Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Globe Life Field after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Rangers three to nothing. Welcome the Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk David Vasse with you until nine o'clock tonight right
Speaker 2: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. We're taking
Speaker 2: your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy.
Speaker 3: We already have a lot of people on hold.
Speaker 2: But we still have two lines open if you want
Speaker 2: to get in and apologize to Max Munsey and all
Speaker 2: the disparaging remarks you have made about him and his defense.
Speaker 3: That's why I always say let the season breathe a
Speaker 3: little bit, right.
Speaker 2: There are going to be errors during a long season,
Speaker 2: but you have to look at a player's track record,
Speaker 2: and the track record for Max Monsey is he has
Speaker 2: become a pretty good third baseman and he has a
Speaker 2: pretty good baseball IQ, as we saw in the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll say this again. I had the the
Speaker 2: pleasure of standing next to Elvis Andrews, who played the
Speaker 2: majority of his career here in Texas with teammates with
Speaker 2: Adrian Beltray. They went to the World Series this guy
Speaker 2: knows a lot about infield defense. He knew a lot
Speaker 2: about Tanner Scott as he was pitching, so I tapped
Speaker 2: into it. I got a lot of text from people
Speaker 2: saying I wasn't watching the game. I was talking to
Speaker 2: Elvis Andrews. Elvis Andrews was talking the game with me. Okay,
Speaker 2: he was talking the game with me, so I learned
Speaker 2: a lot. And he told me after months he made
Speaker 2: that stop on Kevin Pilar's ground ball that probably would
Speaker 2: have gone through if he wasn't able to make that play.
Speaker 2: Not only does he make the play, but on his knees,
Speaker 2: makes a perfect throat a second base to force out
Speaker 2: his former teammate Corey Seeger. Right at that point, and
Speaker 2: with Tanner Scott being human, Elvis Andrews turned to me
Speaker 2: and said, that play right there saved the game or
Speaker 2: it would be nervous time bases loaded for Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: trying to protect a three to nothing game with his fastball,
Speaker 2: again not having a lot of life. We'll get to
Speaker 2: that in a second, but first I want apologies for Munci,
Speaker 2: or at least celebrate him tonight for making the two
Speaker 2: biggest plays of the game. And I love Jose Mota
Speaker 2: bringing up the play that Conforto made in the third
Speaker 2: inning to help Yama Moto keep the shutout intact, because
Speaker 2: Conforto made a great play on a double by Corey
Speaker 2: Seger that probably would have scored Marcus Simeon if he
Speaker 2: did not play it as perfectly as he did, cutting
Speaker 2: it off and also being able to turn and throw
Speaker 2: quickly to get the ball back to the infield and
Speaker 2: hold Simeon at third. Seeger and Simeon were stranded as
Speaker 2: Jock Peterson's early season struggles continue. Inning over shutout still intact,
Speaker 2: and then in the seventh inning, I thought Yamamoto's catcher,
Speaker 2: Will Smith did a great job of calling y'alltos game
Speaker 2: but also a strike him out, throw him out to
Speaker 2: end the seventh inning, and Yamamoto has a seven scoreless innings,
Speaker 2: ten strikeout night to beat Jacob de Grom eight six,
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Getting home safe is a priority both on and off
Speaker 2: the field. Use a designated driver if you're going to
Speaker 2: be drinking. It's the winning strategy brought to you by Budweiser. Oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, did you hear sho he Otani is
Speaker 2: not with the Dodgers because he and his wife are
Speaker 2: expecting their first child.
Speaker 3: To be born this weekend.
Speaker 2: So Otani stayed back, which meant the Dodgers needed a
Speaker 2: new leadoff hitter. Nope, not Mookie Betts. It was Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: Tommy everything Edmund. He is everything for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: he was tonight a leadoff home run off of de Gram.
Speaker 2: The only mistake and the only run the Dodgers scored
Speaker 2: tonight was the second pitch of the game from de
Speaker 2: Gram to Edmund, a ninety eight fastball that Edmund did
Speaker 2: not miss. It's head downstairs right now to here from Tommy.
Speaker 2: Everything you've you've faced the ground in his med stays
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 4: No, that was the first time i'd faced him. You know,
Speaker 4: he's been one of the nastiest pitchers of the game
Speaker 4: for a while, so I was excited for the challenge.
Speaker 5: What what did you get? Just die fastball?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I just had die fastball? Did you think good? List
Speaker 4: Yalla motos mm hmmm. I mean he's been man on
Speaker 4: a mission. He's pretty much unstoppable. Yeah, it's fun playing
Speaker 4: behind him. You pretty much know what you're gonna get
Speaker 4: every time and seven shoutout of things today against AID.
Speaker 4: You know, a good lineup. They've got a lot of
Speaker 4: really talented players, a lot of good hitters in that lineup,
Speaker 4: So to make them look the way that he did,
Speaker 4: it was pretty incredible.
Speaker 5: How good was that command?
Speaker 3: One of his build is sort of locate everything head
Speaker 3: on the hedges.
Speaker 5: Of the plate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean his execution has just been unreal all year.
Speaker 4: He just has so many, so many ways to get
Speaker 4: ahead of hitters, you know, like he is that two
Speaker 4: to oh you can dump in a curveball, you can
Speaker 4: just die a fastball away, just so many ways to
Speaker 4: get back in the count. And then once he's up
Speaker 4: in the count, you know, he's got a lot of
Speaker 4: pitches to put him away. So he just he has
Speaker 4: something for every situation and he's been executing all of them.
Speaker 6: Seeing him to you know, toe to toe Degron kind
Speaker 6: of just drive in the fast like just you know
Speaker 6: how good he is, Like the hell.
Speaker 4: Of here with this year, Oh for sure. You know,
Speaker 4: he's one of the best pitchures in our game right now.
Speaker 4: I can't really imagine anybody being better than him right now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been fun to play behind him.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Tommy Edman, who is very humble and
Speaker 2: hungry and continues to be everything for the Dodgers, including
Speaker 2: the National League home run leader with seven home runs. Now,
Speaker 2: just awesome, an awesome night of baseball, A game that
Speaker 2: took two hours and twenty two minutes in front of
Speaker 2: a sellout crowd of thirty eight thousand, six hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty three and many of them home happy wearing Dodger jersey.
Speaker 3: So a great night.
Speaker 2: And like I said in spring training, I saw something
Speaker 2: in Yama Moto. I'm not a guy that has all
Speaker 2: the computer data, but I saw a guy that had
Speaker 2: a lot of swagger, a lot of confidence, and even
Speaker 2: in his bullpen sessions at camel Back Ranch, was attacking
Speaker 2: it with a mission.
Speaker 3: And now we've seen that carry over. He's going to
Speaker 3: win the.
Speaker 2: National League Cy Young Award eight six six seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Let's go out to the two one three, Eric,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Eric?
Speaker 6: That Dave gv Bo statement, You're already gonna declare, yo, yo,
Speaker 6: she canna win a SiO Award right now.
Speaker 3: I called it in spring training. I'm just doubling down.
Speaker 6: Okay, No, he's looking good. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 6: right now, name.
Speaker 2: Another picture in baseball that's better than Yama Moto right now?
Speaker 3: Can you me? Or may not watch all of them?
Speaker 2: There is not another pitcher right now that is pitching
Speaker 2: better than Yamamoto.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna jinx my dude because on the message
Speaker 6: boards I said the same thing. Man.
Speaker 2: You know you saw what he did toward message boards
Speaker 2: don't count when you say it here.
Speaker 3: It matters.
Speaker 6: What I'm gonna say right now is that Yoshi's pitching well,
Speaker 6: I'm knocking Jenson's He's pitching well. There's very few players
Speaker 6: in my sports fandom that I hold highly. Okay, there
Speaker 6: there's very few players when it comes to the Lakers
Speaker 6: right now. Is Austin Reeves right, Cooper Cup I love
Speaker 6: Pooper Nakoula on the Dodgers team. Tommy Edmund is on
Speaker 6: that Mount rushmore of my favorite players ever. Okay, this
Speaker 6: dude is a gamer. Man, Are you telling me right
Speaker 6: now this dude is leading the league in home runs?
Speaker 3: Is that you're telling you that it's seven home runs? Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay, big time player. Whether if it's in the leadoff
Speaker 6: spot in the cleanup spot, whether if it's second base
Speaker 6: or center field. My dude, performance, man, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean. And I just love what he's doing. And
Speaker 6: let me lead you with.
Speaker 5: This, Dave.
Speaker 6: And I've been hammering this mantra last season. Okay, I
Speaker 6: said show Hayen needs to bat with runners on.
Speaker 5: Baby.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying you taking him off the leadoff spot,
Speaker 6: but the ninth hitter is to me, one of the
Speaker 6: most important spots. You can't have show hay continue to
Speaker 6: hit with nobody on base, man, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the dynamics might be changing. The dynamics
Speaker 2: might be changing. If the Dodgers can't find a winning,
Speaker 2: winning formula like they had last year where Rojas and
Speaker 2: Lux eight nine, then they may have to consider to
Speaker 2: have Otani move down in the order and have Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund lead off and let the big dog eat and
Speaker 2: have more guys in scoring position. I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 2: You're a great caller. Don't waste your time on the
Speaker 2: message boards. Call here because this is what matters. That's
Speaker 2: all fake, that's all fake. Come back here where there's
Speaker 2: real people. Thanks Eric eight sixty six nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Hey, he brings up a valid point.
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers can't get their eight to nine hitters
Speaker 2: on base, if they can't find that combo, I agree
Speaker 2: with him. Tommy Edmund can hit first, he could hit seventh,
Speaker 2: he could hit third. We saw him hit clean up
Speaker 2: last year. If we can't, if the Dodgers can't find
Speaker 2: the right combination to flip that lineup over, and Otani
Speaker 2: is starting innings more than coming up with runners on base,
Speaker 2: you gotta consider to change because, like I've told you,
Speaker 2: Andre Ethier told me this many years ago. Every season
Speaker 2: is unique to itself. So what work last year may
Speaker 2: not be working this year. The group of players are different.
Speaker 2: It's not a huge difference, but there's some key players
Speaker 2: that are not in the same position as they were
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 3: You know, Father Time is undefeated.
Speaker 2: Rojas had an unbelievable offensive season, but he's not an
Speaker 2: everyday player anymore, and he's hitting under two hundred. Gavin
Speaker 2: Lux is in Cincinnati playing left field, so you don't
Speaker 2: have those eight to nine guys. And until the Dodgers
Speaker 2: figure that out, I would consider maybe moving Otani down
Speaker 2: and having him come up with more runners on base
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine, seven, two, five seventy is.
Speaker 3: The phone number.
Speaker 2: Mike, you were here at the game at Globelive Field.
Speaker 2: Are you from Lay? Are you a Texas native?
Speaker 5: Hey, Dave, I am from LA. I live in Texas
Speaker 5: now and it was so good to see my boys
Speaker 5: in blue.
Speaker 3: This is their.
Speaker 2: Home away from home. Don't let anybody let tell you
Speaker 2: anything different.
Speaker 7: It truly is.
Speaker 6: I was in twenty twenty, was at some NLCS games.
Speaker 6: I was at the World Series, and every time they
Speaker 6: come here, I make sure to make a point.
Speaker 2: I'm coming to all three games this weekend, and I
Speaker 2: just want to see him win all three games. All right, Mike,
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone call. We'll see you out here
Speaker 2: the next two nights. And there have been a lot
Speaker 2: of Dodger fans. I'm not really sure. Why is this
Speaker 2: like a spring break bucket list place to come to?
Speaker 2: Because I gotta be honest with you, outside of sports,
Speaker 2: this town has nothing to offer. I mean outside of
Speaker 2: coming to the game, it has nothing to offer. I mean,
Speaker 2: how many times can I go to the book depository here?
Speaker 2: There's only so And I'm a huge JFK conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2: But there's only so many times I can go there.
Speaker 2: So outside of eating, drinking, and baseball, there's not much
Speaker 2: this town offers. So I was a little surprised so
Speaker 2: many Dodger fans showed up. But I will say this,
Speaker 2: if I'm a Dodger fan, I want to see this
Speaker 2: place because this was the place the Dodgers ran the
Speaker 2: table in the bubble and won the World Series.
Speaker 3: So if I'm a Dodger fan.
Speaker 2: I'm coming here when they're playing, just to take it
Speaker 2: all in and remember so many great moments. Will Smith
Speaker 2: versus Will Smith, the Justin Turner tag On Ozuna, the
Speaker 2: great catches by Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger in the outfield,
Speaker 2: the home runs by Keith k A and Bellinger, Kevin
Speaker 2: Cash walking out to that mound and taking Blake Snell out,
Speaker 2: all those things. I want to remember an experience. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Carlsbad RT. You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing, RT?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 6: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Dude?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. We've established that.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say, hey, I've had a rough time.
Speaker 7: I had a rough last ten days or so. I'm
Speaker 7: hanging in there. I was driving home from the hospital
Speaker 7: and I put on the radio and it was Dodger
Speaker 7: Talk and I heard you guys talking. Dude, I bleed,
Speaker 7: Dodger Blue Man. I love the Dodgers my whole life.
Speaker 7: And I heard you guys talking, and you know, people
Speaker 7: were smashing on Monthy. I love Monkey dude. I'm a
Speaker 7: lifelong Dodger boy. And I like Punky Man. He can
Speaker 7: that guy. He's a badass and I like him.
Speaker 5: He's a good dude.
Speaker 7: So everybody needs to calm down on and just let
Speaker 7: him do his thing like he always does.
Speaker 2: All right, Artie, thanks for the phone call. Appreciated and
Speaker 2: hope you feel better hopeful as well.
Speaker 3: Glad you were.
Speaker 2: Coming out of the hospital, and I'm honored that you
Speaker 2: turned on Dodger Talk. Look, Munsey's starting to see the
Speaker 2: ball a lot better. I mean he's taking his walks,
Speaker 2: he's getting hits. The home runs are going to come.
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of time. So I like what
Speaker 2: I'm starting to see from Montsey. It seems like he's
Speaker 2: starting to get his feet underneath him. And tonight he
Speaker 2: made two great plays in the ninth inning to help
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hold off the Rangers in the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number when we continue more of your phone calls. Also,
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into Tanner Scott. I know he has
Speaker 2: seven saves, but he has not looked like the Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott we saw last year. So we'll get into that
Speaker 2: and we'll look at what the Dodgers are doing without
Speaker 2: the big three intact for a lot of their games
Speaker 2: so far this season. Dodgers shut out the Rangers three
Speaker 2: to nothing on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassaying.
Speaker 6: Scrubs into his one and Ben swings it, hits it
Speaker 6: eye the ear right field, pushing back toward the wall.
Speaker 4: It as gone.
Speaker 3: Tommy with a tank to kick things off, going.
Speaker 6: Into the bullpen in right center field, and just like that,
Speaker 6: Edmund's seventh home run of the year makes it one
Speaker 6: nothing Dodgers.
Speaker 2: That was the only run the Dodgers scored off of
Speaker 2: Jacob de Gram the second pitch of the game. Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund leading off in place of Shell hay Otani, who
Speaker 2: is on the paternity list as he and his wife
Speaker 2: are expecting their first child. Tommy Edmund with three hits tonight,
Speaker 2: including that home run to lead off the game off
Speaker 2: of Jacob de Gram, and the Dodgers shut out the
Speaker 2: Rangers tonight, three to nothing in front of a sellout
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Speaker 2: was a big night for Tommy Edmund. Ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: continues to be a run producer. Knowing the situation top
Speaker 2: of the ninth inning, the Dodgers up one nothing, got
Speaker 2: a runner in scoring position with one out. All he
Speaker 2: does with two strikes is go the opposite way to
Speaker 2: drive in a run. And he's now hitting three sixty
Speaker 2: eight with runners in scoring position and the Dodgers needed
Speaker 2: every one of those two runs.
Speaker 3: In the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: Because it's kind of been a high wire act for
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott.
Speaker 3: We knew how good he was last year.
Speaker 2: The fastball used to or last year had a lot
Speaker 2: of life on it, had that rising type of action
Speaker 2: on it. But so far this season the fastball has
Speaker 2: been very ordinary. And in fact, in that ninth inning,
Speaker 2: Tenor Scott's fastball dipped to as low as ninety four
Speaker 2: were miles an hour. And like I mentioned, I was
Speaker 2: standing next to Elvis Andrews in that ninth inning and
Speaker 2: he faced Tanner Scott when he was in his beginning
Speaker 2: his Marlin's career, and he said, I mean, as as
Speaker 2: a right handed hitter, I love facing lefties except that guy.
Speaker 2: For whatever reason, his slider, his fastball just got on
Speaker 2: me as a right handed hitter like no other left
Speaker 2: handed pitcher. But what he saw tonight was not the
Speaker 2: same Tanner Scott that we saw last year or the
Speaker 2: one he faced a few years back. He noticed the
Speaker 2: late life on his fastball was not what it usually is,
Speaker 2: and he said, either he's protecting some sort of barking
Speaker 2: elbow or it's a dead arm. But something's going on
Speaker 2: with his fastball because it's not the same. And if
Speaker 2: you go back to even the Rockies game where the
Speaker 2: Dodgers almost gave that game up two nights ago, the
Speaker 2: way he got his strikeouts was with the Rockies chasing
Speaker 2: his He didn't get it with his fastball. So that's
Speaker 2: something to keep an eye on because Tanner Scott has
Speaker 2: been finding a way, but it hasn't been dominant like
Speaker 2: we saw last year. He has seven saves, and remember
Speaker 2: the first week the Dodgers came back from their trip
Speaker 2: in Tokyo, Dave Roberts even didn't pitch him in save situations.
Speaker 2: He had Blake Trenin pitching in save situations because he
Speaker 2: said Scott was working out some mechanical issues. So this
Speaker 2: time of year, at different points, relievers starters sometimes get
Speaker 2: what they call that dead arm period that you get
Speaker 2: at the end of spring training. Maybe that's something. How
Speaker 2: much was he used last year? I mean the Padres
Speaker 2: used him a lot at the end of last year
Speaker 2: because he was going to be a free agent, and
Speaker 2: we all know a lot of teams when a player
Speaker 2: is going to be a free agent, they kind of
Speaker 2: use and abuse him as far as usage goes. Because
Speaker 2: they know they're not going to resign him back, but
Speaker 2: it's something to keep an eye on. And Max Munsey
Speaker 2: saved this game with two great plays defensively. And I
Speaker 2: know a lot of you have been getting on Max
Speaker 2: for his defense, but he silenced the critics tonight. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers shut out the Rangers three to nothing.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond, like I said, lead off home run ta
Speaker 2: Oscar with attack on run in the ninth and Will
Speaker 2: Smith a sacrifice fly as well to attack on two
Speaker 2: in the ninth inning for the Rangers.
Speaker 3: Corey Seeger was two for four tonight.
Speaker 2: He had a costly throwing era in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: that cost the Rangers a run. And Jock Peterson's early
Speaker 2: season struggles continued tonight. The former Dodger, former Giant who
Speaker 2: got a big contract from the Rangers is now hitting
Speaker 2: oh fifty seven on the season. My guy joc Tober
Speaker 2: is just three for fifty four to begin the year,
Speaker 2: and coming into the game tonight.
Speaker 3: This will shock you.
Speaker 2: Jack Peterson, who was a fastball hitter, is hitting only
Speaker 2: zero thirty three on fastballs this season. He was late
Speaker 2: on every Yamamoto fastball tonight. I couldn't understand why Yama
Speaker 2: Moto wouldn't throw all fastballs. Why was he messing around
Speaker 2: with a splitter and all these other pitches. It was
Speaker 2: obvious Peterson couldn't catch up to it. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to New Jersey the Jersey Shaw with Paul.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, David, Thank you very much. Very exciting laundry.
Speaker 2: Today, Paul, excuse me, Jim Tan laundry on the Jersey
Speaker 2: Show tonight.
Speaker 5: No, I don't live on the Jersey Shore. I'm the
Speaker 5: guy I spoke to you at the Phillies after the
Speaker 5: Phillies game.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember you. Yeah, you came to see
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in Philly.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I I've been a fannine. There we go, right,
Speaker 5: forty nine Yell.
Speaker 2: How about this, Paul, You'll love this. Today's the anniversary
Speaker 2: of Vince Scully calling his first game as a Dodger broadcaster.
Speaker 5: Yeah I heard I heard some of that chatter. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he was a great one. So I mean, I I
Speaker 5: guess you know you. You state your your position very clearly.
Speaker 5: It's a long season, man, you know you can't. We
Speaker 5: have a good team and these guys believe in themselves,
Speaker 5: and you know, the Dodger tradition is alive now and
Speaker 5: with that tradition, that's going to carry you through bad times.
Speaker 5: And so I mean month, sye a bad play here
Speaker 5: and there by other player. It's a long season. Can't
Speaker 5: point out on one play. So I was disappointed I
Speaker 5: couldn't get to you on Jackie Robinson Day, you know,
Speaker 5: because I was a little boy, I got to see
Speaker 5: Jackie play, so that was really meaningful for me.
Speaker 2: But what was it like to see John play in person?
Speaker 2: There's not too many people that can say that.
Speaker 3: What was it like? What do you remember?
Speaker 5: Well? He was an imposing figure. He was a very
Speaker 5: great athlete, very strong and quick, and he was I
Speaker 5: don't think baseball was his best sport, but he was
Speaker 5: able to succeed and I never viewed him as an
Speaker 5: overpowering player in that he was you know, he was
Speaker 5: responsible for the success of the Dodgers. It really wasn't him.
Speaker 5: It was Campanella, Duke Snider, Bill Hodgers, Jim Gilliam, Dewey Reese.
Speaker 5: Those are the guys that really led the team. But
Speaker 5: you know the story as I got older a little boy,
Speaker 5: I didn't really understand it when I was a little boy,
Speaker 5: but as I got older with regard to Jackie breaking
Speaker 5: the color line, that was you know today, for me
Speaker 5: to think about that, it's absolutely amazing. But I'm a
Speaker 5: Dodger fan. I'm a David Batsay fan, that stay fan.
Speaker 5: I love the way you describe things. I love the
Speaker 5: your description. You get into details. You know, for I
Speaker 5: happen to be blind. Also, not that that means a lot,
Speaker 5: but you know, as a blind person very often announces,
Speaker 5: never really communicate details. Man. You knock it out, brother,
Speaker 5: So I know what's really going on. So good stow Man.
Speaker 3: That makes me feel so good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, call back anytime, Paul, and I got to share
Speaker 2: a story with you.
Speaker 3: My father in law, the Great Rob Blackman, grew up in.
Speaker 2: The Bronx and his dad took him to a lot
Speaker 2: of Yankee games, Brooklyn Dodger games, and he remembers being
Speaker 2: at the game in nineteen fifty three at Ebbittsfield where
Speaker 2: Campanella needed to hit I think three home runs to
Speaker 2: get thirty five to have the most home runs by
Speaker 2: a catcher that year. He that was the first time
Speaker 2: he went to a Brooklyn Dodgers game, and that was
Speaker 2: the year Campanella won his second MVP Award and drove
Speaker 2: in one hundred and forty two runs and hit forty
Speaker 2: one home runs that year. So I got I got
Speaker 2: some connections.
Speaker 3: To the borough too. So yeah, Roy Campanella.
Speaker 2: I know he won three MVPs and I know he's
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, but I still feel like he
Speaker 2: is one of the most underrated players in baseball history.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a very sad situation with his life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he never played in LA, never played in LA,
Speaker 2: but he always had that great spirit about him.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always thought he was going to recover. Like I
Speaker 5: was a little kid, and you know, you didn't hear
Speaker 5: much about it, you know, and I was thinking, well,
Speaker 5: he'll be back, He'll be back. So I believe that
Speaker 5: for a few years. But obviously he wasn't capable of
Speaker 5: coming back.
Speaker 2: But he never let that wheelchair change who he was
Speaker 2: as a person. From the stories I heard from Mike
Speaker 2: Sosia and other players that were around Campy, and they
Speaker 2: had his own little area to help teach the catchers.
Speaker 2: He never let that wheelchair confine his spirit or his life.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a great metaphor for all of us.
Speaker 5: Yes it is, it is very much so.
Speaker 3: All right, Mael, have a great weekend.
Speaker 5: We'll see you soon, okay, yes, yes, keep take care.
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Paul.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: Bad choice of words. I'm sorry, Paul.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon, and appreciate all the kind words.
Speaker 2: And yeah, Paul, cross the state line, the Jersey state
Speaker 2: line to comes see the Dodgers in Philadelphia. Gotta say
Speaker 2: here in Texas, the conditions were a lot better.
Speaker 3: A roof was on.
Speaker 2: It's about eighty one degrees outside, much different than forty
Speaker 2: degree rainy temperatures in Philadelphia. And I actually believe that
Speaker 2: we might be seeing a World Series preview. I believe
Speaker 2: the Rangers have a great shot of getting through the
Speaker 2: American League, especially if de Gromp can stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Maybe they add a reliever.
Speaker 2: They have a really good team, and they're not that
Speaker 2: far removed from winning the World Series. I mean, tonight
Speaker 2: we had on the field a global life field the
Speaker 2: last two World Series winners, and the American League's not
Speaker 2: that great, so I kind of feel like this is
Speaker 2: a very real possibility that the Dodgers and Rangers could
Speaker 2: see each other again in October.
Speaker 3: And how sweet would that be?
Speaker 2: The Dodgers and Rangers playing the Dodgers obviously Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: but then here at Global Life Field, they're home away
Speaker 2: from home when they won their other World Series championship
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, and coming back here, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I'm with the players, even though they were on their
Speaker 2: own little bubble. I was in my own bubble up
Speaker 2: here in the broadcast booth. You know, Joe Davis and
Speaker 2: I can say something that nobody else can say. I
Speaker 2: was the first one to occupy the home radio booth
Speaker 2: here at Global Life Field, and Joe Davis and John
Speaker 2: Smoltz can say they were the first broadcasters to occupy
Speaker 2: the home TV booth because during the entire postseason run
Speaker 2: they were calling the games. I was doing Dodger talk
Speaker 2: and postgame and all that from the home radio booth
Speaker 2: here a Global Life Field, and I took a walk
Speaker 2: by the hotel that I was staying at for three
Speaker 2: and a half weeks away from my wife and kids,
Speaker 2: and you know, a lot of memories keep flunning back.
Speaker 2: And if you listen to my conversation with Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. He was our pregame guest, you'll
Speaker 2: hear his thoughts and memories about playing here during the
Speaker 2: twenty season. And he had no idea that I was
Speaker 2: even here. That's how disconnected I was from the players.
Speaker 2: Even though I was here in Texas and I was
Speaker 2: here at Global Life I feeld, none of them realized
Speaker 2: that I was here.
Speaker 3: Even when we would do interviews.
Speaker 2: They thought I was back in La So a lot
Speaker 2: of memories come back here good, a lot good. But
Speaker 2: obviously being away and being isolated was was something that
Speaker 2: you'll never forget. And then, oh, by the way, I
Speaker 2: take a plane flight home and get COVID. So that's
Speaker 2: the way my twenty twenty World Series season ended. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Brian and Burbank. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hi, Brian, Hey Dave. Wow, that was a crazy exchange
Speaker 6: there with Paul.
Speaker 8: That last color Yeah, man, he was right, Yeah, that
Speaker 8: was that was wild.
Speaker 3: Do you do you admire me? Do you deify me?
Speaker 3: As much as Paul does.
Speaker 1: Uh, you're good.
Speaker 8: I like listening to Hey, Okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 3: I'll take it.
Speaker 8: You do a really good job getting an insight on you.
Speaker 3: You don't sound convincing, but i'll take it.
Speaker 8: Brian, thank you. The main reason I was calling is
Speaker 8: you made a comment, you know, maybe a few series back.
Speaker 8: I don't know if it was Philly or against Washington,
Speaker 8: but you had kind of let people know that Conforto
Speaker 8: and they offer weren't there for the defense, and I
Speaker 8: just thought they kind of have been changing it around
Speaker 8: since the Rocky series, and that played Conforto made tonight.
Speaker 8: I was wondering what your thoughts were where you say
Speaker 8: that run going home there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Conforto made a nice play.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't cut that ball off and get the
Speaker 2: ball back to the infield as quickly as he did
Speaker 2: accurately to the cutoff man, Simeon's scoring and we have
Speaker 2: a one to one game, and who knows where it
Speaker 2: goes after that.
Speaker 3: So he made a great play.
Speaker 2: Will Smith had a great you know, strike him out,
Speaker 2: throw him out to end the seventh and month Sye
Speaker 2: obviously in the ninth inning, playing through it unlike Josh
Speaker 2: Young who did not play through the pirates call.
Speaker 3: So that was a big break for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, and you do a good job, Dave.
Speaker 2: Okay, Brian, you don't have to try to make up
Speaker 2: for it. I understand you're lukewarm. It's fine. I'll win
Speaker 2: you over. The vast a charm will win you over
Speaker 2: like it wins everybody over.
Speaker 8: Right on.
Speaker 3: Thanks, okay, Brian.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call. Let's take one more phone
Speaker 2: call before we say good night. Javier in all Hambra,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing Hoavy air walk
Speaker 2: us off tonight?
Speaker 1: Hey, Dave, I just want to hear all the naysayers
Speaker 1: Max Muncy, because I came on here a couple of weeks. Yes, Hey,
Speaker 1: you just have to see more.
Speaker 6: He just has to be patient, and that's what we're seeing.
Speaker 5: Max.
Speaker 6: Musty's being patient and he's getting hits.
Speaker 1: Also, how about his defense defense too, He was getting
Speaker 1: it from both ends. But the Oscar too. The Oscar
Speaker 1: went up in a big spot and didn't try to.
Speaker 5: Do too much.
Speaker 1: And man, he's got to give it to him. Man,
Speaker 1: that was a big knock. That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar and Tommy Edmond have been the two most
Speaker 2: valuable Dodgers to begin this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I agree with one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: All right, did you have something else you wanted to say?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 3: On a summering tale.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, no, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, hove here, thanks a lot for calling and
Speaker 2: walking us off on a good note. Here is the
Speaker 2: stat of the night for you show. Hey, Otani not
Speaker 2: in the Dodgers starting lineup tonight because of a non
Speaker 2: injury related issue, A good issue that his wife is
Speaker 2: going to give birth to their first child sometime this
Speaker 2: weekend and may already have happened. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: think about this, the Dodgers Big three of Otani, Betts,
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman, they have been in the same starting
Speaker 2: lineup out of the first twenty one games only seven
Speaker 2: times for different reasons. Smokie with the stomach issue, Freddie
Speaker 2: reaggravating his right ankle, and Otani now on the paternity
Speaker 2: list for the birth of his child. So keep that
Speaker 2: in mind as well. We have not seen the Big
Speaker 2: three in the same lineup in the same game that
Speaker 2: many times so far this year, only seven games out
Speaker 2: of their first twenty one, and the Dodgers have been
Speaker 2: able to really play well for the most part. Fifteen
Speaker 2: and six second place in the NL West. Tonight they
Speaker 2: hand the Rangers only their second loss here at Globlife
Speaker 2: Field this season. The Rangers twelve to eight, first place
Speaker 2: in the AL West.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Another great pitching matchup, or i should say, an interesting
Speaker 2: pitching matchup with Roki Sazaki on the mound looking for
Speaker 2: his first win. He was really good his last time out,
Speaker 2: going up against former Dodger Nathan Avaldi, who has two
Speaker 2: World Series rings, won with the Red Sox in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: the other in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: With these Rangers.
Speaker 2: Avaldi is one and two this season with an ERA
Speaker 2: of two point fifty five. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 2: begins at noon tomorrow with first pitch at one oh five.
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson on the call. That'll do
Speaker 2: it for us tonight from Globe Live Field. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Colin Yee back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here in Texas with us, and thanks to
Speaker 2: you for listening in case you miss any of the show.
Speaker 2: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. That's also
Speaker 2: where you can hear our full pregame conversation with Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: He gave us some insightful answers, and tomorrow night we'll
Speaker 2: have more time to share.
Speaker 3: Some of that with you as well.
Speaker 2: Once again, the final score from Globe Live Field. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers shut out the Rangers three to nothing. Have a
Speaker 2: great rest of your Friday. You're good Friday.
Speaker 3: See'm six
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