Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on two. Let's I love writing
Speaker 3: me these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me are your attention, your
Speaker 4: fire and not a pisson. This is world champion, Dodgers,
Speaker 4: world championing for a small.
Speaker 5: Soft time they get a people what they want to die.
Speaker 6: To in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's not a headache. As one of the con this
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Speaker 4: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers get the winning Cleveland today seven to two
Speaker 5: over the Guardians. Happy Memorial Day, David Vass with you
Speaker 5: until seven thirty tonight. We have phone lines open at
Speaker 5: eight sixty six, seven two five seventy. Jose Moto will
Speaker 5: join us at seven point fifteen. We will let you
Speaker 5: hear from Chris Taylor, who is in the starting lineup
Speaker 5: as we speak at Angel Stadium, playing center field for
Speaker 5: the Angels. Batting eighth for Ron Washington against the Yankee
Speaker 5: So Chris Taylor has signed with a team. Austin Barnes,
Speaker 5: who is designated for assignment almost ten days ago, still
Speaker 5: has not been traded or reassigned or signed with another team.
Speaker 5: So we'll see where Austin Barnes lands and Chris Taylor
Speaker 5: has a new home down the five Freeway in Anaheim.
Speaker 5: So you'll hear from Chris Taylor a little bit later.
Speaker 5: And since today is Memorial Day, I think we always
Speaker 5: were reminded by Vince Scully what this day meant to
Speaker 5: the country. Vin was obviously very patriotic and weaved in
Speaker 5: a lot of remembrances of those paid the ultimate sacrifice
Speaker 5: during a Dodger Baseball broadcast, and I wanted to share
Speaker 5: a sample of that from his open in twenty fifteen
Speaker 5: later in the show as well. Eight six six, nine
Speaker 5: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. I
Speaker 5: guess that's one of those things you know growing up
Speaker 5: as a Dodger fan, those will be the days that
Speaker 5: stand out more than just any other summer day during
Speaker 5: the long season. I would always remember Vin being so great.
Speaker 5: Obviously every game, but certain national holidays like Memorial Day,
Speaker 5: D Day. He would make it a point to educate
Speaker 5: us on what those days really meant and not just
Speaker 5: gloss over it and worry about your barbecues, your fireworks,
Speaker 5: your parties. There was something more to those days, and
Speaker 5: that's part of the reason why I thought it was
Speaker 5: important to share that and keep his legacy living on
Speaker 5: in that respect, especially on a day like Memorial Day.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers had a rough weekend in New York, There's
Speaker 5: no two ways about it, against a very good team
Speaker 5: in the Mets, and a lot of times, like I said,
Speaker 5: over the weekend, you have to acknowledge that, yes, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are the defending World Series champions, but there are
Speaker 5: a lot of other teams out there that are coming
Speaker 5: after them. And hands down, if you ask anybody, the
Speaker 5: National League top to bottom is a tougher league this
Speaker 5: year than the American League. When was the last time
Speaker 5: you could say that. I can't remember the last time
Speaker 5: the National League was top to bottom stacked more than
Speaker 5: the American League. You look at the AL East that
Speaker 5: gets so much East Coast love. The Yankees are the
Speaker 5: only team above five hundred in that division, while in
Speaker 5: the NLS if the postseason started today, you would have
Speaker 5: three while you would have three playoff teams in the postseason.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Padres all would qualify
Speaker 5: to make the postseason if it started today. So hands down,
Speaker 5: I think we can all agree that the NL West
Speaker 5: is the best division in baseball. As we take inventory
Speaker 5: on this Memorial Day, the Dodgers are thirty three and
Speaker 5: twenty one, the second best record, tied with the Cubs.
Speaker 5: The Phillies are a couple of games better than both
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and Cubs. But when you look at Memorial Day,
Speaker 5: it's kind of the first post where you take inventory
Speaker 5: of the team and really start to evaluate. There's enough
Speaker 5: of a sample size of where your team is at
Speaker 5: where it can get better. And I'm curious for you,
Speaker 5: what's the biggest concern that the Dodgers have and what's
Speaker 5: the greatest relief the Dodgers have right now? For me, obviously,
Speaker 5: and I think we can all agree on this, the
Speaker 5: bullpen is overworked. We all can say that, and how
Speaker 5: thin it is that's concerning as well. They will be
Speaker 5: getting Michael Kopek back, likely on the next homestand Kirby Yates,
Speaker 5: who strained his right hamstring. At least that's not an
Speaker 5: arm injury, probably towards the tail end of this homestand
Speaker 5: maybe the next road trip. So you got a couple
Speaker 5: of reinforcements coming back. But Blake Trinon and Evan Phillips,
Speaker 5: to me, you're not going to see them anytime soon.
Speaker 5: So that's where things are for me, the bullpen and
Speaker 5: just the workload. You can't turn back the hands of time.
Speaker 5: You can't undo the two hundred and twenty plus innings
Speaker 5: they have pitched already. All you can do is move
Speaker 5: forward and hopefully get your starters to get more dominant
Speaker 5: and give you more quality starts. And when Tyler Glassnow
Speaker 5: and Blake Snell return, hopefully sometime in the month of June,
Speaker 5: that's going to help to reinforce and support Yamamoto, who
Speaker 5: has been a one man show, including today, going six
Speaker 5: innings allowing just two earned runs to win his sixth
Speaker 5: game of the year. I was a little concerned when
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts said he hurt himself making that one man
Speaker 5: play at first base in the third inning, getting getting
Speaker 5: Will Wilson on a bun attempt, but Nonetheless, he hung
Speaker 5: in there for six innings, and hopefully he's back out
Speaker 5: there stronger like he has been next Sunday, when he
Speaker 5: will face the Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball, a rematch
Speaker 5: of a team that he saw twice last year. Yamamoto's
Speaker 5: best regular season performance was against the Yankees in June
Speaker 5: at Yankee Stadium before he unfortunately got hurt, and then
Speaker 5: in the World Series, obviously, Yamamoto was magnificent. I really
Speaker 5: believe Yamamoto to me and Freddie Freeman to me have
Speaker 5: been the two shining stars alongside Otani to start this year.
Speaker 5: Where would they be without the performance of Yamamoto, And
Speaker 5: if you go back to spring training, there were It's
Speaker 5: just something about him, the conviction of his bullpen sessions,
Speaker 5: his confidence even in the clubhouse, the way he pitched
Speaker 5: in the postseason last year. There was something about him
Speaker 5: that convinced me, this guy can be a cy Young contender.
Speaker 5: And here he is contending for the cy Young. If
Speaker 5: you're into the odds and think odds make everything for you, well,
Speaker 5: him and Paul Skeenes are the two favorites to win
Speaker 5: the National League cy Young this year. So Yamamoto has delivered.
Speaker 5: And how about Freddy Freeman, who obviously struggled at the
Speaker 5: beginning of the year with that right ankle slipping in
Speaker 5: the shower, still kind of feeling it out coming out
Speaker 5: of spring training, I think is the best.
Speaker 6: Way to put it.
Speaker 5: Maybe rushed it, but here he is, Freddie Freeman, one
Speaker 5: of the best hitters of our generation, proving it on
Speaker 5: a very high level right now. When you look at
Speaker 5: just what he's been able to do as far as
Speaker 5: the batting average, he's neck and neck with Aaron Judge
Speaker 5: as far as the best batting average in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: Freddy today with three more hits, I mean, Freddie is
Speaker 5: he's doing things that you know you don't expect from
Speaker 5: a thirty six year old. Right Freddie Freeman's hitting three
Speaker 5: sixty one. Only Aaron Judge has a higher batting average
Speaker 5: at three ninety five. Freddy this year nine home runs,
Speaker 5: thirty five RBIs, and fourteen doubles. And I'll say this again,
Speaker 5: I firmly have this vision of Freddie Freeman facing Max
Speaker 5: Freed in the first inning of this year's All Star
Speaker 5: Game in their own old ballpark of Truest Park, where
Speaker 5: they won the World series together. Eight six six nine
Speaker 5: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Jacksonville, Florida. Jeff, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 5: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Jeff, Hey, David, thank you for taking the call. Thanks
Speaker 7: for hosting the show.
Speaker 2: You're still my favorite Dodger insider.
Speaker 6: He's your second fish.
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, whoever answered the phone?
Speaker 5: Colin, he's your second favorite Dodger inside. All right, I'll
Speaker 5: take that.
Speaker 7: He got me on here, He's he got me on here.
Speaker 2: He's a gentleman.
Speaker 7: I really appreciate both of you. Yeah, I know, to
Speaker 7: answer your question, since you already covered the pitching, I'd
Speaker 7: say Max Munsey because I say that because he's one
Speaker 7: of my favorite guys. I don't have jerseys, but if
Speaker 7: I did, i'd have a monthly jersey.
Speaker 3: And I didn't take to see him.
Speaker 7: I hope he's got to turned around in all the
Speaker 7: ways he needs to do it, and so he doesn't
Speaker 7: eventually become you know, so he's not playing at the Angels. Yeah,
Speaker 7: anytime in the you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So totally, he's got to turn it around here, I mean,
Speaker 5: he's got to turn it around or I feel like
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are going to look for other options. And
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, Jeff, but aren't you tired
Speaker 5: of hearing and reading that Michael Confordo is hitting the
Speaker 5: ball hard and his exit velocity is so great that
Speaker 5: means absolutely nothing. Michael can form was hitting a buck
Speaker 5: sixty two. He walked twice today it was zero for one.
Speaker 5: I'm so tired of the narrative that Michael Confordo is
Speaker 5: hitting the ball hard. It's not like anybody has said
Speaker 5: he's hitting into bad luck. He's not hitting into bad luck.
Speaker 5: He's just not hitting. That's what I'm tired about. For me,
Speaker 5: if you had to give an award for the most
Speaker 5: overused narrative, that would be it that Michael Confordo is
Speaker 5: hitting the ball hard, just nothing to show for it. No,
Speaker 5: he's hitting into a lot of ground ball double plays
Speaker 5: and he's just not hitting.
Speaker 6: He's making outs well.
Speaker 3: And I just want to ask you, I totally agree.
Speaker 7: And you know, I mean, he things like, we get
Speaker 7: these guys and it had great years last year and
Speaker 7: then they come here and they.
Speaker 3: Struggle for some reason.
Speaker 7: Maybe it's the bright lights or something, but.
Speaker 5: That's a blanket statement too, because Taioscar Hernandez came here
Speaker 5: after playing in Seattle and he's turned into the Taoscar
Speaker 5: Hernandez that we all know.
Speaker 7: Well, that's true, and I listen. I wanted to ask
Speaker 7: you one question though. I just read something that I
Speaker 7: don't follow all the news, like super close, but I
Speaker 7: saw that they had optioned sour back down at Triple A,
Speaker 7: and I thought he had done pretty well when he
Speaker 7: came up.
Speaker 3: Was it last week?
Speaker 7: And I just learned why did they Why did they
Speaker 7: option him back down?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they needed a fresh arm after a thirteen
Speaker 5: inning game, so they played, they had to maneuver their
Speaker 5: bullpen to get a fresh arm that was Bobby Miller
Speaker 5: on Saturday, and then they optioned Bobby to bring up
Speaker 5: another fresh arm in Chris Stratton today. So that's the
Speaker 5: reason why, Jeff, the Dodgers are really struggling, and that
Speaker 5: thirteen inning game did not do them any favors because
Speaker 5: not only did they go thirteen innings, but also in
Speaker 5: the middle of that game they played, they had a
Speaker 5: way through an hour and thirty eight minute rain delay
Speaker 5: in the third inning, which burned their starter Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 6: Then, so the phone call, Jeff, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 5: on Dodger Top. When we come back, you'll hear from
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor. Also, we'll get into what the over under
Speaker 5: a number of wins for the Dodgers should be during
Speaker 5: this twenty nine grueling game stretch where they are facing
Speaker 5: all playoff teams, including the Mets twice the Yankees this weekend.
Speaker 5: They'll see the Padres and Giants for the first time
Speaker 5: during this twenty nine game stretch. I have a certain
Speaker 5: number that I feel would be passable for the Dodgers
Speaker 5: considering everything involved during this twenty nine game stretch where
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are seven games in already and they're four
Speaker 5: and three after a seven to two win over the
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Speaker 6: We'll let you here.
Speaker 5: Vince Scully on Memorial Day twenty fifteen, I mentioned the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are in a grueling twenty nine game stretch where
Speaker 5: they are facing playoff teams. I think we can all
Speaker 5: agree the Guardians have a very good chance of making
Speaker 5: the postseason again, certainly the Mets and Yankees. The Padres,
Speaker 5: and as of now, the Giants would be considered a
Speaker 5: postseason team. Not to mention the three games at the
Speaker 5: end of the last homestand where the Dodgers faced off
Speaker 5: against the Arizona Diamondbacks. So that's what marks what I
Speaker 5: consider the toughest twenty nine game stretch for the Dodgers
Speaker 5: this season, starting with that final three game series against
Speaker 5: the Diamondbacks at home on the last home stand before
Speaker 5: they set out on this road trip. It's twenty nine
Speaker 5: games the the Dodgers are facing the Diamondbacks, the Mets,
Speaker 5: the Guardians, the Mets actually seven times, because it's a
Speaker 5: four game series against the Mets next week after a
Speaker 5: three game rematch series against the New York Yankees. Not
Speaker 5: to mention the Dodgers seeing the Padres for the first
Speaker 5: time this year. They're gonna see them seven times in
Speaker 5: the middle of June, and they haven't seen them once
Speaker 5: so far. Not to mention the surprising Cardinals in Saint
Speaker 5: Louis and the Giants at home before they get in
Speaker 5: between San Diego series in San Diego and at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: So my point is, we all know where the Dodgers
Speaker 5: are with their bullpen. We all know they're a little thin,
Speaker 5: and they're starting rotation. The Dodgers to begin this twenty
Speaker 5: nine game stretch are four and three. What would be
Speaker 5: a good number for wins during this stretch considering the
Speaker 5: teams I just mentioned, considering where the Dodgers pitching is
Speaker 5: right now, and I'm gonna go better than five. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers can be better than five hundred during this twenty
Speaker 5: nine game stretch. I feel like so many that cover
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and so many that follow the Dodgers kind
Speaker 5: of short change this offense. This is one of, if
Speaker 5: not the best offense offenses in all a Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: The offense is going to have to carry the Dodgers
Speaker 5: to victory like they did today, and hopefully Tanner Scott
Speaker 5: can get back on track. We saw him in the
Speaker 5: eighth inning. He gave up a double to Jose Ramirez,
Speaker 5: but did not give up a run. And I think
Speaker 5: we can all concede that Jose Ramirez is one of
Speaker 5: the best hitters in baseball, so if he can give
Speaker 5: him a double with nobody on base, that's fine. But
Speaker 5: the key to all this is Tanner Scott has got
Speaker 5: to get right. Tanner Scott has got to be that
Speaker 5: guy the Dodgers signed after seeing how dominant he was
Speaker 5: last year, because if you don't have that anchor at
Speaker 5: the back of your bullpen missing the guys are missing
Speaker 5: right now. It will be demoralizing to lose leads in
Speaker 5: the ninth inning and blow saves. Tanner Scott has blown
Speaker 5: four saves already this year. He only blew two all
Speaker 5: of last year. So I believe a fair over under
Speaker 5: win number during this twenty nine game stretch. Considering the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have four already and twenty five more to go,
Speaker 5: or twenty two to twenty five more to go, I'm
Speaker 5: going in over under seventeen wins during this twenty nine
Speaker 5: game stretch. I feel like that's completely fair for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers to be able to grab and look, the Padres
Speaker 5: had to put Michael King on the il today. You
Speaker 5: Darvish has not thrown a single pitch for the Padres
Speaker 5: this year, the Padres don't have the pitching depth, and
Speaker 5: by the time the Dodgers get to Saint Louis, are
Speaker 5: the Cardinals going to be human again. The toughest stretch
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers to me, is coming up this weekend
Speaker 5: a rematch against the Yankees and and also four games
Speaker 5: against the Mets. That's going to be a very tough
Speaker 5: seven game stretch, and I just believe you should have
Speaker 5: your expectations in the right spot. Yes, I said, seventeen
Speaker 5: wins over under is realistic for the Dodgers during this
Speaker 5: twenty nine game stretch, but a lot of times it's
Speaker 5: not going to be ugly. They're gonna have to grind
Speaker 5: wins out. Yeah, there might be times where they have
Speaker 5: to come from behind and the last at bad after
Speaker 5: things did not look great in the beginning. But I
Speaker 5: think we all should just have those expectations. A win
Speaker 5: is a win, especially during this twenty nine game stretch
Speaker 5: where at times it's not going to look pretty. Eight six,
Speaker 5: six nine, eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Pasadena, Darryl. You want to talk
Speaker 5: about Mookie Betts.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Darryl?
Speaker 3: I I'm good, David, thank you for step to my call.
Speaker 3: MD Laning is Mookie should not be playing touchdown. He
Speaker 3: need to be back in right field when he's a
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer. And then what, I don't know why
Speaker 3: Colfordo is skilled in the lineup. The dude is not hitting.
Speaker 2: You need to get.
Speaker 3: Somebody else for shortstop and put Ko back in the
Speaker 3: field so we can I mean, we cannot win a
Speaker 3: world theory with rookie hitting like this or playing like this.
Speaker 3: He has left an average shortstop. We need a good
Speaker 3: shortstop to win another championship.
Speaker 5: Well, I would say that he's better than a below
Speaker 5: average short stop. I would say he's about average. I know,
Speaker 5: you know, people around the team want to give him
Speaker 5: a little bit more, but I feel like he's an
Speaker 5: average shortstop and he's done better than what he did
Speaker 5: last year. But I believe it's a fair question to
Speaker 5: ask has his emphasis on shortstop and playing that position
Speaker 5: at thirty two years old where traditionally historically guys that
Speaker 5: have played that their entire careers and are at thirty
Speaker 5: two years old. I'm talking about guys like Jimmy Rollins,
Speaker 5: Troy Tulowitzki, the list goes on and on their offense
Speaker 5: dips over the age of thirty playing that position. So
Speaker 5: it's a fair question to ask Darryl. But defensively, I
Speaker 5: think he's been okay offensively. Is the question? Is it
Speaker 5: taking something out of the pop of his back? Consistently
Speaker 5: he has a seven fifty two ops. I think you know,
Speaker 5: it's early in the season. Let's see where it goes.
Speaker 5: But defense is not the issue to me. I'm just wondering,
Speaker 5: is it taking away from his offense?
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying it is he's thirty two years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't usually happen this way, Darryl, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: This is something we've never seen before. Thanks to the
Speaker 5: phone call, appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 5: Guardians today seven to two. Mookie Betts did drive in
Speaker 5: one of the seven runs today. The Dodgers had seven
Speaker 5: different players drive in a run today, so he was
Speaker 5: part of that. I have the Angels Yankees game on
Speaker 5: that's being played at Angel Stadium to start their series,
Speaker 5: and Chris Taylor, in case you missed it earlier today,
Speaker 5: was signed by the Angels. He's starting in center field,
Speaker 5: and he's doubling up on the number three he wore
Speaker 5: with the Dodgers. He's wearing number thirty three with the Angels.
Speaker 5: He just had his first at bat against former teammate
Speaker 5: Ryan Yarborough and not surprisingly, he struck out on a
Speaker 5: breaking ball down in a way. But here was what
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor had to say to the media in Anaheim
Speaker 5: before the game today.
Speaker 10: I'm excited to stay home. I get to plat at home,
Speaker 10: you know, and Dames has been playing really good baseball,
Speaker 10: so I'm excited doing the team and hopefully get on
Speaker 10: the field. That's one thing with the Dodgers this year, I.
Speaker 5: Just my role.
Speaker 10: I wasn't getting on the field that much, so I'm
Speaker 10: really just looking forward to, like getting consistent of baths
Speaker 10: and fining time.
Speaker 8: Kenny was really excited to see you here, how much
Speaker 8: as on your face like him.
Speaker 5: In the clubhouse.
Speaker 10: Yeah, ken Lee and Ta. You know, those guys were
Speaker 10: for the Dodgers with me, so it's it's always nice
Speaker 10: to having guys he played with, and I I know
Speaker 10: a few of these guys, so it's good to have
Speaker 10: familiar faces, especially when you're trying to get acclimated.
Speaker 5: What was last week like for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, went you know, getting that years obviously then
Speaker 1: you know what were kind of town.
Speaker 5: Up the last week's years.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was emotional.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 10: Obviously I've been with the Dodgers for nine years, so
Speaker 10: I do believe at this time for me, it was
Speaker 10: my time to kind of start crashing. You know. Hopefully
Speaker 10: Curly Page started newcaster. I'm excited to do that here.
Speaker 10: You know, this past week, I've just been working out
Speaker 10: in my gym and hitting at a local hitting facility.
Speaker 10: It's trying to stay ready.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 5: There's Chris Taylor earlier today in Anaheim wearing the Angels
Speaker 5: red after being released by the Dodgers last week, And
Speaker 5: it goes back to what Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman all.
Speaker 6: Said that he wasn't playing with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: He wanted to play, and he very easily could have
Speaker 5: gone on the i L or the Dodgers could have
Speaker 5: done something differently roster wise where he could have stayed
Speaker 5: on the Dodgers. But Chris Taylor wanted to play. He's
Speaker 5: a baseball player. He wanted to play, and it couldn't
Speaker 5: have worked out better for him, considering he lives in
Speaker 5: the South Bay and loves to surf, loves so cal
Speaker 5: and doesn't have to uproot his family, just changing teams
Speaker 5: and going a different direction on the five Freeway. Eight
Speaker 5: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. Dodgers beat the Guardians today seven to two.
Speaker 5: The Yankees are in Anaheim for I believe a four
Speaker 5: game series and then the big World Series rematch Dodgers
Speaker 5: Yankees beginning Friday night at Dodgers Stadium. We know that
Speaker 5: Yama Mota will be starting on Sunday Night baseball. It
Speaker 5: would be great to see Max Freed start one of
Speaker 5: the games at Dodgers Stadium as well. All right, before then,
Speaker 5: and now there's two more games in Cleveland. Let's set
Speaker 5: out to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 4: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 6: All right, Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers get a big win behind their cy young
Speaker 5: candidate Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 6: How concerned should we.
Speaker 5: Be about the right hip or the left hip of
Speaker 5: Yamamoto after making that play on the tag in the
Speaker 5: third inning today?
Speaker 2: Somewhat concerned, but not already concerned. It was, say, if
Speaker 2: he stayed in the game and it was a cool
Speaker 2: evening in Cleveland, obviously he was not as worried. So
Speaker 2: I think for you know, precaution issues and thinking ahead
Speaker 2: of making the next start on Sundays, why Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: did it because he was quite I mean, he was
Speaker 2: a very good pitch count at eighty eight fifty five strikes,
Speaker 2: and he was cruising. I mean, he was throwing the
Speaker 2: ball very well. I didn't see the things that they
Speaker 2: saw in terms of maybe losing some of the mechanics
Speaker 2: after the hip thing or whatever miss happened first base.
Speaker 2: But I'm not already concerned. This guy is a guy
Speaker 2: that we know takes a very good curve of his body,
Speaker 2: and he believes Davis, you know very well, and inner strength, Dave,
Speaker 2: that's going to come out now too.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 5: It's all from the inner strength of the core. His
Speaker 5: sense has really helped him out. Jose, And why do
Speaker 5: you believe that we should buy in that Yamamoto can
Speaker 5: stay healthy relatively healthy the rest of the year unlike
Speaker 5: last season.
Speaker 2: First of all, experience preparation, understanding what the long journey
Speaker 2: of a big season is like unlike in Japan, where
Speaker 2: obviously he pitched once a week and he stayed home
Speaker 2: on road trips where he wasn't going to pitch, and
Speaker 2: things like that, where he knows that the grind is
Speaker 2: for real and the expectations every single night are for real,
Speaker 2: and the hitters one through nine are for real. Anybody
Speaker 2: from one through nine, Connercion with a home run. It
Speaker 2: doesn't happen in Japan all the time. And I just
Speaker 2: think that the way he trains his mental fortitude, the
Speaker 2: adjuncts that he makes, he is a guy that does
Speaker 2: not require a whole lot of manufacturing. With his mechanics.
Speaker 2: He does not overthrow. So I think that overall, being
Speaker 2: in a good space mentally and understanding the league and
Speaker 2: the surroundings and the resources that he's obviously around with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers is going to make him better. It's going
Speaker 2: to have a complete season.
Speaker 6: I believe jose Will Smith.
Speaker 5: You remember this, going back to his first start in
Speaker 5: the Cactus League, after kind of nursing whatever was ailing
Speaker 5: him over the offseason. Once he got going into games,
Speaker 5: he has not stopped. I mean, I'm not just talking
Speaker 5: about hits, but walks. He walked five times in two
Speaker 5: games in Tokyo. He walks twice. Today he has two
Speaker 5: hits in a home run. He has thirty one walks
Speaker 5: this year and forty five hits. How does this happen
Speaker 5: where a guy is locked in for this long amount
Speaker 5: of time during the beginning of the season.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Kyle Tucker in spring training was like one
Speaker 2: for twenty three and look where he is right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, it does happen. You know, Will Smith
Speaker 2: had his rough at bats and timing situations happened in
Speaker 2: spring trend that you and I talked about with a
Speaker 2: leg kick man, it's not easy to catch up with
Speaker 2: off season and then live DP and EP up the
Speaker 2: coaches and then facing him and facing pictures, i should say,
Speaker 2: in the daylight. And he was a little bit lost.
Speaker 2: And then they got to the bright less and told
Speaker 2: to and he was like, Okay, I'm gonna be patient.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait for a pitch. The walks started. So
Speaker 2: as a watch, Colm, remember more pitches than you see,
Speaker 2: so your eyes are trained better to go out there
Speaker 2: not miss strikes. And so far he is not missed
Speaker 2: a strike. And the great I continue. So I'm very
Speaker 2: excited to see the way that he's been managed to
Speaker 2: a little bit differently this year. I'm glad for the
Speaker 2: rest of he gets even a little bit worn out
Speaker 2: with rushing up here. But boy, this guy, he's a
Speaker 2: power and he's a force, and I just continue to
Speaker 2: see a guy that once continued to improve beyond the plot.
Speaker 2: One of the most clutch hitters in all of baseball,
Speaker 2: if not declutches hitter in baseball, and the guy that
Speaker 2: is really tough to picture because there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of holes, there's not a lot of long swings, not
Speaker 2: a lot of swinging miss and he's a ball the
Speaker 2: other way so well, which is obviously, you know, a
Speaker 2: nightmare for a pitchers trying to make a good pitch outside.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 5: Guardians on Memorial Day seven to two in Cleveland, Hose.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers are in the middle of this grueling twenty
Speaker 5: nine game stretch. They're four and three now after the
Speaker 5: win today, What do you believe is a realistic win
Speaker 5: total for them during this stretch of time where obviously
Speaker 5: playing the toughest competition, but also playing them without Glass,
Speaker 5: now without Snell, without Phillips.
Speaker 6: The list goes on and on.
Speaker 2: The thing to this for me, and I like to seventeen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go a little. I'm gonna go sixteen and thirteen. Okay,
Speaker 2: I think if if the Ditis continue to play the
Speaker 2: weather playing today and we go back a few weeks,
Speaker 2: they're just about five hundred. I think what's missing right
Speaker 2: now and the fact of the offense so many times
Speaker 2: has to play from behind and have to catch up
Speaker 2: with the other teams. I would take of sixteen and
Speaker 2: thirteen no matter what. I was actually get more afraid
Speaker 2: of the stretch before. They're playing the weaker teams where
Speaker 2: we do not want to be talking about that, and
Speaker 2: they took care of business then, So now let's give
Speaker 2: it up to the other teams too, that are obviously
Speaker 2: pretty deep and know them well. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: go sixteen and run.
Speaker 5: Oh, Jose, you there, oh there we are? You cut
Speaker 5: out for a second there, all right? Yeah, sixteen wins.
Speaker 5: I like that, Jose, Hey, before I let you go. Uh,
Speaker 5: Jose Ramirez, you know him well, thirty two years old
Speaker 5: now was one home run shy of a forty to
Speaker 5: forty season last year. Is he the best kept secret
Speaker 5: in baseball. I feel like if he was playing for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers or the Yankees or the Mets, he would
Speaker 5: be blown up by major League Baseball, as you know,
Speaker 5: the face of the league.
Speaker 6: But because he's in Cleveland.
Speaker 5: I don't feel like he gets the appreciation he deserves.
Speaker 2: Oh, Dave, You're right on the money. This guy is
Speaker 2: somebody that absolutely at George playing the game because he
Speaker 2: was so small before he signed a few scouts into
Speaker 2: the midics and said, who's this guy you bringing me here?
Speaker 2: What are you bringing them for? And he actually won
Speaker 2: home one time, started crying and said I'm going to
Speaker 2: prove people wrong. And people that right now see him shying,
Speaker 2: and people really just put him aside, the one saying
Speaker 2: why didn't I see the heart that he has. He's
Speaker 2: one of the most He's one of the funniest guys
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. He's a fighter. He has tremendous goals
Speaker 2: for himself. He wants to steal fifty bases and he
Speaker 2: doesn't hide it. I mean, he hit a collision the
Speaker 2: other day first base. I think he's gonna be out
Speaker 2: for a month. He's playing with him three days and
Speaker 2: let me say he's an extra base machine. He drives
Speaker 2: him the bed, runs, spinscrum position. He's a guy that
Speaker 2: you really make sure that you don't face very much.
Speaker 2: And as other teams come in and you better find
Speaker 2: a guy like let's make sure this guy doesn't hurt us.
Speaker 2: It's obviously it was ever mirrors, but I really appought
Speaker 2: a guy that came into the shortstop. Fail shortstop. Then
Speaker 2: they talk him with a utility guy. And right now
Speaker 2: he is one of the faces of baseball, unfortunately playing
Speaker 2: in Cleveland. But for sure this guy fits in every club,
Speaker 2: any club, and he is a leader in the clubhouse
Speaker 2: and plays with a lot of heart.
Speaker 5: One of the great hitters, great players. He can do
Speaker 5: a defensively and offensively in baseball. Hopefully the Dodgers can
Speaker 5: keep him in check the final two games of this series.
Speaker 6: Jose, happy memorial. Dan, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So all those are in our minds right now. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your service and for those family.
Speaker 6: All right, Jose Mota, cut it out, Sorry about that.
Speaker 5: Jose eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 5: is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Guardians today seven
Speaker 5: to two, and there were a lot of Dodger fans
Speaker 5: at Progressive Field today and we actually have a dad
Speaker 5: coming from the game there. Spencer. Are you a Dodger
Speaker 5: fan that traveled to Cleveland? What's uh? What's the deal
Speaker 5: with you being in Cleveland? Not too many people from
Speaker 5: LA show up in Cleveland, but there were a lot
Speaker 5: of Dodger fans today.
Speaker 8: Hey, David, I've lived a lot of places over the years,
Speaker 8: just recently moved down here to Ohio about a year ago,
Speaker 8: a longtime Dodgers fan, and now I do they have
Speaker 8: a lot of opportunities to see him on the road.
Speaker 8: I've got tickets to go see him again and since
Speaker 8: an how in you life?
Speaker 6: Wow, that's amazing, Spencer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say, by the looks of it today, Spencer,
Speaker 5: it was not as tough of a ticket as to
Speaker 5: get at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 8: It was a great game to see. I brought my
Speaker 8: three year old son for his first major league game,
Speaker 8: and it was very cool for his first experience to
Speaker 8: be seeing sho Heyo Tani hit a first pitch leadoff
Speaker 8: ball run. We saw that, and then he turned to
Speaker 8: me and said, that was a really good hit. Dad,
Speaker 8: And a little understated, but I think you know, his
Speaker 8: expectations are set very high, but I think the Dodgers
Speaker 8: in shoe Heotani can really beat those expectations.
Speaker 5: All right, Spencer, That's an awesome memory that he will
Speaker 5: have forever.
Speaker 6: He'll tell all his friends.
Speaker 5: My first baseball game was with my dad first and foremost,
Speaker 5: and then Otani let off the game with a home run.
Speaker 5: Thanks for sharing the Spencer, appreciate that. And yes, if
Speaker 5: you are in Cleveland for any of the next two games,
Speaker 5: would love to hear what your stadium experience is like
Speaker 5: at Progressive Field, because there was a lot of blue,
Speaker 5: as there always is in these visiting stadiums, and I
Speaker 5: guess you're used to it in other stadiums like in
Speaker 5: New York or Chicago, but to see it in Cleveland
Speaker 5: is kind of a different, different scene for sure. So yeah,
Speaker 5: Dodgers get the win on Memorial Day in Cleveland seven
Speaker 5: to two. And like I said, Memorial Days a big
Speaker 5: day for the country. We remember those that paid the
Speaker 5: ultimate sacrifice. And during these days, Vin Scully always seemed
Speaker 5: to be at his best and always seem to educate
Speaker 5: us on not just baseball, but on American history, and
Speaker 5: here is Vin at the beginning of a Dodger game
Speaker 5: in twenty fifteen on Memorial Day.
Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, in a very blessed Memorial Day to you
Speaker 1: wherever you may be. It's too serious today, but we
Speaker 1: will take our minds off it for a couple of
Speaker 1: hours as the Dodgers in the Atlanta Braves play a
Speaker 1: child's game. But all you have to do for a
Speaker 1: moment is sit and think and realize how many men
Speaker 1: and women gave their lives up so we could be
Speaker 1: sitting here and worrying such a thing as will that
Speaker 1: five wall score a run, will that pitcher win his
Speaker 1: seven Team of the year, etc. So thank you to
Speaker 1: all of you who have served in the military. Are
Speaker 1: blessings and prayers for the gold star parents who lost fathers,
Speaker 1: sons and daughters. And of course when we talk about
Speaker 1: the dead, and that's what we always do on Memorial Day,
Speaker 1: remember the wounded. There are so many wounded who gave
Speaker 1: up sight or hearing or limbs. So we salute each
Speaker 1: and everyone the war uniform representing the United States, and
Speaker 1: to each and every one of us sitting here contentedly
Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium, worrying about the home team will beat
Speaker 1: the visiting team. If you're watching at home, we would
Speaker 1: ask you please to see if you would tell your
Speaker 1: kids the importance of the day, as the military unmasked
Speaker 1: five of them throughout the ceremonial. First bitch, we had
Speaker 1: representatives from every area of the military here a very
Speaker 1: touching pre game ceremony. But again to repeat, don't just
Speaker 1: let it go by as a holiday. Don't let it
Speaker 1: go by for you know, barbecuing on the grill. Please
Speaker 1: take the time and tell your children exactly what Memorial Day.
Speaker 5: Means, perfectly said as always by the legendary Vince Scully.
Speaker 6: On Memorial Day twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers were at home that day and shut out
Speaker 5: the Braves eight to nothing behind seven scoreless sittings from
Speaker 5: Clayton Kershaw. But of course Vin Scully setting the tone
Speaker 5: the best as he always does at the beginning of
Speaker 5: that Memorial Day in twenty fifteen. That'll do it for
Speaker 5: us on Dodger Talk tonight on this twenty twenty five
Speaker 5: Memorial Day Tomorrow, game two of this three game series
Speaker 5: in Cleveland between the Dodgers and Guardians. Dustin May will
Speaker 5: be on the mound for the Dodgers going up against
Speaker 5: Tanner Biby Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at two
Speaker 5: o'clock tomorrow with first pitch with Rick Monday and Tim
Speaker 5: Neverett from Progressive Field in Cleveland. Thanks to Coline back
Speaker 5: at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald in Cleveland.
Speaker 5: Thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
Speaker 5: of the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5: And thanks again Vince Scully. You're gone but certainly will
Speaker 5: never be forgotten on a day like today, especially once
Speaker 5: again the final score the Dodgers defeat the Guardians seven
Speaker 5: to two.
Speaker 6: Have a great rest of your Memorial Day, be safe,
Speaker 6: see you as the season