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Speaker 2: We are live at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: I'm after the Orioles hold on for a three to
Speaker 3: two win in Game one of this three game series.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: David Vase with you until eleven thirty tonight here on
Speaker 3: five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We got a big show for you tonight.
Speaker 3: Mike Soosha joined us on the Off Day Dodger Talk
Speaker 3: last night, and we are going to share part of
Speaker 3: that conversation with you. Since this is a series of
Speaker 3: two of the better young catchers in baseball, and Adalie
Speaker 3: Rushman and Will Smith, we'll hear from the man that
Speaker 3: caught more games than any other Dodger catcher in franchise
Speaker 3: history and is also a great teacher managing for twenty
Speaker 3: years with the Angels. So we'll hear from Mike Soosie
Speaker 3: and we'll get a catching clinic that he gave us
Speaker 3: last night on the Off Days show. Also, Jose Moto
Speaker 3: will check in at the top of the hour, but
Speaker 3: between now and then, it's your phone calls at eight
Speaker 3: sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy, and man,
Speaker 3: I have to say before we go any further, how
Speaker 3: impressive it was to have a sellout crowd of fifty
Speaker 3: two thousand, three hundred and eighty two at the end
Speaker 3: of August. That just shows the passion of this city
Speaker 3: for this team, and it was great to celebrate Salvadorian
Speaker 3: Night here at Dodger Stadium. There were a lot of
Speaker 3: featured foods around the ballpark, and certainly there was a
Speaker 3: lot of Salvadorian pride at Dodger Stadium tonight. But nonetheless,
Speaker 3: fifty two thousand and three and it was legit because
Speaker 3: a foul poll to foul pole, every seat was taken.
Speaker 3: So that was pretty awesome to see on a Monday night.
Speaker 3: You know, like I mentioned, when we travel around to
Speaker 3: these different cities, even on a weekend, they don't have
Speaker 3: a sellout and they don't have a stadium this big
Speaker 3: to sell out, So honestly, truly impressive to see a
Speaker 3: sellout crowd tonight here at Dodgers Stadium on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 3: I apologize always feels like the first game of the
Speaker 3: series is a Monday, but first game of the series
Speaker 3: this week is Tuesday, as the Dodgers are closing out
Speaker 3: and All American League homestand this is the final leg
Speaker 3: of a nine game homestand that welcomed in the Mariners
Speaker 3: for a sweep. The Rays came in got lost two
Speaker 3: out of three to the Dodgers, and the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: looking to win the final two games of this series
Speaker 3: to have a really successful home stand. And tonight the
Speaker 3: Dodgers blew a golden opportunity to gain a game on
Speaker 3: the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost to JD. Martinez and the
Speaker 3: Mets tonight in Arizona eight to three. The Padres were
Speaker 3: in Saint Louis and beat the Cardinals seven to five.
Speaker 3: So this is your up to date standings in the
Speaker 3: NL West. The Dodgers now seventy eight and fifty four,
Speaker 3: three games ahead of both the Diamondbacks and the Padres in.
Speaker 2: The NL West.
Speaker 3: And we all know that there is a huge series
Speaker 3: looming beginning on Friday in the Desert, a wrap around
Speaker 3: four game series Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday in the
Speaker 3: Desert for the Dodgers, and it goes even into Tuesday
Speaker 3: in Arizona, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and also Monday, sorry,
Speaker 3: doesn't go into Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Just stick with with me.
Speaker 3: A four game series and the final time the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and Diamondbacks will see each other during the regular season.
Speaker 3: And by the way, speaking of all that and the
Speaker 3: implications that go into it, right now, if the postseason started,
Speaker 3: it would be the Diamondbacks and Padres playing in a
Speaker 3: best out of three wildcard series and the winner would
Speaker 3: play the Dodgers. So the number one seed would play
Speaker 3: the winner of Arizona and San Diego as it stands
Speaker 3: right now, and honestly, if the Dodgers go into Arizona
Speaker 3: and even split four games, to me, that's a winning
Speaker 3: series for the Dodgers because there is a tiebreaker at stake,
Speaker 3: and also time is running out on Arizona if all
Speaker 3: they get is a split, and it's important for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers to have at least a three game lead over
Speaker 3: Arizona going into that four game series. They're not going
Speaker 3: to have Yama Mode or Glass now pitching in that series.
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty and Gavin Stone will be part of that series.
Speaker 3: And probably Kershaw because that's just the way the days
Speaker 3: line up, and those are right now the three best
Speaker 3: healthiest pitchers on their staff. So that's where things stand
Speaker 3: after tonight's loss. And look, the reason why I keep
Speaker 3: saying the Orioles held on is because they did just
Speaker 3: barely hold on. That ninth inning was the Dodgers to take,
Speaker 3: and they almost did. Those were great at bats from
Speaker 3: start to finish. Miguel Rojas with a base hit to
Speaker 3: get that rally going in the ninth inning, Kevin Kiermier
Speaker 3: came off the bench to pinch run, and then you
Speaker 3: had great at bats by Max Munsey and Gavin Lox
Speaker 3: and even Chris Taylor Monthly. He was fit to be
Speaker 3: tied in an at bat that probably could have ended
Speaker 3: differently if Jansen Visconte would have been a little bit
Speaker 3: more on the calls on the balls and strikes there.
Speaker 3: And Munsey and the rest of the Dodger dugout had
Speaker 3: an argument there during that at bat that there was
Speaker 3: a pitch down and a way and it was it
Speaker 3: was called a strike, and I thought it showed some
Speaker 3: maturity from Max Munsey to gather himself after a call
Speaker 3: that went against him, and obviously he was upset barking
Speaker 3: at the home plate umpire during that at bat. But
Speaker 3: I love that Max Munsey was able to gather himself
Speaker 3: and continue that bat at bat and continue to fight.
Speaker 2: There was the fourth pitch of that at.
Speaker 3: Bat, ninety nine down in a way that was a ball,
Speaker 3: and then the fifth pitch of the at bat was
Speaker 3: a foul ball where Munsey was protecting the outer part
Speaker 3: of that strike zone. After that poor call on the
Speaker 3: fourth pitch of the at bat, So after Monthsy flies out,
Speaker 3: Gavin Lux comes to the plate. He's down two to
Speaker 3: Sir Anthony de Minguez, and somehow walks on nine pitches
Speaker 3: to set up Chris Taylor, who had a seventh pitch
Speaker 3: at bat hit the ball hard but right out the
Speaker 3: left fielder to end the game. All in all, Sir
Speaker 3: Anthony Dominguez gets his seventh save, but through thirty two
Speaker 3: pitches in that inning, and the Dodgers come up a buck.
Speaker 2: Short to the Orioles.
Speaker 3: Tonight three to two, eight six six nine, seven, two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number. Let's head downstairs right
Speaker 3: now to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 3: who loses his first game as a Dodger.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 6: Checks out pretty good, and we'll see how it is tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Pfas freg here right now and you follow up on
Speaker 6: the progress of it. We need some more imaging and stuff,
Speaker 6: and I'll talk to enough for this.
Speaker 5: We just.
Speaker 7: Looked at a little bit, but I think we're pretty
Speaker 7: good stuff wise. How did you feel out there before
Speaker 7: and after the hit? I mean, all felt the same.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't have kept pitching if if things felt felt bad.
Speaker 7: That's just a situation there.
Speaker 4: Trunter gets a hit and walk walk Tony, but just
Speaker 4: gonna go out and make pitches. And then Tail made
Speaker 4: a really nice play to get me out of that ending.
Speaker 4: But you know, overall, just two pitches that I really
Speaker 4: like back that they put the swings onto the ship
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, otherwise, just continue to find a
Speaker 4: ways to get out and I'm trying to get deeper, but.
Speaker 8: I'd known the second one is that kind of way
Speaker 8: you're trying.
Speaker 5: To throw it.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm not trying. I'm not trying to
Speaker 4: throw it there.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think accounts one two there like I throw them,
Speaker 4: throwing them a handful of good ones and just uh
Speaker 4: need to get it more to the outer half and
Speaker 4: get it down away in there is where you can
Speaker 4: handle it. And you know he put a good swing on.
Speaker 4: It doesn't always happened. You know, hitting is hard, but
Speaker 4: you wanna you wanna fill up the zone. You want
Speaker 4: to go attack, but you want to make a better
Speaker 4: pitch there, and you know I would love to have
Speaker 4: that one back.
Speaker 5: Is there any bruising or swelling on the wrist?
Speaker 7: Is obviously wrapped up between innings after you got hit.
Speaker 4: I mean I was able to go out and finish
Speaker 4: the finish the sixth with no real issues whatsoever.
Speaker 6: And I'll see how it is.
Speaker 2: Tom, He's fine.
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts would not have sent him back out there
Speaker 3: for the sixth inning if there was any swelling or
Speaker 3: any bruising to his right pitching hand. Jack Flarerty's tough,
Speaker 3: but the Dodgers would have protected Flarity from himself in
Speaker 3: that situation. And really that fifth inning, I mean he
Speaker 3: was dodging bullets from the very beginning. Cedric Mullens sent
Speaker 3: a line drive right back at Flarerty and the ball
Speaker 3: went right into his mit. And then after the Ramon
Speaker 3: Uias to run home run. It was Colton Kowser, the
Speaker 3: leadoff hitter, that hit Flarity on that right pitching hand,
Speaker 3: but luckily it caught the outer part of the meaty
Speaker 3: area of his hands. So the Dodgers and Flarity uh
Speaker 3: dodged a bullet no pun intended right there and Ramon
Speaker 3: Urias a slider that leaked out.
Speaker 2: Over the middle part of the plate elevated. He did
Speaker 2: not miss it.
Speaker 3: And even though he's the ninth hitter, he's a big
Speaker 3: league hitter and those are pitches that he's going to
Speaker 3: hit his tenth home run of the year. And I'm
Speaker 3: sure Jack wanted that back as soon as it left
Speaker 3: his hand, because he went down to his knees when
Speaker 3: that ball was traveling towards the left field seats over
Speaker 3: there at Dodgers Stadium. So a tough way for Flarity
Speaker 3: to lose. And honestly, we've heard this many times before.
Speaker 3: You don't always lose games in the ninth inning, And
Speaker 3: to me, I felt like the key inning tonight was
Speaker 3: that fifth inning. Not only does Flarity make a mistake
Speaker 3: pitch to the ninth hitter for a go ahead, two
Speaker 3: run home run, but in the bottom half of the
Speaker 3: fifth inning, Keik Hernandez led off with a double Chris
Speaker 3: Taylor walked, So the eight to nine hitters for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers did their jobs for the big boys, and Otani
Speaker 3: popped up to the third baseman. Mookie Betts flew out
Speaker 3: to the right fielder, and Taoscar Hernandez also flew out
Speaker 3: to right field, so they had first and second nobody
Speaker 3: out for their first three hitters, and they couldn't get
Speaker 3: a run across. All in all, the Dodgers were just
Speaker 3: one for eight with runners in scoring positions. So for me,
Speaker 3: that's where the game turned right there in the top
Speaker 3: half of the fifth and also the bottom half of
Speaker 3: the fifth inning, and the Dodgers fall to the Orioles Tonight.
Speaker 3: Three to two eight six six, nine, seven, two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to John
Speaker 3: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, John, you're on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 3: How you doing great at the ballpark? Talking baseball? John
Speaker 3: doesn't get better.
Speaker 9: Beautiful, you know, I'm I'm kind of nipicking that. I
Speaker 9: because I love Jackson. No, sorry, I think he's a
Speaker 9: great I think he's a great pitcher, but I'm kind
Speaker 9: of frustrated with him. I'd like to see him loose
Speaker 9: the ball up and down a little bit. I don't
Speaker 9: think he wasted up my pitches.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll let him know your advice, John. I
Speaker 3: feel like he's done a pretty good job. He just
Speaker 3: made a mistake pitch there. But I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 3: You just can't go east and west. You got to
Speaker 3: go north and south a little bit more. I understand
Speaker 3: what you're saying.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think sometimes pitchers don't want to waist pitches
Speaker 9: are they want to cut their pitch count down. And
Speaker 9: I think it's so important to get that ball up
Speaker 9: of the strike.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes that's true.
Speaker 3: I mean that's been in vogue for the last six
Speaker 3: or seven years, trying to get that strike at the
Speaker 3: top of the zone. But now it's kind of moved
Speaker 3: to getting the ball down and getting those lower strikes.
Speaker 3: I will say this, for Flaherty, early in this game,
Speaker 3: when things were going right for him, strike won. When
Speaker 3: things were not going right for him, ball won, and
Speaker 3: getting that first pitch strike was crucial to him. That
Speaker 3: was just a mistake pitch to Urius. He had two
Speaker 3: strikes on him and he made a bad pitch. So
Speaker 3: maybe he outthought himself on that one. Throwing his third
Speaker 3: best pitch getting beat on his third best pitch, probably
Speaker 3: not the best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 9: I think you bitch good enough to night to win
Speaker 9: and we gotta we gotta hit the ball a little
Speaker 9: bit better.
Speaker 2: Yes, they do.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the phone called John, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to the miracle mile, Fred. You're on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Fred, I'm well yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
Speaker 5: So what do we have to do to get rid
Speaker 5: of Chris Taylor?
Speaker 2: What you didn't like Chris Taylor? Is that bad? In
Speaker 2: the ninth Inny Tonight? Fred?
Speaker 5: I think Chris Taylor's ops plus this year, where one
Speaker 5: hundred is normal, is fifty. He's been dreadful the last
Speaker 5: two playoffs. He's been dreadful the last two years. Almost
Speaker 5: any player they have would be an improvement.
Speaker 3: That's a little harsh for a guy that's come up
Speaker 3: with some big hits in his Dodger career. And the
Speaker 3: fact is Redd, he's under contract for big money. So
Speaker 3: you know what they say in professional sports, money plays.
Speaker 3: But I feel like you're being a little harsh, especially
Speaker 3: after at bat he had in the ninth inning tonight
Speaker 3: that was very good at bat. It just didn't work out.
Speaker 3: It happens sometimes. I'm sure Duke Snider and Gil Hodges
Speaker 3: didn't always come through in the ninth inning either.
Speaker 5: Wait, are you comparing Chris Taylor to Gil Hodges.
Speaker 3: I am not, but I'm just saying even the greatest
Speaker 3: of players don't always come through in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5: He's very far from the greatest of players. He's that
Speaker 5: tree the team.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Fred, I understand you don't like Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: Would you rather have had Jason Hayward stay on the
Speaker 3: team over Chris Taylor.
Speaker 5: No. I think you can bring up rushing. I think
Speaker 5: you can bring up outman. Again, there's a bevy of
Speaker 5: players who at least are young and need need to
Speaker 5: be blooded instead of veterans who do nothing and have
Speaker 5: done nothing for the last two years.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like veterans are more equipped to come
Speaker 3: off the bench better than young players. You want young
Speaker 3: players to get better and seasoning in the minor leagues.
Speaker 3: But I will say this, Fred, The one thing we
Speaker 3: agree on on this call, other than Chris Taylor's nack,
Speaker 3: Gil Hodges, is that Dalton Rushing could be a very
Speaker 3: interesting player for the Dodgers in September. He had two
Speaker 3: more home runs tonight in Oklahoma City, and there is
Speaker 3: a very real possibility you may see Dalton Rushing in September.
Speaker 2: Fred hung up. I was trying to say I agreed
Speaker 2: with him. Sheesh.
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting that hate on Chris Taylor after the
Speaker 3: ninth inning. Wow, Fred on the miracle mile not giving
Speaker 3: CT three a lot of love.
Speaker 2: Look, he has not had a great year, there's no
Speaker 2: way around that.
Speaker 3: But before he got hurt, he certainly was starting to
Speaker 3: trend in the right direction. His ops was eight hundred,
Speaker 3: he was hitting two fifty, and he cut the strikeouts
Speaker 3: out by half the last thirty games before he went
Speaker 3: on the il, and tonight I thought he had good
Speaker 3: at bats. Wow, Fred, I'm shocked. I don't know what
Speaker 3: one of the few times I'm speechless after a caller.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Luckily for Fred, he will not be
Speaker 3: seeing Chris Taylor get regular at bats. Gavin lux will
Speaker 3: be back in there against the right handed Corbyn Burns
Speaker 3: tomorrow night. And speaking of the Dodger lineup, Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: was out of it tonight despite having a day off yesterday,
Speaker 3: and he may not be in the starting lineup again
Speaker 3: tomorrow because the Dodgers want to get the inflammation out
Speaker 3: of Freddie's right middle finger that has a micro fracture
Speaker 3: in it. He sustained it in Saint Louis on the
Speaker 3: last road trip fielding a ground ball. It got the
Speaker 3: top part of his right middle finger the nail area,
Speaker 3: and frankly, Freddy hasn't been the same guy since he
Speaker 3: had that micro fracture in his right middle finger. Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman is just three for his last twenty three with
Speaker 3: no home runs and only two doubles. He just has
Speaker 3: not looked like Freddie Freeman, so he is human as well.
Speaker 3: And like I mentioned, the Dodgers have a huge four
Speaker 3: game series against the Diamondbacks beginning on Friday. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: need Freddy Freeman to be in that starting lineup and
Speaker 3: to have some better feel in that right hand with
Speaker 3: that microfracture in his fingers. So hopefully he's ready to
Speaker 3: go and speaking of Freddie Freeman, his best buddy Jason Hayward,
Speaker 3: who was let go by the Dodgers last week, was
Speaker 3: signed by the Houston Astros. Jason Hayward is a Houston Astro.
Speaker 3: And we also have an update on Yoshi Yamamoto. He
Speaker 3: is going to make his first rehab start since going
Speaker 3: on the IL tomorrow in Oklahoma City for two innings.
Speaker 3: Eight six, six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check in with
Speaker 3: Jose Mota. After the Dodgers fall to the Orioles three
Speaker 3: to two on a f five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 3: I'm still here, Fred from the Miracle Mild did not
Speaker 3: chase me away all as well. David Basse live at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium. After the Orioles hold on for a three
Speaker 3: to two.
Speaker 2: Win in Game one of this three game series. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Orioles got two more to go.
Speaker 3: Here at Dodgers Stadium to close out this nine game
Speaker 3: All American League homestand for the Dodgers Tomorrow night show.
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Speaker 3: We'll check in with Jose Mota in a moment. You'll
Speaker 3: hear from Mike'sosha as well. But first let's take another
Speaker 3: phone call Danny, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight part
Speaker 3: of the sellout crowd of fifty two thousand plus. Hi Danny,
Speaker 3: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey Dan, thanks for gonna be on pleasure.
Speaker 2: You gonna Are you going to just give me a warning?
Speaker 3: Are you going to attack Chris Taylor the way Fred
Speaker 3: from the Miracle Mile did, because I'll get ready.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, lay no.
Speaker 5: Is uh.
Speaker 10: You know, if the team's gonna ride with him, I'm
Speaker 10: gonna ride it him too.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: I was there for the three home run game in
Speaker 10: the playoffs. I watched that happen. That was amazing. This
Speaker 10: guy's done a ton of amazing plays for the team
Speaker 10: over the years, and he just gotta trust that he
Speaker 10: still has in him. You know, if the team's gonna
Speaker 10: believe in him, then as fans, we should believe in
Speaker 10: him too. And he did have a really good at
Speaker 10: bat to day and that's something that I like that
Speaker 10: Dave robertson a few days ago when he was asked
Speaker 10: about Chris Taylor and he said, all he wants to
Speaker 10: see good at bats, And I think that's a great
Speaker 10: approach because the guy can play all over the field.
Speaker 10: You can use him as a pitch runner, and he
Speaker 10: has an experience. It don't be surprised if he shows
Speaker 10: up in October it has a big hit or two
Speaker 10: down the line, because that's the kind of player, and
Speaker 10: he is, so you can't count on him out just yet.
Speaker 9: So no, I'm not gonna talk trust.
Speaker 10: That's not my cup day to talk trust about Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: Wow, Danny part of the Chris Taylor Marching Chowder Society.
Speaker 2: I like that, Danny, all right? What else he got?
Speaker 10: Well, you know the thing with Freddy's finger. You know,
Speaker 10: I'm on the thought if if it's not right, then
Speaker 10: let him sit and let him rest. And I hope
Speaker 10: they do let him rest for a few days at least,
Speaker 10: And if he's gonna be out of the lineup, I'm thinking,
Speaker 10: you know, I would like to see MaTx Monthsely in
Speaker 10: that three spot because I think it'll the lineup integrity
Speaker 10: holds a lot better when you say, when he's still
Speaker 10: to the left right left, because you saw to day
Speaker 10: and Dave mentioned that too, how they were able to
Speaker 10: line up to the bulking against them with the way
Speaker 10: the lineup, the structure. I think Munsey is the kind
Speaker 10: of hitters given against the left handed pitcher, you know,
Speaker 10: he he hits well against left pander's or he'll give
Speaker 10: you that good at that. I would like to see
Speaker 10: him that three spot of Freddy's gonna be outlive. I
Speaker 10: wouldn't mind.
Speaker 2: Seeing that, all right, that's fair.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow Corvin Burns is going to be on the mounds,
Speaker 3: so you're either going to see Monsi or Gavin Lux
Speaker 3: hitting third if Freddy's out, which I kind of feel
Speaker 3: like he will be. That's kind of the feeling I'm
Speaker 3: getting that Freddy. The earliest he's going to play is
Speaker 3: Thursday in the finale. The Dodgers need him right or
Speaker 3: as close to being right for that four game series
Speaker 3: in Arizona without doubt.
Speaker 10: Man, he brings so much to the lineup.
Speaker 3: Are you coming to the Desert, Danny? You're bringing the
Speaker 3: family to the to support the Dodgers.
Speaker 10: Well, I would if I could. Man, we're gonna get
Speaker 10: out there in a few weeks. I was trying to
Speaker 10: get tickets where tomorrow, but that didn't happen. So we'll
Speaker 10: see if I'll get out there as soon as.
Speaker 11: I can do.
Speaker 2: All right, Danny, thanks for the phone call, Thanks for
Speaker 2: coming out tonight. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: On a Tuesday night, a sellout crowd at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: by the way, with the Dodgers loss and Arizona losing,
Speaker 3: and the Padres winning Arizona and the Padres are three
Speaker 3: games back of the Dodgers, and as far as the
Speaker 3: best record in baseball goes, the Dodgers are now tied
Speaker 3: with the Phillies for the best record in baseball. Dodgers
Speaker 3: fall to the Orioles tonight, three to two. Let's head
Speaker 3: out to our guy, Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: That ninth inning, we both had a front row seat
Speaker 3: to Sir Anthony Demingez holding on by the hair of
Speaker 3: his chinny chin chin right there, and that ninth inning
Speaker 3: felt like the Dodgers were going to come back with
Speaker 3: those great at bats.
Speaker 8: I was getting ready, just like you, Dave, to get
Speaker 8: on that field and get somebody to interview and find
Speaker 8: a hero.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 8: But you know, you and I talk about more matter sometimes,
Speaker 8: and it's it's a it's a thing to go out
Speaker 8: there and put some get up bats towards the end.
Speaker 8: Things have not come your way. You're still playing a
Speaker 8: playoff team and grind out.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 8: Just go out there and know that you saw their
Speaker 8: closer who made up with thirty pitches and the guy
Speaker 8: that's been pretty erratic and their bullpen is not a
Speaker 8: bullpent that obviously away from you know the guy today,
Speaker 8: they did a very fine job. But you can go
Speaker 8: out there and get those guys and there's no doubt
Speaker 8: that you can build off from me at them from
Speaker 8: the ninth inning and build up with that and then
Speaker 8: the get going to me.
Speaker 11: It might go.
Speaker 3: Unnoticed because the Dodgers did not come back in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning. The best at bat at that ninth inning
Speaker 3: was Gavin Lux down two and works a nine pitch walk.
Speaker 2: To keep the inning alive.
Speaker 8: I agree with you, and we have that view that
Speaker 8: on the field and you see the speed of the
Speaker 8: game and how he's a in the game and the
Speaker 8: pitches he's laying off of knowing today be aware that
Speaker 8: you mentioned this what top of Zoner is being called
Speaker 8: or not called in turn because he did a good
Speaker 8: job just protecting and defending and for Gavin, whom I
Speaker 8: for sure know that he can handle lefties and righties
Speaker 8: at this point in his season where he is, I'm
Speaker 8: sure they can get take that at bat and know
Speaker 8: that he can go out there and take the same
Speaker 8: approach on waiting the baseball, let the ball trup a
Speaker 8: little bit more trust his hands and go out them
Speaker 8: spread out and sometimes even as he told me now,
Speaker 8: he'll go out there today with a two strike approach
Speaker 8: early in counts to make sure he doesn't get too
Speaker 8: long with his bat, Jose.
Speaker 3: It felt like the fifth inning was the key inning
Speaker 3: of this game, outside of the ninth, where the Dodgers
Speaker 3: almost came back. They had a golden opportunity with the
Speaker 3: eight to nine hitters at first and second, nobody out,
Speaker 3: and the big boys couldn't get them home after Baltimore
Speaker 3: took the lead in the top half of the inning.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the bottom part of that lineup does their job,
Speaker 8: and all your hope is that the top goes out
Speaker 8: there and.
Speaker 5: Does the same thing.
Speaker 8: And obviously those guys are targets. Those are the guys
Speaker 8: that opposing teams say they're not going to beat me.
Speaker 8: And they make good pitches on all three of those guys.
Speaker 8: Ton three at the ball quite well to the opposite field,
Speaker 8: and Santander, who is sometimes not overlooked the defender, made
Speaker 8: it two very fine plays today and that was.
Speaker 5: Pretty much the case.
Speaker 8: You know, in that case, one thing that you do
Speaker 8: want to see, Dave is a deeper, more fought at
Speaker 8: bat for the guys. They're supposed to do that, but
Speaker 8: they did not get good looks at all in the
Speaker 8: key situation there, and that's why the orders made the
Speaker 8: pitches and he does some soft contact.
Speaker 3: Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 3: the Orioles tonight three to two. Jose Tomorrow, Walker Bueller
Speaker 3: is on the mound for the Dodgers. Am I overstating
Speaker 3: this is a kind of crossroad start for Bueller?
Speaker 2: Obviously?
Speaker 3: He says he gets he's getting closer and closer against
Speaker 3: the Mariners. He had more movement on his pitches than
Speaker 3: what we have seen. Is this a make or break
Speaker 3: start for Walker Bueller tomorrow against a good offense.
Speaker 5: It could be.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's going to be a big test from
Speaker 8: the middle that lineup from the top to number five.
Speaker 8: They can go out there and hurtual mistakes and for
Speaker 8: walk here for the Dodgers, obviously, you want to give
Speaker 8: him the longer LEAs because he's done it before. Now
Speaker 8: it's a matter of where his mind is. And one
Speaker 8: thing for sure today when you have the ability to
Speaker 8: throw five or six pitches, sometimes that is an issue.
Speaker 8: Go out there and find two or three that are
Speaker 8: working for you, and forget about the scountry report. That's
Speaker 8: one thing to throw away the scouty report. See what's
Speaker 8: working for you and react on what hitters are doing
Speaker 8: against you and taking pitches and filling balls off. It's
Speaker 8: a Flowerty did today against Elojimenez. He's say to break
Speaker 8: them all the entire time. A couple of fastbaals hit
Speaker 8: the ball and he just can not pull the trigger.
Speaker 8: So for a guy like Walker competes so much, and
Speaker 8: you just love to see the bulldog, you know, attitude
Speaker 8: on the mound. Just whatever's working, go out there and
Speaker 8: work with that. Don't try to be pretty and set
Speaker 8: people up. Just go out there and understand that your
Speaker 8: stuff is good enough to get people out and hopefully
Speaker 8: out the mental side. Knowing that he said after the
Speaker 8: last time that he did take a step forward.
Speaker 3: And if you're Will Smith and the ball's moving and
Speaker 3: his fastball's moving as much as it was in his
Speaker 3: last start, don't try to nibble on the edges. Just
Speaker 3: put your glove right down the middle and let Walker
Speaker 3: Bueller eat and let the baseball and the fastball life
Speaker 3: do its job right.
Speaker 8: A lot of times as Mike Sosha you know very well,
Speaker 8: has told me and taught me many many years with
Speaker 8: the Angels guys when the ball's moving and sinker ball guys,
Speaker 8: don't get too pretty with them. Just allow the ball
Speaker 8: to do his natural thing. And there are times in
Speaker 8: which sometimes even the humidity and dryness will allow you
Speaker 8: to see things that perhaps don't happen on a regular basis.
Speaker 8: But whatever he has that day, even arm angle could
Speaker 8: change things in the way the ball moves. Just apply
Speaker 8: it and just go out and hitter reactions before trying
Speaker 8: to make it too pretty, to make it better, to
Speaker 8: make a more perfect pitch, Just try to make a
Speaker 8: better pitch in that situation.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows what Walker Mueller's ceiling is and what it
Speaker 3: could be if he got if he gets right for
Speaker 3: the postseason, But Jose, the Dodgers only have a three
Speaker 3: game lead in the division. How much longer can they
Speaker 3: try to wait and be patient for Bueller to figure
Speaker 3: it out and not compromise their bullpen and obviously try
Speaker 3: to win games Going into Arizona.
Speaker 8: The least shower set is very short, and you're counting
Speaker 8: only to you know on the results that you've seen
Speaker 8: and the opportunity you've been given a couple of times,
Speaker 8: and you are not setting guys up to see how
Speaker 8: they test out. It's a matter of winning. These are
Speaker 8: winnable games. You gotta go out there and know that
Speaker 8: you know when somebody's not giving you any lench. There's
Speaker 8: a lot of things to get compromised, as you mentioned,
Speaker 8: with a bullpen. Same time, we go out there and
Speaker 8: see how we pitched through one part of the order,
Speaker 8: second time around, hopefully a third time around, and gives
Speaker 8: you everything he has. There's no testing times right now.
Speaker 8: This is going out there and just knowing that there's
Speaker 8: people rereading on you and every single ditch counts.
Speaker 9: But hopefully we'll see.
Speaker 5: It from Phage because you need him to be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, and everybody's pulling for Walker Bueller to
Speaker 3: have a really good start tomorrow night. It would help
Speaker 3: him and it would help the Dodgers. Jose, thanks a
Speaker 3: lot for checking in. We'll talk to you tomorrow night
Speaker 3: after game two of this three game series, and hopefully
Speaker 3: we're celebrating Walker Bueller getting back on track.
Speaker 8: Dave, good to see everybody again, Good to see you,
Speaker 8: and good to be back all right.
Speaker 3: Hose, great to have you back, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 3: There he goes Jose Mota, who checks in after every
Speaker 3: game part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast and tonight
Speaker 3: filling in on sports Net LA on the sidelines. Eight
Speaker 3: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number. Dodgers fall to the Orioles tonight, three to two.
Speaker 3: Like I mentioned earlier, it bears repeating the scoreboard watching
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks fell to the Mets eight to three in Arizona.
Speaker 3: It snaps their six game winning streak, and the Padres
Speaker 3: were winners tonight in Saint Louis, beating the Cardinals seven
Speaker 3: to five. So the Cardinals, excuse me. The Padres and
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks are both three games back of the Dodgers in
Speaker 3: the NL West. Now, last night we had an off
Speaker 3: day Dodger talk show and we had Joe Kelly join
Speaker 3: us and share with us some behind the scenes regarding
Speaker 3: Otani's forty forty night. And we also were joined by
Speaker 3: former Dodger Mike Soshia, two time World Series champion in
Speaker 3: eighty one and eighty eight with the Dodgers and the
Speaker 3: only manager to lead the Angels to a World Series
Speaker 3: championship after twenty years of managing them, and Mike Sooshia,
Speaker 3: who managed Team USSA in the last Olympics, is going
Speaker 3: to manage the Team USA baseball team this November, and
Speaker 3: what they're calling the Premiere twelve. It's the twelve best
Speaker 3: teams in the world as far as baseball goes.
Speaker 2: And because USA is.
Speaker 3: Going to be the host country for the twenty eight Olympics,
Speaker 3: it's not a must win in this tournament, but certainly
Speaker 3: it's a great measuring stick for what they're going to
Speaker 3: be up against in twenty twenty eight here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: And Mike Sosha is going to be the manager this
Speaker 3: November of the Premiere twelve squad, and he also has
Speaker 3: Dodger third base coach Dino Ebol joining his staff and
Speaker 3: a special assistant to Andrew Freeman Ron Renicky on his
Speaker 3: staff Dave Wallace, former Dodger pitching coach. One of the
Speaker 3: best this game has ever seen is his pitching coach.
Speaker 3: So the press release said, eighty four years of experience
Speaker 3: on that coaching staff and a lot of baseball wisdom,
Speaker 3: that's for sure. And during our conversation last night with
Speaker 3: Mike Sosha I brought up the fact that we're seeing
Speaker 3: a lot more catchers interference this season than we ever
Speaker 3: have before. In fact, an opposing player told me once
Speaker 3: this season, if you read, I'll teach, meaning that I'm
Speaker 3: not going to cut short my swing. So here was
Speaker 3: Mike Soosha last night on off Day Dodger talk about
Speaker 3: the abundance of catchers interference we're seeing and also giving
Speaker 3: us a catcher's clinic enjoy.
Speaker 11: Well, there's no doubt that the catching business position is changing.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm not going to say it's for the better,
Speaker 11: but it's changing into and it's evolving into really trying
Speaker 11: to steal a strike, steal a low strike. You're moving
Speaker 11: your glove a lot, You're trying to catch the ball
Speaker 11: out in front to keep it keep that low pitch
Speaker 11: looking like it's a strike. And at times your glove's
Speaker 11: going to get out there a little bit early and
Speaker 11: you're going to get some interference calls, that's for sure.
Speaker 11: It's just really the it's a philosophy of you know
Speaker 11: a lot of analytically driven teams to say, look, we're
Speaker 11: going to do everything we can to steal that low pitch,
Speaker 11: and here's the way you have to do it.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of glove movement.
Speaker 11: The glove is out in front, and you know, my
Speaker 11: position on this whole thing is you always want to
Speaker 11: represent a good target for the pitcher. And we were
Speaker 11: taught to get low strikes back in nineteen seventy six
Speaker 11: instructional League. I remember being taught how to get a
Speaker 11: low pitch from guys like Johnny Roseboro and Del Crandall
Speaker 11: and Roy Campanella. And you were in a conventional stance,
Speaker 11: and you learned how to get up underneath that low
Speaker 11: pitch and frame it and make it look good. And
Speaker 11: they've taken it to the nth degree. So you're going
Speaker 11: to see a little lot more movement. You know, there's
Speaker 11: certainly a one knee aspect to catching right now, to
Speaker 11: try to get low that is, that is making some
Speaker 11: of the other things, not that it's impossible, but some
Speaker 11: of the other things the catcher has to do a
Speaker 11: little more difficult. So, you know, just so you're talking
Speaker 11: about catchers, interferences is up for this simple reason. These
Speaker 11: you know, catchers are reaching a little bit to try
Speaker 11: to keep that low pitch looking like a strike.
Speaker 3: I remember growing up they would always talk about a
Speaker 3: good catcher is quiet behind the plate. That doesn't sound
Speaker 3: very quiet when you're moving. As much as these guys.
Speaker 11: Are, well, you're certainly not quiet. And before, even before
Speaker 11: you're receiving the ball, I think it's important to give
Speaker 11: and give that pitcher a definitive target. That's part of
Speaker 11: the pitcher catching communication that are so important. I think
Speaker 11: pitchers need to have that target. They need to understand
Speaker 11: what their focus is. Uh. There's an old adage in
Speaker 11: almost every sport. I know it's in golf and baseball.
Speaker 11: We talk about it aim small, miss small. So if
Speaker 11: these pitchers can get a good target and really zero
Speaker 11: in on what part of your glove, there's a better
Speaker 11: chance they're going to execute a pitch. So you know,
Speaker 11: that's where I think. You look at Bob Boone, what
Speaker 11: a tremendous receiver he was, How quiet he was, Johnny Bench,
Speaker 11: you know, all the all the great receivers that were
Speaker 11: you know a little before me. But those guys were
Speaker 11: the class of their own and the league of their own.
Speaker 11: And I think it has a lot of merit on
Speaker 11: the way they receive the ball and they they got
Speaker 11: more strikes called then, uh, you know than anyone else
Speaker 11: on borderline pitches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys were pretty good back in the day
Speaker 3: without trying to do all these different things.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: I guess you used to present the strike. That's the
Speaker 3: term that you used to talk about, right, Mike, present
Speaker 3: the strike to the umpire and not try to yank it.
Speaker 11: Oh you want to you want to hold that ball
Speaker 11: there and and and you're right, give the umpire a
Speaker 11: good look where you held that ball. You know, you
Speaker 11: worked on getting strong hands and being able to control
Speaker 11: the ball. That was That was all part of the
Speaker 11: training you went through as a young catcher. And I'm
Speaker 11: sure it's the same now as far as how important
Speaker 11: you know, you know, the party they put on having
Speaker 11: strong hands and controlling the ball. It's just there's a
Speaker 11: there's a huge there's a huge gap in the guys
Speaker 11: that put the ball on the plate. Put them put
Speaker 11: the glove on the plate, and they come up to
Speaker 11: catch a pitch and then they keep going. You know,
Speaker 11: it almost ends up high higher or you know, or
Speaker 11: waist high on a pitch that was maybe four inches low.
Speaker 11: So there's a lot of glove movement. I think you're
Speaker 11: going to see some issues and guys on if a
Speaker 11: guy's running and some of the transfers that go on.
Speaker 11: It's just a different philosophy that's really in play right now.
Speaker 5: David.
Speaker 3: That was like a clinic on catching, a free clinic
Speaker 3: from one of the greatest defensive catchers of his generation,
Speaker 3: the one and only Mike Soosha. That was awesome and
Speaker 3: couldn't agree more. Even in that ninth inning tonight Will
Speaker 3: Smith was on one knee and couldn't block the ball
Speaker 3: and he tried to backhand it and it got behind him.
Speaker 3: Luckily for the Dodgers, it did not come back to
Speaker 3: haunt them. But that's the norm these days in catching,
Speaker 3: and there are different ways to do it. But it
Speaker 3: seems like what is being taught today is I guess okay,
Speaker 3: But certainly you can find a way to get the
Speaker 3: low strike calls and be able to do a lot
Speaker 3: of other athletic things behind the plate by not going
Speaker 3: down on one knee. So if you want to hear
Speaker 3: the full conversation with Mike Soshia, you can find it
Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. Speaking of Dodger catchers, Austin Barnes,
Speaker 3: who is on the IL with a fractured left big toe.
Speaker 3: Seems to be okay sim game today caught a bullpen.
Speaker 3: He is going to be activated on Thursday for the
Speaker 3: Dodgers before the final game of this three game series
Speaker 3: against the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the rest.
Speaker 3: Of this series tomorrow, Walker Buehler is making a huge start.
Speaker 3: It is somewhat of a crossroad start for Walker Buehler.
Speaker 3: He's one and four with an ERA of six to
Speaker 3: zero nine, going up against former Brewer Corbin Burns, who
Speaker 3: is twelve and six with an ERA of three twenty
Speaker 3: eight in his first season with Baltimore Morongo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 3: on Deck begins at six o'clock with first pitch from
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium at seven to ten. Then I'll do it
Speaker 3: for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks to Colin Ye
Speaker 3: back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 3: here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: And thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 3: In case you missed any of the show, you can
Speaker 3: find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 3: The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. The Orioles hold
Speaker 3: on for a three to two win. We'll talk to
Speaker 3: you tomorrow night, Fox Sports Radios.
Speaker 2: Next, see ya,