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Speaker 4: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: David Vasse with you until about eight fifteen tonight here
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Speaker 4: Hope you're enjoying your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 5: Hope you're being safe out there, and we are with
Speaker 5: you to talk Dodger baseball.
Speaker 4: After the Mets.
Speaker 5: Beat the Dodgers tonight by a final score of five
Speaker 5: to two in the middle game of this series. After
Speaker 5: a late night for the Dodgers winning that game, it
Speaker 5: would have been really bad for the Dodgers after using
Speaker 5: eight different pitchers, Tanner Scott blowing the save, for them
Speaker 5: to lose last night and then have to come back
Speaker 5: and play today against one of the best starters this
Speaker 5: year in baseball and David Peterson. So can't say how
Speaker 5: big even though it was an ideal the way things
Speaker 5: went down last night for the Dodgers to win that
Speaker 5: game seven to five and thirteen innings. They come back
Speaker 5: today and fall to the Mets five to two, and
Speaker 5: before we start just crushing the offense tonight, at some
Speaker 5: point you have to acknowledge the fact that other teams
Speaker 5: have good pitchers, have good players, and the Mets have
Speaker 5: a surprisingly good starting staff. They have the best starting
Speaker 5: staffs statistically in Major League Baseball this year. Starting with
Speaker 5: their starting staff ERA it's two eighty nine, that's the
Speaker 5: lowest in baseball. Their win loss record, their winning percentage
Speaker 5: as a starting staff.
Speaker 4: Twenty and fourteen.
Speaker 5: The number of innings that their starting staff has pitched
Speaker 5: is top five or top ten in baseball. So I
Speaker 5: mean they're doing everything right with their pitching. It's just
Speaker 5: their offense that has been mia the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: including Juan Soto, who tonight in that fourth inning, hit
Speaker 5: a two run double with the bases loaded against Tony Gonsolin.
Speaker 5: That was the first extra base hit Juan Soto has
Speaker 5: had in two weeks. And Tony Gonsolin you could have
Speaker 5: avoided even sing Sodo in that type of situation. But
Speaker 5: before Gonsolin got hurt, I thought there were times where
Speaker 5: he fell into lapses of nibbling. And what nibbling means
Speaker 5: is not being aggressive. And you heard Rick Monday talk
Speaker 5: about it towards the end of the broadcast and he
Speaker 5: said it perfectly. He wasn't pitching to contact. He was
Speaker 5: trying to pitch away from contact. And when you do that,
Speaker 5: I'll just say it a little bit more directly, you're nibbling.
Speaker 5: And something that Tony Gonsolin told me before he made
Speaker 5: his first start of the year, being away from the
Speaker 5: game because of another elbow surgery, he said it taught
Speaker 5: him to have more fun and just be aggressive when
Speaker 5: he's out there. Well, he didn't do either tonight and
Speaker 5: it cost him in that fourth inning, and then you
Speaker 5: look at you know, this was perfect for Carlos Mendoza.
Speaker 5: He got a great start from David Peterson who got
Speaker 5: three double plays tonight, and then hands the ball to
Speaker 5: Edwin Diaz after Peterson strikes out sho Hey Otani for
Speaker 5: the second out of the eighth inning and then brings
Speaker 5: in Edwin Diaz, who got Mookie Bets right where you
Speaker 5: get Mookie Betts. He got ahead of Mookie Bets, and
Speaker 5: then he struck out Mookie Bets down and away looking.
Speaker 5: Mookie does not cover that quadrant of the strike zone
Speaker 5: very well. Well, going back to his first game with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers in twenty twenty. For whatever reason, you got
Speaker 5: the outside down in a way on Mookie Beds or
Speaker 5: anything away in the strike zone, he just doesn't see it.
Speaker 5: And a lot of times he strikes out looking on
Speaker 5: that pitch. So a disappointing night for the Dodgers. But
Speaker 5: also take into account these guys just flew from the
Speaker 5: West coast to the East coast. They've done this already
Speaker 5: a couple of different times. They were in LA for
Speaker 5: ten days, so the body clock is completely turned around.
Speaker 5: So that's why it was so important for them. Despite
Speaker 5: the rain hour and thirty eight minute rain delay yesterday,
Speaker 5: Despite Tanner Scott blowing the save last night for them
Speaker 5: to find a way to grind out a win, because
Speaker 5: to win today was going to be a tall order
Speaker 5: and tomorrow's not going to be any easier when you
Speaker 5: have a pitching matchup that certainly favors the Mets and
Speaker 5: CODEI Senga against landon Nack eight six six seven two
Speaker 5: five seventy is the phone number Dodgers faults in the
Speaker 5: Mets tonight, five to two. That means Ken and Newport
Speaker 5: Beach has called in. Hi, Ken, we had two shows,
Speaker 5: two shows yesterday, Ken, but never heard from you. But
Speaker 5: the Dodgers lose today and you're first up.
Speaker 2: Wow, last night's game was phenomenal. That was a great
Speaker 2: comeback and I really really respect the Dodgers staying in
Speaker 2: that game.
Speaker 5: I love that keed a positive a positive comment from
Speaker 5: Ken and Newport Beach on a day the Dodgers lose.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good start.
Speaker 6: Ken, all right, there's some weird stats last five games. Oh, Tommy,
Speaker 6: you's swinging at so many bad pitches as nine strikeouts
Speaker 6: last five games. Mukis or for nineteen or Freeman is
Speaker 6: four for nineteen, which is two ten and he won
Speaker 6: for sixteen against stuff candors. Mookie is three for twenty
Speaker 6: one last five games and talked about.
Speaker 5: He did have a two homer game to help the
Speaker 5: Dodgers win a game the other night.
Speaker 6: Yes, and then there's the rushing of a Dulton rushing.
Speaker 6: He's now at eighteen at bats and struck out ten times.
Speaker 6: He may not be ready, and.
Speaker 5: I hold on, hold on, hold on, I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: concede that can. I think we have to also give
Speaker 5: him a pass that he's still developing. And also he's
Speaker 5: a guy that is a stud. He's been a stud
Speaker 5: on every team that he's played on, meaning he plays
Speaker 5: every day. So this is a huge adjustment to a
Speaker 5: kid that has been the best player or one of
Speaker 5: the best players on all the teams that he's played
Speaker 5: on until now where he's playing just once or twice
Speaker 5: a week.
Speaker 4: That's a big adjustment.
Speaker 6: Sure understand that. And I like him, and he's not
Speaker 6: used to these pitchers, so I understand all that. It's
Speaker 6: just a bad little street they were and again I
Speaker 6: think they were sleepwalking this game. They were up really
Speaker 6: late after a long flight, and I understand it. It's
Speaker 6: just the top of the lineup that's a little disappointing
Speaker 6: right now. It'll change, and it'll change.
Speaker 5: And that's where you need other guys to step up,
Speaker 5: and ti Oscar Hernandez certainly has done that. Thanks for
Speaker 5: the phone call, Ken, Hey, you know, I thought that
Speaker 5: was going to be really negative, but Ken had great
Speaker 5: perspective on that.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to our Kadia, Ronald. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Ronald?
Speaker 1: They David pretty good, glassawful today. It's probably, like Ken,
Speaker 1: just something I'm seeing right. We're at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the league and quality starts, and it's pretty obvious it's
Speaker 1: the bullpen is taxed, and I'm just curious. You're closer
Speaker 1: to the you know, obviously the player and obviously the
Speaker 1: coaches do what they got to do. But your nibbling
Speaker 1: point I was going to bring up, we also are
Speaker 1: very close to the top in walks and strikeout, So
Speaker 1: it's like we just have this all or nothing mentality
Speaker 1: seemingly at the plate. But the starters this year, you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the bottom five and the Mets are right,
Speaker 1: you know, right with us. So today was just one
Speaker 1: of those days where like David Peterson was doing what
Speaker 1: he knew he needed to do get outs, and we
Speaker 1: were just doing whatever to try to eat innings. Your
Speaker 1: thoughts on like how they've planned for this is this
Speaker 1: Mark Prayer is one of the best in the game,
Speaker 1: so it's I think he can't go out there and
Speaker 1: make them pitch. But no matter who we're sending out there.
Speaker 1: Even when Snell was here, Glass now is here. I
Speaker 1: saw like we got four innings. It was like okay,
Speaker 1: like sire relief. We got to the fifth inning with
Speaker 1: the starter in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this isn't the playoffs, Ronald. It's not the playoffs.
Speaker 5: There are no days off of multiple days off. This
Speaker 5: is the marathon. And you can't live with your starters
Speaker 5: only giving you innings or coming out of games because
Speaker 5: of rain after one inning or feeling something after a
Speaker 5: warm up after the first inning.
Speaker 4: It just can't happen.
Speaker 5: And I think now the Dodgers, at least, you know,
Speaker 5: they're not pitching the best, but at least they got
Speaker 5: something they could count on that these guys are going
Speaker 5: to make their start, they're gonna try to give you
Speaker 5: five innings. And today you know, Tony Gonsolin's fourth inning
Speaker 5: wasn't great, but at least he went back out there
Speaker 5: for the fifth and that kind of shortened the game
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Definitely. Yeah, and why I said glass half full, it's early.
Speaker 1: There's still time to turn this thing around for the starters.
Speaker 1: What my my fear is is what happened with River, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Em and Shehn that were injuries to the older guys.
Speaker 1: These guys had to come up fill innings and they're
Speaker 1: they're throwing their hearts out, but then they throw their
Speaker 1: arm out. I don't want to see that happens Disparius.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see that happens in that. But
Speaker 1: it feels like Gazavu. You well, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: happening to Nac.
Speaker 5: I think it's happening to Caspiraus. If anything, he's he's
Speaker 5: leaving it all out there every time, out there for
Speaker 5: one inning, for one batter, for three innings like we
Speaker 5: saw last night, three no hit innings.
Speaker 4: I mean, they got to protect that kid.
Speaker 5: I know they're in a tough spot right now, but yeah,
Speaker 5: he's he's been used in a lot of different ways
Speaker 5: and he loves being.
Speaker 4: A big leaguer. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 5: Good call, Ronald from Arcadia eight six six nine eight
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy is the phone number. By the way,
Speaker 5: Speaking of the bullpen and some of these young pitchers,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers were in dire need of a fresh arm,
Speaker 5: so much so they called up Bobby Miller, not to
Speaker 5: make a spot start, but to be a reliever at
Speaker 5: the end of the game to cover some innings, and
Speaker 5: he did that tonight. He went two innings. He did
Speaker 5: give up an RBI double to Bret Batty, but for
Speaker 5: the most part, Bobby seemed to be a little bit
Speaker 5: more under control. And here's my question to you, Bobby
Speaker 5: Miller really hasn't had it all come together for him
Speaker 5: as a starting pitcher. Is it time for the Dodgers
Speaker 5: to consider that Bobby Miller may be a better option
Speaker 5: coming out of the bullpen. Is it time for Bobby
Speaker 5: Miller to maybe embrace that type of role for at
Speaker 5: least this year, if.
Speaker 4: That's what it comes to.
Speaker 5: Because what I saw in that at bad against Juan
Speaker 5: Soto reminded me of Bobby Miller's first major league start
Speaker 5: in Atlanta against Ronald Acunya Junior. I haven't seen Bobby
Speaker 5: compete like that and be aggressive with his ninety nine
Speaker 5: fastball and his change up like he was and in
Speaker 5: that at bad against Juan Soto in the eighth inning
Speaker 5: in a long time, and I know Bobby overthinks things.
Speaker 5: He has a lot of pitches that he believes are
Speaker 5: good in his tool belt. But as a reliever, all
Speaker 5: you need is two or three pitches at the most,
Speaker 5: maybe simplifying things and being a fastball change up maybe
Speaker 5: curveball guy and a curveball out of the bullpen usually
Speaker 5: doesn't work well. But having a third pitch, possibly on
Speaker 5: top of the fastball and change up may help Bobby
Speaker 5: Miller stay in the big leagues and stick out of
Speaker 5: the bullpen. I don't think it's a crazy suggestion. Bobby
Speaker 5: bullpen may be the direction for him to help this team.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: When we come.
Speaker 5: Back, your phone calls, we have three lines open at
Speaker 5: eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Jose
Speaker 5: Moto will check in and we'll share part of our
Speaker 5: pregame conversation with Luis Cruz Coochito.
Speaker 4: He shared his.
Speaker 5: Experiences facing show he Otani when he was playing in
Speaker 5: jap hand you don't want to miss that. More Dodger
Speaker 5: Talk coming up right around the corner after the Dodgers
Speaker 5: fall to the Mets five to two on a five
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Speaker 3: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 5: David Vasse with you on Dodger Talk after the Mets
Speaker 5: beat them, or Dodgers beat the Mets last night and
Speaker 5: thirteen innings in case you missed it, they come back
Speaker 5: tonight and lose the middle game of the series. Five
Speaker 5: to two, eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. Jose Mota is going to
Speaker 5: join us at the top of the hour. Also, you'll
Speaker 5: hear from Luis Cruz with sho Heyo Tani expected to
Speaker 5: throw his first live batting practice tomorrow at City Field
Speaker 5: since undergoing his second elbow surgery. Louis Cruz shared a
Speaker 5: very interesting story of him facing Otani after he was
Speaker 5: done playing in Major League baseball.
Speaker 4: Louis played a couple of years.
Speaker 5: In Japan and faced a young Otani, So you don't
Speaker 5: want to miss that. But right now we're talking about
Speaker 5: not just the game breakdown, but sometimes within games, things
Speaker 5: start to pop up that maybe could help the Dodgers
Speaker 5: in the big picture, and the Dodgers needed a fresh arm,
Speaker 5: and they called up Bobby Miller. And I'm wondering now,
Speaker 5: moving forward, are the Dodgers going to seriously consider Bobby
Speaker 5: bullpen Bobby Miller as a reliever rather than a starter.
Speaker 5: And tonight in that Wan Sodo ap bat and just
Speaker 5: in those two innings, especially the Soto at bat, if
Speaker 5: he can channel that as a one inning, two inning
Speaker 5: Ben Casparius type of reliever for the Dodgers until things
Speaker 5: settled down and maybe he embraces a late inning, high
Speaker 5: leverage reliever role, Dodgers might have something. Let's go out
Speaker 5: to Manny in downtown. You're on Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 5: vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Manny, Hey, what's up, David Good evening another's loss. You know,
Speaker 7: to answer your question about Bobby Miller, I think he
Speaker 7: definitely needs to come out of the bullpen. He's had many,
Speaker 7: many opportunities come up and show us what he can
Speaker 7: do as a pitcher. He just still seems very wild
Speaker 7: to me. He doesn't have too much control. But you know,
Speaker 7: I do give him credit for coming out short notice
Speaker 7: and giving us a mining, So shout out to you, Bobby.
Speaker 1: And it's hard with games.
Speaker 7: When you're one through five hitters, go three for twenty
Speaker 7: three for twenty two, you're not gonna winto any games.
Speaker 7: So you know, it can't always be on the offense
Speaker 7: carrying this team, but it has to be some type
Speaker 7: of balance. And I feel like the Dodgers are missing
Speaker 7: some type of dog or some type of like, you know,
Speaker 7: some type of sense of urgency right now.
Speaker 5: Come on, Manny, Now you're making blanket statements over one game.
Speaker 5: They are grinding things out when they are not at
Speaker 5: full strength and they're pitching has put them behind the
Speaker 5: eight ball more nights than not.
Speaker 4: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I know you're emotional right now, but that's a blanket statement.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers are talented and they're trying to grind things
Speaker 5: out on the East Coast after a long night into today,
Speaker 5: so come on give them a pass on that. Let's
Speaker 5: stop be talking about they're missing dogs. They got dogs.
Speaker 5: They got Edmund, they got ta Oscar, they got Mookie
Speaker 5: they got Freddie, they got Otani, they got dogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got they got dogs.
Speaker 7: I'm just hoping that, you know, they get their red.
Speaker 5: You really upset me with that, Manny, you kind of
Speaker 5: upset me with that. I'm not gonna lie sor ry Dave.
Speaker 7: Sorry, TV, they mean to go there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, please don't question the dogs since I mean, didn't
Speaker 5: we call the bullpen the dogs last year? Many?
Speaker 4: Now, all of a sudden, they're chihuahuas.
Speaker 7: Come on, they're missing a few guys.
Speaker 5: But you know this team, this team has the best record,
Speaker 5: one of the best records in baseball, and they're nowhere
Speaker 5: near hitting their stride and nowhere near as healthy as
Speaker 5: they could be in the near future. Thanks for the
Speaker 5: phone call, Many, Yeah, that upset me. Don't be making
Speaker 5: blanket statements like that against the Dodgers and those group
Speaker 5: of world champions. By the way, they're just three or
Speaker 5: four months removed from winning the World Series. Remember that.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Bakersfield. Tim, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Tim?
Speaker 8: Good Daan?
Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm fired up now, Tim, you better be ready.
Speaker 5: I'm fired up now. Man, he got me upset.
Speaker 4: He lit a fire underneath me, So go ahead, what
Speaker 4: do you got.
Speaker 9: I'm with you on Bonni Miller becoming a reliever. I
Speaker 9: think he can throw some gas for an inny and
Speaker 9: a half, got good movement when he's on in his
Speaker 9: off speech stuff, and mentally he can do it. I
Speaker 9: think it's a good transition for him. Also, do you
Speaker 9: think it's twofold or they may be trying to increase
Speaker 9: his trade value?
Speaker 4: Possibly?
Speaker 5: I mean right now it's probably at an all time low,
Speaker 5: but there's always that potential and surplus value of team control.
Speaker 4: He's got a live armed him.
Speaker 5: There's something there that, for whatever reason, Bobby hasn't been
Speaker 5: able to put together.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree, So hopefully mentally he can do it.
Speaker 9: We definitely need to help some arms here.
Speaker 5: I mean at some point the Dodgers if Bobby Miller
Speaker 5: can't get things to click, and by the way, they
Speaker 5: really haven't clicked in the minor leagues this year for him,
Speaker 5: or he would have been up here before, landon NAC
Speaker 5: before Justin Robleski. So you know, after what we saw tonight,
Speaker 5: and I'm telling you go back and watch that Sodo
Speaker 5: at bat, that's what Bobby Miller needs.
Speaker 4: To do.
Speaker 5: And that's what Bobby Miller could possibly be if he
Speaker 5: just empties the tank like that in a one inning spurt.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the way guys do it that couldn't
Speaker 5: be starters for whatever reason they. I think Bobby's case,
Speaker 5: he's just overthinking things too much and he's toying with
Speaker 5: too many pitches.
Speaker 4: When you're a reliever, all you need is.
Speaker 5: Two pitches, simplify it, and Bobby hasn't been able to
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Speaker 5: to Jose Mota, I wanted to share part of my
Speaker 5: pregame conversation with his broadcast partner and former Dodger Louis Cruz,
Speaker 5: who had some time in Japan and has a really
Speaker 5: good relationship with show hey Otani. Because Cruz faced Otani
Speaker 5: a few different times in the Japanese League.
Speaker 4: Here's what Luis Cruz.
Speaker 5: Had to say about his experiences facing Otani the pitcher.
Speaker 5: All right, well let's go back to you and Otani
Speaker 5: in Japan. How did Louis Cruz do against Otani the picture?
Speaker 10: Well, the first time, I remember, I was coming from
Speaker 10: from playing in the big leagues and and I faced
Speaker 10: him in a in like a preseason game, and he
Speaker 10: only threw like two innings, and he threw fastball like
Speaker 10: a ninety nine slider cider I pop up or something
Speaker 10: to the right field, and I and I remember telling
Speaker 10: my teammates, oh, this is a tiny I mean, it's
Speaker 10: not that. I mean, you see a lot of guys
Speaker 10: on the big leagues like him. And once the season
Speaker 10: started that we got to face each other, he was
Speaker 10: on like like he was good, really good. But I
Speaker 10: got some hits off him too, and I get I
Speaker 10: hate a couple of doubles. And and we hit him
Speaker 10: good in the playoffs. Like I said, we faced him
Speaker 10: a lot. And uh, you know when you faced somebody
Speaker 10: a lot, I mean you kind of know when he's on,
Speaker 10: when his fastball was on, when his breaking mos are on.
Speaker 10: But we got the confidence of of saying, like he
Speaker 10: throw me at fastball, and I followed it off and
Speaker 10: I look at him and I say, Masugo, Masuga, like,
Speaker 10: throw me a fastball. And when he was nasty, he
Speaker 10: would throw me that fastball. And then he threw me
Speaker 10: that slider and he said, kuzsan, today you have no chance.
Speaker 10: So obviously that day, if I walk for me, it
Speaker 10: counts as a hit because he knew he was he
Speaker 10: had all this stuff, and you know, we build that relationship.
Speaker 10: You know, you knew me as a player. You know,
Speaker 10: I like to talk to my teammates or or all
Speaker 10: the other team because at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: baseball is a game and you're supposed to have fun
Speaker 10: with it, and I always have fun. And I think
Speaker 10: I'm having fun now doing what I'm doing from the booth,
Speaker 10: and and I want to keep learning from you guys.
Speaker 10: You've been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: That's part of our pregame conversation with Luis Cochito Cruz,
Speaker 5: who had some great stories about his relationship and facing
Speaker 5: Otani in Japan, and also how Clayton Kershaw was more
Speaker 5: welcoming than I even knew about. When Louis Cruz got
Speaker 5: the call up when he first made his debut with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. So you don't want to miss that conversation.
Speaker 5: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. All right,
Speaker 5: from one Spanish radio broadcaster to the other, our guy,
Speaker 5: Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: How about that, Jose Mota, your partner used to talk
Speaker 5: trash to Otani when he was facing him in Japan.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Oh, Tani has a little of that in him
Speaker 8: once in a while when he pitches, when he pitches
Speaker 8: as a different monster. By the way, wait till you
Speaker 8: see it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Hey,
Speaker 8: but maybe you should turn the show tonight into a
Speaker 8: bilingual show. What do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I like it. I like it. You handle the
Speaker 4: Spanish handle day one day?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we should do that one night? Why not?
Speaker 4: Right, we'll see Jose. I think that's a YouTube type
Speaker 4: of thing.
Speaker 8: No, not going there.
Speaker 5: Jose speaking of Otani and him pitching and that type
Speaker 5: of monster.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, a LIVEBP for him.
Speaker 5: How competitive do you think it'll be tomorrow at City Field?
Speaker 8: He only has one gear when it comes out to pitching. Obviously,
Speaker 8: he's not gonna go out there and to turn to
Speaker 8: blow hundred and one by people. But Shoe doesn't want
Speaker 8: any good swings to be taken off of him. He's
Speaker 8: going to be gauging himself on command, okay, location, He's
Speaker 8: going to be reading every single thing that comes out
Speaker 8: of those reads. I mean, whatever all those machines show,
Speaker 8: he wants to know about it. He doesn't in spring
Speaker 8: trunning between pitches. He's so in tune with everything that
Speaker 8: he wants to be so detailed that I'm sure that
Speaker 8: the most important thing from towards has come out out
Speaker 8: of there. Healthy be in two of your mechanics, don't
Speaker 8: get out of whack. But certainly a very exciting day
Speaker 8: for Showy and for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: If you had to guess three hitters that would face
Speaker 5: so Tani tomorrow, who do you believe would be the three?
Speaker 8: Just find me some guys that are not playing tomorrows.
Speaker 8: If I look at the lineup, I'll tell you who
Speaker 8: it is. But you're not gonna seem most likely, I
Speaker 8: should say, you're not gonna see a regular space in
Speaker 8: Showhale Tony. So guys on the bench, get ready.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Mets beat the
Speaker 5: Dodgers tonight five to two. A topic of conversation on
Speaker 5: the show Jose has been about Bobby Miller coming out
Speaker 5: of the bullpen obviously out of necessity tonight. But what
Speaker 5: do you think about the idea of Bobby bullpen moving forward?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what, man, It probably back to the
Speaker 8: days when David relievers were failed starters. That's what they were. Okay.
Speaker 8: It brought me back to that, and a lot of
Speaker 8: times I remember even even talking to tom of the
Speaker 8: Sword about this in my days in the Dugger clubhouse
Speaker 8: in the eighties, and Tommy would tell me, Hey, this
Speaker 8: guy's going to go to the bullpen, because I'll ask
Speaker 8: him sometimes, like Tommy, why is this guy go to
Speaker 8: the bullpen? Just to learn some things? He goes. All
Speaker 8: I want to do is change his mentality, nothing else. Mentality.
Speaker 8: That's it. So in other words, back in those days,
Speaker 8: obviously you didn't have the parade of pictures you have now.
Speaker 8: You know, going through won any nine pitches and twelve pictures.
Speaker 8: He had guys that will come out and throw three
Speaker 8: or four innings out of the bullpen, and that was
Speaker 8: the idea to change your mentality. The mentality is that
Speaker 8: I have one chance right now I can help my
Speaker 8: team keep the game where it is. I'm going to
Speaker 8: go out there and face this lineup one time through
Speaker 8: and I'm going to leave it all out there without
Speaker 8: thinking about pitch one and pitch number ninety eight, just
Speaker 8: going I'm gonna go out there and just leave it
Speaker 8: them up best and I think for now and not
Speaker 8: be about idea for Bobby Miller to have that mentality
Speaker 8: to just simplify things and go, you know what, I
Speaker 8: got to go out and leave it all out and
Speaker 8: you know how valuable guys like that can be Jasparius
Speaker 8: Drier sour best examples. And then on top of this all, David,
Speaker 8: you know, the most important innings that you throw in
Speaker 8: the postseason are out of the bullpen, no matter starter
Speaker 8: does always those last two innings, those last nine outs
Speaker 8: are the most important things. And why not have somebody
Speaker 8: like them. They can develop into the mentality of shutting
Speaker 8: somebody down and go out there and be mad.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose, you're a good guy to ask this
Speaker 5: question too. I felt like that at bad against Juan
Speaker 5: Soto fastball ninety eight, ninety nine, that change up down
Speaker 5: in a way eighty six. That's enough for Bobby Miller
Speaker 5: to be an effective reliever. Does he need something else
Speaker 5: or would those two pitches be effective for him?
Speaker 8: He's fine with two pitches, I mean, because he's got
Speaker 8: a sinker ninety nine miles an hour, he's got a
Speaker 8: four seamer that will, you know, triple digits, and he's
Speaker 8: got the great change up. I mean, the change up
Speaker 8: in his rookie season was the most unhitterable pitch he had.
Speaker 8: It was embarrassing two hitters. And now that you gotta
Speaker 8: go out there and use it a lot is to
Speaker 8: relieve it to begin with, because he's a power guy
Speaker 8: and that the arm speed is the same and all
Speaker 8: that kind of stuff. But it is the arm speed
Speaker 8: that makes that change up so effective. And then all
Speaker 8: the tilt that he does. The proteins are very well
Speaker 8: going away on the lefty and also down, So it
Speaker 8: will be a nice experiment. I hope it works out
Speaker 8: that way. But for sure, you know, as a pitcher too,
Speaker 8: you would use that as a way to say, Okay,
Speaker 8: they don't want me in that starting rotation, or not
Speaker 8: going to earn my way back there by doing this,
Speaker 8: but not having to worry about four or five pitch it,
Speaker 8: but maybe just two or three.
Speaker 5: A key to all this, though, Jose, is to get
Speaker 5: the buy in from the player and embrace this new rule.
Speaker 5: Do you believe Bobby Miller would embrace it at this
Speaker 5: stage of his career?
Speaker 8: At this point it keeps in the big leagues? I
Speaker 8: don't see why not. And you know, even players cannot
Speaker 8: dictate things like that in a way by you explaining
Speaker 8: it well and saying, hey, listen, it's not gonna cost
Speaker 8: you any money, which all right, would make you better,
Speaker 8: but also a better fit for our team. It's about
Speaker 8: being the big leagus or being triple A. And in
Speaker 8: this case, I know the players have a lot of
Speaker 8: say and you know a lot of the agents have
Speaker 8: a lot of saying things like this, but you have
Speaker 8: to always look after the organization. What do you think
Speaker 8: is best for a player. When we talk about changing scenarios,
Speaker 8: a lot of times we're thinking about, you know, a
Speaker 8: different organization, but changes scenarios sometimes just a different mentality
Speaker 8: and a different role for you to go out there
Speaker 8: and just get away from whatever was bothering you, whether
Speaker 8: whether it's getting the way of you're not being your best,
Speaker 8: and I think Bobby has enough to go out there
Speaker 8: with a mentality of about the talk about was very
Speaker 8: impressed on his debut and really brought me back to
Speaker 8: that too when I saw the soda at that, because
Speaker 8: I don't know, he's fearless man, but there's something that's
Speaker 8: still missing him to go over the hump, because I
Speaker 8: just know there's so much upside that this hick can
Speaker 8: go out there and get it done. So he hopefully
Speaker 8: he can buy into it if it gets to that,
Speaker 8: but there's no doubt he could be a huge weapon
Speaker 8: going forward.
Speaker 5: All right, Before I let you go, hoose Mota, I mean,
Speaker 5: I know Otani is human, but oh for four to
Speaker 5: three strikeouts and that at bad against David Peterson in
Speaker 5: the eighth inning, As Carlos Mendoza said after the game,
Speaker 5: we made him look human tonight. What did you see
Speaker 5: in particular in that at bat from Otani against Peterson
Speaker 5: in the eighth inning?
Speaker 4: And why show hey looks so human?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean the last four or five games, I
Speaker 8: would say he took that over six the other day,
Speaker 8: just a little disconnect between the bottom part of his
Speaker 8: body with the legs and the anchoring of the speed
Speaker 8: to the swing. He's not chasing as much ups theirs
Speaker 8: now he's taking more downstairs. So teams have gone away from,
Speaker 8: you know, trying to exploit upstairs, and they're going away.
Speaker 1: And you can see he's way way.
Speaker 8: Expanding his zone too much right now for his own comfort,
Speaker 8: because I don't think he's found a pattern in which
Speaker 8: they've been pitching to him so far lately, and he
Speaker 8: has not been able to make the adjustment. Really comes
Speaker 8: down to the show. He taking his watch when he
Speaker 8: needs to, enforcing pictures into the zone a little bit more. So,
Speaker 8: hopefully it'll start again by poster and by being anchored
Speaker 8: in the batter's box.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for the insight. Look
Speaker 5: forward to talking to you after Sunday night baseball and
Speaker 5: a series win for the Dodgers.
Speaker 8: Let's make it a fadiz doo mingo. Come on now, David,
Speaker 8: let's go.
Speaker 4: All right, Jose, thank you for the phone call, Thank
Speaker 4: you for checking in. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with
Speaker 5: Luis Cochito Gruz and Pepe and Ningez. Then I'll do
Speaker 5: it for us tonight on Dodger Talk coming up tomorrow,
Speaker 5: the finale of this three game series, the Rubber Game,
Speaker 5: with Land and Knack on the mound for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: He's two and one with an ERA of six seventeen.
Speaker 5: We'll see whether or not the Dodgers decide to let
Speaker 5: Nack just start the game or try to go with
Speaker 5: an opener like they did the last time he pitched
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium, with Jack Dryer being the opener and
Speaker 5: then Nack coming in for five innings and throwing one
Speaker 5: hundred pitches in his last outing. So we'll see where
Speaker 5: things are with the Dodger pitching staff. Bobby Miller will
Speaker 5: not be part of the Dodger bullpen tomorrow. Very good
Speaker 5: chance that he already has his bags packed back to
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City for the Dodgers to call up another fresh arm.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers will.
Speaker 5: Be facing Codei Senga, another really good Mets starter who
Speaker 5: is four and three this year with an ERA of
Speaker 5: one forty three. He has forty seven strikeouts and fifty
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