker 4: follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your host,
Speaker 4: David Vaseas.
Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers complete the three games sweep of the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks to begin the twenty six campaign three to two.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. You know what's incredible is the
Speaker 2: Dodgers sweep the Diamondbacks and Showho Tani only had one
Speaker 2: hit in the first three games of this series. Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman tonight broke out after hitting the ball hard. Not
Speaker 2: a lot to show for it, but he continues his
Speaker 2: process and look, by the end of the year, Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman will be hitting two ninety five, three hundred with
Speaker 2: you know somewhere between thirty seven doubles and forty one doubles,
Speaker 2: and tonight Freddy Freeman had three hits. He almost had
Speaker 2: a fourth if it wasn't for the ball just dining
Speaker 2: out there in right center field, he would have had
Speaker 2: his first home run of the year. But he drove
Speaker 2: in his first run of the year in the seventh
Speaker 2: inning to chip away at the Diamondbacks lead. That point
Speaker 2: it was two to one, and then walk off will Smith,
Speaker 2: who has become, in my opinion, the most clutch batter
Speaker 2: in all a Major league baseball hard to argue when
Speaker 2: he got called up in twenty nineteen and the most
Speaker 2: memorable weekend of twenty nineteen was called walk off Weekend
Speaker 2: and will Smith hit a walk off home run that
Speaker 2: weekend against the Rockies. Remember Verdugo baty walk off weekend
Speaker 2: against the Rockies in twenty nineteen. Since then, Will Smith,
Speaker 2: including that weekend in twenty nineteen, has five walk off
Speaker 2: home runs in the regular season. He has fifty three
Speaker 2: go ahead home runs in the regular season, not to
Speaker 2: mention how clutch he's been in the postseason, including the
Speaker 2: go ahead home run in the eleventh inning in Toronto
Speaker 2: and last year's Game seven World Series. Without that home run,
Speaker 2: who knows where that World Series goes. And tonight was
Speaker 2: that Bobblehead Night giveaway. And oh, by the way, it's
Speaker 2: Will Smith's thirty first birthday. So Saturday night is Will
Speaker 2: Smith's night here in Los Angeles as he hits a huge,
Speaker 2: two out, go ahead, two run home run in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the eighth inning, which was set up by
Speaker 2: out two out walk by Mookie Beds. Give him a
Speaker 2: lot of credit too, So it's not always just about
Speaker 2: the home run. It's about what's happening in front of
Speaker 2: Will Smith or whoever hits that home run, and Mookie
Speaker 2: a great at bat to draw that two out walk
Speaker 2: to keep the line moving and have Will Smith and
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman have the opportunity to come up in that
Speaker 2: bottom of the eighth inning. Eight sixty six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Will Smith doesn't love
Speaker 2: to talk, but he's gonna have to talk tonight. He's
Speaker 2: speaking to the media in front of his locker on
Speaker 2: sports and at LA.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, he you know, he's always been good. We
Speaker 6: always talk about stuff. Yeah, he's give me the day off.
Speaker 6: I just kind of dropped the bubble hood card if
Speaker 6: my bellhead tomorrow he let me in there.
Speaker 7: Special?
Speaker 5: Was it get the go ahead home run your bubble
Speaker 5: tonight and birthday?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, regardless of you know, being my
Speaker 6: bibblehead night or anything. It's it's cool to put your
Speaker 6: team ahead. I'm gonna win get this week, that's more.
Speaker 6: You know what I was more excited about imertally to
Speaker 6: people that you spoiled a lot of pitches, kind of
Speaker 6: wait until you saw the one that you wanted. Anyway,
Speaker 6: it's pretty emblematic of this entire lineups approach.
Speaker 7: What do you think goes into that?
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of hard work. Uh, you know,
Speaker 6: I kind of haven't felt great for a week or so,
Speaker 6: so I put a lot of swings in, you know
Speaker 6: today in the cage, a lot of work with the guys,
Speaker 6: hitting coaches. You know, let's kind of reap the benefits
Speaker 6: a little bit on that, I guess, but you know,
Speaker 6: just just trying to get back to who I am.
Speaker 6: You know, controlled zone, you know, spoil good pitches, you know,
Speaker 6: drive the pitches you should. That's who we are. That's
Speaker 6: that's the Dodgers, that's you know, we preach day in
Speaker 6: and day out, you know, one through thirteen guys who
Speaker 6: was on the roster, and uh you know, that's that's
Speaker 6: how I win ball games. Can you take those cold pictures?
Speaker 5: Ever before that swing was sort of telling you about
Speaker 5: how you're sort of seeing where you have.
Speaker 3: That's what we're bad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you know, he's he's good. He throws hard,
Speaker 6: he's got to get slider, you know, too, fastball kind
Speaker 6: of guy. H Yeah, you know, I think I was
Speaker 6: just kind of building confidence throughout the day. You know,
Speaker 6: coming in I was working a lot in the cage.
Speaker 6: It was kind of lacking it. But I know, you know,
Speaker 6: in the game you can just go compete and you know,
Speaker 6: after a few good takes, it's kind of like all right,
Speaker 6: kind of seeing it better, kind of stick to you know,
Speaker 6: seeing the ball a little bit deep, knowing I can
Speaker 6: still catch up to a hundred and uh yeah, I
Speaker 6: got the brow on the ball.
Speaker 3: What's the mood, the attitude in the dug out in
Speaker 3: the late.
Speaker 8: Innings, you know, knowing you guys have done this so
Speaker 8: often before.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think there's just you know, we
Speaker 6: never feel like we're out of it. We keep we
Speaker 6: keep taking good at bats, you know, keep believing in
Speaker 6: each other, keep believing someone's gonna come up with a
Speaker 6: big hit. The bullpen always keeps us in it. You know,
Speaker 6: they're so good down there and you know, not letting
Speaker 6: the game get away. Yeah, it's just kind of a
Speaker 6: team effort.
Speaker 3: All right. There's Will Smith. Tonight's heero.
Speaker 2: It seems like every night there's somebody new, especially on
Speaker 2: this loaded Dodger team. Will Smith in that at bat
Speaker 2: against Juan Morio in the bottom of the eighth inning
Speaker 2: with two outs, he described it perfectly. He took two
Speaker 2: sliders in a row after being down two in the count,
Speaker 2: fouled off a couple of ninety nine mile an hour fastballs,
Speaker 2: and then on the seventh pitch of the at bat,
Speaker 2: timed it up perfectly and hit it four hundred and
Speaker 2: fourteen feet one hundred and five miles an hour off
Speaker 2: the bat and the Dodgers had a three to two
Speaker 2: lead on Will Smith's thirty first birthday, on Will Smith's
Speaker 2: bobblehead night. So if you're at Dodgers Stadium, you don't
Speaker 2: want to go anywhere. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Tonight's game brought
Speaker 2: to you by Modello Modello the mark of a fighter,
Speaker 2: all right. Besides Freddie Freeman and Will Smith, Kyle Tucker
Speaker 2: saved a big run when he robbed gabrielle Moreno of
Speaker 2: what would have been a home run over the short
Speaker 2: fence in right field.
Speaker 3: That was in the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: Tucker in this series already as made a huge difference defensively.
Speaker 2: He came through with the infield in last night and
Speaker 2: delivered the go ahead base it in the eighth inning,
Speaker 2: So he's made his presence felt. But how about Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz in that ninth inning tonight and last night? Did
Speaker 2: you ever waiver that he wasn't going to get those
Speaker 2: three outs? And I know the Diamondbacks hit a few
Speaker 2: balls hard to the outfield, but they were outs, and
Speaker 2: it's a big outfield here at Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a bona Fie closer for the first time in
Speaker 2: five years since Kenley Jansen saved three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: career saves. And Kenley Jansen's prime, I know he might
Speaker 2: not like to hear this. His prime was probably twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty nineteen, and during those years.
Speaker 3: There was no.
Speaker 2: Doubt when you heard California Love, the Dodgers were going
Speaker 2: to win that game. He was going to get it done.
Speaker 2: There was gonna be no doubts about it. And these
Speaker 2: last two nights with Edwin Diaz in the bullpen coming
Speaker 2: out to save games, you have that same feeling again
Speaker 2: for the first time in five years. That's a very
Speaker 2: different feeling than trying to mix and match and match up.
Speaker 2: There's something to be said about guys that know how
Speaker 2: to get three outs in the ninth inning. It's not
Speaker 2: made for everybody. I think we've all witnessed that, whether
Speaker 2: it's on the Dodgers or other teams. Yeah, there's three outs.
Speaker 2: Yeah you might be facing the same hitters. But some
Speaker 2: guys can't handle the ninth inning. But Edwin Diaz did
Speaker 2: it on the biggest stage in New York, and he's
Speaker 2: doing it on the biggest stage. This is the brightest
Speaker 2: lights in baseball with the Dodgers, and he hasn't flinched.
Speaker 2: Just feel that feeling, not only the timmy trumpet, which
Speaker 2: is a great feeling, the light show, everybody's excited. I
Speaker 2: love the entertainment value of all that. But once he's
Speaker 2: on the mound. His heart rate is very low. Ever
Speaker 2: see him get too rattled or the game speeds up,
Speaker 2: and that's a closer in the ninth inning. That feeling
Speaker 2: has not been felt by anybody with the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: five years since Kennley Jansen was here. Eight six six
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones for the first time tonight. Hi, Noah,
Speaker 2: you were at Dodger Stadium. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: What's up, David?
Speaker 9: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Phenomenal second Dodger Talk of the day and going strong
Speaker 2: on adrenaline.
Speaker 9: That's good. So I was gonna talk about Will, but
Speaker 9: now I'm like ready to overreact about the bullpen.
Speaker 3: Overreact in a good way, in a good way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: go ahead, overreact.
Speaker 9: I just feel like the with Edwin Diaz being the closer,
Speaker 9: pressure goes off. Bessie Tanner, Scott Jack Dryer, all those
Speaker 9: guys can turn into like good setup men and they
Speaker 9: can breathe knowing that Edwin's gonna plan during the ninth.
Speaker 3: Well pump the breaks.
Speaker 2: Vesia is the highest leverage of highest leverage relievers. Left
Speaker 2: you Alrighty, that's not the guy I was talking about.
Speaker 2: He can get outs in the ninth inning. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it allows the Dodgers to deploy him earlier in the
Speaker 2: game to get outs and also allows them to deploy
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott in different innings.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Noah, he just when you have a closer like Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 2: similar to when Kenley Jansen was here. If you're Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: you start counting outs backwards. You know you got three
Speaker 2: and if you have a lead by the sixth or
Speaker 2: seventh inning, you're counting outs. Let's go to Bob, who
Speaker 2: is at the game tonight. Hi, Bob, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Uncle Daves.
Speaker 10: What a knight to be out back at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 10: You know you knew it was gonna be a good night.
Speaker 10: Started out getting all the staff there rings, which was
Speaker 10: exciting to see mister Bobblehead on his birthday does his job.
Speaker 7: Edwin Diaz comes out.
Speaker 10: It taught you how to tape blow trumpet out of
Speaker 10: the outfield up. The place was packed. It was absolutely electric.
Speaker 10: You know how you always say when show Hay is pitching,
Speaker 10: it's an event. Tonight Dodger Stadium. This year first three games.
Speaker 10: This was an event tonight. It was packed, the place
Speaker 10: was electric. And when Will popped off, Man, what is it?
Speaker 10: Is it guys named Will Smith like slapping guys around
Speaker 10: in public in front of everybody. I mean, Will just
Speaker 10: slapped that ball out. It was exciting, man. I was
Speaker 10: pumped to be there, happy to be back at Dodger
Speaker 10: Stadium with his team. Fun night all around.
Speaker 7: Dave really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call. I'm
Speaker 2: usually the guy that crosses that line. You did a
Speaker 2: great job of doing it this time, So thank you, Bob.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. By the way, Will Smith's career walk
Speaker 2: off home runs in the regular season. He did it
Speaker 2: twice in twenty nineteen. Hector Narris. He got him on
Speaker 2: June first, and then the walk off weekend off of
Speaker 2: Scott ober of the Rockies. Pinch hit walk off home
Speaker 2: run July twentieth, twenty to twenty one off of Tyler
Speaker 2: Rodgers to beat the Giants. Pinch hit walk off home
Speaker 2: run twenty twenty five. Last year, in fact, beat Robert Suarez.
Speaker 2: Remember that of the Padres pinchhit walk off home run
Speaker 2: and John Curtis. How about that four of the five
Speaker 2: walk off home runs in his regular season career. Will
Speaker 2: Smith has delivered as a pinch hitter twice last year
Speaker 2: off of Suarez of the Padres and John Curtis of
Speaker 2: these Diamondbacks. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Malibu. Chris,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Chris.
Speaker 11: DV Doing really good? Buddy. Hey, I'm the guy that
Speaker 11: always goes to the pegros and money like showcases and
Speaker 11: brings the bobs at tequila and stuff and everything. So
Speaker 11: I just want to idd where's mine?
Speaker 3: I haven't got one in a long time?
Speaker 11: You know what I know? Did you ever get to one?
Speaker 11: I did give him? Did he ever give that tea?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 11: Anyone to the hill? I could probably add that to
Speaker 11: the hill. But anyways, what I wanted to say tonight
Speaker 11: is I've been a Dodger fan for years. I'm sixty
Speaker 11: six years old, and I'll tell you what this is.
Speaker 11: I believe, top to bottom the best Dodger team ever.
Speaker 11: I mean, when you just said that thing about the reliever,
Speaker 11: you know, with Evands and all that, there's no holes here.
Speaker 11: And what's crazy is they haven't played that good at
Speaker 11: all in these first three games, and you still knew
Speaker 11: they were going to win. And so it just feels
Speaker 11: really different this year that like, there's no holes in
Speaker 11: this team. And so it's just a very you know,
Speaker 11: exciting feeling to know that this is an exciting time.
Speaker 11: This is the best team, in my opinion ever for
Speaker 11: the Dodgers. What do you think about that it has?
Speaker 11: Which opinion?
Speaker 2: It has the potential, has the potential, But they got
Speaker 2: to win the World Series to be considered in that group.
Speaker 3: So let's let the season breathe a little bit, Chris.
Speaker 3: But I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I don't see any vulnerabilities right now. And it feels
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers definitely were in a different weight class
Speaker 2: than the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: Poorly constructed team.
Speaker 2: You're in the same division as the Dodgers, and you
Speaker 2: don't have a high leverage reliever in your bullpen. And oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, I did not hear a lot of
Speaker 2: clapping coming out of the far booth here in the
Speaker 2: press box tonight eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. David Vasse with you
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. After Will smith two out, two run
Speaker 2: home run in the eighth inning gave the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: lead and the win three to two. They sweep Arizona
Speaker 2: in the opening series of the season. They will take
Speaker 2: on the Guardians of Cleveland on Monday night to close
Speaker 2: out this first homestand let's go out to Inglewood.
Speaker 3: Joseph, you're on Dodger Talk with David vass Hi.
Speaker 8: Joseph, Hey, David, So, I'm just calling it.
Speaker 5: I'm incredibly excited for the season. I kind of agree
Speaker 5: with the last caller, but of course got to let
Speaker 5: the season breathe a little bit before before saying all that.
Speaker 5: My take is that Kyle Tucker is gonna have a
Speaker 5: career here. He doesn't have to be a superstar on
Speaker 5: this team. He's you know, I think he's gonna he's
Speaker 5: gonna best his his RBIs and run scored easily. I
Speaker 5: think he he has, you know, one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 5: runs scored, one hundred and thirty five RBIs this year.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be an incredible year for Kyle Tucker. And
Speaker 5: I'm just excited to see it. That's that's all I
Speaker 5: gotta say.
Speaker 3: All Right, I like that thinking.
Speaker 2: I mean he should considering he's sitting behind show hey
Speaker 2: Otani and in front of guys like Mookie Betts and
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman and Will Smith. So uh yeah, this would
Speaker 2: be the team to do all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We have one line open. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: sweep the Snakes with a three to two win. And
Speaker 2: let's remember this as well. I mentioned this during the
Speaker 2: Clubhouse show. Were down early in all three of these
Speaker 2: games and came back. They exploded for two four run
Speaker 2: innings on opening night. Last night they had a four
Speaker 2: run inning thanks to a three run home run by
Speaker 2: Mookie bats and a solo shot by Alex Freeland in
Speaker 2: the fourth inning. And Kyle Tucker with a big late
Speaker 2: hit last night in the eighth inning. So Arizona had
Speaker 2: a small lead, but the Dodgers came back in all three.
Speaker 2: They were down two nothing early and all three of
Speaker 2: these games and they came back. It just feels like,
Speaker 2: as our old friend Nick Coletti liked to say, the
Speaker 2: games are too long for the opponent. And that was
Speaker 2: evident in these three games against Arizona. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Nathan, who is at the ballpark tonight. Hi, Nathan,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: So David, how's it going, Hey, when.
Speaker 2: You're hosting Dodger Talk during the golden era of Dodger baseball,
Speaker 2: It's all.
Speaker 7: Good, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 12: I wanted to talk about I personally think, well, Will
Speaker 12: Smith will definitely have a better season and Will I'll
Speaker 12: perform Cayl Rowley.
Speaker 7: I want to know what your opinion is on that.
Speaker 3: Say it again, I think Will Smith is going to
Speaker 3: outperform Cal Rawley this season.
Speaker 7: What do you think about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I agree, I agree.
Speaker 2: I think I'm not saying that he's going to hit
Speaker 2: sixty home runs. I mean, cal Raley probably hits forty,
Speaker 2: but that's not Will Smith's game. If I had to
Speaker 2: choose between those two guys as far as a hitter,
Speaker 2: if I need, I'll go this way, Nathan. If I
Speaker 2: needed a hit with the game on the line, I'm
Speaker 2: taking Will Smith over cal Raley. And I think it
Speaker 2: spoke volumes that. In a winner take all game in
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, Mark de Rosa went with Will
Speaker 2: Smith instead of Cal Rawley. I think that that just
Speaker 2: shows you what the opinion is around baseball who they
Speaker 2: rather have in a big game. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. I can't believe I just referenced the World
Speaker 2: Baseball Classic to make a point. Don't ever, don't ever
Speaker 2: allow me to do that again, especially when I say,
Speaker 2: Mark de Rosa, Okay, we're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. When we continue more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls At eight six sixnine eight seven two five seventy,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota and you'll hear part
Speaker 2: of our conversation with Miguel Rojas. We were out at
Speaker 2: WSS and Boyle Heights. It was a great day. We
Speaker 2: had a Dodger talker earlier today. You can hear that
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. And we're going strong doubleheader for
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk tonight, and it's well worth it thanks to
Speaker 2: Will Smith. On his birthday and Bobblehead Night. He hit
Speaker 2: a two out, go ahead, two run home run in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning and the Dodgers sweep the Snakes three
Speaker 2: to two. On AM five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
Speaker 4: dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to more
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse.
Speaker 3: To Paul two strike pitch from the Rio to Smith.
Speaker 2: Will swings HiT's a high drive center fielding deep this
Speaker 2: Paul back this pop.
Speaker 1: Will Smith, Happy Birthday. Dodgers lead three to two. Wanna
Speaker 1: go ahead home run at the bottom of the eighth
Speaker 1: with two outs. Have two strikes.
Speaker 2: Saturday Night belonged to Will Smith as he helps the
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to two with a
Speaker 2: go ahead, two run home run with two outs in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Dodgers sweep
Speaker 2: Arizona to start the season. They have Tomorrow off and
Speaker 2: then we'll start up again on Monday night to take
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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look, when
Speaker 2: you we look at this Dodger lineup, there just is
Speaker 2: nowhere to exhale.
Speaker 3: And when you have to.
Speaker 2: Face guys like Mookie Betts and Will Smith and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: There's really nowhere to turn to.
Speaker 2: And Will Smith is a guy that you know, can
Speaker 2: really see some pitches in and at bat, and he
Speaker 2: fought in that at bat after Mookie Bets drew a
Speaker 2: two out walk that was huge by Mooky as well.
Speaker 3: Will Smith does not get.
Speaker 2: The opportunity to even come to the plate if Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts makes it out, and we may have the Dodgers
Speaker 2: first loss of the season. Now, remember last year, speaking
Speaker 2: of Dodgers starting out hot, the Dodgers were undefeated in
Speaker 2: their first eight games of.
Speaker 3: The season last year.
Speaker 2: So this is nothing new except for the fact that
Speaker 2: after the first six weeks of the season the Dodgers
Speaker 2: cooled off. Their bullpen gave up a lot of late
Speaker 2: leads and that prevented them from really staying on a roll.
Speaker 2: Because the Dodger offense was putting up a lot of runs,
Speaker 2: the bullpen was just giving up late runs late in games,
Speaker 2: and that's the reason why, you know, they never really
Speaker 2: really took off after the first six weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: But it's much different. I mean you look at the
Speaker 2: confidence Will Klein has now after what he did in
Speaker 2: the World Series and the way he was celebrated after
Speaker 2: the World Series. He's the winning pitcher tonight. Alex Vesia
Speaker 2: is back. He's pitching for a lot more than baseball.
Speaker 2: You got Tanner Scott now in a role that can
Speaker 2: thrive sing a lot of lefties. And it all starts
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers went out and signed Edwin Diaz. You know,
Speaker 2: if on the Mets, how do you let Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: walk away for Devin Williams. I mean, Edwin Diaz is
Speaker 2: your guy. He identified with the Mets and you you
Speaker 2: didn't value him, and he walked away right into the
Speaker 2: arms of the Dodgers, similar to Mookie Beds, similar to
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman. You know, Edwin Diaz, I would argue was
Speaker 2: a bigger signing than signing Kyle Tucker. The Dodgers could
Speaker 2: have kept going without Kyle Tucker. I mean, you look
Speaker 2: at the minor league outfielders they had, like James Tibbs
Speaker 2: the third. You could have signed another outfielder as well,
Speaker 2: but there was no other closer on the free agent
Speaker 2: market as good as Edwin Diaz to solve a lot
Speaker 2: of the problems from last year. And like I said,
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning, now nobody is nervous. There's no
Speaker 2: heart attack kids going on. In the ninth inning, Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz gives you the confidence to know that he is
Speaker 2: going to get those three outs similar to the way
Speaker 2: Kennelly Jansen did in his prime. And ken Ley recorded
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty career saves with the Dodgers, more
Speaker 2: than any other picture in their franchise history. So that's
Speaker 2: the feeling now. In that ninth inning, everybody was pumped
Speaker 2: up for Timmy Trumpet, and nobody blink deny that Edwin
Speaker 2: Diaz wouldn't be able to get those final three outs.
Speaker 2: That's the feeling in that dugout, That's the feeling in
Speaker 2: the stadium, and it's all because of one guy that
Speaker 2: has closed games in a big market in New York
Speaker 2: with the Mets and now under the brightest lights in
Speaker 2: LA with the back to back World champion Dodgers. Can't
Speaker 2: stress enough how much Edwin Diaz has changed the complexion
Speaker 2: of games for the Dodgers this year. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Sacramento. Frank, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Frank?
Speaker 7: I'm doing phenomenal days yourself.
Speaker 3: Hey, couldn't be better. I think we've established that.
Speaker 11: Hey, happy birthday.
Speaker 7: Do the jiggy one. Will Smith the first Prince of
Speaker 7: la He told the Diamondbacks tonight to keep the name
Speaker 7: his name out of their mouth.
Speaker 3: See what you did there, Frank, See what you did there.
Speaker 3: I think we got it.
Speaker 2: I love that you stayed on hold for twenty two
Speaker 2: minutes to put all that together.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Frank.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Braxton, who is
Speaker 2: at the game tonight? Hi, Braxton, you got any more?
Speaker 2: Will Smith puns?
Speaker 8: Hey, No, I don't have any Will Smith funds. My
Speaker 8: last name is Smith, though, and my house calls him
Speaker 8: cause he Will.
Speaker 3: All right. I like that. I like that. What do
Speaker 3: you think about walk off Will? I'm going with walk
Speaker 3: off Will now.
Speaker 8: I think couz you Will is amazing. My little girl
Speaker 8: loves this. She exsa shares his walk up music. She
Speaker 8: loves us so much. But what I want to talk
Speaker 8: about night they've is the fan base. I'm a season
Speaker 8: ticket holder. I go it's about fifteen games a year
Speaker 8: or so, and I got to say that us being
Speaker 8: down the way we're down, you see a lot of
Speaker 8: fans leave in prior years, and this year it's awesome,
Speaker 8: like we've been down every game and everybody's hanging on
Speaker 8: and everybody knew like we're going to come back and
Speaker 8: win this. So number one, the awareness of the fan
Speaker 8: base and excitement. I love that. And number two one
Speaker 8: major play was Moreno's almost home run. How aware was
Speaker 8: the fans this year? To everybody, If you go back
Speaker 8: and watch that, everybody backed off, everybody backed off from
Speaker 8: gave him room. I thought that was incredible. So shout
Speaker 8: out to the fans of that.
Speaker 2: All right, Braxton, thank you for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember last year in the postseason or in a
Speaker 2: tight game, fans got out of the way for an
Speaker 2: opposing outfielder to rob a Dodger down the left field
Speaker 2: short wall. Yeah, the fans got to know the game.
Speaker 2: When it's an opposing outfielder trying to rob a Dodger
Speaker 2: home run. Do whatever you can to knock that ball
Speaker 2: out on the glove is in the stands, but yes,
Speaker 2: kudos to the fans over there in right field on
Speaker 2: the short wall to give Kyle Tucker all the room
Speaker 2: he needed to rob that home run, which certainly was
Speaker 2: a big home run, no doubt. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman tonight his first three hits of the year. He
Speaker 2: drove in a run in the seventh inning, and like
Speaker 2: I mentioned during the Clubhouse show, I am keeping track
Speaker 2: of the doubles for Freddy. That was his five hundred
Speaker 2: and forty eighth career double. He ties Alex Rodriguez for
Speaker 2: thirty third on the old time doubles list in baseball history.
Speaker 2: And like we mentioned earlier as well, Freddy in his
Speaker 2: career has averaged forty one doubles per season. So if
Speaker 2: he does that by the end of this year, he
Speaker 2: should be cracking the top twenty of doubles. And you
Speaker 2: know he wants to hit three hundred. He values batting
Speaker 2: average and I think we can all appreciate that and
Speaker 2: what Freddy does, and I mean, come on, the guy
Speaker 2: has the distinction of being the only player in baseball
Speaker 2: history to have two walk off home runs in.
Speaker 3: The World Series.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Lars, who is at the game tonight. Hi, Lars,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 13: David a big fan, first time calling and first time
Speaker 13: with Dodgers season tickets, And man, have we been rewarded.
Speaker 13: We went opening day, we went tonight. I took my
Speaker 13: five year old son up. We caught a foul ball.
Speaker 13: He was sitting on my lap.
Speaker 8: When Mookie Bets was up and I told him, Mookie's.
Speaker 13: Walking and Will Smith's going to hit a walk off,
Speaker 13: game winning home run here to celebrate his birthday and
Speaker 13: celebrate the bobblehead. And man, We've been to hundreds of games,
Speaker 13: but this was some of the most fun I've ever
Speaker 13: had in the Dodger game. In fact, we like it
Speaker 13: so much where we're find to DC and we're going
Speaker 13: to see the Dodgers series there, so maybe in DC
Speaker 13: and it's here on the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Nationals Park is actually a really good stadium, Lars, You're
Speaker 2: picking a good one. It's not one that people talk
Speaker 2: about all the time off the tip of their tongue,
Speaker 2: but I enjoyed going to Nationals Park. I've walked around
Speaker 2: the concourse and uh yeah, I like Nationals Park a lot.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to enjoy it.
Speaker 13: My brother is actually an architect and helped design Nationals Park,
Speaker 13: and I was the first manager of media relations for
Speaker 13: the Washington Nationals and they moved from Montreal. Hey, we
Speaker 13: got lots of friends and family coming out of the game,
Speaker 13: but we are lifeli Dodgers fans now, so it's been great.
Speaker 3: Lars.
Speaker 2: Were you in that Netflix documentary about how they torpedoed
Speaker 2: Montreal and got to Washington? Were you part of that?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 13: And I came on board right after the team was
Speaker 13: announced to move to DC, and I got to fulfill
Speaker 13: my dream not just to have a team in my hometown,
Speaker 13: but to get to work for him and work with
Speaker 13: Frank Robinson and Jim Bowden. Just had an amazing experience.
Speaker 13: But living out in LA and better in all of sports, then.
Speaker 3: Working for Jim voting was a dream job. I don't
Speaker 3: know about that.
Speaker 13: Frank Robinson was and just just working for the Nationals
Speaker 13: and getting to work at baseball, but now to share
Speaker 13: it with my son and see his love of the game,
Speaker 13: his love of the Dodgers and the memories we're making
Speaker 13: together at Dodgers Stadium. It's been really special in fulfilling.
Speaker 3: All right, Lars.
Speaker 2: So we'll see out there in our nation's capital. Can't
Speaker 2: wait for that road trip because after the Dodgers go
Speaker 2: to Washington, DC, they'll be headed back to Toronto.
Speaker 3: That's right, the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: First road trip of the season will take them back
Speaker 2: to where they won the World Series last year. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a week from Monday when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: open up a three game series in Canada. That should
Speaker 2: be spectacular. You don't want to miss any of those games,
Speaker 2: and they are the first two games of the series.
Speaker 2: You can listen to them right here on seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports and the iHeartRadio app at four oh seven. First
Speaker 2: pitch on Monday and Tuesday, April sixth and seventh, and
Speaker 2: getaway Day is Wednesday April eighth. That'll be at twelve
Speaker 2: o seven here in LA. And speaking of going back
Speaker 2: to Toronto, we'll see if Will Smith and Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: have any issues going through customs, whether or not those
Speaker 2: Canadian Mounties hold what they did. They're heroics in Game
Speaker 2: seven against them. But earlier today we had our first
Speaker 2: Dodger talk show of Saturday eleven to one at WSS
Speaker 2: and Boyle Heights. It was a great time out there.
Speaker 2: Great to see all the true blue Dodger fans, great
Speaker 2: to have some vas tacos, and especially great to have
Speaker 2: World Series Hero Miguel Rojas there to meet and greet
Speaker 2: with all the fans that came out. There was one
Speaker 2: fan that actually camped out at five am. He was
Speaker 2: the first person in line at WSS after camping out
Speaker 2: at five am. And here was part of our conversation
Speaker 2: with World Series Hero Miguel Rose earlier today at WUSS
Speaker 2: and Boil Heights.
Speaker 12: Yeah, my mindset is empty the tank every single day.
Speaker 12: I don't have a I don't have to worry about
Speaker 12: what going to happen next year. I already talked Dave
Speaker 12: rovers anything that you need from me, pulled me in
Speaker 12: the game at any any chance, any any opportunity you have,
Speaker 12: Just get me in there, because I'm not going to
Speaker 12: be complaining about being tired or anything like that because
Speaker 12: I can't rest after after this year. But definitely that's
Speaker 12: that's the way that I'm kind of approaching it and
Speaker 12: spring training. I knew it was all about getting ready
Speaker 12: for the season and all that, but I feel like
Speaker 12: it's my opportunity to kind of like give.
Speaker 3: It all out.
Speaker 12: And that doesn't mean that I didn't before, but I
Speaker 12: feel like right now it's like I'm enjoying every single
Speaker 12: game like it's my last one because it's a last
Speaker 12: opportunity of doing everything almost every single day. So for me,
Speaker 12: that's the way that I'm going to approach it and
Speaker 12: looking forward.
Speaker 1: To uh to to win.
Speaker 12: The last game of the season.
Speaker 2: Again, no doubt that's what the dot goals are. But
Speaker 2: they take it every they take it one game at
Speaker 2: a time, and they never stop working. I posted a
Speaker 2: video three hours before first pitch this afternoon and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were taking infield, Max Munsey, Santiago Espinal at third base,
Speaker 2: you had Mookie Bets at shortstop. You had Rojas and
Speaker 2: Alex Freelan at second base, and Freddie Freeman at first base.
Speaker 2: Three hours before the game, you had those names putting
Speaker 2: in work. Before the third game of the regular season,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing was doing the catching behind the plate. He
Speaker 2: obviously hasn't played in a while, so that was valuable
Speaker 2: for him. But that's what separates and that's what people
Speaker 2: that just want to have these hot takes about bashing
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and all the money they spent. They don't
Speaker 2: see the work these big name, high priced players put
Speaker 2: in to be able to deliver to back World Series championships.
Speaker 2: That's something special that separates them from every other team
Speaker 2: in baseball. And I'm with these guys and I get
Speaker 2: to the ballpark early. Yeah, there's guys putting in some
Speaker 2: extra work, but you don't see the superstars doing what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are doing on a consistent basis. That's the
Speaker 2: difference maker. And if you want to hear the full
Speaker 2: conversation with Miguel Rojas, you can find it on the
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. And I did bring up to him the
Speaker 2: fact that we saw Jeff Hoffman give up a game
Speaker 2: tying home run in the ninth inning last night with
Speaker 2: one out as the Dodgers were getting his rings, and
Speaker 2: he said, actually, Dave, have you ever heard of social media?
Speaker 3: I saw it.
Speaker 2: Somebody actually did a split screen on social media and
Speaker 2: one of his friends sent it to him as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were getting their ring.
Speaker 3: Somebody did a split screen.
Speaker 2: Cold as Ice Jeff Hoffman giving up that game tying
Speaker 2: home run to the Oakland A's Shane Langley as Rojas
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers were getting their ring. Yeah, that's out
Speaker 2: there on social media, so I wasn't breaking any news
Speaker 2: to him. What he doesn't know, though, is how I
Speaker 2: got to WSS and how I got to Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 3: In all three games, I got.
Speaker 2: A brand new Hyundai Tucson from my guy Sam at
Speaker 2: Downey Hunday. I rolled up to WSS and that thing today.
Speaker 2: So Miguel Rojas don't know about that. Might know about
Speaker 2: Jeff Hoffman, but he don't know about Downy Hunday, now
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: So thank you to my guy Sam.
Speaker 2: Who has hooked me up all season long to get
Speaker 2: to Dodger Stadium this year, and I appreciate that. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to two
Speaker 2: thanks to a go ahead to run a home run
Speaker 2: by Will Smith with two outs in the bottom of
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, set up by a two out walk
Speaker 2: by Mookie Betts. So a big night for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: as they continue to wear down the Diamondbacks and Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now started the game tonight. He was strong, six innings,
Speaker 2: two earned runs, six strikeouts. Will Climb, though, gets the
Speaker 2: win in Reliefjuan Morio gave up the two run home
Speaker 2: run that was the difference in the game in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, and Edwin Diaz, for the second straight night,
Speaker 2: records the save without any drama, and everybody loves that
Speaker 2: as well. All right, let's check in with our guy,
Speaker 2: Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moda, what a night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: But I made this argument, and I feel like I
Speaker 2: have a pretty good argument to make that the signing
Speaker 2: of Edwin Diaz was more important for the Dodgers than
Speaker 2: signing Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 7: I agree with you. Nothing against Kyler Tucker, obviously, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers of the Brett wellstat offense even before Tucker welcome him.
Speaker 7: But Diaz is a one guy that allows you to
Speaker 7: do one thing. Shortened the game. And as you mentioned
Speaker 7: regarding that Colletti, when the game gets too long for
Speaker 7: the opponent, well the game gets short against the opponent too.
Speaker 7: When you have guys that are going to go out
Speaker 7: there and just shut the door. I remember when Edwin
Speaker 7: came up with the Mariners heart throwing guy, he was
Speaker 7: pretty much thinking too much about mechanics. If you look
Speaker 7: at his mechanics, it's nothing pretty about him. But he
Speaker 7: understands who he is. He needs to know where the
Speaker 7: arm needs to be a dag and a guy that is.
Speaker 7: I got to meet him, you know, being in that
Speaker 7: same division for many years with the Angels. He just said,
Speaker 7: moment telling is quite simple. And one thing he does
Speaker 7: pretty well is he watches other bullpens. He wants to
Speaker 7: watch the guys starting make throwing their bullpens with a
Speaker 7: catcher set up. What he can learn about relief points,
Speaker 7: where the ball lands. He pitches to ground balls. This
Speaker 7: guy pitches. He's not just a thrower. He knows how
Speaker 7: to pitch, even though he does have in his career
Speaker 7: what eight hundred and forty one strike us in prover
Speaker 7: twenty in a third. But it's just also the angle
Speaker 7: of his arm that just does not allow the opponent
Speaker 7: to see the ball very well in a consistent basis.
Speaker 7: He is down at nineteen degrees, which is Dave, pretty
Speaker 7: hard to watch ninety seven to ninety eight goal by you.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, Jose, because we all knew
Speaker 2: what the bread and butter was for Kenley Jansen and
Speaker 2: Mariano Rivera the cut fastball. Maybe you could share with
Speaker 2: us how we know Edwin Diaz is on his game
Speaker 2: and why he has such margin for air even when
Speaker 2: he may not.
Speaker 3: Have his best stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this might sound a little crazy about sometimes his
Speaker 7: slaughter needs to go the other way, so it needs
Speaker 7: to be like a backup slaughter against righties, and he's
Speaker 7: fine with that because sometimes his delivery gets a little
Speaker 7: bit fast. But because his arm angle is low and
Speaker 7: he's able to finish up hitters and down on the zone,
Speaker 7: his slide of the backs up, as we say it's
Speaker 7: a mixer, is efficient against rightis and lefties. Down on
Speaker 7: the zone obviously can do a little bit of trouble
Speaker 7: if he hangs it like everybody else in baseball. But
Speaker 7: what allows them to be consistent is the ball exploding
Speaker 7: from that low end go down and up in the zone,
Speaker 7: which is hard to guess because now you're looking at
Speaker 7: the four seamer that is never straight, it's running away
Speaker 7: and left. He's an up and in on right is
Speaker 7: and when you see the games of Trachos, he comes
Speaker 7: into high leverage and guys are amped up when they
Speaker 7: see fastballs.
Speaker 11: He beats a.
Speaker 7: Lot of guys just above the hands because of the
Speaker 7: way he prepares everybody with that slider. So when you
Speaker 7: sit outside of going the other way is not a
Speaker 7: bad thing. I learned that remember earlier in my in
Speaker 7: my broadcast career. But also when you don't see the
Speaker 7: hard fastball, considered that this guy knows how to pitch
Speaker 7: by getting ground balls very consistent down of his zone.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: It was fun to see uh Narco playing the first
Speaker 2: last two nights here at Dodger Stadium and Edwin Diaz
Speaker 2: getting the save. And there's just a different feeling, Jose.
Speaker 2: When a guy like Edwin Diaz comes into the game,
Speaker 2: You're confident that you're not going to have to burn
Speaker 2: another reliever. You're confident in a one run game that
Speaker 2: he's going to get the job done. It's just that
Speaker 2: that makes such a huge difference for a team like this.
Speaker 7: It's big David now also going back to DS and
Speaker 7: as he mentioned, his efficiency in so many ways, he
Speaker 7: gets into the head of other managers. But for this reason,
Speaker 7: if they want to stack him against lefties and have
Speaker 7: their empty their bench, as we say in the ninth inning,
Speaker 7: lefties in his career one sixty nine average three hundred
Speaker 7: slugging by the same token, he's able to bury in
Speaker 7: and out, never a guessing game with him not predictable
Speaker 7: at all. Sometime when he's a ratic, he's also very good.
Speaker 7: But nonetheless he can utilize writers and lefties in the
Speaker 7: same way by being able to execute pitches on a
Speaker 7: consistent basis and knowing that. One more thing about his personality, Dave,
Speaker 7: this guy lets it go as quickly as anybody. When
Speaker 7: it's not going well, he'll be the first one standing
Speaker 7: in that locker answering questions. When it's going very well,
Speaker 7: he'll get more credit to the guys behind the plate
Speaker 7: calling and framing for him. And also when is going well,
Speaker 7: he doesn't take it. We've got to know that the
Speaker 7: other teams are also making adjustments. There's a lot to
Speaker 7: learn from erin just giving me a little heads up
Speaker 7: on him. But he keeps it quite simple because he
Speaker 7: can turn the page with the best.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's what the best closers do.
Speaker 2: A short memory Jose Mota is joining us after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers sweep the Diamondbacks tonight, the final score three to two.
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now started this game, and I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like he's kind of one of those forgotten names,
Speaker 2: even though on any other team, or at least twenty
Speaker 2: five other teams, he probably could have been their opening
Speaker 2: days starter. In his last tune up for the regular season,
Speaker 2: he really had his curveball working, maybe not the fastball.
Speaker 2: What did you see from Glass now? And do you
Speaker 2: feel like this might be a big year for him?
Speaker 7: I think so. He just needs to stay in one piece,
Speaker 7: and the fact that he's thinking a little bit less
Speaker 7: and being less mechanical, it's going to be good for him.
Speaker 7: I mean that frame of six a the least point
Speaker 7: the extension sometimes going to get out of way. But
Speaker 7: I think the less he thinks about stuff like that,
Speaker 7: the better off he is. I'm going to take the
Speaker 7: last start against the Angels in preseason, when he had
Speaker 7: the eleven strikeouts, he said in his mind, I'm going
Speaker 7: to go work on my curveball. He was facing a
Speaker 7: team very anxious hitters. They chased a whole lot. Today
Speaker 7: he didn't try to force and try to get the
Speaker 7: strike out today when the curboll was not working the Dbacks,
Speaker 7: knowing very well more disciplined hitters in the Angels, he
Speaker 7: goes to the curveball early. They're not swinging at it.
Speaker 7: There's a couple missed, very close misses. They're not biting
Speaker 7: at all. He goes through his two seam fastball. He
Speaker 7: threw nineteen sinkers, fourteen for strikes. He topped out at
Speaker 7: ninety six. Remember tug in six eight run on top
Speaker 7: of the release point, and then this fastball, which naturally
Speaker 7: sometimes cut his four seamers in, made it even better.
Speaker 7: So I think overall there's a time last year in
Speaker 7: early September when he missed a start and I think
Speaker 7: that was pretty much the growing that he needed to
Speaker 7: do and get the ear full from Dave Robbins say
Speaker 7: do this who we need, we need you to be.
Speaker 7: I think he's taken off from that, and today was
Speaker 7: a good example about not chasing strikeouts, being a complete
Speaker 7: picture and going back to the other side of the
Speaker 7: book and finding that two seam fastball later in the
Speaker 7: game because he had a very good outing again.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks for checking in. Enjoy Sunday and
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you Monday night.
Speaker 7: Austin Lego, mister Dodger talk two hours and now you're
Speaker 7: the best man. Keep going?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: Best team in baseball might as well keep it rolling.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the checking in, Jose. Jose does a great
Speaker 2: job on the Dodgers Spanish radio. Don't miss the Santa
Speaker 2: Anita Derby at Santa Anita Park on April fourth, Big payouts,
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Speaker 2: com slash events. Jose brought up a couple of really
Speaker 2: good points. The Dodgers needed what they got from glass
Speaker 2: Now tonight after Emig Sheen only went three and a
Speaker 2: third innings last night. Glass Now saved the bullpen tonight
Speaker 2: by going six innings and keeping them in the game.
Speaker 2: Don't lose sight of that. That was just as big
Speaker 2: as anything else tonight for glass Now to go six
Speaker 2: innings and not have Dave Roberts use seven or eight
Speaker 2: relievers to cover as many innings as he needed to
Speaker 2: cover last night, not to mention the day off tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So that's a double bonus for the Dodgers. And you'll
Speaker 2: have Edwin Diaz available Monday night. If needed for a
Speaker 2: safe chance. But on Monday night as well, it's Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki making his first start of the season, and he
Speaker 2: was very erratic with his fastball command in spring training.
Speaker 2: Some of the Japanese media told me today as well,
Speaker 2: a ratic in his bullpen session. So Justin Robleski has
Speaker 2: been throwing his bullpens the same day Roki Sasaki has been,
Speaker 2: So you would expect Justin Robleski to be on standby
Speaker 2: to cover a lot of innings if necessary on Monday night.
Speaker 2: So what glass Now did tonight very important. And like
Speaker 2: I said, this guy glass Now there's a different look
Speaker 2: about him. There was just something different about him in
Speaker 2: spring training. I believe he's gonna have a big year,
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's gonna get in his own way.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna compete all season long.
Speaker 2: And two years ago, his first year with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: he made a career high twenty two starts. He made
Speaker 2: the All Star team that year in twenty four. People
Speaker 2: forget that because he missed the entire second half of
Speaker 2: the season. He I think he's gonna exceed that. I
Speaker 2: could see Glass Now making a new career high and starts.
Speaker 2: I could see him making at least twenty five starts
Speaker 2: this year. All right, Tomorrow day off. Roki Sasaki will
Speaker 2: take the mound on Monday night, going up against Cleveland's
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Speaker 2: at seven to ten.
Speaker 3: That'll do it for us tonight on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us in case we couldn't get
Speaker 2: to you a callback Monday night. Thank you to everybody
Speaker 2: that came by WSS and Boyle Heights earlier today at
Speaker 2: eleven am. Feels like another day. Thanks for coming out
Speaker 2: earlier today at eleven am. Thanks to everybody at WSS
Speaker 2: for their great hospitality. And thanks to Colin Yee, who
Speaker 2: also was part of the Dodger Talk doubleheader today. He
Speaker 2: was there earlier for us back at the Burbanks Studios.
Speaker 2: He's still there for us tonight. So thank you, Colin.
Speaker 2: And thank you to Dwayne McDonald who is always here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. He never leaves. You'll be here tomorrow too,
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I mean he might just hang out until
Speaker 2: Monday anyway. Great night at Dodgers Stadium. It was Will
Speaker 2: Smith's night, his birthday, his bobblehead night, and he gives
Speaker 2: the Dodgers the win with a go ahead, two.
Speaker 3: Run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning
Speaker 3: with two outs.
Speaker 2: So what a night for Will Smith, What a start
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers as they are three and oh after
Speaker 2: sweeping the Diamondbacks in the opening series. Can't wait to
Speaker 2: talk to you on Monday. Enjoy Sunday, Palm Sunday. Have
Speaker 2: a great rest of your night.
Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score the Dodgers the Diamondbacks three to two.
Speaker 3: See us by six.
Speaker 1: The legs don and I'm on this leftist camp.