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Talk Up like Back, David Vasse. Welcome to Dodger Talk David Maasse live
at Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers beat the Giants for the second straight night,
five to two. The final score in front of a sellout crowd eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Jose Moto
will join us at eleven fifteen. We do have a pair of tickets for
tomorrow night's game on Keike Hernandez Bobblehead Night to give away between now and the
bottom of the hour. Andre Ethier joined us yesterday on the pregame show,
and we'll share his thoughts and passion for the Dodger Giants rivalry. Andre one
of the few players in the last twenty five thirty years to play his entire
career with the Dodgers and do it in a big way, so we'll share
that with you as well. Can you believe the Giants have now lost seven
in a row dating back to last year Here at Dodgers Stadium. That's remarkable
and really proves my point on how the Giants are a different team in their
home ballpark, because if you remember just three weeks ago, the Giants were
playing much better than they are right now and took two out of three from
the Dodgers. They look like a shell of that team we saw in San
Francisco right now, and they are six games under five hundred, They are
thirteen games back of the Dodgers. They are fading fast in the wildcard race,
and you have to wonder whether or not they're going to start selling off
pieces like Blake Snell. I don't feel like they're treating him to the Dodgers,
but there are some interesting decisions for the Giants and other teams as they
get closer to the July thirtieth trade deadline. We'll get to what I'm hearing
regarding the Dodgers in a little bit about the trade deadline, but first we
got to talk about tonight's game, and I said, after the Dodgers won
the first two games against the Red Sox, they can't just be satisfied with
winning the series, especially the way they had been playing, not only going
into the break, after that last road trip. But frankly, the last
fifty games going into the All Star Break, they were playing five hundred baseball.
So you can't just be satisfied with winning the series if you want to
really be rolling into October. And I love the Dodgers kind of put their
foot on the Red Sox throat. On Sunday Night, Baseball swept the Red
Sox. They've won the first two games of this series, and they can't
be with winning three out of four. They're in a great spot to sweep
the Giants in this four game series. They got Tyler Glass now back on
the mount tomorrow night. They got Kershaw on the mound against the Giants,
who are not a good fielding team. They're not a good hitting team,
and they're not a good team away from their home ballpark, and they're not
playing very good right now. So the Dodgers are catching them at a great
time, and I feel like this could turn into not just a seven game
winning streak, this could turn into a nine or ten game winning streak for
the Dodgers against a Giants team that is twelve games under five hundred away from
Oracle Park. The Giants are twenty and thirty two on the road this season
eight six six, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Part
of the reason why the Dodgers are doing so well is Gavin Lux, who
is swinging the bat really well coming out of the All Star break. We
had him on the pregame show today and it seems like the mental break was
very important to Gavin Lux during the All Star break because, look, he's
been underwater since day one because of the reconstruction basically of his right leg after
last spring's devastating injury. It feels like he was getting frustrated that his body
was not responding to what he wanted it to do. And doctor Neil Elatrosh,
who performed that surgery, told him it's going to take twelve to sixteen
months to be able to feel like yourself again, and maybe he came to
terms with that during the All Star break. But nonetheless, the confidence is
growing and he certainly looks like the Gavin Lux the Dodgers have been waiting for.
Gavin spoke to the media after tonight's game after driving in two runs in
the first inning. Here he is sports and at LA. I think a
lot of it's more mental, uh, you know than physical, just trying
to be a little more aggressive and uh told, curious in the same thing.
Once you get a decent pitch to hit and zone, try to end
the a bat there and then move it forward, hopefully in the barrel.
And I think overall, just trying to be more aggressive and my swinging,
my load, and just trying not to be safe. And I think that's
kind of the big takeaway I've had so that hardly than you have all season.
Yeah, I think just trying not to be safe and everything, you
know, just be more aggressive, try to hit the ball hard and then
not you know, worry about chasing and all this. Like, just be
aggressive and then your guys will tell you if it's a ball or a strike.
And that's just kind of the approach I've go with it. It's just
five wins in a row since the break. What did you guys do during
the break to come back like that? I don't know, man, I
think just everyone it was a good mental reset. Obviously, I don't think
we finished uh uh, you know, that week before the break wasn't great.
So I think we all just had a nice little reset and you're playing
a good team baseball top to bottom. And it's been fun the last five
games, so baseball's momentum. So just try to keep on off these ones.
What's take few the kind of a mentorships start happening for you, I'd
probably say three four weeks ago, you know, just trying to be more
aggressive and get your legs back under you. And that's really it, man
Like, it's there's nothing really crazy different with the swing. Just trying to
use the ground better with my legs and just be aggressive. That's really about
it. Nothing crazy. Hey, all the good hitting coaches say you have
to be connected to the ground, and that's exactly what Gavin Luck said.
Eight six six nine two five seventy is the phone number. Also, Gavin
told me during the All Star Break he worked with his uncle in the hitting
cage, and his uncle has been his lifelong personal hitting coach, so maybe
getting with his uncle during the All Star break certainly helped him as well.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
beat the Giants five to two tonight to win their fifth straight game. I
mentioned uh doctor Neil Elatrosh, who was in the house tonight and will be
back here Thursday afternoon because he performed the shoulder surgery on Clayton Kershaw eight months
ago and did an unbelievable job authroscopically to allow Kershaw to come back or have
a chance to come back this quickly. If it was anybody else, they
probably can't thread the needle the way doctor Neil Elatrosh did with Kershaw and so
many others. And I feel like we're all taken for granted. Blake Trining,
Doctor Elatrosh performed the rotator cuff repair and shoulder labram surgery on Blake Trining,
and that's why we haven't seen him in a couple of years. But
here he is again, and it looks like he never left. I feel
like we're taken for granted how serious his shoulder and rotator cuff repair surgery was.
And doctor Elatrosh is certainly really proud of what Blake has been able to
accomplish, he was telling me, because he has been the Blake Trinan of
old Trinan is holding hitters to a one ninety six batting average. He pitched
another dominating scoreless eighth inning Trining this year, thirty three strikeouts and nine walks.
He has been unbelievable this season, and that's something that I felt like,
I think we should all be reminded of. This guy had major shoulder
surgery just a couple of years ago, less than two years ago, and
here he is on the mound looking like the Blake Trinon of old. So
certainly a big boost for this Dodger bullpen. Let's go out to the phones
for the first time tonight, Bobby was at Dodger Stadium, part of the
sellout crowd. How are you doing, body, I'm doing great. It's
great to talk to you. It's the first time I'm calling in. Welcome,
Thank you, thank you. I wanted to I wanted to give you
some compliments. DV. I've been listening to you for a while. I
feel like the experience of of and the love of baseball for me is through
the voices like you and Charlie Steiner and Rick Monday and uh yeah. I
just find you to be a wonderful baseball communicator and a sports communicator. I
feel like I understand the team, the stories, the underlying stories the the
world. I feel like you hold the the team accountable, you hold the
fan base accountable when it's when it should be and you also spread the love
when it should be spread. And uh yeah, just got a lot of
lot of love for you and and for everything that you do. I was
at the game tonight. Awesome win, and yeah it was cool to see
uh Lux gets some get some wind in his sales. Been been a fan
of his for a while, so cool to see that. And uh also
we had CT three you get a hit, which anytime he gets a hit,
I am so excited, so excited. I want to want to see
him succeed as well. So yeah, anyway, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. Hey, thanks for the phone call, Bobby,
appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone
number. Dodgers beat the Giants today five to two for their fifth straight win.
All right, jose Mota is going to join us in about seven minutes,
so I just want to get to the latest as far as the trade
deadline and the Dodgers. Mark Finesand of MLB dot Com is saying the Dodgers
are quote in on Randy A Rose Arena. If you've been listening to the
show for the last month, you have already known that the Dodgers have interest
in Randyo rose Arena. I was told last night or that the Dodgers may
have some interest from the Chicago Cubs, because the Cubs have dispatch scouts to
all three minor league levels of the Dodgers organization, and I was wondering who
could it be that the Dodgers are interested in on the Cubs team because they're
in last place. They lost again to the Brewers one to nothing. The
two guys I initially thought of was Cody Bellinger and Ian Happ. It's not
Cody Bellinger that would have been a long shot. Ian Happ a possibility if
the Dodgers are still looking for an outfielder, but hey, if they have
their eyes set on a guy like Randio rose Arena, they don't need Ian
Hap. What could be a possibility where the Dodgers are checking or kicking the
tires on is the Cubs infielder Nico Horner. He's not a great hitter right
now, but certainly can play second base and shortstop. My understanding is his
best position is shortstop. I mentioned Louis Renhifo from the Angels being a possibility
to add some infield depth as well as far as Garrett Crochet and Trek Scoobele.
From what I'm hearing or what I've been told, is the Tigers at
this point in time are not going to trade Trek's Scoubale. So look,
he's got two more years of control. The Tigers could change their entire franchise
trajectory if they were to trade a player like Schooble, because they would get
a king's ransom for him. And if they really wanted to resign Schooble when
he became a free agent in two years, they could do so. They
could get the Hall for him now and then bring him back in two years.
But what are the chances the Tigers are really going to resign Schooble.
So at this point in time, for what I'm being told, the Tigers
are not really seriously entertaining any offers. They would have to be blown away
with a trade offer, maybe a guy. The only thing I could liken
it to is from the Oriole standpoint, given Jackson holiday to Detroit, that's
the only thing that could maybe get them to move Schooble. So you know
that's not going to happen. Another team, and I've mentioned his name two
or three weeks ago. Is Nathan Avaldi. I actually mentioned his name during
the All Star break shows. I would love to see Nathan Avaldi back in
a Dodger uniform. He's a two time World Series champion. He is a
tireless worker. He's one of the ultimate competitors. And this is coming from
his former teammates with the Red Sox and current guys now with the Rangers,
and even some of the Dodgers staff knew him when he was coming up in
the organization. If the Rangers have decided they are going to sell off some
pieces to get underneath the luxury tax or shed some payroll, Nathan Avaldi would
be a perfect fit for the Dodger. The Garrett Crochet thing, I know,
he's a sexy name. I just I'm not feeling it. I'm not
feeling Garrett Crochet anymore. I'm feeling Nathan Avaldi a lot. I would love
to have Nathan Evaldi back with the Dodgers. Also, I've told you Jack
Flaherty is another name that we have heard in connection to the Dodgers as well.
So that's the latest on the trade deadline. It is July thirtieth,
and look everybody's acting like Andrew Friedman's never made a big trade at the trade
deadline. I know the last couple of years they've been on the margin,
but it feels like, even if they don't get a guy like Garrett Crochet,
you know, I just feel like he is going to make an impact
trade or two or three to really help this roster. Kind of similar to
when I believe it was the trade deadline of twenty sixteen or twenty fifteen where
he was able to bring in guys like would and really make an impact.
So I feel like, even if it's not Garrett Crochet, uh, he's
going to make an impact trade to help this Dodger team. And when I
say impact trade, it could be one or two. And I'm wondering now,
after what we've seen the last even eleven, twelve, thirteen games,
do the Dodgers need a closer? Do they need ten or Scott from the
Marlins? Do they need Carlos Estevez from the Angels. I'm starting to wonder
do the Dodgers need a closer? Eight six six nine, eight 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 Mota,
who did a great job again with Steven Nelson on the call as the Dodgers
beat the Giants five to two on a five seventy LA Sports. Dodger Talk
is available on AM five seventy LA sports dot com, hand on the iHeartRadio
app. Back to more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse. The pitch,
Otani holds it the right field. It is gonna hook down and bounce
off the warning track, one hop off the cage in front of the Giant
bullpen. Heywards toured the relay hole, not at time. Fijio Sake put
two more on the board. Two run double for Joe Hey Old Tani.
Big night for show Hey Otani. He drove in three runs tonight and that
was his twenty sixth double of the season. Otani is the only player in
baseball this year with thirty home runs and twenty five doubles. That was his
twenty sixth of the season. O'tani and Gavin Lox drove in all five Dodger
runs tonight in a five to two win over the San Francisco Giants. Daniels
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Own the Dream. We do have a pair of tickets to give away for
tomorrow Night's game, which is Key k Hernandez babohead Night Caller number fourteen in
honor of Key K's first jersey number with the Dodgers, will win a pair
of tickets for Tomorrow Knight's game. Seven to ten. Tyler Glass now against
Robbie Ray. It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota. Jose
Mota did a great job again filling in for Rick Monday tonight, his partner
with Steven Nelson and Jose. On the pregame show, you talked about how,
yes, Evan Phillips is struggling, but there's a balance for Dave Roberts
to keep him relevant and keep him ready and keep his confidence. Oh dev
I'm glad you brought the subject up because I've seen so many situations I played
with guys where you know they're the you know, back in type of relievers,
and you want them to earn a chance to get something to get him
off those high person situations. But sometimes you can't, and he can just
allow the situations to dictate when you use it. And I'm glad that Evan
came through the day. As he told you, he knew that the fatal
needed to play today. He trusts that he can go out there and manage
at best according to his stuff in this county. But there's no doubt in
my mind that between Dave Roberts and Evan Phillips, knew exactly that if he
got to that situation, he was going to be the guy. And that's
a confidence boost for him. When you look at that ninth inning. Obviously
he was trying to give Evan Phillips another night off to maybe figure whatever mechanical
issues he's having and bring him back tomorrow. But when that ninth inning goes
sideways on Alex Vessio, what's Dave Roberts thinking and what's Evan Phillips thinking?
So first of all is it's like, we got to win this ball game,
and you present the best option right now, and guess what, As
much as I wanted to go away from some of the situations, you are
the guy right now. And I know that managers try their very very best
and sometimes the fault to not use guys like he did tonight, But you
got to throw them out there. I mean, there's no doubt. I
mean I recall talking to Bobby talks about this years ago, and he goes,
you know what, Jose, when one of my relievers is struggling,
the thing I want to do is throw them at the the next day,
right away, right away, bull Wark and BP on whatever you gotta work
on. But I need to rude away because the only way you're going to
get fixed is not throwing the bullprint and watching videos but watching reports, is
by being in the game and the heat of the game to go out and
execute pitch it, because that is where the pressure is. Jose Mode is
joining us after the Dodgers win there fifth in a row by beating the Giants
tonight five to two. Gavin Lux, We've been talking about him all night.
You and Stephen were talking about him during the game. Obviously, I'm
not sure if you heard what he said during the pregame interview. He said
when he went back home to Wisconsin, he worked with his uncle who has
been his lifelong hitting coach, and then after the game tonight he referenced being
connected to the ground. Sounds like his uncle got through to him. Yeah,
And sometimes it's a different voice, Dave, And I've got that.
You know, coaches in the big leagues right now and then through all the
minor leagues and managing themselves in front off his personnel, understand that there's some
voices that get to players a lot easier than anybody else. Braddye Freeman and
his father for example, that's one of them. You know, outside hitting
coaches are welcome now because their exact connection. Now you have your everyday guys
to see you every single day and can talk more about chain situations and habits
you're creating. But man, sometimes it's the familiar voice is just simplify it
for you and to tell you from a place in their heart where you know
you're not being judged, but somebody wants the very best for you, which
is the case of the coaches too. But you see coaches every single day,
and sometimes the messages does not come through as clear, right. But
connected to the ground and I didn't hear what you said about this, you
think about this day. You got to talk a lot about sometimes choyotany right,
we're not going to ground on his heels. That's you're not going to
think to the ground, right. And have you ever seen a good hitter,
a good player, you know, a solid hitter, slugger or slap
guy that is hitting on his heels or on his toes. No, you
have to be connected as much as you can because your legs are a big
part of your swing. Your base is your legs, and sometimes those legs
get a little tired, your swing gets out of whack. So understand that
you need your legs to hit, but certainly just to land on time and
load up on time and allow your upper body to catch up with everything else
makes it much smoother. Jose seeing doctor elatrosh tonight just reminded me about Blake
Trining and how maybe we're taking for granted a how big of a boost he's
been for this Dodger Bullpen with all the injuries and be the fact that he
had not own rotator cuff surgery but also labrum surgery, and he's been as
dominant as he has been this year. It's really remarkable what he's been able
to do. Yeah. Plus, I mean consider you know the connection with
doctor Elatrosh and Dodger. You guys think, guys all over baseball they have
thanked him and all him sometimes their careers. But for god like Brake trying
to consider you know, he's a big guy. He's a guy that throws
hard, through hard before the injury and the surgery and found himself by being
patient. You have to understand too, doctor Latrosh, he's a big believer
in allowing the time clock to be the time clock. Don't. It's not
gonna speed up because you want to compete or because you feel ready. But
time is your best healer. It is your best teacher, the best comforter.
And to have that connected to the Dodgers, it's only a huge asset.
And players understand more and more because there have been so many injuries as
of late. Now the shoulder injury is not as common as it used to
be. But boy, that's one we have to be very, very careful.
And I'm so glad to see a big band like trying and bounce back
the what he has. All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking
in tonight. After nine innings of work again, we will see you out
the ballpark tomorrow night. As Tyler Glass now makes his return to the mound,
It's time, Yeah, it is time, for sure. There he
goes. Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers broadcast crew, slid over from
the Spanish radio booth over here to fill in for Rick Monday. Rick will
rejoin us when the Dodgers head out on the next road trip to Houston,
San Diego and Oakland. Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
phone number we do have, Caller fourteen. Jose in Londale. Congratulations,
you won a pair of tickets to Keike Hernandez Bobblehead night. Yeah, right
on, go Dodgers. All right, do you want to say thank you?
No, thank you? Of course. You guys are awesome, man,
David awesome from the game. I was actually at the game tonight,
me specifically, I'm awesome, right you you you Dodgers, you know you
and the Dodgers both awesome. I'm just kidding. Hey, you were at
the game tonight. Wow, back to back games. Congratulations, Jose,
thank you, thank you. Yeah, we took my daughter's boyfriend who was
a Giants fan. So I love the misery. I loved it. Wait
a minute, you're allowing your daughter to date a Giants fan. What's going
on over there, Jose? Where it's a work in progress. It's a
work in progress, David. I hope you don't allow him to wear that
Giant's hat in your house. No, no, I have standard. I
love it. I love it, Jose. Enjoy the game tomorrow night,
and thanks for calling. Appreciate it of course. Man, you guys are
awesome. Thanks Jose, congratulations. Wow, daughters dating a Giants fan?
Who that's tough. If you try to put his foot down and say hell
no, she would rebel even more. Maybe, uh, bring in a
whole Madison Bumgarner uniform or something. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
seventy. Speaking of the Dodger Giant rivalry, Andre Ethier was back at Dodger
Stadium yesterday and joined us on the pregame show. Here's what Andre remembered about
the Giant's rivalry when he played and owning maccain during his career. Yeah,
I don't know. That's a weird thing, right. You can face a
guy and I think I forgot the guy who was these either these are either
Marquis or someone else who I felt like I struggled really badly against. But
then there's guys like li'sa come, I hit well, you know, guys
who were dominant pitchers. I hit well. And you see a guy like
Matt Cain and for some reason, it was just that one person. It
didn't matter what he threw. Uh, you were able to get hits off
of my tolm. I said. I think it was like towards the end
of our career when I had, you know, all these at bats,
sixty seventy at bats against them, and you know, everyone had been making
a big thing about it, you know, about us face and you get
each other for maybe what might be the last time ever, you know,
after all these years. And I remember one of that bats in that game,
he threw a really good cutter in off my fists. I hit it
jam shot. It barely landed over his head in the endfield grass between second
and the pitcher for a base hit. And I you know, that probably
sums up that pretty much sums up that whole uh, you know, matchup
all those years. I was gonna get a hit no matter what he threw
in the quality of pitch, it was going to work out to be a
hit for me. And I remember just shaking his head at me and laughing
because, uh, you know, it doesn't matter off the barrel, off
the fist, I'll still getting hits off of him. You're a great student
of the game. You know the history of the game, and certainly you
played your entire major league career wearing a Dodger uniform. When did you start
to realize how serious it was as far as a rivalry between the Dodgers and
Giants. It's day one day that first time you go up there the first
time. You know, I didn't know anything about it. You didn't understand
the intensity of it. First time you probably go in there as a player,
you're just like, wow, you know, these fans really do not
like the Dodgers. They really do not the Dodger players. And we know
some of the fun uh you know, shenanigans that were going on in the
stadiums, you know, with the fans and interactions with them when those series
were going on. So yeah, I learned from day one that it means
a little bit more. It doesn't matter whether it's April or Whether it's September
and both teams are out of the playoffs, it still means a lot.
There's Andre Ethier. Great to hear the passion in his voice for this rivalry,
Dodger Giants rivalry. If you missed the interview, you can find it
on the iHeartRadio app. The full conversation with Andre Ethier, who was at
Dodgers Stadium yesterday sitting in the left field home run seats with his family and
today Eighthier's Daddy daycare continued at Universal Studios. A lifelong Dodger, Andre Ethier
and so is senior direct of Global Partnerships. The one and only Jenny o
who threw out the first pitch before tonight's game in honor of Women's Night here
at Dodgers Stadium. Clayton Kershaw went out to catch the first pitch from Jenny
oh who is a queen around Dodgers Stadium. She is one of the nicest,
most genuine people that works here with the Dodgers, and it was great
to see her be honored tonight by throwing out the first pitch. Everybody loves
Jenny oh. If you don't love Jenny oh Man, you don't love ice
creamer. You know, Santa Claus. That's how nice of a person she
is. Hey, before we say goodnight, Miguel Rojas did not start again
at shortstop. Remember on Sunday Night Baseball, he left the game early with
right forearm tightness. I've been watching Miguel Rojas. He hasn't thrown the baseball,
and maybe that's the reason why the Dodgers are kicking the tires on a
guy like Nico Horner or a Luis Renhifo. I don't know what's going on
with Miguel Rojas. Dave Roberts hasn't said much, but man, I feel
like the Dodgers are going to have to make a decision on whether or not
they're putting Miguel Rojas on the IL and who would take his spot. I'm
sure there's somebody on the waiver wires I possibly could fill in for him.
Trey Sweeney in minor in Triple A A or Triple A Oklahoma City is a
really good defensive shortstop. But yeah, I'm a little concerned about Miguel Rojas.
I'll just put it that way, and hopefully I'm just reading too much
into it, as they say, but I have not seen him throw the
baseball, and I feel like the Dodgers may have to make a move here
in the next day or two regarding Rojas and not letting Dave Roberts play a
man down if Rojas is not available. Tomorrow night, Tyler Glass now will
be on the mound for the Dodgers. It will be his first start since
going on the with some back tightness. He's eight and five with an ERA
at three forty seven, going up against Robbie Ray, who is making his
season and Giants debut tomorrow night. He underwent Tommy John surgery last April.
He is the former Diamondback, the former Mariner, so it should be a
fun night here at Dodgers Stadium, Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at
six o'clock with first pitch at seven ten on Keith a Hernandez Bobblehead Night.
That'll do it for us. Thanks to calling me back at our Burbank studios,
Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
for listening. In case you missed our pregame conversation with Gavin Lux today or
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me and Dave Roberts than he realizes. Once again. The final score tonight
the Dodgers defeat the Giants five to two. Have a great rest of your
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