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Speaker 6: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Angels defeat
Speaker 8: the Dodgers in Game two of the Freeway Series by
Speaker 8: a final score of eleven to nine. Welcome the Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk David vass say with you until eleven thirty tonight
Speaker 8: right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. We
Speaker 8: have phone lines open and the phone lines are alive tonight. Hello,
Speaker 8: we have phone lines open, just to open so many
Speaker 8: are so outraged over this loss tonight they had to
Speaker 8: get in right now. It's like when the Apple store opens,
Speaker 8: you gotta be there for the newest iPhone. I think
Speaker 8: that's how Dodger fans feel tonight to get on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: But we have two lines open, and yes, I will
Speaker 8: get to you. Take it easy, we'll get to you
Speaker 8: and we'll try to sort all this out tonight because
Speaker 8: a lot happened, including the longest game of the season
Speaker 8: played by the Dodgers tonight, three hours and thirty seven minutes. Unfortunately,
Speaker 8: they come up short tonight in a disappointing loss. This
Speaker 8: is a disappointing loss. I'm not gonna say it's a
Speaker 8: make or bright loss, but it is a disappointing loss.
Speaker 8: Anytime your offense, I don't care who you are, the Marlins,
Speaker 8: the Angels, the Dodgers scoring nine runs, you should win,
Speaker 8: and you should win if you have the type of
Speaker 8: pitching staff the Dodgers have. But again, a Dodgers starter
Speaker 8: doesn't go five innings. Now. Clayton Kershaw in his season
Speaker 8: debut thirty eight pitches in the first inning. I mentioned
Speaker 8: this during the Clubhouse Show talking to nineteen eighty five
Speaker 8: World champion Mark Goobaza, who's in the booth for the
Speaker 8: Halos and really knows pitching. I asked him what he
Speaker 8: was seeing from Kershaw, and he just simply said, overthrowing.
Speaker 8: And you can understand that, coming back after not pitching
Speaker 8: for over a year. He threw thirty eight pitches in
Speaker 8: that first inning, gave up three runs. There was some
Speaker 8: defensive laps obviously at third base that could have ended
Speaker 8: that inning a little bit sooner, but he only threw
Speaker 8: five more pitches after that to get the final out
Speaker 8: of the inning, and Andy Pajz came up and gave
Speaker 8: him a clean slate a game tying three run home run,
Speaker 8: And in the second inning, Kershaw settled down and threw
Speaker 8: only eleven pitches, retiring the Angels in order. So it's
Speaker 8: not about Kershaw. It's about the whole first half of
Speaker 8: the season, where whether it's Blake Snell or Tyler Glasnell
Speaker 8: or anybody Roki Sazaki, the starters are not doing this
Speaker 8: bullpen any favors and that's not a good thing. And
Speaker 8: right now, the Dodger bullpen still leading Major League Baseball
Speaker 8: and innings pitched over one hundred and ninety innings pitched
Speaker 8: for the Dodger bullpen, and their starters have only thrown
Speaker 8: two hundred and seven innings. That's the worst or least
Speaker 8: amount in Major League Baseball this season. Before we get
Speaker 8: into everything else and we hear from Clayton Kershaw, let's
Speaker 8: give this offense some love, right Keith Key Hernandez had
Speaker 8: a big night on base all five times tonight. He
Speaker 8: scored three times, he had three walks, which was really positive,
Speaker 8: and he hit a home run in the fourth inning
Speaker 8: to pull the Dodgers closer. Also, Freddie Freeman, do you
Speaker 8: realize now Freddy Freeman is a qualified batter? After missing
Speaker 8: some time, he was not qualified for the batting title
Speaker 8: and different offensive categories, but he has now hit those
Speaker 8: marks and is qualified. Freddie Freeman tonight, with four hits,
Speaker 8: is hitting three seventy five on the season. That's the
Speaker 8: best in the National League this year, and he's only
Speaker 8: second in baseball to Aaron Judge, who is hitting four
Speaker 8: to two. By the way, Will Smith second best batting
Speaker 8: average to Freddie Freeman in the National League. Smith, who
Speaker 8: came off the bench for a pinch hit single off
Speaker 8: of Kennley Jansen, is hitting three thirty six. Speaking of
Speaker 8: Kennley Jansen, you know he wanted this tonight. You know
Speaker 8: when Ron Washington said warm up because we may need
Speaker 8: you not just for the ninth inning, but also for
Speaker 8: a four out save, you knew Kenley Jensen was going
Speaker 8: to come in and there was a very good chance
Speaker 8: he was going to be at his best. We saw
Speaker 8: ninety seven miles an hour from Kenley Jansen last night.
Speaker 8: We haven't seen that. The Angels have not seen that
Speaker 8: all year long. The jews of playing the Dodgers certainly
Speaker 8: came into play tonight. Kenley Jansen secured his first four
Speaker 8: out save this season. For his four hundred and fifty
Speaker 8: fifth save of his career, he has the fourth most
Speaker 8: in baseball history. He will be in Cooperstown, trust me,
Speaker 8: especially after Billy Wagner getting in. I mean, Kenley Jansen
Speaker 8: is one of the best closers of his generation. This
Speaker 8: four out save thing not something that we hadn't seen
Speaker 8: from Kenley as a Dodger. He closed thirty nine games
Speaker 8: in the regular season of four outs or more in
Speaker 8: his Dodger career. Three hundred and fifty of his four
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty five saves Whereas a Dodger seventy four
Speaker 8: one day will be placed among the great, so will
Speaker 8: twenty two down the left field line when he gets
Speaker 8: to the Hall of Fame. So this was a Kenley
Speaker 8: Jansen type of Knight to come in and have the
Speaker 8: opportunity for a four out save, and he got the
Speaker 8: job done for the Angels. Certainly disappointing for Clayton Kershot
Speaker 8: to a certain extent, gratifying in another respect being able
Speaker 8: to work as hard as he did to come back
Speaker 8: after left knee and left foot surgery to be back
Speaker 8: on the mound for the Dodgers. Let's head downstairs to
Speaker 8: hear from another future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I love being back out there. It felt.
Speaker 9: It's just it's a special thing to get to go
Speaker 9: back and pitch a Dodger stadium. Obviously I wanted to
Speaker 9: pitch better, need to pitch better going forward. But you know,
Speaker 9: I think for me, just to see that, I think
Speaker 9: there's some glimpses of some my stuff being there, which
Speaker 9: is good. The problem tonight was just command. I had
Speaker 9: really bad commands tonight. So I think I can fix that,
Speaker 9: which is good, which is an encouraging thing.
Speaker 7: But obviously not good enough to night to get it done.
Speaker 9: But you know, first, first one back and just to
Speaker 9: be back out here a daughter stadium was a special
Speaker 9: for me, regardless of the outcome the night, and.
Speaker 10: Just overall physically the toe they need the arm.
Speaker 9: How do you feel, Yeah, physically feel great. You know
Speaker 9: that first inning was long. I hadn't had, you know,
Speaker 9: a really long ending like that in rehab before, so
Speaker 9: I think my you know, stamina was kind of put
Speaker 9: to the test early, which is good. And so you know,
Speaker 9: obviously took my lumps on this one, but physically feel
Speaker 9: good and ready for the next one.
Speaker 4: It looks like you took a pause on your way
Speaker 4: out of the dugout, like you stopped and so you
Speaker 4: put your head down.
Speaker 7: Were you reflecting?
Speaker 9: Was it the Is that something to normally do or
Speaker 9: were you kind of thinking about what was going to
Speaker 9: happen now?
Speaker 7: No, I don't remember pausing. I always wait till.
Speaker 9: You know, eight with the game to go back on
Speaker 9: the field, So maybe I was just a little early today.
Speaker 9: But uh yeah, I think, you know, before the game
Speaker 9: and you know, leading up to this, you know, it's
Speaker 9: definitely I don't like the word emotional but there's definitely
Speaker 9: some like some thoughts, you know, some it's just it's
Speaker 9: just special.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: So I think as you have done it more and
Speaker 9: you get a little bit older, you just learn to
Speaker 9: appreciate that more.
Speaker 7: So I wouldn't say that, but just it was it
Speaker 7: was special.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like what was it like being your thoughts?
Speaker 7: And yeah, Russia great.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: Obviously I didn't gve him a lot to work with today,
Speaker 9: so you know he's he's going to be good. He
Speaker 9: cares a lot, wants to be good, you know, prepared
Speaker 9: a lot, did a lot of homework, and you know
Speaker 9: he's he's learning on the fly, and so you know,
Speaker 9: I didn't give him a lot of help today.
Speaker 7: Obviously I didn't hit a lot of spots. But he'll
Speaker 7: be fine.
Speaker 8: All right. There's Clayton Kurage. Obviously it's good to hear
Speaker 8: him say he thought his stuff was good enough. He
Speaker 8: just needs to have better command. Everybody was worried about
Speaker 8: his fastball velocity. Well, a lot of times when you
Speaker 8: see a guy in rehab mode, even Kershaw, the adrenaline
Speaker 8: in minor league stadiums is not what it is in
Speaker 8: the big leagues. And tonight we saw his fastball touch
Speaker 8: ninety one miles an hour. He averaged about eighty nine
Speaker 8: miles an hour on his fastball tonight, so it was
Speaker 8: good enough to get hitters out. Even though the Angels
Speaker 8: are one of the worst hitting teams statistically in baseball,
Speaker 8: he still was able to get outs. And after he's
Speaker 8: settled in after that first inning, it was better. And
Speaker 8: we'll see where it goes from here. His next start
Speaker 8: probably will be next weekend against the Mets at City Field,
Speaker 8: and that will be a tougher test for Kershaw. He
Speaker 8: mentioned Dalton Rushing and that he did well and he
Speaker 8: cares and he prepared sports and at LA showed on
Speaker 8: their broadcast last night Sean Rushing sitting next to each
Speaker 8: other and game planning the Angels lineup as they were
Speaker 8: going through last night's game, so that that you don't
Speaker 8: see that too often, especially from a rookie catcher. But obviously,
Speaker 8: as Kershaw said, Rushing special. You could tell he has
Speaker 8: that in factor. Not only does he have the talent,
Speaker 8: but he has all the intangibles to want to be great,
Speaker 8: and you saw that tonight. He threw out his first
Speaker 8: base runner in the sixth inning, strong throw and He
Speaker 8: also drove in a run, a game tying run in
Speaker 8: the sixth inning with his first extra base hit. So
Speaker 8: I'm a big Dalton rushing fan I have ever since
Speaker 8: talking to him in spring training the last couple of years.
Speaker 8: This guy has it. And the Dodgers have two really
Speaker 8: good catchers when teams sometimes don't even have one, so
Speaker 8: fair to say. I'll say it even now, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: have the best catching combo in Major League Baseball. Eight
Speaker 8: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 8: phone number. Angels beat the Dodgers tonight, eleven to nine.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Orange. Sean, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 8: with David Vassi.
Speaker 4: Hi Sean, Hey Dave, thanks for taking my call. Good
Speaker 4: to be with you tonight. I I agree with you
Speaker 4: on the Clayton stuff. You know, I just I feel like,
Speaker 4: regardless of how he performs from here on out, I mean,
Speaker 4: we're in a bit of a victory lap for a
Speaker 4: future Hall of Famer, so you know, it's just good
Speaker 4: to see him out there, regardless of, you know, what
Speaker 4: the performance looks like.
Speaker 10: Hey, I want to.
Speaker 4: Ask you just about ken Lee tonight. I've noticed this
Speaker 4: with him a couple of times where I've seen him
Speaker 4: intentionally bock, Yeah, get a runner on second over to third.
Speaker 4: And I'm trying to understand the strategy from his standpoint.
Speaker 4: So if he's got a runner on third, and let's
Speaker 4: say that there's a hit that goes to zach Netto
Speaker 4: like he like there was tonight, and Zach fumbles it
Speaker 4: and you know, can't get the throwaway, Well, you've got
Speaker 4: a guy on third with two hour who's going, you know,
Speaker 4: on contact and he's going to.
Speaker 3: Score a run.
Speaker 4: So what's the strategy there for him to you know,
Speaker 4: intentionally bock and get that guy over to third when
Speaker 4: you know you've got the potential to have you know,
Speaker 4: a base runner score there versus someone on second who's
Speaker 4: probably not going to score off of that hit if
Speaker 4: it goes to zach Neto. In that case, it just
Speaker 4: curious what your thoughts are.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he told me this, He did this with the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: Is that what you're referring to when he was with
Speaker 8: the Dodgers as well, Because he explained it to me,
Speaker 8: He's concerned about that runner at second base peeking into
Speaker 8: his glove and relaying signs to the hitter. So he'd
Speaker 8: rather have the runner just go to third base and
Speaker 8: eliminate that even being a possibility. He's that confident that
Speaker 8: he'll be able to get the third out and not
Speaker 8: not even neutralize that run at third base. So he's
Speaker 8: more concerned about the runner at second base peeking in
Speaker 8: and relaying signs to the hitter, because that happened a
Speaker 8: few times, and he after that happened when he was
Speaker 8: with the Dodgers, from then that point on, he would
Speaker 8: bock the runner the third base.
Speaker 4: So even with pitchcong do you think the best that's
Speaker 4: still a threat.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because as he's getting ready to deliver the pitch,
Speaker 8: he's concerned about the runner peeking into his glove and
Speaker 8: seeing the grip of the pitch and relaying it to
Speaker 8: the hitter.
Speaker 3: Sure, okay, because he's very deliberate.
Speaker 8: He's very deliberate with the with the uh, with the delivery.
Speaker 8: But that's the reason why, Sean, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 8: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Ben in La. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hi, Ben, Hey, Dave, thanks for thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 11: I just have two main points to make I don't
Speaker 11: think Kershaw's appearance today was anything of a victory laugh.
Speaker 11: I think it was really sad, and I think we
Speaker 11: should really consider having him move into a different role,
Speaker 11: maybe pitching as a reliever, you know, coming in later,
Speaker 11: taking one or two innings. You know, I don't really
Speaker 11: understand why the front office is putting so much trust
Speaker 11: in him. And at the same time, you got to
Speaker 11: think about Conforto. I know, we scored nine runs, but
Speaker 11: bases loaded bottom of the eighth. He clearly didn't want
Speaker 11: to be there. I think that we really have to
Speaker 11: think about what we're doing with him there, how we're gonna.
Speaker 8: You don't think lights right there, ben No.
Speaker 11: I think he wanted to just get an easy out
Speaker 11: and move on. I think he doesn't have that same
Speaker 11: kind of team energy that we're looking for in the Dodgers,
Speaker 11: and frankly, I don't like him in the lineup so often.
Speaker 8: Well, all right, we'll give him a break. Let's see
Speaker 8: where it goes. He's been hitting the ball a lot better,
Speaker 8: you know. So we have seen signs of lie from
Speaker 8: Michael Conforto. But time will tell whether or not this
Speaker 8: stage is for Michael Conforto. He did play New York
Speaker 8: with the Mets. But this is a little bit different,
Speaker 8: no doubt about it. And as far as Clayton Krushaw goes,
Speaker 8: he's not going to the bullpen. And I disagree with you.
Speaker 8: I don't. I think it was sad. I think it
Speaker 8: was Uh it was. I don't want to call it
Speaker 8: a victory lap. I mean, he's out there not just
Speaker 8: to be a ceremonial. He's trying to win games and
Speaker 8: help the Dodgers get to where they need to go.
Speaker 8: And this was his first starting over a year.
Speaker 5: Ben.
Speaker 8: So no, I'm not accepting that. I I strongly disagree
Speaker 8: with that, and I think you should actually I feel like,
Speaker 8: you know, I'm not going to say you owe him
Speaker 8: a little bit of respect here, but yeah, you owe
Speaker 8: him a little bit of respect here.
Speaker 11: Ben, Yeah, I understand that.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I guess after that first inning he was pretty good.
Speaker 8: First inning was bad.
Speaker 11: This was a rough series, losing to the boss.
Speaker 8: He's apologized to clean Kershaw right now, please please do
Speaker 8: He's a closet listen, He's a clauset list man.
Speaker 11: You know, Clayton, I loved everything you've done. I love
Speaker 11: your legacy. Let's see how it goes against the Mets.
Speaker 11: I'm not as optimistic as you are, Dave.
Speaker 8: Geez, Ben, Okay, what's swan soda? Gonna take a walk,
Speaker 8: that's all he's gonna do. Ben, how dare you? Thank
Speaker 8: you for the phone call? Great phone call, Ben, appreciate it. Hey,
Speaker 8: we can agree to disagree, but I feel like I
Speaker 8: won you over. Take a step back. It's his first
Speaker 8: start in over a year. Matthew Stafford his buddy from
Speaker 8: Highland Park. Did you know that Clayton Kershaw and Matthew
Speaker 8: Stafford grew up together in Highland Park and they played
Speaker 8: on the same Little league team. That story's never been
Speaker 8: told before. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 8: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Bakersfield, Alex.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Alex?
Speaker 10: I'm doing good, DV.
Speaker 12: Thanks for taking my call. Just I can't disagree more
Speaker 12: with that last guy on that Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 8: Take right, sacrilegious right there.
Speaker 12: He should have all the clout, especially with a Dodger
Speaker 12: fans that he could ever want and need, and not
Speaker 12: that he needs it.
Speaker 8: But he doesn't want to be that guy. He doesn't
Speaker 8: want to be Adam Wainwright his last year with the Cardinals.
Speaker 8: He doesn't want to be a hood ornament. He's out
Speaker 8: here to compete. And you saw a guy that maybe
Speaker 8: didn't have the best command or the best stuff. He
Speaker 8: didn't throw ninety nine, but he threw eighty nine ninety
Speaker 8: and was able to compete his way through four innings
Speaker 8: in his first starting over a year. How many guys
Speaker 8: do that, Some guys tap out when it's raining lightly.
Speaker 12: I agree, one hundred percent. Couldn't agree more. I did
Speaker 12: want to just make a few quick points. A couple
Speaker 12: of good spots. Obviously, Freddy Freeman hitting the cover off
Speaker 12: the ball. He's out of this world. Andy Pajis, you know,
Speaker 12: he's a bona fide outfielder in this league. He just
Speaker 12: needed a couple of.
Speaker 3: Weeks to get it right.
Speaker 12: But the concerning the bullpen, you know, and it's tough
Speaker 12: to fault those guys, but just the usage. You know,
Speaker 12: you've seen Vessia. He's grooved a few two men pitches
Speaker 12: this year, which he really get.
Speaker 8: Better as the as the season goes along. That's been
Speaker 8: his track record, And you know, the best comparison I
Speaker 8: can make for Alex Vessia is key Hernandez. I know
Speaker 8: one's a pitcher and one's a position player, but we
Speaker 8: always talk about October k K. Well, go look at
Speaker 8: what Alex Vessi has done for the Dodgers and nineteen
Speaker 8: postseason appearances. I believe he's only given up one or
Speaker 8: two runs. He's October Vessia, so as the season moves along,
Speaker 8: he gets better and peaks at the right time. So
Speaker 8: I'm not concerned about Vessia.
Speaker 12: I'm hoping you're right. And obviously you know we'll see
Speaker 12: in September October, so that's good. Another thing I was
Speaker 12: just really real quick concerned about with Yates. Obviously he
Speaker 12: really hasn't been the guy we saw last year. It
Speaker 12: just it doesn't seem like it's been been put together.
Speaker 12: And I knew as soon as you know he gave
Speaker 12: up that you know that that inning, I knew it
Speaker 12: was going to be some sort of injury.
Speaker 8: I mean the three the three run homer to Logan
Speaker 8: o'happy that gave the Angels the lead. Look, Kirby Yates
Speaker 8: is a gamer. He had an all star season last
Speaker 8: year with the Rangers, but he threw more innings than
Speaker 8: basically he's thrown his entire career last year sixty innings.
Speaker 8: He's thirty eight years old and tonight was his twenty
Speaker 8: second appearance, So I guess he's in that Daniel Hudson bucket.
Speaker 8: Maybe a little bit more effective at this stage of
Speaker 8: his career than Hudson was. But yeah, you know it's
Speaker 8: a risk to run a thirty eight year old out
Speaker 8: there as many times as the Dodgers have already, and
Speaker 8: you know it's not necessarily the arm that sometimes gives out.
Speaker 8: It could be your hamstring like we saw tonight. But
Speaker 8: maybe this breather will be a blessing in disguise for
Speaker 8: Kirby Yates. Thanks for the phone call, Alex appreciated. Eight
Speaker 8: six six nine to eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number. As far as why Tanner Scott was
Speaker 8: brought into eighth inning down ten to eight, usually you
Speaker 8: don't see your closer at home come into the game
Speaker 8: down two runs. You usually see them in a tied game,
Speaker 8: maybe down a run. But that was something a little
Speaker 8: out of the box managing by Dave Roberts. But the
Speaker 8: reason why was because he wanted to keep it a
Speaker 8: two run game. You could tell Dave Roberts wanted to
Speaker 8: win this game to face the heart of the Angels
Speaker 8: order that had given the Dodgers trouble tonight. Taylor Ward,
Speaker 8: Jorge Solaire and Logan o'hoppy, and Tanner Scott did his
Speaker 8: job getting those hitters out in order, maybe the most
Speaker 8: dominant we've seen Tanner Scott one of at least being
Speaker 8: able to strike out Ward and o'hopy, who hit the
Speaker 8: big home run tonight. So that was the thinking behind
Speaker 8: why Dave Roberts did that. Eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 8: seven two five seventy is the phone number. How about
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing. He's already made a big impression in just
Speaker 8: two major league games, and tonight was impressive for him
Speaker 8: to catch a future Hall of Famer and also be
Speaker 8: able to come up big with the bat. We've heard
Speaker 8: about the bat. It's one thing to do with at
Speaker 8: Oklahoma City. It's another thing to do it here with
Speaker 8: the Dodgers in these bright lights. And he came up
Speaker 8: big tonight, especially in the sixth inning, throwing out his
Speaker 8: first runner and then tying the game up with an
Speaker 8: RBI double down the right field line that was smoked
Speaker 8: at one hundred and fourteen miles an hour. Let's head
Speaker 8: back downstairs to hear from young rookie Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, obviously they're special. Anyway I can help
Speaker 13: the team win as a big part of what I
Speaker 13: want to do here. Yeah, It's it sucks. Wait, ended
Speaker 13: I hate losing way more than I love winning. It's
Speaker 13: one of those things. It's a pill to swallow and
Speaker 13: learn from and see what we can build on moving forward,
Speaker 13: especially with some of these pictures. I just I like
Speaker 13: to take the fall for things like that and never
Speaker 13: ever put any blame on a picture. So I'll look
Speaker 13: at some things to night, and uh we'll move forward.
Speaker 2: What were you finding just with navigating through their lineup
Speaker 2: then with this one and seeing how they're able to
Speaker 2: find different ways to get to you guys.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's maybe I'll let some things speed up on me.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 13: Like I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna take blame as
Speaker 13: much as possible. But rookie, that's my job. Uh Essentially,
Speaker 13: I'm gonna take blame for every little thing that happens
Speaker 13: on the field, whether it's good, bad, ugly everything. But yeah,
Speaker 13: like I said, it's it's gonna be a long night
Speaker 13: looking at some things and uh figuring out what we
Speaker 13: can do to move forward and be better.
Speaker 14: He Uh there was some concouraging things from his start today.
Speaker 2: You saw him a couple of weeks ago where some
Speaker 2: of them are encouraged things that you saw.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's uh, I mean he's he's the best left
Speaker 13: handed picture of all time. And uh, like I said, uh,
Speaker 13: I think I could have made some better decisions in
Speaker 13: uh certain situations, and I I think moving forward, I uh,
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna run into those problems anymore, especially with
Speaker 13: him in particular. But yeah, it's it's a game of baseball.
Speaker 13: Sometimes things don't go your way. But like I said,
Speaker 13: that's the best life had of picture of all time.
Speaker 13: I should be able to navigate him.
Speaker 14: What were the pregame means?
Speaker 7: Like in preparation with Curse Good?
Speaker 13: I felt like we had a good plan moving in.
Speaker 13: I felt like we rode most of the plan for
Speaker 13: the most part, executed some things, and like I said,
Speaker 13: maybe there were some hiccups I made throughout the road,
Speaker 13: and that's, like I said, something I can grow on
Speaker 13: and move forward and do better.
Speaker 8: That's what all Right, there's Dalton rushing and that's a
Speaker 8: peek into people that have been around him know already.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the type of guy he is. He's
Speaker 8: a servant to the pictures. He's not just all about hitting,
Speaker 8: even though he's a really good hitter. He really takes
Speaker 8: it personal when things don't go right for his pictures.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 8: phone number. All right, we have two callers that want
Speaker 8: to complain about Michael Conforto, so I'm gonna let them
Speaker 8: hash it out together. Johnny and Luke in the OC
Speaker 8: go ahead. You both want to get on Michael Conforto,
Speaker 8: So why don't you guys discuss it? Johnny started off,
Speaker 8: what do you have to say about Confordo?
Speaker 14: To Luke, thanks for taking my call again, Dave, Hi.
Speaker 8: Luke and the OC, how you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm taking my call as well. I'll let Johnny go, Yeah, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Dave.
Speaker 14: It's it's almost we're almost fifty games in.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 14: The guy hasn't made any any real adjustments or anything
Speaker 14: like that. I just with Kim and Tommy coming back
Speaker 14: and Tail coming back, I just I don't know, something's
Speaker 14: got to change with this. I'm on board with what
Speaker 14: Ben said about Conforto, but he has to put some
Speaker 14: respect on the two time champ Krushoff for sure, but Conforto,
Speaker 14: I don't know. I want to hear what Luke has
Speaker 14: to say.
Speaker 8: I do too. Your insight on all.
Speaker 10: This, sure, Yeah, I think my insight is actually more
Speaker 10: of like a Roberts criticism of why wouldn't.
Speaker 15: Roberts entertain the idea of pinch hitting there? And it's
Speaker 15: not like a dig at gets Conforno. It's more of
Speaker 15: just trying to give Kim a shot, give Smith a shot,
Speaker 15: give the people who have indicated that they're hot recently
Speaker 15: a shot. I mean, I know, like to Johnny's credit,
Speaker 15: like John Now, Johnny Conforno.
Speaker 4: Was like not been.
Speaker 10: I mean, he has been great all season. He's been
Speaker 10: better as as late as you pointed out earlier to day.
Speaker 10: But I think team's gotten on like well, like like
Speaker 10: nine straight games, like just give him a shot.
Speaker 8: Was snapped last night. He did reach nine nine consecutive
Speaker 8: plate appearances, that's true, And he did come in as
Speaker 8: a pinch runner and almost beat out a bang bang
Speaker 8: play at second base because I don't think Tim Anderson
Speaker 8: realized who was running right there, But yeah, I mean
Speaker 8: he was in there. And look, that's that's a fair
Speaker 8: question to ask Luke. But it's fifty it's barely not
Speaker 8: even fifty games in, guys, are we really going to
Speaker 8: pull the plug on Michael Confordo, who in the last
Speaker 8: ten days has swung the bat a lot better and
Speaker 8: with authority. So I feel like that's the reason why
Speaker 8: Dave wanted to save his bullets for the ninth inning.
Speaker 8: Can we all agree that Michael Confordo has looked good
Speaker 8: in the last week, better at least the last week.
Speaker 10: Yes, I totally agree, totally gree I'm not pulling plugs
Speaker 10: on anybody. I'm I'm thinking about, you know, situational hitting.
Speaker 10: I think Confordo is long term. I think he makes sense.
Speaker 10: I'm just trying to, you know, think about that's hitting.
Speaker 8: You hear it now?
Speaker 13: Now?
Speaker 8: And how about this, Johnny? All right, hold on, let
Speaker 8: me just let's make a compromise here. If Michael Confordo
Speaker 8: is still hovering where he's hovering right now, uh mid June,
Speaker 8: then I will agree with you guys that Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: is going to have to go to the matchup game.
Speaker 8: And and sorry, I know the Dodgers took a one
Speaker 8: year flyer on him. But I know the hitting coaches
Speaker 8: believe that Michael Conforto is gonna figure it out. I mean,
Speaker 8: two for forty two stretch that he's much better than that.
Speaker 8: So I'm not giving up on Michael Confordo. But let's
Speaker 8: circle back mid June and we could talk about matchups
Speaker 8: and alternatives. How about that.
Speaker 14: I wouldn't say us get back again, but he's he's
Speaker 14: two for thirty two with running the scoring position in
Speaker 14: over twenty six last twenty seven. So it's it's when
Speaker 14: you got people making production.
Speaker 8: I agree, that's fair. That's fair. Let's circle back. Okay,
Speaker 8: let's give it a little bit more time. Thanks guys,
Speaker 8: great great conversation. See very calm discussion right there. Eight
Speaker 8: six six eighty seven seventy is the phone number. Dwayne
Speaker 8: McDonald was not amused. Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to
Speaker 8: the Angels tonight eleven Ton and have lost the first
Speaker 8: two games of the Freeway Series and have lost the
Speaker 8: series at Dodger Stadium to the Angels for the first
Speaker 8: time since twenty nineteen. Yeah, twenty nineteen wasn't just two
Speaker 8: years ago. It's twenty twenty five. Now, that was a
Speaker 8: while ago. Let's go out to Sierra Madre. Josh, you're
Speaker 8: on Dodger Talk Live from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 16: Hi, Josh, Hey David, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 16: I really appreciate it. You know, I was actually one
Speaker 16: of the few people who lights the michaeltonfordos signing in
Speaker 16: the offseason, and he always thought he's been a solid
Speaker 16: that he's usually good for about twenty homers a season,
Speaker 16: so it's you know this, the slump that he's been
Speaker 16: in has been disappointing for me by myself, but I'm sorry,
Speaker 16: Day I don't understand how you let him back in
Speaker 16: that situation with the bases loaded. He's two for thirty
Speaker 16: two this season with the with runners and scoring position.
Speaker 16: I mean, they do have better options there. You have Kim,
Speaker 16: you had Smith. That Smith they said came about too
Speaker 16: at that's too late. I don't understand how you don't.
Speaker 16: I can have a shot there. He's done nothing but impressed.
Speaker 16: He's hitting like four seventy in his first two baths.
Speaker 16: I know it's a small sample size, I get it,
Speaker 16: but I feel like in that situation, that was a
Speaker 16: situation that was more suited for Kim in my opinion.
Speaker 16: So I don't want to give up on Michael Confordo.
Speaker 16: He has looked better. He has definitely made much with
Speaker 16: eric contact with the ball. But at some point you
Speaker 16: just got to start getting results. And if we're not
Speaker 16: seeing results in the next few weeks, you're gonna have
Speaker 16: to do something. So we'll see. But I feel like
Speaker 16: the clock's kicking up. Conforto, it's not looking good.
Speaker 8: That's fair, Josh. And if Dave Roberts was going to
Speaker 8: have Smith hit against ken Lee Jansen, why not do
Speaker 8: it there? Yeah, you're right, and you guys and Johnny
Speaker 8: was right, and so is our guy from the OC,
Speaker 8: Michael Confordo. This year just two for thirty one with
Speaker 8: runners in scoring position. That's got to get better in
Speaker 8: those situations, or I agree with you guys, Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: is going to be forced to get somebody off the
Speaker 8: bench that can take a better at bat in those situations.
Speaker 8: Thanks for the phone call, Josh. Let's take another phone call.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Newport Beach. Ken You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi, Ken, Hey, there.
Speaker 10: How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I agree with him every time with.
Speaker 8: The Freeway series? Was that just a obligatory how you doing?
Speaker 8: You didn't really care? Right?
Speaker 2: Oh I do?
Speaker 3: I do care to tell what I was doing. Okay,
Speaker 3: but Kershaw didn't look good in the perst any with
Speaker 3: us Kershaw. I'll live with whatever goes on with him
Speaker 3: because he is a superstar. I'm not happy with some
Speaker 3: of the relief pictures. I think Garcia needs to go.
Speaker 3: Guy's got a four fifty e RRA. To bring him
Speaker 3: in at that time made no sense. Now what everyone
Speaker 3: was talking about was my main point. You had a
Speaker 3: choice with the face of the look.
Speaker 8: He brought in Lewis. He brought in Luis Garcia because
Speaker 8: Kirby Yates got hurt.
Speaker 3: I understand, I understand, And there's short unrelief pictures and that's.
Speaker 8: That's right, that's the reason why.
Speaker 3: Yes, but you got you got Smith at three thirty,
Speaker 3: you've got Kim at four fifty two, and you've got
Speaker 3: a guy who simply is not hitting. And if you're
Speaker 3: trying to win this game, you pinch hit those guys.
Speaker 3: The only reason you wouldn't is maybe you are getting
Speaker 3: some pressure because Friedman spent seventeen million dollars in that guy,
Speaker 3: and maybe he's saying, let him stay, let him stay,
Speaker 3: but you got to play to win.
Speaker 8: I'm sure that's in the back of Dave's mind to
Speaker 8: a certain extent. But Andrew Friedman isn't calling into the
Speaker 8: dug at. I'm saying, do not pinch hit for Michael
Speaker 8: Confordo under no circumstances. That's a that's a Dave call,
Speaker 8: and it's a fair question. That is a fair question,
Speaker 8: especially since we saw Will Smith come off the bench
Speaker 8: to face Kenley in the ninth inning. So yeah, you're right,
Speaker 8: that's a that's a fair question. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 8: can I'll try to find out where Dave's head's at
Speaker 8: with Mike Confordo moving forward in that type of situation again.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number. I'll also look to see what his
Speaker 8: numbers were against Kennley Jansen. That's another part of all this, right,
Speaker 8: I mean, I got to look at the matchups, what
Speaker 8: his history against Kennley Jansen was. The Dodgers obviously have
Speaker 8: that information. I'm looking it up as we speak here.
Speaker 8: But that's that's part of it as well. Let's see
Speaker 8: what he's done. Oh gosh, this is really making your case.
Speaker 8: Not only is Confordo just two for thirty one with
Speaker 8: runners in scoring position coming into the game tonight, Confordo,
Speaker 8: Oh man, I'm glad I took your calls before I'm
Speaker 8: going to tell you this. You're gonna be really mad.
Speaker 8: Uh Kenley Confordo against Kenny Jansen in his career oh
Speaker 8: for seven coming into tonight. So he's oh for eight
Speaker 8: now in his career against Kennley Jansen. Not a great matchup.
Speaker 8: All right, We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 8: Dodger Talxie. See how I did that. I took your
Speaker 8: phone calls and then I told you the matchup stats,
Speaker 8: and now I'm taking a break, and then we're gonna
Speaker 8: talk to Jose Mota. Plus I have an update on show.
Speaker 8: Hey Tany Pitching and Blake Snell joined us on the
Speaker 8: pregame show and gave us an update on where he's
Speaker 8: at and when he may return. That's a big piece
Speaker 8: to taking the burden off the bullpen. Dodgers fall to
Speaker 8: the Angels tonight, eleven to nine on a five to
Speaker 8: seventy LA.
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Speaker 8: seven two five seventy is the phone number before we
Speaker 8: check in with Jose Mota. I want to give you
Speaker 8: the latest on show. Hey Otani the pitcher. Today he
Speaker 8: threw a bullpen session and he threw more pitches than
Speaker 8: he has since this rehab ramp up through fifty pitches
Speaker 8: and threw all of his pitches in that bullpen session
Speaker 8: and touched ninety five miles an hour. I found this
Speaker 8: out from my good friends in the Japanese media, who
Speaker 8: obviously have their egle eyes on all that. And my
Speaker 8: understanding is they spoke to Thomas Albert, the Dodger trainer,
Speaker 8: who told them next Saturday, Shoe, Hey Otani may even
Speaker 8: throw a live batting practice session at City Field. So
Speaker 8: there you go. Things are moving in a big way
Speaker 8: for Otani to come back and pitch. All right, let's
Speaker 8: check in with Jose Moda.
Speaker 6: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 8: All right, Jose Moda. The Dodgers score nine runs and
Speaker 8: they lose. Callers are upset that Dave Roberts did not
Speaker 8: pinch it for Michael Conforto in that situation with the
Speaker 8: bases loaded in the eighth inning off of Kenley Janssen.
Speaker 8: I find it hard to nitpick the offense after scoring nine,
Speaker 8: But do you feel like that's a fair question.
Speaker 2: It is a fair question because there's a history now
Speaker 2: with him and he has not hit beyond all the
Speaker 2: numbers you throw out, and the callers called him out
Speaker 2: in which they're right. He doesn't hit right handed pitching,
Speaker 2: which is a bigger mystery coming into today against right
Speaker 2: handed pitching. And Kelly Jenson is just not any right
Speaker 2: handed pitcher. He's dominant right handed pitcher. And I think
Speaker 2: after he filed off the first pitch, I told you,
Speaker 2: so he's going to get one pitch, he better not
Speaker 2: waste it beyond that. Then he went upstairs and got him.
Speaker 2: Look you know with that cutter. So everything on the
Speaker 2: table right now when you're not performing, and the numbers
Speaker 2: tell you in this analytic driven game that those things
Speaker 2: do matter right now. And a lot of times too,
Speaker 2: is you pressure a guy and he sent a message
Speaker 2: by saying, hey, listen, right now, you're not the best option.
Speaker 2: I do have another option, and you do go out
Speaker 2: there and make the change and just explain to him why.
Speaker 2: But you want that guy in the situation and let
Speaker 2: him know that case you just say, hey, not the
Speaker 2: best option out there, but let me tell you that
Speaker 2: I want you to be there. And this is why
Speaker 2: he did it. Yeah, I do agree that perhaps at
Speaker 2: some point against the Kelly yess and against a rity
Speaker 2: like that, you've got to go out and consider that.
Speaker 8: And on the flip side, Will Smith is one of
Speaker 8: the best hitters in baseball with runners in scoring positions.
Speaker 8: So if you're going to bring him off the bench
Speaker 8: to face ken Ley in the ninth inning as a
Speaker 8: leadoff hitter, why wouldn't you bring him up in that
Speaker 8: type of situation where he could possibly put you ahead.
Speaker 3: It all makes sense. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a right lefty matchup right there,
Speaker 2: because Will Smith is a guy that puts the ball
Speaker 2: in play. We saw the great app that he had
Speaker 2: later in the game the following inning. Kelly is actually
Speaker 2: gets a little more frustrated pitching against guys like that
Speaker 2: to have less holes and can cover the outer half,
Speaker 2: but cutter, he he just has to go sink or
Speaker 2: he can fight it off inside too. So yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a viable option. I think next time we might see
Speaker 2: something like that. I think there's for sure everything's going
Speaker 2: to be more on the table because Michael Gonfordo and
Speaker 2: those situations is not producing right now.
Speaker 8: Fair enough Dodgers fall to the Angels tonight eleven to nine.
Speaker 8: Clayton Kershaw made his season debut tonight. We heard from
Speaker 8: Kershaw earlier in the show. What did you think, Jose
Speaker 8: from what you saw tonight?
Speaker 2: I think the only thing that he overthrew really was
Speaker 2: his curveball. Well, he threw a couple of curveballs where
Speaker 2: he just didn't have a nice grip and he overthrew those.
Speaker 2: But overall, it is just a lack of command. And then,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to put this very carefully, Okay, when
Speaker 2: you're a rehab and you're facing obviously less line ups,
Speaker 2: lesser lineups, lesser talent, and you have a lot of
Speaker 2: anxious guys at home play a lot of the pictures
Speaker 2: that he made to Ward the solaieran company most likely
Speaker 2: on rehab guys we're going to be swinging at. This
Speaker 2: is a different monster. And it's not the first time
Speaker 2: that you know, got like Kersh or big leaguerath got
Speaker 2: on rehab. But you can see that the Angels, one
Speaker 2: of the hitting teams overall in baseball, terrible against left
Speaker 2: Other pictures did have from Johnny Washington, their hitting coach,
Speaker 2: a very good plan on saying, if this pitch starts
Speaker 2: in the center, in the area you're not going to slink.
Speaker 2: Just take it and be patient, just force him into
Speaker 2: the strike zone. And that plan Payt has some in
Speaker 2: the first thing when they with thirty eight pitches after
Speaker 2: a couple of walks, he's good to see the strikeouts,
Speaker 2: go to see the velocity. I think there's going to
Speaker 2: be more on the velocity and not necessarily upticking, but
Speaker 2: just on the way the ball carries out of his
Speaker 2: hand as he pushes more and more. You know of
Speaker 2: that front of that left foot, and beyond that too
Speaker 2: is a slider. Is going to find a way as
Speaker 2: he did today with some backdoor slider early and strikes
Speaker 2: to make it look a little more more bite, and
Speaker 2: he says, ripping it a little bit better, he's going
Speaker 2: to find some rhythm. But today you got to get
Speaker 2: him a pass because there's no doubt there as well.
Speaker 2: There was a lot going on, and it's tough to
Speaker 2: admit it right after a game, but there's going to
Speaker 2: be a time when he's gonna just look at today
Speaker 2: and go, wow, there was a lot going on. I
Speaker 2: just didn't execute, But certainty it wasn't just the physical part,
Speaker 2: but also the emotional side and the part fact that
Speaker 2: you know, after a couple of surgeries, in the big
Speaker 2: week stage and down your stadium.
Speaker 3: It was a big night for him.
Speaker 2: So let's beat him this one and then hopefully he'll
Speaker 2: be better the next time, all.
Speaker 8: Right, Jose, thanks a lot for breaking that down. We'll
Speaker 8: check in with you again tomorrow as you fill in
Speaker 8: for Rick Monday on a big Sunday for the Dodgers
Speaker 8: to try to win the final game of this three
Speaker 8: game series. So far disappointing first two games from the
Speaker 8: Dodgers in this series.
Speaker 2: No doubt you got the cattle them mount and tomorrow
Speaker 2: is a new day. Go out there and go get him.
Speaker 8: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. Appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers broadcast team filling in
Speaker 8: for Rick Monday, who will return during the Diamondbacks series.
Speaker 8: Dodgers fall tonight eleven to nine to the Angels, and
Speaker 8: they also lose their veteran reliever Kirby Yates, who left
Speaker 8: the game in the seventh inning with a right hamstring strain.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts said after the game he is headed to
Speaker 8: the il and I can't remember if I'm mention this
Speaker 8: young man's name last night or the night before, but
Speaker 8: Nick Frosso was really impressive in spring training. Is it
Speaker 8: Nick Frosso time? He could really help this bullpen and
Speaker 8: certainly is a live arm that can pitch multiple innings.
Speaker 8: Eight six, six, seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Let's go out of Santa Rosa. Steven, You're on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk live from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Hi, Stephen, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 6: Dave?
Speaker 1: Listen to you a long time and first time. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you for telling me, and no problem. I got
Speaker 1: a question, why would he start the rookie instead of
Speaker 1: Will Smith because there was a left handed pitcher and
Speaker 1: Will Smith, of course is the day game tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: then that would be his best game tomorrow. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why Dave Roberts did that.
Speaker 8: So there's a left hander tomorrow as well, you say Kukuchi.
Speaker 8: So Dave Roberts Sam had to choose a night, and
Speaker 8: he decided to go with rushing because rushing kot Kershaw
Speaker 8: in his last rehab start. They did a game planning
Speaker 8: situation during the game last night. So that's just the
Speaker 8: way he lined it up, he chose tonight to have
Speaker 8: Smith sit and start him tomorrow for the day game
Speaker 8: against another left hander.
Speaker 1: Well, normally he doesn't do that, But so you're.
Speaker 8: Selling that's of change. I'm not sure if you noticed.
Speaker 8: Austin Barnes is not here, So things are going to
Speaker 8: be a little bit different the way he rotates the
Speaker 8: catchers because Dalton Rushing's going to push for more playing time,
Speaker 8: especially from what we've seen the first two games of
Speaker 8: his major league career Stevens. So it's not going to
Speaker 8: be Will Smith catching once a week anymore. He's going
Speaker 8: to get a few more days off in hopes of
Speaker 8: keeping him more fresh for the second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, what do you think about I know you're
Speaker 1: a big fan of Muncie, and my seats are just
Speaker 1: looking my seats are directly looking at third base, and
Speaker 1: he cannot go to his right at all, and he's weaker.
Speaker 8: He's weaker going to the line. You're right, yes, yes,
Speaker 8: he is a step slower.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing many third basements there over the years, sitting there,
Speaker 1: he's probably the you know, the worst one I've seen,
Speaker 1: and well, come on, well I'll be the last fifteen
Speaker 1: years who.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to say he's he's not Brooks Robinson Steven,
Speaker 8: but he's uh, he's solid and he's gotten better.
Speaker 1: Well, how many airs does he have so far?
Speaker 8: I don't have that at the top of my list.
Speaker 8: I don't keep his errors right on my stats sheet here, I.
Speaker 1: Know, because there's too many, too many to jot down.
Speaker 8: Hey Steven, Wow, Hey, I gotta go. I want to
Speaker 8: share Blake Snell before I say good night. Come on, Steven.
Speaker 8: That's that's enough months he hates for one night. I mean,
Speaker 8: the guy got a big hit tonight as well. He
Speaker 8: made a leaping catch on a line drive in the
Speaker 8: second inning tonight, So come on, layoff, Max Muncie. All right.
Speaker 8: Blake Snell joined us for another snell Zilla's Saturday. I
Speaker 8: don't know if it's a regular thing, but the last
Speaker 8: two Saturdays he's opened up about where he's at and
Speaker 8: he hasn't opened up to anybody about it. So here's
Speaker 8: Blake Snell on where he's at and when he may return. No,
Speaker 8: it was good.
Speaker 17: He's just helping me with with like my timing and
Speaker 17: I'm trying to like keep it slow and go back.
Speaker 17: So I don't have any hiccups, and you know he's
Speaker 17: helping me with like, hey, just trust your body where
Speaker 17: you're at vlow wise, like don't try to do less
Speaker 17: than don't try to like manipulate your body, like let
Speaker 17: it be natural and just connected. So that's what we're
Speaker 17: working on talking about. And yeah, I felt good to
Speaker 17: feeling better and the pain's finally going away. I haven't
Speaker 17: played catch without pain and probably since we were in Japan.
Speaker 7: That's great.
Speaker 17: So yeah, I'm pretty pretty and yeah, it just feels
Speaker 17: good to finally like play catch again and like be
Speaker 17: able to work on something.
Speaker 8: Instead of just being cautious about the pain coming back.
Speaker 8: I'm sure.
Speaker 17: Yeah, thrown with pain sucks. You don't notice it when
Speaker 17: you're in it. You know, you're just like it's going
Speaker 17: to go away, because that's usually what we go through
Speaker 17: and you're like it's just early or go away. But
Speaker 17: that's pretty tough when it didn't, and you know, like
Speaker 17: I probably should have stop throwing before opening day, but
Speaker 17: I wanted to pitch so bad that you know, made
Speaker 17: it worse than then you know it was probably gonna be.
Speaker 17: But you know, I learned from it, and it's tough man,
Speaker 17: we want to compete, we want to play, and yeah,
Speaker 17: uh you know, new new, new to being a Dodger,
Speaker 17: and I want to just you know, show everyone how
Speaker 17: great I am and what I can be and got
Speaker 17: a little too far ahead of myself and yeah, learn
Speaker 17: from it. So excited about that, Excited that you know,
Speaker 17: I'm able to throw the ball, paying free for the
Speaker 17: most part, and yeah, looking forward to getting back Lake.
Speaker 8: It sounds like the coaches just want you to be
Speaker 8: honest with them and honest with yourself.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 17: They I mean they tell me like, you know, take
Speaker 17: your time, go slow, but that's like foreign language to me.
Speaker 17: I'm just like, you know, it's always been like we
Speaker 17: need you back, we need you back. And you know
Speaker 17: I was trying to go, you know, I just I
Speaker 17: want to pitch here. I love I love being a
Speaker 17: Dodger and yeah here it take your time, and I'm
Speaker 17: gonna do that. But I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna.
Speaker 17: I want to be back. So it's I gotta find
Speaker 17: like a happy medium and be smart about it. So
Speaker 17: when I come back, I can, you know, do the
Speaker 17: best I can to stay on the roster and pitch.
Speaker 8: No doubt you gotta be honest with yourself. And once
Speaker 8: snail Zilla's back on that mound, it's gonna be a
Speaker 8: big deal for the Dodgers when he's healthy. Now, where
Speaker 8: does all this go? I mean, this is kind of
Speaker 8: tedious when we say you're playing catch? How big? How
Speaker 8: big of a day was snail Zilla's Saturday today? And
Speaker 8: where does it go the rest of the week?
Speaker 17: Yeah, just a progression build up seventy five feet and
Speaker 17: then we'll go into like one fifty and then get
Speaker 17: into bullpens after the road trip.
Speaker 8: And you need me to stand in for one of
Speaker 8: those bullpens.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean wear a diaper, but yeah, I'll be
Speaker 17: I'll be ready to go. Yeah, So you know, just
Speaker 17: we'll see how it all goes and the build up
Speaker 17: and then having Connor out there, Mark, Mark's gonna start
Speaker 17: coming out there as well. It's gonna be exciting and
Speaker 17: just to you know, be able to throw and work
Speaker 17: on stuff and and get ready to go to go compete.
Speaker 17: And you know, it's tough watching all these games, you know,
Speaker 17: you just want to be a part of. It's so
Speaker 17: bad and it's really tough to watch him and know
Speaker 17: like your day's not coming yet and it's taught me
Speaker 17: a lot about you know, being patient, being grateful, and uh,
Speaker 17: you know, it's it's tough right now, but it's short term.
Speaker 17: It's how I'm looking at it and for long term happiness,
Speaker 17: which I'm excited about.
Speaker 8: All Right, there's Blake's now. That was an exclusive conversation
Speaker 8: with him where he kind of let us know more
Speaker 8: than I was expecting about how his shoulder got hurt
Speaker 8: and where he that as far as his progression to
Speaker 8: come back, So things are moving in the right direction.
Speaker 8: He's paying free for the first time in a long time,
Speaker 8: and that's great news. So even though he has moved
Speaker 8: to the sixty DAYIL, it's backdated to the last time
Speaker 8: he pitched, which was April second, so he can be
Speaker 8: eligible to return at the end of June, first week
Speaker 8: of July. So that's the time period that the Dodgers
Speaker 8: are and Blake wants to come back, So good news.
Speaker 8: I know he wishes that he could be out there
Speaker 8: every fifth day, but that's not the way things went. Maybe,
Speaker 8: you know, like it falls into that Confordo category as well.
Speaker 8: A guy that signs a big contract with a new
Speaker 8: team wants to impress, so badly that they press and
Speaker 8: they try to do too much. And obviously from what
Speaker 8: Blake just told us there that he probably shouldn't have
Speaker 8: pushed the throwing and the bullpens and starting because he
Speaker 8: wanted to pitch on opening Day. He wanted to be
Speaker 8: there and not start the year hurt or delayed. Michael
Speaker 8: Conforto may be trying to do too much, especially in
Speaker 8: a situation like tonight bases loaded, two outs down a
Speaker 8: run or two. Those things do creep into big leaguers
Speaker 8: heads as well, But certainly the Dodgers have to take
Speaker 8: a step back and re examine in those type of situations.
Speaker 8: Does Michael Conforto get that at b again? We'll see,
Speaker 8: all right, that'll do it for us tonight on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Coming up tomorrow the finale of the Freeway Series, Tony
Speaker 8: Gonsolin will be on the mound for the Dodgers. He's
Speaker 8: two to zero with an ERA of two to eighty one.
Speaker 8: I mentioned this during the Clubhouse Show. Over the course
Speaker 8: or since twenty twenty two, Tony Gonsolin has the best
Speaker 8: winning percentage of any pitcher in the National League. He
Speaker 8: is twenty six and six in the regular season since
Speaker 8: twenty twenty two. He's going up against left hander, you say, Kukuchi,
Speaker 8: who is owed four. Looking for US first win is
Speaker 8: Eras three seventy two, Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 8: at noon tomorrow with first pitch at one ten and
Speaker 8: by the way, to hear the full conversation with Blake's
Speaker 8: now you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks
Speaker 8: to calling you back at our Burbank studios. Thanks to
Speaker 8: Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. They both do
Speaker 8: a great job. They keep the levels perfect. They are
Speaker 8: the two best you will ever find at a stadium
Speaker 8: or in studio. And I love that Colin played a
Speaker 8: little Frank stallone during the broadcast tonight. All right, that'll
Speaker 8: do it for us tonight. Coming up next Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 8: We will talk to you tomorrow from Dodgers Stadium. Have
Speaker 8: a great rest of your Saturday. Once again, the final
Speaker 8: score tonight, d Angels beat the Dodgers eleven to nine.
Speaker 8: See yum
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