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Speaker 1: like back, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at men in
Speaker 2: Mad Park in Houston, Texas, where that guy Alex Bregman
Speaker 2: hit a walk off home run culminating and an Astros
Speaker 2: come from behind victory seven to six. The final score
Speaker 2: tonight in Houston. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. We're with you until
Speaker 2: eight thirty tonight here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We'll get into this game. We'll get into what options
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have with some of these players coming off
Speaker 2: the board and being traded in the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 2: and there were even more trades today that could impact
Speaker 2: the Dodgers as we get closer to two o'clock excuse me,
Speaker 2: three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. That is the trade deadline
Speaker 2: around Major League Baseball. Eight six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. All right, let's get into this one.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers had a very thin lineup out there tonight.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Nobody thought from the responses I got on social media,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were going to do much of anything against
Speaker 2: Ronel Blanco. Well, that's why you play the games, and
Speaker 2: that's the reason why you can't play these games out
Speaker 2: at seven am, three o'clock in the afternoon. You play
Speaker 2: the games. And I've told players this before. With all
Speaker 2: the analytics and data and matchups and all this stuff,
Speaker 2: a lot of times these players are getting so much
Speaker 2: doubt put into their minds that they don't even realize
Speaker 2: what their apa bole of. And today the Dodgers said
Speaker 2: Gavin Luck hitting third, he did pretty well there. Not
Speaker 2: sure why he came out of the game late, but
Speaker 2: he did, but he played well. He helped the Dodgers
Speaker 2: set up some scoring opportunities early in this game. Cavin Bigio,
Speaker 2: who hasn't done much of anything this year, had his
Speaker 2: best game offensively as a Dodger. He doubled in a run,
Speaker 2: he homered, and certainly was proud to be back in
Speaker 2: front of his family and friends here in Houston. This
Speaker 2: was a ballpark he grew up in watching his dad,
Speaker 2: Craig Bigio, the Hall of Famer, play, but look all
Speaker 2: of that, and Justin Robleski's great game is all for
Speaker 2: not because things went sideways in the sixth inning when
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts decided that he did not want Justin Roblisky
Speaker 2: facing Yanni di As, yiner die as excuse me the
Speaker 2: catcher hitting behind Jordan Alva. Despite Alvarez flying out to
Speaker 2: deep left field. In the sixth inning, it was two outs,
Speaker 2: runners at the corners, and Dave Roberts decided that was
Speaker 2: enough for Justin Robleski after eighty two pitches tonight, and
Speaker 2: when that was happening, if you were watching this game,
Speaker 2: if you had watched the first five innings of this game,
Speaker 2: you're wondering what is going on? Even a three run
Speaker 2: home run is not going to beat you. And here's
Speaker 2: my thing. You can't tell us on one side, one
Speaker 2: side of your mouth that the bullpen is worn down.
Speaker 2: They've been used too much. We need deeper starts, and
Speaker 2: then on the other side, take your starting pitcher out
Speaker 2: after five and two third scoreless innings. You can't have
Speaker 2: it both ways. And if you want to rest your bullpen,
Speaker 2: then you don't take Robleski out. And also, if we're
Speaker 2: talking big picture here, and you want to save your
Speaker 2: bullpen and you want to give them a blow, then
Speaker 2: you still don't take Justin Robleski out. And also, look,
Speaker 2: nobody loves Evan Phillips more than I do. He is
Speaker 2: a big time, you know, underdog to get his career
Speaker 2: on track here and become a reliever that Dodgers have
Speaker 2: relied upon the last two years and coming into this season.
Speaker 2: But he's not pitching really well right now and his
Speaker 2: confidence is at an all time low. So that was
Speaker 2: another layer to take in out Robleski. You have runners
Speaker 2: at the corners, two outs, and you're bringing in a struggling,
Speaker 2: low confidence reliever with two men on and two outs.
Speaker 2: That just did not add up for me. And Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts has done a great job all year long, but
Speaker 2: there are games that deserve to be questioned. And like
Speaker 2: I've said before, just because I disagree or have questions
Speaker 2: about a decision doesn't mean I believe that Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: is not a good manager. He is a good man,
Speaker 2: but sometimes you just wonder why. And nobody's perfect. There
Speaker 2: is no perfect player. You don't go through a whole
Speaker 2: season batting a thousand decisions don't always work out, and
Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in decisions. Uh, just because decisions
Speaker 2: and moves don't work out as a manager doesn't mean
Speaker 2: they were the wrong decision. But that was the wrong decision.
Speaker 2: I will stand by that. Let's head downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from Dave Roberts. I'm curious to understand better.
Speaker 2: I think we all are curious to understand better why
Speaker 2: Robleski was taken out and Evan Phillips was brought in
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning with two outs.
Speaker 4: Dave, when you just look at this game tonight, I
Speaker 4: know it is incredibly frustrating ending, but at what point
Speaker 4: did you kind of see the shift in momentum as
Speaker 4: soon as.
Speaker 5: I took out Robleski. To be quite honest, I just
Speaker 5: felt that, you know, starting that inning, I thought about
Speaker 5: Evan at DS. You know, it's the first time he's
Speaker 5: gone to the sixth inning and is big league Chris
Speaker 5: making his four start, and he pitched his tail off.
Speaker 5: There wasn't a whole lot of swing and miss tonight,
Speaker 5: so I just felt that Diaz had good at bats
Speaker 5: and it was just a good opportunity for me. I
Speaker 5: felt to get Evan in the game to put the
Speaker 5: fire out and if it was going to be one
Speaker 5: more hitter, anyway to end on a good note and
Speaker 5: you know, finish out the game with the fire run lead.
Speaker 5: You know, so obviously it didn't work before.
Speaker 4: I guess getting to the bullpen with robust he how
Speaker 4: has he impressed? And just with each outing, how do
Speaker 4: you see him just kind of continuing to gain strength
Speaker 4: and you know, showing that he truly does belong at
Speaker 4: this level.
Speaker 5: He certainly belongs at this level. The stuff is there today.
Speaker 5: I thought the command was much better. I think he
Speaker 5: was he was attacking, and I think that's part of
Speaker 5: the reason why he didn't have many strikeouts because he
Speaker 5: was in the strike zone, which is a good thing.
Speaker 5: Just the way he controlled himself. You know, he gets excited,
Speaker 5: but he still has a way to kind of reset
Speaker 5: and to keep making pitches. And you know, that lasted
Speaker 5: bat that he had tonight, getting ol of rest to
Speaker 5: fly out was huge, and it was just I think
Speaker 5: it's just building. You know, he's made for major league
Speaker 5: starts and a hostile environment and he passed the test.
Speaker 5: So each start, I think he's gotten better.
Speaker 4: Get think kind of the last ten from Phillips what was.
Speaker 2: He kind of the option there in the well.
Speaker 5: I think if you look at the guys who are
Speaker 5: available and right there, you just feel that it's a
Speaker 5: five run lead and you don't know how the n
Speaker 5: he's going to play out before you get a guy loose.
Speaker 5: But I just felt that the run of right handers,
Speaker 5: he's been good against right handed hitters, and that was
Speaker 5: just an opportunity to continue. You know, the last couple
Speaker 5: I thought had been good. We've gotten found good lane
Speaker 5: for him, and I felt that was a chance for
Speaker 5: him to minimize the damage, put the fire out, stop
Speaker 5: the momentum, whatever it might be. And and you know,
Speaker 5: he's been good for so long, so I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: you know, so I think my job is to try
Speaker 5: to find spots that he can handle us. So I
Speaker 5: felt the sixth inning certainly isn't going to overwhelm them,
Speaker 5: and you know, they just kind of found holes and
Speaker 5: nothing was hit hard, and you know, obviously the result
Speaker 5: wasn't good, but it's not like they were squaring them up.
Speaker 5: But you know, unfortunately the result wasn't good.
Speaker 4: That was known for him. Is he still like a
Speaker 4: leverage guy for you right now? Or is it at
Speaker 4: a place where you need to find softer landing spots
Speaker 4: for him.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I still think that, you know, with
Speaker 5: a five run lead in the sixth inning, that's still
Speaker 5: a good spot. With a with a run of right handers,
Speaker 5: there's only so many guys that you can go to
Speaker 5: in a night. You know, everyone can't be available every night.
Speaker 5: So I still, you know, felt good about you know
Speaker 5: where we where he put him, and you know, like
Speaker 5: I said, they just kind of put the ball in play.
Speaker 5: There was you know, some flares and infield hit and no,
Speaker 5: that's just baseball, and you got to deal with it,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: There's manager Dave Roberts on sportsnet a LA. Obviously, I
Speaker 2: give Dave a lot of credit for acknowledging that the
Speaker 2: momentum of this game changed when he took Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: out for Evan Phillips. But I understand as well that
Speaker 2: Yanni Diaz had some pretty hard hit balls against Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: But at some point, if you're putting these young guys
Speaker 2: out there and they're making major league starts and it's
Speaker 2: a Robleski's fourth major league start, at some point he's
Speaker 2: got to take the next step and the next step
Speaker 2: was to allow him to face Yanni Diaz. And even
Speaker 2: if he gives up a three run home run, which
Speaker 2: you know he may, but the chances are he's not.
Speaker 2: It's still a five to three game, and you could
Speaker 2: still bring in Evan Phillips with nobody on and I
Speaker 2: just I still don't understand that decision. But Dave explained
Speaker 2: his and we'll take it for the That eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Fresno and Phillip, how about that? Philip in Fresno.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Day, Dave, I gotta say the offense did pretty well
Speaker 6: with no Freddy, no Mookie, no Muncie, which I thought
Speaker 6: we were gonna get the same thing like yesterday.
Speaker 7: And I got a question.
Speaker 6: I got a question for.
Speaker 8: You, Dave.
Speaker 6: Ever since you interviewed rich Hill, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: I'm hearing rich Hill's gonna be we're interested in rich Hill?
Speaker 6: Is that gonna be?
Speaker 7: Is that like a if we.
Speaker 6: Don't get anybody in the trade, rich Hill's the fallback
Speaker 6: plan or is it just more for death?
Speaker 2: No, it's more for depth. Phillip it's not Rich Hill
Speaker 2: if they don't get anybody else. The Dodgers, the Red
Speaker 2: Sox are teams that are interested in Rich Hill. I
Speaker 2: saw the Yankees. I'm sure they're interested as well. But
Speaker 2: it would be in addition to whoever the Dodgers acquire
Speaker 2: before now and Tuesday. And Rich Hill, you know he's
Speaker 2: throwing one hundred pitch bullpens. The Dodgers would love to
Speaker 2: have another lefty, and yeah, there there's a chance for
Speaker 2: a reunion, but that would not be Okay, we lost
Speaker 2: out on all these guys and this is our only
Speaker 2: pick up. It's Rich Hill in addition to whoever else
Speaker 2: they're able to acquire.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of I'm a little questionable about Hill
Speaker 6: because I don't know. If he's.
Speaker 2: A risk. It's a risk, but he's not gonna cost
Speaker 2: much and if he's not effective, then no harm, no foul.
Speaker 2: But as you heard Dave Roberts say, his bullpen's gassed.
Speaker 2: So if you can bring in another pitcher, that would
Speaker 2: be helpful. Thanks for the phone call, appreciate it. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: also part of this game, Alex Bregman, of all people,
Speaker 2: one of the Villains of twenty seventeen hits, the walk
Speaker 2: off home run off of Blake try And here's my
Speaker 2: question in that sweet sequence of at bats, and I
Speaker 2: still can't understand this between Blake Trinon and Will Smith.
Speaker 2: What was Blake Trinon and Will Smith trying to do
Speaker 2: with a ninety five fastball over the heart of the plate.
Speaker 2: And where were they trying to go? Were they trying
Speaker 2: to go inside? Were they trying to go up in
Speaker 2: the strike zone. I'm not even sure what they were
Speaker 2: trying to do. You got to move him off the plate.
Speaker 2: Blake Trenon has enough to do that. I just don't
Speaker 2: understand the purpose of those first two pitches to Alex Bregman.
Speaker 2: Maybe throw another slider to try to get him to
Speaker 2: expand his strike zone. I like a fastball in, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't in enough. I just wasn't sure what the
Speaker 2: purpose of those pitches were. And if you look at
Speaker 2: the replay, it's a crucial moment in the game. You
Speaker 2: want your catcher giving a definitive target to where he
Speaker 2: wants it. If you want it inside, you want on
Speaker 2: to miss inside right so it doesn't leak out over
Speaker 2: the plate. Will Smith has got to give him a
Speaker 2: sturdy target, and I didn't see that in the replay either,
Speaker 2: so that was frustrating as well in this completely frustrating
Speaker 2: loss for the Dodgers seven to six to the Astros
Speaker 2: eight six two five seventy. Let's go on to Pacoima. Eddie,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hi Eddie, Hey Dave, you're the best, Like always, thank
Speaker 8: you for all the information. I just wanted to talk
Speaker 8: about Van Phillips. Wanted to say, I believe there's nothing
Speaker 8: wrong with him. He's got a bad case of the
Speaker 8: baseball gods have something against him right now, a couple
Speaker 8: of bloops, a couple of dribblers. I think he's gonna
Speaker 8: be okay, Like we all say all the time, it's
Speaker 8: one hundred and sixty two games. He's one better away
Speaker 8: from getting back on track. We're gonna definitely need him
Speaker 8: down the stretch. But yeah, that's my kind of take
Speaker 8: on Van there. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks for the phone call, Eddie. And with
Speaker 2: the struggles of Evan Phillips with thirty five and thirty
Speaker 2: six year olds Blake Trinan and Daniel Hudson starting to
Speaker 2: get towards the end of the season, it's a little
Speaker 2: bit more imperative in my opinion, that the Dodgers start
Speaker 2: to scour teams for relievers. And you know, I was
Speaker 2: going through some names that might be available. Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: is the guy everybody wants. He's the closer from the Marlins.
Speaker 2: But my understanding is the Marlins are asking for a
Speaker 2: king's ransom for Tanner Scott. Unless that price comes down,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure who's going to take on that. Possibly
Speaker 2: Jason Adam, who's had an outstanding year as a setup
Speaker 2: man for Pete Fairbanks and Tampa Bay. You know, we
Speaker 2: talk about all the White Sox pitchers, Garrett Crochet and
Speaker 2: Tommy Famm and Luis Robert, all these other guys on
Speaker 2: the White Sox. How about Michael Kopek. He's a guy
Speaker 2: that could possibly add some depth to the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2: He's available. Everybody's available on the White Sox, and I
Speaker 2: still wouldn't rule out Garrett Crochet. I you know, you
Speaker 2: never know what the Dodgers are able to pull off,
Speaker 2: and what is out there publicly and what is being
Speaker 2: said between agents, players and opposing gm so I still
Speaker 2: would not rule out Garrett Crochet and we'll get into
Speaker 2: even more mind numbing trade talk in our next segment.
Speaker 2: But I feel like we all got to get this
Speaker 2: game out of our system because when this lineup scores
Speaker 2: six runs and you get a start from Justin Robleski
Speaker 2: like that, you got to win the game. Eight six six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Joe in La. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hi, Joe, you know today. First of all, I want
Speaker 7: to congratulate you saying it like it is and that's
Speaker 7: the way it should be. But it's a Dodger station,
Speaker 7: so you don't pull punches and I respect that as
Speaker 7: the next player. But the problem is deeper than today's
Speaker 7: game or whatever. This has been going on for nine years.
Speaker 7: He's made mistakes and because he's not he doesn't understand pictures.
Speaker 7: He doesn't have the field for pitchers. He's not Tito Francona,
Speaker 7: Bruce Boci. He's just not Earl Weaver. He's not, as
Speaker 7: I can.
Speaker 2: Name a number of managers, he.
Speaker 7: Doesn't have a field for pitchers. You were one hundred
Speaker 7: thousand percent right. You let the kid pitch he's pitching,
Speaker 7: His ball was moving, his ball was getting people out.
Speaker 7: He had one out to go. You said it perfectly, David.
Speaker 7: But it's not about tonight. It's about this guy mismanaging
Speaker 7: a global, global brand. He's mismanaged with talent that could
Speaker 7: win all the time. Right now, they're in danger of
Speaker 7: losing a division. There's two teams that are coming and
Speaker 7: we know that. I'm just saying, as the next player,
Speaker 7: you cannot mismanaged pitchers. You need to know what you're
Speaker 7: doing with pitchers. He's more by the book, by the rope,
Speaker 7: by the book. You know, leftion, left right, I'm righty.
Speaker 7: Instead of leaving and again, I'll go back to you,
Speaker 7: congratulate you. You're smart, you know the game. For some reason,
Speaker 7: this man has made a lot of mistakes, and I
Speaker 7: don't want to go into it. I want to go
Speaker 7: into the front office.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get into bashing him either. I
Speaker 2: just disagreed with the decision tonight. But overall, I've yeah,
Speaker 2: I understand, I understand Joe, and I appreciate the compliment.
Speaker 2: We all watched the game. You know, I nobody should
Speaker 2: listen to this show if we can't just agree upon
Speaker 2: what we all saw. And you're right. The Padres are
Speaker 2: red hot. They've won seven in a row. They are
Speaker 2: only six games back of the Dodgers now in the
Speaker 2: lost column. Two more to be played against those two
Speaker 2: teams coming up next week. And I remember you called
Speaker 2: about Lane Thomas. I'm not sure the Dodgers are looking
Speaker 2: for a platoon outfielder. They're looking for an everyday outfielder.
Speaker 2: But Lane Thomas certainly has had a really good year
Speaker 2: against lefties.
Speaker 7: Joe, you know what, Dave, I know him, I know
Speaker 7: his family, I know him. This kid is a five
Speaker 7: to two player who hasn't got hit in his stride yet.
Speaker 7: He's twenty eight years old. I'm telling you he's not
Speaker 7: a platoon player. He can play, and Davy Martinez loves him.
Speaker 7: And all I want to tell you is is Lane
Speaker 7: Thomas fills the void. We got rookie outfielders. We've got
Speaker 7: guys that they're not ready for the big time, for
Speaker 7: the for the clutch games you playoff in World Series.
Speaker 7: This is a different animal. Lane's been. He's paid his
Speaker 7: due Saint Louis. He's now with Washington. I don't know
Speaker 7: if they get rid of him, but he bats second.
Speaker 7: That means your good hitters usually back second. I know
Speaker 7: Davy loves him. He can run, he's stole. How many
Speaker 7: bases are he stolen?
Speaker 8: Dave?
Speaker 7: I think he's he's leading the league, major league in
Speaker 7: a certain category. I saw a flash show on TV
Speaker 7: last night where he was in front of Hernandez a teal.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know what the what the
Speaker 7: stat was, but he's got what it takes. He can feel,
Speaker 7: he can run, he can throw, he can hit. This
Speaker 7: kid is is he's got. He's got the ability to
Speaker 7: play to nail down at center field position. We need
Speaker 7: someone to solidify that outfield who can play all phases.
Speaker 8: Love it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Joe in La. Part of the Lane Thomas
Speaker 2: Marching Chowder society out there. And look, you may think
Speaker 2: that he's an everyday player, but the numbers say otherwise.
Speaker 2: And two hundred and seven at bats, Lane Thomas is
Speaker 2: hitting two seventeen against righties, while against lefties he is
Speaker 2: crushing them three twenty nine against lefties in basically one
Speaker 2: hundred plate appearances. So uh, it tells me that Lane
Speaker 2: Thomas is a platoon player. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Marlin in the OC. Colin, can you punch
Speaker 2: up Marlin for me?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Dot your talk? I got you.
Speaker 8: Thank you, David.
Speaker 9: Yeah, David, great work with what you do. But yeah,
Speaker 9: you know, I just want to reiterate.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 9: You know Robloski, the pitcher, Justin, he deserves to stay
Speaker 9: in that game.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 9: The kids need the pitch. He's got to learn the battle. Okay,
Speaker 9: he had two outs in that inning, and he deserves.
Speaker 9: You give up a few and then Yanka, but let
Speaker 9: him work his way out of it. We can't hold
Speaker 9: his hand during playoff time. We're gonna need him savage knack.
Speaker 9: They got to learn the pitch and they can get
Speaker 9: it done. But we gotta let the lea lea shot
Speaker 9: them a little bit and real quick.
Speaker 7: You know, we can't win them all. Okay, we have
Speaker 7: to wash this loss out of our hair.
Speaker 9: Okay, but that's a tough place to play, and Justin
Speaker 9: was battling. He deserved to stay in there.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: And that's really what I got. We can't panic. Roberts
Speaker 9: just needs to find the touch. But sometimes you gotta
Speaker 9: go with his guts. We all saw the game and
Speaker 9: that we're not gonna panic. We're gonna make some moves
Speaker 9: and we'll get it right. But you can't ask the
Speaker 9: book and the cover five innings all the time. These
Speaker 9: kids need to pitch into the.
Speaker 2: There's a tax to be paid one way or the other.
Speaker 2: Either your bullpen's going to pay the tax or your
Speaker 2: starters are going to pay the tax. He's a young kid,
Speaker 2: he's twenty four to twenty five years old. He could
Speaker 2: have gone that last out and like I said, worst
Speaker 2: case scenario gives up a three run home run to
Speaker 2: Janny Diaz and then you bring in Evan Phillips. But
Speaker 2: the kid is looking for his first major league win.
Speaker 2: The bullpen blew it for him. In Detroit, they scored
Speaker 2: five runs. He did not get it when he should have.
Speaker 2: And tonight he should have got his first major league win,
Speaker 2: and he was pulled and the bullpen blew it again
Speaker 2: for him. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Greg
Speaker 2: in Lancaster. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Greg.
Speaker 3: Hey, David, great to hear from you again. A great show. Tonight.
Speaker 3: You know, you hit it right on the head with
Speaker 3: calling him out like that. And you know, I'm waiting
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers to give you a bobblehead. You've been
Speaker 3: around a lot longer than the other guys. They had
Speaker 3: to put that up on the case for you.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: You know what I want to see if they gave
Speaker 2: a bobblehead to broadcasters, Greg, I want to see a
Speaker 2: Joe Davis an oral Herscheizer dueling babblehead. That's what I
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 3: See with some with some light savers. Absolutely, yeah, you.
Speaker 7: Know the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are going to be fine. You know, they're
Speaker 3: getting beat up a little bit right now, like they're
Speaker 3: supposed to. You know, we're damaged goods right now. But
Speaker 3: the horses are coming down the stretch. They're all going
Speaker 3: to be there. I mean, look what Arizona did last
Speaker 3: year at making it the World Series with nobody we
Speaker 3: had a team. They're hurt, they're going to come back
Speaker 3: and they'll be ready for the playoffs. And you know,
Speaker 3: on another note, I noticed the Dodgers really don't have
Speaker 3: like a like a mascot or anything like that. I
Speaker 3: think if we had like a mascot, like say like
Speaker 3: say it.
Speaker 2: We don't need a mascot. We're above being having a mascot.
Speaker 2: The Yankees don't have a mascot, The Dodgers don't have
Speaker 2: a mascot. You don't need a mascot when you're a
Speaker 2: stroyed franchise, you don't need gimmicks.
Speaker 3: Well, Philly's got got a fanatic, and well.
Speaker 2: He's the best in the business Philly fanatics. But come on,
Speaker 2: I'm okay, what's your idea for a mascot. I'll entertain
Speaker 2: this for a second.
Speaker 3: If we had like a like, say, for instance, like
Speaker 3: a donkey, right, go out there a donkey?
Speaker 2: What is that? Oh? Come on, no, no, sorry, Greg,
Speaker 2: I love you and you said nice things about me,
Speaker 2: but that's it. Sorry, I'm not going any further with that.
Speaker 2: But you made me smile for the first time today
Speaker 2: when you said the Dodgers should have a donkey mascot.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Man Houston has not treated me well, that's
Speaker 2: for sure, and has not treated the Dodgers well either,
Speaker 2: especially in these first two games of the series. I
Speaker 2: will say this, the Dodgers still have not played their
Speaker 2: best baseball the season. I can say that definitively, and
Speaker 2: we all talk about them maybe peaking too soon in
Speaker 2: years past and then kind of just coasting into October.
Speaker 2: This might be the best thing for the Dodgers, where
Speaker 2: once they get healthy at the right time, as we
Speaker 2: go into August and September, whoever they acquire at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline will help, and maybe, just maybe, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: will be playing their best baseball of the season when
Speaker 2: it matters most as they go into October. Because I'm
Speaker 2: a firm believer the Dodgers have not played their best
Speaker 2: baseball yet, and they haven't been whole for the majority
Speaker 2: of the season. So let's get Max Mounsey back, Let's
Speaker 2: get Mookie Bets back, Rojas Taylor, Freddie Freeman will be back.
Speaker 2: Let's get Bobby Miller on track. I feel like once
Speaker 2: you do that, it can all come together, and certainly
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hopefully will start playing their best baseball as
Speaker 2: they get into late August and into September once they
Speaker 2: get healthy. We're going to take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. We have one line open at eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy. We'll get
Speaker 2: into more mind numbing trade talk there were some trades
Speaker 2: made today. We'll get into that and more of what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have as far as options between now and
Speaker 2: Tuesday at three o'clock Pacific time. That is the trade
Speaker 2: deadline all around Major League Baseball. So we'll do that
Speaker 2: when we continue right here on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 2: minute May Park in Houston after the Astros walk it
Speaker 2: off seven to six on M five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 10: Dodger Talk is available on AM five seventy LA sports
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Speaker 10: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse.
Speaker 2: With two confessions.
Speaker 11: There's a ball hits way out of here, Oh Johnny,
Speaker 11: if there is a third deck, you need to hit
Speaker 11: it there. He hit it over the second deck, an
Speaker 11: incredible smash for show hey Otani for his thirty second
Speaker 11: home run of the year.
Speaker 2: He got a ninety two mile an hour middle middle
Speaker 2: fast bolder. He absolutely destroyed. That was in the top
Speaker 2: of the third inning off a Ronel Blanco sho. Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: with no regard for life in Houston, hit one a
Speaker 2: mile in fact, four hundred and forty three feet. If
Speaker 2: it would have been to the left of the scoreboard.
Speaker 2: It would have hit the scoreboard out there in right field. Instead,
Speaker 2: it went over that stairwell that's in the upper deck
Speaker 2: at min in Mad Park. It was a shot, a
Speaker 2: monstrous home run by show Hey. Otani is thirty first
Speaker 2: of the year, and for good measure, Otani stole his
Speaker 2: twenty sixth base of the season in the eighth inning,
Speaker 2: which tied a career high for the most stolen bases
Speaker 2: in a season, and there's a long way to go
Speaker 2: for him to break that. He stole twenty six in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one with the Halos, but unfortunately it all
Speaker 2: comes in a loss, as the Astros uh walk it
Speaker 2: off thanks to a Alex Bregman home run in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning off of Blake Trin in seven to six.
Speaker 2: The final score here at min in May Park. Daniels
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Speaker 2: own the Dream. We have one line open at eight
Speaker 2: six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. By the way,
Speaker 2: did you catch my buddy snell Zilla in San Francisco
Speaker 2: today against the Rockies? Only fifteen strikeouts and six innings
Speaker 2: through one hundred and three pitches. What are they gonna
Speaker 2: say now? They're gonna poke a hole in that one?
Speaker 2: Snell Zilla two times, two time Cy Young Award winner
Speaker 2: and is on track to look like the Snell that
Speaker 2: we saw last year as he is healthy now, and
Speaker 2: just as he's getting healthy, he may be traded if
Speaker 2: the Giants feel like they don't really have a shot
Speaker 2: at the Wildcard, which they seem to be fading in Snell. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I don't see him being traded to the Dodgers. I
Speaker 2: could see him being traded to the Red Sox or
Speaker 2: Yankees out there in the Al East. And speaking of trades,
Speaker 2: there were some trades made today. One of the closers
Speaker 2: that I mentioned the last few nights was traded today
Speaker 2: to the Phillies. Carlos Estevez went from the Angels to
Speaker 2: the Phillies today for a couple of minor leaguers, and
Speaker 2: the Yankees acquired Jazz Chisholm from the Marlins for three
Speaker 2: minor leaguers. Another big trade today was the Mets acquiring
Speaker 2: Ryan Stanek from the Mariner. The Orioles acquired Zach Efflin
Speaker 2: from the Rays. Yimi Garcia, the former Dodger, went from
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays to the Mariners as well. Austin Hayes
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, went from the Orioles to
Speaker 2: the Phillies. Randia Rosarina played his first game for the
Speaker 2: Mariners today. So you may say, David, David, all these
Speaker 2: guys we were talking about, what does that leave for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Well, there are still players to be had
Speaker 2: that can make the Dodgers better. I still will not
Speaker 2: rule out Garrett Crochet until at three o'clock Tuesday deadline passes.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty is still on the board with the Tigers.
Speaker 2: His name has been connected to the Dodgers. I mentioned
Speaker 2: relievers Tanner Scott, Michael Kopak, and Jason Adam. How about
Speaker 2: Pirates closer David Bednar, who's had a down year. You know,
Speaker 2: the Pirates may try to do one of those thread
Speaker 2: the needle like the Rays have done, where yes they
Speaker 2: trade a well known player, but also get a couple
Speaker 2: of players to make them better. In a different area
Speaker 2: because Bednar is going to start getting expensive for Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: and they have to kind of thread that needle of
Speaker 2: payroll versus competing. So maybe he's a possibility. As far
Speaker 2: as offense goes I mentioned the Cubs have been scouting
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' minor league system. Could it be Nico Horner,
Speaker 2: Could it be Ian Happ Possibly? How about the Angels.
Speaker 2: They got Taylor Ward, who is more like Elaine Thomas.
Speaker 2: He's a lefty killer. He's a platoon player, hitting three
Speaker 2: hundred against lefties and barely hitting two hundred against righty's.
Speaker 2: Louis renhefo can help the Dodgers on the infield, they
Speaker 2: would be in that same Nico Horner category. As far
Speaker 2: as outfielders go, Tommy fam Luis Robert from the White
Speaker 2: Sox and how about Brian de la Cruz from the Marlins.
Speaker 2: Eighteen home runs this year for a player that's under
Speaker 2: team control for the next two or three years. So
Speaker 2: those are some of the names that are connected to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. As far as the trade deadline, eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Brad and mission Viejo. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: Brad, Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Do you think Hudson might have been a good choice
Speaker 6: to bring in instead of Phillips, possibly because he usually
Speaker 6: pitches before Phillips in sequence?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have picked Hudson. Or how about Anthony Banda,
Speaker 2: who did a great job stopping the bleeding there after
Speaker 2: four runs were scored in the sixth inning and then
Speaker 2: came back out for a scoreless seventh inning. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what the matchup show, but yeah, I would have.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna take out, uh justin Robleski there, I
Speaker 2: feel like you want to bring in another reliever that
Speaker 2: has a higher confidence level right now than Evan Phillips does.
Speaker 2: Thanks to the phone call. Gotta move on, Brad, Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Aldwyn Park. Julio. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 12: Julio, Hi, David, thank you for taking my call. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I just wanted to share some frustration from tonight's loss.
Speaker 12: You know, Robleski, as you mentioned, pitching a great game
Speaker 12: and Dave Roberts decides to bring in Evan Phillips, who
Speaker 12: obviously been struggling as of late. He's you going to
Speaker 12: figure it out though, Just like one of your previous
Speaker 12: callers mentioned, I have a lot of faith in them.
Speaker 12: Phillips think he's a great pitcher and that's not too
Speaker 12: bash Dave robertson by any means. I think he's a
Speaker 12: great skipper, but just made some questionable calls tonight, And
Speaker 12: no manager is going to be perfect, but I lost.
Speaker 9: Like this just really hurts as as a.
Speaker 12: Lot of the callers have been mentioning where we're a
Speaker 12: hurting team right now. We have a lot of injuries,
Speaker 12: our pitching staff definitely needs some improvement. Our outfield could
Speaker 12: use some improvement. Yeah, just a loss that definitely we
Speaker 12: need to shake off and hopefully Dave Roberts learns from
Speaker 12: this interesting decision he made today.
Speaker 2: All right, Julio, thanks for the phone call. Eight six
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number lost In all
Speaker 2: this is Cavin Bigio's best offensive game with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He got his second start at first base tonight because
Speaker 2: of Freddie Freeman heading back to Los Angeles on the
Speaker 2: family emergency list, obviously dealing with some personal stuff, and
Speaker 2: our prayers go out to little Max Freeman. I know
Speaker 2: he's got this. I know he'll be strong enough to
Speaker 2: beat this, and he's got great family support. So his
Speaker 2: pops Freddie went back to be with him and Cavin.
Speaker 2: Bigio got his second straight start at first base, and
Speaker 2: he had a great offensive night. He doubled in a run.
Speaker 2: He homerd for the second time as a Dodger. This
Speaker 2: is the city he grew up in with his Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame dad, Craig Bigio, so I'm sure it was
Speaker 2: great for him to get the opportunity to play here,
Speaker 2: and he delivered tonight. So that was really cool to
Speaker 2: see as well. Eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Astros seven to six. One of those twenty seventeen villains,
Speaker 2: Alex Bregman, walked it off against Blake Trinin tonight. Mike,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Mike good?
Speaker 9: Was there any thought about maybe putting Patchton in the
Speaker 9: bullpen rather than dfade him?
Speaker 2: Uh, he's not really a reliever type, Mike. He's thirty
Speaker 2: five years old, he's never relieved. That would not have
Speaker 2: been the right spot for.
Speaker 7: Him, I got it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, David, Hey, my pleasure.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 2: By the way, in the process of Freddy Freeman being
Speaker 2: placed on the family emergency list, the Dodgers called up
Speaker 2: catcher Hunter Fiducca to take a spot on the twenty
Speaker 2: six man roster. Fiducca already was on the forty man
Speaker 2: roster as well. Eight six six seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Look, I know the Braves won today.
Speaker 2: Here's a long shot idea. If the Braves continue to sink,
Speaker 2: they are one of the worst, in fact, the worst offense.
Speaker 2: And since the beginning of May, Austin Riley's not hitting,
Speaker 2: Matt Olson's not hitting, They've lost a Kunya, they have
Speaker 2: lost Albe's. Would the Braves, even though they are still
Speaker 2: one of the wildcard teams, would they try to improve
Speaker 2: their offense by trading pending free agent to Be and
Speaker 2: Sino Zone Max Freed. I mean, they have now lost
Speaker 2: the top wildcard spot to the Mets. Before today's win,
Speaker 2: they had lost six in a row. They are, like
Speaker 2: I said, one of the worst hitting teams. Would it
Speaker 2: be crazy to believe that Alexanthopolis one of the most
Speaker 2: aggressive gms out there? Wouldn't think about trading Freed for
Speaker 2: some offense. That would be very interesting to see between
Speaker 2: now and Tuesday. That might be one of those things
Speaker 2: that if the trade deadline was in August and the
Speaker 2: Braves continue to sync out of the playoff, picture would
Speaker 2: be more realistic of happening than what it is right now.
Speaker 2: Let's take one more phone call before we say good night,
Speaker 2: Aldolpho and Lenmore. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Aldolpho?
Speaker 2: Where are you calling from? Where is?
Speaker 7: That could be better?
Speaker 6: But all right, Lemore, it's just about now.
Speaker 2: Okay, Central Valley, I hear you, all right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, now it's his first time calling a long time listener.
Speaker 6: That home run bot Tony had to be more than
Speaker 6: four hundred and fourth three feet. That thing was crushed right.
Speaker 2: It feels like it went close to five hundred feet.
Speaker 2: It would have broke the scoreboard, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 9: But man, this game was just so frustrating.
Speaker 7: I really don't know why Dave took.
Speaker 6: Out Roblowski so soon after getting their best hitters out
Speaker 6: and like just let the kids thing.
Speaker 2: I feel like he admitted it. I feel like he
Speaker 2: conceded that. Aldolpho, I don't know how much more we
Speaker 2: could beat a dead horse into the ground. It was
Speaker 2: a momentum chain when Robleski came out, Dave Roberts said
Speaker 2: as much. He had his reasons, but we all are
Speaker 2: wondering why. And look it feels like he sounded like
Speaker 2: he was kicking himself as well. But hindsight is twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: as they say, thanks a lot for the phone call,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Look I'm not second guessing, Dave, I'm first guessing.
Speaker 2: And that was my thought when Robleski was cruising. He
Speaker 2: had only thrown what sixty pitches through five innings, five
Speaker 2: scoreless innings. I said, oh, this is perfect. You can't
Speaker 2: say the bullpen is out of gas and not let
Speaker 2: this kid go one more batter. I just thought that,
Speaker 2: you know, that's where the momentum changed, and you felt
Speaker 2: like the game was starting to slip out of hand
Speaker 2: when Evan Phillips couldn't get it out. And another bright
Speaker 2: spot for the Dodgers was Anthony Banda, who came in
Speaker 2: to get the final out of that sixth inning after
Speaker 2: four runs had scored, and then he came back and
Speaker 2: put up zeros and retired the side in an order
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. So I thought Anthony Banda, who
Speaker 2: had a lot of family and friends here. He's from
Speaker 2: Corpus Christi and had a lot of family and friends here.
Speaker 2: So I thought Anthony Banda, Cavin Bigio, Shoyotani, Cavin Lux,
Speaker 2: Gavin lu Saw all had really great games tonight, and
Speaker 2: it's unfortunate that the Dodgers let this one slip out
Speaker 2: of their reach. Tomorrow they will look to avoid the
Speaker 2: sweep here in Houston, with River Ryan making his second
Speaker 2: career start in the Major leagues, going up against Spencer Aragedi,
Speaker 2: who was foreign eight with an ERA of five sixty five.
Speaker 2: Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at ten am with
Speaker 2: first pitch between the Dodgers and Astros from Minute Made
Speaker 2: Park in Houston at eleven ten. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: us tonight on Dodger Talk. Thanks to Colin Yee back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here
Speaker 2: at Minute Made Park in Houston, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show
Speaker 2: or our pregame conversation with tomorrow's starter, River Ryan, you
Speaker 2: can find it on the iHeartRadio app once again. The
Speaker 2: final score from Minute Made Park in Houston. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: fall to the Astro seven to six. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your night. We'll talk to you tomorrow. See
Speaker 2: you save Away