WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.280 Dodger Talk is sponsored by La Care Health Plan, providing affordable healthcare insurance to 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:10.640 millions of Angelinos for over twenty five years, and now your voice for Dodger 3 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:17.320 Talk. Like the back damn Cats, Oh, always fun to go to 4 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:21.879 New York and beat up on the New York Mets. And that's exactly what 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:27.160 the Dodgers did. They needed wins. They were riding a five game losings 6 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.839 trick. They were fresh off getting swept by the Cincinnati Rents, the last 7 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:37.079 place team in the NL Central. And then the rains came on Memorial Day 8 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.479 and washed away the game between the Dodgers and Mets, setting up a doubleheader 9 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:46.320 yesterday and the getaway game today. And what happened yesterday? The Dodgers for 10 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:51.439 seven plus innings offense was sluggish, couldn't get something going, and boom in 11 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:54.200 the eighth inning, they get on the board. They get on the board 12 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.000 again in the ninth. They went it in the tenth thanks to a three 13 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.280 run tenth inning and Freddie Freeman hitting the two run home run. Dodgers get 14 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.560 the sweep yesterday in the doubleheader, exploding for three runs in the second game 15 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:08.359 and a three to nothing shutout. And they come back today and the Dodgers 16 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:12.760 put up a ten spot and beat the New York Mets ten to three on 17 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:18.319 sixteen hits. They had four home runs, two of which came from Will 18 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.959 Smith in a winning effort. As the Dodgers are thirty six and twenty two, 19 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.599 and as we said in the postgame show, Hose Motive mentioned it, 20 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.560 you leave on a road trip in which you go five hundred three and three, 21 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:36.719 and you come back and you're still exactly where you were atop the standings 22 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:41.840 in the NL West and exactly where you were six and a half games up 23 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.680 on the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres. The Dodgers will take 24 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:52.079 that anytime to go to Cincinnati and get swept, turn around and sweep the 25 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.079 New York Mets, and come back home for a three game series and still 26 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.560 be six and a half games up right where you were. Absolutely the Dodgers 27 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:02.879 will take that. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is a 28 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.760 number. Eight sixty six nine eight seven to two five seventy will be here 29 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.240 until the top of the hour before we turn things over to the Petros and 30 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:15.039 Money Show, Pee and Money getting ready for a one hour sprint from six 31 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:20.080 until seven. They'll be joined by James Worthy on the show. Obviously a 32 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.919 lot to talk about in the world of basketball, with the conference finals going 33 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:28.639 on, the Celtius advancing to the NBA Finals, and of course the sudden 34 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:31.560 loss of Bill Walton earlier this week at the age of seventy one. James 35 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:36.520 Worthy, having played against him and friends with them for so many years battle 36 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.280 it out in the NBA. So I'll be great to hear from big game 37 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.599 James coming up. And just over an hour when petros some money start at 38 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:46.599 six o'clock, but plenty of time for your phone calls. Eight sixty six, 39 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.759 nine eighty seven, two five seventy. It's funny how a little winning 40 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:55.199 will cure things. The mood around the team we heard from Kirsten and Davess 41 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:01.439 on the pregame show mentioned how yesterday before the head guys were salty. Guys 42 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.879 were not feeling it. You know, you're riding a five game losy streak. 43 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:08.199 What do you expect. I wouldn't want it the other way. Guys 44 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.319 to be upset about the way they're playing and hitting and lack of production on 45 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.199 the offense. And then you win a doubleheader, and you come back to 46 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:19.319 the yard today and it smiles. It's feeling good about things. You got 47 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.599 the confidence and the swag back with your offense, good pitching again today, 48 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.800 and you get the sweep over the New York Mets. Well, in the 49 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.360 last twenty four hours before the Dodgers started getting these wins against the Mets, 50 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:35.199 you started to see some national publications. Ken Rosenthal was the big one from 51 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:39.960 the Athletic talking about the Dodger woes and he mentioned the five game losing streak 52 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:46.680 and oh no sky is falling for the Dodgers, the lack of production from 53 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.680 the bottom of the lineup. What are the Dodgers gonna do? They need 54 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.360 help in the outfield. They've tried Micky Vargas, They've tried James Altman, 55 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.159 They've tried Andy Pajis, who's cooled off. Keiky Hernandez isn't getting Chris Taylor's 56 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:05.039 had a miserable start to this season. They can't find the right combination in 57 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:10.400 the outfield to surround ti Oscar Hernandez and Jason Hayward are winning righties on the 58 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.439 mount. What are the Dodgers gonna do in the back end of the bullpen. 59 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.600 With all the injuries to their high leverage relievers, guys are starting to 60 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.639 trickle back. Evan Phillips is gonna be back this weekend, hopefully if he 61 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:26.120 checks out okay after pitching in Rancho Cucamonga yesterday. But funny to see National 62 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:32.160 Riders baseball insiders start hitting the panic button and what Dodger moves can be made 63 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:38.920 to help get this team back on track. I didn't have any doubt Dodger 64 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.079 fans that the offense was going to turn things around. It's rare in baseball 65 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:49.879 that you see a team this talented all get into a rut offensively. Sure, 66 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:56.879 you'll see one or two guys stay hot and carry a team. You'll 67 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:01.120 see three or four guys stay high and the rest of the team need to 68 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.480 be dragged through a series. Need to figure it out at the play offensively, 69 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.120 need to get out of a one for fourteen skid that they're in. 70 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.519 But we saw Dodgers team go five hundred over the course of ten games, 71 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:20.920 lose five in a row after that, and really struggle offensively for any kind 72 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:26.360 of production. Consistently won through nine. Now it's been three games in the 73 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:30.240 last twenty four hours. But I like the way that they have trended back 74 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.199 and the offense has gotten back on track at least over these three games in 75 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:39.160 New York, and you hope it can carry out moving forward to this weekend 76 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:43.920 in Colorado. But the national perspective that, oh no, what is wrong 77 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:46.720 with the Dodgers. How are they going to fix it via trade? They've 78 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:50.360 tried bringing up guys from the miners. They've tried using guys who have been 79 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:59.160 platoon players, starters, contributors, playoff performers like Chris Taylor and keyk Hernandez 80 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:03.720 and just nothing his works. And so already national pundits wondering about possible trade 81 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:08.199 for Kenley Jansen. Could the Dodgers go out and get William Thomas from the 82 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.360 Brewers to help out a short and move Mookie over to second base and that 83 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.560 frees up the second base spot for Gavin Lux not I had to play every 84 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.680 day. Let's just pump the brakes on this a mini skid for the Dodgers, 85 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.800 And that's what I think. It really was a mini loll for the 86 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:30.240 Dodgers here in May, and everybody wants to panic about what has happened with 87 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:33.920 this team. Now, if the lull continues, which I don't believe it 88 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:39.160 has, I think this team figured it out yesterday late in that first game 89 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:42.120 of the doubleheader. Certainly they got it going. In the second game. 90 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.959 Will Smith provided the power. And sometimes that's all it takes is one guy 91 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.079 to get it going. That's all it takes sometime is maybe a guy to 92 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.519 carry you out of a game, get a big hit late in a game 93 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:57.040 and get a victory, get something positive happening for a team, and that 94 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:00.800 momentum will start to rub off on other players, and all of a sudden, 95 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:04.040 you look up and you've won six to seven, You've won two series 96 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:06.879 in a row. Then all of a sudden, you have won three straight 97 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.160 series on the road. It can happen just as quickly as you can start 98 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.879 going into a rut and lose five in a row and get swept by a 99 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.560 last place team in like the Cincinnati Reds. You can quickly turn things around 100 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.920 and it's still May. Look at the clock, look at the scoreboard, 101 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:25.839 look at the calendar. It's still May. We haven't flipped until June yet. 102 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.399 Let's just pump the brakes on the fact that it's panic time for the 103 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.000 Dodgers because, as I mentioned at the outset, they left on this road 104 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:36.879 trip up six and a half games and they come back home to Dodger Stadium 105 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.839 up six and a half games in the NL West. If they had lost 106 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.720 five in a row and the lead was down to a game and a half, 107 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:47.639 and they're coming back home clinging to a lead as we get ready to 108 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.360 get to June, and the way the Giants and the Padres have turned things 109 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:56.600 up and the Dodgers just can't find themselves. Okay, I'd be panicking a 110 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:01.639 little bit, but the fact is they've gone through their roughest stretch of this 111 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.680 young season. Hopefully it come out the other side of this rough patch, 112 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.160 and they've still got a six and a half game lead on the Division. 113 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.199 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Coming up, we'll hear 114 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:18.319 from Will Smith, who said it milestone today with his two home runs. 115 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.360 But let's head back out to Cincinnati. Dave Robbers, the Dodger manager, 116 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:26.279 talking with Kirson and the media. I'm Dave. I know he talked about 117 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.519 just salvaging this series, going home five hundred to see your team do just 118 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.120 that picking back kind of you guys left off after Cincinnati. How good did 119 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.879 it feel to see your team take this week? It was great? Obviously 120 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:45.519 a great series results wise. For us to catch the lead early was great, 121 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:50.600 and then to relinquish that lead and you know that fifth inning, and 122 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.000 then to bounce back and have that big inning in the seventh of the eighth 123 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.000 inning, A lot of good things happened, a lot of good situation on 124 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.960 bats to strike hitting, and we put together a lot of the bats, 125 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:05.799 and so to be able to have Yards finish that game off and save Hudson, 126 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:09.480 who's the last guy available, and the pen was big. James is 127 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.440 telling us just about the plan for his outing to be a little bit shorter 128 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.120 on regular rest. How valuable do you see that being when he is on 129 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.759 regular especially long term, with looking to keep him healthy and keeping him ready 130 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.200 for October. I think that's the whole deal. You know, when he 131 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.000 signed up, the thought was he was best when given a little bit of 132 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:33.080 extra rest in between starts, and so kind of this circumstance lined up where 133 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.600 we needed him to go on regular rest, and so with that we wanted 134 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.080 to make sure that we shortened it and I felt that, you know, 135 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.600 where he was at close to sixty pitch or something like that. He gave 136 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.799 us what we needed, knowing we had some length behind us. So it 137 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.240 was really good to see him, you know, pick us up right. 138 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:56.120 There is that something you I guess kind of see continuing, especially with him 139 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.200 when he's on regular rest or you think there will be time, just different 140 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.519 situations might call for different things. I think different things might call for different 141 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.679 situations, but I don't see it happening very often. I mean, it 142 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.240 might happen a couple more times this year, but it's it's certainly not going 143 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:16.440 to be commonplace. Your offense is back after the last couple of days, 144 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.240 I think, so, you know, there's been a lot of talk obviously 145 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.039 at the bottom of the order, and today you know, you can see 146 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:30.440 when they're taking productive at bats, getting hits, taking big walks, that 147 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:35.200 good things happen. And so you know, even say Mookie didn't get any 148 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.799 hits, Freddie, I don't know, I got to hit, and so 149 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.919 we still put up a lot of runs. So a lot of credit go 150 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.159 to those guys. Miguel Rojas is, you know, playing great baseball right 151 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.360 now. He really is He's just adding a lot of energy, focus, 152 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:56.440 intensity to our club on both sides of the baseball. And you know, 153 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:01.480 I can't say enough about Jason coming in off the bench last night, comes 154 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.320 in, makes a big play that could have you know, done a different 155 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.559 Gavins inning, could have looked different. And then today comes in pinch it 156 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:15.840 triple off Attavino to kind of trigger that inning and Will Smith, you know, 157 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.039 kind of doing what Will does so just across the board, up and 158 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.000 down the line was really good to see. All right, there's Dave Roberts 159 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:26.480 talking about the pitching and talking about the thinking process of James Paxson coming out 160 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.399 after three innings and only fifty pitches going on normal rest, and you got 161 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.600 to think of this. You don't need to build these guys up to go 162 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.960 seven innings over the course of six months. It's a marathon. And you 163 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.159 hear that expression all the time. But again, we're still in the month 164 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:45.960 of May and he's getting to double digit starts now in ten. You don't 165 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.159 need to start burning up these guys arms just because you need him to pitch 166 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.440 on regular rest. If that's the case, have him go out throw like 167 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.399 he did today, somewhere between fifty and sixty pitches. He did exactly that 168 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.519 in three innings. Now, he could have gone longer if he wouldn't have 169 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.200 had a twenty five pitch third inning. He could have gone longer if he 170 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.159 didn't have a seventeen pitch first inning. So just so happens he win three 171 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.879 innings because he hit the fifty pitch mark, and that's where they wanted to 172 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:13.639 keep him at on short rest again, don't need to go out there and 173 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.799 start putting a lot of mileage on these pitcher's arms. And it's not even 174 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.639 June yet. As it is, the Dodgers' bullpen comes in well rested. 175 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.759 Thanks to the previous two starters in this series, Tyler glass Now and Gavin 176 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:33.600 Stone. The Dodgers' bullpen was rested and fresh and ready to go. Think 177 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:39.720 about what this Dodgers' bullpen did in these first two games. Alex Vesia two 178 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.519 innings pitch in the second game, Michael Grove, Daniel Hudson, Blake trining 179 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.440 in the first game. Yeah, that was it as far as bullpen use 180 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.480 yesterday in the double hitter, You'll take that every time to get that kind 181 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:56.360 of outing from your two starters, limited bullpen usage, and a double hitter, 182 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.440 and you've basically got a rested bullpen outside of a trinan who still came 183 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.679 in in pitch today and pitched him back to back days. Now, Michael 184 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.799 Grove pitched him back to back days. He looked good at his one inning 185 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.360 today outside the double that he gave him. But this was a Dodger bullpen 186 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.039 rested and ready to go, and it was right on time for James Paxton, 187 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:18.440 who was going on shorter rests to get the fifty pitches three innings. 188 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.879 And then Tanner turned it over to the bullpen where six different relievers came out 189 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.679 and pitch for the Dodgers, and they go on and beat the Mets ten 190 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:28.240 to three. A six run eighth inning for the Dodgers. Ten batters went 191 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.720 to the plate two home runs, booking by Will Smith's solo home run, 192 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:37.360 and then show Heyotani a two run home run to give the Dodgers a nine 193 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.600 to three lead for Showyotani. By the way, a fun fact for show 194 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.000 Hao Tani because he's hit a lot of home runs this season. He's hit 195 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:48.679 a lot of home runs in new ballparks that he had never hit a home 196 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.000 run before. I know he's played six years in Anaheim, but he has 197 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:58.600 never homered in all the parks. Sho Hao Tani this year has hit a 198 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:03.000 home run for the first time in these four ballparks. And again, we 199 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.480 haven't gotten to June yet. He's hit a home run for the first time 200 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.559 at Ridley Field. Did back on April fifth. He's hit a home run 201 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:16.320 for the first time in his career this year at Nationals Park. Did that 202 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.720 back on April twenty third, for the first time in his career. Shoey 203 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:26.320 Otani went deep in San Francisco just two weeks ago May fourteenth, hit the 204 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.039 home run at Oracle Park, one of the longest home runs ever hit at 205 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:35.679 that stadium. And then today the home run opposite way to less center field 206 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.000 in the eighth inning. That was the first time show Heyo Tani has hit 207 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:45.759 a home run in his career at City Field. So we think of shoey 208 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.399 Otani. He's been in the league six years and we haven't got to Junie 209 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:52.200 yet, and already he's hit four home runs in four parks that he's never 210 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.200 done so at ridley Field, Nationals Park, Oracle Park, and then today 211 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:00.519 gets it done at City Field. We'll take a break, come back here 212 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.440 on Dodger Talk. Don't forget Petro some money coming up at the top of 213 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.879 the hour. They're stretching, ready to go for a one hour sprint until 214 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.919 seven o'clock before we have things over to Jason Smith. But the Dodgers get 215 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:15.399 to win this afternoon. A happy flight home for Dave Roberts and his team, 216 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.080 a ten to three victory over the New York metsas City Field. More 217 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:22.279 of your phone calls, we'll hear from Will Smith, who set a milestone 218 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.960 today at Cityfield as well. When we come back, Tim Kates, Colliny 219 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:30.960 and you, it's postgame Dodger Talk. You're on your home of the Dodgers. 220 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:37.080 AM five seventy LA. Spurs Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio AUS AM five 221 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:41.480 seventy LA Sports be anywhere at any time, and you can hear past episodes 222 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.039 of Dodger Talk all of those things. Search AM five seventy on the iHeartRadio 223 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.399 app. We're streaming online. We stream every game too. Come find it. 224 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:56.559 Back to Dodger Talk on AM five seventy LA Sports Ball No Strikes. 225 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:02.440 Ton Alvino gets ready to face one Smith again, was a curveball swung on 226 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.960 hit well in the left field. It is going back to the wall Don 227 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:11.320 home run for Smith and the Dodgers leading in the eighth, four to three, 228 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.919 the second home run of the game for Will Smith, and the Dodger 229 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:23.960 catcher has scored three of the four Dodger runs this afternoon. Will Smith one 230 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:30.440 of his two home runs in a Dodgers ten to three win, his eighth 231 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:33.960 home run and ninth home run of this season, and he joins three other 232 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:41.200 Dodger greats for hitting one hundred home runs in Dodger history. So congratulations to 233 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:45.360 Will Smith, who's now tied by the way in home runs with Steve Jeger 234 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:48.919 at one hundred in his career eight six six, eight six six nine eight 235 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:55.320 seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Daniels 236 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.519 Jewelers, the official sponsor of the Trip around the Diamond. Stop by any 237 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:03.320 Daniel's Jeweler's location, say home run for your free team bracelet and a fifty 238 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:07.720 dollars gift card towards any purchase of ninety nine dollars or more. 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Right, let's go out 248 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:47.480 to the phones, Petro, some money coming up at the top of the 249 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:51.880 hour. Edgar in Norwalk start things off here on postgame Dodge Talk after the 250 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.279 Dodgers sweep the Mets with a ten to three win. Yeah, I just 251 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.119 want to say, I mean, these guys have the best line up in 252 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.519 the National League. Oh no, do we lose. Hey, you're there, 253 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:11.240 buddy, A ball home run. But now the way they're playing, 254 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:15.920 it's smart baseball. Yeah, they had better at bats today. There's no 255 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.839 doubt about it. I appreciate it. Edgar Jose talked about it on the 256 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.599 Clubout Show, and I'm glad you brought that up because you did see better 257 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.960 quality of bats. You saw guys going the other way, Guys passing the 258 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.240 batons boats, so to speak, Guys driving the balls to the outfield to 259 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:33.519 move a runner over or to bring in a run. As especially part of 260 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.880 that six run eighth inning, Will Smith gets a home run, but then 261 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.400 running on Miguel Rojas an RBI single, Miguel Vargas a two run double, 262 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.640 doesn't do anything special, just puts it in play down the right field line. 263 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.759 Sho Hao Tani then a two run home run, And for shoey Otani, 264 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.119 as great of a hitter as he is, he's just looked a little 265 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:56.160 different to play. I don't know if he's over compensating for his hamstring that's 266 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:59.799 been tight on him or what. But Rick Monday's talked about it and is 267 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:04.640 pulling the ball, pulling off on inside pitches. I don't know if he 268 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.359 thinks that teams are just going to continue to try to pepper him inside, 269 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.319 which they had been doing. And the Cincinnati Redis did a very good job 270 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.759 of that going in, especially with the fastball on shoey Otani, and he 271 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:17.039 hasn't caught up to it, and he's pulling off the ball, trying to 272 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.759 pull everything. But in that final bat in the eighth inning where he hit 273 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:26.400 the home run today, fastball lowing away in the strike zone. Instead of 274 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:27.880 pulling off on the ball and popping it out or hitting off the end of 275 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.559 the bat or trying to pull out the right field, he goes with it 276 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:36.039 and with his power he hits out of the ballpark nearly four hundred feet to 277 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.720 left center field at City Field. So again just doing what the pitchers are 278 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.119 going to give you. A bunt yesterday that brought in a run. You 279 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.519 saw today, was it Miguel Vargas, Miguel Rojas who was up and a 280 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:52.759 runner on first and third and Miguel Rojas attempts a bunt. He wasn't going 281 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:57.680 to, but he just squared to bunt, moving the infielders around and Gavin 282 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:02.359 lux was going on the pitch, and what happened. You get guys in 283 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.839 motion, you attempt to bunt, at least you show it. First baseman 284 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:11.720 crashes, second basement's got to go over towards first, the shortstops covering second, 285 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:15.640 guys are moving around on defense, and you got a guy in motion 286 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:21.200 and Gavin Lux stealing second base without even a throw. That's smart heads up 287 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:25.480 baseball right there. And the Dodgers did that in this series. I'm telling 288 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:27.759 you, the day off in New York is going to prove to be a 289 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:33.359 big moment for this Dodgers team. Thank goodness for mother Nature in the rain 290 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.279 on Memorial Day. Freddie Freeman needed today off. Rick Monday's been through this. 291 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.279 He's talked about he's seen more baseball than we can ever think of, 292 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:45.279 and he even said it multiple times yesterday and today. Eric Carrolls mentioned it 293 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.480 on the TV broadcast on Sports and at la same thing, been around baseball's 294 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:56.920 entire life. Knows more baseball than I'll ever know. And he talked about 295 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.000 getting off your feet, rain out game, going out and eating dinner, 296 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:03.480 stay in the hotel, just not thinking about baseball, watching a movie, 297 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:10.160 doing anything besides baseball for a day, and then coming back and feeling better 298 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.160 at the plate. Confidence is back. You get some positive results and all 299 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:17.759 of a sudden, you're Freddie Freeman again and you're hitting the ball over the 300 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.960 ballpark and you're hitting it out of the ballpark. It's funny thing how baseball. 301 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:23.920 You can be up one day, down another day, and all of 302 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:27.240 a sudden a rain out, and you can come back and you can get 303 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.559 out of whatever funk you're in offensively. If you're a pitcher, you can 304 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:36.160 get ret, reset and back mentally ready for your next start the next time 305 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:38.559 out. I mean, it's funny to give him baseball eight six six, 306 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:41.279 nine, eight seven, two five seventy. It's go out to Montrose and 307 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.960 Jason is next up on Dodger Talk. Hi doing, Jason doing great, 308 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:48.519 love the show Man. Thanks appreciated. A question for you, you know, 309 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.680 Otani or should we call him with her, you know, calling him 310 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:56.039 in the clubhouse. Somebody calls himself baseball boy. We know how devastating is 311 00:21:56.039 --> 00:22:00.440 when he's either two way player, he's a pitcher and he can hit, 312 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:04.559 and he's a presumptive MVP every year, but this year he's the front runner 313 00:22:06.039 --> 00:22:11.400 and he's a DH. Has anyone ever won the MVP just I mean, 314 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:14.359 no position in the field, just straight up DH? Or is he doing 315 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.960 like unprecedented stuff his baseball boy? You know kind of study records are going 316 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:23.160 to be really hard to chase. Yeah, I mean he's a unicorm as 317 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:26.519 they say, Junior Jason. I appreciate the phone call and h Colin, 318 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.519 he just looked it up real quickly, and I appreciate this. Uh. 319 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:37.880 Nobody has ever won Most Valuable Player solely playing designated hitter. Don Baylor was 320 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:41.960 the closest to do it when he was with the Angels in forty percent of 321 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.200 the games when he won al MVP back in nineteen seventy nine. But again, 322 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:51.279 he wasn't solely a designated hitter forty percent of the games. He was 323 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:56.079 a DH, so it wasn't like Shoey O'tani solely a designated hit. Now 324 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:00.559 that could change. Who knows Otani's throwing now what happened if we get to 325 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:03.160 September October. I'm just I don't know anything. I'm just throwing it out 326 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:07.359 there and the Dodgers, you know, one Otawni out there and Will Smith 327 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.839 the DHA game and Otani goes out and plays the outfield. I'm just saying, 328 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:15.519 what if we get to that point again, he is primarily going to 329 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.960 be a designated hit this year, And with that being said, no nobody 330 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:23.599 has ever won Most Valuable Player in Major League Baseball solely as a designated hitter. 331 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:26.599 Thanks to Colin e for backing me up and finding that stat and that 332 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:30.759 information right there. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the 333 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.160 number Dodgers win at ten to three over the New York Mets. They have 334 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:37.519 his six run eighth inning. The ten batters went to the plate two home 335 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.880 runs in the inning. Blake Trying gets the win, Ada Bodovino gets the 336 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:45.240 loss. How about the performers today? From Will Smith, the Dodger catcher 337 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.119 yesterday is a designated hitter had a home run, comes back today hits home 338 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.119 runs and back to back or two of his four at bats eighth and ninth 339 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:56.640 of the season and number one hundred of his career. Let's hear from the 340 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:00.920 Dodger catcher with David Vessell. Uh, with those two home runs, you 341 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:06.319 now have one hundred as a Dodger catcher. You're among names like Roy Campanella 342 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:10.720 and Mike Piazza. But what does that mean to you? Yeah, that's 343 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:12.359 uh, it's really cool. You know those are you know, Hall of 344 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:15.400 famers, So yeah, I mean, I'm sure they hit a few more 345 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:18.839 than one hundred, but uh yeah, it's cool. It's cool, comp 346 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:23.440 cool milestone for me. But right now I'm just focused on winning. Turey 347 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.799 get one on one on Friday, and uh yeah, how big of a 348 00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:32.240 sweep was this considering the way things went in Cincinnati for you guys, Yeah, 349 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.200 it was huge. Just to get that first game yesterday, it was 350 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:37.559 huge. How do you shut the door on that ending? Get off to 351 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:41.240 a good start after those three games, then you know, go back out 352 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:44.079 win another ballgame, and then you know, get out there today and when 353 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:48.200 it's huge, it'll be a happy flight home. So yeah, it's good. 354 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:51.480 I don't know if you guys have talking about it on the Monday, 355 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.160 that starts us a little bit of a reset. They kind of went good 356 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:56.960 to work today, but you kind of feel the same way that they help 357 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:00.680 you personal. Uh yeah, I think we made most out of it. 358 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:03.599 Yeah, yes, you can talk about it that way. You know, 359 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:07.759 we just kind of got our normal routine, pregame routine, and then they 360 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:08.960 canceled the game on us. But yeah, you're ready to go. On 361 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.440 Tuesday, came out one two Paul games, so it's good for us. 362 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:17.519 Three homework. That's two games for you. For you like how overall U 363 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:22.880 feeding other played here over the last week or so. So decent, not 364 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:26.880 great the past a couple of weeks, but not bad either. Just continue 365 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.880 to work in the cage with the Haiti coaches, continue to try to stick 366 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:33.039 my approach, and I go out there and execute it and nah, yeah, 367 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.319 a couple of balls go over the instead. All right, there's Will 368 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.799 Smith who hits home run number one hundred of his career, and he does 369 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:45.279 so in twenty and seventy six played appearances. Steve Yeager, he joins the 370 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:48.920 company with Jaggs with one hundred career home runs as a Dodger catcher. Mike 371 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:52.960 Piazza is number two on the list with one hundred and seventy seven. Roy 372 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:57.240 Campanella the all time Dodger catcher leader with home runs two hundred and forty two. 373 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:02.680 So Will Smith certainly a long ways away from Roy Campanella's record, but 374 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:07.480 he is now tied for third with Steve Jeger with one hundred career home runs 375 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.279 with the Dodgers. That's gonna do it for postgame Dodger talk. Coming up 376 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.880 next, it's the Petros and money show. I know the guys literally have 377 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.680 been chomping at the bit coming in here and tell me to hurry up because 378 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:18.960 they want to get at it. It's gonna be a sprint, a one 379 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:22.440 hour sprint for the boys till seven o'clock in the Jason Smith Show. 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I'll be back 386 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:51.640 with off Night Dodger Talk, and then they'll start a three game homestand a 387 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.519 quick one three game series against the Colorado Rockies to get in on Friday night, 388 00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:59.240 Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck at six, first pitch at seven to ten. 389 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.759 Walker Vieler scheduled to get the start on Friday with a big one for 390 00:27:02.799 --> 00:27:08.400 the Dodgers. See the Mets beat the Mets sweep the Mets, and that's 391 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:12.240 exactly what they did with a ten to three win today in New York. 392 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:18.480 Until next time, so everybody, PMS is next