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Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
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Speaker 6: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8: We are live at Bush Stadium in Saint Louis, where
Speaker 8: the Dodgers come up a run short today by a
Speaker 8: final score of two to one. We have phone lines
Speaker 8: open at eight sixty six, nine, eight seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 8: Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vase with you until three
Speaker 8: point thirty this afternoon. And if you hear some baseball
Speaker 8: in the background, there's some high school teams playing here
Speaker 8: at Bush Stadium with aluminum bats. They play with aluminum
Speaker 8: bats here at high school in Saint Louis. I think
Speaker 8: they do that in LA too, But nonetheless, that's the
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Speaker 8: for you until three thirty. Phone lines are open at
Speaker 8: eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 7: And there is so much to unpack in this game today.
Speaker 8: Let's start with the fact the Dodgers again had so
Speaker 8: many opportunities with runners in scoring position and could not
Speaker 8: cash any of them in. They were oh for twelve
Speaker 8: today with runners in scoring position. In the first two
Speaker 8: games of this series, they were combined one for twenty five,
Speaker 8: one for thirteen yesterday, oh for twelve today. As I
Speaker 8: mentioned to Jose Moda, I thought Dave Robert pushed the
Speaker 8: right buttons at the right time today. In the sixth inning,
Speaker 8: after a leadoff walk by Will Smith, Max Munsey singled
Speaker 8: into second base, so you had runners at first and
Speaker 8: second with nobody out. Andy Pie has came up a
Speaker 8: lot today with runners on base and runners in scoring
Speaker 8: position and didn't do much. He's had a great year,
Speaker 8: but today was not his day. He struck out twice
Speaker 8: today with runners in scoring position, including in the sixth inning.
Speaker 8: Then the Cardinals went to Stephen Mattz, the former met
Speaker 8: and Michael Conforto's spot was due up, and Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: automatically going to keyk Hernandez. Keyk's numbers against Steven Mattz
Speaker 8: coming into the game today were off the charts. Keik
Speaker 8: was hitting three twenty three, ten for thirty one with
Speaker 8: a home run against Stephen Mattz. Michael Conforto zero for
Speaker 8: eight in his career against his former teammates, so that
Speaker 8: was an automatic and Keyk that was not a great
Speaker 8: at back.
Speaker 7: He gave.
Speaker 8: Strikes out on three pitches for the second out of
Speaker 8: the game, and then Tommy Edman, I don't know if
Speaker 8: he's trying to do too much, but he's swinging at
Speaker 8: a lot of pitches outside of the strike zone.
Speaker 7: He flies out to center field. Inning over.
Speaker 8: I thought the sixth inning was a key inning for
Speaker 8: the Dodgers, maybe to get the first couple of runs
Speaker 8: on the board, and they were not able to do it.
Speaker 8: So a very disappointing day in that department, and really
Speaker 8: that's where it starts and ends. The Dodger offense just
Speaker 8: has been way too big with their swings. It seems
Speaker 8: outside of Mookie Betts, that everybody's trying to swing for
Speaker 8: the fences so far in the first two games of
Speaker 8: this series and not realizing how many outs, what the
Speaker 8: score is, what the situation is.
Speaker 7: Sonny Gray carved the Dodgers up yesterday.
Speaker 8: He was able to use sixty three percent of his
Speaker 8: pitches for three different variations of his fastballs, and then
Speaker 8: with runners scoring position, throw his sweeper.
Speaker 7: Throw his change up.
Speaker 8: And today the Dodgers were just over zealous in those situations.
Speaker 8: So let's just make that clear. That was the reason
Speaker 8: why the Dodgers lost today. And I know that Stephen
Speaker 8: Nelson and Oral Hersheizer pointed this out on the Sports
Speaker 8: and at LA broadcast, but it bears repeating. Yama Moto
Speaker 8: was terrific today, six scoreless innings, nine strikeouts, sixty one
Speaker 8: of his ninety four pitches were strikes. He had his
Speaker 8: split fingered fastball working on fifteen swings on his splitter.
Speaker 8: Today he got eight whiffs on that split fingered fastball,
Speaker 8: so it was back.
Speaker 7: But here's the catch.
Speaker 8: Yamamoto has been that guy that doesn't get run support.
Speaker 8: Even though his ZRA is two and a half, his
Speaker 8: record certainly doesn't reflect it because of the lack of
Speaker 8: run support. In eight of Yamamoto's last thirteen starts. While
Speaker 8: he's been out there, the Dodgers have not scored or
Speaker 8: barely scored a run for him.
Speaker 7: That just won't get it done. As the great Sto
Speaker 7: Lance would say, eight.
Speaker 8: Six six seven, two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 8: Dodgers fall to the Cardinals today, two to one.
Speaker 7: Let's head downstairs right now to hear from manager Dave Roberts.
Speaker 9: It just makes it, you know, the way things are
Speaker 9: going right now, It just our margin is small, and
Speaker 9: we've got to find a way to capitalize on whatever
Speaker 9: opportunities we do get, and uh, you know, recently we haven't.
Speaker 9: And yeah, when when Yoshi pitches the way he did,
Speaker 9: go six scoreless, uh you know, you'd like to think
Speaker 9: you're gonna come away with the wind right there, but
Speaker 9: to their credit, they prevented runs and got outs when
Speaker 9: they needed to, and unfortunately, uh, you know, we're in
Speaker 9: a position to try to salvage a series tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Have you explained one for twenty six with runners in
Speaker 1: scoring position?
Speaker 7: To the News here. Yeah, I didn't know that stat.
Speaker 9: Iolog Yeah, I mean, obviously those they're they're they're making
Speaker 9: pitches when they need to. There's some strikeouts, there's some
Speaker 9: soft contact, and honestly, I don't think there's you know,
Speaker 9: hard hit balls that were being robbed in those situations.
Speaker 9: They're just making pitches when they need to. So I
Speaker 9: know we talked about it yesterday, but I do think that,
Speaker 9: you know, from what my eyes tell me that they
Speaker 9: are going soft, you know, and we're just not putting
Speaker 9: good swings on some of these pitches.
Speaker 2: But you do have nineteen hits right in two games,
Speaker 2: and you only run comes in a lot of pitch.
Speaker 2: That's gotta be a little concerning.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it's it's a ball that hits the
Speaker 9: bag and you get a runner and scorn a walk pitch.
Speaker 7: So that's baseball.
Speaker 9: And we gave ourselves a chance, but obviously, you know,
Speaker 9: not enough.
Speaker 5: When the risk numbers do break this way like they
Speaker 5: have over the last week, what do you guys have
Speaker 5: to do to make sure your group stays.
Speaker 3: Focused with they need to be and stays with the
Speaker 3: approach that you want them to have.
Speaker 9: I think that's what you got to do is right now,
Speaker 9: it kind of goes in waves and you can't kind
Speaker 9: of ride the emotional waves, and knowing that each guy
Speaker 9: is putting in the work and prepared and they're gonna
Speaker 9: it's gonna turn. So there's certainly no kind of angst panic, frustration,
Speaker 9: certainly because you don't like losing and not driving in
Speaker 9: runs when you have opportunities.
Speaker 7: And we are getting hits, so.
Speaker 9: We are getting guys on base, but we're just not
Speaker 9: cashing in.
Speaker 2: Can you talk a little bit about what went into
Speaker 2: decision or a tunnel?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he just had some elbow discomfort, and obviously with
Speaker 9: the picture when there's elbow discomfort, it just we didn't
Speaker 9: see him making his start, his next start, and so
Speaker 9: it just seemed like the logical thing, you know, given
Speaker 9: where the pitching is at a guy that's not going
Speaker 9: to make his next start, to get him offline, give
Speaker 9: him a handful of days to not play catch, hopefully
Speaker 9: that that paying discomfort subsides and get them throwing again
Speaker 9: and see where it takes us.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 8: That was Dave Roberts answering the question about the move
Speaker 8: that they made before the game. Tony Gonsolin going on
Speaker 8: the injured list with right elbow discomfort after you know,
Speaker 8: just over a year ago coming back from Tommy John surgery,
Speaker 8: where he just came back after having Tommy John surgery
Speaker 8: a year ago.
Speaker 7: But you know, we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 8: My biggest thing is how does nobody in that office
Speaker 8: ask Dave Roberts what the thought process was for not
Speaker 8: trying to challenge the play at first base in the
Speaker 8: ninth inning, after Norman Nolan Gorman doubles the catcher for
Speaker 8: the Cardinals, Pedro Pas lays down a bunt that Ben
Speaker 8: Casparius did not feel cleanly.
Speaker 7: It's a close play play at first base.
Speaker 8: Tommy Edmund climbs the ladder, but if you look at
Speaker 8: the replay, his foot comes down on the bag before
Speaker 8: Pi Haz does.
Speaker 7: He was out.
Speaker 8: From me to you, I took a screenshot. I've posted
Speaker 8: the milliseconds before Edmund actually hits the base. Paz was out.
Speaker 8: That changes the complexion of what Dave Roberts does in
Speaker 8: that situation. Instead of nobody out, runners at the corners
Speaker 8: and Nolan Arenado coming up to pinch it, it's one
Speaker 8: out with the runner at third. I'll give it to
Speaker 8: you ninety feet away the winning run. But that changes things,
Speaker 8: I would imagine a little bit. I mean, it's one
Speaker 8: out instead of nobody out. But you know, I'm not
Speaker 8: saying that's the reason why the Dodgers lost. But how
Speaker 8: do you not ask him about that? Because we're all
Speaker 8: wondering why the Dodgers did not challenge that play at
Speaker 8: first base? So uh, in Bank, Casparius, you know that
Speaker 8: play in the eighth inning. It's easy for you and
Speaker 8: me to say, Ah, he shouldn't have thrown it, or
Speaker 8: he should have made a better throw.
Speaker 7: He's a rookie.
Speaker 8: There's been a lot thrown at him, and he has
Speaker 8: answered the bell time and time again.
Speaker 7: But that's a hot shot. It kind of rattles you.
Speaker 8: And experienced pitchers usually are the ones that are able
Speaker 8: to compose themselves and make an accurate throw or make
Speaker 8: the decision and have the awareness to say, you know what,
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna put this in my back pocket. But
Speaker 8: he's a rookie and he made a mistake, a poor
Speaker 8: decision to try to throw it, and when he did
Speaker 8: throw it, it pulled Freddy Freeman off the bag. And
Speaker 8: you got to give Mason win heads up credit right
Speaker 8: there for a randing third and coming home in a
Speaker 8: scoreless tie to give the Cardinals the lead.
Speaker 7: So I know it's easy for all of us up
Speaker 7: here and at home to say, oh, you.
Speaker 8: Know, he should have put it in his back pocket,
Speaker 8: or he shouldn't have thrown it.
Speaker 7: Well, we're not on the field. It's easy for Twain
Speaker 7: McDonald to second guess. Right here.
Speaker 8: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number. I do not second guests. I first
Speaker 8: guess if you saw that Apple documentary. You saw that
Speaker 8: in the press press box. Let's go out to Mission Viejo.
Speaker 7: Bill.
Speaker 8: By the way, I do not endorse that documentary. Hi, Bell,
Speaker 8: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi, thanks for taking my call. What's been going on
Speaker 3: with the taoscar with a lot of the strikeouts lately?
Speaker 3: Is he kind of going through a little bit of
Speaker 3: a slump.
Speaker 8: Yeah, going back to the last homestand he has gone down.
Speaker 8: He isn't a slump and it happens to the best
Speaker 8: of them. So it was a good day for him
Speaker 8: to get a day off today, certainly because he has
Speaker 8: been grinding through a little bit of a slump.
Speaker 7: Thanks for the phone call, Bill, and I'm just kidding.
Speaker 8: It was a great documentary on the Dodgers in the
Speaker 8: World Championship run. I love the fact that Apple actually
Speaker 8: had a lot of access to Freddie Freeman, not knowing
Speaker 8: that he was going to be the World Series MVP
Speaker 8: and the hero. So that worked out really well. So
Speaker 8: if you haven't seen it, it's a pretty good watch.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number speaking of Freddie Freeman and his Grand Slam.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Mark in Virginia. You're on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk Live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: Hi, Mark, David, how you doing good?
Speaker 7: I heard you want to share with me where you
Speaker 7: were when Freddy hit his slam?
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 11: I It had always been on my bucket list to
Speaker 11: go to Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, and that day
Speaker 11: my wife and I had spent the day at Omaha
Speaker 11: Beach and at the American Cemetery there and came back
Speaker 11: to our hotel to listen to the game. Of course,
Speaker 11: it was the middle of the night in France, so
Speaker 11: when he hit his Grand Slam, it was four thirty
Speaker 11: in the morning. I'm listening to the game on my phone.
Speaker 11: My wife sot asleep next to me, and it was
Speaker 11: just everything I could do not to jump up and
Speaker 11: down and scare the heck out of her because it
Speaker 11: was just an awesome moment.
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you for calling in and telling us that story.
Speaker 8: You know it's ironic about that, Mark, is that D
Speaker 8: Day was just a couple of days ago. In fact,
Speaker 8: it was just yesterday, I believe right yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was yesterday.
Speaker 11: I would have called you, yes, Vibe, I was asleep
Speaker 11: by the time that game ended. But I have another
Speaker 11: one for you real quick, all right. October nineteen sixty,
Speaker 11: nineteen sixty three, I was eight years old. I watched
Speaker 11: Sandy Kofax break out fifteen New York Yankees in the
Speaker 11: first team of the sixty three World Series.
Speaker 3: And that's the game.
Speaker 11: I was an Upstate New York at the time. That's
Speaker 11: the game that made me a lifelong Dodger fan.
Speaker 7: I love it, Mark, I love those memories.
Speaker 8: That's a great story of where you were when Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman hit his walk off Grand Slam.
Speaker 7: Thanks a lot for sharing, and thanks a lot for listening. Mark.
Speaker 11: You bet take care, take care.
Speaker 7: Wow, that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 8: That's one of the best stories I've heard of where
Speaker 8: a fan was when Freddie Freeman hit his walk off
Speaker 8: Grand Slam. And you know, the reason why I know
Speaker 8: yesterday was D Day was because Vince Scully always reminded
Speaker 8: us he would always have great stories and make sure
Speaker 8: we really realized what June sixth was all about in
Speaker 8: American history. So that's thank you, Vin for making me
Speaker 8: aware every year of June sixth, the D Day, and
Speaker 8: prayers to all those that lost their lives in defense
Speaker 8: of freedom, uh for for us and for the world
Speaker 8: on D Day. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 8: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 8: Bob and Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk Live from Saint Louis, Hi.
Speaker 5: Bob Dave in the city of Saint Louis, Man, how
Speaker 5: you doing out there?
Speaker 7: Well, I gotta be honest with you, Bob.
Speaker 8: I don't look forward to coming here for a number
Speaker 8: of reasons, and it always feels like it's a it's
Speaker 8: a tough win here in Saint Louis whenever you get one.
Speaker 5: If you're a Dodger, well, I mean I have the
Speaker 5: same memory you do of the eighty five you know
Speaker 5: games and that that always just brings back that memory
Speaker 5: to which I don't like. But if you're looking for
Speaker 5: good food day, salt and smoke, that's a great spot
Speaker 5: by the stadium right there.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you for the wreck. What else you got?
Speaker 11: Well, I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering why we didn't challenge that call in the
Speaker 5: ninth I mean, you know, that was a wide open
Speaker 5: opportunity right there for us to change the dynamic of
Speaker 5: that ninth inning right there and put a little more
Speaker 5: pressure on I just surprises me being that Dave even
Speaker 5: came out on that ball that hit Freddy in the
Speaker 5: leg the inning before to talk to the umpires, but
Speaker 5: there was no challenge there. Any thoughts on why that
Speaker 5: would be or who missed that call inside the dugout there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I don't know. I mean, that's the manager's call.
Speaker 8: He's got two bench coaches basically next to him. One
Speaker 8: of them, I think Danny Lehman gets on the phone
Speaker 8: my vantage point from the press box. I'm not sure
Speaker 8: what happened or why they didn't try to challenge it,
Speaker 8: but yeah, I thought it should have been challenged Dan.
Speaker 7: Look, Dave and his staff do a great job.
Speaker 8: Just I'll have to ask him tomorrow what was going
Speaker 8: on in the dugout and why they didn't decide to
Speaker 8: challenge it. But honestly, Bob, this game to me was
Speaker 8: lost in the first seven innings. The Dodgers had so
Speaker 8: many chances is to break this game open, and it
Speaker 8: seemed like they were playing home run derby a lot
Speaker 8: of times.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 5: I think we wasted a lot of opportunities. Obviously did.
Speaker 5: On that note, are we seeing more breaking pitching in
Speaker 5: these last two games than we've seen in a while.
Speaker 7: No, no, we're not.
Speaker 8: We're seeing him in key spots Like yesterday Sonny Gray,
Speaker 8: sixty three percent of his pitches were fastballs, whether it
Speaker 8: was a cutter, whether it was a four seamer or
Speaker 8: a sinker. When he did throw his sweeper and his
Speaker 8: change up was when there were runners in scoring positions,
Speaker 8: so he used it, picked up picked his spots, but
Speaker 8: set him up with the fastballs.
Speaker 7: So no is the answer.
Speaker 8: Fetti was throwing a lot of fastballs today and they
Speaker 8: just they didn't hit him. He was spotting them really well,
Speaker 8: and honestly, like I said, in the sixth inning, they
Speaker 8: let Steven Matts off the hook. Thanks for the phone call, Bob.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine seven two five is the phone number.
Speaker 8: We're going to take a time out here on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk live from Bush Stadium.
Speaker 7: When we continue, you'll hear from Ben Caspirius.
Speaker 8: We'll give you an update on some of the roster
Speaker 8: moves the Dodgers made before the game, and also we'll
Speaker 8: get back to the phone calls. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 8: eight seven two five seventy. Nolan Aernado walks it off
Speaker 8: in the ninth inning. A five man infield left a
Speaker 8: lot of grass in left field. Nolan Aernado, out of
Speaker 8: El Toro High School, longtime nemesis of the Dodgers, is
Speaker 8: one hundredth career RBI. A walk off base hit in
Speaker 8: the ninth inning, and the Cardinals beat the Dodgers two
Speaker 8: to one on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 7: This is Dodger Talk with David Basse said one one pitch,
Speaker 7: one on and hit in the air to the left.
Speaker 3: Here, She's gotta do it.
Speaker 7: That's just gonna drop in safely.
Speaker 10: For a hit.
Speaker 7: Morrero Stores and the Cardinals have walked.
Speaker 12: Off two to one, a walkoff pinch hit for Nolan Arenado.
Speaker 12: It's the third time this year the Cardinals have walked off,
Speaker 12: and the second time this week.
Speaker 8: The pride of El Toro High School in southern California.
Speaker 8: Nolan Arenado with his one hundredth career RBI against the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: a walkoff winner as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers two
Speaker 8: to one. David Vasse Live at Bush Stadium in Saint Louis.
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Speaker 8: of a wild eighth and ninth inning for both teams.
Speaker 8: Ben Casparius did not feel his position well in the
Speaker 8: eighth and ninth innings.
Speaker 7: Like I said, in the eighth inning.
Speaker 8: That's tough to hold anything against a pitcher that takes
Speaker 8: a hard shot comebacker. But he was able to regroup,
Speaker 8: be able to grab the baseball, but throw wide, and
Speaker 8: Mason Wins scored the goal ahead run in the eighth inning.
Speaker 8: And then in the ninth he kind of compounded matters
Speaker 8: by bobbling a bunt by the Cardinals catcher who was
Speaker 8: Pedro Pajez, and threw it high. Tommy Edmund had to
Speaker 8: climb the ladder. Nonetheless, he was out and the Dodgers
Speaker 8: did not challenge it for whatever reason, so the call
Speaker 8: on the field stood, you had first and third, nobody out.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers brought in five man infield, and Nolan Arenado
Speaker 8: found grass in left field. And that's how the Cardinals
Speaker 8: beat the Dodgers today in the eighth and ninth innings.
Speaker 8: But like I said, the Dodgers had so many opportunities
Speaker 8: again today, to nit pick anything that happened in the
Speaker 8: eighth and ninth inning is just completely unfair. Let's head
Speaker 8: downstairs right now to hear from Ben Casparius on sports
Speaker 8: and at LA just.
Speaker 1: Think I wasn't sharp in general. Obviously those are us
Speaker 1: the first base are crucial. It can't really happen, but
Speaker 1: just sleeping off speed up in the zone. I thought
Speaker 1: they had a pretty good approach, but I think overall
Speaker 1: just not sharpens.
Speaker 3: The score, the pressure for the pictures to feel or
Speaker 3: to be a little bit finer to maybe you know, the.
Speaker 7: Pressure that you can't give up anything. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think too much. Obviously, you know our offense
Speaker 1: is better than that. And again it's a close game
Speaker 1: like that, But I don't really see it as us
Speaker 1: trying to do too much.
Speaker 7: You playing the any look back on it, you just
Speaker 7: ate the ball.
Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, for sure, I thought I had a
Speaker 1: shot there again, make a great start on Freddy had
Speaker 1: a really good effort at home. Then you know, ultimately
Speaker 1: should hold on them all. Where did the ball off?
Speaker 4: The can ball catch hitting the shoe or something?
Speaker 10: Think I'm the rest in the rip.
Speaker 1: Yeah he's sitting here.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 8: Ben Casparius speaking to the media on Sports and at LA.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers fall to the Cardinals today two to one.
Speaker 8: And here's something else to keep in mind as far
Speaker 8: as the Dodgers losing this game. Yama Moto pitched another
Speaker 8: great game. He won six scoreless innings today. And considering
Speaker 8: where the Dodgers starting rotation is these days, and you
Speaker 8: get a start like that from yama Moto, again, you've
Speaker 8: got to win these starts. I don't care if he
Speaker 8: gets the win or not, but you've got to win
Speaker 8: these games. Considering where things are at with this rotation
Speaker 8: and the uncertainty the other four or five days when
Speaker 8: you have other guys on the mound, the one certainty
Speaker 8: nine out of ten times is that Yama Moto is
Speaker 8: going to pitch great. He obviously did not against the Yankees,
Speaker 8: but that was that was an aborration to his great season.
Speaker 8: You got to win these games at Yamamoto is pitching.
Speaker 8: Eight six six, nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number. Let's go out to ken and Newport Beach.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Ken Hi, David, thank you for taking a call. First,
Speaker 10: I'm going to give you some team numbers, and I'm
Speaker 10: going to give you some player numbers, and you're going
Speaker 10: to see what's the problem with the team last twenty games,
Speaker 10: Like Dodgers are now nine to eleven last thirty, they're
Speaker 10: fourteen and sixteen. Now you want some information about Fernandez
Speaker 10: last twenty games, He's sitting one fifty seven with one
Speaker 10: home run and twenty six strikeouts. Otani last seven games,
Speaker 10: hitting two fifty nine, one home run and two RBIs.
Speaker 10: So their two best RBI guys are pathetic right now
Speaker 10: and they're striking out. And by the way, Otani has
Speaker 10: eleven strikeouts. So yeah, the team now is basically a
Speaker 10: five hundred team getting ready to go into San Diego
Speaker 10: for six games back and forth in San Francisco. Something's
Speaker 10: got to change, and as far as Dave is concerned,
Speaker 10: he's got to pay attention to that. Maybe that's a
Speaker 10: difference between a one year and a three year contract,
Speaker 10: but I'm not going to look.
Speaker 8: But yeah, he benched tae Oscar Hernandez today because he
Speaker 8: was slumping, and I got some I got a number
Speaker 8: for you, Ken. With all that being said, I actually
Speaker 8: looked at it today. With all that being said, do
Speaker 8: you realize the Dodgers still are top three in runs scored.
Speaker 8: Players are going to go through slumps, even the great ones,
Speaker 8: but other guys have got to pick it up. And
Speaker 8: the Dodgers in the first two games of this series
Speaker 8: had nineteen hits.
Speaker 7: They just didn't deliver with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and those things happen. But you're going back now
Speaker 10: thirty games and they're under five hundred. That's a really
Speaker 10: bad sign for a team that was top one or
Speaker 10: two for most of the season.
Speaker 8: But you know what that goes back to. I mean,
Speaker 8: you're misleading the audience here. It goes back to poor
Speaker 8: starting pitching. It goes it's not the offense, Ken, It's
Speaker 8: not the offense that's really unfair. Okay, hang in there, Ken,
Speaker 8: hang in there.
Speaker 10: Ken, You thanks man.
Speaker 7: Okay, bye bye. Ken in Newport Beach. I mean, he
Speaker 7: knows his stuff.
Speaker 8: But come on, the reason why the Dodgers are two
Speaker 8: games under five hundred in the last thirty games is
Speaker 8: not because of their offense. Their offense is for most
Speaker 8: games tried to do everything they can to will them
Speaker 8: to wins.
Speaker 7: It's poor starting pitching.
Speaker 8: They got too many guys hurt right now and that's
Speaker 8: an issue, and the guys that are healthy have been erratic,
Speaker 8: to say the least. And another Dodger starting pitcher ended
Speaker 8: up on the injured list today. Tony Gonsolin was placed
Speaker 8: on the injured list unexpectedly to all us after his
Speaker 8: last start.
Speaker 7: He has right elbow discomfort.
Speaker 8: I'm sure he got a scan on that right elbow,
Speaker 8: so I guess that's halfway good news. That Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: downplayed the severity of it, but the Dodgers always downplay
Speaker 8: the severity of the injuries. But the sense I'm getting
Speaker 8: talking to people around the Dodgers is Tony did not
Speaker 8: have the same sensation that he had when he did
Speaker 8: really injury his elbow and forced to have Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 8: So hopefully it is just inflammation and part of the
Speaker 8: pains of coming back from being out for so long
Speaker 8: and coming back from UCL surgery on his right elbow.
Speaker 8: But the Dodgers, now you talk about that series in
Speaker 8: San Diego, they're gonna throw three pitchers that you normally
Speaker 8: would not see the Dodgers throw against the Padres Monday,
Speaker 8: Dustin May We've seen that, and that's fine. But Tony
Speaker 8: Gonsolin was scheduled to start on Wednesday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 8: So now Justin Robleski's gonna stick around. He'll start on
Speaker 8: WEDNDS Day, and the Dodgers will have a decision to
Speaker 8: make whether or not they're going with a bullpen game
Speaker 8: on Tuesday, or if they decide to call up Bobby
Speaker 8: Miller again and give him a chance against that Padres offense,
Speaker 8: We'll see which direction they go, but certainly not ideal
Speaker 8: for the first three games you see the Padres and
Speaker 8: certainly in a tight NL West. Let's go out to Claremont. Danny,
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Hi, Danny, Hey, Dave, thanks for giving me on uh
Speaker 2: noeah the tough team to day. But you know, I'm
Speaker 2: glad you called ken Ken.
Speaker 13: From Newport out there. The offense hasn't been a problem,
Speaker 13: and you know clearly it's the starting pitching and it's
Speaker 13: kind of affecting everything else. And you know, I can
Speaker 13: understand the Oscar and show hair and a slump right now,
Speaker 13: But are those two guys that you're really worried about
Speaker 13: this season?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. You know, they're going to go
Speaker 2: through their slumps. But yeah, it's good, good calling you
Speaker 2: to call out the real issue of the problem there.
Speaker 2: And you know today's game was russ uh you hainte
Speaker 2: see him lose like that, But it's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 2: happen sometimes, and that's why those short series at the
Speaker 2: end of the season are.
Speaker 13: Really scary to get into in October because over two
Speaker 13: game stretch, your Basco.
Speaker 2: Cold and your season's done. You know, hopefully that doesn't happen,
Speaker 2: you know, this October and you get him out now.
Speaker 2: So you know, really, Dave, I really wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about that eighty five Dodgors game. You know, it's been
Speaker 2: coming up a lot last Oh.
Speaker 7: Why would you want to do that to me, Danny?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just been coming up so much. And what
Speaker 2: else are we gonna talk about?
Speaker 7: You know, haven't I I don't know. I mean, there's
Speaker 7: a lot of other things we could talk about.
Speaker 8: We could talk about the Dodgers so walk off a
Speaker 8: wild card win, we could talk about I don't know
Speaker 8: not much else, you know, off the top of my
Speaker 8: head when it comes to Dodgers Cardinals postseasons.
Speaker 7: But man, Danny, you really have to cut me deep
Speaker 7: and go back to my childhood like that.
Speaker 2: Well it takes me there too, Dave. It's the same thing, man.
Speaker 2: Cardinals matchup has always been traumatic, and that eighty five
Speaker 2: game was a little bit before my time, you know,
Speaker 2: I was just a real small kid then, but I
Speaker 2: grew up here and all about it because my my
Speaker 2: dad and my cousins Fred they went to that game,
Speaker 2: and man, that game traumatized them. I cannot tell you
Speaker 2: how many times I heard about Jack Clark and Tom
Speaker 2: Needing Fewer and how they were sitting on the third
Speaker 2: base or on the third base line and they saw
Speaker 2: the ball fly right by them out of the park.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, I grew up with this irrational,
Speaker 2: you know, hate and dislike for the Cardinals and Jack Clark.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know why, you know, but now I do.
Speaker 2: I got my time too seeing Kershaw melt down against them,
Speaker 2: and you know, multiple times the Cardinals are always here.
Speaker 7: Really, now, you're really going deep.
Speaker 8: The one thing about that, Danny, is Tom need and
Speaker 8: Fewer never even needed to face Jack Clark. Jack Clark
Speaker 8: should have been walked. They would have faced a young
Speaker 8: Andy Van slike that. Wasn't the Andy Van Slike that
Speaker 8: we knew with the Pirates and Jerry Royce, I believe
Speaker 8: was warming up in the bullpen. So there was no
Speaker 8: reason for Tom Needing Fewer to even face Jack Clark,
Speaker 8: even a twelve year old day a vast a knew
Speaker 8: that eleven year old No, nine year old, sorry, nine.
Speaker 7: Year old David Bessie can't remember. Well, not good at it.
Speaker 2: Well, that was a heck of a series going back
Speaker 2: and forth. You had the Ozzie Smith home run, the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: Won the first two games of that series. The Dodgers
Speaker 8: won the first two games of that series. I thought
Speaker 8: we were on our way to the World Series.
Speaker 2: As prime Fernando her Sizer pitching.
Speaker 3: Good, I mean that was oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 8: Nineteen eighty five was Oral Herscheiser's probably second third best season.
Speaker 8: He won nineteen games that year. He was tremendous. I
Speaker 8: believe he even started Game six. I think he was
Speaker 8: the starter of Game six, and he pitched great. Thanks
Speaker 8: for the phone call, Danny. I appreciate you bringing up
Speaker 8: those great.
Speaker 7: Memories anytime, Dave. Thanks hey.
Speaker 8: By the way, when we talk about Dodgers Cardinals rivalry,
Speaker 8: I always remember when Vin Scully would be at Dodgers
Speaker 8: Stadium or at the old Bush Stadium, and you remember
Speaker 8: when Vin would come on and greet us right away
Speaker 8: before the lineups were given up. He would always remind
Speaker 8: us how close the Dodger Cardinal rivalry. Was one of
Speaker 8: the first things he would tell us was how close
Speaker 8: the win loss record all time was between these two
Speaker 8: storied franchises. And right now it's only a nine game
Speaker 8: difference in the regular season. Unfortunately, the Cardinals have that
Speaker 8: edge now. One thousand and fifty wins for the Cardinals,
Speaker 8: one thousand and forty one wins for the Dodgers. And
Speaker 8: in case you're wondering, the Dodgers and Cardinals had six
Speaker 8: playoff matchups in their history. The Dodgers won in twenty
Speaker 8: one the old Chris Taylor walk off home run in
Speaker 8: the wild card game. In two thousand and nine, the
Speaker 8: Dodgers swept the Cardinals in the NLDS.
Speaker 7: Remember Matt Holliday.
Speaker 8: Losing that fly ball in left field with all the
Speaker 8: white towels at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7: But the Cardinals certainly have had their share as well.
Speaker 8: They beat the Dodgers in the eighty five NLCS, four NLDS,
Speaker 8: twenty thirteen NLCS Game six, Matt Carpenter we all remember,
Speaker 8: and the walk off home run by Matt Adams in
Speaker 8: Game four of the fourteen NLDS. So thank you so
Speaker 8: much for bringing all that up. Eight six, six, nine
Speaker 8: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number on
Speaker 8: top of it.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers have lost the first two games of this series.
Speaker 8: Shout out yesterday by Sonny Grand Company five to nothing
Speaker 8: and today frustrated again with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 7: Oh for twelve. Let's go out to George in La.
Speaker 7: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, George H.
Speaker 4: Dave Man. I called it to talk about the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: but now so like them in therapy with the eighty
Speaker 4: five j I thank you George's old In that game,
Speaker 4: it was the worst thing ever?
Speaker 7: Did you hear me? Last last Wednesday? Two wednesdays ago.
Speaker 8: After that Jack Clark home run, there was a black
Speaker 8: and white photo on the front page of the Herald
Speaker 8: Examiner of Tommy Lasorda in his office with his hands
Speaker 8: in his head on his desk. I cut out that
Speaker 8: picture and put it on my bedroom door, so anybody
Speaker 8: that walked in they knew the pain I was feeling
Speaker 8: for that entire offseason.
Speaker 7: And the photographer that took that photo called in.
Speaker 8: That's how deep it ran for a nine year old
Speaker 8: David vase Hey coming off the Celtics beating the Lakers
Speaker 8: in the eighty four finals.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: To me, as a Dodger fan, that is the most
Speaker 4: the most painful loss I've ever witnessed, because it still ring.
Speaker 4: It still haunts me this day. Jack Clark, of all people,
Speaker 4: the way he streutted around that base path, I mean,
Speaker 4: they were just sticking it to us.
Speaker 3: It was awful.
Speaker 4: An I don't even want to talk about that anymore,
Speaker 4: but I'm glad you brought it up because it is
Speaker 4: therapy for a lot of people. That is the most
Speaker 4: painful loss ever. Not the twenty seventeen World Series. I'm
Speaker 4: talking if you weren't around a witnesses, witnesses d feel lucky.
Speaker 8: But the seventeen World Series, Uh, that cuts deep in
Speaker 8: a different way. But let's move on, George, I don't
Speaker 8: want to get into that.
Speaker 4: But look, hey, look, I know you're talking about the
Speaker 4: offense and stuff, But would it be so wrong, Dave
Speaker 4: to consider maybe linkedining this lineup a bit, a little bit,
Speaker 4: like maybe putting like Edmund or or Kim at the
Speaker 4: leadoff spot with the clear mandate just to get on,
Speaker 4: don't worry about hitting.
Speaker 7: No chance. I want to put Kim lead off unless
Speaker 7: he learns how to bunt.
Speaker 8: Kim's got to learn how to bunt, if I'm even
Speaker 8: con he needs to learn how to bunt right now
Speaker 8: because every third basement is giving him the left side
Speaker 8: of the infield. He's got to learn how to bunt
Speaker 8: and at least make it a threat. But if I'm
Speaker 8: going to change the lineup, I'm moving Otawi to third
Speaker 8: and I'm having Mookie Beds or Tommy Edmond lead off.
Speaker 7: Because I mentioned this yesterday, I'll mention it again.
Speaker 8: I did some recent and the facts are last year
Speaker 8: in Major League Baseball, the difference in average of plate
Speaker 8: appearances between the leadoff hitter and the third hitter of
Speaker 8: all teams in baseball last year was only thirty three.
Speaker 8: The leadoff hitter only had an average of thirty three
Speaker 8: more played appearances than the number three hitter. So you know,
Speaker 8: Otani's coming up a lot of times with bases empty
Speaker 8: or leading off innings that are not the first inning.
Speaker 8: That's not ideal for a guy that has twenty three
Speaker 8: home runs and right now only has thirty seven RBIs
Speaker 8: because of it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what I mean. It's like no one's on
Speaker 4: when he's hitting these home runs.
Speaker 3: So it just feels like it's okay to change a
Speaker 3: little bit because the rest of.
Speaker 4: The team is adjusting to us now, and they're pitching
Speaker 4: is a lot of off speed, a lot of down
Speaker 4: on the way, a lot of low pitches that we
Speaker 4: can't seem to reach or barely hit off the end
Speaker 4: of the bat. So yeah, I just hope that they're considering.
Speaker 4: They're not too proud to maybe make a change if
Speaker 4: if they think they can do it.
Speaker 8: Hey, they made a change last year, so they aren't
Speaker 8: too proud, And I'm I'm planning on asking Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: about that if there have been any internal discussions. It's
Speaker 8: a fair question. Thanks for the phone call, George, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Let's take one more phone call before we say goodbye
Speaker 8: from Saint Louis. Ish in Riverside, walk us off on
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi, Ish, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 6: Dave?
Speaker 3: Hey, So listen, just want to piggyback real quick. I
Speaker 3: know we're going to be all right, I really do,
Speaker 3: but I want to pick you back on the preview.
Speaker 7: Of course, they're going to be all right.
Speaker 8: We're just court the Dodgers are going to make the
Speaker 8: postseason they're going to win this division. But you just,
Speaker 8: you know, we're in the moment right now, and we
Speaker 8: got to talk about the games that are in front
Speaker 8: of us, and the Dodgers have to play the games.
Speaker 7: You can't take all of that for granted.
Speaker 8: But yes, they are going to win the nl West,
Speaker 8: and I firmly believe they're going to be in the NLCS.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I believe that, man. But I guess in
Speaker 3: the interim, I mean, it's you know, approaching the dog
Speaker 3: days of summer here soon. It's not even August yet, right,
Speaker 3: But you know earlier caller was tracking about twenty games.
Speaker 3: Twenty games ago was pretty much when they defate Barnes. Now,
Speaker 3: I know you're a big Barnes fan as well, so
Speaker 3: I guess the question is, do you feel that there's
Speaker 3: a void that still needs to be earned, that has
Speaker 3: been left by his absence, just in terms of like,
Speaker 3: you know, the play on the field, like five min
Speaker 3: er ball. What do you think Bence?
Speaker 8: Okay, well, number one, I'm not going to minimize his
Speaker 8: impact after you know, basically saying for the last ten
Speaker 8: years how much it was felt. So yeah, I do
Speaker 8: believe there's a void they got a rookie catcher now
Speaker 8: that is trying to find his way after being a
Speaker 8: star in college and in the minor league. So he
Speaker 8: doesn't have the experience. And when he's not playing, what's
Speaker 8: he going to offer to the pitchers out on the bench.
Speaker 8: I mean, Austin Barnes did a great job of being
Speaker 8: able on days that he wasn't even catching to be
Speaker 8: able to see things to offer what he's seeing, maybe
Speaker 8: pitch sequence Dalton Rushing one day, we'll get there. But
Speaker 8: he's only two weeks into his major league career, so yes,
Speaker 8: there is a void in that respect. And as far
Speaker 8: as the receiving goes, you know, Dalton Rushing place twice
Speaker 8: a week.
Speaker 7: He's got a good arm.
Speaker 8: That's the reason why he's in there, and that's part
Speaker 8: of the reason why the Dodgers made that decision. But yeah, Ish,
Speaker 8: certainly you miss that veteran experience when you're a backup catcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, I mean we can definitely see it, you know,
Speaker 3: all the way out here back home, But like I say,
Speaker 3: I don't know what stud has been done, and you know,
Speaker 3: we are behind Rushing and I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: he's got those good instincts the intangible. So I don't
Speaker 3: know how you feel about that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 8: I like his edge, I like his passion, his emotions,
Speaker 8: but he's got to be able to control them as
Speaker 8: well and find a new routine playing twice a week.
Speaker 8: Everybody thinks it's so easy, Ish, everybody thinks it's so
Speaker 8: easy to come off the bench and be a backup
Speaker 8: catcher twice a week.
Speaker 7: It's not that easy.
Speaker 8: And I think everybody's starting to realize that what Austin
Speaker 8: Barnes did was truly an art. Thanks for the phone call, Ish,
Speaker 8: And you know, in his role, you got to be
Speaker 8: able to add more than just backing up the catcher,
Speaker 8: the starting catcher, the all star catcher in this case,
Speaker 8: and that's what he did so well. But nothing lasts
Speaker 8: forever and sports father time always wins out. And obviously
Speaker 8: the Dodgers saw decline, and yeah, it's unfortunate it went
Speaker 8: down the way it did in the middle of the season.
Speaker 8: But you wonder as well, now, is Dalton Rushing made
Speaker 8: to be a backup catcher twice a week? Are the
Speaker 8: Dodgers evaluating that in real time as well? And feel like,
Speaker 8: all right, maybe we're stunting his development. Only having him
Speaker 8: catch twice a week. I know that he's up here
Speaker 8: to advance his development, to understand the game planning and
Speaker 8: what it takes to be a catcher for the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: So it's not as cut and dry as you might imagine.
Speaker 8: That'll do it for us on Dodger Talk Today, Will
Speaker 8: Smith should be behind the play tomorrow. Day game, Today,
Speaker 8: day game Tomorrow. It's Kershaw Day here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 8: He's only twenty four strikeouts away from three thousand, looking
Speaker 8: for his first win of the year.
Speaker 7: Going up against the Cardinals.
Speaker 8: Top pitching prospect out of UC Santa Barbara Michael McGreevey
Speaker 8: will be making his second major league start. He has
Speaker 8: fifty eight strikeouts and fifty five innings in Triple A
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