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Speaker 7: And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kats, Now that's.
Speaker 3: What the Dodgers' offense is supposed to look like. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 3: and welcome into postgame Dodger Talk here on AM five
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with us on this
Speaker 3: glorious Wednesday afternoon. The cloud that burned off right at
Speaker 3: first pitch, the sun broke through right when the Dodgers'
Speaker 3: offense started to get going and picking up right where
Speaker 3: they left off last night. Fifteen runs on eighteen hits,
Speaker 3: and today they tack on more twelve runs on seventeen
Speaker 3: hits in a twelve seven win over the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the number. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: We got plenty of time for your phone calls between
Speaker 3: now and the bottom of the hour when we turn
Speaker 3: things over to Petro some money. As the Dodgers get
Speaker 3: the three game sweep over the Miami Marlins. They've now
Speaker 3: won five straight overall on what was a really good
Speaker 3: home stand for the Dodgers. I mentioned it last night.
Speaker 3: I mentioned in the Clubhouse Show just a little while ago.
Speaker 3: Last night was one of those get right games for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. This guy's struggling offensively, maybe not filling it
Speaker 3: on defense, the pitching staff having their ups and downs,
Speaker 3: the bullpen being asked to do a lot. Last night
Speaker 3: was one of those games. Everything went right. Matt Sower
Speaker 3: went the five innings to help out the bullpen. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers erupted offensively. You're starting to see Mookie Betts swing
Speaker 3: the bat. Andy Pojez, I mean somebody, this guy is
Speaker 3: on fire. Do not touch him because you will get burned.
Speaker 3: How hot he is right now and hopefully he stays
Speaker 3: hot and you're seeing a Dodgers' offense last night. Just
Speaker 3: get back on track, get right, as they say, Well
Speaker 3: today it was a continuation of that, and even more
Speaker 3: so for a Mookie Bet and a Max Munci who
Speaker 3: hit his first home run of the season. You heard
Speaker 3: Max in the clubout show, ecstatic, just had a smile
Speaker 3: on his face the entire time, messing around with Davivet
Speaker 3: saying the Dodgers' clubhouse. Certainly, a mood can change when
Speaker 3: you hit a home run, and when things start clicking
Speaker 3: at the plate, and when things aren't going right and
Speaker 3: you start the season like Max had one hundred and
Speaker 3: five played appearances without a home run, you start feeling
Speaker 3: it mentally, emotionally, on and off the field, and to
Speaker 3: hit a home run, he rounded.
Speaker 5: First and just kind of threw his hands.
Speaker 3: Up in the air like, finally, yes, that's it, a
Speaker 3: home run, Finally I can get going and got that
Speaker 3: monkey off of his back, so to speak, and can
Speaker 3: go on now and be the Max Muncie where he
Speaker 3: knows he can be offensively and what we've seen him
Speaker 3: produce offensively for this Dodgers team. Year after year, it's
Speaker 3: a get right series for the Dodgers. There's no doubt
Speaker 3: about it. The offense is clicking. We saw some really
Speaker 3: good defense, and the pitching the last few games has
Speaker 3: been really good for the Dodgers. And today spotlighted by
Speaker 3: what Tony Gonsolin did in his return. I don't think
Speaker 3: you understand how good he was today. And I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna temper it either by saying it's the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 3: It's a last place team. Look at Sandy al Contre yesterday,
Speaker 3: a Cy Young Award winner a few years ago, Tommy
Speaker 3: John surgery. He was making I believe, his six or
Speaker 3: seven start yesterday. He still doesn't look right. He's still
Speaker 3: getting his stuff back. He is still trying to work
Speaker 3: his way back from Tommy John surgery. Because just because
Speaker 3: you're cleared, just because you're activated off the injury list,
Speaker 3: just because you made some minor league rehab starts, and
Speaker 3: the calendar tells you you're good and the doctor tells
Speaker 3: you you're good, you still have to get your stuff back.
Speaker 3: You still have to get that feel back, You still
Speaker 3: have to get your pitches back. You still have to
Speaker 3: get your mechanics back. You start have to get into
Speaker 3: a rhythm and build yourself up. And yes, you're cleared
Speaker 3: and you checked all the boxes to get back onto
Speaker 3: the field. But then there's the whole emotional hurdle of
Speaker 3: coming back from an injury, whether it's a knee injury,
Speaker 3: whether it's a foot injury in Freddie Freeman, and for
Speaker 3: this case it's Tony Gonsolin and Tommy John surgery last year.
Speaker 3: He could have gone, he said in his own words
Speaker 3: to David Vasse on Monday Night on the Dodgers pregame show,
Speaker 3: that he could have pitched in October. Could he have
Speaker 3: been successful. We hope he would have been, but the
Speaker 3: Dodgers elected to just keep him shut down and let
Speaker 3: him get read for twenty twenty five, and then a
Speaker 3: back injury lifting weights in the spring training derailed his start.
Speaker 3: He would have broke camp with this Dodgers team and
Speaker 3: bet in the rotation to start the year, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3: And so now we finally get the debut today of
Speaker 3: Tony Gonsolin. And while it took a few extra weeks
Speaker 3: for him to get back out under the mound, I'm
Speaker 3: not worried about that. Because what I saw was Tony
Speaker 3: Gonsolin dialed in mechanics, his pitches, everything looked really good
Speaker 3: in six innings of work. It's almost like Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: was noster damis. You know, knew what was happening before
Speaker 3: it happened. Calling his shot yesterday, Colin, he didn't he
Speaker 3: say yesterday? He said he expects Yeah. On the postgame
Speaker 3: show yesterday, Dave Roberts said he fully expected Tony Gonslon
Speaker 3: to give him six today and wouldn't you know it,
Speaker 3: the Catman went out there today and pitched six innings
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers, gave up three runs on three hits.
Speaker 3: Kyle Towers proved to be a thorn in in the
Speaker 3: backs of the Dodgers today as Kyle Stowers was four
Speaker 3: for four with two home runs and four ribbies. He
Speaker 3: drove in four the Dodgers or the Marelands seven runs
Speaker 3: in this game today, including the two run home run
Speaker 3: off Tony Gonsolin with two outs and then Stowers and
Speaker 3: RBI double in the sixth inning off of Tony Gonsolin.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers today got a really impressive performance from
Speaker 3: Tony Gonsolin, just what they needed and quite frankly impressive
Speaker 3: in my eyes, because it is his first start back.
Speaker 3: It is his first start knocking off the rust from
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, missing entire year, And I think more importantly,
Speaker 3: the emotional and psychological hurdle that he got over today
Speaker 3: was massive. Now he knows, Okay, I can go out there.
Speaker 3: I can throw my fastball. I can throw all four
Speaker 3: pitches really well, my four seam fastball, my splitter, my slider,
Speaker 3: my curveball, all my pitches I can throw really good.
Speaker 3: And that splitter opponents only hit below two hundred against him.
Speaker 3: That's his best pitch, his knockout pitch, his strikeout pitch,
Speaker 3: and today you saw him throw it for strikes and
Speaker 3: get swinging missus. He had seventeen swinging misses today from
Speaker 3: the Miami Marlins. It was exactly what he needed and
Speaker 3: what the Dodgers needed today. Six strong innings from a
Speaker 3: starter and from Tony Gonsolin. Now something to build off
Speaker 3: of and something to feel positive about again. Psychologically, you
Speaker 3: feel good, you know your pitchers are back, your mechanics
Speaker 3: feel good. I'm assuming he feels good physically after the game,
Speaker 3: or else we would have heard differently when he talked
Speaker 3: to David Vasse in the clubhouse and the pitches were working.
Speaker 3: And now that he gets it all underneath his belt,
Speaker 3: he knows that he's paying free. He's not having the
Speaker 3: arm problems like he did in twenty twenty three. He's
Speaker 3: over that emotional psychological hurdle and he's ready to go
Speaker 3: the rest of twenty twenty five, hopefully knock on wood
Speaker 3: God willing injury free for the catman.
Speaker 6: Tony Gonsol.
Speaker 3: I love the new look, the shaved head and the
Speaker 3: full beard. I love it looks good. Tony Gonsolin's velocity
Speaker 3: was back as well mid nineties with the fastball I
Speaker 3: mentioned in the Clubout Show. The first three batters he
Speaker 3: faced six strikes eight pitches in the first inning. That
Speaker 3: was it, and he got some help from Michael Conforto
Speaker 3: on a running catch the first at bat of the game.
Speaker 5: But then in the second inning he started pitching backwards.
Speaker 6: What does that mean? Pitching backwards?
Speaker 3: Oh? Oh, count you start mixing in your off speed pitches.
Speaker 3: So the first pitch of it at bat is an
Speaker 3: off speed pitch, a curveball, a slider, a split finger,
Speaker 3: and you throw it for a strike and as Freddy
Speaker 3: Freeman said in the postgame show, David ask him, what
Speaker 3: did you see out of Tony Gonsolyn. Freddy Freeman said,
Speaker 3: the exact same thing. The fact that he was already
Speaker 3: pitching backwards in the counts like he was today, and
Speaker 3: having that confidence to throw the slider, the splitter and
Speaker 3: the cur for an o pitch for a strike opens
Speaker 3: up everything for a pitcher and it at bad and
Speaker 3: gives them an advantage over the hitter ahead of strike
Speaker 3: in the count. And now that you got the hitter thinking, okay,
Speaker 3: is he gonna continue to throw auspeed pitches? Which one
Speaker 3: is it? I'm sitting fastball. That split finger looks like
Speaker 3: a fastball. The slider's got a lot of bite on
Speaker 3: it today, and you're just a mess at the plate.
Speaker 3: And Tony Gonsolin's got you like a cat with a
Speaker 3: ball of yarn for the cat man, just playing with you.
Speaker 3: And that's what he did today for six solid innings
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers as they get the twelve seven win
Speaker 3: over the Miami Marlins eight sixty six nine eighty.
Speaker 6: Seven two five seven.
Speaker 3: Squad to the phones before we take a break, and
Speaker 3: we hear from Jose Mota we'll also here from the
Speaker 3: manager Dave Roberts as well Maxwell and Austin.
Speaker 6: Maxwell.
Speaker 8: How you doing, Hey, Tim, I'm doing okay, I'm doing good.
Speaker 3: It was a good win for this Dodgers team. Maxwell,
Speaker 3: it was a good series win for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 3: Is finally the guys are healthy, Tommy, I've been a
Speaker 3: little banged up injury.
Speaker 5: We found out after the game. Wasn't in the lineup.
Speaker 3: But the big three finally playing together in that lineup together,
Speaker 3: and we're starting the three and see the three of
Speaker 3: them start producing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday I called my shop for Max. Today I
Speaker 2: called my shop for Max Monthly actually to hit his
Speaker 2: first home run and he did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good to see him get a home run. Max,
Speaker 3: Well swim that silver Hamill appreciated. Checking in from Austin.
Speaker 3: It was a big home run for Max. You can
Speaker 3: see the excitement, you can see the relief coming off
Speaker 3: of him when he hit that home run. And on
Speaker 3: the flip side of it, I think of some of
Speaker 3: Bat's this homestand where he thought he got it and
Speaker 3: hit it right to somebody in the outfield, where he
Speaker 3: swung a pitch and struck out and he just is
Speaker 3: staring at the ground and you can see the frustration
Speaker 3: you feel for a Max mount see, because you don't
Speaker 3: want to see a hitter go through this because the
Speaker 3: entire time they're thinking, this is ever gonna stop? Am
Speaker 3: I ever gonna get out of this? Am I destined
Speaker 3: just to be a one ninety four hitter? Is this
Speaker 3: what my career has come to? It's a lot to
Speaker 3: start thinking that, and then you get the pressure of
Speaker 3: the fans. Come on, man, what'ch you're hitting? Where's Max
Speaker 3: Munsey's power? Where's the silver hammer? All that starts playing
Speaker 3: into things. And for Max Munsey to hit a home
Speaker 3: run today, it just gets that pressure off of his shoulders,
Speaker 3: and I hope for him it just unlocks something for
Speaker 3: him offensively at the plate. And we just see a
Speaker 3: lot of production from Max Munsey because to think about
Speaker 3: this offense with Otani, bat Freeman, Taeoscar Hernandez pretty impressive, right.
Speaker 3: You got a Will Smith always dangerous, Andy Pajez on
Speaker 3: fire now and you throw in a Max Munsey starting
Speaker 3: to turn things around offensively, getting maybe back to the
Speaker 3: Max Munsey that we saw from the last couple of years. Again,
Speaker 3: that elongates this lineup, and it makes it so hard
Speaker 3: to pitch to one through nine. You just make it
Speaker 3: so there's no breathing room for a starting pitcher. You
Speaker 3: make it so there's no breathing room for a manager
Speaker 3: when something goes wrong to go to the bullpen because
Speaker 3: you're like, who do I go to?
Speaker 6: Lefty? Righty?
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter because I got Otani coming, It doesn't matter
Speaker 3: because I got red hot Andy Payez coming up. You
Speaker 3: just have no moves to make on the chessboard if
Speaker 3: you're a posy manager, because the Dodgers control the board
Speaker 3: with their offense and their lineup. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seven. We'll take a break, we'll
Speaker 3: come back. We'll get to more of your phone calls.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Jose Moto, We'll hear from the manager,
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6: A busy time here.
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Speaker 8: Here's a two blow on one strike pitch and this
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Speaker 4: Toward the wall in his god home run number one.
Speaker 8: As Maxwell gets go swing the silver hammer for the
Speaker 8: first time this season and the Dodgers on the board
Speaker 8: won nothing.
Speaker 3: Max months. He did it his first home run of
Speaker 3: this season. Dodgers and All had two home runs today.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman went deep a two run shot in the
Speaker 3: six twelve run seventeen hits, seven hits extra base hits
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers today as they crush the Marlins twelve
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Speaker 3: It's time to go around the horn with Hose Moda
Speaker 3: A lot to get to Jose. Ah, I'll start with
Speaker 3: Tony Gonsolin Man. Impressive to see.
Speaker 6: Him out there.
Speaker 5: I mentioned it.
Speaker 3: The physical stuff was back, obviously, but I think emotionally, psychologically,
Speaker 3: he got over a big hurdle today being out there
Speaker 3: in the mount for six innings.
Speaker 2: Hey man, he looked like daking out there that we
Speaker 2: saw in twenty twenty two going sixteen to one pitching
Speaker 2: in the All Star Game at Dodger Stadium and Tony
Speaker 2: in total control. I mean, Tony got a good glimpse
Speaker 2: of what he needed to do that first inning one
Speaker 2: He only threw eight pitches, as he mentioned, Tim, But
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the defense, you know, knowing that.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 2: It's not about how hard I can throw today, It's
Speaker 2: about spotting the baseball. He was sin fational, spotting every
Speaker 2: pitch as he mentioned, pitching backwards and then stealing some
Speaker 2: strikes with that curveball, and better description than Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: When he had to face Tony Gonsold you couldn't find
Speaker 2: and just how hard it is to lay off that curveball.
Speaker 2: Then he got to change your eyes to the high fastball,
Speaker 2: to the dotting fastball that he has spotted so well today,
Speaker 2: and to the splitter. So happy to see him. He's
Speaker 2: a big part of this whole thing. And he was
Speaker 2: pitching like a guy who was on a mission to
Speaker 2: stay in that rotation.
Speaker 3: Speaking of an emotional and psychological hurdle, getting over. Talk
Speaker 3: about what Max Munsey is feeling right now as opposed
Speaker 3: to what he was feeling a couple of hours ago
Speaker 3: just by hitting that a home running in the second inning.
Speaker 2: Relief, Yeah, total relief. Talk to months a lot last
Speaker 2: road trip, and we're talking about eggs and velocities and
Speaker 2: balls that he had been hitting right at the end
Speaker 2: of the last homestand and it continued on in the
Speaker 2: following road trip and just where balls are just not falling.
Speaker 2: And we know that, you know, players today do paid
Speaker 2: a lot of attention to how the ball's traveling and
Speaker 2: how hard they hit and all the kinds of things
Speaker 2: and that related to hits. Right, So the portions were
Speaker 2: not on his favor, but we know eventually if you
Speaker 2: continue just put together good at bats and you and
Speaker 2: Davis said, do a good job just mentioning his game
Speaker 2: and how important the walk is for Max Munsey. The
Speaker 2: more he watched, the better he is. And right now
Speaker 2: we're seeing a Max Monsey that he's walking, making better contact,
Speaker 2: using the big part of the field. That to me
Speaker 2: is the one thing he has to really stay with
Speaker 2: and not looking for home runs, looking for good contact
Speaker 2: and singles and good things happen for him.
Speaker 5: Baseball is a funny game. It's a long season.
Speaker 3: Sometimes fans panic, sometimes talk show host panic when a
Speaker 3: thing's not going right or a player's not going right
Speaker 3: at the plate or on the mound. But to see
Speaker 3: Mookie Betts doing what he's doing now, hits in four
Speaker 3: straight games, two for four last night, again, two for
Speaker 3: four today, driving in runs, ta Oscar Hernandez, staying hot,
Speaker 3: Andy pot Has stay in the hot. And then you
Speaker 3: add in Max Munsey hopefully turned things around this lineup
Speaker 3: pose I think for the first time. I hope now
Speaker 3: moving forward is kind of what we expected.
Speaker 5: How potent they can.
Speaker 2: Be, Yes, definitely, when you consider that today he Showey
Speaker 2: is not a huge factor, but you have the bottom
Speaker 2: of the older Austin Bonds a very great job today
Speaker 2: and the way he may contact got on base. But
Speaker 2: you're talking about a lineup now is he describes him
Speaker 2: that has really stretched out. I think Pahasa's resurgence has
Speaker 2: really helped everything else. It was great to see him
Speaker 2: hitting in the middle, but he's going to be a
Speaker 2: bigger influence in the bottom third when everybody's back. See
Speaker 2: without Tomomy Edman today, but for Mooki bets. Going back
Speaker 2: to Mooki, you look at his swing. You look at
Speaker 2: all the the mans that are putting on his body
Speaker 2: right now. The fact that this guy lost close to
Speaker 2: twenty pounds the beginning of the season, it was going
Speaker 2: to take him a while to catch up. And the
Speaker 2: loopy swing we saw, say ten days ago, is disappearing more.
Speaker 2: Line drives, more staying inside the ball. He's gotting better rotation,
Speaker 2: you know, spin off his bat. And Mooki is a
Speaker 2: guy that you know, he started out for this home
Speaker 2: stale was just moving guys over in a sack on
Speaker 2: a fly ball from second to the third, but making
Speaker 2: good contact and stay within himself. But I think overall
Speaker 2: we're gonna see that swing, the big whip where he
Speaker 2: starts pulling the ball, you know, provides a lot of power,
Speaker 2: but at least he's off for a good start, because
Speaker 2: he says inside the ball very nice the year in
Speaker 2: the last couple of days.
Speaker 3: While this road trip won't be the Pirates and the Marlins,
Speaker 3: they will see the Marlins for three, but they're going
Speaker 3: to catch an Atlanta Braves team that is struggling right now, Jose,
Speaker 3: And they're gonna get an Arizona Diamondbacks team that is
Speaker 3: under five hundred a hovering right around five hundred right now,
Speaker 3: but they've lost.
Speaker 6: Seven the last ten.
Speaker 3: This could continue to be a nice little stretcher for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers to continue this momentum and who knows, maybe
Speaker 3: get a little bit more separation in the division.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be an important stretch because you never see
Speaker 2: the Brace for a second time. A much different and
Speaker 2: confident team. They know a lot about you, you know
Speaker 2: more about them. Same thing new with Miami. You know
Speaker 2: they're gonna have a little vengees and you know Clay
Speaker 2: mccollon knowing the things they need to do better. And
Speaker 2: then the Arizonadamers are just waiting for that calendar to
Speaker 2: turn to see the Darers face to face, because we
Speaker 2: know it's going to be a fight all the way
Speaker 2: to the end. Three teams involved, but certainly is better
Speaker 2: to go on the strip on a climb the way
Speaker 2: the Diaries are playing after being shut up by Paul
Speaker 2: Schemes and company that one night, and the confidence level
Speaker 2: and things that we're talking about just two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: with the defense and the base running a little by little,
Speaker 2: they're disappearing and things are really catching on to just
Speaker 2: playing a more solid game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you figure the defense and the base running blunders
Speaker 3: weren't going to stick around and happen too many more
Speaker 3: times than like you said, they have. They have put
Speaker 3: in the rear view mirror for has happened over the
Speaker 3: last couple of road trips. Jose, we appreciate it, and
Speaker 3: we'll check with you on Friday.
Speaker 2: You got it, my friend?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: There he goes Jose Motas the Dodgers get the win
Speaker 3: over the Marlins today out of Dodger Stadium, twelve to seven.
Speaker 5: The final.
Speaker 3: Tony Gonsolin the win, Cal Quantrell gets the loss. It's
Speaker 3: Tony Gonsolin's first win since August twelfth, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: against the Colorado Rockies. As the Dodgers now twenty one
Speaker 3: to ten on this season, they have a game and
Speaker 3: a half lead over the Padres, who have won two
Speaker 3: in a row, including a win over the Giants today
Speaker 3: down at Petco Park. The Giants starting to play five
Speaker 3: hundred baseball they're now two games back, and the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 3: who are in New York right now taking on the Mets.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, they have lost seven of their last
Speaker 3: ten going into play today, they're sitting at fifteen and
Speaker 3: fourteen on this season. Deacon and san Diego joice this
Speaker 3: here on Dodger Talk on this Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Deacon?
Speaker 1: Good are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Dodgers on a roll right now, winners
Speaker 3: of five in a row, starting to pick things up
Speaker 3: and feel good about them.
Speaker 1: Great win, great win. Hey, My question is about Conferdo
Speaker 1: and what is our realistic expectation of him? Because like
Speaker 1: we give we're gonna give Munci a chance, like he's
Speaker 1: going to turn around. We know his track record even
Speaker 1: CT three, like he's down, but like we know him,
Speaker 1: But like, what is our realistic expectations of Converto because
Speaker 1: it seems like he's just been giving chance after chance
Speaker 1: after chance, and it's like like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just don't know, Like I don't like I feel like
Speaker 1: he's just not working out well.
Speaker 3: He's got, you know, not even ninety at bats on
Speaker 3: this season. I appreciate the phone call, Deacon. You know,
Speaker 3: this is a Michael Conforto who got off to a
Speaker 3: good start and it's certainly cooled off offensively. Has not
Speaker 3: had a hit now on this homestand in the five
Speaker 3: games that he played, including the last three against the Marlins,
Speaker 3: he is struggling. There's no doubt about that. This swing,
Speaker 3: he's trying anything at this point. He went to the
Speaker 3: torpedo bat on this homestand for a little bit, for
Speaker 3: a couple of at bats, you hope he can get
Speaker 3: out of it. I'm not sure what Plann B is
Speaker 3: or when Plan B starts for the Dodgers in left
Speaker 3: field and Michael Conforto, you think about the outfield situation
Speaker 3: right now. You're not taking Taoscar Hernandez out of right field.
Speaker 3: He has certainly surpplanted himself now as the everyday right
Speaker 3: fielder Andy pa has. You're gonna have a real hard
Speaker 3: time going to Andy Paz and telling him you're not
Speaker 3: playing center field anymore, or.
Speaker 6: You're not in the lineup today.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be in the lineup every day, if not
Speaker 3: close to every day. And he is your center fielder,
Speaker 3: So left field Michael Conforto left headed bat. Is it
Speaker 3: James Outman they bring up and put in a left
Speaker 3: field I don't think that's necessarily Plan B right now.
Speaker 3: I think kek Hernandez has to be an opportunity they
Speaker 3: maybe go to. I think with Chris Taylor, you've got
Speaker 3: to give some more at bats to cet three to
Speaker 3: see what he can do. Maybe maybe you move Tommy
Speaker 3: Edmond out to center field on a more regular basis,
Speaker 3: and you do move Andy Potter has the left. But again,
Speaker 3: po Haz is really starting to turn into a pretty
Speaker 3: good center fielder. He's playing better and better every single game,
Speaker 3: taking better routes on the ball, making better plays. Had
Speaker 3: a ball go off his glove today, But you know
Speaker 3: what that's that's one of those door die plays. As
Speaker 3: they say in baseball, you're gonna make a.
Speaker 6: Door die play. It's a ball at a low liner.
Speaker 3: You're gonna make a diving catch on your belly, and
Speaker 3: if you make the catch, it's a sports center catch.
Speaker 3: If you miss it, it's probably getting past you and
Speaker 3: going to the wall like it did. It's a door
Speaker 3: die play. You take a judgment on that and you
Speaker 3: try to make the effort. I don't knock him for
Speaker 3: going and try to make that diving catch. It just
Speaker 3: didn't happen. It gets buy him. But overall, I just
Speaker 3: have a problem with my with with saying, all right,
Speaker 3: if we're not gonna go with Michael Confordo and left field,
Speaker 3: we're just gonna move Andy Potter has to the left.
Speaker 5: I just don't like that thinking right now.
Speaker 3: I think he's solidified himself as the center fielder and
Speaker 3: you gotta make another option in left field if that's
Speaker 3: the direction they go. But keep in mind, it's a
Speaker 3: month into this season calendar wise, I know they've played
Speaker 3: some games before that. You're thirty one games in, you're
Speaker 3: twenty one to ten, and Michael Confordo has played in
Speaker 3: twenty seven games and he's got what eighty seven almost
Speaker 3: ninety at bats now.
Speaker 6: On the season.
Speaker 3: It's not a huge sample size once you start getting
Speaker 3: to one hundred and twenty five, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: at bats.
Speaker 6: Okay, maybe we revisit.
Speaker 5: What's happening with Michael Canfordo on the left field.
Speaker 3: I hope for his sake, he can flip the switcher
Speaker 3: offensively and maybe this road trip will be a good
Speaker 3: chance for him to turn things around.
Speaker 6: At the plate.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts certainly a happy man after the way his
Speaker 3: Dodgers team has played on this homestand after dropping the
Speaker 3: series opener to the Pirates, the Dodgers, well, it was
Speaker 3: Paul Skins, by the way, on Friday night, That's really
Speaker 3: who it was when they lost to the Pirates Friday.
Speaker 5: They lost to Paul Skins, who was dealing.
Speaker 3: They come back and win Saturday and Sunday against the Pirates,
Speaker 3: and then they get the three.
Speaker 6: Games sweep of the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 3: Dodgers back atop of his place, let's hear from the
Speaker 3: Dodger manager Dave Roberts postgame.
Speaker 5: But I said twenty didn't.
Speaker 4: Have more butterflies when you to stay and stay down.
Speaker 9: I actually I wasn't. Tony's He's got a different brain
Speaker 9: and you can take it any way you want. I
Speaker 9: just think he's just very just kind of confident in
Speaker 9: who he is now as a person as a ballplayer.
Speaker 9: Moment is going to get too big for him, And yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean, it wasn't like this first outing and however
Speaker 9: long and he just took it in stride and really
Speaker 9: pitched fantastic today.
Speaker 7: Do you feel like your office is in the pred
Speaker 7: for for lying pitches like this?
Speaker 4: A love support team pitch free we see.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 9: I think that with talent comes expectations, and we certainly
Speaker 9: have a lot of talent in our lineup and throughout
Speaker 9: our lineup, and I really do believe that. Yeah, we're
Speaker 9: putting some runs on the board being the starter, but
Speaker 9: it's just collectively the team at bats, I think that
Speaker 9: we're having and we're really there's just no let up,
Speaker 9: and you know, we're creating a lot of stress and
Speaker 9: we probably don't get enough credit and taking a lot
Speaker 9: of criticism than we probably deserve given the production.
Speaker 6: To one very close win and then two lopsided wins.
Speaker 9: Can you size up this series?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 9: I think that the outcomes this homestand couldn't have been
Speaker 9: any better for us. You know, our only loss came
Speaker 9: to one of the best pitchers in baseball, and then
Speaker 9: to come back and win five straight. Our bullpen is reset.
Speaker 9: Finally we've got Yamamoto, Rochi and May going and so
Speaker 9: I think that going into ten in a row, I
Speaker 9: think that we're in a really good spot. And yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean close. One could win either way the first one,
Speaker 9: and we came back and found a way to win it,
Speaker 9: and then we made hay and performed well in the
Speaker 9: last two to win three games.
Speaker 3: All Right, there's Dave Roberts certainly a happy manager after
Speaker 3: a five to one home stand. A day off tomorrow,
Speaker 3: they'll head east and they'll start their ten game road trip,
Speaker 3: ten games in ten days, beginning in Atlanta on Friday.
Speaker 3: Real quick, an update from Oklahoma City. TRIAA comets Clayton
Speaker 3: Kershaw on the Mountain in a minor league rehab start.
Speaker 3: Was supposed to go yesterday. Because of the weather, they
Speaker 3: pushed it to today. He's pitching against the El Paso Chihuahuas.
Speaker 3: They're in the second inning. He's got a couple of
Speaker 3: strikeouts already for the future Hall of Famer, who is
Speaker 3: up down to sixteen pitches and an inning.
Speaker 6: And two thirds.
Speaker 3: Looks like so far so another strong outing for Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3: Earliest he can come back is the middle of May,
Speaker 3: but he has started that process of working his way
Speaker 3: back to this Dodgers team.
Speaker 5: So that is good news for Dodger fans. That's gonna
Speaker 5: do it for Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Colin Ye, Thanks to jose Mona, Thanks aw
Speaker 3: you for being a part of the show. Back at
Speaker 3: It on Friday, No off night Dodger Talk tomorrow. Instead,
Speaker 3: it'll be Clippers basketball, see if they can stay alive
Speaker 3: in their series.
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