Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight right here
Speaker 3: on AM five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers
Speaker 3: hold on to beat the Rockies five to three, eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Look, a win's a win.
Speaker 3: This wasn't the Dodgers' best performance and by no means
Speaker 3: are they playing their best baseball of the season tonight.
Speaker 3: They had the big boys carry them. There's no way
Speaker 3: around this. Dustin May, plus Mooki Otani and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: carried them tonight. Otani, Bets and Freeman were combined seven
Speaker 3: to fourteen with two home runs, a double, three RBIs
Speaker 3: and five runs scored. They scored all five of the
Speaker 3: Dodgers runs tonight. They needed those three in a big way,
Speaker 3: or they may not win this game tonight with a
Speaker 3: team that came in after getting swept by the Padres
Speaker 3: and not scoring a single run in San Diego. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers five through nine hitters, again struggling, including two ending
Speaker 3: double plays by Michael Conforto. Dave Roberts can talk about
Speaker 3: hitting the ball hard as much as he wants, But
Speaker 3: when you hit the ball hard on the ground, it's
Speaker 3: not good. Hitting the ball hard on the ground with
Speaker 3: runners on base turn into double plays like we saw tonight.
Speaker 3: So the five through nine hitters struggle again one for
Speaker 3: fifteen combined. The only kind of silver lining was Max
Speaker 3: Munsey walking twice, which is a good sign after a
Speaker 3: sacrifice fly from Monsey last night to tie the game.
Speaker 3: Keike A Hernandez also in the fifth inning, kept the
Speaker 3: line moving with a one out single to put runners
Speaker 3: at first and third. So the fifth inning was the
Speaker 3: best inning for that group of hitters, but still one
Speaker 3: for fifteen, getting on base what three times and that
Speaker 3: was only two players. Not great, so still concerning in
Speaker 3: that department. Good news for the Dodgers. They recorded ten
Speaker 3: hits for the first time this season and they only
Speaker 3: struck out three times. That's big as well. Eight six, six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Nothing bigger than Dustin May doing what he did tonight
Speaker 3: again in three starts, and May has gone six innings.
Speaker 3: In all of them, He's allowed just two runs tonight,
Speaker 3: one run, seven strikeouts, no walks, in six innings of work,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure he was very emotional after he came
Speaker 3: out of the game and after the Dodgers got the win,
Speaker 3: because that was Dustin May's first win of the season,
Speaker 3: and that was Dustin May's first major league win. It's
Speaker 3: May sixth of twenty twenty three. Let's head downstairs right
Speaker 3: now to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from tonight's winning pitcher.
Speaker 4: Just getting ahead early, being able to strike the breaking
Speaker 4: ball and then use the sinker off of it was huge,
Speaker 4: and being able to command both of them tonight was
Speaker 4: really big for a moratus.
Speaker 3: Did you find just kind of your rhythm was getting
Speaker 3: in a good spot really early in this one'u?
Speaker 5: It seemed really as soon as you took the mount
Speaker 5: after that first inning, you kind of works on a roll.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it was. It was really smooth saling. Like
Speaker 4: I said, if I was if I've been able to
Speaker 4: be in the zone throughout the year, they're not really
Speaker 4: hitting it. So being able to get in the head,
Speaker 4: get ahead early and not fall behind was big.
Speaker 5: Just because you felt about your breaking ball just since
Speaker 5: coming back and as you kind of a ramping pack towards.
Speaker 2: At this point.
Speaker 4: I mean, I would say that my breaking ball feel
Speaker 4: has been pretty much about even every start. It's more
Speaker 4: so just been like sinker command was really good.
Speaker 3: In that the guys here just seemed a little down
Speaker 3: the way things have gone the last week or so.
Speaker 2: How much of a lift was tonight's win?
Speaker 4: I mean every win is big. I mean, yeah, we
Speaker 4: haven't been playing our best, but that's baseball. You go
Speaker 4: through the epsom flows.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: Definitely gonna use this one and pushing them off.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Dustin May on sports net LA, and yeah,
Speaker 3: he's right. A win's a win in the major leagues
Speaker 3: no matter how you do it, especially when you're not
Speaker 3: playing your best baseball, and the Dodgers are not playing
Speaker 3: their best baseball. Their offense is not hitting on all cylinders,
Speaker 3: but they're getting good starting pitching. Whenever Dustin May and
Speaker 3: Yoshi Yamamoto are on the mound, those two guys have
Speaker 3: been spectacular. They have been the two most consistent and
Speaker 3: dependable starters the Dodgers have had this season. And it's
Speaker 3: so cool to see Dustin May be that guy, because
Speaker 3: you know, he was so hyped up to be so great,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately he's had two elbow surgeries. He obviously had
Speaker 3: a life threatening surgery with the esophagus tear last year
Speaker 3: after you know, coming back and being ready to go
Speaker 3: to pitch. To have that happen certainly was obviously scary
Speaker 3: number one and number two disappointing after he was able
Speaker 3: to recover. So all of this has been very emotional
Speaker 3: for him, and you can understand why. But now that
Speaker 3: he's gotten some firsts out of the way since twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, including tonight getting his first win since May
Speaker 3: sixth of twenty twenty three, he could settle in and
Speaker 3: just keep moving forward and building upon this. I love
Speaker 3: the way he's turned into a pitcher. And yes he
Speaker 3: still throws hard. Yes he could still hit ninety six,
Speaker 3: but it feels like he's not and he said this
Speaker 3: during spring training. He's not trying to throw as hard
Speaker 3: as he can every single time out there. He's not
Speaker 3: trying to hit one hundred miles an hour like he
Speaker 3: was before he had his second elbow surgery.
Speaker 2: I could remember.
Speaker 3: Maybe in twenty two when he came to spring training
Speaker 3: or twenty three, and the first day of spring training
Speaker 3: there was buzz around Camelback Ranch that he hit one
Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour and it was the first week
Speaker 3: of spring training. That's nothing to be proud of. You
Speaker 3: don't want to throw one hundred miles an hour when
Speaker 3: you just get to spring training. And that goes back
Speaker 3: to another conversation where basically, these pitchers feel so much
Speaker 3: pressure because they're competing against each other and they're competing
Speaker 3: against the data on those iPads. You know, Jim Palmer
Speaker 3: told me and Jose Mota last year when he came
Speaker 3: to Dodger Stadium with the Orioles, he thinks a lot
Speaker 3: of these arm injuries early in the year would go
Speaker 3: away if teams would just get rid of those iPads
Speaker 3: and the track man and all that for the first
Speaker 3: two weeks of spring training. Just get them away. Let
Speaker 3: these guys ease into it and not try to throw
Speaker 3: max effort and try to be the best, just because
Speaker 3: they're concerned that if they have one bad day and
Speaker 3: it shows up on that iPad, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: the front offices around baseball are down on them. But
Speaker 3: going back to Dustin May and this version of him,
Speaker 3: I love that he is changing speeds and changing line
Speaker 3: eyesight lines with his fastball. He's changing the line of sight.
Speaker 3: With his fastball, he's stepping on the gas when he
Speaker 3: needs to. With the fastball, he's taking his foot off
Speaker 3: the gas a little bit with the fastball. And you
Speaker 3: heard this breaking ball, you know. I asked him, what
Speaker 3: is this pitch? Is it really a sweeper? Is it
Speaker 3: a slider? What is this pitch? And he said, I
Speaker 3: don't really know what you call it, but all I
Speaker 3: know is that it gives me a pitch that goes
Speaker 3: east to west or west to east, because a lot
Speaker 3: of his pitches are down in the zone and that's
Speaker 3: why he gets a lot of ground balls he can elevate.
Speaker 3: But that sweeper, let's just call it, that runs into
Speaker 3: lefties and runs away from righties. And he threw it
Speaker 3: twenty eight times tonight. He only threw seventy six pitches
Speaker 3: and six innings, so that just shows you how efficient
Speaker 3: he was. So can't say enough about Dustin May. And
Speaker 3: it's really cool to see him turn into a pitcher
Speaker 3: and not just be a thrower. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 3: go out to West La Trey. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 3: with David vasse Hi, Trey.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, sir. I get to kick it off tonight.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yes, saw much. How you doing, I'm doing great?
Speaker 6: Well. Hey, look, you can't say enough about Dustin. I
Speaker 6: went the fans to appreciate what this guy had to
Speaker 6: come back from. How difficult that is with you know,
Speaker 6: with the two surgeries and the craziestophagus thing. And he
Speaker 6: has been spectacular. We are blessed have him at this point.
Speaker 6: Call me crazy, but his presence and his command that
Speaker 6: he's shown in these past two games, he's given me
Speaker 6: like low key kind of Randy Johnson kind of vibes.
Speaker 6: The upside is fantastic. So I wish him the best.
Speaker 6: Let's see him go the rest of the season. I
Speaker 6: do have a question for you, and you've spoken about
Speaker 6: that with hitting them runners in scoring position and the
Speaker 6: offense not clicking where we're lying a little bit too
Speaker 6: much on the home run, And do you think we
Speaker 6: should be more aggressive on the base pass or what
Speaker 6: do you think is going on there with getting hits
Speaker 6: in time?
Speaker 3: You can't be aggressive on the bass if you don't
Speaker 3: have anybody on base. So that's my answer to that.
Speaker 3: Who are you going to be aggressive with the first
Speaker 3: three hitters, the stars got on base and did their job. Tonight,
Speaker 3: the five through nine hitters were combined one for fifteen
Speaker 3: with two months. He walks, how do you get more
Speaker 3: aggressive if nobody's getting on base ahead of those guys?
Speaker 6: That's true. Do you think show hay Is is taking
Speaker 6: a little easier on the base pass this year? Just
Speaker 6: considering he's going to try to pitch later on this season.
Speaker 2: I think there's something to it.
Speaker 3: And also he wants to be careful with that shoulder,
Speaker 3: that left shoulder. He did have surgery on it, so
Speaker 3: I'm watching him when he slides. Sometimes he falls back
Speaker 3: into his old habit of sliding and putting that left
Speaker 3: hand down into the ground. I just think that he's
Speaker 3: trying to be careful because there's so much at stake.
Speaker 6: Yeah, completely agree. Well, Hey, we got to win tonight
Speaker 6: and always I appreciate you taking the call early in
Speaker 6: the season. We got a great team and we'll be
Speaker 6: here till the end. We're going to be uh, We're
Speaker 6: gonna come out on top again, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Tray, thanks for the phone call. Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight five to three. Bets and Otani,
Speaker 3: Homert and Mookie Betts loves seeing Antonio Senzatela. He now
Speaker 3: has three home runs and twenty two at bats, he
Speaker 3: now has what is it, it's eleven hits now in
Speaker 3: twenty two at bats against Antonio Senzateela for Mookie Betts
Speaker 3: and Otani came very close to hitting three home runs tonight.
Speaker 3: He hit two fly balls, one to right center and
Speaker 3: one to left center that were caught at the wall,
Speaker 3: and there was almost a collision with Mickey Moniak, the
Speaker 3: Rocky center fielder, with his right fielder and left fielder
Speaker 3: catching those fly balls that were up against the wall.
Speaker 3: So Otani came this close to having three home runs,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't meant to be.
Speaker 2: And all in all, you know.
Speaker 3: This game should have been a blowout for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Quite frankly, they'll take the win, but they left a
Speaker 3: lot of runners and opportunities on base. They left ten
Speaker 3: men on base and they were two for ten with
Speaker 3: runners in scoring position. I thought this game should have
Speaker 3: been over by the fifth inning. But look, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are grinding right now. And I know people ask me
Speaker 3: all the time, is it some sort of emotional let
Speaker 3: down or World Series hangover?
Speaker 2: Not at all.
Speaker 3: Number One, they haven't gotten consistent starting pitching and getting
Speaker 3: starters to go deep into games consistently. Outside of tonight's
Speaker 3: sky Dustin May and Yamamoto, who I picked before the
Speaker 3: season to win the cy Young, they don't have Blake Snell.
Speaker 3: They probably won't have Blakesnell by the way, until they
Speaker 3: go out on an extended East coast road trip that
Speaker 3: will take them to Atlanta and Miami and then wrap
Speaker 3: up in Arizona. That's probably where it's at. Blake played
Speaker 3: catch today, so there's a process to get him back
Speaker 3: to be built up, and if you do the math
Speaker 3: on all that, it's probably gonna end up him coming
Speaker 3: back to pitch in Atlanta or Miami because they're gonna
Speaker 3: need him in that spot as well.
Speaker 2: No days off on that road trip.
Speaker 3: They play three in Atlanta, three in Miami, and four
Speaker 3: in Arizona, so they're going to need a starter right there,
Speaker 3: and that's where it would benefit the to have Snell
Speaker 3: come back and be available to start one of those
Speaker 3: games early on in that road trip. Eight six, seven, two, five,
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight
Speaker 3: five to three, and speaking of starting pitchers, Tomorrow, land
Speaker 3: Nak is going to make his second start of the
Speaker 3: year for the Dodgers, and also on Wednesday, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are going to need a spot starter. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: didn't say it point blank, but he didn't shy away
Speaker 3: when somebody brought up the other day that Bobby Miller
Speaker 3: only threw two or three innings in his last start.
Speaker 3: So we may see Bobby Miller make his major league
Speaker 3: debut on Wednesday in the finale of this three game
Speaker 3: series against the Rockies. Eight six six seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. We're going to take a
Speaker 3: time out when we come back. More of your phone
Speaker 3: calls you'll hear from Alex Vesia as well. Dodgers beat
Speaker 3: the Rockies five to three on a five to seventy LA.
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Speaker 3: Dodgers with Otani, Bets, and Freeman all in the game
Speaker 3: for the first time in quite some time consistently, they
Speaker 3: have the Big Three back in the lineup together, and
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Speaker 3: own the dream Yeah the Big Three Tonight seven for
Speaker 3: fourteen with two home runs, a double, Mookie's two run
Speaker 3: home run, Otani solo shot, and they all scored the
Speaker 3: runs for the Dodgers tonight. Five runs scored between those
Speaker 3: three superstars Otani, Betts, and Freeman, and they got a
Speaker 3: great pitch start from Dustin May, who went six innings tonight,
Speaker 3: allowed just one and run at seven strikeouts and no walks.
Speaker 3: He was very efficient. He only threw seventy eight pitches,
Speaker 3: so a great night from him. And for the Rockies,
Speaker 3: they came into town after going twenty seven consecutive innings
Speaker 3: in San Diego without scoring a run. It lasted thirty
Speaker 3: two consecutive innings until former Dodger Kyle Farmer doubled down
Speaker 3: the left field line for the first Rocky run in
Speaker 3: quite some time. But they lost, and they lost again,
Speaker 3: which means their record is three and thirteen to start
Speaker 3: the year, while the Dodgers are twelve and six. The
Speaker 3: Padres one tonight. The Giants won tonight, so the NLST continues,
Speaker 3: at least early on to be the toughest division in
Speaker 3: all of Major League Baseball, the only division that has
Speaker 3: three teams with at least ten wins. Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 3: you know. Part of tonight's game included Anthony Bunda relieving
Speaker 3: Dustin May and at that point in time, I was
Speaker 3: down at field level seven delivering a Hello Kitty plush
Speaker 3: to Petro's Papadaegus's daughter because when she came through the gates, they.
Speaker 2: Had run out.
Speaker 3: So Petro's text me, can you get an extra one?
Speaker 3: So I said yes, I brought it down and at
Speaker 3: that point in time, I was standing on the field
Speaker 3: level when Anthony Banda was introduced and warmed up for
Speaker 3: the seventh inning, and man, I couldn't get over the
Speaker 3: fact how these fans go wild for Anthony Banda. We're
Speaker 3: talking about Anthony Bonda here, and it feels like ever
Speaker 3: since he went shirtless in the parade last year, fans
Speaker 3: have gone wild. He had to do three different autograph
Speaker 3: signings in the same Montebello mall during the offseason. That's
Speaker 3: how popular and in demand Anthony Banda was. Unfortunately, he
Speaker 3: gave up a two run home run when he was
Speaker 3: in the game tonight. But I still I can't get
Speaker 3: over the fact how the fans react to Anthony Banda.
Speaker 3: Now eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 3: is the phone number if you're part of the bund
Speaker 3: The band I would love to hear from you and
Speaker 3: why he has become this cult figure among Dodger fans.
Speaker 3: Is it just because you know, you like the tattoos
Speaker 3: when he was riding around on the parade bus. It
Speaker 3: might be just that simple who knows part of the
Speaker 3: Dodger bullpen. Alex Vesia joined us on the pregame show
Speaker 3: and we talked about a few different things, and it
Speaker 3: kind of went back to the Dodgers setting the bar
Speaker 3: so high for themselves that maybe you're a little spoiled.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you guys have set the bars
Speaker 3: so high for yourselves that to a certain extent, people
Speaker 3: are spoiled.
Speaker 5: I mean, ah, I'm not too sure. Obviously, that's a
Speaker 5: that's a tough question. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: our job is to go out there and do the
Speaker 5: best we can and to win that day. Right, and
Speaker 5: it's one hundred and sixty two games. We're not gonna
Speaker 5: win them all. Yeah, we win every single game. You
Speaker 5: know that that's at stake, So taking it one day
Speaker 5: at a time, right, And you know it's it's very
Speaker 5: early in the year, and you know we're gonna have
Speaker 5: ups and downs. We're gonna you know, even when you
Speaker 5: look back to last year. Last year, a lot of
Speaker 5: people have had a lot of opinions, and our season
Speaker 5: turned out pretty darn good, right, So you know, take
Speaker 5: it one day at a time, right, and not to
Speaker 5: to not get too far ahead of ourselves. And you know,
Speaker 5: we we do have a really good group of guys
Speaker 5: here with you know, our our leaders and the guys
Speaker 5: that are out in front. You know, we have full
Speaker 5: faith in them. They have full faith in us, right,
Speaker 5: And that's what I think makes this team so special.
Speaker 3: You're not a young buck anymore, Vesia, You've been here
Speaker 3: for a while. Do you feel like you're starting to
Speaker 3: evolve into that leadership role to go along with what
Speaker 3: you've learned from past veterans and current veterans like Blake Trining?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's every year there's new challenges, right,
Speaker 5: There's there's different you know, not every year is the same.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, the adversity that I've faced over
Speaker 5: the last five years, it's you know, it's definitely helped
Speaker 5: me and it's also helped me teach guys like Ben
Speaker 5: and Jack, you know, just how to how to be
Speaker 5: a big leaguer and you know, and what might work
Speaker 5: for me might not work for them, right, But we
Speaker 5: do have a very good communication down there to where
Speaker 5: we're able to bounce ideas, topics, just anything off.
Speaker 2: Of each other.
Speaker 5: And you know, with with that open and honesty, knowing
Speaker 5: that like everything that I say is is in in
Speaker 5: good spirits, you know, and I think that that's that
Speaker 5: goes a long way. And yeah, man, you know, every
Speaker 5: every year it's you know, it's a new opportunity to
Speaker 5: uh to go out there and win World Series.
Speaker 3: All right, that's Alex Vessia And can you believe it's
Speaker 3: vessius fifth season with the Dodgers. He was acquired from
Speaker 3: the Marlins in exchange for Dylan Floro after the Dodgers
Speaker 3: won the twenty World Series and Floro had such a
Speaker 3: big part of that in Game six and you know,
Speaker 3: he struck out Randy a Rose Arena for a big
Speaker 3: out in that Game six of the twenty World Series.
Speaker 3: And he was traded for this unknown left handed reliever
Speaker 3: that we heard was very excitable and Alex Vesia and
Speaker 3: that proved to be true and he still is. But
Speaker 3: it feels like he's been able to over the last
Speaker 3: two or three years. Channel it in the right direction.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Vessi has been part of the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 3: for the last This is his fifth year, so the
Speaker 3: last four years. So he's a guy that's experienced. And
Speaker 3: we talk about Keik Hernandez being an October performer, you
Speaker 3: go look at what Alex Vesia has done in his
Speaker 3: last five years or his first five years with the
Speaker 3: Dodgers in October. He's pretty good. He's mister October out
Speaker 3: of the bullpen, that's for sure. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 3: beat the Rockies tonight by a final score of five
Speaker 3: to three. Will Smith drove in two runs tonight. He
Speaker 3: was hitting cleanup for the Dodgers tonight, And I like
Speaker 3: that dynamic because if you look at the others that
Speaker 3: are not named Ota, Betzer Freeman, Will Smith is the
Speaker 3: guy that's hitting the ball the best, seeing the ball
Speaker 3: the best.
Speaker 2: Why not have him hit clean up?
Speaker 3: Especially on a night that Oscar Hernandez was not in
Speaker 3: the starting lineup because of a stomach bug. So you know,
Speaker 3: if ta Oscar's not in there, why not have Will
Speaker 3: Smith hitting clean up? He was two for three each
Speaker 3: night with two RBIs, he's hitting three sixty four, his
Speaker 3: ops is nine to eighty two, and he's six for
Speaker 3: nine this year with runners in scoring position with six RBIs.
Speaker 3: If you remember, in those two games in Tokyo, he
Speaker 3: didn't drive in a lot of runs, but he was
Speaker 3: seeing the ball really well. He walked five times in
Speaker 3: two games in Tokyo, and you look at his strikeout
Speaker 3: to walk ratio right now, thirteen strikeouts and only ten
Speaker 3: walks to start the year.
Speaker 2: You heard him allude to it.
Speaker 3: He's not going to get into too much detail, but
Speaker 3: he did say during the offseason he worked to tweak
Speaker 3: his his swing a little bit, and that's the reason
Speaker 3: why he believes he's been able to be so consistent
Speaker 3: from Tokyo to North America again. And if you think
Speaker 3: back to what he did during the Cactus League, remember
Speaker 3: he started out a little bit later because of a
Speaker 3: left bone bruise that he played through last year, so
Speaker 3: the Dodgers slow played him, and when he did get
Speaker 3: in there, he was really good during spring training. And
Speaker 3: a lot of times when guys are really good in
Speaker 3: spring training, they start off cold when the season begins.
Speaker 3: But he's been hot ever since the start of spring training.
Speaker 3: I mean he's slugging five hundred now is on basis
Speaker 3: at for eighty two. He has been really good from
Speaker 3: day one, and we'll see if he can carry this forward,
Speaker 3: not just to the All Star break, but after the
Speaker 3: All Star break, because the last couple of years he
Speaker 3: has kind of dropped off significantly offensively for one reason
Speaker 3: or the other.
Speaker 2: So we'll see whether or.
Speaker 3: Not a traditional first half hot hitter can keep it
Speaker 3: going in the second half. But as of now, with
Speaker 3: the Dodger offense kind of struggling after Taoscar Hernandez, it.
Speaker 2: Would be it would be good to have Will Smith.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you have back to back right handers,
Speaker 3: maybe hitting a little higher in the order, because with
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman back in the starting lineup, with Mookie, Betts
Speaker 3: and Otani, all three of those guys in the lineup,
Speaker 3: which we haven't seen for more than what four or
Speaker 3: five games so far this year, that's big They're gonna
Speaker 3: get on base, and until the eight to nine hitters
Speaker 3: can turn that lineup over, you want to have somebody
Speaker 3: that can hit behind those big three and drive them in,
Speaker 3: like Taoskar and Will Smith. That's for sure, so tonight
Speaker 3: it worked out well for the Dodgers because those first
Speaker 3: four guys did all the damage for the Dodgers offensively. Tonight,
Speaker 3: will Smith drove in two runs without hitting a home run,
Speaker 3: Mookie Bets hit a two run home run in the
Speaker 3: first inning, and shoe Hey Otani hit a solo home
Speaker 3: run in the bottom of the third inning, And you
Speaker 3: go back to Mookie's two run home run that gave
Speaker 3: the Dodgers the lead. They've been playing from behind a lot,
Speaker 3: not just during this recent downturn as far as losing
Speaker 3: three straight series, but if you go back to them
Speaker 3: starting the year here at Dodgers Stadium, after those first
Speaker 3: two games in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: They're playing from behind a lot.
Speaker 3: So it was good to see them, even against the Rockies,
Speaker 3: get the lead early, because that's tough to do as
Speaker 3: an offense if you always feel like you're playing from behind.
Speaker 3: And it feels like the Dodgers have been playing from
Speaker 3: behind quite a bit, you know, last time I checked,
Speaker 3: six of their wins this year are from coming from behind.
Speaker 3: Half of their wins are coming from behind after getting
Speaker 3: down early.
Speaker 2: So that's a real thing.
Speaker 3: So hopefully things start to pick up for the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and they can get everybody going. Tommy Edmund got the
Speaker 3: start in center field tonight. He was a rare zero
Speaker 3: for four, so he was part of that five through
Speaker 3: nine tonight that were combined one for fifteen. All right, Tomorrow,
Speaker 3: it's Jackie Robinson Day, a special day at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: as always, and Kareem abdul Jabbar is scheduled to speak
Speaker 3: by the Jackie Robinson statue before the game and before
Speaker 3: gates are open. It's been come a tradition ever since
Speaker 3: that Jackie Robinson Statue was moved to the center field
Speaker 3: plaza to have the Dodgers and whoever they're playing congregate
Speaker 3: out there. And Dave Roberts has said some words in
Speaker 3: the past, Jason Hayward has said some words in the past.
Speaker 3: They've had Reggie Smith go out there and say some
Speaker 3: words in the past. And tomorrow, a great man, a
Speaker 3: great scholar, a great activist in his life, Kareem duel
Speaker 3: Jabbar will be the guest speaker out there with the
Speaker 3: Rockies and Dodgers around the Jackie Robinson statue, so that'll
Speaker 3: be special. And then once the gates are open, it's
Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson Night April fifteenth, the anniversary of Jackie breaking
Speaker 3: the color barrier making his major league debut, and to
Speaker 3: celebrate it this year, the Dodgers are going to give
Speaker 3: away at Jackie Robinson nineteen fifty five replica jersey. So
Speaker 3: it'll be special tomorrow night here at Dodgers Stadium. And
Speaker 3: it's always great when Jackie Robinson Day happens when the
Speaker 3: Dodgers are at home, and hopefully that can continue whoever
Speaker 3: makes the schedule to keep the Dodgers at home on
Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson Day. Tomorrow night, it's Landon Neck making his
Speaker 3: second start, going up against Ryan Feltner Morogo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 3: on Deck begins at six o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch
Speaker 3: at seven ten. Thanks to Colin Ee back into Burbank Studios,
Speaker 3: thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks
Speaker 3: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 3: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: You can also hear our full conversation with Dodger reliever
Speaker 3: Alex Vesia on the iHeartRadio app, and they also on
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Speaker 3: The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 3: the Rockies five to three. Ben Maller on Fox Sports
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