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Talk. Like the back damn Cats, Oh, always fun to go to
New York and beat up on the New York Mets. And that's exactly what
the Dodgers did. They needed wins. They were riding a five game losings
trick. They were fresh off getting swept by the Cincinnati Rents, the last
place team in the NL Central. And then the rains came on Memorial Day
and washed away the game between the Dodgers and Mets, setting up a doubleheader
yesterday and the getaway game today. And what happened yesterday? The Dodgers for
seven plus innings offense was sluggish, couldn't get something going, and boom in
the eighth inning, they get on the board. They get on the board
again in the ninth. They went it in the tenth thanks to a three
run tenth inning and Freddie Freeman hitting the two run home run. Dodgers get
the sweep yesterday in the doubleheader, exploding for three runs in the second game
and a three to nothing shutout. And they come back today and the Dodgers
put up a ten spot and beat the New York Mets ten to three on
sixteen hits. They had four home runs, two of which came from Will
Smith in a winning effort. As the Dodgers are thirty six and twenty two,
and as we said in the postgame show, Hose Motive mentioned it,
you leave on a road trip in which you go five hundred three and three,
and you come back and you're still exactly where you were atop the standings
in the NL West and exactly where you were six and a half games up
on the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres. The Dodgers will take
that anytime to go to Cincinnati and get swept, turn around and sweep the
New York Mets, and come back home for a three game series and still
be six and a half games up right where you were. Absolutely the Dodgers
will take that. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is a
number. Eight sixty six nine eight seven to two five seventy will be here
until the top of the hour before we turn things over to the Petros and
Money Show, Pee and Money getting ready for a one hour sprint from six
until seven. They'll be joined by James Worthy on the show. Obviously a
lot to talk about in the world of basketball, with the conference finals going
on, the Celtius advancing to the NBA Finals, and of course the sudden
loss of Bill Walton earlier this week at the age of seventy one. James
Worthy, having played against him and friends with them for so many years battle
it out in the NBA. So I'll be great to hear from big game
James coming up. And just over an hour when petros some money start at
six o'clock, but plenty of time for your phone calls. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy. It's funny how a little winning
will cure things. The mood around the team we heard from Kirsten and Davess
on the pregame show mentioned how yesterday before the head guys were salty. Guys
were not feeling it. You know, you're riding a five game losy streak.
What do you expect. I wouldn't want it the other way. Guys
to be upset about the way they're playing and hitting and lack of production on
the offense. And then you win a doubleheader, and you come back to
the yard today and it smiles. It's feeling good about things. You got
the confidence and the swag back with your offense, good pitching again today,
and you get the sweep over the New York Mets. Well, in the
last twenty four hours before the Dodgers started getting these wins against the Mets,
you started to see some national publications. Ken Rosenthal was the big one from
the Athletic talking about the Dodger woes and he mentioned the five game losing streak
and oh no sky is falling for the Dodgers, the lack of production from
the bottom of the lineup. What are the Dodgers gonna do? They need
help in the outfield. They've tried Micky Vargas, They've tried James Altman,
They've tried Andy Pajis, who's cooled off. Keiky Hernandez isn't getting Chris Taylor's
had a miserable start to this season. They can't find the right combination in
the outfield to surround ti Oscar Hernandez and Jason Hayward are winning righties on the
mount. What are the Dodgers gonna do in the back end of the bullpen.
With all the injuries to their high leverage relievers, guys are starting to
trickle back. Evan Phillips is gonna be back this weekend, hopefully if he
checks out okay after pitching in Rancho Cucamonga yesterday. But funny to see National
Riders baseball insiders start hitting the panic button and what Dodger moves can be made
to help get this team back on track. I didn't have any doubt Dodger
fans that the offense was going to turn things around. It's rare in baseball
that you see a team this talented all get into a rut offensively. Sure,
you'll see one or two guys stay hot and carry a team. You'll
see three or four guys stay high and the rest of the team need to
be dragged through a series. Need to figure it out at the play offensively,
need to get out of a one for fourteen skid that they're in.
But we saw Dodgers team go five hundred over the course of ten games,
lose five in a row after that, and really struggle offensively for any kind
of production. Consistently won through nine. Now it's been three games in the
last twenty four hours. But I like the way that they have trended back
and the offense has gotten back on track at least over these three games in
New York, and you hope it can carry out moving forward to this weekend
in Colorado. But the national perspective that, oh no, what is wrong
with the Dodgers. How are they going to fix it via trade? They've
tried bringing up guys from the miners. They've tried using guys who have been
platoon players, starters, contributors, playoff performers like Chris Taylor and keyk Hernandez
and just nothing his works. And so already national pundits wondering about possible trade
for Kenley Jansen. Could the Dodgers go out and get William Thomas from the
Brewers to help out a short and move Mookie over to second base and that
frees up the second base spot for Gavin Lux not I had to play every
day. Let's just pump the brakes on this a mini skid for the Dodgers,
And that's what I think. It really was a mini loll for the
Dodgers here in May, and everybody wants to panic about what has happened with
this team. Now, if the lull continues, which I don't believe it
has, I think this team figured it out yesterday late in that first game
of the doubleheader. Certainly they got it going. In the second game.
Will Smith provided the power. And sometimes that's all it takes is one guy
to get it going. That's all it takes sometime is maybe a guy to
carry you out of a game, get a big hit late in a game
and get a victory, get something positive happening for a team, and that
momentum will start to rub off on other players, and all of a sudden,
you look up and you've won six to seven, You've won two series
in a row. Then all of a sudden, you have won three straight
series on the road. It can happen just as quickly as you can start
going into a rut and lose five in a row and get swept by a
last place team in like the Cincinnati Reds. You can quickly turn things around
and it's still May. Look at the clock, look at the scoreboard,
look at the calendar. It's still May. We haven't flipped until June yet.
Let's just pump the brakes on the fact that it's panic time for the
Dodgers because, as I mentioned at the outset, they left on this road
trip up six and a half games and they come back home to Dodger Stadium
up six and a half games in the NL West. If they had lost
five in a row and the lead was down to a game and a half,
and they're coming back home clinging to a lead as we get ready to
get to June, and the way the Giants and the Padres have turned things
up and the Dodgers just can't find themselves. Okay, I'd be panicking a
little bit, but the fact is they've gone through their roughest stretch of this
young season. Hopefully it come out the other side of this rough patch,
and they've still got a six and a half game lead on the Division.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Coming up, we'll hear
from Will Smith, who said it milestone today with his two home runs.
But let's head back out to Cincinnati. Dave Robbers, the Dodger manager,
talking with Kirson and the media. I'm Dave. I know he talked about
just salvaging this series, going home five hundred to see your team do just
that picking back kind of you guys left off after Cincinnati. How good did
it feel to see your team take this week? It was great? Obviously
a great series results wise. For us to catch the lead early was great,
and then to relinquish that lead and you know that fifth inning, and
then to bounce back and have that big inning in the seventh of the eighth
inning, A lot of good things happened, a lot of good situation on
bats to strike hitting, and we put together a lot of the bats,
and so to be able to have Yards finish that game off and save Hudson,
who's the last guy available, and the pen was big. James is
telling us just about the plan for his outing to be a little bit shorter
on regular rest. How valuable do you see that being when he is on
regular especially long term, with looking to keep him healthy and keeping him ready
for October. I think that's the whole deal. You know, when he
signed up, the thought was he was best when given a little bit of
extra rest in between starts, and so kind of this circumstance lined up where
we needed him to go on regular rest, and so with that we wanted
to make sure that we shortened it and I felt that, you know,
where he was at close to sixty pitch or something like that. He gave
us what we needed, knowing we had some length behind us. So it
was really good to see him, you know, pick us up right.
There is that something you I guess kind of see continuing, especially with him
when he's on regular rest or you think there will be time, just different
situations might call for different things. I think different things might call for different
situations, but I don't see it happening very often. I mean, it
might happen a couple more times this year, but it's it's certainly not going
to be commonplace. Your offense is back after the last couple of days,
I think, so, you know, there's been a lot of talk obviously
at the bottom of the order, and today you know, you can see
when they're taking productive at bats, getting hits, taking big walks, that
good things happen. And so you know, even say Mookie didn't get any
hits, Freddie, I don't know, I got to hit, and so
we still put up a lot of runs. So a lot of credit go
to those guys. Miguel Rojas is, you know, playing great baseball right
now. He really is He's just adding a lot of energy, focus,
intensity to our club on both sides of the baseball. And you know,
I can't say enough about Jason coming in off the bench last night, comes
in, makes a big play that could have you know, done a different
Gavins inning, could have looked different. And then today comes in pinch it
triple off Attavino to kind of trigger that inning and Will Smith, you know,
kind of doing what Will does so just across the board, up and
down the line was really good to see. All right, there's Dave Roberts
talking about the pitching and talking about the thinking process of James Paxson coming out
after three innings and only fifty pitches going on normal rest, and you got
to think of this. You don't need to build these guys up to go
seven innings over the course of six months. It's a marathon. And you
hear that expression all the time. But again, we're still in the month
of May and he's getting to double digit starts now in ten. You don't
need to start burning up these guys arms just because you need him to pitch
on regular rest. If that's the case, have him go out throw like
he did today, somewhere between fifty and sixty pitches. He did exactly that
in three innings. Now, he could have gone longer if he wouldn't have
had a twenty five pitch third inning. He could have gone longer if he
didn't have a seventeen pitch first inning. So just so happens he win three
innings because he hit the fifty pitch mark, and that's where they wanted to
keep him at on short rest again, don't need to go out there and
start putting a lot of mileage on these pitcher's arms. And it's not even
June yet. As it is, the Dodgers' bullpen comes in well rested.
Thanks to the previous two starters in this series, Tyler glass Now and Gavin
Stone. The Dodgers' bullpen was rested and fresh and ready to go. Think
about what this Dodgers' bullpen did in these first two games. Alex Vesia two
innings pitch in the second game, Michael Grove, Daniel Hudson, Blake trining
in the first game. Yeah, that was it as far as bullpen use
yesterday in the double hitter, You'll take that every time to get that kind
of outing from your two starters, limited bullpen usage, and a double hitter,
and you've basically got a rested bullpen outside of a trinan who still came
in in pitch today and pitched him back to back days. Now, Michael
Grove pitched him back to back days. He looked good at his one inning
today outside the double that he gave him. But this was a Dodger bullpen
rested and ready to go, and it was right on time for James Paxton,
who was going on shorter rests to get the fifty pitches three innings.
And then Tanner turned it over to the bullpen where six different relievers came out
and pitch for the Dodgers, and they go on and beat the Mets ten
to three. A six run eighth inning for the Dodgers. Ten batters went
to the plate two home runs, booking by Will Smith's solo home run,
and then show Heyotani a two run home run to give the Dodgers a nine
to three lead for Showyotani. By the way, a fun fact for show
Hao Tani because he's hit a lot of home runs this season. He's hit
a lot of home runs in new ballparks that he had never hit a home
run before. I know he's played six years in Anaheim, but he has
never homered in all the parks. Sho Hao Tani this year has hit a
home run for the first time in these four ballparks. And again, we
haven't gotten to June yet. He's hit a home run for the first time
at Ridley Field. Did back on April fifth. He's hit a home run
for the first time in his career this year at Nationals Park. Did that
back on April twenty third, for the first time in his career. Shoey
Otani went deep in San Francisco just two weeks ago May fourteenth, hit the
home run at Oracle Park, one of the longest home runs ever hit at
that stadium. And then today the home run opposite way to less center field
in the eighth inning. That was the first time show Heyo Tani has hit
a home run in his career at City Field. So we think of shoey
Otani. He's been in the league six years and we haven't got to Junie
yet, and already he's hit four home runs in four parks that he's never
done so at ridley Field, Nationals Park, Oracle Park, and then today
gets it done at City Field. We'll take a break, come back here
on Dodger Talk. Don't forget Petro some money coming up at the top of
the hour. They're stretching, ready to go for a one hour sprint until
seven o'clock before we have things over to Jason Smith. But the Dodgers get
to win this afternoon. A happy flight home for Dave Roberts and his team,
a ten to three victory over the New York metsas City Field. More
of your phone calls, we'll hear from Will Smith, who set a milestone
today at Cityfield as well. When we come back, Tim Kates, Colliny
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Ton Alvino gets ready to face one Smith again, was a curveball swung on
hit well in the left field. It is going back to the wall Don
home run for Smith and the Dodgers leading in the eighth, four to three,
the second home run of the game for Will Smith, and the Dodger
catcher has scored three of the four Dodger runs this afternoon. Will Smith one
of his two home runs in a Dodgers ten to three win, his eighth
home run and ninth home run of this season, and he joins three other
Dodger greats for hitting one hundred home runs in Dodger history. So congratulations to
Will Smith, who's now tied by the way in home runs with Steve Jeger
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to the phones, Petro, some money coming up at the top of the
hour. Edgar in Norwalk start things off here on postgame Dodge Talk after the
Dodgers sweep the Mets with a ten to three win. Yeah, I just
want to say, I mean, these guys have the best line up in
the National League. Oh no, do we lose. Hey, you're there,
buddy, A ball home run. But now the way they're playing,
it's smart baseball. Yeah, they had better at bats today. There's no
doubt about it. I appreciate it. Edgar Jose talked about it on the
Clubout Show, and I'm glad you brought that up because you did see better
quality of bats. You saw guys going the other way, Guys passing the
batons boats, so to speak, Guys driving the balls to the outfield to
move a runner over or to bring in a run. As especially part of
that six run eighth inning, Will Smith gets a home run, but then
running on Miguel Rojas an RBI single, Miguel Vargas a two run double,
doesn't do anything special, just puts it in play down the right field line.
Sho Hao Tani then a two run home run, And for shoey Otani,
as great of a hitter as he is, he's just looked a little
different to play. I don't know if he's over compensating for his hamstring that's
been tight on him or what. But Rick Monday's talked about it and is
pulling the ball, pulling off on inside pitches. I don't know if he
thinks that teams are just going to continue to try to pepper him inside,
which they had been doing. And the Cincinnati Redis did a very good job
of that going in, especially with the fastball on shoey Otani, and he
hasn't caught up to it, and he's pulling off the ball, trying to
pull everything. But in that final bat in the eighth inning where he hit
the home run today, fastball lowing away in the strike zone. Instead of
pulling off on the ball and popping it out or hitting off the end of
the bat or trying to pull out the right field, he goes with it
and with his power he hits out of the ballpark nearly four hundred feet to
left center field at City Field. So again just doing what the pitchers are
going to give you. A bunt yesterday that brought in a run. You
saw today, was it Miguel Vargas, Miguel Rojas who was up and a
runner on first and third and Miguel Rojas attempts a bunt. He wasn't going
to, but he just squared to bunt, moving the infielders around and Gavin
lux was going on the pitch, and what happened. You get guys in
motion, you attempt to bunt, at least you show it. First baseman
crashes, second basement's got to go over towards first, the shortstops covering second,
guys are moving around on defense, and you got a guy in motion
and Gavin Lux stealing second base without even a throw. That's smart heads up
baseball right there. And the Dodgers did that in this series. I'm telling
you, the day off in New York is going to prove to be a
big moment for this Dodgers team. Thank goodness for mother Nature in the rain
on Memorial Day. Freddie Freeman needed today off. Rick Monday's been through this.
He's talked about he's seen more baseball than we can ever think of,
and he even said it multiple times yesterday and today. Eric Carrolls mentioned it
on the TV broadcast on Sports and at la same thing, been around baseball's
entire life. Knows more baseball than I'll ever know. And he talked about
getting off your feet, rain out game, going out and eating dinner,
stay in the hotel, just not thinking about baseball, watching a movie,
doing anything besides baseball for a day, and then coming back and feeling better
at the plate. Confidence is back. You get some positive results and all
of a sudden, you're Freddie Freeman again and you're hitting the ball over the
ballpark and you're hitting it out of the ballpark. It's funny thing how baseball.
You can be up one day, down another day, and all of
a sudden a rain out, and you can come back and you can get
out of whatever funk you're in offensively. If you're a pitcher, you can
get ret, reset and back mentally ready for your next start the next time
out. I mean, it's funny to give him baseball eight six six,
nine, eight seven, two five seventy. It's go out to Montrose and
Jason is next up on Dodger Talk. Hi doing, Jason doing great,
love the show Man. Thanks appreciated. A question for you, you know,
Otani or should we call him with her, you know, calling him
in the clubhouse. Somebody calls himself baseball boy. We know how devastating is
when he's either two way player, he's a pitcher and he can hit,
and he's a presumptive MVP every year, but this year he's the front runner
and he's a DH. Has anyone ever won the MVP just I mean,
no position in the field, just straight up DH? Or is he doing
like unprecedented stuff his baseball boy? You know kind of study records are going
to be really hard to chase. Yeah, I mean he's a unicorm as
they say, Junior Jason. I appreciate the phone call and h Colin,
he just looked it up real quickly, and I appreciate this. Uh.
Nobody has ever won Most Valuable Player solely playing designated hitter. Don Baylor was
the closest to do it when he was with the Angels in forty percent of
the games when he won al MVP back in nineteen seventy nine. But again,
he wasn't solely a designated hitter forty percent of the games. He was
a DH, so it wasn't like Shoey O'tani solely a designated hit. Now
that could change. Who knows Otani's throwing now what happened if we get to
September October. I'm just I don't know anything. I'm just throwing it out
there and the Dodgers, you know, one Otawni out there and Will Smith
the DHA game and Otani goes out and plays the outfield. I'm just saying,
what if we get to that point again, he is primarily going to
be a designated hit this year, And with that being said, no nobody
has ever won Most Valuable Player in Major League Baseball solely as a designated hitter.
Thanks to Colin e for backing me up and finding that stat and that
information right there. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
number Dodgers win at ten to three over the New York Mets. They have
his six run eighth inning. The ten batters went to the plate two home
runs in the inning. Blake Trying gets the win, Ada Bodovino gets the
loss. How about the performers today? From Will Smith, the Dodger catcher
yesterday is a designated hitter had a home run, comes back today hits home
runs and back to back or two of his four at bats eighth and ninth
of the season and number one hundred of his career. Let's hear from the
Dodger catcher with David Vessell. Uh, with those two home runs, you
now have one hundred as a Dodger catcher. You're among names like Roy Campanella
and Mike Piazza. But what does that mean to you? Yeah, that's
uh, it's really cool. You know those are you know, Hall of
famers, So yeah, I mean, I'm sure they hit a few more
than one hundred, but uh yeah, it's cool. It's cool, comp
cool milestone for me. But right now I'm just focused on winning. Turey
get one on one on Friday, and uh yeah, how big of a
sweep was this considering the way things went in Cincinnati for you guys, Yeah,
it was huge. Just to get that first game yesterday, it was
huge. How do you shut the door on that ending? Get off to
a good start after those three games, then you know, go back out
win another ballgame, and then you know, get out there today and when
it's huge, it'll be a happy flight home. So yeah, it's good.
I don't know if you guys have talking about it on the Monday,
that starts us a little bit of a reset. They kind of went good
to work today, but you kind of feel the same way that they help
you personal. Uh yeah, I think we made most out of it.
Yeah, yes, you can talk about it that way. You know,
we just kind of got our normal routine, pregame routine, and then they
canceled the game on us. But yeah, you're ready to go. On
Tuesday, came out one two Paul games, so it's good for us.
Three homework. That's two games for you. For you like how overall U
feeding other played here over the last week or so. So decent, not
great the past a couple of weeks, but not bad either. Just continue
to work in the cage with the Haiti coaches, continue to try to stick
my approach, and I go out there and execute it and nah, yeah,
a couple of balls go over the instead. All right, there's Will
Smith who hits home run number one hundred of his career, and he does
so in twenty and seventy six played appearances. Steve Yeager, he joins the
company with Jaggs with one hundred career home runs as a Dodger catcher. Mike
Piazza is number two on the list with one hundred and seventy seven. Roy
Campanella the all time Dodger catcher leader with home runs two hundred and forty two.
So Will Smith certainly a long ways away from Roy Campanella's record, but
he is now tied for third with Steve Jeger with one hundred career home runs
with the Dodgers. That's gonna do it for postgame Dodger talk. Coming up
next, it's the Petros and money show. I know the guys literally have
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they want to get at it. It's gonna be a sprint, a one
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