Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Top Tim Kakes.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers go all the way over to Japan and
Speaker 2: take two from the Chicago Cubs, a six to three
Speaker 2: victory here on this Wednesday. Thanks for being with us
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the number. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. A game that started at
Speaker 2: three ten a m. Pacific. The Dodgers come away with
Speaker 2: a victory. Three home runs in the game. Roki Sazaki
Speaker 2: got the start, win three innings, a lot to dissect.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Dodgers get the win show.
Speaker 2: He Otani goes deep, a home run from Tommy Edman,
Speaker 2: a home run from Keik hernandez As the Dodgers go
Speaker 2: two to zero in Japan. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. A great series in Japan, a
Speaker 2: great series for the game of baseball, and a moment
Speaker 2: in the game today. Sixth inning, landing knack on the mound.
Speaker 2: Ian Hap hits a foul ball down the third base line.
Speaker 2: It's a short wall down the third base line. Max
Speaker 2: Munsey's going to make a play on the ball. He's
Speaker 2: got a beat on it. The ball looks like it's
Speaker 2: about a road deep.
Speaker 3: In the stands.
Speaker 2: What a fan stands up with a glove and snatches
Speaker 2: the ball out of the air, preventing Max Munsey from
Speaker 2: making the catch in the stands, fur and out against
Speaker 2: the Cubs.
Speaker 3: And who is that fan?
Speaker 2: Rodney Pete, our own Rodney Pete here on a five
Speaker 2: to seven the LA Sports and now Rodney Pete is
Speaker 2: the face of social media globally.
Speaker 3: Rodney, how you doing, my friend?
Speaker 4: Oh, Timmy, Timmy, I'm good man. But I didn't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't know such a thing could go so viral,
Speaker 4: was so quick, it was it was crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: But I got to tell you, Timmy, I was thinking
Speaker 4: of protecting my wife, Holly. That's all I was thinking about.
Speaker 4: And didn't really take a peek at Max coming and
Speaker 4: how close he was that we were sitting in the
Speaker 4: second row. But it started curving back. Man. The only
Speaker 4: thing I could think about is, Okay, I can't I
Speaker 4: can't let that ball hitter or me in the head.
Speaker 4: So let me try to reach out and catch it. Uh,
Speaker 4: and then I saw his face once I caught I
Speaker 4: saw his face and he was I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 4: he was not happy. I mean he looked at me
Speaker 4: like I was bart Man from back in the day
Speaker 4: with the Cubs, or the cat that or the cat
Speaker 4: that tried to break Mookie's arm in New York. I
Speaker 4: mean he looked at me like he wanted blood. But
Speaker 4: it was it was actually, it was actually pretty funny.
Speaker 4: I had a good time in the stands with the
Speaker 4: crowd around me. Man, it was, it was funny.
Speaker 2: I got so many questions for you. First off, you
Speaker 2: brought a glove to the game. Do you do that
Speaker 2: a lot? Or what was the You just happen to
Speaker 2: have a glove.
Speaker 4: No, So here's the deal. At the Tokyo Dome. Look,
Speaker 4: they don't have the rule where the netting goes all
Speaker 4: the way down the third baseline right, so it's very low.
Speaker 4: So in that section they provide you every seat has
Speaker 4: a glove and a helmet. Really so yeah, and they
Speaker 4: have signs protect yourself against doleballs and broken bats. So
Speaker 4: every seat's got the glove. So everybody in that section's
Speaker 4: got a glove on. And most people don't wear the helmet,
Speaker 4: but they got a glove ready to go just in case,
Speaker 4: especially if there's a left handed hitter up. So I
Speaker 4: had the glove. I mean that. Look now, it wasn't
Speaker 4: the was It wasn't a Wilson A two thousand, you know,
Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars glove or anything like that. It was
Speaker 4: a it was a pee wee glove. But still nonetheless
Speaker 4: it worked out. Man I was able to I was
Speaker 4: able to catch it. But man I took I take
Speaker 4: a lot of heat from from a lot of the
Speaker 4: from a lot of the Dodgers brass afterwards, Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: and lonbos and then all those guys were like a
Speaker 4: band from the Tokyo Dome forever. And uh, it's just
Speaker 4: it was crazy. But I gotta say though, it's uh,
Speaker 4: it was a great atmosphere. You said it, great two games,
Speaker 4: great win. All of that was was fantastic and a
Speaker 4: great way to start the season.
Speaker 3: Rodney. You not only made the catch.
Speaker 2: You made the catch, and I think what it was
Speaker 2: even the cherry on top, was the.
Speaker 3: Expression you made the stare.
Speaker 2: It's like you almost knew where the camera was because
Speaker 2: it's perfect. I don't know if you've seen it on
Speaker 2: social media, but the stair was almost right like the
Speaker 2: cameras at Sports in LA and Fox and you're like
Speaker 2: almost looking right in.
Speaker 3: The camera like, yeah, I just did that. I'm Rodney p.
Speaker 4: H. First of all, just for a tim You know,
Speaker 4: you're a baseball player. You played back in the day,
Speaker 4: so you understand that when ball's coming your way, the
Speaker 4: first thing you think about, I cannot I gotta I
Speaker 4: gotta make the catch. I can't drop I drop it
Speaker 4: now really be bad. It's a really go viral, you know,
Speaker 4: guys thinking I played baseball in the past and I
Speaker 4: dropped a fly ball, so I had to catch it.
Speaker 4: But then when I caught it, and I saw how
Speaker 4: close Max was in his face and his reaction and
Speaker 4: put the club behind my back, almost like Jarrison Profar
Speaker 4: did in the playoffs last year when he robbed the
Speaker 4: home run and I stared at Max like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: what did I just what did I just do? What
Speaker 4: did I just do? Just stretched the ball away from him.
Speaker 4: But you don't know how much I've analyzed that that
Speaker 4: played him. And I will tell you my glove was
Speaker 4: below Max's and he reached his glove was above mine.
Speaker 4: So it went past his glove and into mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you didn't reach over into the field of play.
Speaker 2: You didn't cross that darrior mind he came into your area.
Speaker 4: Yes, he did into my territory. That's he did, Tim Case.
Speaker 2: It's a one handed catch. I'm sitting here watching it
Speaker 2: on a loop. Rodney PiZZ It's a one handed can.
Speaker 3: You make it?
Speaker 2: And just as cool as a cucumber. You stare at
Speaker 2: Max Munsey and then you glance right at the camera.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: It is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Oh man, thanks man. I thank god they got out
Speaker 4: of that inning too, because if they would have started
Speaker 4: a rally after that, I really would have felt bad.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we were all thinking the same thing,
Speaker 2: like they have to win this game or else it
Speaker 2: would be the end of Rodney Peet. Rodney, I really
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I know you're there with your family in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: We see you at the game. You were involved with
Speaker 2: the catch there with Max Munsey. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: fun and people are enjoying it on social media. We
Speaker 2: really appreciate you checking in here on Dodger. All right, there,
Speaker 2: he goes Rodney Pete, the man of the hour our
Speaker 2: own Rodney Pete in Tokyo, and if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: it's all over social media. Rodney Pete is trending right
Speaker 2: now because of the catch that he made in the
Speaker 2: second row down the third base line. Max Munsey going
Speaker 2: for the ball and Rodney Pete one hand puts the
Speaker 2: glove out and.
Speaker 3: Just casually, casually takes.
Speaker 2: The ball away from Max Munsey and his opportunity to
Speaker 2: make the play. Didn't steal it from him, didn't take
Speaker 2: it out of Max's glove. Max missed it and he
Speaker 2: goes right into Rodney Pete's glove, right below Max's glove,
Speaker 2: and Rodney with the one hand catch, looks at Max
Speaker 2: Munsey and then just casually stares straight ahead, just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm Rodney Pete. It's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool moment.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Rodney for checking in. Dodgers get to win.
Speaker 2: That's important. Dodgers now two to zero. On this season show,
Speaker 2: Hao Tani goes Deep, the rookie Sasaki goes three innings,
Speaker 2: got himself out of a jam. I think that's the
Speaker 2: most important thing I took away from Sasaki's outing. It
Speaker 2: started great. You saw the one hundred and one mile
Speaker 2: an hour fastball. He didn't go below ninety nine in
Speaker 2: his first eleven pitches. That he threw a lot of
Speaker 2: fastballs in that first inning, in a one two three inning.
Speaker 2: The second inning, he didn't have the command with the fastball.
Speaker 2: He wasn't missing up and down, he was missing in
Speaker 2: and out. He certainly he wasn't getting this chase on
Speaker 2: the split finger pitch and a couple of sliders he threw,
Speaker 2: he got over for strikes, but he didn't go back
Speaker 2: to that. And in the third inning he had even
Speaker 2: worse command of his pitches. Walked three straight batters, walked
Speaker 2: in a run. But to his credit, I mean first outing,
Speaker 2: major league debut. He's twenty three years old. He's back
Speaker 2: in Japan pitching. The wheels are starting to fall off
Speaker 2: with his command in his outing. We saw what happened
Speaker 2: to Yama Motover in Korea a year ago. Couldn't get
Speaker 2: out of the first inning against the Padres. And here
Speaker 2: he is in the third. It's a three to one game,
Speaker 2: runners on one out, and he gets back to back
Speaker 2: punchouts to get out of the third inning. That showed
Speaker 2: a lot to me. That showed a lot for a
Speaker 2: guy who could have easily, you know, the stakes just
Speaker 2: folded in on him and that was it. Instead, he
Speaker 2: goes out and gets himself out of his own mess
Speaker 2: in the third inning, keeps it a three to one game,
Speaker 2: keeps the Dodgers out in front, doesn't get the decision,
Speaker 2: but again, something to build on for him for that.
Speaker 2: And I think the emotions of Japan pitching in the
Speaker 2: Tokyo Dome, being his major league debut, pitching for a
Speaker 2: new team.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine the nerves he had.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine the butterflies he's had for days leading
Speaker 2: up to this. Rick Monday talked about it several times.
Speaker 2: This is something he's been dreaming about since he was young,
Speaker 2: and here he is in the moment. It couldn't have
Speaker 2: gone better in the first inning, got into trouble in
Speaker 2: the second, got out of it with the double play
Speaker 2: line drive to Miguel Rojas at short, and then really
Speaker 2: got into trouble in the third, but was able to
Speaker 2: get out of it.
Speaker 3: That showed a lot to.
Speaker 2: Me, sort of like what we saw from Yamamoto later
Speaker 2: in the season last year when he started to get
Speaker 2: into some trouble in games, especially in the postseason, worked
Speaker 2: himself out of it, didn't want anybody else to clean
Speaker 2: up their mess. Was able to buckle down and really
Speaker 2: go after hitters and get out when he needed him.
Speaker 2: It showed a lot, it really did, and it's something
Speaker 2: for him to build on. And certainly when he comes
Speaker 2: back to the States and there's not the world looking
Speaker 2: on in Japan in the Tokyo Dome and his first
Speaker 2: start ever, and it's a little bit easier to kind
Speaker 2: of take a deep breath, I think we'll see it
Speaker 2: even better. A rookie Sasaki than we saw today, had
Speaker 2: some ups and had some downs, and his first start
Speaker 2: gets a no decision.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers bullpen came in and pitched well.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much we're gonna see if Luis
Speaker 2: Garcia the rest of this season. Once the Dodgers' bullpen
Speaker 2: gets healthy, I think he's more of an arm early
Speaker 2: in the season to help them. Jack Dreyer, good young
Speaker 2: left handed prospect, made his major league debut. We'll see
Speaker 2: him like we saw Justin Robleski and we've seen Ben Casparis.
Speaker 2: I don't know what he'll rull his role will be, necessarily,
Speaker 2: but he got his first taste in the big leagues,
Speaker 2: giving up a run in the fifth, but then Landon
Speaker 2: Knack two shutout Indians, Kirby Yates, two strikeouts in the eighth,
Speaker 2: Alex Vesi and the ninth Indian did and give up
Speaker 2: a run that back end of the bullpen. The experience
Speaker 2: aienced relievers, and I'm gonna throw Landing neak in there
Speaker 2: now as a veteran experience reliever who's got innings underneath
Speaker 2: his belt for the Dodgers. Four shutout innings for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: When they were up six to three after the show,
Speaker 2: Heotani home run. So a good job by the Dodgers
Speaker 2: all the way around. They get to win against the
Speaker 2: Chicago Cubs, a six to three victories. They get the
Speaker 2: two games sweep over the Cubbies. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventies. The number eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy. The Dodgers today got
Speaker 2: three home runs from three different players. Shohotani hit a
Speaker 2: bomb that may or may not have been.
Speaker 3: Fan interference, okay, and rights inerfield.
Speaker 2: It was challenged by Craig Counsel, the manager of the
Speaker 2: Chicago Cubs. You look at the replay. Okay, I I
Speaker 2: could go either way with it. I can say, all right,
Speaker 2: that was fan interference. The fan maybe leaned over a
Speaker 2: couple feet, and it should be a ground rule double.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe the rules are different over there as
Speaker 2: far as the outfield is and you know, the stadium
Speaker 2: is all different, you know, the ground rules.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's different, but I'm certainly sure of one thing.
Speaker 2: This series was all about show Heyo Tani going back
Speaker 2: to Tokyo, Japan, and when show Heyo Tani hits a
Speaker 2: home run at the Tokyo Dome with all eyes in
Speaker 2: Japan literally on this game. Coliny was in Japan a
Speaker 2: month ago and can attest to this that it is
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that's going to happen in Japan in
Speaker 2: a long time. The anticipation, the longing to have show
Speaker 2: Ayotani back playing baseball in Japan has been something they've
Speaker 2: been waiting for, playing in a major league uniform for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and he hits a home run, there was
Speaker 2: no way that when they went back to the replay
Speaker 2: center in New York, whatever umpire was back, there was
Speaker 2: gonna say, yep, ground rule double, show Hey put the
Speaker 2: helmet back on, put the of admit back on their
Speaker 2: hand for.
Speaker 3: Sliding, and go back out to second base.
Speaker 2: They were gonna keep that as called home Run show Aotani.
Speaker 2: There was no way that we're gonna overturn that thing,
Speaker 2: given the circumstances of where they were at, what the
Speaker 2: game meant to the world of baseball, not just the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: the Cubs, major League Baseball, America, Japan.
Speaker 3: All eyes have been on the last two.
Speaker 2: Games in Japan, and show Ootani goes deep just what
Speaker 2: the fans wanted. And again I brought it up with
Speaker 2: Jose earlier on the Clubhouse Show. Driving in, I heard
Speaker 2: a replay of a show, a national show. This is
Speaker 2: at twelve o'clock last night, so seven hours ago, a
Speaker 2: little longer than that. There was a host that said,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure this is great for baseball. Probably great
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, great for show, hey for the Cubs,
Speaker 2: but yeah for baseball. How great is this? And I
Speaker 2: laughed out loud when I heard this guy say it,
Speaker 2: because this is absolutely great for baseball. For the last
Speaker 2: three days plus, baseball has been on people's minds, not
Speaker 2: just here in La not just Dodger fans globally, they've
Speaker 2: been wanting.
Speaker 3: Baseball at this level.
Speaker 2: Otani Dodgers Japan, the anticipation of him coming back. You
Speaker 2: throw in the total of five Japanese players, three on
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, two of them making starts in Yamamoto and Sasaki.
Speaker 2: Show how Tani your designated hitter for those two games.
Speaker 2: It couldn't have been drawn up any better for baseball.
Speaker 2: It was put on a tee if you want to
Speaker 2: have a baseball analogy for them to hit it out
Speaker 2: of the park, and they did a great job putting
Speaker 2: baseball on full display. One Fox nationally televising the game
Speaker 2: for people to watch, two having the superstars that they
Speaker 2: did and showcasing them, and three having it in Japan
Speaker 2: in a place that's hungry for more. Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: loves their superstars, and those superstars were able to come
Speaker 2: home and play in front of them. Colin of you,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, was in Japan last month. There was
Speaker 2: a lottery system to get tickets to go to the
Speaker 2: Tokyo Dome, which holds just over forty two thousand, for
Speaker 2: a sellout crowd for two games. Think of the millions
Speaker 2: of people in the surrounding Tokyo area in the country
Speaker 2: Japan that want to see sho Heyotani and these Japanese
Speaker 2: players back in their home country want to see Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball, want to see the Dodgers on display. Think
Speaker 2: of the amount of people from the United States that
Speaker 2: went over there, the people from the US, people with
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, people affiliated with the Dodgers and the Cubs,
Speaker 2: and the radio stations and WGN and Sports in LA
Speaker 2: and all the different properties that went over there. There's
Speaker 2: only so many tickets that were able to go around.
Speaker 2: This was a globally demanded event. The last two days,
Speaker 2: this Tokyo Series and Major League Baseball did a fantastic
Speaker 2: job spotlighting. This got people talking. It reminded me of
Speaker 2: the NAHL what they did last month with that Classic
Speaker 2: with the Four Countries instead of an All Star Game.
Speaker 2: And I say it by this analogy. They got people
Speaker 2: talking about them for a week when the US and
Speaker 2: Canada were playing in that Four Country Cup that they had,
Speaker 2: people were buzzing about hockey talking about it, and they
Speaker 2: didn't capitalize. That little break ended and they went back
Speaker 2: to the regular season and it was back to who's playing,
Speaker 2: who's in First, what's happening in hockey?
Speaker 3: Nobody cared?
Speaker 2: Back to the NFL Combine, back to NBA talk college
Speaker 2: basketball tournament coming up. Baseball kicks off its season with
Speaker 2: a two game series in Japan. I consider last year's
Speaker 2: Korea series a trial, a test, if you will, to
Speaker 2: see how it would go over in Asia, how it
Speaker 2: would go in a different country for two games, work
Speaker 2: out the kinks, maybe things that didn't go right strategically.
Speaker 2: From what I understand from people who are there, it
Speaker 2: has been nothing but fantastic. The atmosphere, the crowds, the
Speaker 2: events around the games, the exhibition games over the weekend,
Speaker 2: the hospitality by the people in Tokyo. It has been
Speaker 2: first class all the way around. We've had all the
Speaker 2: games for your course, right here on a five to
Speaker 2: seven of LA Sports, and the Dodgers get wins, and
Speaker 2: now the Dodgers are gonna come back with buzz, and
Speaker 2: now baseball gonna come back with a buzz about it
Speaker 2: because of the superstars, and people are now gonna see
Speaker 2: Sasaki and Yamamoto and certainly see show Heyo Toni. And
Speaker 2: let's not even forget this was a two game series
Speaker 2: that was missing to its top ten fifteen players in baseball.
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman hurt his rip, didn't play. Mookie Betts is
Speaker 2: back home here in Los Angeles before the series even
Speaker 2: started because of an illness, and it was still at
Speaker 2: a high level and on full display for the sports world.
Speaker 2: I thought baseball did a fantastic job, and this was
Speaker 2: great for the game, not just great for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: not just great for Los Angeles. We love that, of course,
Speaker 2: but this is great for the game of baseball, something
Speaker 2: that could I think use to jump start this twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five season. Now you're gonna have a few days off, certainly,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna kill a little bit of the buzz.
Speaker 2: But I think this is certainly something that they could
Speaker 2: use to get this season going. Spotlight the superstars, the
Speaker 2: young players around baseball who people are gonna be looking
Speaker 2: at this year, and certainly the Dodgers are gonna be
Speaker 2: the cream of the crop as far as wherever they go.
Speaker 2: They're a traveling musical rock band. Just people want to
Speaker 2: be there. They're the Beatles, you know, They're the Rolling Stones,
Speaker 2: They're the Lakers of the two thousands, sell out wherever
Speaker 2: they go. The biggest draw wherever city they're in, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were able to get the two wins in
Speaker 2: Japan and now come back and get ready for the
Speaker 2: start of the domestic twenty twenty five season coming up
Speaker 2: next week eight six six nine, eight seven, two five seven.
Speaker 2: It's get out to the phones. What did you think
Speaker 2: of this Tokyo series? And how about Rodney Pete casually
Speaker 2: taking the ball away from Max Munsee in the second
Speaker 2: row down the third base line there into ok let's
Speaker 2: go out to Trey in Taiwan. Really, you're in Taiwan
Speaker 2: right now, Trey Holyoke.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, man, I didn't quite make it to Japan,
Speaker 5: but I got to see the game in prime time.
Speaker 5: I will tell you what. We got Dodgers fans all
Speaker 5: over up in here. The people were rocking and rolling
Speaker 5: and like you were saying, is getting the game out?
Speaker 5: I mean, they're huge baseball fans here in Asia, but
Speaker 5: you know, here in Taiwan. I got to watch the game.
Speaker 5: I watched it last night, got to see Sasaki for
Speaker 5: the first time tonight, and we got we got fans here. Man.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, I was I was going nuts. It
Speaker 5: was great, absolutely fantastic, and it was great to co
Speaker 5: in be part of the show kicking off this new year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I'm having a blast here. I wish y'all we're
Speaker 5: here with me and I'm eating my face off and
Speaker 5: having a blast and watching baseball.
Speaker 2: Man love so great, tray Man. Really appreciate you checking in.
Speaker 2: Great to hear from you. Don't be a stranger here
Speaker 2: to Dodge Talk.
Speaker 5: All right, Oh you'll.
Speaker 4: Hear me this season.
Speaker 5: We that I'm still celebrating from last year, but I
Speaker 5: am looking forward. We are stacked. The team is excellent.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to shout out on my fans back home.
Speaker 5: I'll be back home in a few days and you'll
Speaker 5: take care and I'll see you. Sound all right?
Speaker 2: Slat Tree appreciate the phone call eight six Conrad Downtown
Speaker 2: LA on this Wednesday. How you doing, Conrad? Thanks for
Speaker 2: being on Dodgy Talk here beat the Cup six and three.
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, Hey, I really like your last take. I
Speaker 6: thought that was wonderful. On what you said about the
Speaker 6: whole baseball through Japan and Otani. I wanted to say
Speaker 6: a few things on Otani. Uh, He's brought so much
Speaker 6: fun to the game of baseball. The effort and the
Speaker 6: mental focus that he does. He earns every penny. I
Speaker 6: really really enjoy show. Hey, Hotani, I'd follow baseball. I'm
Speaker 6: fifty years old. He's He's my favorite of my whole life.
Speaker 6: I love Barry Bonds, but you know, Tani is just
Speaker 6: so special. I also am an Angels guy. The Angels
Speaker 6: did not win so much with him. It was never
Speaker 6: one second his fault. Too bad that they moved him.
Speaker 6: Dodgers are very smart to pay every penny. He's just
Speaker 6: an amazing, amazing, electric guy. That being said, it's baseball.
Speaker 6: It takes the whole team. He's just a part of
Speaker 6: the team. He only gets up one out of every
Speaker 6: nine guys. He's not pitching, so he's extremely valuable. He's
Speaker 6: also just part of the team. He brings an attitude,
Speaker 6: a level of play that matches. Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts,
Speaker 6: I've known my whole life. I grew up down in
Speaker 6: San Diego. He's a Rancho Buenavista kid. He played quarterback
Speaker 6: for Rancho Buenovo. He's very athletic. He's a small guy,
Speaker 6: very fast. Vin Scully to call him a rabbit, as
Speaker 6: you remember, and he's just special if you remember that
Speaker 6: Boston Red Sox stolen bass Dave Roberts. Yeah, absolutely, Okay,
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts brings that intensity. We are now figuring out
Speaker 6: he's the best coach in baseball. He might be the
Speaker 6: best coach ever. This guy stays focused. We are not
Speaker 6: giving Dave Roberts enough credit. I think because of the city.
Speaker 6: I don't know why. Well, I'm the best in baseball.
Speaker 2: He's always gotten credit here, Conrad, and I appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the nice words. Dave Roberts in my mind.
Speaker 2: And Steve Sachs my buddy, and you know, we do
Speaker 2: the show together during the playoffs, Sacks and Kates and
Speaker 2: the am former Dodger, Rookie of the Year and World
Speaker 2: Series champion.
Speaker 3: He quickly pointed this out to me years ago.
Speaker 2: The manager gets way too much credit and way too
Speaker 2: much blame. And Dave Roberts always took way too much
Speaker 2: blame for things that didn't go right. You can push
Speaker 2: the right buttons and all of a sudden you're a genius.
Speaker 2: But you push those same buttons and a player doesn't
Speaker 2: execute a hit, A player doesn't execute a pitch, A
Speaker 2: player doesn't execute a defensive play. That's the manager's fault.
Speaker 2: You put these players in the right situation. As a manager,
Speaker 2: your job is to put them in the best situation
Speaker 2: and have them as prepared as possible with the best
Speaker 2: lineup that you can put out there possible, best pitcher
Speaker 2: you can put out there possible, in whatever situation, and
Speaker 2: it's up to that player to then execute.
Speaker 3: And it's just.
Speaker 2: Amazing to me that a couple of buttons pushed here,
Speaker 2: and he's the greatest manager of all time. But if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't do what they did last year in
Speaker 2: the postseason, especially against the Padres and the NLDS, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Dave Roberts is a bum and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts is a manager who shouldn't be there anymore, and
Speaker 2: Dodger fans are all.
Speaker 3: Piling up on him. No, it's that it can't be
Speaker 3: like that. It just can't. It can't be one ind
Speaker 3: of the other. They just that's the whole point.
Speaker 2: You can't get too much credit and you can't give
Speaker 2: enough credit to a manager.
Speaker 3: It's just that's just not the way it is.
Speaker 2: Because the players are the ones who ultimately execute or
Speaker 2: don't execute on the field. Eight, sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy. But I agree Conrad this this has
Speaker 2: been a great few games for Major League Baseball, and
Speaker 2: I hope they capitalize off this with a couple of moves. One,
Speaker 2: continue to spotlight these players when they come back. Continue
Speaker 2: to push show hey Otani to the front. Continue to
Speaker 2: get the other stars now that the season is going
Speaker 2: to start next week, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the
Speaker 2: Vlad Guerrero's of the world, the young superstars, Elie de
Speaker 2: la Cruz. Push him out, get him out there in
Speaker 2: the forefront, get him out there in front of people,
Speaker 2: get him out there on media campaigns, get them out
Speaker 2: there on billboards, and let's push the game forward. You
Speaker 2: got a lot of momentum right now, from last year's
Speaker 2: World Series to this Tokyo series. Right that momentum Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two, five
Speaker 2: to seventy. We'll take a break, we'll come back. More
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. Dodgers get the win in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: They beat the Cubs six to three. Showy Otani goes deep,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond goes deep, keyk a Hernandez goes deep. Rookie
Speaker 2: Suzaki makes his debut. It was up, it was down.
Speaker 2: Three innings, three strikeouts, five walks, one run, one hit,
Speaker 2: did not factor the decision.
Speaker 3: Landon Knak picks up the win.
Speaker 2: Two solid intings, the reef for Landon neck and oh yeah,
Speaker 2: our old Rodney Pete took a ball for Max Munsey.
Speaker 3: Rodney was all with this earlier.
Speaker 2: Make sure you podcast that in Tokyo, sitting second row
Speaker 2: down to the third base line, foul ball comes his way.
Speaker 2: Max Munsby goes, tries to get it, and Rodney takes
Speaker 2: it from him. Well, maybe didn't least take it from him.
Speaker 2: Max missed it, Rodney caught it eight six six nine
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Speaker 7: Otani hammers, what oh this ball is well struck deep
Speaker 7: bright center.
Speaker 1: Back to the wall.
Speaker 7: That's off the top of the wall. Otani around first,
Speaker 7: he's into the second Kyle Tucker Well, they're saying home
Speaker 7: run looked like it came off the top of the
Speaker 7: wall initially. But O'tani comes around with his first home
Speaker 7: run of the season.
Speaker 2: Show Hey Otani fifty plus home runs last year, has
Speaker 2: already hit number one in Tokyo, a solo home run
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Speaker 2: Dodgers get both wins against the Cubs in Tokyo. A
Speaker 2: four to one win yesterday is sixty three win today. Otani,
Speaker 2: Edmund and Keiki Hernandez all going deep. Rookie Sasaki win
Speaker 2: three innings in his major league debut. The twenty three
Speaker 2: year old right hander good velocity early got a strikeout
Speaker 2: on the second battery he faced. Suzuki but then got
Speaker 2: into some command issues in the second and the third inning,
Speaker 2: got out of it with a double play in the second,
Speaker 2: and got out of it with the bases loaded in
Speaker 2: the third, one out with back two back strikeouts eight six,
Speaker 2: six nine eight, seven to two five seventy. That's continue
Speaker 2: on the phones, Robert and Lancaster. Thanks for being Paidia,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk on this Wednesday. How you doing, Robert?
Speaker 8: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 3: But have you guys back.
Speaker 8: It's been a it's been a short, a short offseason,
Speaker 8: but I'm glad to be back anyways. Uh, I just
Speaker 8: wanted to have one thing I want to talk about
Speaker 8: is healthy. All the haters out there that are talking
Speaker 8: about how the Mob can have an opening Day in
Speaker 8: Japan all that stuff, well I don't understand why they're
Speaker 8: hating on that, because look at the biggest player in
Speaker 8: baseball is is Japanese. Then he just went for a
Speaker 8: fifty to fifty spot, and all the haters out there
Speaker 8: are gonna hate on that, Like, come on you.
Speaker 6: They're just giving Japan.
Speaker 8: What they what they want and the money that they're
Speaker 8: bringing in from that, it's a huge market and the
Speaker 8: Dogs are cashing in on it, like, come on, why
Speaker 8: are you gonna hate on that? Here the fans what
Speaker 8: they want.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And then the second point I want to touch on
Speaker 8: is all the haters out there that are still talking
Speaker 8: about the Dave Roberts hate and all that stuff, and
Speaker 8: they don't understand what goes on inside the clubhouse. This
Speaker 8: guy brings players together like it's we've never seen before.
Speaker 8: This guy is like, uh, it's something that we've never
Speaker 8: seen in baseball. He's so good for the Dodgers. It's crazy.
Speaker 8: Anyone that wants to talk bad about Dave Roberts, Man,
Speaker 8: you guys could just like take it to another take
Speaker 8: it to another room. Gad, I don't even want to
Speaker 8: hear it.
Speaker 2: All right, Robert, I appreciate the phone call. You're right,
Speaker 2: you know, the talk about Dave Roberts You think it'd
Speaker 2: be over with now that he got a contract extension,
Speaker 2: has won two World Series as a manager, taken him
Speaker 2: to four different World Series appearances, But.
Speaker 3: Still the chatter is there.
Speaker 2: And again I go back to this two game series
Speaker 2: in Tokyo and what baseball was able to do I
Speaker 2: thought was tremendous and I thought they did a first
Speaker 2: class job of presenting it. And I think that this
Speaker 2: is something that they could use to really jumpstart this
Speaker 2: season in twenty twenty five. And I hope they capitalize
Speaker 2: on their superstars in marketing them and publicizing them, and
Speaker 2: doesn't just.
Speaker 3: Have to be the Dodger players certainly biased with.
Speaker 2: Suzaki and Yamamoto and Shohyo Tani and Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 2: Mookie Beck's Will Smith. I mean, gosh, how many superstars
Speaker 2: are on this team. This is ridiculous. But yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a good start right there, showcasing the Dodgers as much
Speaker 2: as possible, showcasing the superstars that you got in other markets,
Speaker 2: because there's there's superstars out there, and I think Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball has never done a really good job of that.
Speaker 2: And I think what they just did the last couple
Speaker 2: days in Japan is certainly something they can use moving
Speaker 2: forward and that can start this year in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five seventy. I
Speaker 2: only got time for one more call, and let's make
Speaker 2: that easy. So if we couldn't get to you, I apologize.
Speaker 2: Let's go to easy and Anaheim. Easy two and zero.
Speaker 2: Great start. Rodney Pete taking the ball from Max Muncie.
Speaker 3: What a day in Tokyo?
Speaker 9: Yeah, hey too, two and nineteen. I'll take it. Can
Speaker 9: you pay go to dam past show and tell him
Speaker 9: what you just said? Will baseball class and you need
Speaker 9: to go on his show? He wouldn't have to wind anyway.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it went a big game. I guess I
Speaker 9: would listen to you, you kay, I would. I woke
Speaker 9: up probably the seventh Gammy or so. But but yeah,
Speaker 9: they'll be back home, so it should be in there
Speaker 9: this season. So so, what's what happened this year? Didn't
Speaker 9: win the division? But it will be. Kept repeating that way,
Speaker 9: I keep saying so, but anyway it'll be. It'll be
Speaker 9: this season. And anyway we'll talk to all.
Speaker 3: Right, is he? We'll talk later. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Is he and Anaheim on this Wednesday even she can't
Speaker 2: be episode with this two and zero start and the
Speaker 2: way the Dodgers beat the Cubs, who quite frankly are
Speaker 2: on a different level, uh than the Chicago Cubs. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have so much talent and it was on display
Speaker 2: in these two games. And I go back to the
Speaker 2: fact that you're missing Mookie Bets and Freddy Freeman. You
Speaker 2: take two superstars off any other team, what happens to them? Uh,
Speaker 2: they're the Angels, you know. You take a Mike Trout
Speaker 2: off the Angels and another mainstay off their team, they're
Speaker 2: at winning games. The Dodgers have so much talent and
Speaker 2: so many other guys that can step up and produce.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. And I go back to earlier what we
Speaker 3: said about Will Smith.
Speaker 2: You're gonna look at the box scorer and you're gonna
Speaker 2: see Will Smith was one for two, two walks, two
Speaker 2: runs scored. Okay, you know, doesn't ctally jumps off the
Speaker 2: page at you. But Will Smith what he did in
Speaker 2: the first game against the Cubs one for two, three walks,
Speaker 2: comes back in the second game of this Tokyo series
Speaker 2: today one for two, a double, scored twice and was
Speaker 2: on base with two walks five walks in the first
Speaker 2: two games as the cleanup hitter for the Dodgers. Will
Speaker 2: Smith last year had to be really hurt. He's not
Speaker 2: the kind of guy that's gonna sit there and harp
Speaker 2: on it. He's not gonna say anything. He's not gonna
Speaker 2: make sure everybody knows and make a big deal about it.
Speaker 2: He's very quiet about the way he goes about his business.
Speaker 2: And obviously he was banged up enough that it bothered him.
Speaker 2: He still played every day. He still was out there
Speaker 2: catching and doing his thing and helping the Dodgers defensively
Speaker 2: but offensively. You can tell he just wasn't in a
Speaker 2: good spot last year like he was the year before.
Speaker 2: But Will Smith looks locked in these first two games.
Speaker 2: He's changed his swing a little bit. He's got his
Speaker 2: hands a little lower, and then he gets his you know,
Speaker 2: load going as far as you know, the weight and
Speaker 2: everything when in his swing.
Speaker 3: He looks a little different. Will be a little fine
Speaker 3: tuned with the swing. I like what I'm seeing. So
Speaker 3: only two games, but as.
Speaker 2: The cleanup pitter, one for two and back to back games,
Speaker 2: five walks total, scoring runs for the Dodgers. Can't ask
Speaker 2: for much more from Will Smith than what he's done
Speaker 2: over in Tokyo. Is The Dodgers now head back after
Speaker 2: two games against the Cubs. They'll have a three game
Speaker 2: exhibition freeway series Sunday Monday Tuesday right here on a
Speaker 2: FI seventy LA Sports, then a day off, and then
Speaker 2: a week from Thursday seven, the domestic home opener against
Speaker 2: the Detroit Tigers. What a few days in Japan for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They get back to back wins against the Cubs.
Speaker 2: Show Hao Tani goes deep, Yamamoto's on display, Sasaki's on display, and.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are often rolling next to Colin.
Speaker 2: He thanks to haul you for being a part of
Speaker 2: the show. Thanks for being with us, us being with
Speaker 2: us late night, early, and in the afternoon. Dodgers get
Speaker 2: to win with the Chicago Cubs six to three.
Speaker 3: Until Sunday solo, everybody