WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.480 One thing about this geen is the invisible and tangibles 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:06.919 that they have. 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:09.400 This teen is really becoming a family. 4 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:11.720 Let's not play one on Tom. Let's wind it. 5 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.439 I love writing these guys after the show, just thank you, 6 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:15.199 give me are. 7 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.600 Your attention, your fire and not a pistons. 8 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:22.239 This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion for a small 9 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:22.719 soft time. 10 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:25.239 They get up people, what they want to die two 11 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:25.960 is special. 12 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.079 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of them 13 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.359 con this ball's gone. 14 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.840 You ready to go? Sure old time to the sound, 15 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:36.520 grab your phone to get in. 16 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.399 On the show called eight six six nine eighty seven 17 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.159 two five seven and go to the show. And now 18 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.479 your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes. 19 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:49.960 Rough day for the Dodgers in Kansas City. It was hot, 20 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.000 it was muggy, and the Royals offense went to work 21 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:58.479 early and often. Meanwhile, the Dodgers bats were quiet until 22 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:02.079 the seventh inning when Freddie Freeman connected on his tenth 23 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:05.239 home run of this season as a Dodger see their 24 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.840 five game winning streak come to an end on this Saturday. Hi, everybody, 25 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.560 and welcome into Dodger Talk on this Saturday afternoon. Thanks 26 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:16.560 for being with us wherever you may be driving around 27 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.640 Southern California, listening on the iHeartRadio app, kicking back and 28 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:26.120 relaxing on this beautiful, warm Saturday afternoon here in southern California. 29 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:27.640 We appreciate you being with us. 30 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.959 Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is 31 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.840 the number eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. 32 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.760 Put it in your phone and make sure it's there. 33 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.280 Is one of your favorites. Let's talk a little Dodgers baseball. 34 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.599 A lot to digest from today's nine to five lost 35 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.680 with the Kansas City Royals. First and foremost, show hey 36 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.760 o tany two shutout innings today? He allowed one hit 37 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.040 that came to Bobby Witt Junior on a flare out 38 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.840 into left center field, a cheapy as they used to 39 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.079 call it back in my day, a cheapya to left 40 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.040 center field on a ball in which he was on 41 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:02.040 his front foot, completely fooled, hit it off the end 42 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.280 of the bat, but just kind of fell into no 43 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.200 man's land in left center field for a base hit. 44 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.719 A nice double play ball on a pitch that was 45 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.919 one hundred and two miles an hour from sho heyo Tani. 46 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.599 Pascatino hit into a double play to get out of 47 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:21.080 the first inning on fourteen pitches that first inning, little 48 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.159 ify on the command from sho Heyo Tani, especially on 49 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.759 the sweeper and off speed pitches. The fastball velocity was there. 50 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.759 He got some swinging missus, which was great. The second ining, 51 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.759 he was dialed in show Hao Tani in that second 52 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:37.879 inning thirteen pitches a one two three inning, sandwiched with 53 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.319 a strikeout in the middle after a couple of fly 54 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.039 ball outs, including one to the catcher Dalton rushing to 55 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.560 end the inning. It was masterful to see him with 56 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.360 his split finger, to see him with his off speed 57 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.919 pitches get swinging missus, to see his fastball electric up 58 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.759 in the zone when he wanted to get guys to 59 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.680 chase it. He landed seventy four percent strikes in these 60 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:03.719 two innings that he pitched. Today again, Bobby Witch Junior's 61 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.599 flair cheapy hit was eighty six miles an hour off 62 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:11.400 the bat into left center field soft contact. Every time 63 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:14.439 there was contact off the bat of the Kansas City 64 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.280 Royals in those first two innings that he pitched, and 65 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.960 he only faced a seven batters in two innings of work. 66 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:24.919 Really nice to see Shoeyotani on top of the mountain 67 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:28.319 today and doing what he did, getting better and evolving 68 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.759 from inning one to inning two, and you kind of 69 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:34.680 felt like, if this were late season Showyotani. 70 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:35.680 He was just getting into form. 71 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.159 He was really getting into a rhythm with his pitch 72 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:41.000 on the mound, the offspeed pitches, the swing and misses 73 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.120 on the fastball up and out of the zone. He 74 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:47.039 was throwing glove side and getting contact. He looked I 75 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:50.680 can't say enough. He looked dominant in that second inning 76 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.840 of work in which he threw thirteen pitches. And if 77 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:56.439 this were later in the season again, he would have 78 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.800 built on that, I feel, and we would have seen 79 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:03.319 Shoeyotani be really good for multiple innings. As it is, 80 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:07.080 it's late June and we're only getting limited work right 81 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.759 now out of show ay Otani as he continues to 82 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.919 look at the end goal, the finish line of the 83 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.680 end of the season and the playoffs when it counts 84 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.199 most eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seventy, 85 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:22.800 that was the really good the not so good today, Well, 86 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:26.360 let's continue with the positives. Freddie Freeman three for three, 87 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:30.480 a home run, two walks, on base five times. Freddie 88 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.240 Freeman hits his first home run since Mother's Day. A 89 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.199 streak of forty one games without a home run ended 90 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.839 today with the solo home run of the seventh inning 91 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.920 by the Dodger first baseman. He continued to grind. You 92 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.439 can see the frustration on his face. You heard him 93 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:48.360 in the postgame with David Vesse and the media, smile 94 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.920 on his face from ear to ear. But it's just today. 95 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.160 Baseball is a game of what have you done for 96 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.800 me lately? And there's the next day to do it again. 97 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.160 So we'll see if he's in the live tomorrow. There 98 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:00.319 have been a lot of talk that he going to 99 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.240 be off no matter what. So if that's the case, 100 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.120 we won't see Freddie Freeman back in the lineup as 101 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.319 it started until Tuesday, when the Dodgers return home to 102 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.879 face the Chicago White Sox to start off the next 103 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.959 Homestand but today one of those get right games. 104 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:13.920 Phil's good. 105 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.319 Freddie Freeman days three for three, on base five times, 106 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.040 hit it out of the park, seeing the ball really well, 107 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.040 tracking it well, hitting it well, spraining around the field. 108 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.000 That is really good for the Dodgers. Otani's two shot editings, 109 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.920 Freddie Freeman's five at bats today on base five times 110 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:34.000 three for three to two walks. The not so good 111 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:38.480 The Dodgers rest of the offense was pretty anemic. They 112 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.160 had runners on, they get a base run around with 113 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.399 two outs, they get a base run around with one out, 114 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.000 but they couldn't strain together hits. It was one of 115 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.839 those frustrating days, at least for the first six innings 116 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:50.560 for the Dodgers. 117 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.920 Runner on base in five of the first six innings, 118 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:55.560 but did nothing with it. 119 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:03.079 Meanwhile, the Kansas City Royals two strike, two outs, scoring runs, 120 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.959 Vinnie Pascantino an ah to one pitch from Ben Casparius 121 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:10.879 in the fifth inning with two outs, hits, a three 122 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:12.720 run home run, and what was a three to nothing 123 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.680 game quickly was a six to nothing game. You go 124 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:20.079 back to the third inning, Michale Garcia with a two 125 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.439 run double with two outs, and he was ahead in 126 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:25.920 the count O two before even in and out two 127 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.079 to two, and Garcia connects on a two run double. 128 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:33.399 The Dodgers usually are the teams that attack their opponents 129 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.680 with two strikes, two outs and just sort of pay 130 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:37.079 per clip. 131 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.480 You you to death. That's what they do so well. 132 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.759 They slug and they pay per clip you to death 133 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.639 with their two strikes two out hits. 134 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:45.879 Today they were the victim to that. 135 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.439 Today there wasn't enough band aids to be put on 136 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.000 the Dodger pitching as they saw the Dodgers give up 137 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.800 two strike hits, two out hits. In the first two 138 00:06:56.879 --> 00:06:59.639 games of this series, nine of the thirteen runs by 139 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.360 the camp To City Royals have been scored with two outs. 140 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.800 That's what the Dodgers do two opponents, and that's what 141 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:08.639 the Royals have done to the Dodgers in the first 142 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.439 two games. Dodgers last night out hit eleven to four, 143 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.040 but win the game five to four. Today, the Dodgers 144 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.319 out hit by the Kansas City Royals fourteen to ten 145 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:22.800 and lose nine to five. The ten hits by the 146 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:27.800 Dodgers a little misleading, seeing is that what at least 147 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:30.319 three of those hits came in the ninth inning, four 148 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.879 of them total in the ninth inning. They were pretty 149 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:36.800 anemic the first six innings. Freddie Freeman's home run got 150 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:38.759 him on the board, and then they pushed four across 151 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.759 in the ninth inning with two outs too little too late. 152 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.560 It would have taken americal comeback for the Dodgers to 153 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:46.680 be down eight to come back and tie it or 154 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:49.920 take the lead in the ninth inning that was squashed 155 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:52.639 with Michael Conforto's groundball out to end the game, and 156 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.560 the Royals in the Dodgers five game winning streak. You 157 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:57.879 hope it's just one of those days and you flip 158 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.720 it and you move to tomorrow and get the series win. Now, 159 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.519 albeit Dodgers had four hits last night, won the game 160 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.199 wasn't a ton of offense. But as we kept talking 161 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:09.759 about after the game last night pregame, today, they scored 162 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.639 four runs, two of which on a Max Munsey or 163 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:16.439 five runs last night on four hits, So every hit 164 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.879 they had produced runs. It's not a great recipe on 165 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:23.959 a continual basis, but they'll take it. Last night, today 166 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.959 the offense wasn't there again. Meanwhile, the Royals just kept 167 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.560 tacking on runs against Ben Casparius and then against Luis Garcia, 168 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.519 who struggled in a third of an inning today. Now, 169 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.120 I'm not going to put all the blame on Ben Casparius. 170 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:43.279 Why Ben Casparius is sick, Ben Casparius is not feeling well. 171 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.960 David Vasse said it on Sports and at LA during 172 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.600 the game. Davi's doing TV, I'm doing all radio this weekend. 173 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:51.840 Dave said it during the TV broadcast, and I'm pretty 174 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.399 sure he mentioned it in the pregame show. Maybe he 175 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:57.840 did off the air bank. Casparius last night sent home 176 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.399 by the Dodger coaching staff because he wasn't feeling well 177 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.399 and knew knowing that he was going to pitch today 178 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:04.480 piggybacking show. 179 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:05.159 Hey, O Tani. 180 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.480 No need for him to be at the ballpark, especially 181 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.879 if he's gonna get guys sick standing around in the dugout. 182 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:12.360 Just go back to the hotel. 183 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.080 So they sent him back to get hydrated, to get 184 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.240 some fluids and get ready for today's game where he's 185 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:21.200 going to piggyback show. Heyo Tani in the hot, humid 186 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:25.080 sun of Kansas City. So now that you kind of 187 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:27.480 have a backstory, he wasn't feeling. 188 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.000 Well last night. 189 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.039 Can't imagine he woke up today like, oh that's gone. 190 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.600 I feel better all of a sudden. Probably not feeling 191 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.759 well today, but he goes out there and goes four 192 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.039 innings and he's asked to be the bulk inning guy. 193 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:44.399 He got roughed up. He didn't finish off hitters. There 194 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:47.879 was too many two counts in which he let the 195 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:51.080 hitter back into account and then gave up a hit. 196 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:55.159 The Michale Garcia two run double a prime example, getting 197 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:57.679 ahead oh one on Vinnie Pascentino and then he hits 198 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.360 a three run home run. You get ahead in the count, 199 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:02.480 you got to finish him off. He just wasn't finishooting 200 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.840 off hitters in his four innings of work. Let's go 201 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:07.759 back out to Kansas City. Let's hit her from Ben Casperius. 202 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:10.440 We can call it post game today. He was sick 203 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.200 last night, not feeling good this morning. Let's hear from 204 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.080 the young right hander and how he's feeling after the 205 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:16.360 Dodgers nine to five loss. 206 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.639 He's kind of you know, chills, whole body aches and everything, 207 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:24.200 kind of swam it all out last night. I got 208 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:25.919 to the art today, told him I wanted the ball 209 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:27.279 and I felt good. 210 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:28.120 Enough to compete enough. 211 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.360 Did you feel it in the heat and everything? 212 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:32.000 Yeah, for sure. 213 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:33.720 I don't think I've fitched in the heat like this 214 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:35.759 in a long time, especially you know, day game with 215 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:38.679 the humidity like that. But I felt good enough to 216 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.360 take the ball today. And you know, dank a our 217 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:43.679 away didn't really execute the game plan as well as 218 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.080 I would have liked to. And you know, I'm just 219 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:48.320 chiming from the page and you know, on the. 220 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:49.679 Next one, because there been. 221 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.879 Something about either following show Hay or just. 222 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:54.240 Kind of pitch him longer in the last three that's been. 223 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:55.039 An adjustment for you. 224 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.519 I mean not too much in terms of like mental 225 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.639 prep and listen that. I just think, you know, game planning. 226 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.080 I haven't been a sharp for you know, executing what 227 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:08.320 I want to do. But I don't think it has 228 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:09.679 anything to do with the situation. 229 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:13.759 All right, there's Ben Casparius post game, had the chills 230 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.600 last night, not feeling well, sweated it out, woke up 231 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.159 this morning. As you heard him say, there, told Dave 232 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.960 Roberts and Mark Pryor he was good to go to 233 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:25.519 piggyback showy Otani and he just didn't execute. 234 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:26.840 And he's right, he didn't. 235 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.799 He didn't finish off hitters, and they came back to 236 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.279 bite him, and they scored four runs against him. Make 237 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:34.919 that six runs against him in four inings of work. 238 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.879 I tip a cap to him and say, hey, great, job, 239 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.159 going out there, even not out one hundred percent and 240 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:42.879 battling for four innings when the team needed you. 241 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:45.240 Again, this isn't a team that's loaded with pitching. 242 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.279 They can just say, all right, Ben, you're not feeling well, 243 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:50.000 we're gonna we're gonna push you to another day, or 244 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.000 you know, we got somebody else that can take over 245 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:55.480 for you. They have a bullpen game tomorrow with Justin 246 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.679 Robleski scheduled to be the long inning guy. Tyler Glass 247 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:00.879 now pitched last night in oklah Aloma City. He can't 248 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:05.080 be called up, immit. Sheen pitched today, I believe in 249 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.679 Oklahoma City, so he wasn't available. So they needed Ben Casparius, 250 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:11.840 whether he was one hundred percent or not, get some 251 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:12.799 fluids in him. 252 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:13.279 Go out there. 253 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.120 And he said the heat, the humidity got to him 254 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.600 and in the end he just didn't execute like he 255 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:20.960 was supposed to. And he's exactly right, and he'll get 256 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.000 the ball next time. Shoeyotani pitches. And the question for 257 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:26.559 Bill Plunkett's interesting. I mentioned the stat to Jose Mode 258 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.120 in the Clubout Show, and I'm gonna repeat it again here. 259 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.440 Since Ben Casparius has now been the follow guy for 260 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:39.879 Shoeyotani piggybacking each other. This is the third start for Shoeotani, 261 00:12:40.039 --> 00:12:42.639 one inning against the Padres, one inning against the Nationals, 262 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:45.679 and today he went two innings against the Kansas City Royals. 263 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.559 Ben Casparius has been the piggyback guy behind Otani in 264 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:52.759 all three of these starts, and that was the plan 265 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.000 before all this. Forty innings of work a sub three 266 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:01.480 ERRA for Ben Casparius in different roles, and he's been 267 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.080 really good this year now in three games where he's 268 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.399 had this role as the piggyback to show Heyotani in 269 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:13.039 right near eight, and he's given up eleven runs and 270 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.799 eleven and two third innings. Again, eleven runs and eleven 271 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.440 and two third innings in three times piggybacking show Heyotani 272 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:22.840 with an ERA near eight as opposed to a sub 273 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.720 three r and forty innings pitched before this assignment. 274 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.480 So he says there's nothing to it. He says he'll 275 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.639 be back and good to go next time out. I 276 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:32.519 believe he will. 277 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:35.080 But it's interesting to look at the numbers, and again 278 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.279 we do that all the time, good and bad. 279 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:38.559 Look at the numbers. 280 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:41.759 How guys are performing, what they're doing right, what they're 281 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:43.799 doing wrong. We try to find the answers and try 282 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.840 to dig deep into analyzing every little thing. It is 283 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:51.240 worth noting three times he's piggybacked Totani and it just 284 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.840 hasn't worked out for him, giving up eleven runs in 285 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.000 those three times, including six runs today in four innings 286 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.919 of work being under the weather. Eight sixty six nine 287 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:03.080 eight seven seventies a number. Let's go out to the phones, 288 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.559 thank you for being patient. Let's start off with David 289 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.679 in Westlake Village. It's gonna start things off here on 290 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.480 postgame Dodger Talk after the Royals beat the Dodgers nine 291 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:11.360 to five on this Saturday. 292 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:14.440 How you doing, David, I'm doing okay. Tim, Thanks for 293 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:16.519 taking my call. You know, I just got back from 294 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:20.000 New York having open heart surgery, and I'll tell you 295 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.960 I was watching the Dodger games in the hospital and 296 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.919 it really helped me keep my spirits up. So thank 297 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:30.519 you Dodgers for that for me personally. You know, I'm greedy. 298 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.000 I want that second World championship. I've waited a long 299 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:36.519 time for them to get great, and they're amazing. But 300 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.440 at first I thought pitching was gonna be the biggest issue. 301 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:41.559 I don't think so anymore. I think once you know 302 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:44.960 Snell and Glass now and they they they go deeper 303 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.840 in games with Oshani eventually, I think we're gonna be fine. 304 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.840 But to me, Tim, the biggest weakness of this team 305 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.559 is defense. And I'm actually kind of surprised that Friedman 306 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:58.279 put a worst detensive team on the field this year 307 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.240 than last. And I know how they can fix it. 308 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.840 I mean, it's the obvious choice is to put Mookie 309 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.600 out and right and put you know, uh Tayo in left. 310 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.080 I know that I can tell you that till I'm 311 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.320 Dodger blue in the face. That's never gonna happen. But 312 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:16.720 what can happen. What can happen is that they put 313 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:21.759 Tao in left and put Pahes in right. Uh uh no, 314 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.480 put yeah, Ptao in and left and put pas and 315 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.000 right and put Edmund when his ankle is healthy in center. 316 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.080 That is a championship caliber outfield. It's faster than the 317 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.840 outfield we have now. Roberts even admitted that we have 318 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.879 a slow outfield today and it's going to cost us. 319 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:40.600 And you know, you know as well as I do. 320 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.759 Watching the World Series last year, that defense can lose 321 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:48.919 you playoff games. And I just really hope that Dave 322 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:53.799 Roberts and Andrew Freeman understand that Tao belongs in left 323 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.840 and Paz, who has the best armed on the team 324 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.840 belongs in the right, and some more speed in center field. 325 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.960 Tell me that that is going to happen. Eventually, we'll 326 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:04.840 find out if it happened. 327 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:04.919 That. 328 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.320 I appreciate the phone call David, and thinking of you. 329 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:09.639 I'm praying for you for a speedy recovery after that 330 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:11.399 open heart surgery that you had in New York. 331 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:12.519 Glad to hear your back and you. 332 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:15.159 Arrested and the Dodgers got you through it and good 333 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:16.879 enough to give us a call here on Dodger talking 334 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.960 healthy enough. So thinking of you and your continued recovery 335 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:24.519 from that. With that being said, it was interesting to 336 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:28.799 see today Taoscar Hernandez a ball down the right field line, 337 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.799 come up just short from getting it and it kind 338 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:33.879 of falls in down the right field line. 339 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:34.200 Again. 340 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.080 Last night we saw the same thing happen against the 341 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.519 Dodgers in today's game. It was a situation where Freddie 342 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.759 Freeman was in on the grass. You had Haysan Kim 343 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.120 at second but closer to the second base bag to 344 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.600 hold the runner on and the ball falls in down 345 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:52.600 the right field line, just out of the reach of 346 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.799 ta Oscar Hernandez who didn't die for the ball and 347 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.559 came up, you know, short of catching it and it 348 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:07.599 falls in for a RBI single. So again it's it 349 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.039 is what it is. Right now, we'll see juggling in 350 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:14.200 the lineups moving forward. Ta Oskar's not right health wise. 351 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.160 Remember back last month he went on the injured list 352 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:20.640 with the groin injury, the adductor, the left adductor groin 353 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:23.440 area okay, and he came back pretty quick. 354 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.200 Was it? What? Ten games? That was it? 355 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:27.079 It was a minimum stint on the injured list and 356 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.559 he came back. And remember when he first heard it, 357 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.839 we kept thinking, no, man, this looks bad. This feels 358 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:38.599 like a lengthy stint on the injured list. This is 359 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:40.599 not gonna be good. This could be a six to 360 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.319 eight weeker. This could be something he doesn't come back 361 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.599 until after the All Star break because of how tender 362 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.920 the groin area adductor is and the way he was 363 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.200 grimacing in pain. As it turns out, wasn't as severe 364 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:56.759 of a strain, and he was back after one round 365 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.000 on the injured list and comes back back in the lineup. 366 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:04.960 Now certainly hasn't been the same tail since then, especially 367 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:08.640 out in the outfield. I think he's bothered by it. 368 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.599 I think he came back wanting to help out this 369 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:14.480 Dodgers team, not one hundred percent, but hoping it'll get 370 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.599 better as time goes on. And he plays through it. 371 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.799 And just like we've seen guys do Freddy Freeman with 372 00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:23.519 the ankle injury. Guys play through injuries all the time, 373 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:25.440 and they're not gonna sit there and tell you about it. 374 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:27.359 They're not gonna stand in front of their locker and say, 375 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:29.759 I'm hurt, I can't play every day, but I'm trying 376 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.000 to give my best for you. No, these guys don't 377 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.200 let in how bad maybe they're hurting. You know, we 378 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:39.640 found out after the case last year in October how 379 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:42.599 bad the ribs were for Freddie Freeman and really how 380 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.279 bad the ankle was. He had to have surgery in October. 381 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:48.960 They're not gonna let on. They're not gonna let on 382 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.240 because they're tough. They're they want to let on because 383 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:52.720 they don't want to come out of the lineup, and 384 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:54.920 they don't want to let on because they don't want 385 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:57.279 to give the opponent any advantage to what may be 386 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.200 an alien part of their body, and they can take 387 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.400 advantage of that as a pitcher. I just don't think 388 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:06.039 he's right. I don't think he's one hundred percent. And 389 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:07.960 maybe he needs a couple of days off. Maybe he 390 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:10.319 came back quicker than he should have. 391 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:11.160 I don't know. 392 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.720 That's not up to me, it's not up to you. 393 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:15.039 It's up to ta Oscar Hernandez and how he feels. 394 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:19.200 But looking at the way those two fly balls, especially 395 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:22.720 the last couple of times out last night and today, 396 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.079 you know, an extra beat on the ball, a dive. 397 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:28.680 Maybe he makes that play today. Maybe he makes that 398 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:31.960 play last night. As it is, he pulls up, ball 399 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.240 falls in both last night and today, And a lot 400 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:38.720 of people, the social media fans, people who are texting me, say, 401 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:41.240