Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Tim Kakes Dodgers avoid getting swept in Washington, DC, withe
Speaker 2: a comeback win over the Washington national six to five. Hi. Everybody,
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Speaker 2: As the season winds down in the NBA, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: winded down their first East Coast road trip of this
Speaker 2: season with a much needed win against the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: After dropping two of three in Philadelphia base running airs,
Speaker 2: defensive blunders, lot of walk by Dodger starting pitchers, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers go to Washington, d C And drop the first
Speaker 2: two games of the series to the Washington Nationals, who
Speaker 2: are not supposed to be very good, but quite frankly
Speaker 2: looked pretty good in this series. They got cj. Abrams,
Speaker 2: who's a young, great, good looking player. James Wood is
Speaker 2: a stud base hitter or a hitter and left fielder.
Speaker 2: He git a couple of home runs in this series.
Speaker 2: They got a former Dodger prospect, caber Ruiz. It's a
Speaker 2: good young nucleus they have put together in the Washington
Speaker 2: Nationals and they took it to the Dodgers the first
Speaker 2: two games. And today they battled back against the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Landon Nack, who has spotted a four to nothing lead.
Speaker 2: The first four batters jumped on Jake Rwin in this game.
Speaker 2: Jake Griffin gave up four runs to the first four batters,
Speaker 2: including a taoscar Herronendez two run home run and a
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund two run triple. Landon Knack proceeded to come
Speaker 2: out and give up a home run to the first
Speaker 2: battery face CJ Abrams in the bottom half of the
Speaker 2: first inning and had a forty one pitch first inning,
Speaker 2: three ball counts to four straight batters. He walked three
Speaker 2: batters in the inning, and he gave up three runs
Speaker 2: in the bottom of the first bottom of the second
Speaker 2: came out had a one to two to three inning
Speaker 2: thirteen pitches, got guys to swing and miss, got some
Speaker 2: hitters to chase. The third inning though with two outs
Speaker 2: give up or with one out gave up a single,
Speaker 2: then a double, and next thing you know, it's a
Speaker 2: five to four Nationals lead. After the Alex Colsack fly
Speaker 2: that was given up from Jack Dryer, who came on
Speaker 2: in relief, Land and Nack went two and a third innings.
Speaker 2: He gets up the five runs on four hits. Those
Speaker 2: runners on base accounted to Land and Neck five runs,
Speaker 2: four hits, four walks, sixty nine pitches, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were down five to four, and then going up against
Speaker 2: a really good right hander in Jake Irvin, who after
Speaker 2: the first four hitters allowing to score, retired eighteen of
Speaker 2: the next twenty one batters that he faced, only three
Speaker 2: total base runners after the first four of the game.
Speaker 2: He would go six innings, four runs, four hit, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 2: three walks, and when he left the game after six innings,
Speaker 2: it was then that the Dodgers able to get to
Speaker 2: Edward O Salazar, the Nationals reliever, a one out home
Speaker 2: run from Andy Pajez on an O two pitch and
Speaker 2: then with two outs two to one Teoscar Hernandez an
Speaker 2: RBI single and the Dodgers regained the leads six to five.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers bullpen. What can you say about the
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen that already hasn't been said. They have helped
Speaker 2: carry this team to ten wins. The starting pitching has
Speaker 2: been okay and at times not okay for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Injuries have hit them already. Blake Snell going with the
Speaker 2: bullpen game today, in essence, that's why Landing Neck got
Speaker 2: the start and it didn't an essence turned into a
Speaker 2: bullpen game with six different relievers coming in after Landon Nack,
Speaker 2: Jack Dryer, Anthony Bonda, Kirby Yates, Tanner, Scott Alex Vesia,
Speaker 2: Blake Trining. They combined for six and two third shutout innings,
Speaker 2: seven punchouts. They kept the Nationals off the board, kept
Speaker 2: them at five runs, kept the Dodgers in the game
Speaker 2: down five to four in the fourth, the fifth, the sixth,
Speaker 2: and then finally when Jake Irvin left the game able
Speaker 2: to get to that Nationals bullpen and take the lead
Speaker 2: with two runs in the seventh and then go out
Speaker 2: in the bottom of the seventh, and it was huge
Speaker 2: by Tanner Scott to have a one to two three
Speaker 2: in two including a compair of strikeouts Alex Vessia again
Speaker 2: one run, Dodger lead six to five. He gives up
Speaker 2: a one run, a one out walk, and able to
Speaker 2: get out of it without giving up a run. Blake
Speaker 2: tried into the ninth inning, had runners on first and second,
Speaker 2: one out, a great defensive play from Keithy a Hernandez,
Speaker 2: a force out, a second, first and third, two outs,
Speaker 2: and he gets Woods to ground out to end the game.
Speaker 2: Ball game over and the Dodgers get a six to
Speaker 2: five win. The Dodgers' bullpen continues to be one of
Speaker 2: the best in baseball here and pick up right where
Speaker 2: they left off in the postseason last year. A lot
Speaker 2: of the same guys, young arms like Jack Dryer, Ben Casparius,
Speaker 2: the veterans they brought in, Yates and Tanner Scott, the
Speaker 2: guys who have been in the bullpen that we've gotten
Speaker 2: to know, the Alex Vesias, the Blake Trinings, all doing
Speaker 2: their part. They all put up zeros today and kept
Speaker 2: the Nationals at five runs, so the Dodgers offense can
Speaker 2: eventually wake up now. A glaring issue on this road
Speaker 2: trip is the amount of strikeouts the Dodgers gathered in
Speaker 2: a six game East Coast road trip. Three in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: three in Washington, DC. The Dodgers struck out a combined
Speaker 2: sixty times sixty combined strikeouts by Dodger batters in the
Speaker 2: six games on this road trip, way too many. Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts alluded to it in the pregame today before this
Speaker 2: finale against the Washington Nationals, that they faced two Cy
Speaker 2: Young Award winners already and the first home stand of
Speaker 2: the year, that they have to be better. He said,
Speaker 2: I just don't think fifteen strikeouts with our ball clip
Speaker 2: should happen. We faced schoob Ble, we faced Sale, and
Speaker 2: we didn't punch out fifteen times. Well, they punched out
Speaker 2: fifteen times yesterday and they were on their way to
Speaker 2: that again. But they only struck out ten times against
Speaker 2: the Nationals in the finale of this three game series.
Speaker 2: Too many strikeouts by Dodger hitters in this game. Now,
Speaker 2: I get text messages all game long, from friends, from family,
Speaker 2: from people saying the bottom of the lineup is bad.
Speaker 2: Monsey keik Paz. All of them hitting under two hundred,
Speaker 2: all of them hitting under one seventy five now on
Speaker 2: the season. Pahz one swing of the bat can make
Speaker 2: a difference. He did into seventh inning on an O
Speaker 2: two slider that missed and hits it out of the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Kei ky Hernandez has four hits on the season, all
Speaker 2: four home runs. The defense he has made up for
Speaker 2: it and played out of necessity every day because of
Speaker 2: the injury to Freddie Freeman. Max Munsey today zero for
Speaker 2: four with three strikeouts, now hitting under one to seventy
Speaker 2: five on the straight the season, and the strikeouts in
Speaker 2: this series he had eight of them, he had ten.
Speaker 2: He had ten of the sixty strikeouts by Dodger hitters
Speaker 2: on this road trip? Did Max Munsey the bottom of
Speaker 2: the lineup when they don't produce, they need the top
Speaker 2: of the lineup to overproduce. When seven eight nine aren't
Speaker 2: doing anything for the Dodgers, the top of the lineup
Speaker 2: has to do overtime more than they're supposed to. And
Speaker 2: what do they do today? Otani, betz Edmund and tay
Speaker 2: Oscar the top four hitters, seven for sixteen, a home run,
Speaker 2: a triple, five ribbies, and they also drew three walks
Speaker 2: amongst the four top hitters in the lineup, they did
Speaker 2: their part. The rest of the lineup outside of Pot
Speaker 2: has solo home run, didn't do a thing for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers today. Canfordo struck out twice, Will Smith and over
Speaker 2: four day Max Munci oh for four to three strikeouts,
Speaker 2: Kicky Hernandez Oh for three with the walk in the strikeout,
Speaker 2: and Andy Pott has the one hit outside the top
Speaker 2: four hitters of the Dodgers lineup that well important solo
Speaker 2: home run in the seventh inning. We talk about how
Speaker 2: good this lineup is one through nine, and it's different
Speaker 2: guys every night, and the Dodgers are so good they
Speaker 2: can afford to have an off night from a player
Speaker 2: or two and still win games. Today is one of
Speaker 2: those days when hitters, really, six through nine don't do
Speaker 2: anything for you. Hitters, make that five through nine today
Speaker 2: don't do anything outside of the one hit from Andy
Speaker 2: pots the home run. You better get some mass production
Speaker 2: from the top of the lineup, and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: they did. Two for four show Hey O Tani with
Speaker 2: the walk, Mookie Betts one for four at a walk,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund two for three with the triple two ribbies,
Speaker 2: and a walk, and tai Oscar Hernandez two for five,
Speaker 2: the home run and the three ribbies the Dodgers top
Speaker 2: of the lineup carrying them today, the bullpen keeping them
Speaker 2: in the game today against the Washington Nationals, and a
Speaker 2: much needed six to five win over the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: For this Dodgers team, it would have been a deflating
Speaker 2: five hour flight home to have lost this game and
Speaker 2: gone one in five on your initial road trip of
Speaker 2: the seas and lost three straight to the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: As it is, you leave Washington, DC on a winning note,
Speaker 2: with some positivity in the air, with a good feeling
Speaker 2: having come from behind with two runs in the seventh,
Speaker 2: the defense playing the way they did, the bullpen being
Speaker 2: lights out today. You can feel good about yourself for
Speaker 2: the next forty eight hours until they play again on
Speaker 2: Friday night to start the homestand against the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 2: It would have been a long forty eight hours, a
Speaker 2: lot of angry Dodger players at home tomorrow on their
Speaker 2: off day thinking about a one to five road trip. Instead,
Speaker 2: two and four feels a lot better. You come home,
Speaker 2: you get the win, and now you get ready for
Speaker 2: the Cubs. Followed by a three game series against the
Speaker 2: Colorado Rockies eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: to seventy. Let's start things off. Jose Moti will join
Speaker 2: us in just a little bit. Let's go to David
Speaker 2: and Westlake, his first up here on Dodger Talk after
Speaker 2: a six five Dodgers winning Washington. How you doing, David,
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: Kens for taking my call. I got some positive and
Speaker 3: I got some negative, and I got a question for
Speaker 3: you about pitching positive. Absolutely, kudos, kudos to the bullpen.
Speaker 3: They were fantastic. H kao kao is just so clutched.
Speaker 3: I love him. And of course Otani not only does
Speaker 3: he look like a movie star, but he hits pretty
Speaker 3: well too. But but but Monsy man Monthy. I love
Speaker 3: Monthy so much. But you know, he had a down
Speaker 3: year last season, and and now he's starting off really really,
Speaker 3: you know, punching out way too much. I don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on with him. You would think with a
Speaker 3: guy like Freddie on the team, that you know, Freddie
Speaker 3: could teach him how to go the other way. He
Speaker 3: rarely goes the other way. He rolls over a lot
Speaker 3: of bedpool all the time. I just wish that he
Speaker 3: could adjust his swing and and make a little bit
Speaker 3: more contact. As far as the pitching is concerned, I'm
Speaker 3: just explained to me why Gonsolin and Miller.
Speaker 4: Are not ready yet.
Speaker 3: Why did he have to go to Roblestie and knack.
Speaker 3: You would think that Gonsolyn would be read and Miller,
Speaker 3: I heard, pitched a great game in Triple A. Why
Speaker 3: aren't they getting the opportunity.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure why they're not getting the opportunities. I
Speaker 2: can tell you what you know. Bobby Miller has made
Speaker 2: a couple of starts, and I appreciate the phone call, David.
Speaker 2: He's made a couple of starts already in Triple A
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. In fact, his last outing was five innings.
Speaker 2: He allowed three runs, including a home run, on two hits.
Speaker 2: He walked six and struck out three. So wasn't a
Speaker 2: great outing. Last time out against El Paso five innings again,
Speaker 2: three runs, two hits, the home run, six walks. Before that,
Speaker 2: against sugar Land, Bobby Miller four and two thirty innings,
Speaker 2: no runs, two hits and four strikeouts. So he had
Speaker 2: a good first start of the year against Sugarland in
Speaker 2: Triple A Oklahoma City and then his second start on
Speaker 2: the six so what three days ago against El Paso
Speaker 2: at home. Had some control issues again, and that's been
Speaker 2: the issue with Bobby Miller right especially last year. Burst
Speaker 2: onto the scene in twenty three twenty four for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: had a setback velocity, control, walking, too many batters and
Speaker 2: just looking at the game blog for what he did
Speaker 2: last time out on Sunday or whatever. The third was
Speaker 2: a six was that was Sunday, right, Yeah, Sunday, five innings,
Speaker 2: six walks can't happen. Can't happen. He's got to have
Speaker 2: better control, and I think that's something that they're working
Speaker 2: on and hoping to get some more starts underneath him
Speaker 2: and have him available if needed. As far as Tony
Speaker 2: Gonsolin is concerned, Tony Gonsolin pitched on Thursday in a
Speaker 2: minor league rehab assignment in TRIPAA, Oklahoma City. Now he
Speaker 2: didn't go very deep in that minor league game, Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 2: I think he just pitched into the second inning, So
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's not that he's built up
Speaker 2: yet and they want to see him go and maybe
Speaker 2: back to back starts before they bring him back up.
Speaker 2: I know they were pressed for starting pitching yesterday and today,
Speaker 2: but he's made one start, an inning and two thirds,
Speaker 2: no runs, one hit, a strikeout in two walks. So yeah,
Speaker 2: not necessarily built up is Tony Gonsolin. Where he's at
Speaker 2: four or five innings, you know, sixty to seventy five pitches,
Speaker 2: maybe another start or two, and Tony Gonsolin's good to go.
Speaker 2: It sounds like the back issue is not an issue
Speaker 2: right now. That's behind him, thankfully. But the build up
Speaker 2: factor a guy who hasn't pitched in the major leagues
Speaker 2: in a long time because of Tommy John surgery and
Speaker 2: not coming back into last year when they could have
Speaker 2: used some starting pitching. No need to rush him back.
Speaker 2: Build him up. That's what they got, Robleski. And they've
Speaker 2: got land in neck to make starts for the Dodgers. Hey,
Speaker 2: look a look at landin Neck today. I get I
Speaker 2: just to me, it's frustrating because you see what he
Speaker 2: can do, and you see what also happens when he
Speaker 2: goes out there and throws forty one pitches in the
Speaker 2: first inning, a home run, a walk, a single, and
Speaker 2: a walk to the first four batters. But then he
Speaker 2: comes back after a long first inning seven runs combined
Speaker 2: score between the Dodgers and Nationals, forty one pitches given
Speaker 2: up by land in neck and he has a one
Speaker 2: two three second Indian including a pair of strikeouts. So
Speaker 2: he can shut down when he needs to, but he
Speaker 2: can also just come back and unravel and have control issues.
Speaker 2: The control issue is a huge thing right now. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's because it's the first two
Speaker 2: weeks of the season that pitchers aren't ready yet. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is, but the Dodgers have a
Speaker 2: lot of walks that they have given up this year.
Speaker 2: I imagine what happened having looked it up right now,
Speaker 2: They've got to be in the top three in baseball
Speaker 2: in walks given up by their pitching staff. When we
Speaker 2: talk about the strikeouts the hitters have, the walks given
Speaker 2: up by Dodger pitchers is a lot today. Seven more
Speaker 2: walks given up by the Dodgers to why Washington National hitters.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I get it. You want to see Gonsolin black,
Speaker 2: You hear Bobby Miller's pitching and triple A. Why isn't
Speaker 2: he back up? It looks like the control issues still
Speaker 2: bothering Bobby Miller, and until that's figured out, I don't
Speaker 2: know if we'll see him back up at the major
Speaker 2: league level unless they are really forced into having a
Speaker 2: need for a starting pitcher. And I think Tony Gonslin,
Speaker 2: just based on what he did in that minor league
Speaker 2: rehab assignment last Thursday, I get the feeling he's probably
Speaker 2: another start or two away from being built up and
Speaker 2: ready to go, because the last thing you want to
Speaker 2: do is bring him up and have him just be
Speaker 2: able to go what three innings, forty pitches. You want
Speaker 2: to build him up and be able to have him go,
Speaker 2: you know, into the fifth or sixth inning as a
Speaker 2: starter for the Dodgers. A six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five, seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break, we'll come back. We'll hear from
Speaker 2: Jose Moto. We'll get to your phone calls. Busy day
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, who jumped out to a four to
Speaker 2: nothing lead, gave up the lead down five to four.
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpen puts up zeros and then the Dodgers' offense,
Speaker 2: which was sleep walking through five innings, came out in
Speaker 2: the seventh put up a two spot thanks to Andy
Speaker 2: Pater has home run in a Tiaskar Hernandez RBI single.
Speaker 2: Dodgers come back and beat the Nationals six to five
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Speaker 6: Run for Teoscar Hernandez, a two run shot of the
Speaker 6: Dodgers lead a Ford to nothing.
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Speaker 2: first four batters of the game scored for the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: check out with Jose.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with hose Mos.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, A lot to kind of digest from
Speaker 2: this game and from this road trip. I want to
Speaker 2: start with the bullpen and what they did today. Land
Speaker 2: and Neck got into trouble in the third inning, only
Speaker 2: goes two and a third. Jack Dryer comes in, induces
Speaker 2: a sack, Fly gets the strikeout, has a shut down
Speaker 2: fourth inning despite a walk. The bullpen today, Jose six
Speaker 2: different relievers combined for six and two third shutout innings,
Speaker 2: one blue pit in the nineteen that should have been caught,
Speaker 2: and seven strikeouts. They again continue to put up zeros
Speaker 2: and keep the Dodgers in games.
Speaker 6: Just to keep the Dodgers in game. Casey, as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: to have the ability to change the game with one swing.
Speaker 6: I actually, I mean I would have getten to win
Speaker 6: to Jack Dryer, this kid has been like a game change, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, just because he comes in and throw sometimes
Speaker 6: in the fourth or fifth or sixth thing. He's an
Speaker 6: out there in the limelight when you know the lights
Speaker 6: are shining the Briders. But man, he put the stop
Speaker 6: to the Nats on making sure that he continued to
Speaker 6: be momentum. You know, it's uneasy with him too, because
Speaker 6: remember he was added to the forty man rosters offseason.
Speaker 6: He's twenty six years old. He's never started a game
Speaker 6: in the minors, and his role has been that of
Speaker 6: the reliever. And he set the tone for everybody from
Speaker 6: there on, considering that when you lose a starter that
Speaker 6: early in the game. To him, it's not easy to
Speaker 6: line up to see where you might fit. But these
Speaker 6: guys don't care. I mean, Tanner's got got in the
Speaker 6: big contract. When does he come in? He comes into
Speaker 6: seventh thinning. Why because that's the best matchup for the
Speaker 6: Dodgers for a guy like that. And that's when you
Speaker 6: see that a guy like Blake trying and play such
Speaker 6: a big role in understanding how to communicate with these guys,
Speaker 6: and Josh Bart does a magnificent job. Does not get
Speaker 6: enough love for what he does. And when he communicates
Speaker 6: the restern very direct, he formal Casher. He understands the
Speaker 6: game very well. But it's refreshing to see the guys
Speaker 6: and I'll be scared to go out there and keep
Speaker 6: it back in the zone and make more quality pitches.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond and Teoscar Hernandez combined to go four for seven,
Speaker 2: a triple, the home run in the first inting and
Speaker 2: five rbi in this game. I mentioned it earlier. The
Speaker 2: bottom of the lineup had one hit. It was the
Speaker 2: Andy Paez home run the seventh inning, and that's the
Speaker 2: hitters five through nine had to combine one hit. The
Speaker 2: rest of the offense. The big four had to carry
Speaker 2: them today and when they needed them, they delivered. The
Speaker 2: top four of the lineup seven for sixteen, a home run,
Speaker 2: a triple, five RBI, three walks. They needed them and
Speaker 2: they delivered.
Speaker 6: It seems like going through a cycle like that, right
Speaker 6: Like every year is like okay, so it's Turner is
Speaker 6: Turner and Mooki and Prevton and then we got a
Speaker 6: tie and there's like you know what, It's okay. You
Speaker 6: have those guys at the top for a reason. Things
Speaker 6: eventually will even up. We know that the guys in
Speaker 6: the bottom need to do a better job. The one
Speaker 6: thing I like about the guys in the bottom today
Speaker 6: is if you see the amount of pitches they saw today,
Speaker 6: which is pretty amazing, Kikisa on nineteen pitches for that, and.
Speaker 5: That's just you're not trying to get a walk.
Speaker 6: You try to belong that bats And I think the
Speaker 6: conversation was quite firm from Dave Roberts and the coaches
Speaker 6: about where there were and what purchasing and how much
Speaker 6: they're trying. They were not a very there's still not
Speaker 6: a very good two strike hitting team, which also will improve.
Speaker 6: They were so good early in that homestand here at home.
Speaker 6: But the one thing too is you got to just
Speaker 6: go out there and have good at bets. And to me,
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what about really turned things around was
Speaker 6: a walk by Tommy in the seventh inning, even though
Speaker 6: he did not sport.
Speaker 5: But it's one of those.
Speaker 6: Things that turns innings around. Like Maximarsi does what he's good,
Speaker 6: he can have the ability to work account to turn
Speaker 6: things around. Into path of baton and overall some improvements
Speaker 6: on the offensive side, internity on the defensive side. I mean,
Speaker 6: Kika the gold Glover first place is pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, eleven games at first base for Keiki Hernandez. He
Speaker 2: had a huge pick that he made from a throw
Speaker 2: for Mookie Betts. And then the play he made the
Speaker 2: ninth inning with runners on first and second and one
Speaker 2: out to dive and then throw the ball and get
Speaker 2: the force at second base. Dave Roberts said it. You know,
Speaker 2: the game should have been gone to extra innings if
Speaker 2: not for that diving stop to keep the runner at third,
Speaker 2: and he would stay at third on the next ball,
Speaker 2: ground it out and in the game. Keik a Hernandez,
Speaker 2: I mean we all marvel what he does in October
Speaker 2: Jose right in not ey positions he can play, but
Speaker 2: now you add first base to what this guy can do.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 6: And I think it's good to hear him talk about
Speaker 6: playing first base and thinking that he's playing another corner,
Speaker 6: which is third base. Instinctively, the ball comes at a
Speaker 6: different angle, but the instinct is all the same. The
Speaker 6: ball is going to get to you a little bit
Speaker 6: quicker the bag is a little bit closer, you don't
Speaker 6: have to make a long thrill. But first base nowadays
Speaker 6: is not easy to play because you play so far
Speaker 6: away from the bag so many times against right handed batters.
Speaker 6: You have such a sprint to get back to on
Speaker 6: ground balls. And at the same time you got to
Speaker 6: keep talking where your feet are with the balls coming from.
Speaker 6: How that guy.
Speaker 5: Throws the first base. Some guys throw the two with
Speaker 5: great sink. Other guys throw across the day pro cutter.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot to think about. But I think
Speaker 5: Ki k because of his mentality and to explain it,
Speaker 5: to hear him explain about before the play, plenty deep communication.
Speaker 5: That's why he slows the game down in October. On
Speaker 5: the offensive side, that's why he's lows the game down
Speaker 5: two And he's so affective because he anticipates, he envisions,
Speaker 5: and he knows exactly what to do with a baseball
Speaker 5: at crunch time, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Jose, great to catch up with you.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you in a couple of days. Dodgers
Speaker 2: back home on Friday night for the start of a
Speaker 2: six game homestand everybody's gonna be there for the Freddie Freeman, Bobblehead,
Speaker 2: so gave me a fun weekend at the Ravine.
Speaker 6: It should be normal. C now that the all ceremonies
Speaker 6: of opening, wee can the visit to the White House.
Speaker 6: Everything's over, so the guys are we're looking forward to
Speaker 6: uh also, oh, by.
Speaker 2: The way, the warm weather absolutely absolutely all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Jose eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five
Speaker 2: seventy Dodgers beat the National six to five. Kirby Eights
Speaker 2: gets the win and relief Blake Trina and picks up
Speaker 2: the saved six different relievers combining for six and two
Speaker 2: third shutout. Anything's following Landon Neck, who gave him five
Speaker 2: runs pitching into the third inning after he was spotted
Speaker 2: a for nothing in the lead. Eric and you Kaipa
Speaker 2: is next up here on Dodgy Talk. Eric, welcome, How
Speaker 2: you doing today?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: Feeling you?
Speaker 7: Tim?
Speaker 8: How are you doing doing good?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 8: Tim?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 8: I want to defend Max Monty. You know, we don't
Speaker 8: know the kind of effect that he has in the clubhouse,
Speaker 8: you know, around the guys. You know, it looked like
Speaker 8: last year in the World Series. You know, he was
Speaker 8: really hyping up the guys and having their backs, and uh,
Speaker 8: you know, he is who he is, and he's a
Speaker 8: great player, and he's gonna have his moment and you know,
Speaker 8: this losing streak. Before going on this road trip, we
Speaker 8: went through a lot. You know, we had the all
Speaker 8: the celebration going on we went to Tokyo. So I
Speaker 8: think these guys just need a resa and he'll come home,
Speaker 8: get some sun, go to the beach, Chris Taylor, maybe
Speaker 8: go catch some waves and we'll be okay. And Mookie Betts,
Speaker 8: I think the the game's just a little too fast
Speaker 8: for him. I believe second base is probably the best
Speaker 8: position for him.
Speaker 2: All right, Eric, I appreciate it. I think you bring
Speaker 2: up a valiant point here. The Dodgers have been on
Speaker 2: the go since February and go to Tokyo, play four
Speaker 2: games to exhibition to regular season games against the Cubs.
Speaker 2: They fly home. They got to get their body clocks right.
Speaker 2: In twenty four hours after that, they're playing three exhibition
Speaker 2: games against the Anaheim Angels, a brief day off before
Speaker 2: the home opener against the Detroit Tigers. You got the
Speaker 2: ring ceremony, You've got opening weekend and all the festivities.
Speaker 2: You got the trip back east of Philadelphia. You then
Speaker 2: got to go to the White House and then you
Speaker 2: got to go play three against the Nationals. It's been
Speaker 2: a world win three and a half weeks for this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team, from Arizona to Tokyo to LA to Philly
Speaker 2: to DC and now they're gonna come home. I think
Speaker 2: tomorrow is a huge day off for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 2: And you're thinking it's gonna be April tenth, case, how's
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be a good day off. They've hardly
Speaker 2: played a lot of games. They played fourteen. Well, it's
Speaker 2: been a whirlwin as I mentioned and just alluded to
Speaker 2: all the cities they've been in where they've had to
Speaker 2: go the last three and a half weeks, and now
Speaker 2: to have the ring ceremony twenty twenty four celebration as
Speaker 2: Eric alluded to, behind them. Now they can get dialed
Speaker 2: in here for the rest of twenty twenty five and
Speaker 2: come back home to some warm weather, get some vitamin
Speaker 2: D F at the sun tomorrow and they're day off
Speaker 2: and get ready for a three game set over the
Speaker 2: weekend for the Dodgers with Freddie Freeman Bobblehead Night. So
Speaker 2: I think that's a valid point there. This is a
Speaker 2: Dodger team that's been on the go, go go for
Speaker 2: the last three and a half weeks, and now gonna
Speaker 2: have a chance to kind of just take a deep
Speaker 2: breath and settle for a nice six game home stand.
Speaker 2: Eddie and Northridge is next up here on an five seventy.
Speaker 2: Welcome Eddie. How you doing.
Speaker 4: Doing pretty good? Jam. So my question is is my
Speaker 4: question is in regards to the pitching, it seemed like
Speaker 4: a merry go round. It seemed like that funk around
Speaker 4: the world, around the world, And that's kind of a
Speaker 4: concern because it would be nice if if we could,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, I mean, I'm not worried about
Speaker 4: the hating. I'm not worried about the bullpen.
Speaker 9: But the studying.
Speaker 4: You know, obviously we lost Lake Sneil for for some
Speaker 4: games curse I was gonna come back in the future.
Speaker 4: Glass now not sure when he's gonna come back or
Speaker 4: I forgot his status. But I just want to know
Speaker 4: what do you think as far as like, do you
Speaker 4: think the batters are intimidating our pitching and that's why
Speaker 4: they're walking them so much?
Speaker 9: Or or are you or are you just think it's just.
Speaker 4: Lack of control for command. Hang up and I'll let
Speaker 4: you hear your taking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it, Daddy. I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: a mechanical issue. It's not the hitters are intimidating the
Speaker 2: Dodger pitchers. That's not the case at all. And I'll
Speaker 2: use just as an example again, Land and Nack today,
Speaker 2: home run, a walk, a single, walk to the first
Speaker 2: four batters, those forty one pitches. Control issues in the
Speaker 2: first inning. Okay, the second inning, he comes back to
Speaker 2: four to three game and he has a strikeout, a
Speaker 2: line out, and a strikeout through thirteen pitches. What changed?
Speaker 2: What did he do different between innings one and two
Speaker 2: on the mount and then comes back out inning three,
Speaker 2: still a four to three game, land in Neck ground
Speaker 2: ball to Kik at first, a walk, a single, a
Speaker 2: double by Luis Garcia Junior to tie the game in four.
Speaker 2: And then that's when they pulled the ripcord and brought
Speaker 2: in Jack Dryer, who gave it a sack fly and
Speaker 2: the run accounted to land in Neck to go ahead
Speaker 2: run to make it a five to four Nationals lead. Well,
Speaker 2: what changed for landon Neck? I mean if we can
Speaker 2: go into his mind, if we could hear what he
Speaker 2: had to say. I imagine he's just gonna talk about
Speaker 2: control issues and the importance of getting ahead and finishing
Speaker 2: off hitters. That's really what it is. He was getting
Speaker 2: ahead first pitch strikes. That wasn't an issue. But he
Speaker 2: had too many three ball counts that he had against
Speaker 2: the Washington Nationals today. He was you know, flann and neck.
Speaker 2: What did he have first pitch strikes nine of the
Speaker 2: fifteen batters that he faced. Okay, so it wasn't an issue,
Speaker 2: But finishing off hitters when you're head o two to
Speaker 2: one to two, you can't leave a ball up in
Speaker 2: the zone and let cj. Abrams with two strikes the
Speaker 2: lead off bat of the game and you leave a
Speaker 2: fastball over the middle end of the plate and he
Speaker 2: hits it for a home run to right field. Those
Speaker 2: are mistakes you can't make. You have to waste a pitch,
Speaker 2: throw it out of the zone, or make sure you
Speaker 2: throw it a fastball in a position where a spot
Speaker 2: he can't hit it, or get to it and hope
Speaker 2: he chases. You can't miss, because they'll make you know,
Speaker 2: they'll take advantage of your mistakes, and that was the
Speaker 2: issue today, the walks. If it were one or two
Speaker 2: pitchers the Dodgers were having control issues with, you could
Speaker 2: be like, all right, there's something there with those two.
Speaker 2: But collectively, we're seeing just too many walks from Dodger pitchers,
Speaker 2: starters and relievers. And today they're able to get around
Speaker 2: those walks, especially the bullpen, who combined for three walks
Speaker 2: in their six and two third innings of relief. Let's
Speaker 2: keep going, Alan and silver Lake, thanks for being patient.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk after a six y five Dodgers
Speaker 2: win over the Nationals.
Speaker 10: High tim Thanks, I'm a say on my way to
Speaker 10: the Clippers game. Very exciting team. They can actually win
Speaker 10: the championship this year in my opinion. But this saysn't
Speaker 10: Clippers talk. You know, you look at the pitching staff
Speaker 10: and you're neally not worried, you know, but you look
Speaker 10: at Monsey and Keyka and okay, key k. There's a
Speaker 10: lot of guys in the minor leagues who can field
Speaker 10: the baseball. That's not what makes a major league or
Speaker 10: it's can you hit? And if you really think about it,
Speaker 10: you're not worried about the pitching staff. But do you
Speaker 10: really think Monsey and Kyk are going to become I
Speaker 10: don't know, two sixty hitters or in your bones, don't
Speaker 10: you know that they're kind of not And maybe the
Speaker 10: Dodgers fought the last war by making sure they have
Speaker 10: the pitching, but they did not fix what they needed
Speaker 10: to fix about the hitting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not asking these guys to be three hundred hitters,
Speaker 2: You're right, Allen. And I'm not realistically asking them to
Speaker 2: be two sixty hitters. But I'm asking them to be
Speaker 2: better than one oh three and one seventy four and
Speaker 2: to have as many strikeouts as they do. This early
Speaker 2: in the season, I mentioned it. The Dodgers had sixty
Speaker 2: combined strikeouts on this six game road trip, ten of
Speaker 2: which came from Max Munci, who was zero for four
Speaker 2: to day with three strikeouts. My man, Manuel and Guardian
Speaker 2: A good afternoon. Manuel.
Speaker 7: Hey, we'll take that last call at the grain of salt.
Speaker 9: I mean, he said the Clippers were good enough to
Speaker 9: win a championship. Let's come on, man, get serious. Hey,
Speaker 9: but back to the Dodgers, Man, the real champs to
Speaker 9: defending world champs.
Speaker 7: Got to give Pies his flowers. He brought his hitting
Speaker 7: shoes and left his roller skates that he played on
Speaker 7: defense back in LA. So that's a good thing. Like
Speaker 7: you said, it's been a marathon of a beginning of
Speaker 7: a season, between the Tokyo shot, between the Orange Face visit,
Speaker 7: you know, just everything, man, the ring ceremony, the hanging
Speaker 7: of the banner, and you always know when you're the
Speaker 7: defending CHAMPI you're gonna get everybody's biggest shot. The Phillies
Speaker 7: are a bona fide contender. The Gnats we're playing out
Speaker 7: of their ash because they want to show out against
Speaker 7: the champs, so we're gonna give them a pass. You know,
Speaker 7: for the most part, they'll be all right, but like
Speaker 7: you said, the base on balls and the strikeouts by
Speaker 7: the hitters both need to drastically get down. That's not
Speaker 7: gonna cut it. And lastly, they need to start playing
Speaker 7: crisp baseball because these last the first ten games or
Speaker 7: whatever it's been, they've been playing about as crisp baseball
Speaker 7: as a two hour old bowl at cheerios. So I'm
Speaker 7: confident that Dave Roberts will get him back in championship mode.
Speaker 7: And you know, Friedman is going to be making moves
Speaker 7: come the deadline. Love you, tim Ka, all.
Speaker 2: Right, man, all right, man, well and Guardiana appreciate it.
Speaker 2: This team, I believe a day off tomorrow, we'll be
Speaker 2: ready to go and dialed in for this next home stand.
Speaker 2: But certainly a lot of airs on the defensive side
Speaker 2: on this road trip, a lot of walks from the
Speaker 2: Dodger pitchers, a lot of base running, mistakes by guys
Speaker 2: on the bass pass, things that need to be cleaned up,
Speaker 2: things that are uncharacteristically being done by the Dodgers that
Speaker 2: we have not seen in the last few years. Usually,
Speaker 2: you know, it's mistakes that you know, other teams make
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers jump on. It's not vice versa. And
Speaker 2: the other teams have been taking advantage of the walks,
Speaker 2: the bad base running, the airrors and had snuck up
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers on this road trip. That's why they
Speaker 2: go to and four. But they take a win in
Speaker 2: the finale today, beating the Washington National six to five. Isy,
Speaker 2: I know it wasn't the road trip we all wanted,
Speaker 2: but hey, second team to get to ten wins along
Speaker 2: with the Padre is not bad.
Speaker 11: Okay, Yeah, I guess you know what I get better
Speaker 11: then being on six? So what were they were? The
Speaker 11: sixteen road trip? Right, yeah, so it's yeah, okay, well
Speaker 11: I get to Betty being over six. Yeah, it was
Speaker 11: pretty prosthetic. They strike out, need to stop, and I
Speaker 11: only get the defferense and it's obvious play not forget
Speaker 11: play Freeman within the lineup, it's obvious that they missed.
Speaker 11: They missed ready. So anyway, so they have have have
Speaker 11: go home sin and some money, please, I missed them
Speaker 11: together with hoping. We did the launching. Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, too many clouds in the skies today is he
Speaker 2: didn't didn't permit for a launch day. I saw that
Speaker 2: lunches have to be scrubbed and we'll do it another day.
Speaker 2: A launching pad with Isabelle from Anaheim. Well that's gonna
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Speaker 2: Clippers taking on the Houston Nuggets as they fight for
Speaker 2: position in the Western Conference. Dodgers fighting today in our
Speaker 2: Nation's Capital with a six to five win over the Nationals.
Speaker 2: They finish off this road trip going two and four,
Speaker 2: but they get to ten wins now ten and four
Speaker 2: overall on this season. Dodgers back at it on Friday,
Speaker 2: and they start a three game home series against the
Speaker 2: Chicago Cubs. A six game homes and overall at the Ravine.
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