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 1: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 2: Let's lend it.
Speaker 3: I love writing you guys after the shows and just
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: Give me all your attention, your fire, a piss this
Speaker 1: this is world champion Dodgers, world champion thing. It put
Speaker 1: a small soft time to get up people. What they
Speaker 1: want to die in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a.
Speaker 2: Headache, y'all.
Speaker 1: Man, one of a con. This ball's gone. You ready
Speaker 1: to go?
Speaker 4: Hell time go to the South.
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Speaker 1: come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk,
Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix. After
Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks shut out the Dodgers today three to nothing.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vass with you until nine
Speaker 2: o'clock tonight right here on AM five to seventy. LA
Speaker 2: Sports phone lines are open at eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. This is only the third
Speaker 2: time this year the Dodgers have been shut out by
Speaker 2: an opponent. The last time the Dodgers were shut out
Speaker 2: was at home against Paul Skeens and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Speaker 2: And today another really good starting pitcher in Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball doing it a little bit longer than Paul Skens
Speaker 2: was Corbyn Burns, who was vintage Corbyn Burns today, seven
Speaker 2: scoreless innings for the Diamondbacks right hander and certainly his
Speaker 2: best start of the season for Arizona. Remember, Burns signed
Speaker 2: a lucrative contract during the offseason with the Diamondbacks, and
Speaker 2: certainly the Diamondbacks have tried to put together a team
Speaker 2: that would match up really well against the Dodgers. You
Speaker 2: heard Jose Mota mention what was the biggest key for
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns keeping the ball away from the Dodger hitters.
Speaker 2: And he was doing that today with his cut fastball
Speaker 2: and his change up, and that certainly was the recipe
Speaker 2: for success as Arizona shuts out the Dodgers today three
Speaker 2: to nothing. Dustin May was really good too, except for
Speaker 2: the fact that he blinked a couple of times when
Speaker 2: Corbyn Burns did not blink at all in the staredown.
Speaker 2: Dustin May gave up a triple to Corbyn Carrol. I
Speaker 2: felt like Hay Song Kim misplayed that into a triple,
Speaker 2: and Carol was standing at third base with less than
Speaker 2: two outs and scored on a ground ball to the
Speaker 2: right side, and then I felt like, Hey Song Kim
Speaker 2: later in the game really misplayed a ball. And I
Speaker 2: was wondering when I saw the starting lineup today why
Speaker 2: Hay Song Kim was starting in center and keyk Hernandez
Speaker 2: was starting at second base. It feels like, and after
Speaker 2: watching the postseason last year, Key k a Hernandez is
Speaker 2: a really good center fielder, and you could say, and
Speaker 2: I would argue that keyk right now is probably the
Speaker 2: best defensive center fielder with Tommy Edmond on the IL
Speaker 2: and Kim's an elite defender on the infield. My only
Speaker 2: explanation would be is that the Dodgers want to see
Speaker 2: what Kim can do in center field, but this is
Speaker 2: a tough center field to give him an audition because
Speaker 2: this outfield, left field, center field is a huge outfield
Speaker 2: for him to cover, and it didn't seem like he
Speaker 2: had his feet set when pitches were being thrown, So
Speaker 2: that's something he's got to learn the pre pitch, to
Speaker 2: be better prepared with his feet on the ground, to
Speaker 2: get better jumps in center field. But nonetheless, you know
Speaker 2: that's not the reason why the Dodgers lost. It was
Speaker 2: because they didn't score any runs after scoring fourteen runs
Speaker 2: yesterday and an exhilarating fourteen to eleven come from behind
Speaker 2: win eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. My other question as far as
Speaker 2: what happened as far as strategy goes, was in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning, after a lead single by Hayesng Kim, Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes was at the plate and on the very first
Speaker 2: pitch he saw from Corbyn Burns, he sacrificed Kim to
Speaker 2: second base. I have no issues with Austin Barnes sacrificing.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what he should be doing. But I felt
Speaker 2: like he should have been able to try to give
Speaker 2: Kim at least two pitches to try to steal second
Speaker 2: base and then try to bunt him over to third
Speaker 2: base to get a run across. Why are you bunting
Speaker 2: Kim to second He can get there on his own.
Speaker 2: You need to give him a chance to steal second
Speaker 2: and he probably would he was already under Burns's skin.
Speaker 2: Burns made a violation of throwing over and stepping off
Speaker 2: well three times and going over the limit by one
Speaker 2: the last time Kim was on base in the third inning,
Speaker 2: so already Kim had him distracted. So Kim could have
Speaker 2: stole second base easily in the fifth inning, and then
Speaker 2: you could have Austin Barnes button him to third base
Speaker 2: and see what o'tani could do with him just ninety
Speaker 2: feet away rather than him being at second even though
Speaker 2: Kim no doubt could have scored from second base, but
Speaker 2: it feels like you could have held on to that
Speaker 2: sacrifice just a little bit. Again, not the reason why
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lost, but a few things that stand out
Speaker 2: to me as far as this game goes. And if
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a Dodger talk show, I can't just
Speaker 2: sit here the whole hour and give you hot takes.
Speaker 2: We got to talk about the game that was right
Speaker 2: in front of us. And look, this is a different
Speaker 2: series than what we saw in Atlanta and Miami. This
Speaker 2: is a division rival, and the reality is this team
Speaker 2: and a lot of the players are still here. Is
Speaker 2: the last team to eliminate the Dodgers from the postseason,
Speaker 2: a sweep in the twenty three NLDS, which fueled the
Speaker 2: fire for Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts to come back
Speaker 2: stronger last year and into October. So coming into the year,
Speaker 2: I thought that the Diamondbacks and Padres were the biggest
Speaker 2: threat to the Dodgers in any sort of postseason series.
Speaker 2: And you see why. You have a guy like Cormyn
Speaker 2: Burns out there doing his thing, and then you never
Speaker 2: know what happens with these other pitchers. But I will
Speaker 2: say this, after seeing the Diamondbacks in the first three
Speaker 2: games of this series, they do not have enough pitching
Speaker 2: in their bullpen to even think about beating the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in a playoffs series. Maybe they'll add by the time
Speaker 2: the season ends at the trade deadline, they're hoping to
Speaker 2: get back aj Puck and Jason Martinez, but right now
Speaker 2: their bullpen is really short. And they were very fortunate
Speaker 2: that Ryan Nelson was on his game and was able
Speaker 2: to get the top of the Dodgers order out in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning one, two, three, Otani, Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Muki Betts not hitting the ball
Speaker 2: really hard these days. I know he lost a lot
Speaker 2: of weight with the illness to start the year. But
Speaker 2: has anybody wondered if his focus on being the best
Speaker 2: shortstop that he can be has taken away from his offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been fine defensively, but hasn't taken away
Speaker 2: from his offense. I'm not going to say that right
Speaker 2: now after you know, thirty plus games, but something to
Speaker 2: keep your eye on. And you know, when I heard
Speaker 2: that Muki lost twenty pounds to start the year with
Speaker 2: that illness, and by the way, Christoph porzingis of with
Speaker 2: the Celtics, is going through something similar. He doesn't know
Speaker 2: what the diagnosis is, but he's not at full strength.
Speaker 2: So my point of being is Mookie Bets putting in
Speaker 2: all that work since November, all of a sudden now
Speaker 2: is playing from behind because of that illness that made
Speaker 2: him lose twenty pounds. So it's unfortunate for Mookie, but
Speaker 2: he's still out there every day and he's trying to
Speaker 2: help the Dodgers win. Today. He was zero for four.
Speaker 2: He grounded into a double playing the first inning. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman oh for four, snapping a fourteen game hitting streak
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. David Vasse live from Chase Field and
Speaker 2: downtown Phoenix after the Diamondbacks shut out the Dodgers three
Speaker 2: to nothing. Coming up later in the show, you will
Speaker 2: hear from Blakesnell. He joined us on the pregame show
Speaker 2: and gave us an exclusive update on where he's at
Speaker 2: in his rehab, his throwing, and when he might return. Also,
Speaker 2: former Dodger and two time world champion Daniel Hudson, who
Speaker 2: lives in the Phoenix area, showed up at the ballpark
Speaker 2: today and got his World Series rings. So you'll hear
Speaker 2: what it was like in the Dodger clubhouse when Annuel
Speaker 2: Hudson was presented with his twenty twenty four World Series ring.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs to the Dodger postgame club house to
Speaker 2: hear from Dustin May.
Speaker 3: Just pitch location, I mean, if I execute a pitch,
Speaker 3: I think I win the ab but definitely left it
Speaker 3: where I shouldn't have and he definitely took advantage of it.
Speaker 4: Did you find that you were just feeling outside of
Speaker 4: that at that quite and sink?
Speaker 3: I mean you were kind of cruising along, it felt
Speaker 3: like in this one. Yeah, kind of the same thing
Speaker 3: would the carrollly be when he hit off the wall.
Speaker 3: I mean, just I think it was right pitch, just
Speaker 3: bad location overall. I mean, did that kind of feel
Speaker 3: closer to what you want?
Speaker 1: Especially kind of land in the sweeper one side of
Speaker 1: the plate with the sinker on the other.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like I was working the
Speaker 3: sinker to both sides of the plate, and I mean
Speaker 3: I just two poorly executed sinkers and they took me
Speaker 3: into them. So that's the big leagues and that's what
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 4: What think's the Dbacks challenging as a lineup.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're all really good hitters and they like
Speaker 3: to put the ball in play. They don't punch a lot.
Speaker 3: So being able to just get week contact to this
Speaker 3: how you beat him?
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Dustin May a short session there on
Speaker 2: Sports at LA. But we appreciate them bringing us Dustin
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. Obviously, he was frustrated when he was
Speaker 2: taken out out of the game and the seventh inning
Speaker 2: after striking out Heraldo Perdomo with Tim Tahwah at second
Speaker 2: base after walking and stealing second base off of Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes and Dustin May but Corbyn Carroll was coming up
Speaker 2: against May for the fourth time, and Dave Roberts obviously
Speaker 2: thought the left handed Carroll was seeing Dustin May really
Speaker 2: well and he wanted to go to his left hander,
Speaker 2: Alex Vessia, and it turned out to be the right
Speaker 2: move because Vessia, bouncing back after giving up back to
Speaker 2: back home runs last night in the eighth inning, struck
Speaker 2: out Corbyn Carroll to end the seventh inning. But Dustin
Speaker 2: May in the heat of the moment, not really happy
Speaker 2: being taken out of the game, and Dave Roberts didn't
Speaker 2: seem very happy with the way Dustin May handed in
Speaker 2: the baseball, and he had a conversation with May in
Speaker 2: the dugout after that. So you know, obviously, in the
Speaker 2: heat of competition, you love seeing that. Here's the catch
Speaker 2: twenty two. You can't hold it against a guy that
Speaker 2: wants to stay in the game, is competitive after getting
Speaker 2: the first two outs in the seventh inning and then
Speaker 2: be upset at another pitcher that is looking at the
Speaker 2: bullpen and is very ready to hand you the baseball.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have a guy like Dustin May doing what
Speaker 2: he did and doesn't want to come out of the
Speaker 2: game eight six six seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Speaking of Dave Roberts before the game today,
Speaker 2: he was asked a few different questions about Roki Sazaki,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned this yesterday. For a guy that pitches
Speaker 2: once a week and was heralded as much as Sazaki was,
Speaker 2: and I know coming into the season and in spring training,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers made it clear to me, just their brass
Speaker 2: that they believe that Roki Sazaki was going to be
Speaker 2: a much better pitcher by the second half of the
Speaker 2: season than what we're going to see in the first
Speaker 2: few months. That's fair, But with the way the innings
Speaker 2: have gone for the Dodger bullpen, with them throwing more
Speaker 2: innings than any other bullpen in baseball, and Roki Sazaki
Speaker 2: only pitching once a week and half of his starts
Speaker 2: have been four innings or less. To me, that puts
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in a very tough position. And it's hard
Speaker 2: when a team is trying to win a World Series
Speaker 2: and has the expectations the Dodgers have to just allow
Speaker 2: a pitcher or a player to go out there and
Speaker 2: put their bullpen and put their pitching staff in a
Speaker 2: vulnerable position. Not only during his start, but also the
Speaker 2: few days after in the few days before. That's difficult, especially,
Speaker 2: like I said, when you're only pitching once a week
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are lining things up for Sazaki specifically
Speaker 2: to pitch basically every Saturday. Dave Roberts was asked about
Speaker 2: whether or not the Dodgers can afford to have Sazaki
Speaker 2: go through this learning curve at the major league level.
Speaker 5: There's nothing more impactful than going through a particular experience,
Speaker 5: and he's going through some struggles right now, and major
Speaker 5: league hitters tell you what adjustments you need to make,
Speaker 5: and so coaches can tell you things. He can think
Speaker 5: some things, but ultimately it's like you can make adjustments,
Speaker 5: and he will make adjustments given how the hitters respond.
Speaker 5: So I think you learn that by doing that here.
Speaker 4: So it's a betort for him to be up here
Speaker 4: right now than you know. It's this word of continued
Speaker 4: like thinking about a minor league stint.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think that a minor league stent is
Speaker 5: in any of our minds right now, and I do
Speaker 5: think that this learning up here is very, very valuable.
Speaker 2: All Right, There's manager Dave Roberts before the game, and look,
Speaker 2: we were not the only ones thinking about how much
Speaker 2: longer the Dodgers can afford to have Sazaki go through
Speaker 2: this growing pains learning curve at the major league level.
Speaker 2: But obviously the Dodgers were not the only team in
Speaker 2: baseball that thought Sazaki had a lot of upside and
Speaker 2: believe could be a difference maker in their starting rotation.
Speaker 2: But here's the catch. If Sazaki goes to a team
Speaker 2: that isn't a contender, similar to when Shohe Otani decided
Speaker 2: to go with the Angels, and his agent Nez Bulelo
Speaker 2: actually said this at a conference the other day. It
Speaker 2: benefited Otani being with the Angels with the expectations very
Speaker 2: low and being able to get acclimated to major League
Speaker 2: Baseball and figure things out and become the player that
Speaker 2: he has become and signed with the Dodgers last year.
Speaker 2: Roki Sazaki being with the Dodgers does not have that luxury.
Speaker 2: He's under the microscope every time he goes out there
Speaker 2: and is expected to deliver. There is no room for
Speaker 2: growing pains or learning curve. I should say there is
Speaker 2: a little bit of room for that, considering the depth
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have, But you saw it earlier this season.
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller got an opportunity, didn't pitch well, sent back
Speaker 2: to the minor leagues. Justin Robleski got an opportunity for
Speaker 2: his start, didn't pitch well, sent to the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: Landon Nak had a couple of poor starts to start
Speaker 2: the year, sent back to the minor leagues, finally came
Speaker 2: back pitch well in Miami. So my point is other
Speaker 2: pitchers do not have the opportunity or the luxury to
Speaker 2: work through things at the big league level that Roki
Speaker 2: Sazaki is being given. And you know he's only pitching,
Speaker 2: like I said, once a week. That's what makes it tough.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. When we continue live from Chase Field
Speaker 2: in downtown Phoenix, we'll hear from Blake's now he'll get
Speaker 2: an update on when he may return to the Dodger rotation. Also,
Speaker 2: you'll hear from two time World Series champion and one
Speaker 2: of the leaders of the Bullpen a year ago, Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 2: You will hear him receiving his World Series Championship ring
Speaker 2: earlier today in the Chase Field visiting Clubhouse. Dodgers shut
Speaker 2: out for only the third time this season. Corbyn Burns
Speaker 2: and the Snakes do it three to nothing on the
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Speaker 2: What no Highlight? Dodgers shut out today by the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: three to nothing. The Dodgers fall to twenty six and fourteen.
Speaker 2: They are percentage points behind the San Diego Padres in
Speaker 2: the nlast who won big tonight at Corsfield. The San
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Speaker 2: finally lost his cool. I wonder if he had a
Speaker 2: lee Ilia type of tirade after losing twenty one to
Speaker 2: nothing to the Padres. Look at all these Padres at
Speaker 2: Homer tonight at Corsfield to beat them twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 2: Fernando Tatis, Xander Bogart's, Jason Hayward, Jake Croninworth and Gavin
Speaker 2: Sheets all homeward for the Padres who be the Rockies
Speaker 2: twenty one to nothing tonight at corus Field. I just
Speaker 2: can't get over that they scored five runs in the first,
Speaker 2: eight runs in the fourth inning, four runs in the
Speaker 2: fifth inning, and then sprinkled a run in the second, third, sixth,
Speaker 2: and eighth inning of tonight's game. Yikes. Yeah, Well, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers got some wins against the Rockies, so that helps anyway.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, by the way, are looking for a split
Speaker 2: in the series tomorrow, and they would end their longest
Speaker 2: road trip of the year on a high note. They
Speaker 2: would have finished this ten game road trip six and four,
Speaker 2: and that's pretty good considering they had to fly to
Speaker 2: the East Coast, endure a three hour rain delay before
Speaker 2: the second game of the series in Atlanta, then go
Speaker 2: to Miami overnight after Sunday Night Baseball, then flycross country
Speaker 2: after a four o'clock Eastern game in the final game
Speaker 2: of the series against the Marlins, and now play a
Speaker 2: four game series against the Diamondbacks. So a split here
Speaker 2: is what I predicted, and that's pretty good for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to end that road trip six and four. Look,
Speaker 2: that's the way you got to play on the road.
Speaker 2: You can't expect the Dodgers to go seven and one,
Speaker 2: nine and one on these arduous road trips. I don't
Speaker 2: believe many people appreciate the fact that the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: not playing many day games, even on getaway Day, and
Speaker 2: are playing primetime games, and even some teams like the Marlins,
Speaker 2: are playing games to push it as far back of
Speaker 2: a start time as possible on getaway Day just so
Speaker 2: they could have the Dodgers in primetime or as close
Speaker 2: to prime time. Not to mention the national networks Fox, ESPN, Apple,
Speaker 2: they want a piece of the Dodgers as much as
Speaker 2: they can be and those are night games as well.
Speaker 2: When the Dodgers play the Mets on their next road trip,
Speaker 2: all three games at City Field are night games on
Speaker 2: nat TV. So that's life being a Dodger, and no
Speaker 2: other team has that type of schedule. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. We had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with Snell Zilla Blake Snell
Speaker 2: before today's game. He hasn't really spoken publicly about how
Speaker 2: things are going with his left shoulder rehab, and he
Speaker 2: gave us uh the exclusive I'm where things stand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna be throwing here shortly, so we'll see.
Speaker 6: We're just taking a day by day, going slow, but
Speaker 6: we should know soon. So once once I feel one
Speaker 6: hundred percent healthy, ready to go, that's the plan, and
Speaker 6: then we'll see from there.
Speaker 2: You feel like you're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 6: Yeah, every day, you know, some days I feel a
Speaker 6: little worse than the others. The the longest I've been
Speaker 6: on the iland forever, so it's been frustrating and difficult
Speaker 6: to go through. But I like being on the road trip.
Speaker 6: I like being able to, you know, support the teammates
Speaker 6: and and more so just be selfless. I've worrying about
Speaker 6: myself and start learning more about the team. It's just
Speaker 6: really helped me mentally, just you know, focus on day
Speaker 6: by day and when it's my time it will be
Speaker 6: my time, but right now it's not, and I got
Speaker 6: to accept that and focus on rheab get as strong
Speaker 6: and healthy as I can get. Then when it's my time,
Speaker 6: I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Blake Snell and you could hear our
Speaker 2: full fun conversation on snell Zilla's Saturday on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 2: app And uh yeah, I don't think that's happening every Saturday,
Speaker 2: but I tried anyway. That's the first time Blake Snell
Speaker 2: has spoken publicly about where things are out with his
Speaker 2: left shoulder and when he may or may not come back.
Speaker 2: He will come back, and I feel like with him
Speaker 2: starting to throw probably tomorrow, you're gonna see him back
Speaker 2: sometime in June, and that's gonna be a huge boost
Speaker 2: to the Dodger rotation. They're gonna be getting Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: back a week from tomorrow. Kershaw is eligible to be
Speaker 2: activated nick Saturday and probably will start the game on
Speaker 2: Sunday afternoon at Dodgers Stadium against the Angels. He's pitching
Speaker 2: one more rehab game tomorrow at Oklahoma City on Mother's
Speaker 2: Day eight six six, nine, eight seven, two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Dodgers are shut out by the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks three to nothing. We are going to have an
Speaker 2: off day Dodger talk show on Monday, and our guest
Speaker 2: is going to be former Dodger and recently retired raw Strippling.
Speaker 2: That's right, Chicken Strip is going to join us at
Speaker 2: seven point thirty on Monday night on an off day
Speaker 2: show before the Dodgers open up their next homestand against
Speaker 2: the A's and Angels, and quite frankly, on that six
Speaker 2: game homestand I think the Dodgers should only lose one game,
Speaker 2: and that would be to the A's, no doubt. They
Speaker 2: should sweep the Angels. And you know the A's has
Speaker 2: some power. They got some good young players. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure about their pitching, but I could see the Dodgers
Speaker 2: taking two out of three from the A's and then
Speaker 2: sweeping the Angels and being five and one on this
Speaker 2: next homestand before they head out to the East Coast
Speaker 2: again to Cityfield to face Juan Soto and the Mets
Speaker 2: and also the Cleveland Guardians on that next road trip.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers, as you heard Jack Harris present to Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts in their last twelve games are just three and
Speaker 2: nine against teams above five hundred, so they're looking to
Speaker 2: get the win tomorrow and hopefully change that narrative. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. It was great to see one of the
Speaker 2: real leaders of the Dodgers from a year ago, and
Speaker 2: that is Daniel Hudson, who was a part of and
Speaker 2: a big part of the Dodger bullpen last year. One
Speaker 2: of the images I'll always have is Daniel Hudson in
Speaker 2: New York, since we were talking about City Field, being
Speaker 2: at City Field in that double header, pitch in that
Speaker 2: first game and getting himself in a bases loaded jam
Speaker 2: and getting himself out of a bas's loaded jam, and
Speaker 2: then as he came back to the dugout, put his
Speaker 2: fingers over his lips to silence the crowded City Field.
Speaker 2: And he said after that game that the reason why
Speaker 2: he did that was to signify to his teammates, who
Speaker 2: weren't playing that great at that time, that they are
Speaker 2: still the Dodgers and they would go on to beat
Speaker 2: the Mets in the NLCS. That's actually when the Mets
Speaker 2: turned their season around. After the Dodgers swept that doubleheader,
Speaker 2: and later in the year, Daniel Hudson and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: would go back to New York and beat the Mets
Speaker 2: in six games in the NLCS, and Daniel Hudson was
Speaker 2: warming up in the Dodger bullpen before Walker Bueller was,
Speaker 2: and eventually Buehler would come in to close Game five
Speaker 2: in the World Series because Daniel Hudson's elbow, the way
Speaker 2: he described it to teammates was that it was on
Speaker 2: fire and he was con concerned that if he did
Speaker 2: go into the game he was going to blow out
Speaker 2: his arm. So that's the reason why Walker Buehler. Another
Speaker 2: reason why Walker Bueller was so valuable in that ninth
Speaker 2: inning to come out and close it out, it's because
Speaker 2: the veteran Daniel Hudson had nothing left in the tank. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, who lives in the Phoenix area, was here
Speaker 2: at Chase Field today and was presented his World Series
Speaker 2: ring and his gold Dodgers World Series jersey.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys. Obviously he's a lot to me being
Speaker 4: able to come back here and see all you guys,
Speaker 4: So this is very much appreciated. Something about last year,
Speaker 4: you know, going into it, I was pretty sure it
Speaker 4: was gonna be my last season. Then he kind of
Speaker 4: get calling through the season and have success, you know, like,
Speaker 4: oh am I making the right decision here?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: And it was about what was a doctor in August
Speaker 4: when you put me in time out for ten dah think?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think his coach so to put all the hard
Speaker 4: work in and all you guys did the exact same.
Speaker 4: On the sacrifices you guys made to help me go
Speaker 4: out on my own and on top. Thank you guys
Speaker 4: so much.
Speaker 2: This is awesome day, all right. That was Daniel Hudson
Speaker 2: in the Dodger Clubhouse as he was presented as World
Speaker 2: Series ring He meant so much to the Dodgers last
Speaker 2: year and always has been such a great teammate. He
Speaker 2: was actually the last pitcher on the mound in the
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen season for the Washington Nationals. That's right, Daniel
Speaker 2: Hudson was closing out games for the Nationals in their
Speaker 2: run to the World Series in twenty nineteen. The nineteen
Speaker 2: Nationals beat the Dodgers, as you know, in five games
Speaker 2: in the NLDS and went on to beat the Astros
Speaker 2: in the World Series, and Daniel Hudson was the last
Speaker 2: pitcher on the mound for that World Championship, so a
Speaker 2: two time World Series champion, and he had such a
Speaker 2: big smile. He was so talkative today. Was always so
Speaker 2: intense and very stoic when he was pitching, and now
Speaker 2: he's retired he could relax, exal and have a good time.
Speaker 2: So really great to see Daniel Hudson and great to
Speaker 2: see him enjoying retirement. And he certainly meant a lot
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers, and the Dodgers are actually going to
Speaker 2: Boston this year, so the Dodgers are going to present
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller, I believe with his World Series ring when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are at Fenway Park after the All Star Break.
Speaker 2: I hope they do it where we see it and
Speaker 2: they post it online like they did with Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 2: I hope they didn't just mail it to him, and
Speaker 2: I hope that it's not just an undercover World Series
Speaker 2: ring handed to Buehler. He's kind of in the same
Speaker 2: position as Justin Turner because after Turner signed with the
Speaker 2: Red Sox, the Dodgers went to Fenway the following season,
Speaker 2: so Justin Turner had to wait for his homecoming last
Speaker 2: year when he came to Dodgers Stadium with the Mariners,
Speaker 2: not even with the Red Sox or Blue Jays, the
Speaker 2: team that he originally signed with. So hopefully Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: eventually gets back to Dodger Stadium with whoever he's pitching
Speaker 2: for in a couple of years and gets the deserved
Speaker 2: ovation that he will get from the fans in LA
Speaker 2: because he will forever be remembered in Dodger history as
Speaker 2: one of the big game pitchers they have ever had
Speaker 2: put on their uniform, not only last year to close
Speaker 2: out the World Series, but going back to the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty World Series, I think back to Bueller striking out
Speaker 2: the side and order with the bases loaded in the
Speaker 2: NLCS against the Atlanta Braves. I think back to him
Speaker 2: being a big time pitcher in twenty eighteen Game one
Speaker 2: sixty three to win the nl West. And also he
Speaker 2: was the starting pitcher in that eighteen Inny marathon of
Speaker 2: Game four of the World Series where Max Munsey hit
Speaker 2: the walk off home r on off of Nathan Valdi.
Speaker 2: So it'll be great to see Walker Bueller actually keep
Speaker 2: in touch with him quite often via the text, So
Speaker 2: can't wait to see Bueller after the All Star break
Speaker 2: in him and Daniel Hudson had a really tight bond.
Speaker 2: In fact, Daniel Hudson told me today that he kept
Speaker 2: his emotions together while he was in the bullpen watching
Speaker 2: Bueller close out the game. But once the final out
Speaker 2: was recorded, once Bueller struck out Alex Verdugo and they
Speaker 2: started to rush out of the bullpen, he said he
Speaker 2: was looking for one guy and that was Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: And once he found Walker Buehler and they embraced a
Speaker 2: lot of emotion, tears came out. That's how much those
Speaker 2: two men to each other. And Daniel Hudson was a
Speaker 2: mentor to Walker Bueller. So just wanted to share that
Speaker 2: with you as well. By the way, this next homestand
Speaker 2: is not a six game homestand it's the A's, Angels
Speaker 2: and Diamondbacks a nine game homestand so a three game
Speaker 2: series again those three teams. So the Dodgers should go
Speaker 2: into that Diamondback series five and one after beating the
Speaker 2: A's and sweeping the Angels and then probably take two
Speaker 2: out of three from the Diamondbacks. In case you haven't
Speaker 2: been keeping up with the Halos down south, After a
Speaker 2: pretty good start to the season, they have really fallen
Speaker 2: off as far as record wise. They are in last
Speaker 2: place in the AL West, fifteen and twenty two, seven
Speaker 2: games out of first place, behind the Seattle Mariners, who
Speaker 2: are in first place. The A's are just two and
Speaker 2: a half games back of Seattle, but that's a really
Speaker 2: weak division. Tomorrow, it'll be the finale of this four
Speaker 2: game series in Arizona and the finale of the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: longest road trip of the year ten games and ten days.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers looking for the split. Tony Gonsolin will be
Speaker 2: on the mount tomorrow. He's one to zero with an
Speaker 2: ERA of five zero nine going up. And Zach Gallen,
Speaker 2: who's three and four this year with an ERA of
Speaker 2: four p thirty seven. Marongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 2: at noon tomorrow with first pitch at one ten. That'll
Speaker 2: do it for us tonight from Chase Field in downtown Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here at Chase Field, thanks to
Speaker 2: calling me back at our Burbank studios, and thanks to
Speaker 2: you for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. And I
Speaker 2: want to send out happy Mother's Day wishes to all
Speaker 2: the moms out there. You are the backbone of every
Speaker 2: family we know, we appreciate you and we love you.
Speaker 2: And a special Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Bianca.
Speaker 2: We are going to celebrate after the road trip with
Speaker 2: dinner at Monte Steakhouse. Michael Levine be ready once again
Speaker 2: the final score tonight from Arizona. The Dodgers are shut
Speaker 2: out for just the third time this season. The Snakes,
Speaker 2: behind Corbyn Burns seven shutout innings, beat the Dodgers three
Speaker 2: to nothing. Have a great rest of your weekend, Happy
Speaker 2: Mother's Day.
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