Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 1: Let's I love writing these guys after the show. So
Speaker 1: just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger, world championing for a small
Speaker 5: soft time they get up people what they want to.
Speaker 4: Die in a row two is special.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one of the
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Basset, We.
Speaker 6: Are live at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 7: After Clayton Kershaw reminded you he is still Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers beat the Giants tonight eleven to five behind
Speaker 7: a spectacular performance from Clayton Kershaw, who is coming back
Speaker 7: after having a left knee surgery, a left foot surgery
Speaker 7: and certainly is a guy that is proving you don't
Speaker 7: have to throw ninety eight miles an hour.
Speaker 6: To get hitters. Out.
Speaker 7: He commanded his pitches tonight. He had commanded his slider.
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts said that was going to be a big
Speaker 7: key to his success tonight. He was able to do that.
Speaker 7: He threw his slider as much as he threw his fastball.
Speaker 7: He got swings and misses on his curveball. And admit it,
Speaker 7: you have not given Kershaw the credit he deserves. This
Speaker 7: is not ceremonial for him to be back this year.
Speaker 7: This is not a goodbye tour for Kershaw. There's a
Speaker 7: very good chance he comes back to pitch next year.
Speaker 7: He would not have come back to pitch if he
Speaker 7: didn't believe he could compete.
Speaker 6: On this left.
Speaker 7: And like I said during the Clubhouse Show, I'll say
Speaker 7: it again, I believe Kershaw sent a message to you,
Speaker 7: He sent a message to Major League Baseball, and he
Speaker 7: may have even sent a message to his teammates that
Speaker 7: you may not feel the best and you may not
Speaker 7: have your best stuff that day, but you go out
Speaker 7: there and compete and be there for your team. And
Speaker 7: that's what he's all about. And I thought it was
Speaker 7: glorious to watch him pitch the way he pitched tonight.
Speaker 7: I mean against the Giants of all teams, and he
Speaker 7: has had their number over his career, but at this
Speaker 7: stage of his career to do what he did to them,
Speaker 7: I mean, really really was impressive tonight how he was
Speaker 7: able to do this. And you look at what Kershaw's
Speaker 7: done in fifty nine starts against the Giants in his career.
Speaker 7: He's now twenty seven and sixteen with an ERA of
Speaker 7: an even two five strikeouts. Tonight, he's only twelve away
Speaker 7: from three thousand, which would make him just the fourth
Speaker 7: left handed pitcher in Major League Baseball history to record
Speaker 7: three thousand strikeouts. Steve Carlton, Randy Johnson, and C. C.
Speaker 7: Sabathia are the only three right now, but Kershaw is
Speaker 7: just twelve strikeouts away from joining that elite group. Let's
Speaker 7: head it downstairs right now to hear from the future
Speaker 7: Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, our offense is so good.
Speaker 8: I think that it's really important to get some zeros
Speaker 8: on the board early and you can see what they do.
Speaker 8: You know, I think if they feel the momentum, they
Speaker 8: start swinging the bats and so from there, when you
Speaker 8: get that early lead, you just try and pound the
Speaker 8: zone as best you can.
Speaker 4: And you know, it wasn't like amazing.
Speaker 8: There are some pitches that I backed up that you know,
Speaker 8: they hit the ballharder guys, But overall, to be efficient
Speaker 8: to get through seven, it's a good day.
Speaker 6: Just kind of move along with your progression.
Speaker 9: Are you finding that you're getting closer and closer to
Speaker 9: where you want to be with each start?
Speaker 8: I think now it's just kind of like everyone's a
Speaker 8: little bit different, which is probably a good thing. You know,
Speaker 8: there's some things you do well, there's some things you
Speaker 8: do not so well, so you know it's not gonna
Speaker 8: be perfect. The learning how to adjust on the fly
Speaker 8: and you know, throw more strikes, which I'm able to
Speaker 8: do now, which is good. And yeah, I think I
Speaker 8: think it's now just just pitching, which is a good thing.
Speaker 10: When the first couple starts to be like pretty encouraged,
Speaker 10: it's just what everything could be for you.
Speaker 9: I like to make kind of example like when I
Speaker 9: means clicked into like just things are kind of closer
Speaker 9: to where you kind of want them to be.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think maybe it's my personality. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 8: I just you're never like you never feel great about it,
Speaker 8: you know. I think there's always things you want to
Speaker 8: have back, and but the results, you know, ultimately, at
Speaker 8: the end of the day, to win the game, that's
Speaker 8: the most important thing. So you know, I in the moment,
Speaker 8: you know, I can think of some pitches on the
Speaker 8: top of my head.
Speaker 4: That I'd like to have back. I'd like to throw better.
Speaker 8: But you know, there's no restrictions physically health wise, which
Speaker 8: is which is great.
Speaker 4: And like I said, it's just kind of pitching now,
Speaker 4: which is good myself. The slider and the fur ball
Speaker 4: just be better in these last a couple whiles I
Speaker 4: didn't slider wasn't very good.
Speaker 8: Today my curve ball was better, though, I don't know,
Speaker 8: I don't know, it's a different day, I guess, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I hasn't been kind of thinks basically on a year,
Speaker 9: but just twelve ways.
Speaker 4: Does it get more? Really it's right here. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 4: by September I'll get there.
Speaker 8: We'll see, you know, it's it's it's it's obviously a
Speaker 8: very cool thing, and it's starting to get a little
Speaker 8: more on the forefront of the mine. But you know,
Speaker 8: who knows how long spells get taken. At this point,
Speaker 8: we might might be until August so we'll see when
Speaker 8: you're going off the mound at the end of the
Speaker 8: second for the olization, the crowd was getting you like it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it was special.
Speaker 8: I honestly didn't know if I was done or not,
Speaker 8: so I didn't want to, like come out of the
Speaker 8: moment too much.
Speaker 4: But you know, I love pitching here.
Speaker 8: I don't take it for granted. You know, who knows
Speaker 8: how many I've got left here, So I'm just gonna
Speaker 8: enjoy it. And just that's that's special. Anytime you know
Speaker 8: somebody cheers for you like that, it's pretty special.
Speaker 4: Consider there's no spring for you.
Speaker 10: Considering no spring for you, how much for those first
Speaker 10: couple of starts, just you're just trying to catch up
Speaker 10: and find all.
Speaker 8: For Yeah, that's where we are. I had plenty of
Speaker 8: starts beforehand. It's just there's no substituting big league game,
Speaker 8: big league competition. You know, you just have to get
Speaker 8: out there and get the reps.
Speaker 4: Did you end up hearing from Zach after pressing him
Speaker 4: on the striking sense?
Speaker 7: Then you know, all right, there's Clayton Kershaw on sports
Speaker 7: Net LA, and you know he brought up a great
Speaker 7: point and this is the stage of his career that
Speaker 7: he's at where he can appreciate a standing ovation coming
Speaker 7: off the mound. And that's really special to see that
Speaker 7: these fans here at Dodger Stadium recognize greatness and one
Speaker 7: of the great pitchers not only in Dodger his but
Speaker 7: in baseball history at this age, after all the injuries,
Speaker 7: that that truck still works. Fifty one thousand, five hundred
Speaker 7: and forty eight standing ovation for Clayton Kershaw coming off
Speaker 7: the mound in the seventh inning, after seventh scoreless just
Speaker 7: really special. And I have said this going back four
Speaker 7: five six years. Don't take this for granted because he's
Speaker 7: not going to be pitching forever.
Speaker 6: These are special nights.
Speaker 7: And if you see on the calendar or you hear
Speaker 7: us talk about, Hey, Kershaw's pitching this night at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 7: and you are available this summer, you should make it
Speaker 7: a point to come out here and watch him. You
Speaker 7: don't know, he just said it. He doesn't know how
Speaker 7: many more of these he has. And you know, it
Speaker 7: is conceivable that this is his last year pitching in
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball. But there's a lot of different variables.
Speaker 7: I can assure you of that, there's no one set answer.
Speaker 7: It's kind of a floating situation. So you know it's
Speaker 7: not for certain this is his last year, but there
Speaker 7: are no guarantees that he will be back next season.
Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Giants eleven to five.
Speaker 7: Let's go out to Palmdale. Darryl, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 11: Darryl, Hi, David, how are you today? Man? I got
Speaker 11: to say, phenomenal. Bayden Kirstof is the man. I mean,
Speaker 11: I think I really thought he could have win another inning.
Speaker 11: He only threw eighty one pitches, and if this was
Speaker 11: his last game, hey, he deserved everything he got. And
Speaker 11: the thing that I want to say is I hope
Speaker 11: the young pitchers I'll look it at what he's doing
Speaker 11: and take somebody take it some notes, because the band
Speaker 11: is grinded and he's doing what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 7: I agree guys like last now Snell, Dustin May, all
Speaker 7: those guys should be taking notes about what it is
Speaker 7: to have it inside of you to go out there
Speaker 7: and compete even though you're coming off foot surgery knee
Speaker 7: surgery and you're throwing eighty nine miles an hour but
Speaker 7: finding a way, competing your butt off to hang in
Speaker 7: there for seven scoreless. Let's go out to Frank in Sacramento.
Speaker 7: You're on Dodger Talk live from Dodger Stadium. Hi, Frank, Hey,
Speaker 7: Dave have known tremendous Frank.
Speaker 9: I love Clayton Kershaw tonight and I love how Or
Speaker 9: And then we're talking about how many jumbo Jackson's bought
Speaker 9: over his career for the city.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just a goat and her name.
Speaker 7: That's the first thing that comes to my mind as
Speaker 7: well when I think back to Kershaw's career, how many
Speaker 7: jumbo jacks he has bought the city of La Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's the first thing that comes to my mind.
Speaker 12: Frank, that is great.
Speaker 2: And I just wanted to know when the Dodgers come
Speaker 2: up here in the Sacramento next year to play the
Speaker 2: Ash Sacramento. Don't are you going to be joining the team?
Speaker 6: I hope not. Oh, come on, Dame, thanks for the
Speaker 6: phone call, Frank. Let's go out to Las Vegas, the
Speaker 6: future home of the A. Sergio. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Sergio?
Speaker 1: Hey, David, that was funny. Hopefully when the phase gets
Speaker 1: to Vegas, they want to come to Vegas.
Speaker 11: But let let's go in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about let's talk about Let's talk about Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm fifty five years old.
Speaker 1: I went to my first Rogiert game in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: I've seen some amazing players, but Clayton Kershaw is up there,
Speaker 1: definitely in the top five. You know today, as you
Speaker 1: said in the postgame show, it was it was vintage
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. You know, I was tracking the game again
Speaker 1: in seventeen. He faced twenty four batters, seventeen first pitch strikes.
Speaker 1: A tremendous there. He dropped his era by one point one.
Speaker 1: And I think Dan i Asnia costs Clayton at least
Speaker 1: almost five pitches. But you know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: what he was doing in his well.
Speaker 7: Was Dan i Asnia was way better than Adam Beck
Speaker 7: last night, Sergio. So I don't think we're going to
Speaker 7: complain about Dan i Asonia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen some horrible, some horrible umpires, but.
Speaker 12: Man, great ones too.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Uncle, Charge, it.
Speaker 6: Was that's a big pitch. It's a.
Speaker 7: You know, when Kershaw was in his prime, some would
Speaker 7: argue that he was a little predictable, but you know,
Speaker 7: A j Ellis would tell me when he was catching Kershaw,
Speaker 7: two strikes on a hitter, he called the curveball for
Speaker 7: the strikeout, and I think that's a recipe for success
Speaker 7: even now. Two strikes go to the uncle, Charlie, get
Speaker 7: that strike out on the curveball. Thanks for the phone call, Sergio,
Speaker 7: appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 7: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Giants tonight
Speaker 7: eleven to five. There offense came alive. They scored five
Speaker 7: runs in the second inning after show Heyotani's leadoff home
Speaker 7: run in the bottom of the first inning. Again an
Speaker 7: opposing manager intentionally walking Otani to load the bases for
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts, and Mookie Betts made Bob Melvin pay for
Speaker 7: that decision, and you know he didn't. He wasn't as
Speaker 7: demonstrative as he has been in the past, but feels
Speaker 7: like he's getting used to it and he's delivering more
Speaker 7: times than not whenever they walk Otani in front of him.
Speaker 6: This goes back to last year.
Speaker 7: Ron Washington, the first manager to do so, and Mooki
Speaker 7: made him pay with.
Speaker 6: A home run to left field.
Speaker 7: By the way, speaking of the Angels, the last time
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw had a start of seven innings was June twentieth,
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, in Anaheim against the Angels, where he
Speaker 7: went seven scoreless that night and also had five strikeouts.
Speaker 7: So Kershaw does it again and joins Yamamoto as the
Speaker 7: only Dodger starter to complete seven innings in a game
Speaker 7: this season. Eight six, six, seven, two, five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number, Matthew in Indio. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 13: Matthew, how's it going on, David, Let's talk to you again.
Speaker 13: And I was in I was in the stadium today
Speaker 13: and it was rock and it really was and we
Speaker 13: really had control of the game since the first pitch
Speaker 13: in the first inning. Otani going yard, and I was
Speaker 13: in the pavilion, that left pavilion, and I told people,
Speaker 13: I told people, hey, like, heads up, heads up, it's
Speaker 13: coming our way. And sure enough he got one.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: How many rows away was it from you?
Speaker 13: I wasn't three or four. It was more towards the center.
Speaker 13: The center had.
Speaker 7: Then I saw Fans go for his second home run,
Speaker 7: the two hundred and fiftieth home run of his career.
Speaker 7: Uh Fan had it right in his hands and another
Speaker 7: one got in front of him, distracted him and it
Speaker 7: bounced away. So not sure where it went. Thanks for
Speaker 7: the phone call, Matthew, appreciate it. Speaking of show Hey,
Speaker 7: o Tani, we haven't heard from show Hey in quite
Speaker 7: some time.
Speaker 6: He spoke after the game tonight on sports Net l A.
Speaker 10: How do you felt physically as you've kept ramping up
Speaker 10: as a picture and how much has your daily routine
Speaker 10: changed the last couple of weeks as your pitching workload
Speaker 10: has increased.
Speaker 14: Omni Kish, I'm just gonna cut of a caticlar stunt
Speaker 14: and get today. The i VP is really an important
Speaker 14: part of the progression. The intensity is different, so how
Speaker 14: that feels to my body is going to be different
Speaker 14: as well. But it's something that I do have to
Speaker 14: go through to make sure that you know my body
Speaker 14: feels right.
Speaker 13: Is that pabi be polish that's used to do physical vocals.
Speaker 4: Pat it's a time. How long you need tobok for
Speaker 4: you again?
Speaker 6: You to some.
Speaker 14: Hm.
Speaker 4: That's the.
Speaker 9: I'm just gonna tell you, and I do feel like
Speaker 9: just being the two way player that I used to
Speaker 9: be was the norm. So last year really was the
Speaker 9: abnormal year, and it's for me, it's about really getting
Speaker 9: back to what I used to do.
Speaker 7: All right, the show Hao Tani with Will Ireton on
Speaker 7: Sports Net LA. And I think we all take it
Speaker 7: for granted that even though Otani is not pitching in games,
Speaker 7: he is ramping up to pitch in the second half
Speaker 7: of the season. You think back to San Diego where
Speaker 7: he threw three innings in a simulated situation forty four
Speaker 7: pitches and then is leading off for the Dodgers that
Speaker 7: same night. I'm not sure we have a good enough
Speaker 7: appreciation for what he's doing before games and the pitching
Speaker 7: department to get ready for the second half and then
Speaker 7: coming out and being that DH. So that's something to
Speaker 7: consider as well. And that's been the argument from guys
Speaker 7: like Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez that him coming back
Speaker 7: to be a two way player pitching again is going
Speaker 7: to take a little something out from his offense. So
Speaker 7: we'll see whether or not that continues, but certainly tonight
Speaker 7: the June gloom was over for show. Hao Tani his
Speaker 7: first RBI in the last ten games, and he all
Speaker 7: so homer twice tonight, including his two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 7: home run. Let's take another phone call, Calvin in a
Speaker 7: Los Felis. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 12: Calvin, Hey, David, thanks for taking my call. Great win tonight.
Speaker 12: It was great to see Kersh throw enough gem and
Speaker 12: good to see the bats working. I do want to
Speaker 12: talk about the decision to bring in Kik in the
Speaker 12: ninth though. I love Keik. I love watching him pitch,
Speaker 12: and I love that we can count on him to
Speaker 12: come in and save the pen and we're down by
Speaker 12: fifteen or up by twenty. But I felt like tonight
Speaker 12: was not one of those situations. You know, we were
Speaker 12: so close from you know, finishing a eleven to nothing,
Speaker 12: shutout of our true division rivals, and you know, closing
Speaker 12: off a putting a little cherry on top of that
Speaker 12: beautiful start from Kersh, and instead it's a much less
Speaker 12: impressive box score at the end. So I'm just wondering, Look,
Speaker 12: you think we're in a little too, you know, putting
Speaker 12: Key k in as much as behalf been and I
Speaker 12: understand the condition that the Bulkin is in, but you know,
Speaker 12: I think there's something to be said for finishing out
Speaker 12: a game like this nice and strong, and you know,
Speaker 12: keeping that moment the next one.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't argue against that, Calvin, I wouldn't argue against that.
Speaker 7: Just come in, put the nail in the coffin and
Speaker 7: and really send a message to the Giants that you
Speaker 7: don't belong with us shutting them out eleven to nothing.
Speaker 7: But you know, here's the other side of it, and
Speaker 7: I'll add this too. I'm not so upset about the
Speaker 7: box score or it being eleven to five instead of
Speaker 7: eleven to nothing. I'm concerned about Keik because what if
Speaker 7: he gets hurt. And I'm not talking about his arm.
Speaker 7: You know, when you're on the mound there, it's a
Speaker 7: different throw. Maybe he strains a groin or a hamstring.
Speaker 7: You don't want to lose Keyk Hernandez in that situation
Speaker 7: when he's throwing thirty eight pitches in the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: But this is sports entertainment, and it's hard to ignore
Speaker 7: the fact that when Keyk came out for the ninth inning, uh,
Speaker 7: the fans that were still here were on their feet
Speaker 7: for key K. Everybody loves KEYK anything key K, and
Speaker 7: they love them even more after his Instagram post, and
Speaker 7: rightfully so I applaud him for that. So there is
Speaker 7: the sports entertainment side of it as well.
Speaker 12: Yeah, here, David, I hear you. But yeah, I care
Speaker 12: about k K.
Speaker 7: I don't want to lose KEYK to a pitching injury,
Speaker 7: you know. I that's not something that would be ideal,
Speaker 7: especially when you know he's out there for thirty eight
Speaker 7: pitches and like I said, not necessarily his arm, but
Speaker 7: you know, strain of groin, strain of hamstring, something like
Speaker 7: that Calvin is concerning. But you know, I could see
Speaker 7: both sides of it. And in fairness, the Giants had
Speaker 7: their backup catcher, Logan Porter throw the ninth inning for
Speaker 7: them or the bottom of the eighth inning for them.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, you know, I think
Speaker 12: the Giants are in more of a position to be
Speaker 12: doing that than the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: But somebody else, key K. You've gone to the well
Speaker 7: too many times on KEYK. Find somebody else that's willing
Speaker 7: to do it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: That's that's my thought on it. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 7: Calvin appreciate it. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk. When we come back. More of your
Speaker 7: phone calls at eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 7: five seventy and we'll hear from Freddie Freeman and I'm
Speaker 7: getting a text right now. I'm gonna look into it.
Speaker 7: Justin Verlander may have been talking trash about Keik Hernandez.
Speaker 7: We'll share that with you as well when we continue
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk. After the Dodgers, behind a great performance
Speaker 7: from Clayton Kershaw, beat the Giants eleven to five on
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Speaker 4: And evidently the answer with your thumbs up.
Speaker 7: So Tani rips one tape to right fail headed back
Speaker 7: to the wall.
Speaker 6: It is gone. That's a home run for a tone
Speaker 6: his second of the night. Oh it's a big time show.
Speaker 6: Eight to nothing.
Speaker 3: Dodgers home run number twenty five for show hel'tany as
Speaker 3: he hit an absolute frozen rope into the right center
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Speaker 7: A marker in a player's career. Two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number. Well, the text I got from this
Speaker 7: baseball person. I mean when somebody says Verlander is talking
Speaker 7: trash on X, I automatically think about Justin Verlander, not
Speaker 7: his brother, who is inconsequential in every form of the
Speaker 7: imagination that you can think of. So I'm not even
Speaker 7: gonna read it. So nobody cares what his brother says.
Speaker 7: If Justin Verlander was talking trash, then I would care.
Speaker 7: But his brother, I mean.
Speaker 6: Who cares?
Speaker 7: Who cares Dodgers beat the Giants tonight eleven to five
Speaker 7: behind a great performance from Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw's performance and
Speaker 7: the Dodgers putting up a crooked number early in the
Speaker 7: game gave Dave Roberts an opportunity to get guys like
Speaker 7: Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman out of the game early.
Speaker 7: And Freddy f even going back to San Diego, has
Speaker 7: been dealing with a quad injury, and that's part of
Speaker 7: the reason why he's not running at one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: He not only is still getting an hour and a
Speaker 7: half worth of treatment on his right ankle and his ribs,
Speaker 7: but now he's got to manage a quad injury. Freddie
Speaker 7: spoke to me for the first time since Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: revealed he's dealing and managing that quad injury.
Speaker 10: It's not living at all. It is not one hundred percent,
Speaker 10: so I will manage it. I won't run as hard
Speaker 10: on certain things, but when I have to run hard,
Speaker 10: I'm okay to run hard. It's just more of just
Speaker 10: trying to keep it manageable. It feels better when you
Speaker 10: don't get any hits or get on base. It definitely helps.
Speaker 10: It's like an active rest day. So today I feel good.
Speaker 10: It's a lot less tight today, so hopefully by managing
Speaker 10: it'll be one hundred percent in a few days.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dave said that you've made an agreement with him
Speaker 7: to manage it or you're gonna get a day off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's hard to like their day out to beat
Speaker 10: the ball out in at the infield. So that's what
Speaker 10: we're trying to manage. Like when I have to do
Speaker 10: something like that, I'll be able to do it. So yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean if I hit him grumble to like first base,
Speaker 10: you probably won't see me run hard the next couple
Speaker 10: of days. Just try it so I don't hurt myself.
Speaker 10: So it's in a spot where I can play through it.
Speaker 10: It doesn't affect you anything right now, but just trying
Speaker 10: to manage it and get through all right.
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman managing another injury.
Speaker 7: He's out there every day and he's forty third on
Speaker 7: the all times doubles list. He's keeping track of Kershaw
Speaker 7: strikeout countdown to three thousand. I'm keeping track of the
Speaker 7: doubles and Freddie Freeman is only six doubles away from
Speaker 7: passing the Iron Horse. Lou Garrig on that list, and
Speaker 7: he's only about twenty doubles away from passing Hall of
Speaker 7: Famer and former Brave Chipper Jones on that list. I'm
Speaker 7: sure that will be very sweet for Freddy, as sweetest
Speaker 7: Kershaw found out when he passes that granky on the
Speaker 7: strikeout list as well.
Speaker 6: Let's head out, that's our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 5: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 7: All right, Jose Moda. A great night for Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 7: That is proving to everyone that he is far from over.
Speaker 7: Did you feel like he was being too hard on
Speaker 7: himself when he said his slider wasn't that good tonight?
Speaker 2: I hope that he continues to be like that, because
Speaker 2: that's what makes him great day. It is what makes
Speaker 2: Kershaw just top of the class and a different guy
Speaker 2: than everybody else, the expectations of the bands and the
Speaker 2: fact that he always thinks it can do better. But again,
Speaker 2: as fans and as observers and broadcasters like, my god,
Speaker 2: you're demanding a lot. You just did a great job.
Speaker 2: He went seven innings. I've been you know, getting up
Speaker 2: seven times is not as easy as it might sound.
Speaker 2: And a lot of managers use that in engaging pictures
Speaker 2: even out of spring training. So how many times they
Speaker 2: get up. It could be the year sixty five pitches
Speaker 2: through five and there's like coming terms that he get up.
Speaker 2: All those things matter a whole lot, especially for a
Speaker 2: guy that's not so many miles at thirty seven years old.
Speaker 2: But Dave, I really hope that he continues to be
Speaker 2: that had hard himself because if he didn't have one
Speaker 2: thing today, he had the other. He did not have
Speaker 2: to just slider that he wanted, but he had the curveball.
Speaker 2: That's the curse.
Speaker 7: I mean in this day and age where everybody is
Speaker 7: so fixated on throwing ninety five plus his cruse shot
Speaker 7: proving you don't have to do that, or is this
Speaker 7: just so unique from a future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: It's unique because he's made it unique. He's worked at it.
Speaker 2: I mean, yesterday three o'clock, he's out in the bulletin
Speaker 2: by himself, and you know his pictures. His hitter sake
Speaker 2: dry swings, he's making dry pitches. He's got a basell
Speaker 2: in his hand, he's with his glove motioning. There's no catcher,
Speaker 2: by the way, just he on the round in the bullpen,
Speaker 2: no catcher, and he's motioning with his glove hand what
Speaker 2: he's gonna throw, and he's making a pitch, a dry pitch,
Speaker 2: and you're like, man, you know that takes a lot
Speaker 2: to just go out there and visualize, see with the
Speaker 2: balls of the land, see it happening before it happens.
Speaker 2: And that is why the separation exists with him. But
Speaker 2: my goodness, he can pigeon eighty nine and locate well
Speaker 2: and get you know, the bottom part of the zone.
Speaker 2: The way he did it mixed enough to offset some
Speaker 2: hitters and then have an extra bite on that curvebl
Speaker 2: today with a spin rate which is amazing. At times
Speaker 2: he was able to actually throw a little bit harder
Speaker 2: and I think we're just looping so much like a rainbow.
Speaker 2: And then other times he was able to steal the
Speaker 2: strike here and there. But nonetheless it was like the
Speaker 2: old curse, the swing and miss, as you mentioned about
Speaker 2: a j Ellis with a curveball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, two strike pitch, getting that strike three call. That
Speaker 7: was the recipe for success when he was in his prime,
Speaker 7: and certainly bringing it back. What's this deal with this
Speaker 7: split fingered fastball? He threw it once tonight is that
Speaker 7: what is that pitch?
Speaker 2: I think the show pitch like, okay, you know what,
Speaker 2: let me have said, let me see how guys reacts,
Speaker 2: and you know, cursh really good. It might be a
Speaker 2: game where he might surprise all of us and start
Speaker 2: using that pitch a little bit more, depending on how
Speaker 2: becus we're reacting. But I think just to have a
Speaker 2: feel for something else at this stage of his career
Speaker 2: is important. Obviously it doesn't have you know, he does
Speaker 2: not have a through change up, but my goodness, just
Speaker 2: to get a feel for that and know that he
Speaker 2: can execute it because it's arm angle doesn't change, it's
Speaker 2: armstree doesn't change. And who else but Curse would come
Speaker 2: out with another pitch when he needs to, especially this
Speaker 2: later his career. Why not?
Speaker 6: Why not? I agree?
Speaker 7: And it seems like whenever he's around a certain type
Speaker 7: of picture that he wants to try things out, Like
Speaker 7: when rich Hill was on the team, he dropped down
Speaker 7: because rich Hill tried dropping down a few times. And
Speaker 7: now he's around a lot of pictures like Yamamoto's Sazaki
Speaker 7: Otani that throw that splitter.
Speaker 6: Maybe they're showing him something.
Speaker 12: Why not?
Speaker 2: I mean conversations ea see curse. Who's who's more engaged
Speaker 2: with with hitters and with pictures than Kirsch when he's
Speaker 2: not pitching. And that's what the conversations come through with,
Speaker 2: just asking questions, trying to get better execution.
Speaker 11: When would you throw it when.
Speaker 2: You not throw out? How do you practice it? All
Speaker 2: those things come along then when you're playing catch out
Speaker 2: in the outfield before game, we started just toring with
Speaker 2: it and throwing to another reliever, another starter, and just
Speaker 2: see how you know if they're reacting to catching it,
Speaker 2: and you go from there. Obviously it is not going
Speaker 2: to be a premier pitch for him right now, but again,
Speaker 2: you just never know. We must surprise somebody the way
Speaker 2: he I don't know, he threw that one pitch where
Speaker 2: nobody knew what was happening there. It seems like he
Speaker 2: slipped or something. But she's just I mean, there's a
Speaker 2: guy that respects the game, that's number one, and to
Speaker 2: go out there and pitch like the score was one nothing,
Speaker 2: make every pitch count just does not amaze me at all.
Speaker 7: All Right, hose, let's talk about the offense. Otani's June
Speaker 7: gloom was over tonight with two home runs you've talked
Speaker 7: about posture with Otani. Did you notice a difference tonight.
Speaker 2: One thing I noticed is he wasn't taking pitches very
Speaker 2: well in the first step bat and then he actually
Speaker 2: got himself shackled as will say, you know, like put
Speaker 2: some ankle weights on your feet, and then he was
Speaker 2: able to connect. And he's been working very hard, Dave
Speaker 2: on that separation needs to happen between your your hands
Speaker 2: going back and that cock in action he has with
Speaker 2: his front leg and his ankle to do it a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier because he's been caught in between and catching.
Speaker 2: He's been catching up on mistake pitches, but he's not
Speaker 2: been able to lay out very good pitches. And today
Speaker 2: was a marked difference in which he was forcing himself
Speaker 2: to start a little bit earlier, so the track the
Speaker 2: baseball b boll ground and then be obviously in a
Speaker 2: very position to swing the bat. And you can see
Speaker 2: that the second home hormis pitch out of his own.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't start early and get himself in a
Speaker 2: good position, that's just another fly ball to left field.
Speaker 2: But he was able to rope around that pitch and
Speaker 2: hit hard. So hopefully he'll continue on this stretch, and
Speaker 2: we know he could be a little streaky sometimes and
Speaker 2: this is one of those times in which they could
Speaker 2: use that bad again from the top of the order,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 7: What did you think about Bob Melvin's decision to Walko
Speaker 7: Tani ahead of Mookie Betts and MOOKI again made the
Speaker 7: opposing team pay for that decision.
Speaker 2: Because managers that I've talked to, and you know this
Speaker 2: very well too, it's always like, who if Tony hurts me,
Speaker 2: how do I answer that question? Knowing that I could
Speaker 2: picture to Muki, the right hander with the right hand
Speaker 2: on the mountain. Very simple, even though Muki is not
Speaker 2: just another right hand at batter I mean MVPs and
Speaker 2: World Series rings and batting titles he's had. But that's
Speaker 2: a simple answer, Dave. It's like who can beat me?
Speaker 2: Right now? Otta want to be Oltani again? Lefty righty matchup.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take my chances with the guy that has
Speaker 2: been really good coming into this game and group, and
Speaker 2: it just didn't play off, all.
Speaker 7: Right, Jose, look forward to tomorrow and the Dodgers winning
Speaker 7: this series against the Giants. They need a series win
Speaker 7: to kick off this ten game homestand and certainly send
Speaker 7: the giants out of La not having a piece of first.
Speaker 2: Place, because tomorrow is May day.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, and Father's Day by the way, Yes, sir,
Speaker 7: all right, Hose, we'll see you tomorrow. There you goes
Speaker 7: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, and
Speaker 7: I will deliver those tacos that I promised to Pepe
Speaker 7: and Ningez. I thought the Dodgers were going to sweep
Speaker 7: this series, but two out of three we'll do just fine.
Speaker 7: That'll make me deliver those tacos with a smile. We'll
Speaker 7: let you hear from Emischeian tomorrow. He is on the
Speaker 7: horizon to make a start here, it seems that way
Speaker 7: because the Dodgers need a starter for that four game
Speaker 7: series against the Padres. Dave Roberts wouldn't say before the
Speaker 7: game today when Sheen is going to make the start,
Speaker 7: but he did concede that there is room for both
Speaker 7: Shean and Casparius in the same rotation, So you probably
Speaker 7: are going to see Ben Kasparius and IMIg Shean pitch
Speaker 7: in that four game series against the Padres, and Kershaw's
Speaker 7: next start date lands the final game of that Padres series.
Speaker 7: As well as he gets closer to three thousand strikeouts
Speaker 7: and looking for wins. He's now two and zero on
Speaker 7: the season after going seven scoreless for the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 7: Also a quick shout out to Max Munsey. You know
Speaker 7: that's a guy that you all want to get on.
Speaker 7: But since the beginning of May, he has looked like
Speaker 7: Max Munsey again. And tonight he was on base four
Speaker 7: times with two hits and two walks, and scored a
Speaker 7: couple of times. And Michael Conforto drove in a run
Speaker 7: with a double in the second inning when the Dodgers
Speaker 7: scored five runs. So that was good to see from Conforto,
Speaker 7: And I just wanted to point out month Sea's night tonight.
Speaker 7: It probably would get lost amongst the kershaws, the yotani's,
Speaker 7: the tao's, all that stuff. So it's a team game,
Speaker 7: and you don't score eleven runs by just having one
Speaker 7: or two guys do something good. Tomorrow, Dustin May is
Speaker 7: on the mound on Father's Day here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7: They're giving away the bucket at here to the dads
Speaker 7: and those that are in attendance. He's going up against
Speaker 7: Kyle Harrison, Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at three
Speaker 7: o'clock because it's Sunday night Baseball. First pitch at four
Speaker 7: to ten on Father's Day.
Speaker 6: That'll do it for us tonight from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7: Thanks to calling me back at our Burbank studios, Thanks
Speaker 7: to Dwayne McDonald. You're at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to
Speaker 7: you for listening. It was a great day in Los Angeles,
Speaker 7: a peaceful day for the most part in Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: And certainly be safe out there as you get from.
Speaker 6: Point A to point B.
Speaker 7: And we can't wait to see you at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 7: tomorrow on Father's Day once again. The final score tonight
Speaker 7: from Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers defeat the Giants eleven to five.
Speaker 6: Have a great rest of your night. See up