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 --> 00:00:10.679 millions of Angelinos for over twenty five years. And now your voice for Dodger 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:17.440 Talking like the back Damn Kates. Tough night for the Dodgers, a game 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:22.600 they gotta have. You've got to beat the Anaheim Angels. I don't care 5 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:27.640 if you're banged up. You're missing three guys out of your lineup tonight, 6 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.719 two of which are on the Iel. Will Smith had the night off. 7 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.920 You still have to figure out a way to beat the Anaheim Angels. Hi, 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.439 everybody, and welcome into postgame Dodger Talk here on your Home with the 9 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.520 Dodgers A five seventy LA Sports Tim Kates with you here at eight sixty six 10 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.039 nine eighty seven two five seventy. If you're leaving the Dodger game tonight, 11 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.000 if you saw the drone show, I want to hear from you. If 12 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.320 you're leaving the Ravine heading back to the West side of the Valley, the 13 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.399 Inland Empire, you're heading back out to the San Gabriel Valley, the OC, 14 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:59.479 wherever you're headed on this Friday night. If you're at the game, 15 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:00.880 you listen to the game. You'll watch the game. I want to hear 16 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.439 from you at eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. 17 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:08.640 This is a game the Dodgers have to win. I mean, you just 18 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:14.200 took three or four from the Colorado Rockies, who are awful and in the 19 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:18.760 bottom of the NL West, and now you're facing an Angels team that's got 20 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.519 twenty nine wins on this season. This is an Angels team is not very 21 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:27.439 good. This is an Angels team that doesn't have a lot of pop in 22 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:33.640 the lineup. This is an Angels team even by Ron Washington's words, are 23 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.920 learning how to win, learning how to figure out what kind of team they 24 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.239 are, and building a winning culture down in Anaheim. And it's gonna take 25 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:45.840 time down there with with Ron Washington, who is really a great manager, 26 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:49.920 a great baseball coach, a great baseball mind. But quite frankly, this 27 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:53.480 is a game you have to win. And I feel for a show, 28 00:01:53.480 --> 00:02:00.760 Heyotani, because for six years season Anaheim banged up Mike trot Out basically carrying 29 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:07.319 the Angels up and down the season, not making the playoffs, losing baseball 30 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.360 games, and he got out of Anaheim because he was tired of being the 31 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:15.240 only guy doing anything. Unfortunately, tonight, in the game against the Anaheim 32 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.599 Angels, his former team, Shoeyotani is really the only guy who did anything 33 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:24.159 on offense tonight against the Anaheim Angels. Shoeyotani walked a couple of times, 34 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:29.439 then hits a two run home run. Then Shoeyotani has a base hit in 35 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.639 the eighth inning. He was a one man band offensively for the Dodgers tonight, 36 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:38.080 driving their only two runs and getting on base and having their only hit 37 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:42.520 after his home run in the fifth inning. They had one hit after his 38 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:46.080 two run home run in the fifth inning. That's it. One hit and 39 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:51.240 that was Otani's infield single in the eighth inning. There was a lot of 40 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.800 one, two, three innings. There was a lot of three up, 41 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:58.719 three down for this Dodgers lineup who only had five hits in the entire game. 42 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:02.599 And again, and showey Otani lived it for six years in Anaheim, 43 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.639 having to carry the Angels to wins, having to carry the Angels through games 44 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:12.800 because of lack of supporter around him and no Mike Trout half the time because 45 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:16.000 of injuries, and tonight, showey Otani kind of felt like that again. 46 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.919 Now it's only one game, certainly, and this is a Dodgers' offense is 47 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.719 really good, even banged up. With Mookie Betts not playing, injured, 48 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:28.280 Max Munsey's still hurt the oblique, and Will Smith getting the night off, 49 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.560 there's three big offensive powers not in the lineup for the Dodgers right now. 50 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.800 But despite that, Teoscar Hernandez can't have an OH for four night. Freddie 51 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:44.879 Freeman cannot have an OH for four night. Andy Payez Tonight hitting cleanup. 52 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:47.759 It's got to be better than OH for four or two punch outs. Miguel 53 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:53.039 Rojas OH for four. Miguel Vargas had a base hit. Chris Taylor had 54 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:55.039 a base hit off the end of the bat. Actually, he's starting to 55 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:59.639 heat up. Chris Taylor's got a hit in the last five games. I 56 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:04.120 believe it's Actually Brent brought his average up to near one forty. The best 57 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:11.960 sequence for the Dodgers tonight offensively was in the fifth inning, and it almost 58 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.959 wasn't a great sequence for the Dodgers in that bottom half of the fifth inning. 59 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.800 Landon Neck just had a top of the fifth inning, got out of 60 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:24.079 it, and again with Zero's five shutout innings. They get to the bottom 61 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.600 of the fifth inning against Matt Moore. Key Y Hernandez flies out on one 62 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:34.839 pitch. Chris Taylor pops out on one pitch, two pitches, two outs, 63 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:41.839 and as Rick said on the radio, and as they said on the 64 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.360 TV broadcast, with no more Garcia Para, no more says he is taking 65 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.439 right here. There's no way they're gonna let the third batter of the inning 66 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:54.519 swing on the first pitch of it. At bat. They've got to make 67 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.360 Matt Moore do a little bit more, and Austin Barnes took a strike down 68 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:02.519 the middle of the play third pitch thrown by Matt Moore. The next pitch 69 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:09.439 was a change up in which Austin Barnes hit over the shortstop netto for a 70 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:16.120 single to left. A two out flar to left by Austin Barnes that brought 71 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:21.360 up the top of the lineup turned it over for sho hey Otani, who 72 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:27.160 won a one to one fastball, turned around a ninety one mile an hour 73 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.720 fastball four hundred and fifty five feet for a two run home run. A 74 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.680 great couple of bats right there for the Dodgers, and say what you want 75 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:41.639 about Austin Barnes. That was a great at bat, puts the ball in 76 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:46.639 play, finds the field and left field for a base hid couple of pitches 77 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.959 later, show Hey, Otani, your lead off battery, your designated hitter, 78 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:53.959 your power guy. Hits at four hundred and fifty five feet for a 79 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:57.199 two run home run. So it looked like it could have been a one 80 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:04.759 two three fifth inning on three bitches. Turns out Barnes singles Otani homers and 81 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:10.199 it's anything but an easy inning for Matt Moore and the Dodgers get on the 82 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.959 board with a two to nothing lead, turning it over to the bullpen, 83 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.879 which has been really good, by the way for this Dodgers team. And 84 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.319 going into tonight's game, David Vatsa talked about on the pregame show. Dv 85 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:24.279 who was reporting for Sports to at LA tonight, did a great job, 86 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.839 went down to him the dugout, and Dave brought the fact that, however 87 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:31.279 long landon that goes, look for Ryan Yarborough to be the bulk inting guy, 88 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:35.720 which we've seen plenty of times. Ryan Riarboro in that role last year 89 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:40.680 and this year. Ryan Yarborough comes in in the sixth inning, hits the 90 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.319 first battery, faces, gives up a single two batters later, hits a 91 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:50.240 batter to load the bases, and then hits zach Nato to bring in Ringifo 92 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:56.959 to get the Angels on the board, and then Mickey Moniac grounds out to 93 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.680 bring in the tie in run. That says about as bad is it anything 94 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.120 you can have as a relief pitcher, hit three batters, give up a 95 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:10.160 couple runs in the lead, and the Angels after that felt like they were 96 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:15.360 seeing blood in the water attacking the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Dodgers' offense had 97 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:19.199 one hit the rest of the way. That was from Showayotani in the eighth 98 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:25.439 inning and the tenth down three to two, after the Angels manufactured their run 99 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:29.560 to take a lead with the free base runner go to the bottom of the 100 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:32.240 tenth inning, face and Carlos Zesteves, who's really good by the way to 101 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:35.399 retire twenty one in a row, coming in, but you get a free 102 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:43.879 runner at second base. It's the pinch runner, Calum Bizio. Jason Haywards 103 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.000 hits it to the right side of the infield, advances Bizio to third, 104 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:50.439 does his job it's a great at bat, moves the tying run over to 105 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:56.160 the third base, one out infield in All you gotta do is hit the 106 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.879 ball in the outfield final hole somewhere. Hit the ball hard and it's gonna 107 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:03.240 go through the infield. It's all you got to do. Put the bat 108 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.879 on the ball, and the Dodgers see Kei ge Hernandez strikeout and Gavin Luck 109 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.759 strikeout. If it had gone one more batter, Will Smith was on deck 110 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.959 to pinchhit. But as it is, BHOs stranded ninety feet away and the 111 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.720 Dodgers lose three to two. Now you can say, hey, it's baseball. 112 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.439 It's one of those games. One hundred and sixty two. You're gonna 113 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.080 have one of those flat games. I don't think tonight's one of those nights. 114 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.639 You can have a flat game. You're facing an Angels team that's not 115 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:41.799 very good. Their starting pitcher sand A Vault leaves the game in the third 116 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.000 with an arm injury, and the young man at a Mission Viejo is a 117 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:48.360 really good pitcher pitch for Team Mexico. It's been one of the better pitchers 118 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.759 for Anaheim in the last couple of seasons. Hate to see anybody get hurt 119 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.519 out there. Hope, hope for the best for that young man and that 120 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.559 it's nothing serious. But it didn't look good the way he was holding his 121 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.519 arm, and you don't want to speculate, but it's just it didn't look 122 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.000 good. It's an arm injury. You hate to see it. He had 123 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.840 to leave the game without throwing another pitch. And you get to the Angel's 124 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:13.080 bullpen. You gotta tack on runs. You gotta get more than show Heyotani 125 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.440 coming tonight. Offensively, you'd have to have more than three hits outside of 126 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.960 a show Ayotani. And those three hits outside of Otani, two of which 127 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:26.600 were not a part of that home running hitch because it was the Austin Barnes 128 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.679 single then followed by his home run, So you had two other hits outside 129 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:33.759 of that from the Dodgers offense. I'm sorry, I can't shock this up 130 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.320 to this. Hey, it's baseball. The Angels fought harder and played better 131 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:43.519 down the stretch. I can't believe that. I can't land and Knack pitched 132 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.519 his tail off tonight. Five innings, no runs, two hits. You 133 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:48.759 can make the argument land and Knack could have gone back out for there for 134 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.840 the sixth inning, Land and Knack would have been facing the two three four 135 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:58.919 hitters for the Angels, ringifo Ward and then Polar was hitting for Calhoun. 136 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.240 I mean he was at seventy three pitches. They hit the ball hard, 137 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:09.279 but at guys he got out of trouble. What trouble he had. I 138 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.840 mean he had a two out walk of the third, got a ground ball 139 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.519 to get out of it. He had a lead off walk of the fourth, 140 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.480 but was able to get out of it pretty easily. He had a 141 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:20.759 two out single in the fifth, but got out of it with the line 142 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:26.279 drive out to center field. Seven pitch fifth inning. He could make the 143 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.720 case Land and Neck could have gone back out there to at least go batter 144 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.759 to batter in the sixth inning. If he goes out there in the sixth, 145 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.840 you have a two to nothing lead and Raneefo puts the ball in play 146 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.360 and the leadoff batter gets on base. Well, you got Ryan Yarborough then 147 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:46.600 to come in and pitch. But as it is, they gave Ryan Yarboro 148 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.080 the ball and he hits the first guy he faces, and it was a 149 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:58.679 twenty seven pitch sixth inning from Ryan Yarborough to tie the game. Disappointing. 150 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:03.120 This is a disy loss with the Dodgers. Rick Monday brought up a couple 151 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.360 of times on the pregame and during the game, you're in a stretch here 152 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.519 against last place Colorado, a bottom feeder in the Angels, and a Chicago 153 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.039 White Sox team coming up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. That is circling the 154 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:20.159 drain already and we haven't eve gotten to fourth of July. These are games 155 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:24.120 and series you have to win. You're supposed to win, you should win, 156 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.480 and you should win pretty easily. The Angels had lost ten in a 157 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.320 row to the Dodgers going into this game. Now a new season, I 158 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.320 understand that, but still, over the of course of the last two years, 159 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:41.919 the Dodgers have owned the Angels and team against team going into this game 160 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.679 tonight, on paper, Dodgers should have beat up on the Angels tonight, 161 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.080 should have beat up on the Angels as it is, the Angels winning ten 162 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.360 innings three to two. Las Garcia the win, Evan Phillips the loss. 163 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.759 Dodgers fall to forty seven to thirty one on the season. All right, 164 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.720 let's go out to the phones. Brad mission via Hill. Brad, thanks 165 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:11.639 for being patient, buddy. How you doing Brady there? Brad? All 166 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:15.639 right, we'll go to Garrick. Garrick's leaving the game. Gerek, you 167 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:18.519 doing, yeah, doing great? Just let just left the game. I 168 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:22.879 agree with you. It was definitely a frustrating lot tonight. But you know, 169 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.519 I mean, I remember the game from Colorado the other night and that 170 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.080 comeback. It was epic. This team showing a lot of heart and a 171 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:33.080 lot of fight. I know they didn't tonight. I feel the frustration, 172 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:39.200 but I definitely agree that there were some highlights. Like nax He was he 173 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.960 was very solid tonight, right, Yeah, shoe Hey was solid. He 174 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.279 carried the team. Dave looked good and his sport coat over there on sports 175 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.120 and at LA. But I think that I think the Dodgers are going to 176 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.240 be just fine. I agree these are these are must win games that you 177 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.679 want to see our team win. But I will say that in the year's 178 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:03.639 past, I'd rather these games happen now than in October, because I'm tired 179 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:07.039 of watching these games in October. So I'd rather it happened now. Let's 180 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.840 figure it out, let's get healthy, and let's win in October. All 181 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.039 right, so I think we're gonna be all I think we're gonna be all 182 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.639 right. All right, Grek appreciate the phone call. Eighty sixty six nine 183 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.120 eighty seven two five seventy Landing and that tonight pitched five scoreless sittings, giving 184 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:22.639 up two hits, two walks, struck out too in his first start for 185 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.840 the Dodgers since May nineteenth against Cincinnati. Now he's been down in Triple A, 186 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.639 Oklahoma City, and we've talked about it here on Dodger Talk. David 187 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.879 Veassey is mentioned in on A five seventy numerous times today. Land and That 188 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.559 didn't do anything wrong. The last time he got sent down. It was 189 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.720 a numbers game, and with Walker Bueller coming back, you had an excess 190 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.120 amount of starting pitching. And so that's why Land and That got sent back 191 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:50.639 down to Triple O Oklahoma City. He had pitched well in his four starts 192 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.360 for the Dodgers at a necessity and injuries. It's just they started to get 193 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.639 healthy again. So Land and Nack have been down at Triple A, but 194 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.000 now the Walker Bueller's hurt again. On the IL he's still waiting for Clayton 195 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.679 Kershaw to comeback, Bobby Miller's come back and made one start. Landon Nack 196 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:07.840 pitched really well tonight. I can't say enough about him, he continues to 197 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:09.720 impress. I know he came up in his first start. I think it 198 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.759 was against Saint Louis or Cincinnati. I remember what it was, and you 199 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.840 know, had a rough first inting and nerves got to him. But ever 200 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:20.559 since then has been really good. But by the way, Miguel Vargas tonight 201 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.320 single in the second, extending his batting streak now to three games. He 202 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.519 is now hitting four hundred in the month of June. Is Miguel Vargas. 203 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:33.879 So he continues to produce when given the opportunity and show Heyotanni with his twenty 204 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.120 second home run tonight. How about this, It's his first home run, 205 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:39.600 obviously against his former team. He's been six years in Anaheim. Okay, 206 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:46.840 so tonight his home run against his former team. Now Shoheotani has homeward against 207 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:54.120 every team in Major League Baseball except the Philadelphia Phillies and the Saint Louis Cardinals. 208 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.840 How about that. The Philadelphia Phillies and the Saint Louis Cardinals the only 209 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.799 two teams that show Heyotani is not homeward against interesting. He does that tonight 210 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.759 by beating hitting the home run against the Angels, so he checked them off 211 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:13.879 his box. So good for show Heyotani. But again I mentioned it earlier, 212 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.519 this sort of felt like show Heyotoni the last six years in Anaheim, 213 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.720 nobody to help him out offensively, doing it all himself with home runs and 214 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:24.679 driving in guys and just not get enough pitching down the stretch and losing the 215 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:31.840 close game. I feel like he's probably seen this a thousand times. He's 216 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.960 experienced this a lot down at Anaheim, and that's what's frustrating to me is 217 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:39.519 he came to the Dodgers to win and get away from that atmosphere down in 218 00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:43.759 LA. And today it just kind of felt like, you know, the 219 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.320 Angels got that momentum against Ryan Yarborough after he made those mistakes, and the 220 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:50.240 Dodgers just couldn't get anything going. For whatever reason, they just could not 221 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:56.279 figure out the Angels bullpen tonight's and tonight Estevez comes into the tenth inning and 222 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:02.559 gets three batters and strands the time run at third base Paul in Lagoda the 223 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:04.279 Gel down deep in the nine to four. Nine, Paul, how are 224 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:08.840 you doing tonight? Welcome to Dodger talking, good tim Thanks. How have 225 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.559 Dodgers come up with clutch hits when you got five guys on the team back 226 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:21.960 in two hundred? Yeah, looks Bonds, big o, Kecky Hernandez and 227 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.919 uh it's the fifth guy. Uh, five guys? How do you? 228 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:27.840 How do you? How do you win games like that in the clutch? 229 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.000 I mean, when you're going deep into the playoffs, you got you have 230 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.759 clutch guys. They don't even have to have s. You don't even know 231 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:40.879 how his sacrifice lives these guys, well the Dodgers. Yeah, Paul, 232 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.240 I appreciate. You got to put the ball in play in that tenth inning, 233 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.679 and I know you're facing a really good reliever and he got the best 234 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:51.919 of Keiky Hernandez and Gavin Lux, but runner at third less than two outs 235 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:55.679 infield in you've got to get that run across. You got to put the 236 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:56.919 ball in play somehow. You got to punch the ball to the outfield. 237 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:02.200 You gotta find some grass behind the guy who are in on the edge there. 238 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.319 You gotta figure out a way to get it done. As far as 239 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:10.000 the lineup is concerned. Keep in mind, no Moncie, no Mookie bets. 240 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.559 They'll be back from injuries at some point. Okay before October and tonight, 241 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.119 you didn't have Will Smith, who got the night off after catching three 242 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.359 or four games at altitude in Colorado. They wanted to keep him off his 243 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.119 feet and give him a break tonight. All right, So look at the 244 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.559 lineup. You had ta Oscar and and his betting second, yet Andie pot 245 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.680 has betting cleanup. You have Miguel Rojas batting fifth. You have Miguel Vargas 246 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.759 hitting six. You had Keyk betting seven, Chris Taylor batting night, and 247 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:37.920 Austin Barnes being ninth. Not necessarily murderers row. I understand that, but 248 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:42.920 it's not a lineup that we expect to see in September and October. When 249 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:48.960 they're healthy and they're back, we're going to see a deeper lineup. Certainly, 250 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:56.000 Key K, Chris Taylor, Barnes not what you consider a huge threat 251 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:00.599 in a Dodger's lineup. But I say that in an Austin Barnes had one 252 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:03.240 of the Dodgers five hits. Austin Barnes put it in play with two outs 253 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.319 into fifth inning to turn the lineup over to show Heyotani, who then proceeds 254 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.240 in to hit a two run home run and get the Dodgers on the board. 255 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:14.200 So, yeah, you want to you want to bark and nitpick at 256 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.279 Barnes and Taylor and Kik and the guy's hitting under two hundred. Well, 257 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:19.640 you know, Barnes came through with the two out single then scoring on the 258 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:23.279 two run home run. So it's it's a tough game to play, I 259 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:27.480 get it. It's it's it's uh, you'll lose more than you'll win as 260 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:32.799 far as that bats, you know, making the outs. But tonight you 261 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.599 have to be better if you're the Dodgers and the tenth inning, and certainly 262 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.400 you gotta figure out a way to punch across that run to tie it up. 263 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.839 Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five. Say we'll take a 264 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.839 break. We'll come back into more phone calls. We'll hear from Jose Mode 265 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:47.640 as well. Tough one for the Dodgers. Showe Aotani was a one man 266 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:51.200 ban On pays four times two for two, two run home run, two 267 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:55.559 Ribby's two walks. Unfortunately, the Dodgers and the rest of the lineup had 268 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:59.799 three hits combined. Only one hit after Otani's home run the fifth inning. 269 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:03.920 That came from Otani on an infield single. In the eighth inning. Ryan 270 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.160 Yarborough hits three batters in one inning. Last time a Dodger leader the reliver 271 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:12.119 did that was before World War Two. That says a lot a lot of 272 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.960 things went wrong tonight for the Dodgers. They lose to the Angels three to 273 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:19.680 two. We'll come back your phone calls Jose Mota, Thanks for being with 274 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.200 us late night on this Friday night. It's Dodger Talk on A five seventy 275 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:30.920 LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio AM five seventy LA Sports. Be anywhere 276 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:36.440 at any time and you can hear past episodes of Dodger Talk all of those 277 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:41.119 things. 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Otani's two run home run in the fifth inn 284 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.200 he got the Dodgers on the board four hundred and fifty five feet gave him 285 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.759 the lead, only to see Ryan Yarborough give it up a half inning later, 286 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.680 the Dodgers losing ten innings to the Angels by a final of three to 287 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.440 two. Daniels Jewelers is the official sponsor of the Trip around the Diamond. 288 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:34.240 Stop by any Daniels Jeweler's location and say home run for a free team bracelet 289 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:38.079 and a fifty dollars gift card towards any purchase of ninety nine dollars a more. 290 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:44.039 Daniel's Jewelers own the Dream eight sixty sixth ninety seven, two five seventy. 291 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:45.400 But I got to the phone, so it's a MODI will join us 292 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.319 in just a little bit. Juanita joins us from Sherman Oaks here to how 293 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:53.079 you doing good? How are you? I'm doing okay, Disappointed about the 294 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.559 outcome tonight. This is a game. The Dodgers got a win. But 295 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:03.119 my question is, excuse me if Will Smith is doing so well? Why 296 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.200 do we keep putting Barnes in. I don't get it. Needed a night 297 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.559 off three four in Colorado. They wanted to give them the night He had 298 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.440 the night off two days ago. Good points are lost to Colorado. Good 299 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.759 point. Well, we wanted to give him off his legs. I guess 300 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.880 I'm not sure one. I appreciate the phone call, give him the night 301 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:25.279 off. Can't catch one hundred and sixty two. You know, maybe something's 302 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:27.839 barking. We don't know. Dave Roberts didn't allude to anything. Will Smith 303 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.759 obviously was healthy enough to be a possible pinch hitter in the bottom half of 304 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.359 the tenth inning. He was on deck ready to go for the Dodgers. 305 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:41.799 If Lux was able to get on base or punch across the run or whatever. 306 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.440 He was going to come up to bat as a pinch hitter there in 307 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:48.359 the bottom half of the tenth inning. But as it was, Luck struck 308 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.200 out into the game and we never saw will Smith have an opportunity to come 309 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:55.519 to the plate. So nobody's saying injuries. You're not hearing anything that's barking 310 00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:00.440 or bothering him from will Smith himself. So I'm just going with the fact 311 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.440 that he was in Colorado for four games and caught a lot of eddings up 312 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.359 there in the altitude, and it's tough for everybody. And the Dodgers' bullpen 313 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:11.400 was gassed from being up there. It's a real thing going up to the 314 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.160 elevation. I mean. Dave Roberts was on with Petrol some money a couple 315 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.440 of days ago, and they were joking with him about, you know, 316 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:19.720 you're going to dinner. Kind of wine you drinking? He says, no, 317 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.599 no, no, here at elevation, I just drink water the entire 318 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.359 time I'm up here. Says he's got a hard time sleeping, and he's 319 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:29.000 just the manager. You know, it's a different spot to go up to. 320 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:30.680 And you know, Freddie Freeman talked about he had never been He was 321 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.799 on David the pregame show tonight and said they had never been to Colorado for 322 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:38.240 four game series. Obviously playing for the Braves, they didn't play him as 323 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:42.000 much, but he's never been to Colorado for a four game series. And 324 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:45.759 Dave was giving him a hard time about having to used the oxygen mask, 325 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.880 and Freddy said, hey, you may not have seen other guys because it 326 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:55.640 was down inside the tunnel there inside the clubhouse. But he says quite a 327 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:59.680 few guys were using the oxygen mask. It's just tough for playing in Colorado. 328 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.519 And I get other guys who played up there were in the lineup tonight 329 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:07.160 but catching and you know that grind. It's it's real. So maybe he 330 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:08.720 just needed a day off, a quick turnaround. You're playing in Colorado, 331 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.000 you gotta come back to play a night game. You're playing a two game 332 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.359 series. Who knows, maybe Will Smith gets tomorrow off and then really he 333 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.160 gets a whole weekend off and he's ready to go for a six game road 334 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.400 trip. So I don't know. Nobody's say anything. David Vassei hasn't alluded 335 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:25.640 to any injury. Doesn't feel like there's anything there for Will Smith eight sixty 336 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:29.440 six ninet eighty seven two five seventy. Bobby leaving the game tonight, Bobby, 337 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:33.720 how you doing seven hundred miles and two hundred dollars for this? I 338 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.799 was a little disappointed, to say the least. The sixth inning was In 339 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.240 fifty five years of going to Dodger games, that was probably one of the 340 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:44.440 most painful innings I've ever seen. Three hit batters, you've got to be 341 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.039 kidding me, and he's looking at Dave Roberts after the second hit batter like 342 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.720 poe. I can't keep playing like this. I was so stunned that they 343 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.680 kept him in, but they did, and he allowed those two runs and 344 00:23:55.720 --> 00:24:00.640 we go home with a very boring game that they couldn't execute. My question 345 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:03.559 to you is this are we lacking grit? I saw it in the Colorado 346 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.960 first game when they came back six runs or whatever, seven runs in the 347 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:12.440 ninth Inny to win that game. That was true grit. I didn't see 348 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:17.039 any grit tonight. And I love Freddie Freeman. I'll die with Freddie Freeman, 349 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.400 but goodness, gracious, you're right, they gotta do something. Last 350 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:23.119 part, I agree with the other caller that said, hey, you know 351 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:26.839 what, get it out of your system now, because if this happens in 352 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.240 October, I'm going to be crying again for the next as I was the 353 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:36.039 last two years for bad performances. So great talk show. Appreciate the opportunity 354 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:38.480 and thanks to hear what your spot responses are? All right, Bobby, 355 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:41.799 I appreciate it. Safe travels back to Salt Lake City. Too bad the 356 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.200 Dodgers couldn't get a win for you. Landed an act pitch really well, 357 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:49.279 Ryan Yarborough. I mentioned it after tonight and giving up those two runs and 358 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:53.039 two innings of work. His ERA is near five now. In the month 359 00:24:53.079 --> 00:24:56.599 of June alone, his era's three twenty eight on the season, but in 360 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:03.039 the month of June now his era's almost at five. So he struggled here 361 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.480 in the month of June. Tonight. I don't know if he was looking 362 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:08.039 over at the side or not asking for Dave Roberts to pull him I at 363 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:12.880 the game, but certainly they had nobody warming up, and Dave Roberts left 364 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:15.799 it up to Ryan Yarborough to get out of his own mess. And he 365 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:19.079 was able to do that with the ground ball and a strikeout and limit the 366 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:23.400 damage to only two runs to his credit, okay, and then come back 367 00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.279 out in the seventh inning and pitch a one two three seventh inning on only 368 00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:30.640 thirteen pitches, so he was able to find his control. He was able 369 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.839 to get some outs in the seventh inning. It was just a rough start 370 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.039 for Ryan Yarborough. Was he not warmed up? Was he not ready to 371 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:41.160 go? If that's the case, you got landon Nak who's hot, Who's 372 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:45.559 still able to go back out there? At least in my opinion, go 373 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:48.640 batter to batter, But they lected to go to Ryan Yarborough, and Yarbs 374 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:52.799 goes out there and hits three batters in the inning. And Rick Monday mentioned 375 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.119 it the first time a Dodger reliever since Carl Doyle in nineteen forty to hit 376 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:02.799 three batters in the same inning. Was pre World War Two. Jeff Weaver 377 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.200 two thousand and four, just twenty years ago, was the last Dodger pitcher. 378 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.519 He started that game back in two thousand and four. In the first 379 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.559 inning hit he hit three batters. Jeff Weaver two thousand and four, last 380 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:18.599 Dodger starter, last Dodger reliever Carl Doyle pre World War Two. Frank and 381 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.359 Downey is next up before we get to Jose Motive. Frank, Welcome to 382 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.160 Dodger Talk. Hey, what's up? What's up? Man? Kind of 383 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.200 frustrated over today's loss. I have a couple of questions. My first is, 384 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:36.119 what do you think about the Dodgers changing up the lineup a little bit 385 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:38.319 because we're not getting nothing from the bottom of the lineup. What you think 386 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:44.880 about Miguel Rojas and Miguel Vargas statting back to back to start the game. 387 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:49.160 Then you got Okanie Freeman, Will Smith Osker, and then we're deep in 388 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.519 the middle of the lineup where pitchers are fearing us, you know, in 389 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:57.200 the middle of the lineup. And what do you think. I don't think 390 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:03.400 so I appreciated Frank. Tonight's lineup is hopefully not a lineup you're gonna see 391 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:07.359 come October in an NLDS game or NLCS game. This is a Dodger's team 392 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:11.599 missing Mookie Betts. This is a Dodgers team Missy maximun See and he's not 393 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.000 coming back until after the All Star break, if not right around there, 394 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:19.279 if he's able to come back from this oblique injury. And you're not having 395 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:26.119 Will Smith in the lineup tonight, that's three big bats not in the lineup. 396 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:27.279 It's a lot to make up, but it's not an excuse, no 397 00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:33.359 excuse at all. Shoel Tani got it done. Tasker Hernandoz goes oh for 398 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.160 four, Freddie Frieman goes over four, Andy Pojask goes over four, Miguel 399 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:45.119 Rojas goes oh for four. They combined to go oh for what is that 400 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.279 twenty Oh for twenty you got five batters, one, two, three, 401 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.680 four, five four batters? Was it a math major? Okay, I 402 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.480 was a history major, all right? Stop looking at me. Oh for 403 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:02.920 sixteen, oh for sixteen with five punch outs, you're two through five hitters 404 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:07.119 tonight. Wow, that's not gonna get it done. And you talk about 405 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.000 changing up the bottom of the lineup. Yeah, Miguel Vargus had a base 406 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.400 hit. Chris Taylor had a base hit. He's it looks like he's turning 407 00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:18.440 things around and he's got to hold the size of I don't know, the 408 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:22.319 hugest crater you can think of to get out of. And Austin Barnes we 409 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.519 mentioned it earlier. Austin Bartson two out after two pitches, two out in 410 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.000 the fifth inning for Matt Moore, takes a pitch and then hits a single 411 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.119 over Nato at short. It's the old bloop and blast base hit, two 412 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:37.440 run home runs show ay Otani and the Dodgers are two to nothing lead. 413 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.599 As it is, Dodgers didn't have much offense the rest of the way, 414 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.559 Just an infield single from Otani and the Angels win it three to two. 415 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:48.440 Let's check out with Hose. It's time to go around the horn with hosean 416 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:52.880 motor Jose. I mentioned it earlier for six years, poor show. He 417 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:56.559 Otani's in Anaheim and doing it a lot by himself and seeing you know, 418 00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.799 close losses and games on which nobody's helping him out offensively, and man, 419 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.279 it kind of felt like that again tonight. He's on base four times, 420 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.920 drives in both of the runs. The only guy to have a base hit 421 00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.599 after his home run, and that was his single in the eighth inning. 422 00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:12.960 Nobody else seemed to do anything. Yeah, a tough night overall. You 423 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.720 know, there's a game that falls only on the offensive side of things. 424 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:19.839 I know that Ryan Yarborough didn't have a good outing, obviously a touch and 425 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:23.400 field guy who just did not have a touch at all for the baseball tonight. 426 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.720 But you know, when the Dodgers won a game recently against Kansas City 427 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.880 Royals and Will Smith, I mentioned to Dave Bessy, I said, these 428 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.480 are games that are field good wins. You didn't outslug anybody. You played 429 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.960 the game right, and Tim, there's no doubt in my mind. I 430 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:42.279 continue to say this. It's great to have these open scores and run deficits 431 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.920 and differentials. That's all great, but you have to learn how to win 432 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:49.640 games like this one, Colorado or not. You got to have better at 433 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:55.279 bats. And I'm going back to a quote from Dave Roberts end of April 434 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:59.680 when the Dodgers were cruising through Washington, Toronto and Arizona. Half of the 435 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.359 bat the big leagues for you a couple two strikes. They need to do 436 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:06.599 a better job in that. Yeah, you're gonna lose some games, but 437 00:30:06.680 --> 00:30:10.680 I think this all prepared your mind in the flow of the game and the 438 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:15.160 and the preparation for you to play against tougher teams in October where you're not 439 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.240 gonna be able to unslug everybody all the time. So I think there's a 440 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:19.720 tough loss. And I'm got a little pick you here, but I think 441 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.759 we have to be greedy in saying that winning by the open scores is great. 442 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.480 I'll slugging people's great, But reality is you got to learn how to 443 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:33.119 win in other directions too. I just to further that, I think that 444 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.920 is a great example on the tenth inning, when Jason Hayward hits the ball 445 00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:40.279 on the right side of the infield moves beg over to third, and you 446 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.799 got one out runner at third. You're down three to two. And I 447 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.400 know Carlos Estevez is a really good really retire twenty one in a row going 448 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.880 into the night's game and end up retiring three in a row after striking out 449 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.920 Key Gay and striking out Gavin Lux. But the approach has got to change. 450 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.079 I don't know. You gotta just say one of those guys got to 451 00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:02.759 get the ball in play. That's what matters the most, you know, 452 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.279 putting the ball in play. And with two strikes, when you get into 453 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:12.839 that mode and that mentality automatically, you know, kids are being taught now 454 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:15.079 and plays are being taught, you lose power. You don't lose power. 455 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.400 I mean, look how many two strikes home runs, Jessicaernander said this year, 456 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.599 Because you think in middle of the field the other way, right, 457 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:23.000 I mean, he also punches out a lot. There's no secret hiding that. 458 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:27.200 But you got to just go with what the game is calling for. 459 00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.920 In that case is you're not gonna lose anything. But I think of two 460 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:36.119 strikes, you're thinking contact infield in that increases your your batting average by a 461 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.160 whole lot, many many more points, and certainly the pressure's going to be 462 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.440 putting a team that is trying to find this way, and Ron Washington said 463 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.799 it trying to learn how to win, and that is exactly why they needed 464 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:49.720 to do a little bit better off today. And you know, the issue 465 00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:55.079 of Mookie not being around and maximumtsy has nothing to do with what happened here 466 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:59.319 tonight. Land and Neck. Five innings, no runs, two hits, 467 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:02.680 two strike out, seventy three pitches. You know, every inning seemed like 468 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:06.200 he had a guy on except for the second, but he was able to 469 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:07.799 get out of it with a couple of strikeouts in the first and the third 470 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.640 inning, he got around a two out walk with the ground ball. Out 471 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.200 of the fourth inning, he got around a lead off walk by getting out 472 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.279 of the inning. In the fifth inning, he had a two out single, 473 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:19.599 was able to get out of it with a line drive to center field 474 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.039 a seven pitch fifth. It seemed like he was in a good spot now. 475 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.799 They had turned the lineup over and it was two, three, four 476 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.240 in the sixth inning and Dave Roberts Alexa go to Ryan Yarborough, who, 477 00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:31.240 as you mentioned, is a field guy, and obviously he didn't feel like 478 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.559 he had it tonight, but landon thatck, I could make a case he 479 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.559 can go back out there for the sixth inning at least batter to batter and 480 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.559 see how he goes. I would say the same thing too. Obviously, 481 00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:45.039 Dodgers do have a plan with him. And you see the numbers in triple 482 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.519 A numbers here where he won six innings, second out of here in the 483 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.319 big leagues. But this kid can pitch. There's nothing like magical, and 484 00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:54.359 you go, oh my god, let's let's have a highlight reel. He 485 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:58.440 just gets people out. And yes, I mean, tell me about a 486 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:01.400 pitcher, premier pitcher, ace or not, or number five guy that doesn't 487 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:04.720 have a game where there's gonna be a lot of balls hit at people. 488 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:08.119 That's going to happen against a lot of guys, right, But somehow that 489 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.079 wave needs to be written a little bit longer too, and he's find a 490 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:14.759 way to get people out and get out of it. And he said, 491 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:16.160 I know part of the thing that he brought to the big leagues was and 492 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.440 I remember him telling me this in spring training, goes if I can just 493 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.920 avoid that one beginning, I feel good about what can happen. And he 494 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.039 actually had a couple a little you know, misplays and balls that didn't go 495 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.200 his way early in his career here in the big leagues in April in May, 496 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:31.960 but he found a way to throw them zeros. And I say, 497 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.319 get it right that and trust that. And going to Ryan Yarborough, here's 498 00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:38.720 my observation with him. Okay, if you look at his role since he 499 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:44.559 came up with Tampa Bay, he's way better when there's an opener for him. 500 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.519 Right If you look at lately, he has not been able to him 501 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:52.359 to get stressed out, and I think it's affecting him and just getting a 502 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.240 fearful of baseball feel for the zone, knowing that he is not going to 503 00:33:55.240 --> 00:34:00.000 see a lineup maybe a second time. But he is better when he's prolonged 504 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.559 a little bit more. Now with all this is, the starters are doing 505 00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:06.440 a fine job. You do not have the necessity right now to have a 506 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:09.480 bullpen game. Well, he's the bulk guy, but he is better when 507 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:13.039 he's out four and five. And look at the numbers from last year with 508 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:15.159 the Dodgers, he was much better with a fearful of baseball. Tonight, 509 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:20.119 it's an operation on him just not having the breaking ball, maybe went to 510 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.239 the fast fall a little bit too late, but you can see the ang's 511 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.039 sitting on that breaking ball, and unfortunately for him, just they just hey, 512 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:29.480 I mean, release point was way off, the rhythm was way off, 513 00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.599 the mechanics were a little bit distorted. But I think he he better 514 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:37.320 serves his team with more innings under his belt, almost like a you know, 515 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:38.559 come middle of the game starting pitcher than he is right now. And 516 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:42.840 I know that it's all based on guys doing a good job starting games, 517 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.960 but I think it affects guys like this. And I've talked to you guys 518 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.039 and I come in for both innings before and they're like, if I going 519 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.239 to be reliever much, either just let me go four or five or three 520 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.159 or four, because for two innings you just don't find it. And then 521 00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:58.559 you got to get into a rhythmus that when am I going to pitch next 522 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:00.480 to pace yourself to know that you're gonna be a guy that's not gonna be 523 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.280 rested for four games? Yeah, yeah, real quick, going back to 524 00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.000 Landon Nak, a guy who pitched his butt off. Finally you get some 525 00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:09.440 runs on the board for him in the bottom half of the fifth inning. 526 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:14.840 Jose to me again, I want to see a little grit out of a 527 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:16.079 guy. I want to see him go back out there now pitching with the 528 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.360 lead you know, pitch maybe a little adversity. If the leadoff guy gets 529 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.119 on, Let's see what he can do. Let's throw him out there a 530 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.039 little bit to the Wolves in the sixth inning, in a game that's in 531 00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:28.320 June and against the Angels, and you have a two to nothing lead. 532 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.519 Let's see what happens. Maybe he goes out there and get you into the 533 00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:34.239 three outs and get you to the seventh inning. I mean, I don't 534 00:35:34.239 --> 00:35:37.760 see the harm in this. Oh I'm right there with you too. Also, 535 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:39.760 I looked at it like pitch proportions and the way he spare things on 536 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:44.679 the first inning, twenty four fastballs, thirteen slider, seventeen change ups. 537 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:46.280 So he's pitching, he's not just throwing. And the more he sees a 538 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.559 lineup, the better off he's gonna be. And then you can see more 539 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:53.079 more swings and misses and more chases. I think against this lineup tonight, 540 00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:58.239 if they sung for a third time, I was gonna trust him all the 541 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.679 way and who knows if you won the game or now. We don't know 542 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:02.079 what the offense is going to do. But I think there's a kid that 543 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:05.840 has earned. I'm going to sell you this what he has earned the opportunity 544 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:07.320 to steal down up for a third time, to see how he reacts to 545 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:10.800 that opportunity. Absolutely, well, you're stuck with me again tomorrow night, 546 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.320 Jose as David Vast walking the seat on TV. Hey, DV. He's 547 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.639 rocking it. He's nice and shining, he's got the makeup ar doing a 548 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:22.119 fantastic job. And keep it rolling. All right, Jose, we'll talk 549 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.559 to you tomorrow. You got it all right? There, he goes, 550 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:29.599 Jose Mota joining us here on Dodger Talk, Dodgers losing ten innings to the 551 00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:31.840 Angels three to two. Show he o Tani on base four times, goes 552 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.199 two for two, a couple of walks, it's a two run home run 553 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:37.440 in the fifth inning, and that was it for the Dodgers offense. They 554 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.599 lose it in ten innings. Land and Neck. We talked about five shutout 555 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:44.440 innings and left with the lead. Turned it over to Ryan Yarborough in the 556 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:46.960 sixth who gave up a couple of runs after walking three batters in the sixth 557 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:51.360 inning. That minute a tie game. Dodgers were losing ten innings. Let's 558 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:53.840 go back out to Dodger Stadium land and neck five starts in the Big leagues 559 00:36:54.119 --> 00:36:59.119 continues to get better tonight puts up zeros through five innings. Let's hear from 560 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.599 Nacker playing in overall, how did you feel tonight? So good? Well, 561 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:07.199 good throw felt smooth, especially with like very beginning stuff, stuff felt 562 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.800 pretty good. Change up felt great tonight. So yeah, felt good. 563 00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:14.400 First inning you throw twenty one pitches. Were you fighting yourself in that first 564 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.480 inning? I honestly no, I feel like I was making good pitches. 565 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:21.719 They were just falling off and taking some taking some good swings and having some 566 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:23.800 good takes in there. But uh, I mean stuff, stuff felt good 567 00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:28.159 for you. Good go at fifth inning, you got great defense behind you, 568 00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:30.800 especially on the left side of the infield. We saw you go directly 569 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.960 to those guys in appreciation. How much did that help you get through that 570 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.880 inning? Oh? Absolutely, I helped a ton Yet obviously Migi hid came 571 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:43.400 up and had the little mountin visit as well, right before those couple of 572 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.400 plays, and so kind of already having that leadership right there, and then 573 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.159 them going and immediately making two great plays. Hymn kik. It was just 574 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:52.800 huge. What did you say to you on the mound. It was just 575 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.400 telling me to take a breath, kind of kind of relaxed for just a 576 00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:00.480 second, take a quick breather after the couple close pitches for a walk the 577 00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:02.280 bet before start off too. Oh. He was just wanted to kind of 578 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:07.719 give me the reset and was thinking was very very good buses. All right, 579 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.800 there's landing neck and one point real quick, he walked Taylor Ward there 580 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.920 on six pitches he got a strike, looking at a strike, swinging, 581 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:22.920 okay, six pitches walks Taylor Ward. Fourth inning, and that's when Miguel 582 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:27.880 Rojas goes over to talk to him, and Austin Barnes comes out to talk 583 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.599 to him on the mound, and he talked about, well, David, 584 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:32.119 just now, well what do they say, you know, just to calm 585 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:37.280 him down, just to stop the momentum, stop the the rhythm of walking 586 00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.760 the guy and getting into a rut then and things spiraling out of control. 587 00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:45.679 Stop that momentum, squash it before the Angels can get anything going. That's 588 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:51.880 a great job by Austin Barnes and Miguel Rojas, veteran guys. Young pitcher, 589 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:53.960 go out there, talk to him, tell him a joke, whatever, 590 00:38:54.559 --> 00:39:00.400 get him back in line. And the next batter he goes two to 591 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:06.280 zero to Calhoun, gets a strike and then gets him to fly out for 592 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:09.199 the first out of the inning. Dials back in. He's good to go, 593 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:13.480 get to feel the choice and then a ground ball out. Great play 594 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.320 from key Ky a Hernandez to get out of the inning. Hey, sometimes 595 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.440 you need your defense to help you out. They did tonight in that fourth 596 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:22.920 inning, helping out landed Neck. But he also helped himself out by not 597 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:28.599 throwing ball after ball after baul and walking guys. So you gotta give everybody 598 00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:32.639 credit for that. A lead off walk, let's regroup. They did that, 599 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.000 a couple of nice defensive plays, landing net gets him out of the 600 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.519 inning with zero. That's a really good job by a young pitcher to have 601 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:45.039 that kind of poise and to be able to dial it back in mentally on 602 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.960 the mound in a situation like that. So just wanted to point that out. 603 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.639 That was a great job by him and the leaders. Austin Barnes and 604 00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.159 Miguel Rojas to help him get back and zeroed in there in the fourth inning. 605 00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:59.480 He'd go five shutout innings, seventy three pitches left with the two nothing 606 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.239 leading again and you knew what happened. Tenth inning, Angel scored the top 607 00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.360 of the tenth. Dodgers couldn't punch her on across that free base runner in 608 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:09.599 the bottom half of the tenth. That's going to do it for postgame Dodger 609 00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:13.599 Talk an extended version on this Friday night. I know Colin, you wanted 610 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.800 to go home like a half an hour ago, so I'm sorry, Colin. 611 00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:21.760 Thanks to Colin as always, thanks to you the Dodger fans for being 612 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:27.679 a part of the show all season along every game, win or lose. 613 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.199 This was a tough one. Dodgers fresh off winning three and four in Denver, 614 00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:36.320 they come back home and they dropped the series opener to the Angels. 615 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.599 Tomorrow they look for the split. It's a two game series. That's it. 616 00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:43.039 Off day on Sunday. We'll be back out with Morono consinto Dodgers on 617 00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.360 dec adt six pm, First pitch at seven ten Title Class Now and Zach 618 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:51.239 fleasach the pitching matchup. If you missed any part of the show, as 619 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:55.440 always, you can listen for free on the iHeartRadio app until tomorrow. I 620 00:40:55.480 --> 00:41:04.960 have a safe press of your Friday Night on the thinks, So Sily and 621 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:06.880 so just Chifling.