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 --> 00:00:10.599 millions of Angelinos for over twenty five years. And now your voice for Dodger 3 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:16.879 Talk. You out by back damn Cats. That's what I'm talking about. 4 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:23.600 Dodgers. Eleven runs, fourteen hits. Every Dodger starter had a base knock, 5 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:27.640 Three different Dodgers go deep. Mookie Bett to three run home run, 6 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:32.039 Freddie Freeman three run home run, they Oscar Hernandez, his thirteenth home runner 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.039 of this season, gave the Dodgers the lead in the fifth inning. The 8 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:40.880 Dodgers get the series ending win in Pittsburgh tonight with an eleven to seven victory 9 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:44.799 over the Pirate. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Dodger Talk here on 10 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:49.399 Am five to seventy. LA Sports phone lines are wide open and they're filling 11 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.600 up quickly at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seven. We appreciate 12 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:58.359 that. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. We're gonna hear 13 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.560 from Mookie Betts coming up in just a little bit. He had a big 14 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:03.560 night tonight for the Dodgers. In the lead offs spot, he had a 15 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.120 single de lead off the game. He would score on the Freddie Freeman three 16 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:12.239 run home run two batters later tonight, Freddie Freeman hit a three run home 17 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:17.959 run early. Mookie Betts bookended in the fifth inning with a three run home 18 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.040 run, and the Dodgers explode for eleven runs tonight as Freddie Freeman had the 19 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:29.079 home run. Mookie Betts two for four, three ribbys, on base four 20 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:34.760 times with two walks that he drew as well. It's no secret that when 21 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:40.319 Mookie Betts is clicking, the Dodgers' offense is clicking, and you gotta give 22 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.840 credit to everybody else in the lineup. Tonight I mentioned every starter had a 23 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:48.200 hit in this win against the Pirates. Ta Oscar Hernandez kept the line moving. 24 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.359 He goes three for five, a triple shy of the cycle. He 25 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:55.239 hit a home run. Miguel Rojas three for four tonight with a couple of 26 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.959 ribbis. He's now hitting two eighty seven on the season. Kick At Hernandez 27 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:02.079 had an RBI single in the sixth Tony. Miguel Vargas got into the fun 28 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:06.400 as well. He was on base twice tonight, including a walk. Austin 29 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:09.840 Barnes was one for three tonight and scored a run for the Dodgers. He's 30 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:14.879 now pushed his average over two to sixteen on this season. It's the Dodgers 31 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:20.080 capitalized with runners in scoring position. Again, it's not brain surgery. When 32 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.520 guys produce and they cash in those runners that are on base. You go 33 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:27.599 six for fifteen with runners in scoring position. More times than not, you're 34 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.199 gonna win a baseball game, even when your starter gives up afore nothing lead. 35 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:36.240 Even when you give up seven runs in a game, you win eleven 36 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:42.280 to seven because you outscore the opponent with eleven runs on fourteen hits in a 37 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.520 winning efforts. Dodgers now thirty nine and twenty five on this season. They 38 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:51.719 pick up a half game on the San Francisco Giants, who were idle tonight. 39 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.400 Meanwhile, the Dodgers could pick up another game on the San Diego Padres 40 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.240 that came down in San Diego. Right now between the Diamondbacks and Padres is 41 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.960 in the fourth inning with the Diamondbacks up three to nothing, but as we 42 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.879 speak, Padres seven and a half games back and the Giants eighth and a 43 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.039 half games back. With the Padres, by the way, I have lost 44 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.879 four in a row, including getting swept in Anaheim by the Angels, who 45 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.719 are in last place in the Al West, and now they're in Arizona or 46 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.520 hosting Arizona tonight out at Petgo Park and find themselves down three to nothing in 47 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:24.719 the fourth inning. Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven to two 48 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:29.400 five seventy is our number. Big win for the Dodgers tonight. They're not 49 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:34.479 gonna score eleven runs on fourteen hits every single game. But certainly you don't 50 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:39.000 like seeing the Dodgers anemic as they were the first two games of this series 51 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.039 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. And I know I've already seen it on social media. 52 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.280 I've already seen the comments. Well, it's because they weren't facing the 53 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.639 guy throwing ninety five to one hundred like they did in the first two games 54 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:55.520 of this series. Dodgers can't hit guys who throw near one hundred. Dodgers 55 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.719 are gonna be in trouble in the postseason when Bailey Falters throwing night. Yeah, 56 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:03.439 they're sitting on it and they're scoring eleven runs and scoring early and often. 57 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.039 I've already seen it. So that's what you're gonna call up and talk 58 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.879 about. About oh yeah, anice win against the guy who's not throwing a 59 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.520 hundred mound save it. Just save the minutes, save the energy, save 60 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.399 your time, in my time and everybody else's time. I don't want to 61 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:25.160 hear it. Dodgers tonight explode for eleven runs on fourteen hits against a Bailey 62 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.399 Falter who had like sixteen plus innings without giving up an earned run against the 63 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.240 Pittsburgh Pirates team that has had its way the first two games of this series 64 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:42.000 with the Dodgers offense now. Certainly Jones and Skiings, the two young twenty 65 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:46.279 two year old right handers who just pump gas are different than Bailey Falter, 66 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.079 but the Dodgers were able to get to Skiens last night a couple of home 67 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:56.399 runs, so Tany went deep, so it's not like he just completely dominated 68 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:02.839 the Dodgers last night. Struggled the last three weeks, no doubt about it. 69 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.920 Been up, been down, lost five in a row, won five 70 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:10.879 of six. They lose two to three in Pittsburgh, but look at what 71 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.439 they're doing as far as maintaining their leading the division. There's still seven and 72 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:16.519 a half games up. They went on that East Coast road trip They played 73 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.680 five hundred baseball with the course of sixteen games, and they're still with a 74 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:24.920 seven plus game leading the division at the moment, seven and a half games 75 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.639 up on the San Diego Padres. Didn't lose any ground. Sky is not 76 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:32.000 falling. It's still June, and this Dodgers team is still way up in 77 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:36.439 the division. Now. I had Dodger Talk the other night, and a 78 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:41.199 lot of Dodger fans wanted to say, well, that's great. We don't 79 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.319 care what happens during the regular season anymore. Get us to October. Look 80 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.800 what happened last night. Look what happened against Jones and the series opener. 81 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.079 Dodgers couldn't hit a guy throwing one hundred miles an hour. Just like the 82 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:56.560 postseason, they faced good pitching and they're going to struggle. Well, certainly, 83 00:05:56.600 --> 00:05:59.360 you get to the postseason more times than night. You're not gonna win 84 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.279 a game eleven. And that's the case, then you got bad pitching on 85 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:09.759 both sides. Tonight the Dodgers Walker Buehler, in my opinion, looked better 86 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.600 than he did in his last couple starts. This was start six for Walker 87 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:15.560 Buehler, and for those of you thinking I'm crazy. Look at the numbers 88 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.199 and the results. He didn't get any help on all on defense tonight. 89 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.480 He went out there and gave up an infield single in the first eleven pitches, 90 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.240 struck out the blast batter that he faced in the first to get out 91 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.079 of the first inning on eleven pitches. The second inning started with an air 92 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:38.800 at shortstop by Mookie bent On what should have been a rootine play at short. 93 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:43.519 Instead, the throw pulls Freddie Freeman off the bag and he kn't get 94 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:48.160 his foot back lead off runner aboard. Then Walker Bueler gets too quick out. 95 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:56.560 He should have been out of the inning in the second inning instead another 96 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.439 heir this went on keyk Hernandez, who, like Dub hop the ball over 97 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:09.439 to Freddie Freeman who couldn't make the pick two on two out and Walker Bieler 98 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:16.079 should be sitting in the dugout spitting some smacking sunflower seeds. Instead he's still 99 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:20.279 out in the mound, gives up an RBI single and then has to get 100 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:28.680 a strikeout twenty six pitches into the second inning, third inning, leadoff strikeout, 101 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.920 a couple of base hits, sack fly, and then on the eighth 102 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.120 pitch of a bat to naken Zalees Lee's went over the middle of the play. 103 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:41.920 You know what, you tip your cap at that point, that point 104 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:49.319 it's eight four, four to four game, and what happens, a fly 105 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:55.399 ball to the left Miguel Vargas cannot play it right, goes off his glove, 106 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:59.920 another air. They ruled a double. I don't know, I guarantee 107 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.199 maj Leaue Baseball is gonna overturn that that was an air on Miguel Vargas with 108 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.800 two outs in the third inning, when that balls hit the left field instead, 109 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.240 they ruled a double. A walk. Obviously, Walker Bueler is frustrated 110 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.560 an infield single on a ball hits a shortstop. But with the way the 111 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:18.600 shift was on with runners on base, nobody was at third. Miguel Rojas 112 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.360 couldn't get the second in time, and there was no way that Mookie Betts 113 00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:26.759 was gonna make a clean throw to first to beat to beat the runner. 114 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.840 So you got the bases loaded before finally a ground ball out to get out 115 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:37.480 of the third inning. Game tied at four. Forty one pitches thrown in 116 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:43.679 the third inning alone. In the third inning alone, forty one pitches thrown 117 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.759 by Walker Buel. That's why he was done after three innings seventy eight total 118 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.960 pitches in three innings, forty one of which came in the third, twenty 119 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.759 six pitch second inning, in which the Dodgers had two airs. He didn't 120 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:01.799 get much help behind him, but yet didn't criticize anybody postgame, didn't point 121 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.240 fingers at anybody, said it's part of the game, and was happy with 122 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.480 the production the offense gave him and the bullpen in an eleven to seven win 123 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.279 over the Pirates. With that all being said, I thought he looked better 124 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.840 out in the mound. I thought he looked more confident. His body looked 125 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.279 more in control on the mound. He seemed more fluid out there. Even 126 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:24.600 when I with pitching out of the stretch, his velocity to me was up 127 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:26.759 a little bit. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but 128 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.879 it felt like he was hitting ninety four to ninety five, ninety six more 129 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:35.840 than he was in his previous starts. But he had the taxing second inning, 130 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.279 and he had the lingering third inning in which he had to throw a 131 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.639 lot of extra pitches to cut in into his outing. Tonight does only three 132 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.519 innings, four runs, three strikeouts, and a no decision for Walker Bueller. 133 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:52.120 The results, Yes, when you look at the box score tonight, 134 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.720 you're gonna say, oh wow, what happened to Walker Bueller? No, 135 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.679 no, no, didn't get help with defense behind him, would have been 136 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.519 out of that second inning, and could have been out of the third inning. 137 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.600 Yes, the home run tie in the game, but he had to 138 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.360 have pitched up four more batters after that, in which he should have been 139 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.120 out of the inning in the third. So those things add up. If 140 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.919 you don't think they add up, you're crazy. Because he's lingering for extra 141 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.440 pitches, extra bats. A double should have been an air, should have 142 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.840 been the end of the inning. But Miguel Vargas drops the ball in left 143 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.360 field, and then, out of frustration you can see, didn't have the 144 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.120 command, walks the next batter infield single to load the basis because nobody's covering 145 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.559 the bases because of the shift. Frustration. No doubt from Walker Buehler, 146 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.200 but he's the last guy to point a finger, and he celebrated the win 147 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.559 tonight. You heard him in the Clubhouse show talking about how he felt okay 148 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.080 about his outing. Dave Roberts. You heard him in the Clubhouse show talk 149 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:56.200 about his frustration with the defense, said it was the worst defensive performance by 150 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:03.000 far this season for his Dodgers team, by far, the worst performance on 151 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.919 defense by this Dodgers team. Tonight. We're gonna hear from Mookie Bets coming 152 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.440 up in just a little bit. Mookie offensively tonight played really well. Defensively, 153 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.360 had his struggles, and David Vassay said he talked to him in the 154 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.080 clubhouse. We'll hear from in just a second here about his struggles on defense 155 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:24.159 and his struggles at the plate. Maybe it's too much of a workload for 156 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:30.240 Mookie Bets. Maybe he's doing too much and preparing every day, taking all 157 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:33.639 the ground balls that he's doing at shortstop pre game, that it's taken away 158 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:39.039 from his performance at the plate. Maybe he's worn down from doing too much. 159 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.399 In fact, let's hear from Mookie post game with David Vassa about his 160 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.440 struggles and about his workload. MOOKI, how would you describe this twin? 161 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:50.919 I mean, obviously you guys lost the first two, but to get out 162 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.720 of here, to salvage this series, is that the most important part? 163 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:58.559 Yeah, this is definitely the most important part winning, you know, no 164 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.440 matter how it looks, you know, a win is a win. Obviously 165 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:03.399 we want to especially myself. I mean, I gotta clean up a lot 166 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.120 of things and getting back to the drawing board, back to back to working. 167 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.799 But you know, I went as a win. You've been playing pretty 168 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.639 well at shortstop. When you have a game like this, How do you 169 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.720 not just dwell on this type of game and not on the others. I 170 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.519 don't know. I don't know. I had to. It's all new, 171 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.039 it's all new, and so getting over the homes I haven't had to. 172 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.120 So this is the first time I'm gonna really have to do it. And 173 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.600 it could be just showing up to the park tomorrow and you know, doing 174 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.200 my normal work. You know I always do extra. So maybe it's that 175 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:43.159 I have no idea, but I definitely am not happy with the way I've 176 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.360 perform today. Do you feel like the swing is back? Do you feel 177 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.519 like you've shortened the swing and you're back closer to where you were earlier in 178 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.600 the season. I do feel that, you know, it's just one game. 179 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:56.879 Anything can happened in one game, and so we have to put some 180 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:01.879 games together. So we'll we'll know in a couple of days. Obviously, 181 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.960 Like when the numbers tail off, people are gonna wonder if the shortstop part 182 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.840 is contributing to it at all, Like physically, have you felt different at 183 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:11.559 this point of the season in the normal year, like with all the extra 184 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.480 stuff you've been doing, just like, how is that part kind of come 185 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:18.240 together? Oh no, no, this is the best I've felt since I 186 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:24.480 was probably twenty one or twenty two years old. So that absolutely has no 187 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.840 no part. Now it's just purely me and there's no excuses. But a 188 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.679 fact is this is all new to me. Man, this is all new, 189 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:37.480 and it's going to take more than two months to get and especially you 190 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.919 know, I was talking to Lux during the game, like this is the 191 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.120 hardest thing I've ever had to do, you know. And so I'm going 192 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.039 out there and you know, with two outs and second and third and having 193 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:50.120 to make a play, and I'm not looking for any sympathy, but you 194 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:52.679 know, it's just tough and so but I gotta get it done. All 195 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.919 right, there's Mookie post game with David Vasse and the media. He's right, 196 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:01.279 we can sit and get on Mookie all we want maybe we can say, 197 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.039 oh, he shouldn't be at shortstop. He is at short and he 198 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:11.559 took on that responsibility late in spring training because of the struggles to Gavin Lux 199 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:16.399 and because he's such a gifted human being and so athletic he can make that 200 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.039 move to shortstop, not only right before the season starts, but at this 201 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:24.240 point in his career to make that move not only from the outfield to second 202 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.320 base and now second base over to one of the hardest positions in all of 203 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:31.519 sports, shortstop. On a daily basis, one hundred and sixty two games 204 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.759 playing shortstop and batting lead off. It's not easy. It is grinding, 205 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:39.600 it is taxing on the body, and he's having to figure it out really 206 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:43.759 on the go here before the start of the season and now during the first 207 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.720 third of this season. And nobody said it was going to be easy. 208 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:48.600 He knows that, and nobody feels sorry for him because he's the one that's 209 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.399 taken on this responsibility. But with the good come the bad, and for 210 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:56.480 everything good, Mookie has done and the production he had early on this season 211 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.039 and hopefully tonight is the start of something they can get going offensively. And 212 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:05.320 he even said just one game. Give it a few games and then we'll 213 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.679 see where we're at. You know, defensively, nine airs on the season, 214 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:15.759 most of them throwing airs. So you kin, you kind of take 215 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.720 to go with the bad and you hope that the defense will continue to improve 216 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.200 because he's made some good plays. But tonight, I'll be honest with you, 217 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.000 I'm not picking on Mookie, but those are plays that need to be 218 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:30.519 made, especially that ground ball to your glove side early in the game to 219 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:33.480 lead off the second inning for the Pirates. You got to make that play 220 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.240 and you get to a ball, yes, but arm strength is the second 221 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.279 part about it. Making a play clean, whether it's glove side, backhand, 222 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:48.879 in the hole wherever, charging a ball, you know, stabbing a 223 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.799 line drive, one hop or whatever. Then you gotta make the throw and 224 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.320 arm strength is huge. You got to make the play defensively clean and then 225 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.919 make the throw, and that's not easy. And I think tonight the arm 226 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.879 strength was something that caught up with Mooki on that play because it's a tough 227 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.080 play. Moving to your left, you kind of not throw across your body, 228 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:14.759 but you're not making a traditional tyle a throw, and he pulled Freddie 229 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.240 Freeman off the bag. So it's i know, frustrating for Dodger fans. 230 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.399 And certainly if the Dodgers would have lost again tonight and got swept in Pittsburgh, 231 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.679 the world would have been the ending with Dodger fans talking about the defense 232 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:27.600 and need for change. But when you score eleven runs and you win the 233 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:32.679 game eleven to seven, everything's okay, and those kind of get makeup put 234 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.559 on them and nobody sees them and you kind of move forward on this season. 235 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.320 But those airs are still there and the airs are starting to mount up 236 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.639 for this Dodgers team. And tonight again, as I mentioned, officially three 237 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:47.600 airs against the Dodgers defense, but in reality it should have been five airs. 238 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:49.360 Ground ball, the mookie had it go underneath his glove, they ruled 239 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.840 a base hit, and the fly ball to left center field that should have 240 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:57.840 been caught in the third inning by Miguel Vargas ruled a double for some reason, 241 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.720 but was clearly an air for dropping the baseball. Eight six six, 242 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:06.519 nine eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five say 243 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.480 we'll take a break, We'll come back right to your phone calls we got 244 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:11.119 full lines right now, we're gonna get to all of it. Plus we're 245 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.160 gonna hear from the great Vin Scully. Well, a flashback to twenty fifteen 246 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:21.079 on this D Day, the eightieth anniversary of D Day, and storming the 247 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:25.240 beaches of Normandy, France. And of course nobody better to talk about it 248 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.599 than the late great Vin Scully. So we'll have that coming up and your 249 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:32.559 phone calls when we come back. Dodgers win tonight in Pittsburgh, eleven to 250 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:34.880 seven over the Pirates. Postgame Dodger Talk right here on your Home with the 251 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:41.799 Dodgers AM FI seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio A AM five seventy 252 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:47.680 LA Sports be anywhere at any time, and you can hear past episodes of 253 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:52.400 Dodger Talk all love those things. Search AM five seventy on the iHeartRadio app. 254 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.920 We're streaming online. We stream every game too. Come find me back 255 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:02.640 to Dodger Talk on AM five seventy LA. Boards Bett swings hits a drive 256 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:06.279 to center fielding deep Sowinsky. Going back to the track, he looks up. 257 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.480 It's going a home run. Mookie Betts the dead center hit it into 258 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:15.480 the shrubbery. A three run home run for Bets, his tenth home run 259 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.039 of the season. I told you I like the number ten even better than 260 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:23.279 eight. Tenth run of the night for the Dodgers. Tenth home run of 261 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.440 the season for rookie best three run home run forener in ten feet to center 262 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:32.359 field at PNC Park, happing off a six run fifth inning for the Dodgers. 263 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.079 They beat the Pirates tonight by a final of eleven to seven. As 264 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.039 Michael Grove pitched two scoreless innings the fourth and fifth inning, he gets the 265 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.359 winning relief he's down three and two. Bailey Falter at a Chino Hills High 266 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:45.960 School. He gets the loss. He falls to three and three. The 267 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.559 Dodgers said nine into the plate in the first inning. They score four runs. 268 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:52.440 The Dodgers then said nine batters of the plate in the fifth inning, 269 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:56.640 and they score six runs as they go on and get the win eleven to 270 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.440 seven. Tiascar Hernandez his thirteenth home run, a solo shot, his fortieth 271 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:03.359 RBI. He's now fifth in the National League at home runs and he's tied 272 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.240 for six in RBIs as he goes three for five tonight, a triple shy 273 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.119 of the cycle Miguel Rojas, by the way, the bottom of the lineup 274 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:15.640 three for four, a couple of ribbies. Every Dodger starter had a base 275 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.000 hit tonight, as the Dodgers had eleven runs on fourteen hits and three home 276 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:22.720 runs. Also had three airs in the game tonight. And talking about Mookie 277 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:27.519 Bets, I had a former big league infielder text me, not the name 278 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.279 drop, but yeah, I had a big league infielder text me and said, 279 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:37.039 it's not the arm strength of Mookie Bets. Said, it's a mechanical 280 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.759 issue. His front shoulders flying open when throwing like a quarterback. Just needs 281 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:48.119 to focus on being square longer. It's an easy fix because he's in a 282 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.160 position he's got great hands and footwork, just needs to stay a square. 283 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.119 So there you go. I stand corrected. Does have a great arm in 284 00:19:56.119 --> 00:20:00.680 the outfield. From my point of view, just kind of felt like the 285 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.440 arm strength maybe wasn't there. But I stand corrected from a big league infielder 286 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.720 he even know playing the big leagues in a long time and text me on 287 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:14.240 my secret textosal line that it's a mechanical issue that can be fixed really quickly. 288 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.480 And for a guy in Mookie Betts. That takes I don't know, 289 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.759 probably one hundred ground balls before every game. With Dino Ebel and Miguel Rojas 290 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:26.119 out there, it's gonna be fixed. And again he's learning on the fly. 291 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:30.759 He's doing everything he can to help out this Dodgers team. And that's 292 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.799 what really what it is. Think about it. He's so unselfish that he 293 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.200 makes the move to second base, and even more so realizing if this team's 294 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.960 gonna be successful, they're gonna need a guy at shortstop they can rely on. 295 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:48.440 And seeing the struggles of Gavin Lux with the Yips during spring training, 296 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.599 Mookie Bets unselfish that he is, takes it upon himself to say, I'll 297 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.920 play short I'm that good of an athlete. I'm gonna figure it out as 298 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:59.599 we go. I'm gonna be the best I can at it, and I'm 299 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:03.480 gonna you to learn. I may, I may struggle, but I'm gonna 300 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.440 figure it out. And when he's producing offensively the first three weeks of the 301 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.400 season, we're not talking about the defense. It kind of like I said, 302 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:11.880 we put a little lipstick on it, a little makeup, and it 303 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:15.920 gets covered up and the Dodgers are winning. So it's not an issue. 304 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.759 But when the Dodgers lose five in a row, the Dodgers struggle gets swept 305 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:23.160 in Cincinnati. When the Dodgers lose two to three in Pittsburgh, then you 306 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:27.119 start looking at the airs. Whether it's Mookie or and throwing air from Kei 307 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:32.519 k a Heernandez or Miguel Vargas and left field tonight, you can't necessarily use 308 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:37.240 that makeup and lipstick to cover up the airs. Thankfully, he had eleven 309 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.279 runs tonight. It makes up for It doesn't cover it up, but it 310 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:48.200 makes up for the three airs officially five airs unofficially for the Dodgers tonight on 311 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:51.319 defense eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. All right, let's 312 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.319 go out to the phones. Everybody's been patient. James been weighing the longest. 313 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.559 James, How you doing? Hey there? How you doing? Jim 314 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:02.400 doing good tonight? James? Hey? I want spanned upon the conversation on 315 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:07.880 MOOKI from a personal trainer's perspective, which is what I do, he was 316 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:10.920 really throwing off the back foot a lot, and I think he was doing 317 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:18.319 that because he threw a lot of awkward, you wrong foot throws, and 318 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.599 I think that he's probably been working on having his feet in the right place. 319 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.880 But if you're backing up on a ball as athletic as Mooky is, 320 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:32.039 I think he is completely capable of doing the Derek Jeter. And we all 321 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:36.480 know what that looks like, where he gets so much rotational torque with his 322 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:41.640 feet not on the ground, and that just comes from like thoracic spine, 323 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.240 meaning your rib cage mobility, throwing the hips with it, basically spinning yourself 324 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:51.160 like a top, using your obliques and core strength to do that without your 325 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.599 feet planted on the ground. I think that, in addition to what you 326 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.839 said about his front shoulder flying open or what that infielder said, I think 327 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:03.599 that he is perfectly capable of learning how to pull a Derek Jeter. So 328 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.200 as far as arm strength on those throws goes. I mean, we know 329 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.039 he's got it from right field, but there's no reason why a guy like 330 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:15.039 Mookie can't pull a Derek Jeter. So I like to say that about him 331 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:19.480 on defense. If I could say one more thing about Chris Taylor versus James 332 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.559 Outman, I love Chris Taylor. He went to my alma mater, University 333 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:27.960 of Virginia loved him for many, many years. But this guy has got 334 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:32.960 to play every single day and be working with the hitting coaches before the game 335 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.200 to get out of this kind of slump. Meanwhile, James Outman is raking 336 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:41.079 down there in Triple A, and we just don't need Chris Taylor's versatility right 337 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:47.279 now because we've got Key k who plays every position pretty much. We got 338 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.279 Niggie Rowe who plays three in field positions. Pay Oscar can go left field, 339 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.680 right field. I think it's time to bring up the better offensive production 340 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.039 now. I know that Chris Taylor would have to agree to this as a 341 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.200 season veteran, but as the team guy that he is and seeing the struggles 342 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:10.359 that he's had, I don't think it's too big of an ask for an 343 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:14.960 organization like the Dodgers. It's all about team and a guy like Chris Taylor 344 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.200 who's always been bought in on team to say, Chris, you gotta go 345 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.920 down and work on this every day in Triple A. We need a bat. 346 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:26.559 We want you to get right. We're gonna need you to be the 347 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.759 clutch guy that you've always been in the postseason later on, get it figured 348 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.640 out. Yeah, I'd be interested to see if he'd be receptive to that. 349 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.480 James, I appreciate the phone call. I think more of a realistic 350 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.359 opportunity. And I don't even know if he could be sent down, he'd 351 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.680 have to be optioned down. I'm not positive on the transactional details on how 352 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:48.920 that would work for a veteran guy. And Chris Taylor, I do know 353 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.480 he's owed a lot of money over the next couple of years from the Dodgers, 354 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:55.160 and if they tried to trade him near the offseason, I'm sure those 355 00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:59.400 efforts were made. And right now you kind of give him the benefit of 356 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:02.319 the doubt that he'll so he would figure it out offensively, let him work 357 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.160 through it, give him a landing opportunity as far as offensively to get right. 358 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.799 Just hasn't happened yet again. Struck out tonight, hitting well below one 359 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.160 hundred. I think the best scenario and most likely scenarios to what they did 360 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.920 like and David Vassay has mentioned this. This is my own opinion is to 361 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.960 put him on the injury list and you know, uh soreness in the shoulder, 362 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:27.400 an oblique, you know, hamstring injury, calf, sowreness, whatever, 363 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:32.759 and let him just get right mechanically. Let him go back to Arizona 364 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.440 and the cant Back ranch and just work on the swing again and get a 365 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.599 lot of swings and games in a minor league rehab assignment so he can get 366 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.079 out of it. Look what James Outman did. James Almond went to Triple 367 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.000 A not because of an injury. Ils did it because he had options left. 368 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.079 But you sent him to Triple A Oklahoma City, and you're right, 369 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.599 he is. He is hitting really well. Maybe he's got that that hit, 370 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.799 that swing back and has figured it out and now he's right. Maybe 371 00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.519 he makes his return sooner than later. I don't know, but it took 372 00:25:57.559 --> 00:26:00.640 him going to Triple A, getting bats, maybe getting his confidence, the 373 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:04.519 pressure off his shoulders, and he's back hitting the ball like he was last 374 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:07.200 year in his rookie year at the big league level, albeit at the Triple 375 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.319 A level. Right now he's doing it. That could be something that Chris 376 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.559 Taylor just needs. His more opportunity, no pressure, no eyes on him. 377 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:18.400 Nobody's here on Dodger Talk talking about is over performance or what he's hitting 378 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.799 and what how much he's making. Just go back to playing baseball. And 379 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:26.599 h not on a big stage like this and go and get right and hopefully 380 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:29.799 turn things around. Because he's been so good to this team and meant so 381 00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:33.559 much to this team in playoff baseball and during the regular season. I still 382 00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:36.720 think he's got something left to the tech I do. I still believe he's 383 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:40.279 got something left to give to this Dodgers team. Freddie on the Miracle Mile 384 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.920 in La Fred, How you doing? Yeah? I want to pick up 385 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:48.480 on the Chris Taylor thing. Sure. So there's a stack called ops plus, 386 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:53.799 yep, where the average batter rates one hundred. Okay, do you 387 00:26:53.880 --> 00:27:00.680 happen to know what Chris Taylor is? Ops plus? Is his ops plus? 388 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:06.160 The league average is one hundred. The league average is one hundred. 389 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:10.920 His ops plus I know his ops for the season is probably right around three 390 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.200 hundred. What is his ops plus right now? It's negative seventh. He's 391 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:21.720 in negative numbers. That's not good. So, I mean, I understand 392 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:25.640 what you're saying about him rehabbing his swing, Like, why is the team 393 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:27.839 dedicating even a forty man spot to him? Because they are a lot of 394 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:33.920 money Where one hundred is the average, they owe a lot of money to 395 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.000 him and they're not going to eat that much money right now, and because 396 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:41.000 they're hoping, they're hoping, well, different scenario. I don't know. 397 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:45.200 This is a different management. There's just different front office, different philosophy, 398 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.279 different give and take. So i'd appreciate the phone call. I'm not going 399 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:52.599 to get into an argument with you about Chris Taylor. Certainly, he's hitting 400 00:27:52.680 --> 00:27:56.279 ninety five on the season, oh ninety five, zero home runs, He's 401 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:02.519 got one double, he's got zero triples. He's truck out thirty eight times 402 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:06.519 in his eighty four appearances coming into tonight. I get it he has struggled. 403 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:10.680 He would oh for this series in Pittsburgh. I get it. He 404 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.519 hasn't had a hit since May twenty eighth. But then again, he hasn't 405 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:18.440 played a lot and doesn't play a lot. I don't know what the answer 406 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.519 is. I don't know how much longer of a quote unquote least they're gonna 407 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.519 give him. That's not up to me. But you're right, he has 408 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.440 taken up a spot on the twenty six man roster, he has taken up 409 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.079 a spot on the forty man roster. But I truly believe they're gonna give 410 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.119 him as much room as possible, and it's only June sixth. We haven't 411 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:40.640 hit the All Star break. Miguel Vargas, a rookie last year, a 412 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:44.480 rookie last year, got the entire first half of the season to try to 413 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.920 figure it out. I think Chris Taylor's gonna get a little bit longer than 414 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.160 that. I believe now he's got to turn it around. There's no doubt 415 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.920 about it. He's got to figure it out offensively, and I hope he 416 00:28:55.960 --> 00:29:00.240 does. I hope he does. Greg and Elson, Gundo's next. How 417 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:06.079 you doing? He's him pretty good. I think I think your idea of, 418 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:07.799 you know, maybe an eye out stint would fix it. But we 419 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.079 got to give Chris Taylor a break. I think we've all been through some 420 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:14.519 sort of slump in our lives, and the more we hear about it, 421 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.039 it doesn't go away. So perfect From that topic, two thoughts that I 422 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.279 want to get from you. One. Uh, the fifth the fourth and 423 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:26.640 fifth spot in rotation right like last now has been solid. If we just 424 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.759 scored two runs a game, he's four zero and the last four right in 425 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.960 it starts Yoshi's great. Uh. The stone has been a revelation. So 426 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.200 I think you know where I'm kind of going here, what's going to happen 427 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.920 in your mind when Millard comes back? Because I know the easy answers, 428 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.839 you know, six man rotation, we got rooms for everybody, but realistically, 429 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:51.400 you know, these guys are competitors. A Obviously it was not Walker's 430 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.680 issue. I mean watching this game was painful. In the first four innings. 431 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:56.920 It was like we were trying to hand the game back. So I 432 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.759 totally get that. But Walker has been kind of he's been touched up the 433 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.920 last two starts, so on that part, like, I kind of want 434 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:07.599 to get your thoughts on, like what's going to happen to Paxton. I 435 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:10.680 think that's kind of what everyone's thinking about, like he's almost being groomed to 436 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.240 be a long guy or a piggyback and the sucking keys. There's all the 437 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.559 injuries we have. Yeah, and I don't know if you can can't mention 438 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.559 the regular base or everybody else but us, but Christian Xavier, Tommy John, 439 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.319 jose Er, Kidi, Tommy John, a lot of these guys, 440 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:29.160 they're they're sitting out months with these elbow injuries, these warm injuries, thinking 441 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.400 like we don't know what's going to happen. And I think about Walker with 442 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.839 two seasons ago, now I got time is going by Sullah. Yeah, 443 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.799 three months he sat on the IOLT and we all kind of knew, like 444 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.839 what's going on, and he just sat there and and And I think that's 445 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.720 kind of something we should be talking about, is the way these injuries are 446 00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:52.559 managed or I don't know how they're diagnosed. Like granted, I've never had 447 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.440 an elbow injury and I hope to never have one, but I feel like 448 00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:00.440 it threw him off, like he didn't get an entire offseason and entire spring 449 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.200 to ramp up, and then this season like he's been kind of start stop, 450 00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:08.799 slow down, ramped down twenty three. I think at twenty two we 451 00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:12.400 should have been honest. I think you know, obviously no one knows, 452 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:17.079 no one knows what is really going on, but I think everybody had the 453 00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.319 feeling like you get Tommy John once you're it's likely you'll get another one, 454 00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:23.240 right if you throw that hard like he does. So I'm just wondering if 455 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:27.680 you think he played baseball, I did not. Is there something to that 456 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.359 where you know you kind of let the injury kind of you rehab itself. 457 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:36.519 You try to do it the holistic way without the surgery, but then you 458 00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:37.759 go and try to ramp it up and then at him and you got to 459 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.480 do it. But then six months has gone by, you're kind of getting 460 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:44.880 a little bit of rusty, and then it's a whole twelve to eighteen months 461 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.480 to get back on the field. I think we got to give him a 462 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:52.039 break too, because I imagine the forty sixty innings. Yeah, I gets 463 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.319 where you're going. Great, I appreciate it. I go back to twenty 464 00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.079 and he pitched eight games in the regular season because it was the abbreviated sixty 465 00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.039 game season, so there wasn't a lot of stress on the arm. The 466 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:07.680 year before he threw I think one hundred and eighty somewhadd innings and that was 467 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:13.920 the most in his career thirty starts shortened season in twenty twenty one, he 468 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:19.640 comes back and he makes thirty three starts in twenty one, thirty three starts, 469 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:25.559 two hundred plus innings for Walker Bueler. That's a taxing season to go 470 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:30.240 from eight starts and abbreviated COVID season and playoffs. So then all of a 471 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:35.319 sudden you're ramped back up, and I know he's young and he's got ready 472 00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:37.599 to go because of the shortened season. I understand that. But thirty three 473 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:42.200 starts, two hundred and seven innings in twenty one and he comes back out 474 00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:47.440 he makes twelve starts in twenty two and suffers the elbow injury. So I 475 00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.279 don't know if the wear and tear of the twenty one season had something to 476 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:54.880 do with it. There's so many innings on an arm, and I guess 477 00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.440 I understand this is his second time on having Tommy John surge, so maybe 478 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:06.400 it was a taxing twenty one season with the two hundred plus innings and then 479 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.359 to start in twenty two in which twelve starts in, was pitching really well 480 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:14.799 sixty some odd innings already into the season and has to shut it down. 481 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.319 Now, last year he tried coming back but wasn't ready, so he had 482 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:21.680 an off season to continue to build up. I know he wanted to come 483 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.519 back in the last year and help this team in the postseason, but it 484 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:27.720 just wasn't in the cards. He wasn't ready to go. That's rushing it 485 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:31.039 to have him come back. So now that he's six starts in, and 486 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:34.720 again I mentioned it earlier. I felt like tonight was one of his better 487 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.000 starts, even though the numbers and the results don't show it. Didn't get 488 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:40.000 help on defense, but I thought he had better command. I thought he'd 489 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:44.680 pitched stronger, especially out of the stretch. Got some outs that he needed 490 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:47.039 and should have gotten outside of the ears. I thought he pitched really well 491 00:33:47.079 --> 00:33:51.200 tonight. Good mix up on his pitches. He wants that ball back that 492 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.200 he give to Gonzales on the eighth pitch of the bat in the thirty the 493 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.799 two run shot. Certainly he left it over the middle of the play, 494 00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:59.839 but you give credit to Gonzalez for hitting out of the ballpark as well. 495 00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.480 Very easily could have been a mistake over the middle of the point like it 496 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:05.240 was and a pop out to left. And we're not talking about this, 497 00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.199 We're talking about a walker. Bueler goes five innings against the win. But 498 00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:10.719 it is what it is. I think he's building and I think you can 499 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.239 hear it in his voice tonight. We had it in the clubhouse show. 500 00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:16.559 Not only was he not pointing fingers, but he had confidence. You can 501 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.400 you can you can feel like he was happy with his outing. Not the 502 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.480 results. Okay, not the results, but the way he went through it 503 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:29.400 any the way he continues to progress coming back from the second Thomas John Tommy 504 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:34.280 John surgery. He kind of felt like maybe he's getting that mental confidence back 505 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:38.159 and the repetition and the rhythm that he's starting to get into now could be 506 00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:42.239 a good thing. Maxwell and Austin will be our final call tonight, Maxwell, 507 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:46.559 how are you doing tonight? Doing good? I'm doing fantastic. What's 508 00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:54.159 on your mind? So I've been very happy lately with Andels. So this 509 00:34:55.000 --> 00:35:00.000 team was very good. I saw him, I saw him and ground Rock 510 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:07.960 Okay, wow, Andy has very good Yeah, No, that's awesome. 511 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.360 How is the stadium in a Round Rock here? It's awesome. Oh, 512 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:17.719 it's very cool out there. Yeah, that's great. And it's the minute 513 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.679 drafts of mine house, Hey even better. Yeah. You've seen some good 514 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.480 players come through Oklahoma City when they made that trip down to Round Rock. 515 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.800 And Oklahoma City is a spot this year that we've seen a lot of guys 516 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:35.159 plucked from and help out this Dodgers team. Maxwell, Andy Potter has Miguel 517 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.519 Vargas. We've seen some of the relief pitchers that have been brought up to 518 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:42.559 help out this Dodgers team. No doubt they have been big and plug starts 519 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.199 and filling innings for this Dodgers team because of the injuries to the bullpen. 520 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:49.840 I know, double A Tulsa and really great Lakes. Cans talk about as 521 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.159 far as where the top prospects are right now in the Dodgers farm system, 522 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:57.639 But yeah, you're seeing a lot of guys Sweeney's having a great season for 523 00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:00.320 Oklahoma City. So yeah, I'm glad you had a chance to check them 524 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:01.880 out. Hopefully you can check out a Dodger game at the big league level, 525 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:05.920 Sue Maxwell, great to hear from him, don't be a stranger here 526 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.239 on postgame Dodger Talk. Awesome to hear from Maxwell from Austin, Texas checking 527 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.519 out the Dodgers' TRIPAA team. Well, we all know what today is. 528 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:17.599 It's June sixth, twenty twenty four. It is the eightieth anniversary of D 529 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:22.440 Day. And on this day, nineteen forty four, Normandy, France, 530 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:29.639 US and the Allied forces invaded the coast of France to get onto the land 531 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:37.519 and to fight that front of World War two against Nazi Germany, and thousands 532 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:43.639 of US and Allied soldiers were lost on that day. Thousands of young American 533 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:49.280 men lost their lives getting off the boats and just getting onto the beaches at 534 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.800 Normandy, France. It was a bloody day as a day we'll never forget 535 00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:58.159 eighty years ago today and we go back to twenty fifteen, nine years ago 536 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:01.039 and the great Van Scully, who was aian, not just a baseball but 537 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:07.119 of life, talking about d Day, third inning, no score in the 538 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:13.000 ballgame on miss June the sixth, Going back to nineteen forty four, the 539 00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:20.960 operation was called Overlord, the largest AirLand and sea operation undertaken. It included 540 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:27.880 over five thousand ships, eleven thousand airplanes, one hundred and fifty thousand servicemen. 541 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:31.199 And it came down to this. The boat ramp goes down, you 542 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:36.039 jump, swim, run, and crawl to the cliffs. Many of the 543 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.480 first young men were not yet twenty years old, and they entered the serve 544 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:45.400 carrying eighty pounds of equipment. Many of them drown. They faced over two 545 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:52.159 hundred yards of beach before reaching the first natural feature offering any protection at all. 546 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:58.079 You know, machine guns and explosives certainly weren't the only weapons tearing up 547 00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.639 the beaches on d day, there was he a British officer who was nicknamed 548 00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:09.000 mad Jack. Mad Jack's name was Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill. 549 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:15.360 He actually jumped from his landing craft with a sword in hand. He also 550 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:20.480 threw a grenade for good measure as he ran towards the battle, and he 551 00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:25.920 managed to capture over forty German officers at sword point in only one raid. 552 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:35.239 He also holds the last reported long board kill in history, for a kill 553 00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:42.119 shot he made in nineteen forty. He was not surprisingly a little insane, 554 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:46.679 and when they talked about Lieutenant Colonel Churchill, he is reported to have complained, 555 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:52.119 quote, if it wasn't for those damn Yankees, we could have kept 556 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:58.239 the war going for another ten years. Yeah, he had to be crazy. 557 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.159 The roar in the back. Somebody decides he's bigger than the game and 558 00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.719 runs out on the field, and they have escorted him off and we'll get 559 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:13.440 on with the game. Mad Jack. Can you imagine nineteen forty four charging 560 00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.679 the beach at Normandy waving a sword. On that fateful morning of June sixth, 561 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:23.559 there was a young author who landed on Utah Beach amongst the fray of 562 00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:30.079 broken bodies, artillery fire and blood soiaked shores. He was meant to arrive 563 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.679 with the first wave of troops at six thirty am, but he ended up 564 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.800 landing in the second wave a few minutes later. And there was a reason. 565 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:44.400 The reason that they went in the second wave. The ocean's current staggered 566 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:50.280 the landing about two thousand yards southward, taking the author and the other officers 567 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:57.159 of the fourth counter Intelligence Coore Detachment away from the strongest German defenses. And 568 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:02.039 this small difference made very well have saved his life and the others with him. 569 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.400 He was the author of an American classic. The author of the American 570 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:15.920 classic was carrying the first six chapters of his novel on that morning of the 571 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:22.719 invasion of Normandy, with all the hell. He was carrying six pages and 572 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:28.320 chapters and his backpacker who was the author. His name was J. D. 573 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:34.239 Salem June, and the sixth chapters in his knapsack was the beginning of 574 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:40.639 the classic, The Catcher in the Rain. And with that they'll say good 575 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:47.239 night to June sixth, nineteen forty four, the great Vin Scully Man. 576 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:52.880 We miss him every single day. What a story about World War Two and 577 00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:58.360 JD. Salinger, the author of Catcher in the Rye and World War II 578 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:02.800 in Normandy, and just a tragic day in our country as far as the 579 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:09.800 loss of so many young brave men fighting in World War Two there on that 580 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.719 day, D Day, eighty years ago. Today, it's the greatest generation, 581 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:17.320 hands down, not even an argument. The strongest people, men and 582 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:21.599 women went through that time, to live through it, to power through it, 583 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.840 to defend our country, to defend the freedoms of people around the world. 584 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:30.960 The greatest generation. And we're starting to lose them as we get older 585 00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.280 here and the years go on, but we'll never forget them, especially on 586 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.280 this D Day. Well, great to hear Vin Scully, and he did 587 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:43.960 that so many times, whether it's D Day or Memorial Day or Fourth of 588 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:47.360 July, to give you a history lesson, weaving it in between pitches, 589 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:53.039 weaving it in between at bats and innings of a baseball game, to keep 590 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:58.719 you listening and just intentively listening to see what he's going to tell you and 591 00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.599 what history lesson you're going to learn on that given day. Just awesome to 592 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:06.840 hear. We miss again, Vin Scully. Every single day there is a 593 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.159 Dodger Game. Dodgers win it tonight in Pittsburgh. They went it by a 594 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:14.199 final of eleven to seven. What an offensive performance for the Dodgers, exploding 595 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:16.159 for eleven runs on fourteen hits, three different home runs, three run home 596 00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:20.000 run from Mookie Betts, and a three run home run from Freddy Freeman. 597 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.239 Not to forget a solo home run from ti Oscar Hernandez in the fifth inning 598 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:24.960 to break open a tie game. As the Dodgers go and win it by 599 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:30.719 a final eleven to seven. Daniels Jewelers celebrates every home run. Celebrate Dad 600 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:34.679 by stopping by Daniels Jewelers at the Glendale Galleria this Saturday. I was just 601 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.199 there a couple of weeks ago. I went in and asked for a bracelet. 602 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.679 I said home run and I got a Dodger bracelet. That is awesome. 603 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:44.320 Well, this Saturday, you can go to the Glendale Galleria Daniels Jewelers 604 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:50.239 and meet Adrian Gonzalez at noon this Saturday. Get out there, Dodger fans, 605 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.000 make sure you get time to park. It's a big mall to Glendale 606 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:59.119 Galleria this Saturday, starting at noon, meet Adrian Gonzalez Daniels Jeweler's slash Dad 607 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:05.559 Tori VP Daniels Jewelers dot Com slash Dad to RSVP. Alright, that's gonna 608 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:07.760 do it for Dodger Talk tonight. Appreciate all your phone calls, Thanks for 609 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.480 listening, Thanks for being a part of the show. Thank you for podcasting 610 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.159 the show as well. Appreciate you spending some time with us here on this 611 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:19.800 Thursday night. A lot of happening. We appreciate your time, no doubt, 612 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:24.039 thanks to Coliny, Thanks to you. Dodgers. Back at it tomorrow. 613 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:29.239 Oh, doesn't get any bigger than this three game series in the Bronx 614 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:34.320 against the Yankees. Yoshio, we have a moto on the mound series opener. 615 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.719 Oh, two best teams in baseball to two most historic teams in baseball 616 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:45.320 squaring off. Could be a precursor for the World Series. Dodgers Yankees. 617 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:47.880 We'll get it all started with Moronco Casino. Dodgers on deck at three o'clock, 618 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:51.679 first pitch at four o five, right here on your Home of the 619 00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:55.440 Dodgers Ham five seven, DLA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. So 620 00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.920 long, everybody,