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Speaker 2: We are live at Chase Field after the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks by a final score of ten to nine.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse with you until eleven
Speaker 2: thirty tonight here on Dodgers Radio and five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports and on the iHeartRadio app. What a game
Speaker 2: tonight here at Chase Field, A great opening act between
Speaker 2: these two teams, arguably the two best teams in the
Speaker 2: National League right now, and the Dodgers hold on for
Speaker 2: a ten to nine win. They had a five run
Speaker 2: lead going into the bottom of the ninth inning, but
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks have had so many come from behind wins
Speaker 2: here at home. It looked like they were putting a
Speaker 2: scare into Anthony Banda and Dave Roberts, because they scored
Speaker 2: four runs in the ninth inning, including getting a three
Speaker 2: run home run from Johennio Suarez, his twenty first of
Speaker 2: the season. But Anthony Banda was able to hold on
Speaker 2: and get the final out of the game of a
Speaker 2: very very entertaining first game before forty six thousand and
Speaker 2: six to h six. Here at Chase Field, we have
Speaker 2: three lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy. We will get to you. We will hear
Speaker 2: from Clayton Kershaw. We will hear from Dave Roberts, we
Speaker 2: will hear from Max Munsey, we will hear from Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2: But a few different key plays moments in this game
Speaker 2: that stood out to me. Number one the first inning
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman's two run home run. After missing the entire
Speaker 2: Baltimore series, Freddy comes back to hit his first home
Speaker 2: run since August ninth. That was huge and certainly gave
Speaker 2: the Dodgers some confidence and maybe put some doubt in
Speaker 2: that Arizona dugout, although it did not last long. Arizona,
Speaker 2: who unceremoniously swept the Dodgers out of the NLDS last year,
Speaker 2: really believes they belong on the same field now as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. If you go back to twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, it was the Dodgers coming in to bully Arizona,
Speaker 2: even when Arizona beat the Dodgers maybe the six or
Speaker 2: seven final games of the twenty seventeen regular season. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers came back and swept them in the NLDS that
Speaker 2: year and made a statement so tonight coming in putting
Speaker 2: up a tense spot in their house and holding on
Speaker 2: in that fashion. With Clayton Kershaw going down in the
Speaker 2: second inning after giving up a leadoff home run to
Speaker 2: Corby and Carroll that forced the Dodgers to use seven
Speaker 2: different relief pitchers, Ryan Brasier gets the win in relief,
Speaker 2: and to me, Hujuenio Suarez came up with a big
Speaker 2: three run home run for Arizona in the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: but to me, the key at bat was in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning by Suarez. He did Brazier a huge favor
Speaker 2: because he swung at the first pitch, grounding into a
Speaker 2: double play. All in all, in that fifth inning, because
Speaker 2: of Suarez swinging at that first pitch and grounding into
Speaker 2: a double play, Ryan Brasier only threw seven innings, so
Speaker 2: it gave Dave Roberts the option to bring back Brazier
Speaker 2: for the sixth inning or have one of these seven
Speaker 2: relievers fresh four tomorrow and for the day after because
Speaker 2: this is a four game series and right now the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen is a little compromised. But Brazier should be
Speaker 2: fresh and ready to go tomorrow. Because day Roberts chose
Speaker 2: to go with Michael Kopek in the sixth inning to
Speaker 2: face the bottom of the order. He was facing Newman
Speaker 2: Herrera and then Heraldo Perdomo in that sixth inning. He
Speaker 2: was able to get out of it by striking out
Speaker 2: Jock Peterson looking for the second out after walking Perdomo,
Speaker 2: and then a line shot by lords Guriel to Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas ended the inning. And look, there is an argument
Speaker 2: to be made that maybe Anthony Bonda should have been
Speaker 2: in that sixth inning, or maybe Ryan Brazier should have
Speaker 2: came out for the sixth inning as well and save
Speaker 2: Kopek for the ninth. And I know you're playing to
Speaker 2: have your offense score more rons, and right there you
Speaker 2: have to get keep the game where it was. I
Speaker 2: know games could be lost in the sixth inning, but
Speaker 2: it's not out of the question to debate whether or
Speaker 2: not copex should have been used in the s inning
Speaker 2: or the ninth inning. But the way Dave Roberts managed
Speaker 2: It made sense from his standpoint. He was looking to
Speaker 2: keep the score where it was a close game at
Speaker 2: that point in time, and counting on his offense to
Speaker 2: score more. And he did hand the ball to Anthony
Speaker 2: Banda in the ninth inning with a five run lead. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that's low leverage because, like
Speaker 2: I mentioned a, Jose Mota and those that have come
Speaker 2: to this ballpark have witnessed five run leads, not being
Speaker 2: a five run lead anywhere else. This is a hitters
Speaker 2: ballpark just as much as Corsefield is, so a five
Speaker 2: run lead is not as large as it seems. But uh,
Speaker 2: it made sense the way Dave Roberts played it. Anthony
Speaker 2: Banda has just got to execute his pitches and not
Speaker 2: wak hitters in that ninth inning with a five run lead.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's head downstairs right now to hear from
Speaker 2: the manager Dave Roberts after a big ten to nine win.
Speaker 3: There was there was some awareness it's a bone spur,
Speaker 3: and and it's it's obviously not good. There's swelling, there's pain,
Speaker 3: you know, So he's doing everything he can to kind
Speaker 3: of get through things. Some starts it feels fine and
Speaker 3: it's not impeding. Today certainly it was, and he just
Speaker 3: you know, he had nothing no legs today obviously, and
Speaker 3: then you start worrying about how it could affect his arm,
Speaker 3: and so there was just no other alternative but to
Speaker 3: take him on that second inning after the Carol at bat.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so we're gonna see how he comes in tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We got somebody coming just to potential if it is
Speaker 3: an aisle situation, because you know, obviously they have to
Speaker 3: cover nine innings eight innings tonight, given where we're at
Speaker 3: over the over the last series, you know, all these
Speaker 3: guys are going to be down, and we pitched guys
Speaker 3: tonight that we were really trying to stay away from,
Speaker 3: but we had to finish the game and cover the game.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the circumstance. So yeah, we'll see
Speaker 3: how it comes in. But I'd be shocked if if
Speaker 3: we don't have to make a move, you know, or
Speaker 3: to tomorrow.
Speaker 4: With when you kind of looked at Clayton was doing, either,
Speaker 4: what was the biggest indicator, I guess for you, because
Speaker 4: it seemed like even after that home run, like you
Speaker 4: got out there pretty quickly, just knowing that something needed
Speaker 4: to change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know anything, you know, until after the
Speaker 3: first inning he came to me and said that, you know,
Speaker 3: the toe is just not.
Speaker 5: Feeling good and it's.
Speaker 3: Very painful, and he's going to give us what he
Speaker 3: has and just you know, so at that point in time,
Speaker 3: I was obviously going to keep a close eye on
Speaker 3: him and wash him in his warm ups and then
Speaker 3: you know, gets ahead of Carol and then he hangs
Speaker 3: a breaking bone and I just felt that that just
Speaker 3: he just had nothing left.
Speaker 5: With poser the ball.
Speaker 3: It's been, it's been, and I'm sure it's been a
Speaker 3: couple of years, you know, just off and on, you know,
Speaker 3: just sometimes it just shows itself and he's doing everything
Speaker 3: he can, you know, and so I don't know, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know how long it's been. I
Speaker 3: really don't, but it's been it's been a long time
Speaker 3: that you know, he's had good starts, he's had you know,
Speaker 3: mediocre starts, but it's it's been a thing, certainly for
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 2: All right. There's manager Dave Roberts describing what was going
Speaker 2: on physically with Clayton Kershaw that last pitch that he
Speaker 2: threw to Curb and Carol. It was a curveball, a
Speaker 2: hanging curveball to Carol that was sixty seven miles an hour.
Speaker 2: That's just not a Clayton Kershaw curveball. And that's how
Speaker 2: everybody knew, Okay, there's something going on. It obviously was
Speaker 2: not his elbow or his shoulder. It turned out to
Speaker 2: be his big left toe where he has a bone
Speaker 2: spur in it. So that was the reason why Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw came out of this game. And I was sitting
Speaker 2: next to Bob Nightingale from USA Today during the game tonight,
Speaker 2: and he said, it's going to take ten runs to
Speaker 2: win this game. And like I mentioned during the Clubhouse show,
Speaker 2: if you grew up in LA and he turned on
Speaker 2: Clipper Basketball, they're play by play broadcaster Ralph Lawler used
Speaker 2: to say Lawler's law, whoever gets to one hundred first wins. Well, tonight,
Speaker 2: Lawler's law, whoever gets to ten wins the game. And
Speaker 2: that's what happened as the Dodgers got three home runs,
Speaker 2: one from Freeman, a two run shot in the first inning,
Speaker 2: a three run shot from Will Smith in the seventh,
Speaker 2: and show Hey Otani, which would turned out to be
Speaker 2: the difference in this game. His forty third home run
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning, O'tani becomes the first player in
Speaker 2: baseball history to be forty three and forty three and
Speaker 2: becomes the only player to homer and steal a base
Speaker 2: six different times in a game in one season. Just
Speaker 2: an incredible year, and tonight it came in the process
Speaker 2: of winning. We will hear from Clayton Kershaw, Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: and Max Munsey a little bit later in the show,
Speaker 2: but we have a full board a call, so I
Speaker 2: want to get out to you. Let's start in Pasadena. Andy,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Chase Field.
Speaker 6: Hi, Andy, Hey, dB, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. I'm gonna need more energy from you, Andy.
Speaker 2: I mean, this was a big game, playoff game.
Speaker 7: Here, I'm here, No, I'm here. I'm actually just curious.
Speaker 8: He kind of covered it too.
Speaker 7: But I was just wondering what you thought about roberts
Speaker 7: Sony Kopek in the sixth innings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at that point in time, I was expecting, because
Speaker 2: Brazier only threw seven pitches in that fifth inning, for
Speaker 2: him to come back out. But at that point in
Speaker 2: time and you're playing the long game. You're expecting your
Speaker 2: offense to score more runs and for you to have
Speaker 2: a lower leverage situation in the ninth and if it
Speaker 2: is a tighter game, you still had Evan Phillips to use.
Speaker 2: But I can understand what he's doing and I can't
Speaker 2: be I cannot contradict myself. I've said many times before,
Speaker 2: the game is not always in the ninth inning on
Speaker 2: the line. The game can be on the line in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning, and he felt like it was.
Speaker 7: You're right, but you know, the Diamondbacks have been coming
Speaker 7: back time and time again the last I don't know
Speaker 7: how many games, but they've been coming back in the
Speaker 7: later innings. And I thought when he put Kopek in
Speaker 7: it worked out tonight.
Speaker 6: But it just it didn't.
Speaker 5: It didn't sit with me right, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was six a six ' five lead at
Speaker 2: that point in time. He doesn't want Arizona to come back.
Speaker 2: It's the bottom of the order plus the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 2: There's a there's an argument to be made what you're
Speaker 2: contending that you should save Copek for the ninth inning
Speaker 2: if you believe your offense is going to score runs
Speaker 2: to give you a win, because you know, the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: especially in this atmosphere, against that team, it's not just
Speaker 2: any other team. It's not the it's not you know,
Speaker 2: you're not facing the Orioles, You're not facing the Mariners.
Speaker 2: It's a different type of animal in this environment. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get right, Andy, all Right, cool, So I'm not
Speaker 2: arguing with you. I'm just trying to explain what I
Speaker 2: believe his thought process.
Speaker 9: Was, and I don't.
Speaker 7: I think we were all surprised to see and I'm
Speaker 7: glad to see it. Will Smith coming in with that
Speaker 7: three run home run.
Speaker 2: And he also hit the ball hard on the top
Speaker 2: of the ninth inning, Carol robbed him of extra basis
Speaker 2: going the opposite way. So that's a great sign that
Speaker 2: Will Smith is hitting the ball the way he did tonight.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. Appreciated by the way. Coming
Speaker 2: into this game since the All Star Break, Will Smith
Speaker 2: had only one home run. Tonight was only his second
Speaker 2: home run since the All Star Break, and coming into
Speaker 2: August he was only hitting one seventy two. But what
Speaker 2: a time to break out of a slump. A go
Speaker 2: ahead three run home run, A huge home run at
Speaker 2: that point in time to add to a one run lead,
Speaker 2: Will Smith's two out, three run home run in the
Speaker 2: seventh inning off of demoted closer here in Arizona, Paul Sewald,
Speaker 2: let's go out to Sergio and Azusa. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: Sergio, Hi, David, how you doing great? Talking to you?
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 6: I want to point out how they how they used
Speaker 6: out productively and they were able to be there. They
Speaker 6: did the little things and I just I mean, the
Speaker 6: home runs and doubles are exciting, but I get more
Speaker 6: excited seeing those sacrifices and those coming in, you know,
Speaker 6: being at the right spot. And I think that's the
Speaker 6: difference that's going to make this team a championship. Being
Speaker 6: able to hit it to the right move that runner
Speaker 6: over to third. I'm seeing more of that. I saw
Speaker 6: Mookie was clapping when he when he moved Phil hit
Speaker 6: over to third. And I just can't stress how when.
Speaker 7: They're losing, they're not getting that one run, that one run.
Speaker 6: That they get a leadoff double and then they just
Speaker 6: pop up and strike out. That's I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was There were a few different times tonight
Speaker 2: that happened, Sergio, and I'm glad you pointed that out
Speaker 2: because tonight had to be the start of team over me,
Speaker 2: meaning having more team at bats. We saw that when
Speaker 2: Mookie bed sitting a fly ball the center field in
Speaker 2: the second inning. We saw that also in the second
Speaker 2: inning where Freddie Freeman, after Otani stole second, got to
Speaker 2: third on the sack fly by Bets hit the ball
Speaker 2: to the right side to get the run in. That's
Speaker 2: the type of baseball that is going to win in October.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was phenomenal as well that your
Speaker 2: two biggest superstars are leading by example in that way.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Freddie Freeman, he had a huge two
Speaker 2: run home run in the first inning that gave the
Speaker 2: Dodgers confidence throughout the rest of this game. And also,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, let the Diamondbacks know they were here
Speaker 2: to play and we're not going to be complacent. I
Speaker 2: also thought the biggest play of the game was in
Speaker 2: the first inning when ta Oscar Hernandez made a great
Speaker 2: diving catch on a sinking line drive by Yuenio Suarez.
Speaker 2: Josh Bell a bad bass running mistake, ran the third
Speaker 2: without tagging up, thinking that it was going to drop
Speaker 2: or Hernandez trap the ball. He did not trap it.
Speaker 2: He caught it. The umpire signaled it very clearly, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were able to double up Josh Bell to
Speaker 2: end that inning on a very unique inning ending double
Speaker 2: play f seven seven to five to two on that play,
Speaker 2: and the run did score. They scored a run on
Speaker 2: that play. And I look back at it, and the
Speaker 2: scoring runner, Lord of Scouriel, did not leave third base early.
Speaker 2: So it was smart not to challenge that as well.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks in Game one
Speaker 2: of this four game series, ten to nine. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Huntington Beach. Mark, you're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David vasse Hi. Mark.
Speaker 10: Hey, David, first time caller. Uh And I've been a
Speaker 10: Dodger fan since the days of the bleacher Bums in
Speaker 10: seventy two out in leftfield pavilion. But with Charlie Hoff
Speaker 10: and the bullpen talking to him, but nice, is it
Speaker 10: too optimistic or should we start focusing on the Dodgers
Speaker 10: magic number? Just think of the other teams, Say God,
Speaker 10: they're already thinking what's their magic numbers. They're already thinking
Speaker 10: that I all have to do is win. I don't
Speaker 10: know how many games are what six something like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why don't we, uh, why don't we talk about
Speaker 2: magic number after Monday's game? Mark, to see how this
Speaker 2: series plays out? How about that?
Speaker 10: I'm gonna make a I'll make a prediction. They're gonna
Speaker 10: sweep them all four games.
Speaker 2: Okay, eight back that that is a huge prediction. Okay, Mark,
Speaker 2: thank you for the phone call. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: with the win tonight ensure they will be in first
Speaker 2: place when they leave Arizona and return home to Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium on Tuesday night. They are five games ahead of
Speaker 2: both Arizona and San Diego in the NL West. Unfortunately, though,
Speaker 2: they win the game, but lose Clayton Kershaw. He comes
Speaker 2: out with bone spur in his big left toe. Let's
Speaker 2: head downstairs right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear
Speaker 2: from the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I just couldn't really push off, you know, And it's
Speaker 11: frustrating when you know, everything else seems to be feeling great,
Speaker 11: but you know, I just no matter what I did,
Speaker 11: couldn't find it like a comfortable way to push off
Speaker 11: on my toe.
Speaker 5: So it super frustrating.
Speaker 11: Obviously put the team in a really tough spot, you know,
Speaker 11: having the bullpen to cover eight innings. But the team
Speaker 11: did amazing, you know, they they battled and grinded, and
Speaker 11: I know the bullpens hanging after today, so you know,
Speaker 11: obviously disappointed that I was the culprit of that, but
Speaker 11: they did an unbelievable job and it was it was
Speaker 11: a big one for us.
Speaker 4: Is this something that you've dealt with before? And are
Speaker 4: I guess and even looking ahead, are you kind of
Speaker 4: concerned as to what is next for you in regard
Speaker 4: to this injury.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just have to see I've come out of
Speaker 5: it tomorrow.
Speaker 11: Not a lot of answers right now, but yeah, I
Speaker 11: just no matter what I did, I couldn't really find
Speaker 11: a way to push off to night. So you know,
Speaker 11: maybe it'll feel better tomorrow. I don't know you or
Speaker 11: during the first thing.
Speaker 5: I felt it? Did you learn the team and the.
Speaker 12: Dug out after the first looked like Joe was already warm,
Speaker 12: and when you went out there for the second.
Speaker 5: I just I just felt it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you are you gonna have at a trade or
Speaker 3: an MRI or anything on it.
Speaker 5: He'll figure all this about tomorrow. Probably.
Speaker 12: Was it affecting, like all your pitches looked like like
Speaker 12: the velo on the fastball and slider okay, but like
Speaker 12: the kurveball one was down. Was it anything in particular
Speaker 12: that made it tougher?
Speaker 5: It just didn't feel great?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. There's Clayton Kershaw after the game, obviously disappointed.
Speaker 2: He really takes it hard when he compromises the team,
Speaker 2: and that's what happened tonight when he couldn't continue in
Speaker 2: that second inning. The Dodgers had to use seven different relievers.
Speaker 2: And going into the rest of this series and the
Speaker 2: rest of this road trip, the Dodgers will not be
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium on Tuesday night. I forgot. They got
Speaker 2: two games in Anaheim against the Angels starting on Tuesday
Speaker 2: and going into Wednesday, and then on Friday, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are back at home. But nonetheless, this is not just
Speaker 2: about tonight. It's about tomorrow. It's about the rest of
Speaker 2: the series. It's about the the rest of this road
Speaker 2: trip before they get to their day off on Thursday,
Speaker 2: where they can reset this bullpen. So the Dodgers definitely
Speaker 2: are going to make some moves and bring in some
Speaker 2: fresh arms that Dave Roberts can rely upon not only tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but the rest of this road trip where they play
Speaker 2: three more here and then two in Anaheim against the Angels.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat Arizona ten to nine at
Speaker 2: Chase Field tonight. We're gonna take a time out when
Speaker 2: we continue more of your phone calls. We have phone
Speaker 2: lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Dodgers win their eighty first game of the
Speaker 2: year and increase their lead in the NLS to five
Speaker 2: games after a ten to nine win in the Desert
Speaker 2: on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 14: She won't stretch of the old twos, swung on a
Speaker 14: hammer left field. This one's teap, this one's heading back
Speaker 14: toward the wall. It's got a home run Number forty three.
Speaker 2: The first major leaguer to have forty three home runs
Speaker 2: forty three.
Speaker 14: Stolen bases the Passos Alex Rodriguez the forty two forty
Speaker 14: two Club.
Speaker 2: Joey O'tani becomes the first player in baseball history to
Speaker 2: hit forty three home runs and steal forty three bases
Speaker 2: in the same season. His quest for fifty to fifty
Speaker 2: continues as the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks ten to nine
Speaker 2: at Chase Field. David Vasse live in Arizona, Dodger Talk
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Speaker 2: the Dream by the Way. Otani, hitting his forty third
Speaker 2: home run of the season, is now just a few
Speaker 2: home runs shy of Sean Green's record for the most
Speaker 2: home runs hit in a single season in Dodger franchise history.
Speaker 2: Otani is just six home runs away from the great
Speaker 2: Sean Green. Sean hit forty nine home runs during the
Speaker 2: two thousand and one season, so Otani, on pace for
Speaker 2: fifty one home runs, looks to make history in more
Speaker 2: ways than one. Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Palm Desert. Austin, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 10: Austin, Hey, David, just a couple of points to mention.
Speaker 15: One of the biggest things I thought tonight was the bullpen.
Speaker 15: It was a concern to see our bullten being used
Speaker 15: so early, and it's been kind of a factor throughout
Speaker 15: the season and going into the postseason. We're having a
Speaker 15: game like today with the dunn Backs, and if we're
Speaker 15: using our bullpen this much, we really need that buy
Speaker 15: going in. We need to be the best NL team
Speaker 15: going into the postseason. So looking to see if the
Speaker 15: Dodgers can pull that off with their starting rotation not
Speaker 15: going past six six innings.
Speaker 2: Really and well, Austin, tonight was I mean, you're just
Speaker 2: making a blanket statement right there. Tonight was an injury
Speaker 2: issue with Kershaw. That was not because he was ineffective.
Speaker 2: It's because of an injury that they had to use
Speaker 2: seven relievers over eight innings. So I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: There has been in the second half of the season,
Speaker 2: not quality starts, not as many as we saw in
Speaker 2: the first half of the year. But tonight was a
Speaker 2: different story.
Speaker 15: I can see that. But again, it's just a matter of,
Speaker 15: like going into that postseason, we need to have that
Speaker 15: buy at this point because.
Speaker 2: Right now they have the best record in baseball, so
Speaker 2: they're on their way to having those five days off
Speaker 2: after the regular season. Thanks for the phone call, Austin.
Speaker 2: That's a first. Everybody's been saying those five days are
Speaker 2: going to work against you, and have worked against the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Braves the last two years. So look, I'm
Speaker 2: not against those five days. The Dodgers are not going
Speaker 2: to refuse those five days. I think there's a way
Speaker 2: to get the rest for the bullpen, but also baseball
Speaker 2: is an everyday sport. These guys continue to push through
Speaker 2: even if they're tired, even if they don't feel great,
Speaker 2: they continue to push through each and every day. The
Speaker 2: five days off should be, in theory good for the bullpen,
Speaker 2: but what if their bodies exil I've heard that from no,
Speaker 2: mar Garciapara. It's an everyday sport. Then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you take five days off your body ex sales
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, you don't even get five days off
Speaker 2: during the All Star break if you're a player. Uh
Speaker 2: maybe five at the most, but uh, that's very unusual
Speaker 2: at the most critical part of the season. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to all Hambra. Javier, you're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David vasse Hi. Javier, Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call,
Speaker 2: my pleasure.
Speaker 16: Yeah, baseball is better and the Dodgers are better. When
Speaker 16: the NL West looks the way it does with competitive teams,
Speaker 16: it's just so much fun watching.
Speaker 2: I agree. I feel like you have to thank the
Speaker 2: Dodgers for forcing the Padres and Diamondbacks to get competitive,
Speaker 2: and the Giants are trying to get competitive, just nobody
Speaker 2: will take their money.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't want to live in San Francisco anyways.
Speaker 6: I called it talk about the bullpen, so.
Speaker 2: I know you want to praise the bull I'm sure.
Speaker 6: Yes, and I was.
Speaker 16: It was good right, they stepped in, they did what
Speaker 16: they had to do. And it's always such so anxiety
Speaker 16: and do things seeing one of our pitches get hurt,
Speaker 16: but it happened so often this season unfortunately, right like
Speaker 16: going to back to brustar graderol FROs nine pitches pulls
Speaker 16: his hamstring.
Speaker 5: But I'm just I know it.
Speaker 16: Seems like Tyler Glasnell's touch and go. And I know
Speaker 16: Yamamoto is throwing his rehab assignments in Triple A Oklahoma,
Speaker 16: But what are the what's the forecast flips for those
Speaker 16: two guys coming back? And I and I'm sure Grata
Speaker 16: will be coming back soon as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Javier Good questions. Tyler glass Now threw off flack
Speaker 2: round today. He's supposed to speak to us tomorrow, so
Speaker 2: we'll share what glass Now has to say with you
Speaker 2: about where he's at. He told me at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: very briefly, did not really want to have a conversation.
Speaker 2: He walked away, and as he was walking away, he
Speaker 2: said his elbow was fine. So today he was out
Speaker 2: there with a lot of trainers and obviously felt good
Speaker 2: enough to throw from about ninety feet. As far as
Speaker 2: Yamamoto goes, he was here as well and is going
Speaker 2: to make a second rehab start, and then after that
Speaker 2: he'll return to the rotation and Bruce dar Graderol should
Speaker 2: be going out on a rehab assignment with Oklahoma City
Speaker 2: on Monday as well, so he should be back probably
Speaker 2: by the time the Dodgers get back to Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: a week from tonight.
Speaker 16: Yeah, well, it's all across our fingers because we need
Speaker 16: those guys back. And thanks chicking my call again.
Speaker 2: My pleasure eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Speaking of injuries, the Dodgers got Freddie Freeman back tonight
Speaker 2: after missing all three games against the Orioles. And Freddy's
Speaker 2: right middle finger still has a micro fracture that's not
Speaker 2: going anywhere, but you saw him tonight not have any
Speaker 2: tape or a splint on that right middle finger. He
Speaker 2: said the pain is manageable and the splint was just
Speaker 2: getting in the way of him gripping the bat and
Speaker 2: throwing the baseballs. So he got rid of that and
Speaker 2: just try to play through it and is going to
Speaker 2: continue to try to play through it. The three days
Speaker 2: not only helped him physically, but like I mentioned the
Speaker 2: other night, it feels like it also helped him mentally.
Speaker 2: He's still helping his son, Max Freeman get through physical
Speaker 2: therapy while taking care of his other two kids, and
Speaker 2: he's also trying to be a great support system for
Speaker 2: not only his kids, but his wife, Chelsea. And we
Speaker 2: had a chance to catch up with Freddie not only
Speaker 2: after the game tonight, but he was our pregame guest
Speaker 2: before first pitch. And here's what Freddy shared with us
Speaker 2: as far as what those three days off did for him.
Speaker 8: I think that's what I try to take the most
Speaker 8: out of these three days. I think we all knew
Speaker 8: the finger wasn't going to be not fractured in three days.
Speaker 8: It was more of you know, life has taken a
Speaker 8: lot of toll on last month, so I tried to
Speaker 8: take as much and try to set the brain off
Speaker 8: as much as I possibly could. But you know, life
Speaker 8: is still going. You know, every day is you know,
Speaker 8: just trying to take care of Max and make sure
Speaker 8: he's okay, take care of the other boys, make sure
Speaker 8: Chelsea's okay, make sure everyone's okay. So trying and put
Speaker 8: myself on the back burner in these situations. But there's
Speaker 8: a lot going on in life. You know, I get
Speaker 8: to be here in Arizona, away from the family, but
Speaker 8: I get to play baseball, So try and be as
Speaker 8: happy as we possibly can. And you know, I try
Speaker 8: to take the mental break. You know, I'm one to
Speaker 8: fight through everything and play through everything, but sometimes life
Speaker 8: kind of lets you know that you need to take
Speaker 8: a break for a second. And you know, I don't
Speaker 8: know if it was more of the finger fracture they
Speaker 8: wanted me to give off for just you know, the
Speaker 8: last month and a half has been pretty hard on
Speaker 8: the Freeman family. So I took the three days as
Speaker 8: much as I could as resting my finger, but also
Speaker 8: trying to get my mind a break too.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Freddy Freeman conceding that he not only
Speaker 2: needed a physical break to get that right middle finger
Speaker 2: calm down, but also a mental break. Jason Hayward is
Speaker 2: no longer his teammate. He's been dealing with the right
Speaker 2: micro fracture in his middle finger that's frustrated him, and
Speaker 2: then obviously still trying to be the emotional support for
Speaker 2: his family as Max Freeman continues to do well but
Speaker 2: still has a road ahead of him to get back
Speaker 2: to where he was. So Freddie's a remarkable person that
Speaker 2: knows how to compartmentalize things as all these great players
Speaker 2: do to perform at this level and perform Freddie did,
Speaker 2: driving in three of the dodgers ten runs tonight, including
Speaker 2: a two run home run in the first inning off
Speaker 2: of Zach Gallon. Let's go out to Santa Clarita Sarquise.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse live from Chase Field. Hi, Sarquise, Hey.
Speaker 17: You doing, Dave, great job as always. And my question
Speaker 17: is more of a general baseball question. It's obvious to me,
Speaker 17: maybe to everybody else, this pitch clock is contributing to
Speaker 17: pitchers injuries across the board, not just for the Dodgers,
Speaker 17: but across the board. Well, Major League Baseball take a
Speaker 17: look at this in the offseason. Will they admit their mistake?
Speaker 17: How do you see this happening?
Speaker 2: I don't believe it was the mistake, Sarkies. If you
Speaker 2: go back to you know where things were before pitchers
Speaker 2: were trying to go maximum effort and throw one hundred
Speaker 2: miles an hour every time out there. Pitchers threw a pitch,
Speaker 2: got the ball back and got back on the rubber,
Speaker 2: and we got away from that, and Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: had to step in to make the product a little
Speaker 2: bit more appealing. To those that are listening and watching
Speaker 2: and those that are here at the at the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to be here for four hours, especially on
Speaker 2: a weeknight. Now a week weekend is different. But I
Speaker 2: still feel like the game is better with the pitch clock.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I would. I would much rather do away with
Speaker 17: it and keep these pictures healthy.
Speaker 6: Why it's I don't see.
Speaker 2: I think we're Is it that obvious? I don't believe
Speaker 2: it is. I think there's a lot of other reasons
Speaker 2: why pitchers are getting hurt.
Speaker 17: I mean across the board.
Speaker 2: It's kind of I think the pitch clock is an
Speaker 2: easy culprit. I think the pitch clock is an easy target.
Speaker 2: Starkis maybe they should not have cut it down from
Speaker 2: last year, But I still believe that it's more about
Speaker 2: the way these pitchers are being trained all the way
Speaker 2: from high school all the way up to the major leagues,
Speaker 2: where uh they're pitching too much when they're younger, which
Speaker 2: is putting a lot more stress on a body that
Speaker 2: hasn't matured. And also the fact that when teams draft
Speaker 2: these pitchers, they're trying to get them to optimize their
Speaker 2: velocity when maybe their body isn't built to throw one
Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 17: Yeah, maybe there needs to be more study. Maybe if
Speaker 17: this goes on for a few more years, it'll be
Speaker 17: a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't think there needs to be more studying. I
Speaker 2: think it's pretty simple. It's just a willingness from high
Speaker 2: school coaches and parents and also the big league teams
Speaker 2: on what they're rewarding and what they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 17: Yeah, all right, man, that's all I had.
Speaker 2: You have a good night, Dave, thank you too, eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. And also our good
Speaker 2: buddy No mar Garcia Para came up with a great idea.
Speaker 2: He said, maybe they should eliminate the pitchers mound at
Speaker 2: younger levels because young people, young guys don't know how
Speaker 2: to throw off the mound.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: He told me an example of how parents come up
Speaker 2: to him and say, you know, our kid does it
Speaker 2: really well when he's not on the mountain, And he said, well,
Speaker 2: are they throwing off the mound? They're like no, Well
Speaker 2: that's the answer. When when young people get on the
Speaker 2: mound at you know, thirteen, fourteen, even twelve years old,
Speaker 2: they're hitching mechanics get thrown off. And even at that age,
Speaker 2: they're putting a lot of stress on their shoulder and elbows.
Speaker 2: Maybe they shouldn't be throwing off the mound in little league,
Speaker 2: and maybe that should be held off until later in
Speaker 2: their in their in their life, when they're teenagers. Uh.
Speaker 2: And when I say teenagers, I'm thought I'm talking about
Speaker 2: freshman sophomore year of high school. Eight six six seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Max Munsey came
Speaker 2: up big tonight. He had a couple of hit, scored
Speaker 2: a couple of runs, and I could tell you before
Speaker 2: the game he had the scowl of Max Muncy that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers needed. Keiy Hernandez Chris Taylor definitely locked in
Speaker 2: before the game as well, very noticeable. And here was
Speaker 2: Max on Sports and at LA after the game.
Speaker 18: Battle, you know, prop Sword Bullpen had to get through
Speaker 18: a lot of endings today.
Speaker 5: You know, I feel for cursh We'll pully something too bad.
Speaker 18: But uh, you know, it was just kind of a
Speaker 18: battle get in late last night. It was really hot today.
Speaker 18: I know it's inside, but it's still really hot, and
Speaker 18: so it was just kind of a battle for everybody.
Speaker 18: And you know, I feel like everyone was just giving
Speaker 18: their best and not not complaining about anything going out
Speaker 18: there and just trying to do their job.
Speaker 12: How tough is it to win one of those games
Speaker 12: where you have the early lead, Kursh goes out, you
Speaker 12: lose it, You have as many pictures come in like
Speaker 12: just kind of staying even keel as a team.
Speaker 5: How difficult is that all to manage?
Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, it's it's tough, but everyone just knows
Speaker 18: you got to go out there and then focus on
Speaker 18: what you can control. And so, you know, offense is
Speaker 18: trying to string together good innings, string together good at bats.
Speaker 18: Bullpen's trying to come in and have clean innings, and
Speaker 18: you know, for the most part, we accomplished that fir
Speaker 18: throughout the entire game.
Speaker 5: And so it was it was it was, you know,
Speaker 5: proud of the guys we're doing that. It was it
Speaker 5: was a tough one today, given just the.
Speaker 12: Way the game played out and kind of what it
Speaker 12: means in the standings, Like, does this feel.
Speaker 5: Like one of your guys's biggest wins of the year.
Speaker 18: I mean, it's hard to say that. It's it's uh,
Speaker 18: I think it's one of the biggest wins. Just considering
Speaker 18: the circumstances of of how the game unfolded, if you
Speaker 18: take out the opponent, you know, it was just like
Speaker 18: I said, it was really hard for a battle, and
Speaker 18: it was just fun to see that there is no
Speaker 18: quitting the guys, you know, top the bottom. Everyone's going
Speaker 18: out there trying to get their all.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Max Munsey on sports net LA. Not
Speaker 2: sure if that's the biggest win of the season or not,
Speaker 2: but certainly a significant win because the Dodgers gain a
Speaker 2: game on the team that's chasing them, the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers increase their lead over Arizona to five
Speaker 2: games with the ten to nine win. And look, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers guarantee themselves first place when they leave here Monday night,
Speaker 2: even if they lose the next three games, which I
Speaker 2: don't believe is going to happen, And even a split
Speaker 2: here is significant for the Dodgers and puts a lot
Speaker 2: of pressure on Arizona because time is running out if
Speaker 2: they're trying to catch the Dodgers for first place in
Speaker 2: the NL West and for all intensive purposes, the best
Speaker 2: record in the National League, because that's what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have right now after their eighty first win of the year.
Speaker 2: Eighty one and fifty four is the best record in baseball.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Hollywood. Eric, You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: Live from Chase Field.
Speaker 9: Hi, Dodger, Nay, shoot, great team win. David Kirsh went down.
Speaker 9: The bullpen picked him up. Man, Will Smith, where have
Speaker 9: you been? Bro? He came out to play, excited, sick
Speaker 9: home run man. Hope he waits up for the series.
Speaker 9: We really need him to wake up. Got killed it, man,
Speaker 9: I mean there's a couple of questionable moves. I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm not a baseball I mean, I love baseball, but
Speaker 9: I'm not a baseball savant like you are and everybody
Speaker 9: else is. And I think he did really well man.
Speaker 9: I mean some of the stuff he did, I was like,
Speaker 9: what But it worked out, you know, it worked out
Speaker 9: and Bob Bob, Bob Bob put us scareing us man.
Speaker 9: But he got that out, man, and he got us
Speaker 9: out and we won ten barn Man and David Man,
Speaker 9: I'm what a great start to this series, man, it
Speaker 9: really is. And you son playing.
Speaker 2: Tonight, Eric sounds like you're a little under the weather tonight.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, man, I'm just nursing these Uh uh,
Speaker 9: I'm not sick. I wish man, I got to put
Speaker 9: in work like you do. But uh no allergies allergies day.
Speaker 9: But uh came okay there, David, I got it, man, Man,
Speaker 9: Dodgers wearing Man, I'll put I'll go through anything. Man.
Speaker 9: But uh, David, thank you as always for taking my call.
Speaker 9: And Dodger tex chain out there. Man, we we love
Speaker 9: you very much. Man. They don't call in, you know,
Speaker 9: but I'm a representative for them. And e or and
Speaker 9: and Huan and Jimbo and George, we all buck you
Speaker 9: very much man. And uh came back real quick. What's
Speaker 9: up with Joe? Kelly? Give me give me the load
Speaker 9: down on that. What's up with Joe?
Speaker 2: Well, Joe's thirty six years old. The body isn't as
Speaker 2: young as it used to be, even though he's in
Speaker 2: pretty good shape. But the fact is a lot of
Speaker 2: all of us don't know what these guys are dealing
Speaker 2: with and continuing to try to be there for their team.
Speaker 2: I would venture to say the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 2: bring in some fresh arms. Joe threw over forty pitches.
Speaker 2: I feel like he may be one of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: that go on the il some nights. He's just not
Speaker 2: feeling great, Eric, and the Dodgers cannot continue to flip
Speaker 2: a coin to see whether or not his arm's going
Speaker 2: to respond when they make that call in the bullpen,
Speaker 2: because Joe is never going to say no. He's going
Speaker 2: to go out there when his name is called. So
Speaker 2: that's where it's at. Gotta run handle those allergies, Eric,
Speaker 2: and thank you for the love on the text chain.
Speaker 2: All Right, tomorrow Gavin Stone will be on the mound
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. He has been. Where would the Dodgers
Speaker 2: be without Gavin Stone? And here they are again looking
Speaker 2: to Gavin Stone to give them a great start after
Speaker 2: they had to use seven different relievers with Kershaw leaving
Speaker 2: this game with an injury in the second inning, a
Speaker 2: bone spur in his big left toe. Gavin Stone in
Speaker 2: twenty four starts, is eleven and five with an ERA
Speaker 2: at three point thirty three. The eleven wins is the
Speaker 2: most on the team. The twenty four starts that he's
Speaker 2: going to make tomorrow will be the most on the
Speaker 2: team as well. He's going up against Merrill Kelly, who
Speaker 2: is four and oh this year with an era at
Speaker 2: three to ninety eight. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 2: at four o'clock tomorrow with first pitch from Chase Field
Speaker 2: at five to ten with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us tonight and I could talk
Speaker 2: baseball with you all night long. We'll do more of
Speaker 2: it tomorrow after Game two of this four game series
Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks. Thanks to Colin Yee
Speaker 2: for a great job back at our Burbanks Studios. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayn McDonald out here at Chase Field, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show or our candid conversation with Freddie Freeman. He
Speaker 2: can find it all on the iHeartRadio app. Before we
Speaker 2: say goodnight, though, I want to send out a heavenly
Speaker 2: birthday wish to one of my mentors, the great Joe McDonald.
Speaker 2: Big Joe's birthday was today and nobody loved his birthday
Speaker 2: more than Big Joe, and I want to send out
Speaker 2: my thoughts and prayers and my love to the Reichland family.
Speaker 2: Rob Reichland, former Clippers media relations director, passed away suddenly
Speaker 2: at his home today. He was a great guy, was
Speaker 2: a shining light and a business that sometimes doesn't have
Speaker 2: a lot of those people. And I am very saddened
Speaker 2: by hearing the news of Rob Reichland passing. He will
Speaker 2: be missed, so all our love goes out to the
Speaker 2: Reichland family and Big Joe. We miss you all once again.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks ten
Speaker 2: to nine. Have a great rest of your night. See
Speaker 2: you