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you until the bottom of the hour. After the Dodgers default to the Rockies
tonight by a final score of seven to six. Eight sixty six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number. We will check in with Jose
Mota in fifteen minutes. We will let you hear from Max Monsey coming up
as well, because he joined us on the pregame show and gave us an
update on where he's at and how he's staying connected to this team. And
I know the loss of Mookie Bets is huge, but not having Max Munsey
in the middle of this order is certainly just as significant in different ways.
Eight six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. How about
show Hao Tani? Speaking of missing Mookie Bets, he has gotten red hot
since Sunday afternoon when he hit two home runs at Dodgers Stadium. Since Sunday's
game or including Sunday's game. He is now nine for his last eighteen with
three doubles, three home runs, and eight RBIs. He came up big
in the second inning against the Rockies starter tonight, Ryan Feltner. I was
gonna say Austin Gomber he was last night's starter, but Ryan Feltner tonight.
He came up with the bases loaded and cleared the bases with a double and
got the Dodgers even and that's when Freddy Freeman drove him in and the Dodgers
scored four runs in the second inning after Bobby Miller gave up a very frustrating
three run home run to Michael Tolia, who is now hitting one ninety one.
And what's frustrating about it. Obviously you don't want to give up home
runs. It's going to happen at Corsfield. But what really kills pitchers at
Corsfield are the dings and dunks of the base hits and also walks, and
that's exactly what happened to Bobby Miller in the very first inning. He gave
up a two out single to Ryan McMahon and then walk the catcher Jacob Stallings
in front of Tolia. That's something you can do. And unfortunately for Bobby,
seems like it always happens this way. He's going great, two outs,
dominating the first two hitters, and then all of a sudden it falls
apart really quickly. And that's what happened in the first inning tonight. Let's
head back to course Field and here from Bobby Miller. Jnllen was pretty high
in the first inning. I got a couple of quick ayls, two out
walk. I just didn't really like that. But and then the next guy,
I just missed a fastball down the middle. I'd like to think if
I just throw it in a different spot, I only let up two runs
instead of more, and it's a completely different ball game. So it really
just comes down to that one pitch pretty much. You know, fastball is
a little flat today, but that doesn't give me an excuse when I throw
it fastball down the middle like that first one. Yeah, that one really
just kind of kind of bit me. Were you looking for the groundouts or
just how beneficial was the defense behind you and how they supported you today.
I was getting a lot of grund balls, so I sort of leaning more
towards the two seam four seam wasn't too great today, so I leaned a
lot more towards the two seam, and it was It's getting a lot of
success, besides a couple of times I just missed it down the middle.
But other than that, chained up was really good today. Curveball insider weren't
great, but you know, it's pretty efficient and I'm still glad to go
into the seventh inning and save our bullpen a little bit. Some of those
missus down there that will, like you attribute that to rest at all coming
back or just kind of mis executing on a few pros. No, I
felt great. I don't really think rest is the issue there. I really
just try to throw an elevated fastball and did a little too much on it
and and just pulled it a little bit down the middle instead of focusing on
execute the pitch and not try to throw it too hard. Test was that
when you give up the three early runs and you have as much traffic as
he did, to kind of, you know, try to get deep in
the game and get out of some of those jams you had later. Yeah,
I mean I've dealt with a lot of that before, and I was
getting a lot of ground balls of the two seams. So I use that
with a lot of traffic today and worked out a lot. Yeah, the
defense had my back today as well, turn a lot of double plays and
that was nice as well. All Right, there's Bobby Miller, who obviously
is very happy to be back. He would have liked a different outcome,
But like I was saying at first inning, it's kind of like when innings
get away away from Bobby all of a sudden, after dominating the first part
of an inning, a single, a walk, and then all of a
sudden, kind of the it falls apart on him. And you can't have
that in bigger games than this one, and that's something he's going to have
to figure out. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. The Dodgers fall to the Rockies tonight, seven to six.
They have one more game in Denver and then come back home for a
short two game homestand again to the Angels. So, Dodgers Angels, starting
Friday night at Dodgers Stadium, we hope to see you out there. Let's
go out to the phones Austin in upland you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi Austin, Hey, Dave, how's it going tonight? It's going?
Well? What do you got for us? Thank you, thank you for
taking my call. I wanted to honestly talk about the infield situation a little,
you know, I hear him and and Rick talked about it all the
time with McGee Rojas with the fourteen to oh, I think when he scores
a run and some then twenty or twenty one to oh when he gets a
hit, and I think I've just seen enough of Vigeo with that error tonight,
I mean zero and three. I know he got a run, but
I'm kind of frustrated with that. I can feel more comfortable with key k
being there and McGee being there more full time, especially with McGee being down.
But wanted to get your feedback, especially with the first six games that
Vigio has brought with us. Yeah, I've been underwhelmed by Calvin Vigio.
The Dodgers obviously saw a way that he could possibly help them at the end
of the roster, fill in for Max Munsey at third base, a left
handed hitter, a guy that does have a higher on base percentage via the
walk, but also the fact that this guy does not swing the bat when
it's called for. That's frustrating. You just can't have that if he's not
hitting ninth. So yeah, I haven't been thrilled with Calvin Vigio. I
mean, Tao said it earlier, you can't waste your at bats, and
I feel like that's a little bit of what he's been doing with and he's
been given to opportunities. But other than that, I mean, it's one
game. I can understand. I'm not one of those, oh my gosh,
go crazy people, but I was also excited to hear the news of
Kershaw in Rancho today. Pitched pretty well, a lot of strikes thrown,
and I'm definitely excited to see him back. He was one of my favorites
growing up. So thank you again, David. Hey, no problem,
Austin appreciated. Yeah, a couple of things there. I'm not sure how
much longer the Cavin Bigio experience experiment is going to go on, maybe until
Max Munsey returns or there's a better option and you reference ta Oscar Hernandez.
I still I can't believe Dave Roberts would take him out of the game for
quote rest with just a two run lead in the seventh inning. That's not
an inning or a situation where you pull one of your better right handed hitters
out of a game at corps Field. And I know the Dodgers are about
the long game and load management for the long haul, but really, you're
gonna take ta Oscar Hernandez out at that point in time and you're just saying
it's rest. I personally believe maybe it was dehydration, maybe cramping, but
come on, rest, I'm not buying that. Eight six six nine,
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Speaking of Clayton Kershaw,
you're right. He was out there in Rancho Kucamonga tonight making his first official
rehab start. Think of this as Kershaw's first or second spring training start.
He went three innings tonight, He allowed one earned run, had five strikeouts,
and by some tweets out there, they said the radar gun clocked his
fastball at ninety miles an hour. Sports net LA had coverage of it and
brings us Kershaw's postgame reaction to his first rehab outing of the season. I
think it was good. Yeah, I mean checks off a lot of boxes,
got through three, so you know, first time in a game,
setting and all those things. So it was it was fun to get back
out there. You know, I hadn't done that in a while. So
as long as you know, everything comes out tomorrow, fine, I think
I'm on for the next one and three. Your five strikeouts coming to be
that curve ball. So how would you says kind of the feel for that
page in particular? Process, Yeah, it felt felt fine today. You
know, I think probably three more strikes and I probably expected honestly, but
yeah, I thought it went on considering the decision you've had to make last
year, what you've been through, was their significance and getting back on my
own in the game. For you, well, I think I think the
significance will be making it back to the big leagues. You know, I
think this is just another step in the process. It doesn't mean it's not
important, but ultimately all this is for nothing if you know, I don't
make it back. So it's a good it's a good another step I'm not
getting, you know, too high or too low, just you know,
trying to make it through, you know, make it through three or four
more starts and kind of see where I'm at. Where are you going to
be satisfied dissatisfied, so you had to you know me or as far as
your stuff and where you are with that. Honestly, I was just more
focused on getting it done tonight, you know, going out there and getting
up and down for three inks and trying to make some pitches when I needed
too, and you know, stuff's okay, it's getting better. So hopeful
that you know over time you start working wrong pitching and less about health and
get ready to go. All right, there's Clayton Kershaw. Well, not
a lot to say after a first rehab start, but certainly significant, as
you heard Bill plunkt ask him, because he decided to go with surgery.
He decided to come back and pitch, and so far, so good.
No setbacks that we're aware of when it comes to this process from coming back
from shoulder surgery. So a very good night for Clayton Kershaw at Rancho kucka
Manga, and hopefully he will be back sometime in July to help this rotation
that all of a sudden now is down two starters, Yoshi Yamamoto out probably
until agus and now Walker Buehler taking a breather because the Dodgers put him on
the IL, and if you were listening last night, Walker Buehler kind of
intimated that they may take a reset here because he's been searching. He's been
frustrated and is trying to figure out life after a second Tommy John surgery.
So I know they're calling it hip inflammation. I'm sure there's something going on
in his hips, and that's a big reason for a pitcher to not be
firing on all cylinders. But I also feel like this is a really good
opportunity for Walker Buehler to just recalibrate and try to find his confidence. More
than anything, it feels like he's not really believing in himself. He's not
believing in the pitches he's throwing. He's not believing in the pitches when he's
throwing them. So he needs to look in the mirror and remember that he's
that guy and he's doing pretty well with the fastball velocity, just needs to
be patient to execute his other pitches. And you know, Walker Buehler has
been known to be a guy that tinkers with armslaught baseball shapes. Maybe that's
working against him at times. So hopefully he can reset and be a new
version of Walker Buehler that and new doesn't mean less than it just means a
different version, and he can do that. I fully believe that eight sixty
six eight seven two five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Rockies
tonight, seven to six. Let's go out to Laguna, Neguel, Paul,
you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Paul, Yeah, how
are you? Thank you for taking my call. We're just telling you're a
partner there. I've been a Dodger fan since then. A little boy,
I went to Ebbitts Field in nineteen fifty five with my dad and we shot
out in the center field underneath the overhang. And I think Don John Zimaza
beamed that game and was carried off the field on stretch. I could be
wrong about that, but I followed the Dodgers since I'm little, so I'm
out, you know. And so I agree with the previous core about Vgio.
Why not play Hernandez and Tailor? No matter what the you know,
right hand, left handed, what do you got to lose at bat two
hundred or less? I mean, it doesn't really matter if they pltune him
or not. The better feel is in vg O. That's that's my opinion.
You think they'll bring Landon Knackbacks in the minor leagues to take a dueler's
spot in the rotation. And what about Dustin May? What do you hear
about him? Dustin May won't return until likely uh September. He's throwing bullpen
sessions in camel Back Ranch, but he could be a weapon out of the
bullpen for the Dodgers in September. Paul, thanks for the phone call.
Love hearing old time Dodger fans. Eight six two five seventy is the phone
number. Let's go out to downy Frank. You're on Dodger Talk with David
Vassei. Hi Frank here, what's up, bro, first time caller,
love your show, tough loock today. I wanted to call him ut my
questions about Schosko hernandez uh. Dave Roberts said, because he wanted to get
Chris Taylor an extra bat. But I totally think and it's I just saw
it on the game that he didn't hustle enough for that when they tied the
game at four to four, that should have been a tear double and he
kind of looked like he was jogging out there, bro, and that's why
he got taken out. That's what I think. Uh well, you think
he benched a veteran player like that? Oh? Yes, man, it's
just straight out man. I mean yesterday and yesterday's game, someone hit a
double and then hit the side of the wall, and he also jogged he
was Was he starting in right field yesterday it was the day before. I'm
not sure, but they kind of you know, I'm kind of noticing this.
I love Heroscar Hernandez. I love his bat, I mean, in
his charisma. He brings a lot to the team. But clearly he didn't
hustle enough. And even Bobby Miller he tried his best not to show it
he was mad, but I could tell. I could tell the expression,
Bro. That should have been the double, That run should have never came
in. Probably cost of the game, I mean, honestly, all right,
I'll go back and look at it. You know, coursefield is not
an easy outfield to play, despite what many think. So maybe he just
did not get a good read on it. Maybe he was playing it a
little bit too carefully, But I mean he stayed in the game a little
bit longer. So that's interesting, Frank, I'll check on that. I'll
check on that and let you know. That's good observation by I love your
show man, and good luck and keep up the good work man, Hey,
thank you appreciate it. Eight six six seven two five seventy is the
phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
we come back, we'll check in with Jose Moto. We'll get his thoughts
on y Teoscar Hernandez was out of the game in the seventh inning. Was
it because Dave Roberts was not happy with his uh hustle? We'll find out.
Also, you'll hear from Max Munsey who joined us on the pregame show.
And we are going to give away a copy of Andy mccollough's Clayton Kershaw
biography, the Last of his kind. So don't go anywhere Dodger Talk until
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show Heltani Show Hey. Otani red hot nine for eighteen, including Sunday afternoons
two homer game on Father's Day. Otani now has three home runs, eight
RBIs and three doubles. Unfortunately, the Rockies find a way to win it
in the ninth inning against Johann Ramirez and the Dodgers, walking it off on
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The Biography on Clayton Kershaw, The Last of his Kind. Let's head
out to Jose Mota in Denver. It's time to go around the horn with
Jose Mota. All right, Jose Mota, Let's start with our last callers
observation. He believed that Taascar Hernandez was not running hard on the basis he
was not chasing after doubles with enough hustle, and that was the reason why
Dave Roberts sat him down. Was it that or was there some cramping going
on in his legs? It had to be something more than just rest.
In my opinion, Taska didn't seem that upset with Dave Roberts about taking him
out. He was singing out on the dugout when he penal. As a
player, believe me, the one thing he doesn't want to do is,
you know, be around his manager. That happens a lot now. Out
of respect to his teammates, he might be on the other side to support
him, But I don't think it was anything to do. I'm still wondering
what it was really was. If it was about res I question it and
whatever else it might be. I just don't have an answer, because he's
a key player for you, and he's already tussled first, the third,
and the fifth, and so apparently there was nothing wrong with his legs.
And sure, even though you know, the outfields have done a lot of
running, it's at a pleasure for everybody here today. So I just didn't
see anything wrong with Hernandez today. Yeah, that was really strange. A
two run lead late in the game and you take out one of your best
power hitting right handed hitters. So we'll try to figure and sort through that
tomorrow, Jose. As far as Bobby Miller goes man the first inning again
indicative of his short major league career, you think he's going great, and
then all of a sudden, bam, it falls apart for a three four
run inning. I know. I mean, you can look at it two
ways, and that one first in twenty two pitches and you're going, Okay,
this might be a very short outing, but Bobby Miller actually loves pitching
here. Marvel is here last September seven innings with a couple of runs.
But you're right, David, you know, and he mentioned it and I'm
glad he was quite honest and transparent about this. It was about trying to
make a pitch better when the truth is for young players to understand this,
how about you make a better pitch And that was pretty much it. One
pitch got away Polia, another guy hitting under two hundred herds of Dodgers the
first inning. And when you think about Bobby Miller getting you to the seventh
inning, to me, that is a huge plus, which I was applauding
and saying, well, you know what, right now, it's it's good
that he's feeling his own that change that we found a feel for. But
again defensively, they got to do a better job supporting him, and that
was the case again with that would beat you. But I will get Bobby
at passing Gray today because he got you through the seventh inning. But I
was talking to Cunor McGinnis about this, and it seems like a lot of
the young pitchers have gotten through this before or still go through this. Even
Landam Necket like this wanted thing that I cannot get through. Let's try to
just find a way so to something else needs to happen for you guys to
make a better pitch and not to try to make something even more special when
it comes out to executing. Yeah, no doubt. Bobby's very much into
the analytics and checking the stats of his pitches, so it seems to get
the best of them at times, even when he's not having the iPad in
his hand. Now you know one thing too, to real quick, Dave
is I've talked to a lot of players pitchers coming back from injuries, and
this is a plus with Walker Biler. Two is you have to pitch what
you have, and you got to be very careful on scouttery reports with guys
returning back from injuries, because remember, your stuff is not quite there yet
right. So in other words, you might saying that because you have four
pitches and the scouting says one thing about this particular player or lineup, that
you're going to have all of them right away, and you're not. And
I think you know for Walker Billa's applies to is forget the scouting reports sometimes
and pitch to what you have, what's been working better for you along with
your catcher, and find out exactly scout report or not this is working for
me. I'm watching reaction from the hitters and applies to ble the young pitcher
in the veteran pittchure come back from injury, because you can't think you're full
war and full bodied right when you come back from injury, you're not.
Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers fall to the Rockies tonight seven
to six, Calvin Bigio, Jose, I know he's not the reason why
the Dodgers lost tonight, but he is coming up with men on base,
and he's striking out looking two more times tonight, and fifty two percent of
his strikeouts this year have been looking. How much longer is this experiment going
to go on? For? Well, it's not working on the offensive side
and it's not working on the defensive side. And Calvin brings an aspect of
the values we're actually looking for and guys that can get on pace. But
teams know this now. It's not like Toronto let him go be for this
reason too, is they want to pitch him. Teams are finding a way
to pitch him, and he's got to be more aggressive here. And here's
another indication here, Dave that guys that take a lot of pitches, and
going back to the Mike Social years, he said, Jose. When we
see a lot of guys that take a lot of pitches, that's great.
They work counts now, look at it, three two averages when they may
contact three to two career Calvin Bide coming into two days ago, one sixty
eight, okay, this year he committ one forty three. So that is
usually account where you're deciding swim or not or he pray good to see a
pretty decent strike to hit, and it just has not worked for him.
So unfortunately we see that right now, at least until today. You know,
on both sides, it just has not worked. All right, Jose,
We'll check in with you after the game tomorrow. I predict a Dodger
win with Gavin Stone on the mound. He's the guy you want right now.
He's got that look right now and he's had that belonging look too,
presidents on the mound that the Dodgers need tomorrow. Yes, all right,
Jose, safe travels home to Los ane Angelus. There he goes Jose Mota
part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and Ninguez. When they are
on the road, our guy, uh Fernando Valezuela will rejoin the broadcast on
Friday against the Angels. We have a winner of Andy McCullough's biography on Kershaw,
The Last of his Kind. Brian Park gets the book. He did
not want to come on the air. New rule. If you don't come
on the air, you don't win the prize. How about that, all
right? Max Munsey joined us on the pregame show. Obviously the Dodgers are
missing him in the middle of the order. He's missing being in the middle
of the order, and he was playing really good third base before he strained
his oblique. Here's what Munsey had to say earlier today. Where are we
in this process to maybe see Max Monsey back? Not entirely sure. You
know, things just aren't rebounding as well as we've been wanting them to.
And you know, we're trying to slow play it and you know, just
make sure that we're we're good to go one hundred percent. That way,
we don't have any setbacks, we won't have any you know, lingering effects.
And it's just, you know, it's taking longer than any of us
expected, especially considering it was something that at the beginning we thought might not
even have to go on the il for and it's just you know, it
hasn't gone away, and it's uh, it's been extremely frustrating for me and
everyone involved. We've been trying to do everything that we can, and uh,
you know, for for me, that could be something along the lines
of I've been trying to do too much, you know. You know me,
I fight through a lot of stuff and I've been trying as hard as
i can to get back, and that could be something that's not allowing me
to bounce back as as fresh as that I'm maybe doing too much. But
it's you know, we're we're doing what we can. We don't know what
the timetable is yet, but we're hoping we'll be out there at some point.
When you look at the game and you're not playing, do you see
it differently? You see a lot of things, you know, you see
a lot of things in the dugout, you see a lot of things on
the field, see a lot of things in the clubhouse, And it's always
an interesting perspective. But uh, you know, I like guys. I
like where we're at, and you know, we're struggling a little bit now,
but you know, every team goes through it, and I know that
the talent and the character in this clubhouse. It's just we're not gonna be
held down for long. You know. I know everyone thinks it's here in
the world out here, but it's really not. We're still playing good baseball,
and we're going to continue to play good baseball, and we're gonna have,
you know, a really good stretch here before too long where we're just
you know, tearing the cover off the ball, pitching lights out and maybe
win a lot of games. All Right, there's Max Munsey and you can
hear the full conversation with Munsey on the iHeartRadio app. He was super candid
with how he's feeling, how he's processing it, and how he's trying to
help the team via these group text messages as far as scouting reports against certain
pitchers. So he's still trying to be as plugged in as he possibly can
be with the not being able to do much of anything because as you know,
the core muscle right there, you can't swing the bat, you really
can't do any exercise. So he's trying to stay as active as possible.
And when he's coming back, I don't know, but he did tell me
that once he starts swinging the bat. It's probably at least two weeks away
until he returns. And Munsey has been out of the Dodger lineup since mid
May. And right now they're trying to piece together third base with Miguel Rojas,
Key Hernandez and now Cavin Bigio. That'll do it for us. On
Dodger Talk tonight Tomorrow, Gavin Stone will be on the mound for the Dodgers.
He's seven and two with an ERA at three zero one, going up
against left hander Ty Block, who is three and four with an ERA of
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