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Speaker 4: Vasse, Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: David Fast say with you until eleven thirty tonight. Taking
Speaker 6: your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 6: two five seventy, we will hear from Vin Scully. I'll
Speaker 6: share a conversation we had back in twenty sixteen when
Speaker 6: the Dodgers changed their address to one thousand Vin Scully Avenue.
Speaker 6: I thought it was fitting since tonight was Vin Scully
Speaker 6: Bobblehead night, a blowout loss, a disappointing loss, and Mark
Speaker 6: Kotze got me sick last week after I interviewed him.
Speaker 4: So the voice is a.
Speaker 6: Little shaky tonight, but we are going to get through
Speaker 6: it like the Dodgers got through tonight's game.
Speaker 4: Jose Mota is going to join us at.
Speaker 6: The top of the hour. We'll get his thoughts on
Speaker 6: what he saw tonight. But obviously this game did not
Speaker 6: start off great, as Hay Sung Kim lost a fly
Speaker 6: ball in the dusk of the evening here at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 6: only his second major league start, coincidentally against the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 6: And when we saw him play in Chase Field, he
Speaker 6: didn't look that comfortable out there either, and certainly in
Speaker 6: the first inning tonight he did not look comfortable. But
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts gave his explanation in the press conference that
Speaker 6: because Tommy Edman is coming back from injury, they did
Speaker 6: not want to have Tommy Edman out there again in
Speaker 6: center field. Edmund's gonna get a day off tomorrow since
Speaker 6: the Dodgers want to keep that right ankle.
Speaker 4: As healthy as possible.
Speaker 6: And look, if you're going to release Chris Taylor and
Speaker 6: have Hayes Sung Kim take his role and get more
Speaker 6: playing time. He's going to have to play center field
Speaker 6: now after seeing what we saw tonight. Will the Dodgers
Speaker 6: play him out there again?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Probably they will because they want to get him acclimated
Speaker 6: out there because he may be needed.
Speaker 4: Andy pa has got the night off tonight.
Speaker 6: At this point in time, I would say Kim is
Speaker 6: the fourth best center fielder on the team, behind Key
Speaker 6: k Hernandez, behind Andy Pajes, behind Tommy Edman, and then
Speaker 6: he got Hayesung Kim. He's an elite infielder, but so
Speaker 6: far hasn't looked great out there in center field in
Speaker 6: a small sample size.
Speaker 4: And that's what this is for.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers still have the best record in the NL
Speaker 6: West and are still in first place. They want to
Speaker 6: see what they got with Kim and whether or not
Speaker 6: he can handle that position on nights like tonight. Tonight
Speaker 6: reminded me and I hate to bring this up because
Speaker 6: what I'm going to reference was a playoff game which
Speaker 6: had a lot more significance than what we saw tonight
Speaker 6: in a regular season game in the middle of May.
Speaker 6: But the way the momentum snowballed on the Dodgers after
Speaker 6: Kim dropped that ball and opened the door for two
Speaker 6: runs in the first inning. It kind of reminded me
Speaker 6: of when James Outman box the first fly ball of
Speaker 6: Game one of the twenty twenty three NLDS against the
Speaker 6: Arizona Diamondbacks and they went on to score six runs
Speaker 6: and then proceeded to sweep the Dodgers in the NLDS.
Speaker 4: That's what it reminded me of. And uh, you know,
Speaker 4: there are.
Speaker 6: Certain parallels to those two things, and what it cost
Speaker 6: the Dodgers in Game one of the twenty three NLDS
Speaker 6: and what it cost them in that series. And you know, obviously,
Speaker 6: like I said, the significance of tonight is not as
Speaker 6: great as what it was in Game one of the
Speaker 6: twenty three n LDS, but it reminded me of that
Speaker 6: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the phone number the opener Landon Nack Longman game plan
Speaker 6: tonight did.
Speaker 4: Not work out as Jack Dryer.
Speaker 6: And Landon Nack did go seven innings, which did help
Speaker 6: the bullpen in that respect, but they did give up
Speaker 6: seven earned runs combined in seven innings. Landon Neck gave
Speaker 6: up two of the three home runs hit tonight by Arizona,
Speaker 6: three two run home runs through one hundred and six
Speaker 6: pitches in five middle innings tonight, and gave up four
Speaker 6: earned runs in that third inning. Let's head downstairs right
Speaker 6: now to hear from Land and Neck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously early on, just execution just wasn't there.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, we just kind of leaving some pitches
Speaker 3: over the middle, like getting to some deep counts, just
Speaker 3: not really executing what we needed to, and they took
Speaker 3: advantage of a couple of mistakes. I mean, they definitely
Speaker 3: didn't miss those, and so just very frustrating early on
Speaker 3: to put us kind of in that situation. I was
Speaker 3: glad eventually we locked it into kind of as we
Speaker 3: kept going and provide a little bit of length, but
Speaker 3: you know, just bad execution early on and just got
Speaker 3: to be better.
Speaker 5: Flink to your head when you are trying to lock
Speaker 5: back in though, because I mean, to be able to,
Speaker 5: like you said, provide some length and even find different
Speaker 5: ways to I imagine protect the bullpen had to have
Speaker 5: at least been encouraging.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I mean I was. I basically came in.
Speaker 3: It was Lenna, like, just ride me as long as
Speaker 3: you can to save that pen a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 3: I just as we were kind of going forward, just
Speaker 3: trying to find the adjustment quick as I could. I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously firstending it didn't quite make it in time, and
Speaker 3: so but was able to kind of make it a
Speaker 3: little bit better after that and start kind of getting
Speaker 3: back to the attack and kind of executing after that.
Speaker 3: So it was glad to at least be able to
Speaker 3: push a little deeper to save them a little bit.
Speaker 3: Frustrated stretch has it been just sort of considering how
Speaker 3: much the bullpen has had to throw this year? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been frustrating. I mean early on, especially in games,
Speaker 3: just kind of the inconsistency and for me right now,
Speaker 3: just trying to keep things where they need to be,
Speaker 3: keeping the attack, I mean, the deep counts and walks.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just not me and so been frustrating
Speaker 3: and continuing to try to push that forward and just
Speaker 3: try to build off of the throw that we had
Speaker 3: at the end of that and just stay on the attack.
Speaker 6: All right, there's landon NAC and thanks to sports net
Speaker 6: LA for bringing us Landon Nac, who has done everything
Speaker 6: that Dodgers have asked of him, be his starting pitcher,
Speaker 6: come out of the bullpen to close out games in
Speaker 6: a three inning safe situationuation to being the bulk innings
Speaker 6: guy tonight. And uh, obviously he has a great spirit
Speaker 6: about him. It just wasn't his night tonight. And he
Speaker 6: didn't get into rhythm quick enough. Because when you come
Speaker 6: into a game and you're already losing, Uh, that's tough
Speaker 6: for you to ease into it. And the Dodgers were
Speaker 6: down three to nothing and then turn into a seven
Speaker 6: nothing game in the third inning. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 6: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 6: go out to Danny who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 4: Hi, Danny, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Hey Dave, thank you for getting me on.
Speaker 1: I thank you for being here.
Speaker 9: Well, of course, man, where where else where else am
Speaker 9: I gonna be? Dave scept watching the Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 9: blow games and drop five balls in the outfield. Oh no,
Speaker 9: but that's what happened. That's what happened, right, That was
Speaker 9: that was a can of corn. And you know what,
Speaker 9: I don't blame Kim. I don't blame Kim because he
Speaker 9: doesn't belong out there. He's not an outfielder, you know,
Speaker 9: to my knowledge, he was a really good infielder in Korea,
Speaker 9: a star player, and very little outfield and he's kind
Speaker 9: of getting force bet into trying to not just be
Speaker 9: an outfielder, but be a center fielder. That's not an
Speaker 9: easy position.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: They just sent down the best at center fielders they
Speaker 9: have in James Outman. They're running out Confordo every day
Speaker 9: in left field, and he's taking up a spot out there.
Speaker 9: And Porto's got something like one hundred and fifty at bats.
Speaker 9: He's got no confidence out the plate. I don't know
Speaker 9: why they kept hold of him. You know, they can't.
Speaker 9: They're not afraid to let go of Chris Taylor and
Speaker 9: eat that salary. Well, well, maybe he just start to
Speaker 9: think about eating Comforta's salary too. With the kind of
Speaker 9: performance that he's giving them night and night out and
Speaker 9: they're sending them out there every single day.
Speaker 1: Kim is not an out.
Speaker 6: I agree with you, Danny, and I think that's going
Speaker 6: to change. I think if this continues, Michael Confordo is
Speaker 6: going to start losing at bats, especially with Tommy Edmin
Speaker 6: and Ti Oscar Hernandez back as well as the way
Speaker 6: Andy Paie has is swinging the bats.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I would.
Speaker 6: I would imagine the Dodgers are going to take a long,
Speaker 6: hard look, not at cutting Michael Confordo. But you know, obviously,
Speaker 6: if he doesn't turn it around here soon, he's not
Speaker 6: going to get as many at bats.
Speaker 9: Well, if he's not starting that, I don't know what
Speaker 9: he's doing on the team, Dave, So they got consider all.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I said they're gonna take I said they were gonna
Speaker 6: take at bats away. His at bats are not going
Speaker 6: to be as plentiful as they are right now.
Speaker 9: Well, I think he's doing that to himself. But they
Speaker 9: got a big hole in center field and they need
Speaker 9: to figure out.
Speaker 6: And number one, Number one, your first statement, I completely
Speaker 6: disagree with James Outman is not the best center fielder
Speaker 6: on the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: Okay, I can four others.
Speaker 4: I can name four others. Do you want to hear
Speaker 4: them better in the field?
Speaker 9: Better in the field.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I take Hernandez, Tommy Edman, and Andy pat has
Speaker 6: over him defensively.
Speaker 1: No, come on, come on, Dave Hey.
Speaker 4: Yes, come on, Danny, come on, Danny, I'll give you.
Speaker 9: I'll give you Edmond, but PA has out there in
Speaker 9: the field. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: No, I'm wrong. You're just flat out wrong. You're wrong. Sorry,
Speaker 4: and you just talked around in circles. You're absolutely wrong.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the phone number. Let's go out to Tyson and Newport Beach.
Speaker 6: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Tyson?
Speaker 4: Sorry?
Speaker 6: Do you want to rank your best who you think
Speaker 6: is the best defensive center fielders on the Dodgers right now?
Speaker 1: Tell Danny? Preached to Danny.
Speaker 4: Definitely too many Christmas.
Speaker 1: I don't know, They're all like, just.
Speaker 4: Move on, Tyson.
Speaker 10: Similar But I was going to talk about how the
Speaker 10: Dodgers a lot of people make the argue that they
Speaker 10: have a lot of pitching injuries, dude playoffs, which is
Speaker 10: partially true. But I also wanted to point out how
Speaker 10: other teams, like the Phillies who have made deep runs
Speaker 10: in years past. You know their horses Wheeler Nola. You
Speaker 10: almost never see the missis start. And they're both guys too,
Speaker 10: so those.
Speaker 6: Are starters, are starters, and yeah, those guys serve a
Speaker 6: purpose and their horses, like you said, but we're talking
Speaker 6: about relievers, and when they're used as much as they
Speaker 6: were used last year, and the Dodgers come back quicker
Speaker 6: than anybody else in baseball to have the shortest off season,
Speaker 6: there's going to be a tax to be paid, and
Speaker 6: they're paying it.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call, Tyson.
Speaker 6: And by the way, I've been seeing this list circulate
Speaker 6: on social media about the twelve injured pitchers the Dodgers
Speaker 6: have on the injured list. Well, let's just it's a
Speaker 6: little misleading because Gavin Stone was going to be out
Speaker 6: all year long, River Ryan out all year long, Emmit
Speaker 6: Sheen is coming back the second half of the year,
Speaker 6: Michael Grove injured in spring training, you got last now
Speaker 6: and Snell on their way back. They were hurt in
Speaker 6: the middle of the year at Guardo Enriquez. That's not
Speaker 6: an arm injury. So that's a little misleading when I
Speaker 6: see that stuff online. Let's go on to Newport Beach. Ken,
Speaker 6: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: Hi, Ken, Hi, David. You don't sound good.
Speaker 6: I was interviewing Mark Cotsee for the pregame show. He
Speaker 6: sounded like he had a little bug and I was
Speaker 6: like dangish, I'm gonna get sick right now, So I
Speaker 6: got a.
Speaker 1: Little he and I want to take a day off.
Speaker 1: And by the way, thanks.
Speaker 4: A lot for the advice Ken.
Speaker 6: I'll get I'll get a doctor's note from Ken and
Speaker 6: Newport Beach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I've been I've been sick off and on
Speaker 1: here for the last couple of weeks, so.
Speaker 4: I know it's been going around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So, and I heard Dave's reason. But your
Speaker 1: second base is playing center field after missing two balls
Speaker 1: in the prior game, your centerfield was playing second base,
Speaker 1: which doesn't make any sense. You're well holder on.
Speaker 6: I mean, Tommy Edmin is a second He's he's a
Speaker 6: lead at second, short and center as we saw last year.
Speaker 4: So you can't just put it in the bucket of
Speaker 4: second base.
Speaker 1: No, but you don't want to. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see that guy playing the center every again. That was
Speaker 1: out there today.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean, I agree with you. I don't think
Speaker 6: that he's comfortable out there. And I bet that was
Speaker 6: the first time he had seen center field at Dodger
Speaker 6: Stadium at seven to ten, where it's dusk and certainly
Speaker 6: more difficult if you don't have experience out there. You
Speaker 6: could take as many fly balls as you want. That's
Speaker 6: a different time of night.
Speaker 1: Well some of the things. Knack now has a sixth
Speaker 1: sixteen ERA and Confortlenforto in one hundred and forty games
Speaker 1: has six RBIs one hundred and forty at bats up. Sorry,
Speaker 1: he has six RBIs. I think it's time for him
Speaker 1: to go away.
Speaker 6: And the other one way is like completely go away
Speaker 6: or go away to the bench.
Speaker 1: Let's not start. He needs a play left game, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll get better.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing we you know, we got two
Speaker 1: more games with Arizona, who's been really playing good. Then
Speaker 1: they go and play the Yankees, so I guarantee you're angry,
Speaker 1: and then they play the Mets for forty four games.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Dodgers pitchers ERA is four nineteen.
Speaker 1: The Mets pitchers ERA is two eighty six. This could
Speaker 1: be a really rough rest of this month. And I
Speaker 1: don't think the Dodgers are going to be in first
Speaker 1: place from June first. Would you look who they're going
Speaker 1: to play, and they'll lack a pitcher.
Speaker 6: That's possible, But does it matter if they're in first
Speaker 6: place on June first? Or does it matter if they're
Speaker 6: in first place at the end of the season, because
Speaker 6: we saw the storm last year, right with their position players,
Speaker 6: how depleted they were, with Freddie obviously stepping away from
Speaker 6: the team, Mookie.
Speaker 4: Out for a period of time.
Speaker 6: So the Dodgers were playing Cavin Bigio and Taylor Tremmel
Speaker 6: after the All Star break a lot, and this reminds
Speaker 6: me of that with their pitching staff right now. So
Speaker 6: I agree with you on the front that right now
Speaker 6: is not a great time for the Dodgers, and the
Speaker 6: schedule is getting tougher starting with this series and on
Speaker 6: the upcoming road trip and when they return home on
Speaker 6: the homestand but it all starts with starting pitching. Ken,
Speaker 6: They've got to get Betty better starting pitching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that ruins the whole thing. I used to be
Speaker 1: a pitcher at high school and college, or I understand
Speaker 1: that if you're picture's not pitching seventy percent of the game,
Speaker 1: eventually you're gonna run out of herlievers and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be tired and they're gonna get hit. And that's what's
Speaker 1: going on all.
Speaker 6: Right, Ken, thank you for the phone call. Let's go
Speaker 6: out to JJ in Beaumont. Thanks for being patient.
Speaker 4: JJ. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey, my pleasure. Excuse my voice, you know, excuse you know,
Speaker 11: the Dodgers for losses in a row. So with that
Speaker 11: stuffs tomorrow, you know, motors on the mound. We're gonna
Speaker 11: win tomorrow and uh we'll turn the tired. So I'm
Speaker 11: not worried about him. Like I said, I really listen
Speaker 11: now and in October, so who'll be fine?
Speaker 6: And all right, Thanks for the phone call, JJ. Keep
Speaker 6: rooting on the Dodgers. They have a great team and uh,
Speaker 6: they certainly will be there at the end, no doubt
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call, JJ, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 6: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: When we come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota
Speaker 6: and also more of your phone calls, and you'll hear
Speaker 6: my conversation with the Great Vin Scully in twenty sixteen
Speaker 6: after the Dodgers changed the address of one thousand Alesion
Speaker 6: Park Avenue to one thousand Vin Scully Avenue. So we'll
Speaker 6: reshare that because tonight was a celebration of Vin Scully. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: the Dodgers could not come up with the win as
Speaker 6: they fall to the Diamondbacks nine to five on A
Speaker 6: five seventy LA.
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Speaker 8: On this one to one.
Speaker 12: Oh Tony swings it hits a hog drive.
Speaker 8: To the left, heads up in the pavilion, Show Hay's
Speaker 8: coming solo home run Show, hey Otani his seventeenth of
Speaker 8: the season, second solo shot against Brandon Fought, and now
Speaker 8: the Dodgers are within five. It's seven to two.
Speaker 6: That was the front end of back to back home
Speaker 6: runs by sho heo Tani and Mookie Betts in the
Speaker 6: bottom of the sixth inning. That was the first time
Speaker 6: this year the Dodgers have hit back to back home runs.
Speaker 6: Number seventeen for sho Heotani, which leads Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6: Mookie Betts a pair of home runs tonight. Those were
Speaker 6: his first two home runs of this homestand and the
Speaker 6: head was a lot more steady tonight in the batter's
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Speaker 6: tonight nine to five to the Arizona Diamondbacks. But I
Speaker 6: love what I saw in the ninth inning and who
Speaker 6: else ta Oscar Hernandez, first game back off the injured list.
Speaker 4: The guy loves to play baseball and he's.
Speaker 6: Not giving up on any game, in any score, and
Speaker 6: that was evident. With two outs in the top of
Speaker 6: the ninth inning, Josh Naylor thought he had the Diamondbacks
Speaker 6: fourth home run of the night, but Taoscar Hernandez, in
Speaker 6: a nine to three game, not conceding anything, leaped up
Speaker 6: in front of the out of town scoreboard and rob
Speaker 6: Naeler of.
Speaker 4: What would have been a home run.
Speaker 6: A wall scraper, nonetheless, and that kind of set the
Speaker 6: tone for the Dodgers to come back in the bottom
Speaker 6: of the ninth inning, but stall out after scoring two
Speaker 6: runs in the ninth So Taoscar Hernandez. He did that
Speaker 6: in the postseason last year in San Diego, despite the
Speaker 6: Dodgers losing six to five in Game two. That in
Speaker 6: Game three of that series, and he hit a grand
Speaker 6: Slam and made the score six to five. That was
Speaker 6: a lot different than years past. The Dodgers would have
Speaker 6: just conceded that game. But again, Taiascar Hernandez means so
Speaker 6: much to this team and thankfully the Dodgers brought him back.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 5: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 6: Jose Mota did a great job filling in for Rick
Speaker 6: Monday on this part of the homestand Rick will return
Speaker 6: tomorrow night. But Jose, great job filling in and appreciate
Speaker 6: the zinc drops you've given me throughout the night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've both been on the pollen wash, you and
Speaker 2: I have been because I'm not been a good spring
Speaker 2: for us. But it was nice of feeling for Rick,
Speaker 2: my good old buddy. He's back tomorrow and time to
Speaker 2: go see Pepe Cuartito. Your very good buddies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt about it. They're missing you in that
Speaker 6: booth and we'll miss you over here. But we got
Speaker 6: you on Dodger Talk every night, and I don't know, Jose,
Speaker 6: we could always talk about different things in the game
Speaker 6: and perceive things to be bigger than what they actually were.
Speaker 6: But how big was Hey Sung Kim losing that first
Speaker 6: fly ball to open up a two run first inning.
Speaker 2: Well before the game, all we talked about was, let's
Speaker 2: hope the Dodgers don't allow runs in the first inning. Somehow,
Speaker 2: Let's find a way that they don't do this so
Speaker 2: the offense cannot be looking up to say we got
Speaker 2: to play catch up again. And then that fly ball
Speaker 2: changes everything. I mean, it builds confidence on the d
Speaker 2: Backs obviously, it adds pitches to dryer, It gets base
Speaker 2: runners to a different bases where they did not belong.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was big. It was big.
Speaker 2: And you asked me before game why the change was
Speaker 2: made and why I thought Dave Roberts had instarted one
Speaker 2: and center and one at second base, and I was
Speaker 2: talking about the ankle, and that was exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: With Tommy not being you know, back repetitively on a
Speaker 2: baseball field, you know, for a couple of weeks, you
Speaker 2: gotta sometime just you know, kind of slow him down
Speaker 2: where he doesn't have to worry about Tiaskar covering ground
Speaker 2: next to him, who just came from the il in
Speaker 2: the same time, not having to worry about going too
Speaker 2: far to his right to take care of Confardo. So
Speaker 2: it didn't pay off, obviously, but for his on Kim,
Speaker 2: the Lessenaires, if you can't see the ball, you got
Speaker 2: to tell somebody way early they can't see the ball,
Speaker 2: because that way, either guys in the corner as long
Speaker 2: as that ball was in the air but came very
Speaker 2: close to catching it. But they have to know a
Speaker 2: little bit early to know that you're having trouble seeing
Speaker 2: the baseball.
Speaker 4: And we saw Taskar.
Speaker 6: Hernandez explained that demonstratively to Kim in the dugout. How
Speaker 6: many more times do you believe we'll see Kim in
Speaker 6: center field? Do you feel like the Dodgers, who obviously
Speaker 6: have a longer leash on players than other teams, do
Speaker 6: you feel like they want to see Kim get more
Speaker 6: reps out there in case they need him later in
Speaker 6: the year.
Speaker 2: I do feel that way because the Dodgers have always
Speaker 2: stuck with a plan Andrew Freeman to Brandon gum So
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, they don't quit for just a couple of misplays. Otherwise,
Speaker 2: Pies will not be playing the outfield for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: this year because he had a lot of misplays last season.
Speaker 2: So that's the truth. He had a lot of misplays
Speaker 2: earlier this season. Now he's a natural outfielder, so he
Speaker 2: has nowhere else to go. But the option obviously becomes
Speaker 2: a wide play a guy that's got gold gloves in
Speaker 2: Korea at second and short stop in the outfit because
Speaker 2: that's how they promoted him, that's how they wanted him
Speaker 2: to be here. And obviously, replacing guys that are versatile
Speaker 2: is going to require versatility, even though you do have
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, I agree with you on the center
Speaker 2: fielders that are better right now obviously in ahead of
Speaker 2: the charge of outman. But he's gonna get opportunities, there's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. And I know coaches some already
Speaker 2: told me he's gonna miss the ball sometimes out there.
Speaker 2: The hitters are different here than in the league that
Speaker 2: he played in. But without giving him reps, since how
Speaker 2: is he going to get better?
Speaker 6: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 6: Dodgers lose their fourth straight tonight, a nine to five
Speaker 6: loss to the Diamondbacks after being swept by the Angels.
Speaker 6: You mentioned Michael Confordo and Jose. I'm a big believer
Speaker 6: in local credibility. Michael Confordo does not have any local
Speaker 6: credibility in LA. He's gotten off to a slow start
Speaker 6: to begin this season. How much longer do the Dodgers
Speaker 6: give him every day at bats in left field?
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna, you know, get They're getting close
Speaker 2: to leafs saying hey, listen, take a couple of days
Speaker 2: and go watch the game. But because you have options,
Speaker 2: Keik is a great example to have out there, a
Speaker 2: god that he can go out there and play and
Speaker 2: anyone he's going to do a good job. But Michael Conforda,
Speaker 2: what we're not seeing is the consistency of just that
Speaker 2: that fight. You know, we talk about competitive pitches on
Speaker 2: guys on the mound. I'll like to see competitive at
Speaker 2: bats time after time, and it seems like sometimes it's there,
Speaker 2: sometimes it's not. This way looks beautiful, there's no doubt
Speaker 2: about it, but that's not leading to anything. There's been
Speaker 2: some more hard contact, but also not on a consistent basis,
Speaker 2: and especially in situations where teams are not finding a
Speaker 2: way to get to him, is not delivering, not taking
Speaker 2: the right not making their right decisions when it comes
Speaker 2: down to other guys on well, the guy was slugging
Speaker 2: your first base ere and scoring position already and he's
Speaker 2: just not been able to get that one pitch or
Speaker 2: strike it well or miss it or something like that,
Speaker 2: because I think he's actually pressing a little bit, no
Speaker 2: doubt about it.
Speaker 6: And the Dodgers obviously have made some tough decisions on
Speaker 6: Chris Taylor and Austin Barnes and Andrew Friedman set in
Speaker 6: his pregame press conference yesterday unprompted acknowledge the fact that
Speaker 6: the Padres and Giants and the Diamondbacks are pushing them
Speaker 6: this year in this division, and they can't concede anything.
Speaker 2: Every year is different, every year is going to bring
Speaker 2: different challenges. The Dodgers played the most significant games of
Speaker 2: their season last year not in June or July, but
Speaker 2: in September. Because there's teams pushing you, including obviously the
Speaker 2: closest ones to Padres, So you got to go out
Speaker 2: there and think that, Yeah, who wouldn't want to have
Speaker 2: a five to six game lead in September and kind
Speaker 2: of cruise through it. It's not the right thing. It's
Speaker 2: not reality. I mean, yeah, it's ideal you want to
Speaker 2: dealt with. But then we talk about momentum and going
Speaker 2: into the first series and not having momentum. So you
Speaker 2: got to go out there and just enjoy the challenge.
Speaker 1: It's going to be there.
Speaker 2: These are all the big league teams that are playing
Speaker 2: good baseball. They know a lot about you too, so
Speaker 2: you got to adjust. And for the first question you
Speaker 2: asked me in spring training was what is it going
Speaker 2: to take?
Speaker 1: I still stick with it. It's going to take starting
Speaker 1: pitching it right now.
Speaker 2: That is the one hole the Dodgers have that they're
Speaker 2: not able to hold on to leads right now when
Speaker 2: it comes down to guys going out there and giving you,
Speaker 2: you know, six and stepping on the mountain of seventh inning,
Speaker 2: and the offense to me is it has not been
Speaker 2: an iss. Yeah, there's gonna be some spurts here and there,
Speaker 2: but they're gonna score some runs. But you've got to
Speaker 2: have somebody out there that can go out there and
Speaker 2: take the baseball and stop the bleeding in the first
Speaker 2: five or six innings.
Speaker 4: And that guy is Yoshi Amamoto Jose.
Speaker 6: I mean, when we talk about ACES, there's more than
Speaker 6: just going out there and pitching six scoreless or seven scoreless.
Speaker 6: There are nights like tomorrow night where you really are
Speaker 6: coordinated in ACE when the team needs you to stop
Speaker 6: a losing streak and provide what the Dodgers have not had,
Speaker 6: and that is solid starting pitching.
Speaker 2: That is Yoshi who needs to go out there himself
Speaker 2: and make adjustments and not allow what happened last time
Speaker 2: and one bat pitch against moreno hurt him tomorrow. And
Speaker 2: one thing about you know, as ACES earned that opportunity,
Speaker 2: they earned that title, and for Yoshi is now a
Speaker 2: matter of as you mentioned earned in the show, somebody's
Speaker 2: got to stop it. You need to stop her, and
Speaker 2: that's the guy who actually has to also start something
Speaker 2: new for the guys on the mound. Because we know
Speaker 2: very well that you do well, the next guy wants
Speaker 2: to go out there and top of you. And that's
Speaker 2: great to have that competition, which we have not seen
Speaker 2: because there's not been a consistency in who's going to
Speaker 2: follow whom and what they they're going to pitch so
Speaker 2: far in the rotation about oh, boy, who would not
Speaker 2: want to have you Mota on the mount tomorrow knowing
Speaker 2: that your team really needs to pick up from the
Speaker 2: guy start of the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's the guy whose should be fun. We'll see
Speaker 6: you back out here tomorrow night. And great job again
Speaker 6: filling in for Rick Monday.
Speaker 1: Hey, and let's forgive my fellow Titan marcosse.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I'll try, I'll.
Speaker 2: Try maybe maybe, good night.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's that Sacramento Air. Sacramento Air up there that
Speaker 6: got him. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 6: seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Diamondbacks tonight,
Speaker 6: nine to five. Let's take one more phone call before
Speaker 6: we reshare our conversation with the legendary Vince Scully. Daniel
Speaker 6: in Beverly Hills. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Daniel?
Speaker 2: Doing great?
Speaker 13: How you doing, David?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 13: So it's been a tough past four days watching these Dodgers,
Speaker 13: you know.
Speaker 1: And it's not for the lack of hitting.
Speaker 13: They they have an average that's one of the highest
Speaker 13: in the league, if not the highest in the league.
Speaker 13: And uh run scored per game at five point seventy
Speaker 13: nine run scored per game. And so our bats are
Speaker 13: not It's not our bats everyone's talking about Michael Conforto.
Speaker 1: Michael Conforto.
Speaker 14: I understand, he's a big hole in the lineup, But
Speaker 14: it's not our bats that.
Speaker 1: Are the problem. It's our pitching, our starting pitching, our bullpen.
Speaker 14: I mean, how many times are you going to bring
Speaker 14: in Kirby Yates to blow the lead? You know, it's like, well,
Speaker 14: now he's hurt, you know, It's just it's it's just
Speaker 14: it's plagued the Dodgers year after year, even when we think.
Speaker 6: Year after year, Daniel, stop it, you're over reacting. Okay,
Speaker 6: let's get through this stretch and we'll see where the
Speaker 6: Dodgers pitching is when they come back home and they
Speaker 6: got to play the New York teams.
Speaker 4: It's not going to be easy.
Speaker 6: And hopefully these guys stabilize and keep the Dodgers in
Speaker 6: the game because their offense certainly can win you a
Speaker 6: lot of games. Right now, thanks for the phone call, Daniel,
Speaker 6: appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: Despite the loss tonight, and despite the ugly performance by
Speaker 6: the Dodgers early in this game, it was Vin Scully
Speaker 6: Bobblehead night. The fans here received an old school version
Speaker 6: of Vin Scully on the top step of the Dodger Dugat.
Speaker 6: His family was out here, pregame and announced the words
Speaker 6: that Vin made famous. It's time for Dodger baseball. And
Speaker 6: the Dodgers did a great job of celebrating Vin and
Speaker 6: his memory and his legacy, and I thought we would
Speaker 6: do the same. Close it out that way on a
Speaker 6: feel good note. Here was my conversation with Vin back
Speaker 6: in twenty sixteen, right before Opening Day when the Dodgers
Speaker 6: changed the address of Dodgers Stadium to one thousand Vin
Speaker 6: Scully Avenue.
Speaker 7: One thousand Vin Scully Avenue has a nice ring to it.
Speaker 7: I'm curious, though, after so many years of resisting this honor,
Speaker 7: what made you change your mind?
Speaker 12: They kept asking me, sincerely, and I finally thought, well,
Speaker 12: it's my last year. Okay. You know they were all
Speaker 12: so nice, the mayor and the councilman, and you know
Speaker 12: that kind of thing finally gets to you. What I
Speaker 12: really wanted was and I'm going to try my last
Speaker 12: year to somehow or other convince him to honor Walter O'Malley.
Speaker 12: That to me is so important, and I just hope
Speaker 12: that they will eventually say, okay, because of all the
Speaker 12: names here. I mean, he's the man. He brought the
Speaker 12: team out, took a big risk playing in the coliseum,
Speaker 12: and took all kinds of heat and sarcasts and writings
Speaker 12: against him, then built this magnificent stadium, gave a lot
Speaker 12: of jobs to a lot of people, and now giving
Speaker 12: over three million a year enjoyment a sense of me one.
Speaker 12: So to me, his name should have gone on way
Speaker 12: ahead of anybody else's. So that was my biggest problem
Speaker 12: and it still is, and I pray that it'll be resolved.
Speaker 7: You know, then, what did you think about the fans
Speaker 7: when they started channing one more year? Were you taking
Speaker 7: aback by that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 12: Of course the whole thing was ad lib whatever they did,
Speaker 12: And yeah, that was I was very touched on, relaxed now,
Speaker 12: But it's hard to sit up there and hear people,
Speaker 12: you know, singing your name and applauding, and it sounds easy,
Speaker 12: but it's not. Inside of me. Throughout the entire proceedings,
Speaker 12: there was a little voice saying, oh, come one, you know,
Speaker 12: because I just really don't feel that I should be
Speaker 12: where I was or where I am now it's happened.
Speaker 12: But for instance, again I get back to Waldron Alley.
Speaker 12: There's somebody who really deserves something big out here.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: They're starting to put up statues around the stadium. Would
Speaker 7: that be something that you would think, in one way
Speaker 7: shape or another, that could be a way that they
Speaker 7: can honor him or in another way.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't have any voice as to how they would
Speaker 12: honor him. My voice, however, is as loud as I
Speaker 12: can make it to honor him. How they do it
Speaker 12: is up to the people in charge. But I just
Speaker 12: can't believe we've been out here so long. I mean
Speaker 12: nineteen fifty eight a long time ago, and here we
Speaker 12: are in this beautiful stadium, been here since sixty two,
Speaker 12: drawing over three million. You heard the crowd. The enthusiasm
Speaker 12: the Dodger fans have is remarkable, and the man who
Speaker 12: started it has not been honored. And I still can't
Speaker 12: quite understand that. Someone else, I'm sure it can explain
Speaker 12: it to me, but I just don't understand it.
Speaker 7: With all the attention and how much people really want
Speaker 7: to share their love for you. Have you been able
Speaker 7: to keep the same pregame routine? Do you plan on
Speaker 7: keeping the same pregame routine?
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, it's a funny feeling. When we were
Speaker 12: in San Diego because I wanted to go to that
Speaker 12: opening and a writer, I said, hi, a happy New Year,
Speaker 12: and the writer said, it's your last opening day And
Speaker 12: he said it like, oh, my gosh, do you know
Speaker 12: something that I don't know. I didn't like the idea
Speaker 12: of last, but yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 12: I really am, And I know it's the right decision.
Speaker 12: I have no misgivings whatsoever. So yeah, I'll wear a
Speaker 12: clean shirt tomorrow. My gosh.
Speaker 7: Then I was curious, because you've resisted the name changing
Speaker 7: of the street for a few years now, how much
Speaker 7: did Sandy encourage you to let them honor you in
Speaker 7: this way?
Speaker 12: Well, she encouraged me in some ways, but she said,
Speaker 12: you know, if you want to turn them down, it
Speaker 12: will be a slap in the face. The first time
Speaker 12: you turned it down, I didn't want it to be
Speaker 12: there and me coming to work for five years or
Speaker 12: whatever with that sign. This way, it can go up
Speaker 12: and at the end of the year, I can make
Speaker 12: the great escape. I don't you know, really, but she
Speaker 12: as always just gives me the strength to make the decision.
Speaker 12: She had nothing to do with the announcing that this
Speaker 12: was my last year. That just came from the fact
Speaker 12: that I know it's the perfect time. I mean, I've
Speaker 12: been so lucky to have lived this long and to
Speaker 12: have worked this long. And I kept thinking, all right,
Speaker 12: I'll be eighty nine when the season ends. If you
Speaker 12: go one more year, you'll be ninety. I don't think
Speaker 12: that's fair to the listeners. I really don't. So no,
Speaker 12: this will be it, and I'll be grateful.
Speaker 4: I was curious too.
Speaker 7: I mean, obviously your legacy will live on forever with
Speaker 7: the games broadcasts, but for your grandchildren, their grandchildren, they
Speaker 7: could come to a street and the family name is
Speaker 7: right there.
Speaker 12: Yes, but you know what, Dave, and I really mean this.
Speaker 12: I saw Mel Allen leave the Yankees. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 12: I saw Red Barber leave the Dodgers. I saw Jack
Speaker 12: Buck leave the Cardinals. I saw Harry Carey leave the Cubs.
Speaker 12: I saw Mile o'harrington leave the Eastern Astros. So when
Speaker 12: I leave, there'll be a strange feeling the first year
Speaker 12: of a different voice, and you know, where's been that
Speaker 12: kind of stuff. But after that year, believe me, like
Speaker 12: all of those other announcers, the game goes on. New
Speaker 12: fans that created broadcasters are still working at the game,
Speaker 12: and I don't think I'll be missed after that first year.
Speaker 12: I really don't.
Speaker 7: You know, have you been able to keep the same
Speaker 7: pregame routine? Do you plan on keeping the same pregame routine.
Speaker 12: Trying to do the same thing, the thing that bothers me?
Speaker 12: To be honest, right now, they're pushing me out in
Speaker 12: front of the game. They're making too much fuss over me,
Speaker 12: because the game is the thing. The players are the thing.
Speaker 12: Winning and losing is the thing. So I pray that
Speaker 12: this is the last of these days. You know, I'm
Speaker 12: not Kobe Bryant. I didn't do anything that well to
Speaker 12: thrill other people. So it's right that he should go
Speaker 12: to all the places. He was a magnificent player, never
Speaker 12: another one like that, so he should, But not me.
Speaker 12: I should be in the booth, that's where I belong,
Speaker 12: not out on the pitchers mound. So I'm hoping this
Speaker 12: day was wonderful I loved it, but that's it. Let's
Speaker 12: get back to the Dodgers and the season there.
Speaker 6: He was in twenty sixteen, the voice of the Dodgers forever,
Speaker 6: the voice of the Dodgers, and nights like tonight at
Speaker 6: Dodgers Stadium make you miss Vin Scully even more. But
Speaker 6: his legacy lives on. His calls live on. He will
Speaker 6: always live on as long as I'm hosting this show,
Speaker 6: and he lives on in the hearts of every Dodger
Speaker 6: fan that was lucky enough to hear him call games,
Speaker 6: and the next generation we'll know a lot about Vince Scully.
Speaker 6: On nights like tonight, where the Dodgers played interviews, they
Speaker 6: played a rendition of Vin singing take me out to
Speaker 6: the Ballgame that Greg Taylor and Jessica Ray found in
Speaker 6: the archives, and also just his family is going to
Speaker 6: allow his legacy to live on. So night's like tonight
Speaker 6: certainly special because he is gone but never will be forgotten.
Speaker 6: All Right, the voice is given out. So that's it
Speaker 6: for Dodger Talk Tonight. Coming up tomorrow, Yoshiyamamoto on the mound.
Speaker 6: He is expected to be the stopper and the ace,
Speaker 6: and he is expected to help the Dodgers and set
Speaker 6: this tone to end a season high four game losing streak.
Speaker 4: Morongo Casino.
Speaker 6: Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock tomorrow with first
Speaker 6: pitch at seven to ten on Mexican Heritage.
Speaker 4: Night here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 6: Thanks to calling me back at our Burbank studios, thanks
Speaker 6: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 6: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 6: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 6: once again. The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. The
Speaker 6: Dodgers fall to the Diamondbacks nine to five. Ben Mallar
Speaker 6: on Fox Sports Radio is next.
Speaker 1: See you