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 4: Let's I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 3: So just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire a piss. This is world champion, Dodger,
Speaker 5: world champion. Put a small soft time. They get up
Speaker 5: people what they want to die too? In a row
Speaker 5: two is special. I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 5: One of a con. This ball's gone. You ready to go?
Speaker 2: Hell time go to the sun, grab your phone to
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Basse, Welcome
Speaker 5: the Dodger Talk David bas Say live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: After the Dodgers fall to the Nationals by a final
Speaker 5: score of seven to three, we're with you until eleven
Speaker 5: o'clock tonight eight six six nine to eight seven two
Speaker 5: five seventy. There were a lot of home runs hit
Speaker 5: tonight at Dodgers Stadium. These two teams combined to hit
Speaker 5: eight home runs, five by the Nationals and three by
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. The one that James would hit. Wow, that
Speaker 5: went very far. Four hundred and fifty one feet estimated distance,
Speaker 5: the longest home run hit at Dodger Stadium this season.
Speaker 5: And he may say, well, what about Otani home runs?
Speaker 5: What about the one that went on the concourse there
Speaker 5: in right field. Well, no, that was about three feet
Speaker 5: short according to statcast. But nonetheless, the Dodger pitching staff
Speaker 5: giving up five more home runs tonight, including two to
Speaker 5: Nathaniel Lowe. And the Dodger pitching staff has given up
Speaker 5: one hundred and two home runs this season. Last year
Speaker 5: they gave up one hundred and ninety eight. So those
Speaker 5: numbers could be skewed at times, especially when it's not
Speaker 5: your high leverage relievers. But the reality is the Dodger
Speaker 5: bullpen has given up more home runs than any other
Speaker 5: team in baseball. The Dodger bullpen has given up forty
Speaker 5: five home runs this season. That's not a trend or distinction.
Speaker 5: You want to have. Eight six, six nine, eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number we will hear
Speaker 5: from Jose Moda coming up in about twenty minutes. You
Speaker 5: will hear more from Mike shild who just won't let
Speaker 5: it go. Won't even let go of the nlds last year.
Speaker 5: So we'll let you hear what he had to say.
Speaker 5: But we want to get to this game and just
Speaker 5: what's going on with the team right now. First and foremost,
Speaker 5: Michael Confordo again gets another starting left field. Last night,
Speaker 5: he was oh for four. Tonight he's zero for two.
Speaker 5: He's now hitting one sixty three with an ops of
Speaker 5: five sixty six. This is starting to be hard to
Speaker 5: ignore as we are in the twentieth of day of June.
Speaker 5: Not sure when this is going to turn around, if
Speaker 5: it will turn around, but it's becoming harder to ignore.
Speaker 5: And Michael's a great guy. He's a better player, I
Speaker 5: keep saying this than what he has shown so far
Speaker 5: this year. But let's see how long the Dodgers continue
Speaker 5: to stick with him, even in matchups they believe that
Speaker 5: are favorable for him, instead of putting maybe Keke Hernandez
Speaker 5: in center or Hayes on Kim and center and sighting
Speaker 5: Paez to left field. Also, it is a little surprising
Speaker 5: is Freddie Freeman's June gloom. Freddy had an incredible month
Speaker 5: of May where he hit four oh nine and in
Speaker 5: the month of June. Now Freddie is hitting a buck
Speaker 5: ninety seven. That's seventy one at bats, and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 5: is hitting one ninety seven. I have said this time
Speaker 5: and time again. Great players don't all of a sudden
Speaker 5: become bad players for no reason overnight. There's got to
Speaker 5: be something ailing Freddie Freeman that he just will not
Speaker 5: give into and say, you know what, maybe the right
Speaker 5: ankle's not feeling great right now, or the quad that
Speaker 5: I aggravated in San Diego is compounding that, or you know,
Speaker 5: whatever it may be. But Freddie Freeman, even on his
Speaker 5: worst days, is not a one ninety seven hitter healthy.
Speaker 5: I mean, we saw what he did the first two
Speaker 5: months of the season. He's much better than this, and
Speaker 5: you just hope there is nothing physically wrong with him
Speaker 5: that he's not given into. And also what's shocking is
Speaker 5: eighteen strikeouts and only seven walks. This is all not
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman. Let's head downstairs right now to hear from
Speaker 5: the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I can't speak for anybody else, but
Speaker 6: for myself. I haven't been very good for a while,
Speaker 6: so just trying to figure it out. Did the net
Speaker 6: drill many many times the last few days, but still
Speaker 6: not clicking. But a couple better swings to night, so
Speaker 6: hopefully I can build on that. It's sort of the
Speaker 6: same thing Q sixteen times over again in the last
Speaker 6: six weeks, so just waiting for it to click.
Speaker 1: How much responsibility does the top three in this lineup take?
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, we've got a really good team
Speaker 6: top to bottom. Obviously we can get going at the
Speaker 6: top and makes it makes it a little bit tougher
Speaker 6: to pitch to our land. But you know, it's been
Speaker 6: a little bit of a grind for us the last
Speaker 6: few weeks, but I think we all believe in ourselves.
Speaker 6: It's obviously a little frustrating, but we'll get going. Is
Speaker 6: that first I've had like one of the good swits? No,
Speaker 6: that was a very good That was a push to
Speaker 6: the left field of just happened to go somewhere.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: The challenge with Irving, Oh, I don't man so in
Speaker 6: my head about my swing, trying to think about things
Speaker 6: right now, I don't know. I had fasts and curveballs,
Speaker 6: swing some changes below his own. I think it's true
Speaker 6: enough pictures to not hit.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 2: Clearly frustrated.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been frustrated about six weeks now, so it'll
Speaker 6: click at some point. Just keep grinding that. Yeah, swing's
Speaker 6: still in Arizona. I think.
Speaker 1: You still doing with the quod problem.
Speaker 6: No no aches, no pains. Only ache and pain is
Speaker 6: a swing.
Speaker 5: I don't believe you, Freddy. Your aches and pains have
Speaker 5: got to be affecting your swing a little bit. You're
Speaker 5: too good for hitting a buck ninety in any month
Speaker 5: of the season, but he's human and still with a
Speaker 5: buck ninety type of batting average. In the month of June,
Speaker 5: Freddy still has the second highest bat average in the
Speaker 5: National League, second only to his teammate Will Smith, who,
Speaker 5: after two more hits tonight, including a home run, is
Speaker 5: hitting three twenty eight. Shoho Tani also in a little
Speaker 5: bit of a funk in the month of June. He
Speaker 5: was zero for for tonight with two strikeouts. He seems
Speaker 5: to be trying to swing for the moon again, and
Speaker 5: when he does that, it doesn't work out well. And
Speaker 5: a guy that has been for the most part, very
Speaker 5: ordinary all season long offensively is Mookie Betts. I mean,
Speaker 5: everybody keeps on focusing on the defense of Mookie Bets.
Speaker 5: But the offense hasn't been there. The defense has been fantastic,
Speaker 5: but the offense has been very average. Mookie's only hitting
Speaker 5: two fifty five this season. His ops is very average
Speaker 5: two seven thirty two. So you know, out of the
Speaker 5: three MVPs, Mooki has been the most ordinary. And you
Speaker 5: kind of feel like he's been playing uphill ever since
Speaker 5: he had that stomach illness in Tokio where he said
Speaker 5: he lost somewhere between fifty and twenty pounds. He just
Speaker 5: looks not as strong as we saw him last year.
Speaker 5: So it might be a blessing in disguise that he
Speaker 5: may not be on the All Star team this year.
Speaker 5: And if I'm the Dodgers, I'm hoping he's not on
Speaker 5: the All Star team so he can regroup at the
Speaker 5: All Star break, get some rest, maybe be able to
Speaker 5: get some of that weight back on, and be fresh
Speaker 5: and ready to go the second half of the season.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number Dodgers fall to the Nationals tonight, seven
Speaker 5: to three. Let's go out to the phone, So Colin,
Speaker 5: can you punch up Manuel and Sam Bernardino for us? Please?
Speaker 4: Yo, davy.
Speaker 5: Yo, what's up Manuel, just trying to get this game.
Speaker 9: You know today, whatever happens today is over with tomorrow.
Speaker 9: We got a little TONI you know, I'm looking you know,
Speaker 9: you know I'm a little with you know, we kind
Speaker 9: of save our bullpen the last couple of days, so
Speaker 9: maybe we have someone to back them up tomorrow for
Speaker 9: maybe a possible win for Otani, maybe first winter receison.
Speaker 9: I don't want to sell a little far fitched, but what.
Speaker 8: Do you think?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't count against that, especially against one of
Speaker 5: the worst teams in baseball. Probably Ben Casparraus will be
Speaker 5: lurking after Otani like he was the last time he pitched.
Speaker 5: We haven't seen Ben since then. So yeah, everybody's super
Speaker 5: excited that Otani is pitching. But you know, again, I
Speaker 5: don't want this to become just about Otani. It's about
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, and I know that's what he's about, and
Speaker 5: I know the focus we'll be on him on the
Speaker 5: days that he pitches. But it's not just about Otani.
Speaker 5: It's about the guys in the bullpen. It's about the
Speaker 5: guys on the field. It's about the other starting pitchers
Speaker 5: as well. So you just want it all to come
Speaker 5: together and not compromise every other day that he's not pitching.
Speaker 5: And I'm looking forward to seeing what he's got tomorrow
Speaker 5: after getting his feet wet, pitching in a major league
Speaker 5: game for the first time in what almost two years,
Speaker 5: So we'll see what he's got tomorrow. I would imagine
Speaker 5: that since he went one inning and twenty eight pitches
Speaker 5: in his first start, this can go to two to
Speaker 5: three innings and be somewhere between forty five and fifty pitches.
Speaker 5: That's usually the progression. Let's go out to Mission Viejo. Bill,
Speaker 5: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Bill, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, that's seven
Speaker 7: home runs in the last two games they've given up
Speaker 7: to the Nationals, so hopefully that can improve. As you're
Speaker 7: describing the bullpen's allowance of home runs and the starters,
Speaker 7: and I'm wondering, is Otani a little bit in a
Speaker 7: slump himself. We're mentioning Freddie and Mookie, but it has
Speaker 7: been a home run in a while. Again, is it
Speaker 7: just did the ebb and flow of the season.
Speaker 5: Well, a, yes, it is the ebb and flow of
Speaker 5: a sea. He's in and Yeah, he's been in a
Speaker 5: little bit of a funk uh recently as well, So
Speaker 5: it's it's part of it. But you have to, uh,
Speaker 5: you have to give kudos to the rest of the
Speaker 5: lineup because it is a lineup. Not always are the
Speaker 5: same guys going to be hot. And the seven eight
Speaker 5: nine hitters really carry the Dodgers during the Padres series,
Speaker 5: along with Will Smith and Max Munsey. I should say
Speaker 5: the sixty seven eight nine hitters because Munsey was a
Speaker 5: big part of that as well. Thanks for the phone call, Bill,
Speaker 5: appreciate it. Eight six six eight seven two five seventy
Speaker 5: Dodgers fall to the Nationals seven to three tonight. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Westwood ssan. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 5: David Vasse.
Speaker 10: Hey, Dave, I just had a quick question. It was
Speaker 10: just about Mookie Betts. I know you mentioned he's been
Speaker 10: slumping this year.
Speaker 7: My question is I.
Speaker 5: Didn't say slumping. I said he's been average.
Speaker 10: He's been average. Yeah, sorry about that. I mean to
Speaker 10: put words in your mouth, but was it Would it
Speaker 10: be an overreaction to consider putting someone like Will Smith,
Speaker 10: Randy pa has betting second until MOOKI really figures it.
Speaker 3: Out this season.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right, thank you for the phone call. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm curious to see where sho Heo Tani is batting tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Is Otani going to lead off again tomorrow with him
Speaker 5: going a little bit deeper in the game, or is
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts going to keep him as the leadoff hitter.
Speaker 5: That'll be part of it. And the reason why I
Speaker 5: bring that up is I wouldn't be opposed to having
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts lead off on those days because maybe he
Speaker 5: becomes more aggressive. I thought Mooki had really good at bats,
Speaker 5: but not a lot to show for it in San
Speaker 5: Diego because he was aggressive early in the count and
Speaker 5: he was trying to pull the ball for power. So
Speaker 5: I thought in that series in San Diego, he looked
Speaker 5: like himself, but unfortunately didn't have the results to show
Speaker 5: for it. And Mookie's again that needs to see results,
Speaker 5: as we all do if you're playing sports. So hopefully
Speaker 5: he's not getting down on himself because that tends to
Speaker 5: happen when he's not getting results. And maybe I need
Speaker 5: to record that hype video for him that we were
Speaker 5: talking about. Eight six six nine eight 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 continue more of
Speaker 5: your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy. I have an update on Alexis Dias
Speaker 5: on Tyler Glass now and also Mike Shilt, the Padres
Speaker 5: manager just won't let it go. Still very salty. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers beat them in the NLDS last year. We'll let
Speaker 5: you hear what he had to say, uh before yesterday's
Speaker 5: game as well. Dodgers fall to the Nationals tonight, seven
Speaker 5: to three. More Dodger Talk on the other side right
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Speaker 5: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi. Here comes the pitch,
Speaker 5: swung on and drilled to center and teap this Paul
Speaker 5: heading back to the wall. This Paul is gone home run.
Speaker 5: Will Smith dead center field. That's his ninth of the
Speaker 5: season and it is three to two. Will Smith one
Speaker 5: of three Dodgers to homer tonight. Smith, Pajez and Tioscar
Speaker 5: Hernandez all went deep for the Dodgers, but they fall
Speaker 5: to the Nationals, who hit five home runs tonight, seven
Speaker 5: to three. The final score eight six six seven two
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Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number I mentioned. I had an update on
Speaker 5: reliever Alexis Diaz, the former All Star closer with the
Speaker 5: Reds just two years ago, who the Dodgers acquired for
Speaker 5: basically nothing. And Alexis Diaz has now made two scoreless
Speaker 5: appearances for Oklahoma City, including tonight closing out the ninth
Speaker 5: inning for his first save with Oklahoma City. So that's
Speaker 5: great news. And obviously, you know it looked like the
Speaker 5: pitches had some life on him and movement on it.
Speaker 5: So he must be doing something right to get back
Speaker 5: on track. And I would expect to see Alexis Diaz
Speaker 5: if he continues to pitch this way with the Dodgers
Speaker 5: in the next couple of weeks. Speaking of Oklahoma City,
Speaker 5: Tyler Glass Now is going to be making his first
Speaker 5: rehab start since going on the IL for Oklahoma City tomorrow.
Speaker 5: That is great news for glass Now and the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. We'll get back to your calls in
Speaker 5: a moment, but I want to share this with you
Speaker 5: because Mike Shilt just won't let it go. He won't
Speaker 5: let it go and keeps answering questions about Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: and him, not about the Dodgers and Padres, more about
Speaker 5: him and Dave Roberts. Here is what he had to
Speaker 5: say yesterday before the game when he was asked whether
Speaker 5: or not it's personal now between him and Dave Roberts.
Speaker 5: Take a listen.
Speaker 1: Has have become personal like me and him or the
Speaker 1: Padres versus Dodgers. Yeah, another good question, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: competing for our team. You know, there's some history that's
Speaker 1: very public, you know, with what happened last year with
Speaker 1: Manny that I took exception to, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I handled that very privately. This got to be more public,
Speaker 1: and it's ultimately about you know, the defensive of our
Speaker 1: team and anybody that is gonna, you know, take the steps.
Speaker 11: That I feel are inappropriate against our team, then then
Speaker 11: I will, uh, I will take action. But you know,
Speaker 11: I don't not a personal guy. You know, I don't
Speaker 11: take any I'm not a grudge guy. But I am
Speaker 11: a foxhole guy.
Speaker 5: You will trust in many situation with thought privately as
Speaker 5: human doctors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was public on his side, but you know, listen,
Speaker 1: that's what earned the bridge and and you know I
Speaker 1: handle my things privately.
Speaker 5: Okay, So Mike's just said two things that contradict his
Speaker 5: actions and his words. He said he's not a guy
Speaker 5: that holds grudges, but he's still talking about Game two
Speaker 5: of the NLDS last year. But he doesn't hold grudges,
Speaker 5: but he's still bringing it up now in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Explain that to me, Mike Shilt, You're not a guy
Speaker 5: that holds grudges, but you're still bringing up something that
Speaker 5: happened last October out of the blue. And you're a
Speaker 5: guy that you know, doesn't they take things personal. It
Speaker 5: sounds like you're taking things very personal, very personal, and
Speaker 5: that's fine. It is personal now between the Dodgers and Padres,
Speaker 5: and when August fifteenth rolls around, this is not going
Speaker 5: to go away. They're not just going to forget about
Speaker 5: it there. It is going to be high intensity. And
Speaker 5: what Mike Shilt is referencing between Doc and Many Machado
Speaker 5: is the fact that Many Machado threw a ball towards
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts, who was standing in the dugout here at
Speaker 5: Dodgers Stadium in Game two of last year's NLDS, and
Speaker 5: before Game three I asked Dave Roberts about it. Here's
Speaker 5: what he had to say, Dave, last night, did the
Speaker 5: ball that Machado threw into your dugout almost hit you?
Speaker 5: And did you feel like that should have been an
Speaker 5: ejection because Trip Gibson went over there right away to
Speaker 5: try to intervene, But that seemed to be what sparked
Speaker 5: the giwing between Flaherty and Machado. Did it almost hit you. Well,
Speaker 5: did you know that? I didn't know.
Speaker 12: I didn't notice it at the time. I really didn't.
Speaker 12: I didn't notice it. I did see the video and
Speaker 12: it was it was unsettling. Obviously I have a relationship
Speaker 12: with Manny from from years past. There was intent behind it.
Speaker 12: It didn't amost hit me because there was a net
Speaker 12: and that was very bothersome. It's it's if it was
Speaker 12: intended at me, i'd be very it's it's it's it's
Speaker 12: pretty disrespectful. So I don't know his intent. I want
Speaker 12: to speak for him, but I did see the video
Speaker 12: and the ball was directed at me with something behind it,
Speaker 12: So but I don't know what led to that. I
Speaker 12: didn't see it in real time, but I did see
Speaker 12: the video.
Speaker 5: Did you feel after seeing the video he should have
Speaker 5: been ejected for that?
Speaker 12: I don't think they should have had a little arm
Speaker 12: around each other conversation. If players can throw balls out
Speaker 12: of opposing managers.
Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, who was putting his arm around Manny Machada?
Speaker 5: Was it old friend Trip Gibson, who was at third
Speaker 5: base that night? Yeah, Trip Gibson. There's a reason why
Speaker 5: LA knows his name really well. Anyway, is that why
Speaker 5: Mike Schiltz upset because Dave Roberts answered a question that
Speaker 5: was asked to him in a press conference. I mean,
Speaker 5: I was surprised when I asked him that question. Nobody
Speaker 5: else did before the end of the press conference, and
Speaker 5: that's when I felt compelled to ask Dave Roberts that question.
Speaker 5: So Mike Schildt says he doesn't hold grudges, but he's
Speaker 5: bringing up things that happened last October, which clearly tells
Speaker 5: us that he's still stewing over the fact that the
Speaker 5: Padres blew that NLDS and the Dodgers took it from
Speaker 5: them to win the World Series. And also, Mike shild
Speaker 5: after the other night said that he's an old school guy,
Speaker 5: believes in old school baseball. Well, if he's an old
Speaker 5: school guy, then he would realize that you only get
Speaker 5: one shot to retaliate against one of the best players
Speaker 5: in baseball, and that's not what Randy Vasquez did. It
Speaker 5: took him two tries to hit sho Heo Tani. And
Speaker 5: if Mike Shilt's an old school guy, he would realize
Speaker 5: that old school baseball unwritten rules say when you're trying
Speaker 5: to intentionally hit a batter. You don't go close to
Speaker 5: the head. And that's exactly where Robert Suarez went. So
Speaker 5: a lot of contradictions coming from the Padres manager these days.
Speaker 5: Can't wait to see him in August. Eight six six
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Dodgers fall to the Nationals tonight seven to three. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Darryl in Palmdale. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 5: with David Vasse. I mean, did I miss anything there, Darryl?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you win something, you lose some. But
Speaker 3: the Big Three, the Big Three days, you know, they
Speaker 3: got a game, they got up. Uh, they need to
Speaker 3: move them, move them around a little bit. Mookie, he
Speaker 3: can lead on so that show, hey won't be getting
Speaker 3: all the breaking stuff, you know. But uh, all right,
Speaker 3: now I think you didn't hear them a bit.
Speaker 5: I thought we were listening and we were just talking.
Speaker 5: And now you're just going back to three really good
Speaker 5: players in a little mini slump. Now goodbye. Eight six
Speaker 5: six nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. See,
Speaker 5: that's when somebody just talks at you. Nobody's listening. You're
Speaker 5: just talking at me, all right, let's go out to Agora.
Speaker 5: J T. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, Mike, Mike shilt he just he's gonna
Speaker 8: lose his job. It's just so he's just fighting to
Speaker 8: keep his job. If Dave Roberts continues to own him,
Speaker 8: you know, with the season series and in the playoffs
Speaker 8: coming up, he'll be gone, just like all the other
Speaker 8: managers in the West once they faced the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: So, but uh, yeah, that was a great invidrey managers.
Speaker 5: How many managers have the Padres had since Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: has been the Dodger manager for ten years, Andy Grain,
Speaker 5: Jase Tingler, and I'm now Mike Schiltz. So they've gone
Speaker 5: through three managers while the Dodgers have only had one.
Speaker 5: Maybe they that might be some sort of a tip
Speaker 5: that they are so emotional on trying to find anything
Speaker 5: that works to beat the Dodgers and it's only worked
Speaker 5: once and they lost in the next round. Anyway, go ahead, JT.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts has a really great opportunity right now at
Speaker 8: this point in the season. I think you made a
Speaker 8: great point earlier. I do think that there should be
Speaker 8: an adjustment. I know what you're saying, it's only on
Speaker 8: show Hayes pitching days, but I think show Hayes batting
Speaker 8: two twenty seven with runners in scoring position this year,
Speaker 8: I think he needs to be in more opportunities to
Speaker 8: drive in runs and so an adjustment to the lineup
Speaker 8: might be important. And also I think the manager needs
Speaker 8: to have a little bit more of a say in
Speaker 8: show Hayes workload. What I mean by that is show
Speaker 8: hay never takes a day off. And I know that's
Speaker 8: because I know that's because he's a DH, but like
Speaker 8: when you're preparing mentally to pitch, maybe he gets a
Speaker 8: day off before pitching, you know, or maybe he gets
Speaker 8: there's a day off. They could get him once in
Speaker 8: a while. He never sits. But also Conforto I think
Speaker 8: needs to go. As much as he made a great
Speaker 8: play in the field yesterday, he failed against the Mets,
Speaker 8: his old team, and against the Nationals. You think that
Speaker 8: because you know this, You think that he would do
Speaker 8: well against teams that he faced over and over again
Speaker 8: in the NL East. But he is just not making
Speaker 8: you know. Something's off with him.
Speaker 5: Something is off with him because he doesn't even resemble
Speaker 5: the guy we saw with the Giants last year, and
Speaker 5: he wasn't even that great with the Giants last year.
Speaker 5: He was much better away from Oracle Park. He was solid.
Speaker 5: I mean, he hit twenty home runs last year. But
Speaker 5: something's going on with him as well, and corrections and retractions.
Speaker 5: It's been four managers for the Padre since Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: has been the one manager for the Dodgers the last
Speaker 5: ten years, Andy Green, Jase Tingler, Mike Shilt, and before Shilt,
Speaker 5: it was Bob Melvin who jumped ship for the Giants.
Speaker 5: That's how bad he wanted out of San Diego, the
Speaker 5: best city in America. He wanted out to go manage
Speaker 5: the Giants. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Long Beach. Alex.
Speaker 5: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Alex?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing fine. I just wanted to talk about.
Speaker 5: I catch you off guard, Alex because you called me.
Speaker 4: I know I've been on hold for a little bit,
Speaker 4: but I'm on guard now.
Speaker 5: Okay, great, Okay, wait, I wanted to.
Speaker 4: Talk about Dustin May. Is that okay with you?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: That is?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say, Okay, cool, He's hitting a
Speaker 4: lot of batters, he's walking a lot of batters, he's
Speaker 4: giving up a lot of home runs. Why are we
Speaker 4: putting up with him? He's a lousy pitcher this season.
Speaker 5: See, I knew you were going to have a very
Speaker 5: condescending attitude when you called in and you weren't ready
Speaker 5: to speak right away to the people of La Number one.
Speaker 5: Do you realize Dustin May and Yama Modo are the
Speaker 5: only two Dodgers starters that have made every start this
Speaker 5: season on their turn? Do you realize Dustin May has
Speaker 5: gone into the sixth inning nine out of his fourteen starts,
Speaker 5: including going six tonight. Availability is a big thing these days, Alex.
Speaker 5: And it's not like he's been horrible. The most runs
Speaker 5: he's given up in one start this year is six.
Speaker 5: Outside of that, it's been basically somewhere between two and four.
Speaker 4: What's his era?
Speaker 5: Is era coming into the game today was three forty
Speaker 5: seven and tonight he only gave up two runs? Is
Speaker 5: that there's two runs too many for you in a
Speaker 5: start that goes six innings?
Speaker 4: Right now? I think it's over four, isn't it like
Speaker 4: four point five?
Speaker 5: It is four forty six.
Speaker 4: Now, well that's not great.
Speaker 5: It's not great, But here's a guy that wh would
Speaker 5: you Okay, since you have all the answers, Alex, you
Speaker 5: want to just say Dustin May thanks a lot for
Speaker 5: being available for every one year starts and keeping the
Speaker 5: Dodgers in the game. You're you're out. Go to Oklahoma City,
Speaker 5: maybe even Tulsa. If Alex was Andrew Friedman, who is
Speaker 5: taking his spot in the rotation.
Speaker 4: Well I'm sure he could find another guy that has
Speaker 4: a four point five.
Speaker 5: Tell me who it is, Tell me who it is, really,
Speaker 5: tell me who you want to please multiple people. This
Speaker 5: conversation's over. Should have known you weren't ready and you're
Speaker 5: not ready for the big leagues either, Alex. Come back
Speaker 5: when you have some answers instead of just disparaging guys
Speaker 5: that have been out there every single start since the
Speaker 5: beginning of the season and have hung in there. I'm
Speaker 5: not saying he's been fantastic or great or any of that,
Speaker 5: but there's something to be said for being available and
Speaker 5: being available and pitching effective. He must be doing something
Speaker 5: right if he's pitching into the sixth inning nine different
Speaker 5: times this year. And I love Long Beach. I love
Speaker 5: the people of Long Beach. Eight six six two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. Let's cleanse our palate with
Speaker 5: the great Jose Mota. It's time to go around the
Speaker 5: horn with Jose Mota. All right on the heels of
Speaker 5: that fantastic positive phone call, Jose, Maybe you why don't we, uh,
Speaker 5: why don't we put into context Dustin May's season? How
Speaker 5: would you put it into context?
Speaker 2: A couple of things. Number one, for Dustin I remember
Speaker 2: he had never made these many starts of the season. Okay,
Speaker 2: that that's the main thing. It's not excused he has
Speaker 2: not done it. Dustin May has been a bullpen saver, okay.
Speaker 2: Dustin May has given the Dodgers five inuties every single
Speaker 2: start minimum, okay, and then out he's like tonight where
Speaker 2: he doesn't get run support. Look a little worse because
Speaker 2: he gave up some home runs. It's gonna happen to
Speaker 2: the best of them. I mean, go ask Kurt Shirley
Speaker 2: about home runs. And in other words, I mean, this
Speaker 2: guy is just threading water that he has not been
Speaker 2: with his Velocity's fine, maybe the lots of the faust
Speaker 2: is not the same, but man, you got to tip
Speaker 2: your head anybody that goes out there in modern day
Speaker 2: baseball six innings, three runs allowed to four and a
Speaker 2: half ERA. But it's more than acceptable because Zadgier's offense
Speaker 2: is going to score a lot of runs when they
Speaker 2: don't though obviously he needs to make better pitches. But
Speaker 2: I think one thing, one thing he's learning right now,
Speaker 2: Dave is pitching as the lineup turns around. There's way
Speaker 2: more information on him than ever before, more innings, more
Speaker 2: stars than ever before. But the stuff is allowing you
Speaker 2: to stay in games, and he continues to eat up
Speaker 2: some innings for you.
Speaker 5: And when you look at it, a quality starts six
Speaker 5: innings and three earned runs or less, and that equals
Speaker 5: out to a four and a half R. So I
Speaker 5: would say Dustin May is doing a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: He's railway needs to be considering that the guy had
Speaker 2: a live scare number one that's surgeon esophagus and then
Speaker 2: a couple of innovations in his arm. And we see
Speaker 2: a guy that battles and he's very emotional. He got
Speaker 2: a big jam today and he is the one picture
Speaker 2: also and not gonna put Yama Malta in that start too.
Speaker 2: And that line has found a way to almost relieve himself,
Speaker 2: meaning he's he's your best reliever when he needs to
Speaker 2: out there and know it. As the season goes along,
Speaker 2: he needs to keep an eye on what teams were
Speaker 2: doing second time, you know, hopefully some time around because
Speaker 2: as when you have to make the biggest suggestment. And
Speaker 2: one thing I love or Hershawdzer years ago was is
Speaker 2: a sinker ball pitcher and somebody that's it's more of
Speaker 2: a you know, a running fastball than a sinker has
Speaker 2: some tilt to it. But he is going to find
Speaker 2: a way to say, you know what, sometimes less is
Speaker 2: better and that ground ball can get early in account
Speaker 2: is going to be better. He does need the bottom
Speaker 2: of his zone. There's no doubt he needs a bottom
Speaker 2: of a zone for that fire fast will be effective.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, I'll say it again, this guy's given you
Speaker 2: every chance to win every time out and he is
Speaker 2: allowing you to say some arms out of that bullpen.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 5: the National seven to three. Jose, you know I was
Speaker 5: around Adrian Gonzalez for all of his Dodge your career,
Speaker 5: and you know he was a tactician. As a hitter,
Speaker 5: he knew himself really well. And when I hear Freddy
Speaker 5: Freeman talk and he's talking about his swing and he's
Speaker 5: sitting over three twenty something and obviously having a struggle
Speaker 5: this month, he reminds me of Adrian in the fact
Speaker 5: that they are so hard on themselves even when they're
Speaker 5: going good.
Speaker 2: That's why they're so good, because they're never satisfied. And
Speaker 2: listening to Freddy, he has been so consistent since his
Speaker 2: based in Atlanta, when he would just tell himself, I'm
Speaker 2: getting the hits, but I'm not I'm not there yet.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no better way to ask that he
Speaker 2: doesn't get fooled into results. He wants to see the
Speaker 2: process both of the way he should now Freddy, it's
Speaker 2: also a guy who likes to play every day. He
Speaker 2: takes a lot of pride in that Freddy likes to
Speaker 2: play defense and he doesn't just stand there and wait
Speaker 2: for the ball to get there and have no rich
Speaker 2: He plays defense hard and he runs a base is hard.
Speaker 2: And I think from what I'm seeing is yes, he
Speaker 2: mentioned his swing, which is as he said as rotational.
Speaker 2: Obviously is not his swing, but we said a lout this.
Speaker 2: You know the way they're pitching to him when you're
Speaker 2: letting out there. There's no doubt in my mind, and
Speaker 2: I've seen so many years that your your swing get
Speaker 2: is affected and the ankle and the quad. Even though
Speaker 2: he doesn't he says there's no pain, there's no bother.
Speaker 2: I mean, at some point you don't think about it
Speaker 2: because you're treating it. But maybe strength wise, reactionis a
Speaker 2: quick twitch is not there and it doesn't affect you.
Speaker 2: But Freddie has done it before. He's a guy that
Speaker 2: does not use a lot of loading up or like
Speaker 2: kicked and things like that, and that's why his legs
Speaker 2: are even more important from other guys. But it's gonna
Speaker 2: take a couple of bloopers going the other way from
Speaker 2: just find that swing again because he just knows himself
Speaker 2: and he's way too good and understanding that he's honest
Speaker 2: with his evaluations, making even more dangerous because we know
Speaker 2: it's going to be there all right.
Speaker 5: Hose Tomorrow afternoon show, hay Otani is going to make
Speaker 5: his second start as a Dodger pitcher, a two way player,
Speaker 5: second time on the home stand. That fans are going
Speaker 5: to be able to see that what do you believe
Speaker 5: is a real, realistic expectation after one inning the first time?
Speaker 5: Do you feel like three innings is realistic at all?
Speaker 2: According to our show, he does the first couple of innings.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the first inning, mainly because obviously he
Speaker 2: was way amped up. The twenty eight pitches. He made
Speaker 2: one trick swing that would didn't go his way. That's
Speaker 2: water into the bridge he left the run. But even
Speaker 2: though he hit a lot of movement on that fast
Speaker 2: but which he's been working for so long, I like
Speaker 2: to see more for seamers tomorrow. I'd like to see
Speaker 2: him just get a feel for command of that four
Speaker 2: seamer both sides of the play, especially the loveside where
Speaker 2: he was yankee pitches. What is yankee meaning? You were
Speaker 2: throwing to throw it so hard, to be so perfect
Speaker 2: that you end up throwing across your body too much,
Speaker 2: and even though the ball moves, it's just not where
Speaker 2: you wanted to go. So I'd like to see that
Speaker 2: four seamer get established tomorrow and just forget about velocity,
Speaker 2: forget about anything else but just getting through innings with
Speaker 2: quality pitches and allow your defense to work for But
Speaker 2: I know that he is shooting. He really wants to
Speaker 2: go up and get three an the dogar no doubt.
Speaker 5: Would you expect him to lead off tomorrow, Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: left the door open. As this continues to progress, he may,
Speaker 5: you know, consider moving Otani down in the lineup to
Speaker 5: give him a chance to catch his breath.
Speaker 2: I I see him leading off. I don't see any
Speaker 2: changes coming just because of this or what happened the
Speaker 2: other time. He's done his entire career pretty much, and
Speaker 2: at this point I'll see why change. It could happen.
Speaker 2: It would be great, but I'm gonna affect it to happen, Dave.
Speaker 5: Okay, Jose can't wait to see you. Tomorrow should be
Speaker 5: another fun day at the ballpark with Otani on the mound.
Speaker 2: Okay, how he got the Thomas I got.
Speaker 5: Though, when else not? Chez Jose part of the Dodgers
Speaker 5: Spanish radio broadcast. And by the way, I paid my
Speaker 5: bet today. I did bring the tacos for Pepe and Ingas.
Speaker 5: I placed them right where he sits, and I let
Speaker 5: him decide whether or not he was going to share
Speaker 5: with Jose and Luis Cruz and his producer engineer Ephrin.
Speaker 5: But Pepe, the great guy teammate that he is, he
Speaker 5: shared with everybody, and it seemed like Cochito was very
Speaker 5: happy with the tacos. I mean he was. He was
Speaker 5: asking me for the tacos. I said, Hey, I didn't
Speaker 5: make the bet with you. I made it with Pepe.
Speaker 5: It's up to him to decide if he's gonna share anyway.
Speaker 5: That'll do it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow,
Speaker 5: Otani on the mound for the Dodgers. Enough said right there,
Speaker 5: going up against Michael Soroka, He's three and five with
Speaker 5: an ERA of five zero six. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on
Speaker 5: Deck begins at noon tomorrow with first pitch at one ten.
Speaker 5: Tim Kats will be hosting Dodger Talk on Getaway Day.
Speaker 5: I'll be on the sidelines Dugoutside for Sports Net LA.
Speaker 5: Kirsten Watson will be in studio, and we hope you
Speaker 5: join us here on a five seventy LA sports and
Speaker 5: Sports Net LA for what should be another fun, eventful
Speaker 5: day at Dodger Stadium. Show Aotani the two way player
Speaker 5: on the mound for the second time this homestand thanks
Speaker 5: to Colin ye back at our Burbank studios, Thanks to
Speaker 5: Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to
Speaker 5: you for listening. In case you missed any of the
Speaker 5: show or our pregame conversation with legend the comment hey
Speaker 5: song Kim, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5: Once again. The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers fall to the Nationals seven to three. Have a
Speaker 5: great rest of your night. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: See ya.