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 2: Let's I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 1: So just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4: Your attention, your fire a piss.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion being put a
Speaker 5: small soft time they get up people what they want
Speaker 5: to die in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's not a headache one of them. Con this ball's gone.
Speaker 5: You ready to go?
Speaker 6: Hell time?
Speaker 3: Go to the show.
Speaker 4: Grab your phone to get in on the show called
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Speaker 7: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5: We are live at Coursfield after the Dodgers hold on
Speaker 5: to beat the Rockies tonight by a final score of
Speaker 5: nine to seven. Welcome the Dodger Talk with David Vasse.
Speaker 5: We're taking your phone calls until ten o'clock tonight at
Speaker 5: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy we
Speaker 5: will hear from Mookie Betts in a moment, also manager
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts and tonight's winning pitcher Justin Robleski, who was
Speaker 5: one of six Dodger pitchers tonight. Robleski went five innings
Speaker 5: after Jack Dryer opened. Robleski now three and two and
Speaker 5: has looked a lot better since the Dodgers recalled him
Speaker 5: from TRIPLEA, you know, and in this role of being
Speaker 5: the bulk innings pitchers, so he's attacking hitters. He's been
Speaker 5: unpredictable and he's executing, and that's the reason why he's
Speaker 5: pitching so well. Tanner Sky came in for a four
Speaker 5: out save, his sixteenth of the season, and Herman Marquez
Speaker 5: loses his ninth game of the year. Marquez now three
Speaker 5: and nine. How about Michael Confordo. I know many of
Speaker 5: you have been frustrated by the way he has played
Speaker 5: to begin his Dodgers season. He's only under a one
Speaker 5: year contract, and nobody's more frustrated than Michael Conforto. And Michael,
Speaker 5: you know, stepped up to the plate in more ways
Speaker 5: than one. Today. He joined us on the pregame show,
Speaker 5: he answered the questions and before the game I found
Speaker 5: out that he did get fitted for a new bat,
Speaker 5: a lighter bat, and that's important because he has had
Speaker 5: trouble catching up to the fastball this year. So just
Speaker 5: like all of us, no matter what level of baseball
Speaker 5: you played in, if you're having a hard time catching
Speaker 5: up to the fastball, what are you gonna do. You're
Speaker 5: gonna find a lighter bat to maybe increase your bat speed.
Speaker 5: And the Dodgers had the technology to be able to
Speaker 5: fit hitters with a bat that is, you know, personalized
Speaker 5: to them with their bat speed right now in the
Speaker 5: here and now. And I saw Cody Bellinger get fitted
Speaker 5: for a bat in his final year with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: So this is like a golfer getting fitted for a club.
Speaker 5: You go into Callaway, you go into any of these
Speaker 5: golf shops and they custom make the golf club for you,
Speaker 5: your swing and how hard you swing it. Same thing
Speaker 5: with a baseball player these days if they want to
Speaker 5: take advantage of it. So yes, you can give credit
Speaker 5: to Michael confordo getting fitted for a new bat and
Speaker 5: they just arrived today and he was using it and
Speaker 5: it worked out a three run home run in a
Speaker 5: six run fourth inning. He also turned on the ball
Speaker 5: that was fair inside the first baseline, So in his
Speaker 5: first two at bats he had a double and he
Speaker 5: had a three run home run. But me, being the
Speaker 5: talk show host narcissist, I guess I'm going with the
Speaker 5: dead fish handshake. Remember a couple of years ago, JD.
Speaker 5: Martinez was the Dodgers DH for a season. He was
Speaker 5: in a slump. We did an interview in Atlanta. We
Speaker 5: had a good time and also gave him the dead
Speaker 5: fish handshake because he didn't want to hurt my surgically
Speaker 5: repaired right wrist after going down the Milwaukee slide. And
Speaker 5: after we did that interview, after we did the dead
Speaker 5: fish handshake at the end, he went on a tear
Speaker 5: and never looked back. So I thought maybe I tried
Speaker 5: the same thing with Michael Conforto. Here's how it went
Speaker 5: before the game today, I got good news for you.
Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, JD. Martinez one year deal
Speaker 5: with the Dodgers, got off to a slow start, did
Speaker 5: this exact same pregame interview, and went on a heater
Speaker 5: and drove in one hundred runs that season. So I
Speaker 5: feel like maybe we need to recreate the JD. Martinez magic.
Speaker 5: You gotta give me a dead fish handshake because because
Speaker 5: of the broken wrist.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, absolutely, man, I'm up for absolutely everything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we got the dead fish handshake going on right now?
Speaker 5: All right, there we go, Michael Conforto, the magic has happened.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot for the time, and you're an easy
Speaker 5: guy to root for and we look forward to seeing you.
Speaker 5: Crossing Home played a few times tonight, areci, Thank you
Speaker 5: very much? Hey, he crossed home played a couple of
Speaker 5: times tonight, including on his own home run, a three
Speaker 5: run home run in the Dodgers four run sixth inning
Speaker 5: to help them beat the Rockies tonight nine to seven.
Speaker 5: If you want to see a photo that player relations
Speaker 5: guru Jandrado took a mean Conforto with the dead fish handshake.
Speaker 5: You can see it on my ig story at officially
Speaker 5: vass a so custom fitted bat and a dead fish
Speaker 5: handshake equals a big night for Michael Conforto. Let's go
Speaker 5: out to Miguel in San Diego. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 5: with David vasse Hi. Miguel.
Speaker 3: Hey, David LA's favorite son, first time, long time. So
Speaker 3: appreciate everything you do, and I love the fact that
Speaker 3: you are not afraid to call players out when you
Speaker 3: feel like they need it. Also, So Jose Mota is amazing.
Speaker 3: He just has amazing insights. I mean, it's just incredible
Speaker 3: the knowledge he has, so thanks again for having him
Speaker 3: on too. I noticed something tonight that was unusual and
Speaker 3: a very smart baseball play by Andy Pajas When he
Speaker 3: hit that ground ball to the infield the first base
Speaker 3: he ran inside the line to the left and made
Speaker 3: a really difficult play for the first baseman to make
Speaker 3: it home plate. And it was just such a smart
Speaker 3: baseball play that it's great to see that he's really maturing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was in the fourth inning and Michael will
Speaker 5: Smith was able to score on that play, And you're right,
Speaker 5: it's the subtleties of the game and that's very observant
Speaker 5: of you to pick up on that. And also, how
Speaker 5: about and Andy pa has in the outfield, Miguel, he's
Speaker 5: not trying to throw out every runner trying to take
Speaker 5: the lead base. He's making the right throw to the
Speaker 5: cutoff man to keep the double play in order. He's
Speaker 5: not just throwing wildly at home plate. So he's really
Speaker 5: coming into his own and that has a lot to
Speaker 5: do with the work that he puts in with Dino Ebel.
Speaker 5: And you know it's not just taking fly balls, but
Speaker 5: they do throw the basis once every series. So all
Speaker 5: of that, the thinking of the game in practice, being
Speaker 5: prepared makes it translating games.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure mister Jose Mota would agree that hitting
Speaker 3: the cutoff man is critical.
Speaker 5: I think we all would agree with that. Miguel, thank
Speaker 5: you for the phone call. And yes, Jose has been
Speaker 5: around the game his whole life. He had a pretty
Speaker 5: good dad in Many Mota, who's doing much better. And
Speaker 5: it was great to see many on the line. Fast
Speaker 5: homestand eight six six seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. Dodgers beat the Rockies nine to seven. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Georgia. Ray, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hi, Ray, Hey David, how are you liking Colorado? Isn't
Speaker 2: that a beautiful place at Lodo area and everything in
Speaker 2: downtown Denver.
Speaker 5: I just love the sky looking at the sky around dusk.
Speaker 5: It's one of the beautiest night skies you'll ever see,
Speaker 5: right before sunset.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: That's great ballpark. Hey, Dave, isn't it something trying to
Speaker 2: get words out of tuner Scott when you're interviewing he's
Speaker 2: still in that after the man And did he have
Speaker 2: a date after the game or something like that.
Speaker 5: Maybe No, you know, you have to respect the fact
Speaker 5: that he just closed out a four out save and
Speaker 5: it's just a minute or two after the game. He's
Speaker 5: still in that headspace of being very intense, So I respect.
Speaker 2: That that makes sense. And the last thing is do
Speaker 2: you guys on the road trips and everything, do you
Speaker 2: guys ever get together with the players or they just
Speaker 2: go to the hotel and just sit there and wait
Speaker 2: for the next day because there's so many things to
Speaker 2: do in the cities that they travel to.
Speaker 5: You know, Okay, I've been asked this a lot by
Speaker 5: family members and friends. Younger players nowadays, Ray just do
Speaker 5: uber eats or door dash and eat in their hotel
Speaker 5: room and play video games or hang out with each
Speaker 5: other in their own hotel rooms. They don't really go out,
Speaker 5: but some of the veterans try to get these guys
Speaker 5: to go out for dinner. But that's the extent of it.
Speaker 2: Usually Wow, And the guy who takes the calls what's
Speaker 2: his name? He's really nice on the show. What's his
Speaker 2: first name?
Speaker 5: Oh, our screener, our guy, our producer that's calling yee?
Speaker 1: Paul?
Speaker 2: Is your name is Paul?
Speaker 5: Calling ye? Calling ye?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 5: Ray Ray really want to pull back the curtain all
Speaker 5: the way back. He wants to know who goes out,
Speaker 5: who eats where, and who screens the call. Of course,
Speaker 5: that's Colin Yee, the one man show back at our
Speaker 5: Burbank studios, and Dwayne McDonald doing everything out here on
Speaker 5: site during the games, before the games and after the game.
Speaker 5: So without those two guys, this broadcast is going absolutely nowhere.
Speaker 5: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight nine to seven. Mookie
Speaker 5: Betts had a couple of hits tonight. He started the
Speaker 5: game ending double play as well at shortstop. Let's head
Speaker 5: downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from MOOKI on
Speaker 5: sports and at LA.
Speaker 8: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I've had had good games and I've had bad one.
Speaker 4: So we'll enjoy today and we'll we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Was that second bad when he's got the wall in
Speaker 1: the barrel?
Speaker 4: There was a good sign for where you're swinging kind
Speaker 4: of plus today, at least.
Speaker 5: For it today.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well we'll uh, we'll see. We
Speaker 4: just had a good game today and I had to
Speaker 4: put it together for for a while. But I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna enjoy today. Hasn't been kind of dismanaging the frustration,
Speaker 4: which is offensively this year, kind of the ups and
Speaker 4: downs and not having been able to put it together yet.
Speaker 5: It's been really tough.
Speaker 4: But I mean kind of is what it is? You know,
Speaker 4: never play short every day and so but I don't
Speaker 4: I don't think that's really playing a part, and you know,
Speaker 4: being sick and just kind of playing catch up. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of variables that go into it. But you know,
Speaker 4: you've got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: What do you think is like st I know it's
Speaker 1: hard to really good point one reason, but like what
Speaker 1: what do you think is that's maybe like common threat
Speaker 1: you've been able to find first time. I promise you I.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't keep doing it. I've been I've been doing it
Speaker 4: for so long. I'm trying to figure it out. Man,
Speaker 4: I'm genuinely trying to figure it out each and every day.
Speaker 4: But like I said, we had a good day to
Speaker 4: day and we'll we'll see about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: How can you build on days like today?
Speaker 4: Is there anything We've had a couple of good games
Speaker 4: and then a week worth of bad, bad games, and
Speaker 4: so I'm trying to figure it out. I'm doing my
Speaker 4: best trying to figure it out to just make sure
Speaker 4: I continue to play defense and do what I can
Speaker 4: to help the boys win.
Speaker 5: All Right, there's Mookie Bets on sports Net LA, and
Speaker 5: look what it is is he's trying to find the
Speaker 5: right spot for his hands. And that's always been the
Speaker 5: key to Mookie's success. He just hasn't been able to
Speaker 5: consistently find that feel also confidence. I know it's hard
Speaker 5: to believe, but confidence is a challenge for Mookie Bets,
Speaker 5: who's a humble guy off the field, and baseball will
Speaker 5: humble you even more. Mookie always needs to be reminded
Speaker 5: how good he is. He needs to be reminded that
Speaker 5: he's Mooky freaking Bets, and he needs to see results.
Speaker 5: So hopefully tonight's results will help him build mechanically and
Speaker 5: with the confidence. Eight sixty six having two five seventy
Speaker 5: is the phone number. Let's go out to Paul and
Speaker 5: Rancho Cucamonga. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 1: Paul, Hey, they've been been a long time since I called,
Speaker 1: and you know, I know, you might say like, who cares.
Speaker 3: We won the game.
Speaker 1: But I'm just a guy who loves the weird rules
Speaker 1: and the quirkiness, you know about the game. That's what
Speaker 1: I fell in love with, you know, kind of like
Speaker 1: that that play that happened earlier in the year with
Speaker 1: you know, the outfielder hitting, you know, touching the ball
Speaker 1: and the tag up play and the other outfielder caught it,
Speaker 1: and you know, you can't juggle the ball all the
Speaker 1: way in. That's why you can take off immediately. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been in love with the game since eighty eight
Speaker 1: and Hersheizer, and as far as I can remember, whenever
Speaker 1: there was you know, bullpens down the line or anybody
Speaker 1: down the line. I mean, they didn't even mention this
Speaker 1: on the broadcast Tennis, Scott comes in bottom of the eighth,
Speaker 1: two outs, runners down, first and second, ball hit down
Speaker 1: the line. We got the rockies, you know, employee. You
Speaker 1: know this guy sitting on the bucket or whatever trying
Speaker 1: to do with kick flip or I don't know what
Speaker 1: he's trying to do with the steel bucket he's sitting on,
Speaker 1: like boots the ball the opposite the way. How was
Speaker 1: that dead ball? Like that and experience. It's always been
Speaker 1: that play. The guy should have sayed that third, well,
Speaker 1: why are we making the game more difficult on our
Speaker 1: players here in the situation?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that was a ground rule double as well.
Speaker 5: That's what they ruled. But I'm not sure why that
Speaker 5: runner scored. I really don't, and that's something that I'll
Speaker 5: have to ask tomorrow. But I figured a ground rule double.
Speaker 5: The guy goes back to third base as well, Paul.
Speaker 5: But you know one thing, when when you see the
Speaker 5: managers exchange the lineup cards the first game of the series,
Speaker 5: they're not just exchanging the lineup cards and exchanging pleasant
Speaker 5: street pleasantries. The home played umpire and the umpiring crew
Speaker 5: goes over the ground rules of the stadium. So we'll
Speaker 5: have to ask Dave Roberts, and we'll hear from Dave
Speaker 5: coming up in our next segment. Maybe somebody asked him that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a great point to bring up. It
Speaker 5: should have just been going back to third base if
Speaker 5: it's a ground rule double.
Speaker 1: So I guess the Rockies in the exchange of the
Speaker 1: lineup card, they say, well, the rules of our field
Speaker 1: is if we boot it down the line, it's not
Speaker 1: a double. We could just keep running the bases. That
Speaker 1: that's how it works in Cuers Field.
Speaker 5: I wasn't I wasn't involved in uh in that conversation.
Speaker 5: And I do have my handy rule book in my bag.
Speaker 5: I will get it for you and UH figure it out.
Speaker 5: But every stadium has its own rules in those situations.
Speaker 5: But yeah, a ground rule double, the guy should have
Speaker 5: gone back to third base. Thanks for the phone call, Paul,
Speaker 5: appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a time
Speaker 5: out here on Dodger Talk when we come back. More
Speaker 5: of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy. We'll hear from Dave Roberts and
Speaker 5: we'll also hear from Justin Robleski. After the Dodgers beat
Speaker 5: the Rockies tonight nine to seven on A five seventy
Speaker 5: LA Sports.
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Speaker 5: This is Dodger Tom with David Bassei.
Speaker 9: Fordo had a leadoff double in the third and was
Speaker 9: stranded at second stretch by Marquez, rocky right hander throws
Speaker 9: there goes pie has this? Paul drilled deep right field,
Speaker 9: way back and gone off the facing of the upper deck.
Speaker 9: A three run home run for Michael Conforto and the
Speaker 9: Dodgers lead the game for the first time.
Speaker 5: Tonight it is five to two.
Speaker 9: Oh what a rocket off the back of Conforto his
Speaker 9: fifth home run of the season.
Speaker 5: Michael Confordo with a three run home run. He also
Speaker 5: had a double tonight as he helps the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 5: the Rockies nine to seven. David Vasse live at Corsefield.
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Speaker 5: more of your phone calls in a moment. We'll hear
Speaker 5: from Dave Roberts as well. But our last caller, Paul
Speaker 5: wanted to know why that ball was not ruled dead
Speaker 5: in the bottom of the eighth inning when it hit
Speaker 5: the ball boy slash security guard in foul territory. Well,
Speaker 5: thank you again, Rick Monday for teaching me early on
Speaker 5: doing this that it's always important to have a rule
Speaker 5: book on hand. And here's my rule book. And that's
Speaker 5: the reason why I have the answer for Paul tonight
Speaker 5: and not until tomorrow. Rule six point zero one d
Speaker 5: distinctly specify in case of unintentional interference with play by
Speaker 5: any person hairn authorized to be on the playing field,
Speaker 5: except members of the team at bad who are participating
Speaker 5: in the game, or a bas coach, any of whom
Speaker 5: interfere with a fielder attempting to field a batted or
Speaker 5: thrown ball, or an umpire, the ball is alive and
Speaker 5: in play. So even though it hit that guy in
Speaker 5: foul territory, the ball was alive and in play because
Speaker 5: he was not a member of the Dodgers. If the
Speaker 5: interference is intentional, which it wasn't, the ball shall be
Speaker 5: dead at the moment of the interference, and the umpire
Speaker 5: shall impose such penalties as in his opinion will nullify
Speaker 5: the acts of interference so that was unintentional interference and
Speaker 5: that's the reason why the ball was not dead. It
Speaker 5: was alive. So there you go. And it's always important,
Speaker 5: especially when you're broadcasting a national game, to have a
Speaker 5: rule book, know the rules. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 5: right now to the manager's office to hear from Dave Roberts.
Speaker 6: I think he's in a you know, much better spot.
Speaker 6: I like the swings, I like that back quality. Seems
Speaker 6: like he's getting to velocity better. And so I know
Speaker 6: for him just to be able to contribute offensively, it's
Speaker 6: got to feel good. And I think we're we're trending
Speaker 6: in the right direction.
Speaker 4: What orter have a swing in that kind of anaming,
Speaker 4: especially when they kind of blew the ball around a
Speaker 4: little bit, to like just capitalize and you really could
Speaker 4: put up a crooked number there.
Speaker 6: It was big. It was big. You don't just want to,
Speaker 6: you know, build innings however way you can, and for
Speaker 6: it to draw dead, you know, in that particular spot
Speaker 6: in the order, and for him to hit a big homer,
Speaker 6: get us a you know, put up that crooked number,
Speaker 6: get us a lead. Feel good. About that capitalize on
Speaker 6: some mistakes on their part was big and that's kind
Speaker 6: of you know, the thought behind having him there, having
Speaker 6: Tommy and the nine to bleed into show hey, the top,
Speaker 6: but to get production out of out of Michael. It
Speaker 6: was big tonight.
Speaker 4: How important is this next month is going to be
Speaker 4: for him as you guys just get closer to the deadline,
Speaker 4: start trying to figure.
Speaker 5: Out what the roster is going to look like at
Speaker 5: the second half of the year.
Speaker 6: Where he could you factor it's critical. I think that
Speaker 6: I've shown that, you know, my faith in him and
Speaker 6: given him opportunities, and I do, like I said, I
Speaker 6: think he's trending in the right direction. But you know,
Speaker 6: we're going to continue to look and figure out ways
Speaker 6: we can get better as a ball club as we
Speaker 6: do get close to the deadline. But I hope that's
Speaker 6: not in his kind of mindset. Just continue to get
Speaker 6: better each night. But it's important for him to continue
Speaker 6: to play well.
Speaker 5: All right, there's manager Dave Roberts talking about Michael Conforto,
Speaker 5: and look, the reality is he needed to make an adjustment.
Speaker 5: He adjusted with his bat. He got fitted for a
Speaker 5: custom for the here and now. The bat speed has
Speaker 5: been slow on fastball, so he was fitted for a
Speaker 5: lighter bat and it paid off tonight. Two hits, including
Speaker 5: a three run home run eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 5: the Rockies nine to seven tonight and hand the Rockies
Speaker 5: another loss in a very long season already for Colorado,
Speaker 5: they're eighteen and sixty one. The Rockies are on pace
Speaker 5: to finish thirty seven and one hundred and twenty five.
Speaker 5: That's right, one hundred and twenty five losses. That would
Speaker 5: be the record for the most losses in modern Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball, set by the White Sox last year one
Speaker 5: hundred and twenty one losses for the twenty twenty four
Speaker 5: White Sox. The Rockies are on pace to top that
Speaker 5: loss record of one hundred and twenty five losses. And
Speaker 5: if you remember, it wasn't that long ago that the
Speaker 5: Dodgers in Runies played a game one hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: three to see whould be the NL West champion back
Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen. Since that game won sixty three, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have won two World Series championships. They have been
Speaker 5: to three World Series, while the Rockies are on their
Speaker 5: way to lose their third one hundred. They're on their
Speaker 5: way for their third one hundred loss season. And since
Speaker 5: that game won sixty three, the Rockies, including tonight's loss,
Speaker 5: have five hundred and seventy one losses and only three
Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy seven wins. They're almost two hundred
Speaker 5: games under five hundred since Game one sixty three in
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen. That's hard to believe. That's even hard to do,
Speaker 5: but that's what the Rockies have become since Game one
Speaker 5: sixty three at Dodgers Stadium, where Walker Buehler really had
Speaker 5: his coming out party as a big game pitcher. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Alpine A Joy. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 5: with David Vassi.
Speaker 1: Hi Joy, what's ups? Hey? Man?
Speaker 10: First and foremost, I just want to give you some
Speaker 10: props on your what you do with Kershaw on Sunday.
Speaker 10: You gave some good information from OG. I know Fred
Speaker 10: didn't give you your flowers today but Rodney stepped in.
Speaker 10: But props on that I was a was a really
Speaker 10: good interview man.
Speaker 5: Thank you. You could find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 11: I wanted to give you that that segue. So what
Speaker 11: I want to talk about is actually tomorrow started with
Speaker 11: Yama there. You know, I feel since his start in
Speaker 11: Saint Louis, which I thought was a great start, he's
Speaker 11: kind of been pressing a little bit. Obviously, the run
Speaker 11: support right a little all at Kershaw early twenty tens.
Speaker 11: But I'm just wondering if if you're seeing something similar,
Speaker 11: if I'm kind of a little crazy on that. And
Speaker 11: then another props for you the wizardy with COMFORTO appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But that's my question for you.
Speaker 5: Dave, Yeah, no problem. Thank you for the of a joy.
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it. And I could tell you're a
Speaker 5: loyal listener not only to Dodger Talk, but am five
Speaker 5: to seventy LA Sports, and we really appreciated. I feel
Speaker 5: like it's been a little bit of a lack of
Speaker 5: feel for his split fingered fastball recently. I feel like
Speaker 5: the Padres in San Diego may have had something as
Speaker 5: far as a tip on him. Talking about the game
Speaker 5: against the Padres at home, maybe they felt like he
Speaker 5: was tipping. But he got in. He got through that
Speaker 5: for six and the third innings the Giants got him
Speaker 5: for five runs. He walked five. Maybe the Giants. I
Speaker 5: think that's the game I'm referring to that I believed
Speaker 5: in Jerry Harriston Junior and Nomar alluded to the fact
Speaker 5: that maybe he was tipping pitches in that game against
Speaker 5: the Giants. He pitched much better against the Padres in
Speaker 5: his last start. So the season is full of adjustments,
Speaker 5: and sometimes you fall into bad habits and you got
Speaker 5: to correct them during the five or six days that
Speaker 5: you have in between starts. And I have full confidence
Speaker 5: Yamamoto will be able to carve up this Rockies lineup,
Speaker 5: which is one of the worst in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5: But also give the Rockies some credit. They're playing hard
Speaker 5: and they're treating these games like it's the World Series.
Speaker 5: They obviously are not going anywhere this year, and I'm
Speaker 5: sure this is a spike and adrenaline focus all of
Speaker 5: that to try to beat the Dodgers in their own house,
Speaker 5: and tonight they came up a couple of runs short.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Santa Clara. Chris, you're on Dodger
Speaker 5: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Chris, Hey, thanks David. You know I grew up in
Speaker 7: LA but been in the Bay Area for many years.
Speaker 7: Definitely raise my boys well. They always make sure they're
Speaker 7: flying their LA caps no matter where they go. But
Speaker 7: my question tonight is that the Oklahoma City is going.
Speaker 1: To be there, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: They're going to be playing in Sacramento this week, and
Speaker 7: so we're going to go up there and be able
Speaker 7: to enjoy torturing the Giants Triple A team. I'm curious
Speaker 7: if you've got a couple Oklahoma City players that you
Speaker 7: think my boys may want to keep an eye on,
Speaker 7: just to see some maybe some folks who recently got
Speaker 7: promoted from Double A, or maybe we don't hear quite
Speaker 7: as much about on the Dodge broadcast.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Number one, my guy Alex Friedland, who's the starting
Speaker 5: shortstop for the Oklahoma City Dodgers. He'll be getting his
Speaker 5: major league debut next year for sure, if not maybe
Speaker 5: a September call up this season. But he's a guy
Speaker 5: that could play shortstop, he could play third base. He's
Speaker 5: a gamer, and he's a great guy. He actually has
Speaker 5: overcome a lot of adversity. He has a clubbed right
Speaker 5: foot since he was born and he uses a brace
Speaker 5: to compensate for that. And here he is at Triple
Speaker 5: a A guy that's on the verge of the major leagues,
Speaker 5: playing with a clubbed foot and playing at a high level.
Speaker 5: That would be the guy I would focus on when
Speaker 5: you see them in Sacramento.
Speaker 7: Sounds great, Hey, I sure do appreciate it, and it'll
Speaker 7: be sun up there to watch the last Now.
Speaker 5: Might even have a rehab start this weekend with the
Speaker 5: OKCE Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we may get lucky that we'd be great. Well good.
Speaker 7: Hey, always appreciate your very high quality broadcasts, and so
Speaker 7: much easier now to be able to check in with
Speaker 7: you since it's all on iHeart, So thanks much.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks a lot, Chris, appreciate it. That's right. You
Speaker 5: can stream the show live on the iHeartRadio app. That's
Speaker 5: also where you can make Dodger Talk a number one
Speaker 5: pre set and hear all the interviews like the one
Speaker 5: with Kershawn on Sunday or Michael confordo before today's game,
Speaker 5: and hear the magic of the dead fish handshake that
Speaker 5: he used tonight to hit a three run home run
Speaker 5: to help the Dodgers beat the Rockies nine to seven.
Speaker 5: Speaking of walkoffs, how about our guy Gavin Lux who
Speaker 5: is getting a real opportunity in Cincinnati after being a
Speaker 5: world champion with the Dodgers last year and being a
Speaker 5: big part of it as they're starting second basemen. And
Speaker 5: the Dodgers traded Lux this offseason to the Reds, and
Speaker 5: Gavin Lux came up big against the Yankees in the
Speaker 5: eleventh inning, with the infield in.
Speaker 9: Swinging, there's a line drive in the center floating and
Speaker 9: down for a hit. Ellie dashes home and the Reds
Speaker 9: walk it off.
Speaker 8: Amazing comeback victory for the Reds here in this ball
Speaker 8: game after they trailed three to nothing in the fourth
Speaker 8: and they mob Gavin Lux in between first and second
Speaker 8: dase And that is what is so fun about this
Speaker 8: game of baseball.
Speaker 5: That is Reds Radio. Gavin Lux coming off the bench
Speaker 5: as a pinch hitter in the eleventh inning to hit
Speaker 5: a walk off bash to score Ellie da La Cruz
Speaker 5: to give the Reds the five to four win in
Speaker 5: the eleventh inning. Gavin Lux this year with the Reds
Speaker 5: is not only playing second base, He's gotten a lot
Speaker 5: of time in left field. He's hitting two sixty six.
Speaker 5: His OPS is seven forty one with four home runs.
Speaker 5: So we're rooting for Gavin Lux. The favorite son from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: I also have an update on my guy, Blake Snell.
Speaker 5: Snell Zilla through a bullpen session today. He'll throw another
Speaker 5: one on Friday, and when the Dodgers return home, he
Speaker 5: is expected to face hitters. So he's on his way
Speaker 5: back and likely gonna make his return to the Dodger
Speaker 5: rotation after the All Star break. And I'm hoping for
Speaker 5: the first home stand after the All Star break for
Speaker 5: Blake Snell to return to the rotation. So that's great news.
Speaker 5: And Tyler Glass now coming off his first rehab start
Speaker 5: in Oklahoma City this past Sunday where he pitched two
Speaker 5: scoreless and through forty eight pitches. Likely to make another
Speaker 5: start with them in Sacramento. And Alexis Diaz keeping my
Speaker 5: eye on him because he has made two appearances with
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City. Remember just an All Star closer two years
Speaker 5: ago for the Reds. The Dodgers had him at Camel
Speaker 5: Back Ranch. They were working on getting his mechanics straightened out,
Speaker 5: and we'll see how this progresses over the course of
Speaker 5: the next couple of appearances. For Alexis Diaz, if he
Speaker 5: could show that he's back, he would be a huge
Speaker 5: boost to this already very good Dodger bullpen. That'll do
Speaker 5: it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk. Coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 5: Yamamoto will be on the mound for the Dodgers. He's
Speaker 5: six and six this season with an ERA of two
Speaker 5: seventy six. Yamamoto and Dustin May are the only two
Speaker 5: Dodger starters to make every start this season. Yamamoto's going
Speaker 5: up against Chase Dolander, who is two and seven with
Speaker 5: an ERA of six nineteen Marongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 5: begins at four point thirty tomorrow with first pitch at
Speaker 5: five forty. Thanks to Coline back at our burd Banks Studios,
Speaker 5: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Corusfield, and thanks
Speaker 5: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 5: the show, you know where to find it. The iHeartRadio
Speaker 5: app once again the final score tonight from Corsefield. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers hold on for a nine to seven win over
Speaker 5: the Rockies. Coming up next, Ben Mallor on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5: Have a great rest of your night, Be safe, see ya.
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