Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vas said.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium until eleven thirty tonight,
Speaker 2: taking your phone calls at eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We have phone lines open eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. After the
Speaker 2: Dodgers walk it off against the Tigers for an eight
Speaker 2: to five win thanks to Mookie Bads who had a
Speaker 2: tremendous game. He drove in four runs, he hit two
Speaker 2: home runs, and man, he is off and running. And
Speaker 2: just think where MOOKI was just what three or four
Speaker 2: days ago. I mean, he was not able to keep
Speaker 2: down solid food for a couple of weeks. He was
Speaker 2: sick the entire time in Tokyo. Had to come back
Speaker 2: to La and here he is in the fourth game
Speaker 2: of the regular season, hitting two home runs, including the
Speaker 2: walkoff home run in the bottom of the tenth inning
Speaker 2: for an eight to five win. In eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: You know what this Dodger team has showed me in
Speaker 2: the first four games of the season. Like I mentioned
Speaker 2: during the Clubhouse show, it is going to be very difficult.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are going to lose their share of games,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. I still believe they're going to
Speaker 2: win over one hundred games this year, but there's about
Speaker 2: sixty something other games they may lose. But it's going
Speaker 2: to take everything from the opponent to beat them. And
Speaker 2: I know they're not beating world beaters right now, but
Speaker 2: the Tigers, in my opinion, are going to be an
Speaker 2: American League playoff team. And we said this a few
Speaker 2: different years often if teams beat the Dodgers this year,
Speaker 2: it's really surviving the Dodgers one through nine. It's going
Speaker 2: to be very difficult to get through this lineup to
Speaker 2: get twenty seven outs. Every one of these players are
Speaker 2: spit tacular in their own right and are capable of
Speaker 2: doing spectacular things. Look what led up to Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: being able to come up to be a hero. You
Speaker 2: had Michael confordo deliver a big hit. You had Will
Speaker 2: Smith come off the bench tonight to pinch hit for
Speaker 2: Austin Barnes in a key spot and deliver the game
Speaker 2: tying Bays hit. He was ninety feet away. All Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets needed was a Bays hit, but it was a
Speaker 2: three run home run by one of the Big Three
Speaker 2: and Mookie Bets to deliver for the Dodgers. I mean,
Speaker 2: this was a pretty good game and a tale of
Speaker 2: two different games from what we saw at the beginning,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto and Flarity dueling. Yamamoto with a ten strikeout night
Speaker 2: in five innings. Flaherty with a no hitter through four innings,
Speaker 2: makes a mistake in the very same inning he made
Speaker 2: a mistake in Game One of the World Series last
Speaker 2: year to John Carlos. Stanton went down to get that
Speaker 2: breaking ball last year. But this was a cement mixer
Speaker 2: to Freddie Freeman in the bottom of the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: a two run, game tying home run by Freddie. And
Speaker 2: you know, you look at a couple of other key
Speaker 2: moments in this game. The kid for the Tigers, Dylan Dingler.
Speaker 2: He had a lot to say about tonight's game and
Speaker 2: was involved in a lot. He drove in some key
Speaker 2: runs for Detroit, including a solo home run. He came
Speaker 2: up in the eighth inning with the bases loaded. Alex
Speaker 2: Vessi got himself into trouble, but he got himself out
Speaker 2: of trouble, striking out Dingler in the eighth inning. With
Speaker 2: the bases loaded. Last night, the Tigers were zero for
Speaker 2: fifteen with runners in scoring position. What were they tonight?
Speaker 2: They were let's see here, two for nine and left
Speaker 2: ten men on base. So the first two games of
Speaker 2: this series, the Tigers has stranded twenty two base runners.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of opportunities and they did not cash
Speaker 2: him in. Another key inning to me to lead to
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets being able to do what he did was
Speaker 2: the ninth inning low Key Tommy Edmund. He is one
Speaker 2: of the most valuable players on the field for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I am starting to understand more each day why Andrew
Speaker 2: Friedman was pining over Tommy Edmund and why he was
Speaker 2: so excited when he got the opportunity to be able
Speaker 2: to trade for Tommy Edmund last year. He is the
Speaker 2: NLCSMVP from a year ago. He is a guy that
Speaker 2: slid over to shortstop and played some good defense when
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas went down and the Dodgers needed keyk a
Speaker 2: Hernandez to be October kei K KEYK and center Edmund
Speaker 2: at shortstop was a winning recipe for the Dodgers in October. Tonight,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund starting at second base made incredible plays in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning, starting with you know, helping Mookie Bets,
Speaker 2: who is still learning the shortstop position. He went to
Speaker 2: the third base side of excuse me, the left field
Speaker 2: side of the second base bag to make a play
Speaker 2: behind Bets who couldn't get to the grounder and make
Speaker 2: a strong throw to Freddie Freeman for the first out
Speaker 2: of the ninth and then a base hit to Max
Speaker 2: Munsey later in the inning, Monsey blocked it and threw
Speaker 2: low to Edmund. Any other second baseman that may be
Speaker 2: in right field, and the Dodgers don't only give up
Speaker 2: one run, they may be giving up two or three runs.
Speaker 2: And the play of the inning, and maybe the defensive
Speaker 2: play of the game, was Tommy Edmond making a strong
Speaker 2: throw on the relay from ta Oscar Hernandez to get
Speaker 2: out of breath and just clumsy base running by Manuel Margo.
Speaker 2: You got a center field arm playing second base tonight
Speaker 2: and you saw that on that play. So for me,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond is right up there with Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 2: Mookie bed says the player of the game. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number we had a chance to catch up with Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts moments after his walk off three run home run
Speaker 2: and the Gatoray bath courtesy of Taoscar Hernandez. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was fun. That was good.
Speaker 3: You know, just getting a win is good, getting the boys,
Speaker 3: you know, just getting us, getting us rolling, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's a Yoshi Fish great. You know we got
Speaker 3: was a little bumpy through the middle, but you know,
Speaker 3: they gave us chances. They gave us chances, and that's
Speaker 3: what good teams do.
Speaker 2: Muki. It just feels like from the first four games
Speaker 2: of the season, you are never going to be out
Speaker 2: of a game.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I mean that's that's exactly it. I mean,
Speaker 3: Andrew Freeman front opposite an amazing job giving us a
Speaker 3: really good team, and now it's our job to go perform,
Speaker 3: and we've been doing.
Speaker 2: It so far. Luki, what was the plan there in
Speaker 2: that at bat? You extended that that bat, you saw
Speaker 2: two change ups earlier in the bat.
Speaker 3: I mean, really just put it in play. I mean,
Speaker 3: at that point you just got to put it in
Speaker 3: play and hope, hope can get a run across show.
Speaker 3: I did a great job getting a base hit per usual,
Speaker 3: and uh fortunately I did my job.
Speaker 2: Two home runs tonight, Mookie, on a night that you
Speaker 2: receive your championship ring. Could you have mapped it out
Speaker 2: or scripted it any better?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: That was not like that, man. That that was a
Speaker 3: really fun game to be a part of. And I just, uh,
Speaker 3: I just love being a Dodger.
Speaker 2: Hey. The game rewards the humble people out there, and
Speaker 2: that's Mookie Betts does.
Speaker 5: It rewards the hard workers.
Speaker 3: And you know, so We've got a great group of
Speaker 3: guys and it's rewarding so so far.
Speaker 2: Hey, it starts with a fifty thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: stopping and I like seeing you get those gatorade baths.
Speaker 2: I hope I can get some more. Thank you. Best
Speaker 2: there is Mookie Bets, the hero of the game, or
Speaker 2: one of the heroes of the game for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: A humble superstar and a hard worker. And that's what
Speaker 2: separates the Dodgers superstars from a lot of other teams.
Speaker 2: They don't just roll out with their talent. They put
Speaker 2: in the work hours before first pitch to be prepared
Speaker 2: to do what they did tonight and what they did
Speaker 2: last season to win the World Series eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones for the first time tonight, Lo Low
Speaker 2: was that Dodger Stadium tonight? Hi, Lo Loo, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hey DZ the man with with my dream job.
Speaker 7: And it's good to hear from you again.
Speaker 6: Then, And what what? What didn't that game have?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 6: It was? It was wonderful from beginning to end. Probably
Speaker 6: the first game. I almost lost my voice before the
Speaker 6: game even began. And you know, on top of everything
Speaker 6: you just said, and then you cap it off with
Speaker 6: the little jab to a J Hinch. Come on, DV,
Speaker 6: you're the This man is the best.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope he was watching the Dodgers get
Speaker 2: their rings. I hope he was watching it. And you know,
Speaker 2: I appreciate, uh, I have forgotten things, Lo Low. I'll
Speaker 2: just put it that way.
Speaker 1: Right, you know.
Speaker 8: And you know, I want to say, you know, master
Speaker 8: Messing cool. Thanks to my friend Willie who gave me
Speaker 8: the ticket just last night. I didn't even know it
Speaker 8: was coming to the game and and know and behold
Speaker 8: it was probably you know, we we thought there weren't
Speaker 8: going to be very many walkoffs this year because it's
Speaker 8: such such a great team, right, the pitching staff is amazing.
Speaker 8: We didn't think there were very man opportunities for that,
Speaker 8: and you know we were discussing that on our podcasted
Speaker 8: I got a podcast now, as.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got a podcast, everybody's got a podcast.
Speaker 6: This is you know, I'm trying to follow it.
Speaker 2: You're not. You're not plugging your podcast here, Lo Loo,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: I think my next door neighbor's got a podcast. Now,
Speaker 2: let's go out to Jennifer. It was at the game.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Jennifer? Do you got a podcast?
Speaker 9: To Jennifer, I don't, but I'm your new best friends
Speaker 9: as I called you last night too, so I was
Speaker 9: calling you from party line ten. But now were on
Speaker 9: the road heading back to the South.
Speaker 2: Saying that's right, that's right. So you have tickets for
Speaker 2: tomorrow too? Are you a season ticket holder?
Speaker 9: I am half season? Half season.
Speaker 2: Hey, so far you got the right games to come to.
Speaker 2: It was a it was a great night again start
Speaker 2: to finish with the ring ceremony and Mookie coming up
Speaker 2: with the heroics.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, no, it's amazing. But you did such a
Speaker 9: great job or recapping the game but I also wanted
Speaker 9: to give a shout out to Barnsey. It was so
Speaker 9: good to see him in there. Though we usually get well,
Speaker 9: but being able to see Barny make the play, I
Speaker 9: couldn't believe it. I thought he was out that I mean,
Speaker 9: I thought he was safe, but he got him out,
Speaker 9: So I thought that was a pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great tag by Austin Barnes, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: And he knew it too. And it's one of those
Speaker 2: rare times, Like I said, when you're down there on
Speaker 2: the stepswaying to go onto the field, a lot of
Speaker 2: times you don't have the best angle. But I had
Speaker 2: a great view of that play and totally saw that
Speaker 2: Margo missed home plate, and by the time he was
Speaker 2: able to slide past home plate, Austin Barnes was able
Speaker 2: to get the reach and tag the toe of his
Speaker 2: right cleat eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventies,
Speaker 2: the phone number. The Dodgers are undefeated to begin the season.
Speaker 2: They are four and oh and the last defending champion
Speaker 2: to win their first four games of the year were
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty five Tigers, who started the season six
Speaker 2: to zero, and the last Dodger team to win their
Speaker 2: first four games of the year was Rick Monday's nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one Dodgers that went on to beat the Yankees
Speaker 2: in six games in the World Series for redemption that season.
Speaker 2: Eight six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number Jennifer wants to give love to Austin Barnes. Well,
Speaker 2: let's head downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from
Speaker 2: tonight's catcher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he's a great pitcher. I think he
Speaker 5: moved the ball around pretty good. Started starts crowding some
Speaker 5: little lefties and do some good two sceniors into the
Speaker 5: other rodies. Yeah, he says the two owners that I
Speaker 5: thought he did bowl really well. A lot of punch outs.
Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to be a fishing when he's
Speaker 5: striking out ten guys in five. So yeah, I thought
Speaker 5: he pitched good after the bullpen came in and threw
Speaker 5: the ball ball too.
Speaker 1: When you look at kind of where that splitter is
Speaker 1: this year compared to last year, just how has it
Speaker 1: evolved at this level.
Speaker 5: I think it's splitters is pretty similar. I think it's
Speaker 5: just uh, his confidence and uh he's doing some other
Speaker 5: things there. Now, I think that you know, opened up
Speaker 5: the split finger a little bit, just kind of crowding
Speaker 5: people a little bit more, you know, throwing in a
Speaker 5: little bit so makes them a little quick and the
Speaker 5: split finger plays, and uh, you know, besides that one
Speaker 5: he kind of left up and he were kind of
Speaker 5: blowing by plowing fast holes by him. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: think you can do will pretty well.
Speaker 8: Just enjoyable.
Speaker 9: Has this week been, like even going back to Japan
Speaker 9: with the way you guys have started on the field,
Speaker 9: all the ceremonies.
Speaker 10: Off to like, like, how much has that added to
Speaker 10: just kind of the kind of started for the season you.
Speaker 8: Guys have gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's you know, it's a great thing to be
Speaker 5: a Dodger. You know, it's you know a lot of
Speaker 5: cool things happen. You know, play a lot of cool games,
Speaker 5: go to Tokyo, get some rings opening day, you know,
Speaker 5: so they do things right here, and you know we
Speaker 5: had to do our job about there, win games, and
Speaker 5: you know, obviously for a fan we had a great
Speaker 5: fan base who helps makes this all possible. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's been a great, you know, a little week and
Speaker 5: you know, gotta keep going.
Speaker 2: No nobody asked him about the tag in the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: How do you not ask him about the play that
Speaker 2: he made the tag to cut down another insurance running
Speaker 2: to end the inning. Anyway, Austin, we tried eight six six,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Tigers tonight eight to five and ten innings.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Lewis, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight?
Speaker 11: Hi?
Speaker 2: Lewis, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 12: Hey, how's it going DV?
Speaker 2: It's going great, Lewis, A great night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I've seen lookie beds with that walk off.
Speaker 12: It was just something that dreams are made of.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12: Honestly, just seeing that, you know, everything that had happened
Speaker 12: to Luki, you know, considering the Tokyo Series he wasn't
Speaker 12: in it. You know, the exhibition games he wasn't in it,
Speaker 12: and you know the one game that he did play,
Speaker 12: you know, it was you know, I wouldn't say lack
Speaker 12: of a better word, meatocre, but tonight was just you know,
Speaker 12: seeing everything that he has prepared for and what he
Speaker 12: is trained for. This is exactly why we had signed
Speaker 12: him in the first place, you know, just to see
Speaker 12: how clutch he could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lewis, thanks for the phone call. Appreciated the Dodgers
Speaker 2: traded for Mookie and then gave him an extension, and
Speaker 2: obviously one of the best players out there. It's incredible
Speaker 2: that one of the best, if not the best right
Speaker 2: fielder in the game is playing shortstop and hitting two
Speaker 2: home runs. And you know, if there's one. I was
Speaker 2: asked a few different times before the season started what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' vulnerability is, and after four games, I would say,
Speaker 2: outfield defense. To me, that's the vulnerability right now. Michael CONFORDO,
Speaker 2: you know, he's an on a scouting scale, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know where he's where. Scouts in baseball have him.
Speaker 2: But he's not as good of a left fielder as
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez was last year. And teams are going
Speaker 2: to run on the Dodgers outfield. We saw that last night,
Speaker 2: we saw it again tonight, and I guess, if you
Speaker 2: had to nitpick what the vulnerability of this team is
Speaker 2: right now, to me, it's outfield defense. And Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: made a great play to assist on the relay in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning to be able to get Manuel Margo.
Speaker 2: So if you had to ask me what the vulnerability
Speaker 2: of this Dodger team is as of right now, it's
Speaker 2: the outfield defense and we'll see how that plays out
Speaker 2: as the season progresses and unfolds. Eight six six eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number we're going
Speaker 2: to take a time out here on Dodger Talk when
Speaker 2: we come back. More of your phone calls at eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy, and we'll
Speaker 2: share some of the highlights of the ring ceremony, and
Speaker 2: you'll hear from Evan Phillips, Dodger super reliever who missed
Speaker 2: out on the World Series because of a torn muscle
Speaker 2: around his rotator cuff. He's on his way back, though.
Speaker 2: We got good news as it pertains to Evan Phillips,
Speaker 2: so we'll share what Evan had to say earlier today
Speaker 2: as well. Dodgers walk it off thanks to a Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets three run home run in the tenth inning, eight
Speaker 2: to five over Detroit on the world champion Los Angeles
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Speaker 2: Ass This is Dodger Talk with David Vassa. The drama
Speaker 2: builds for another three to two.
Speaker 10: Mookie swings high football flood field in deep.
Speaker 2: This Bowl's back, This Bull's gone. Mookie simply magic.
Speaker 3: He rouse their tosses his helmet to the sky and.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers walk off blitters Steven Nelson and Rick Monday
Speaker 2: on the call tonight, A thrilling finish to a great game,
Speaker 2: a great night at Dodgers Stadium as Mookie Beds hits
Speaker 2: two home runs tonight, including that one, the walk off
Speaker 2: three run home run in the bottom of the tenth
Speaker 2: thinning off a Tigers reliever Bo Brisky Luis Scarcia gainst
Speaker 2: the win, his first as a Dodger in relief. David
Speaker 2: vass Live at Dodgers Stadium after that thrilling eight to
Speaker 2: five win and ten innings tonight at eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy. Jose Moto will join us
Speaker 2: in about ten minutes and we'll take more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls, and you also hear from Evan Phillips. But
Speaker 2: first we wanted to share a couple of the introductions
Speaker 2: of the ring ceremony tonight. It was very Hollywood, I'll
Speaker 2: say that, and fitting in Hollywood to have a Hollywood
Speaker 2: kind of vibe for the ring ceremony. Not only was
Speaker 2: Anthony Anderson kind of the MC of the whole deal.
Speaker 2: Anthony was such a big part of setting the tone
Speaker 2: before each and every playoff game last year, but also
Speaker 2: the Dodgers enlisted the Oscars announcer Randy Thomas to give
Speaker 2: some background career highlights. As the players were walking off
Speaker 2: the stage and the stage was placed between home plate
Speaker 2: and the pitchers mound, they had stands cast in Mark Walter,
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes handing out the rings and
Speaker 2: taking photos like they were Santa Claus for the players
Speaker 2: up there. Here's a little taste of a couple of
Speaker 2: introductions and just the way the Dodgers did it. Here
Speaker 2: is how Taoscar Hernandez was introduced. All right, everybody, if
Speaker 2: you have seeds in.
Speaker 10: Your hand, get ready to comb up in air for Thescar.
Speaker 14: Yes, Taoscar Hernandez made quite an impact during his first
Speaker 14: season as a Dodger. He was named to the National
Speaker 14: League All Star Team. He won last year's home run
Speaker 14: derby and helped lead the Dodgers to a World Series title.
Speaker 14: This is the second World Series ring for the three
Speaker 14: times Silver slugger from the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2: He I appreciate that reminding us the resume of the
Speaker 2: player that everybody loves like Taoscar Hernandez, Taoscar Keik Hernandez,
Speaker 2: and this guy. The World Series MVP Freddie Freeman got
Speaker 2: the loudest ovations. One of the most selectric moments in
Speaker 2: Dodge Stadium history belongs to number five study s.
Speaker 14: This is the second World Series ring for the graduate
Speaker 14: of Elmodana High School in Orange, California. His history making
Speaker 14: walk off Grand Slam in Game one of the World
Speaker 14: Series was the.
Speaker 6: First of four that he hid in.
Speaker 14: Last year's Fall Classic. He also tied an MLB record
Speaker 14: with twelve runs batted in and was named the twenty
Speaker 14: twenty four World Series MVP.
Speaker 2: Once upon a Time in Hollywood, the Dodgers got their
Speaker 2: championship rings and then walked off in a Hollywood style
Speaker 2: finish with the Mookie Bets three run home run to
Speaker 2: beat the Tigers eight to five and ten innings. Key
Speaker 2: k A Hernandez was not in the dugout during the game.
Speaker 2: I took a peek a couple of different times. Remember,
Speaker 2: Kei K wasn't at the stadium yesterday because of a
Speaker 2: stomach bug, but he did show up. I feel like
Speaker 2: it was going to take a lot to knock Keik
Speaker 2: out of the pregame ring ceremony because he was looking
Speaker 2: forward to it so much. Because the last time the
Speaker 2: Dodgers received their rings, he was in Boston during the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one season and in spring training. We just
Speaker 2: talked about this moment, and I'm sure he did not
Speaker 2: envision having a stomach issue on the night of the
Speaker 2: ring ceremony. But if you remember, during the off season,
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman said something that a lot of people were
Speaker 2: surprised about. Andrew said that KEYK Hernandez showed more leadership
Speaker 2: during this past October than he had seen from KEYK
Speaker 2: his entire care So we talked about the ring ceremony
Speaker 2: and just exactly what the leadership role was.
Speaker 10: Last time I was. I knew that I was leaving,
Speaker 10: so it didn't matter if we won or didn't win.
Speaker 10: It was going to be a fact that I was gonna,
Speaker 10: you know, go go on a different journey. And I
Speaker 10: was totally fine with it. I accepted it all. And
Speaker 10: then when that day came, I felt left out and
Speaker 10: I felt like I wanted to be a part of
Speaker 10: that just for that one day. But obviously that didn't happen.
Speaker 10: And to get to come back this time and where
Speaker 10: that gold uniform and get that ring in front of
Speaker 10: my in front of that home home crowd instead of
Speaker 10: getting it in a box in the mail delivered to
Speaker 10: Fenway Park is a little different.
Speaker 2: Oh that's how you got the ring.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how I got the ring. We weren't going
Speaker 10: to play the Dodgers, so the team wanted to wait
Speaker 10: until we played the Angels in late July to come
Speaker 10: bring it to me. And I was like, look, guys,
Speaker 10: I don't really want to wait this long to get
Speaker 10: my ring. And if I was playing at Doctor Stadium,
Speaker 10: I get it, but to do it in a private
Speaker 10: room and Anaheim ain't it. So I would much rather
Speaker 10: get my ring asap, even if it's in the mail.
Speaker 10: And I think this time is going to be a
Speaker 10: little more special.
Speaker 2: Kei k A. Andrew Friedman said last week that he
Speaker 2: was so impressed by your leadership and the growth and
Speaker 2: just specifically last year. How you really were one of
Speaker 2: the leaders for the Dodgers. Can you describe what he
Speaker 2: was talking about? Was it leading by example? Did you
Speaker 2: have to pick the team up in the clubhouse? What
Speaker 2: was that leadership that he was describing.
Speaker 10: For the most part, I am a leaderback sample. I
Speaker 10: think just because of the personality. Guys know that I
Speaker 10: like to keep keep things light, but then at the
Speaker 10: same time very I'm a very intense person. And when
Speaker 10: it's when it's nutcrunched time and things aren't going your way,
Speaker 10: it's very easy to you know, to to to let
Speaker 10: the noise, the outside noise, get really loud. And for me,
Speaker 10: I've been a part of so many of these runs,
Speaker 10: and uh, you kind of know how to shut things,
Speaker 10: shut things on and off, and uh, you know what
Speaker 10: it takes to win. So I went once I saw that,
Speaker 10: and and it's it's kind of things about like knowing
Speaker 10: yourself as a as a your role within the clubhouse.
Speaker 10: And at that time, you know, it was as much
Speaker 10: as it is my time to to be light and all,
Speaker 10: it was also my time to to pick people up,
Speaker 10: and it was time to be that vocal leader. And I, uh,
Speaker 10: I said you know what, if guys don't like it
Speaker 10: and we go down, so be it. I might not
Speaker 10: be here next year. But I really want to win,
Speaker 10: and I know what it takes to win. So I'm
Speaker 10: going to try and bring the best out of people,
Speaker 10: and I'm gonna, you know, call people out. I got
Speaker 10: to call people out or pick people up if they
Speaker 10: need to be picked up. And there's a lot of
Speaker 10: conversation with guys throughout October and uh, you know, talking
Speaker 10: whether it was in the clubhouse or at hotel rooms
Speaker 10: or going out for a Starbucks run with Yoshinobu and
Speaker 10: having a couple hour talk with him, things like that,
Speaker 10: and I just decided, you know what, I'm just I'm
Speaker 10: gonna do this, and if guys don't like it, whatever,
Speaker 10: but we need to this. I feel like this is
Speaker 10: what we need right now as a team. And that's
Speaker 10: kind of what I did.
Speaker 2: By the way, the key k Hernandez meeting with Yamamoto
Speaker 2: came after Yamamoto's first postseason start against the Padres. Kik
Speaker 2: told me that it was just them. There was no translator, hero,
Speaker 2: no interpreter. They were able to communicate pretty clearly, and
Speaker 2: I think Kik got his message across because after that,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto never looked back and now you're seeing the product
Speaker 2: of the confidence of his playoff run and his importance
Speaker 2: last year. And he came into camp with a lot
Speaker 2: of swagger and a lot of confidence. So that was
Speaker 2: the conversation with Keith k Hernandez. He took us inside
Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways about how he felt
Speaker 2: about the ring ceremony and also his role as a
Speaker 2: big time leader for the Dodgers last year. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to the phones before we check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Jerry was at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi Jerry, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey, daj thanks for taking my call. I want to
Speaker 7: say thanks, Toby, have by seventy in your south for
Speaker 7: all the coverage. I'm that guy who listens to off
Speaker 7: season Dodgers Talk in December.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're that guy.
Speaker 7: I'm that guy, bro And we're out there for Ravian
Speaker 7: right now. We're on the ten heady and he stot
Speaker 7: to line here and now you know what, I got
Speaker 7: to give it up to Mookie and first ballid Hall
Speaker 7: of Famer future. You know, when he breaked that first
Speaker 7: home run and he gave that fish pump.
Speaker 6: Everybody in the crowd was like, pump up.
Speaker 7: And it's nice to see.
Speaker 13: Him have that energy now.
Speaker 7: And then when he went yard to win it and
Speaker 7: he was jumping around, it's like, didn't he let off
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Speaker 2: All right, Jerry, thanks for the phone call. I love
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Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moto, what a great night at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium again. Start to finish. Let's start with the pregame ceremony,
Speaker 2: the ring ceremony. That was a pretty dramatic Hollywood type
Speaker 2: type of a giveaway to the for the players to
Speaker 2: get their rings.
Speaker 13: It is so hard to get through a long season,
Speaker 13: expectations names, Shohil Tani, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith.
Speaker 13: I mean, it's hard to get through a season and
Speaker 13: then to win it, and then to win the World Series.
Speaker 13: So you know what, Hollywood as it was, is exactly
Speaker 13: what the fans deserve, what the players deserve, with everybody
Speaker 13: that's been part of that uniform deserved, and I think
Speaker 13: overall it was absolutely fantastic and quite fitting for Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Did you have one particular player a moment where you
Speaker 2: were a little surprised the reaction they got from the crowd,
Speaker 2: the loud ovation they got from the crowd.
Speaker 11: No, not at all.
Speaker 13: I mean overall, like the expectations obviously with Showhy, with
Speaker 13: taylh my god, I was fantastic Freddy Freeman what he
Speaker 13: did in the World Series. But I think overall, I
Speaker 13: mean guys that you know barely pitched. I mean, Emma
Speaker 13: Sheion gets a nice ovation. It's all part of what
Speaker 13: I always say that when you win, nobody cares what
Speaker 13: your average was, how many, what your era was, but
Speaker 13: you're part of a winner and everything that matters. And
Speaker 13: it is so good to see everybody that you know
Speaker 13: had their hands on it. The design is quite beautifully.
Speaker 13: Fernando Vevenezuela is honored in the ring with twenty four
Speaker 13: thirty four sapphires. That is absolutely touching and a reminder
Speaker 13: of how important tradition is and personalities are for this organization.
Speaker 13: I mean, Fernando forever in that ring with thirty four
Speaker 13: sapphires is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: No doubt. Fernando is still on the Dodgers jersey sleeves too,
Speaker 2: number thirty four for the rest of this year, so
Speaker 2: definitely not forgotten. Let's get to the game, Jose. This
Speaker 2: Dodger team, like Mookie bet said, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 2: to beat them and get twenty seven outs. It feels
Speaker 2: like teams are going to have to survive the Dodgers
Speaker 2: more than beat them.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and I say Mookie made some important point too,
Speaker 13: and talking to you too. You know, these guys work
Speaker 13: for this. It's not like they go out there and
Speaker 13: to say, here's my name, here's my tradition, here's my history,
Speaker 13: here's my my road here. No, they they want to
Speaker 13: be so good, and you know, Mooki wants to be great.
Speaker 13: We talked about this, all the doubts about whether Muku
Speaker 13: was in a play or not, and we all had
Speaker 13: our doubts. And the one thing that I did mention
Speaker 13: to you a couple of days it was, is, you know,
Speaker 13: when a guy like this has that type of spirit,
Speaker 13: just don't get in the way. Don't get in the
Speaker 13: way of greatness. But overall we see why he talks
Speaker 13: about those twenty seven ounce and how hard it is
Speaker 13: because you count one through nine and then you go
Speaker 13: to the bench. I mean, Will Smith comes up with
Speaker 13: a big hit and it's just it doesn't matter what's
Speaker 13: happened four or five innings. They're getting no hit through
Speaker 13: four and then one swing changes everything. And it's part
Speaker 13: of what this culture is, what you know, what they're
Speaker 13: made of day because you go back to look at
Speaker 13: star players and superstar teams, but it seems like nobody
Speaker 13: here wants to take the credit in a way, you
Speaker 13: know what I'm saying, And it's like, you know, what
Speaker 13: if I don't do it. Somebody's just going to get
Speaker 13: it done. But overall it's just a group effort that
Speaker 13: again you got to applug because they just never think
Speaker 13: they're out of the game. And obviously they have the
Speaker 13: weapons and resources because they're never out of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know Mooki obviously came up with the
Speaker 2: big hit to win the game, but the subsequent at
Speaker 2: bats ahead of him really put him in that position.
Speaker 2: Michael Confordo, who made a questionable dive for a ball
Speaker 2: in the top of the tenth inning, comes through with
Speaker 2: a big base hit, scores a run. Will Smith delivers
Speaker 2: the game time base hit off the bench on his
Speaker 2: thirtieth birthday, and Otani puts will Smith at third base
Speaker 2: ninety feet away to put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 2: Brisky facing Mookie Betts.
Speaker 13: Yes, on top of all that, and you're making some
Speaker 13: great points. Conforto, top play left field. You mentioned some
Speaker 13: great points about the outfield defense. We can get into
Speaker 13: that next few days. But he goes out there and
Speaker 13: finds some tough pitches and goes the other way. He
Speaker 13: does not try to say, let me make cup for
Speaker 13: maybe that misplay left field on a tough play by
Speaker 13: hitting home run, he stays right where we was at
Speaker 13: the end of spring training and goes the other way.
Speaker 13: And then on top of that, you start looking as
Speaker 13: who's coming up and the things that you have to
Speaker 13: do as a pitcher to get by, and you just
Speaker 13: don't have room to brief And they're not just guys
Speaker 13: are gonna slug the baseball. They give you a good
Speaker 13: team at bats and we know that Dave in the
Speaker 13: last three years talking to you. When they go to
Speaker 13: win from team at bats, it gets real dangerous and
Speaker 13: it gets very scary. They don't produce, but they're back
Speaker 13: to that mode right away, like they're playing in October
Speaker 13: with a lot of urgency. And then on top of that,
Speaker 13: on another side is all of this happened because the
Speaker 13: Dodgers played the best defense overall, considering in one any
Speaker 13: thanks to Tommy Edmond who kept the game where it
Speaker 13: was along with the play by Austin Bond. So one
Speaker 13: thing compliments the other. The bad pitching, you pick it up.
Speaker 13: You pick up Tanner Scott by the way that he's
Speaker 13: having trouble getting lefties out. But all these things happen
Speaker 13: because you have the right elements and guys that can
Speaker 13: really put behind the last tough play to move ahead
Speaker 13: and know that there's still that left. Well, there's still
Speaker 13: an opportunity, and we're seeing it once again.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, we'll talk to you tomorrow on Oral Herscheizer,
Speaker 2: could Jersey give away? And Roki Sazaki's Dodgers stadium debut
Speaker 2: will have a lot to talk about tomorrow night as well.
Speaker 13: Very special, just like thirty four.
Speaker 2: We all right, Jose, there he goes Jose Mota, part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Appreciate his insight. I
Speaker 2: mentioned that we talked to Evan Phillips today. He and
Speaker 2: Tony Gonsolin threw in the same simulated game, throwing the
Speaker 2: hitters earlier this afternoon. The minor league season just got
Speaker 2: underway in Oklahoma City. In fact, Dalton Rushing hit a
Speaker 2: home run in Oklahoma City's first game tonight. But Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips is getting closer to going out and pitching in
Speaker 2: a minor league rehab assignment, and I asked him what
Speaker 2: the next steps were. How he's feeling with that right
Speaker 2: shoulder that was injured in the NLCS and has taken
Speaker 2: a little bit of time to bounce back today simulated game.
Speaker 13: Yes, SLIPPLAVEVP.
Speaker 2: So where what's the next step after this?
Speaker 15: You just do to I feel like I'm ready for
Speaker 15: a rehab assignment, but due to the nature of what's
Speaker 15: going on here this weekend and then the minor league
Speaker 15: season starting this weekend, and then they have their off
Speaker 15: day on Monday, so I think I'll be back here
Speaker 15: for another live VP on Monday, and then I'll head
Speaker 15: out for a rehab assignment.
Speaker 2: How long do you expect that to be or will
Speaker 2: they tell you?
Speaker 15: I'm sure we'll lay something out, but you know, with
Speaker 15: these things, it's all just one at a time. I
Speaker 15: think as I go through that progression, you know, we'll
Speaker 15: knock out a couple, start working on back to backs,
Speaker 15: start working on two out of three's, and you know,
Speaker 15: one plus things like that, and as I cross those thresholds,
Speaker 15: and we'll have a better idea of when I'll return.
Speaker 2: Fair to say, when you start doing those back to backs,
Speaker 2: how you bounce back is going to dictate.
Speaker 15: Yeah, That's kind of my point is it's all dependent
Speaker 15: on how I'm responding to things, and if we continue
Speaker 15: with this trend and where I've been doing really well
Speaker 15: and bouncing back really well. Then I think, you know,
Speaker 15: hopefully we stay on schedule and get back as soon
Speaker 15: as possible.
Speaker 2: So fingers for Evan Phillips that he's able to check
Speaker 2: those boxes, especially pitching back to back games on this
Speaker 2: upcoming minor league rehab assignment to get him back hopefully
Speaker 2: by the end of April. For the Dodgers, that would
Speaker 2: be a big boost to their bullpen, to one of
Speaker 2: their key relievers the last two or three years. And
Speaker 2: it's a relief to understand better because he was explaining
Speaker 2: it to me a lot more clearly than I had
Speaker 2: heard it that the capsule in his rotator cuff was
Speaker 2: not torn or injured. Luckily for Evan Phillips and the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: what was torn was a muscle that goes towards the
Speaker 2: back side of the shoulders. So with rest and a
Speaker 2: PRP injection, that muscle tear has healed. Muscle tears can heal,
Speaker 2: and that's not as big of a deal in the
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things as a ligament tear. So the
Speaker 2: muscle tear healed, and that's the reason why Phillips has
Speaker 2: a great chance of being a part of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: trying to make it a back to back championship. Eight
Speaker 2: six six, nine, seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Tigers eight to five in ten innings.
Speaker 2: I want to get to a couple of callers that
Speaker 2: were holding for a long time. So let's let's bring
Speaker 2: them together. Christian and Hollywood. Say hi to Greg and Corona.
Speaker 2: You're both big Dodger fans.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Hey, hey Christian, what's happening?
Speaker 6: Doing good?
Speaker 2: Doing good?
Speaker 11: Just was hearing the game to the MLB website and
Speaker 11: just what an exciting ninth to be a Dodger fan.
Speaker 11: I do want to bring up just a point that
Speaker 11: I don't know if anybody had brought up yet, but
Speaker 11: Dodgers leaving what six players on base? You know, I
Speaker 11: know it's early in the season, but I think it
Speaker 11: might be something to point out and maybe just have
Speaker 11: that small talk, say, hey, we need to be able
Speaker 11: to bring these players in.
Speaker 2: And they scored eight runs night, they scored eight runs tonight,
Speaker 2: And if you look at the flip side, the Tigers
Speaker 2: have left twenty two runners on base the first two games.
Speaker 4: How would you feel if you were a Colorado Rocky.
Speaker 4: After two games, you wake up in the morning, you're
Speaker 4: two and a half back in the in the divisions.
Speaker 4: It's super I mean it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh yeah, talking out who just gave him
Speaker 2: them tumbo finger? Who was that that just gave him
Speaker 2: them tumbo finger?
Speaker 8: That's me?
Speaker 4: Greg and Corona.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, Greg, you just dunked on Christian Hollywood on
Speaker 2: Dodger talk.
Speaker 4: Well, hey, two and a half games back. I've only
Speaker 4: played two games, but I think the Dodgers. I've been
Speaker 4: a lot. My family is huge into this. My dad
Speaker 4: was at the fifty nine World Series as his dad.
Speaker 4: My dad took I was at the Gibson game with
Speaker 4: my dad in eighty eight and I took my son
Speaker 4: to the to the Kershaw against the Cheaters in Game
Speaker 4: one when he won against Houston. But any who, so
Speaker 4: we've been around.
Speaker 2: That's a lot to die just right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot. I've never been like like the
Speaker 4: vibe of this team. I haven't never seen another teams
Speaker 4: as with the vibe of this team. I think what's
Speaker 4: gonna dave. I think what's going to be the tough
Speaker 4: thing is every single team is going to bring their
Speaker 4: best every single day. They're gonna get jabbed like I mean,
Speaker 4: I know the Tigers are going to be a playoff
Speaker 4: team anyways, but they they fought their asses off these
Speaker 4: last two games, and that like the Dodgers, these are
Speaker 4: playoff games basically, that's.
Speaker 2: Where they're going. The first two games of this series
Speaker 2: may have broken the will for the Tigers tomorrow. Maybe,
Speaker 2: I mean, it is early in the season, but that
Speaker 2: was my point. The Dodgers are going to make things
Speaker 2: very difficult for a lot of different teams, even on
Speaker 2: the nights that they lose games. Hey, Greg and Christian,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for calling in. Appreciate it. Let's do
Speaker 2: it again. Okay, every call has to come to an end.
Speaker 2: Fernando Valezuela always used to tell me I hang up
Speaker 2: on the callers, but I try to explain to him,
Speaker 2: every call comes to an end, so I have to
Speaker 2: hang up on you guys now.
Speaker 4: Thanks Dave, appreciate you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Moving all right, guys, thanks a lot. Good sports right there.
Speaker 2: That'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk tonight tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Roki Sazaki making his Dodger Stadium debut, going up against
Speaker 2: right hander Reese Holsen, the twenty five year old right
Speaker 2: hander for the Tigers, had one hundred and one strikeouts
Speaker 2: in one hundred and twelve innings. He did not farewell
Speaker 2: against left handed hitters, which is a bad matchup for him.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, Bronco Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock,
Speaker 2: first pitch at six ten. Thanks to calling e back
Speaker 2: at our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald, who's out
Speaker 2: here at Dodgers Stadium already's got the car warmed up alright,
Speaker 2: I mean game two of the home schedule. We've got
Speaker 2: the car warmed up already. Anyway, we'll talk to you
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. Look forward to another great night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: It's not just a game, it's an event when you
Speaker 2: come watch the Dodgers once again. The final score the
Speaker 2: Dodgers on a Mookie walk off, three run home run
Speaker 2: in the tenth inning, beat the Tigers eight to five.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. Seal play