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Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: After the Cubs defeat the Dodgers in a big way
Speaker 3: tonight ten to four the final score. Welcome the Dodger
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Speaker 3: eleven thirty tonight here on AM five to seventy LA
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Speaker 3: take your questions and comments, but I also have two
Speaker 3: pairs of tickets to give away to tomorrow night's Dodgers
Speaker 3: Cubs game. And I have two different Dodger Cubs related
Speaker 3: trivia questions for you, So we'll get to the first
Speaker 3: one a little bit later, but just wanted to give
Speaker 3: you a heads up.
Speaker 2: You might want to have your.
Speaker 3: Ears open because we do have a couple of pairs
Speaker 3: of tickets to give away to tomorrow night's game. And
Speaker 3: also later in the show, you will hear from Mookie Beds,
Speaker 3: who is the Dodgers Roberto Clemente Award nominee, and Mooki
Speaker 3: also spoke about the expectations he and the rest of
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have played with this season. We'll check in
Speaker 3: with Jose Mota and get to some postgame reaction in
Speaker 3: the Dodger clubhouse. Momentarily, eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 3: two five seventy is the phone number. Both the Padres
Speaker 3: and Diamondbacks were off tonight, so the lead shrinks by
Speaker 3: a half a game. The Padres are five and a
Speaker 3: half back of the Dodgers, while the Diamondbacks are six
Speaker 3: and a half back of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: In the NL West, there are.
Speaker 3: Only eighteen more aims to go in the regular season.
Speaker 3: Time is on the Dodgers' side as far as clinching
Speaker 3: this division goes. Their magic number is at thirteen, so
Speaker 3: we are getting closer to the Dodgers thinking.
Speaker 2: About clinching the NL West.
Speaker 3: And if you had to ask me, I know, I
Speaker 3: said on the road it would be in Miami, But
Speaker 3: it's looking more like when the Dodgers were turned home
Speaker 3: from this upcoming road trip. If things continue to go
Speaker 3: in the same way they're going lately, the Dodgers should
Speaker 3: be able to clinch the NL West at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: either against the Rockies or against that team that is
Speaker 3: chasing them, the San Diego Padres. But there is a
Speaker 3: lot of baseball between now and then. Walker Buehler is
Speaker 3: still somewhat of an enigma because I'm not sure you
Speaker 3: can count on this guy, not this version.
Speaker 2: He pitched well.
Speaker 3: Against two teams that were not very good offensively, the
Speaker 3: last one being the Angels. It's alarming that he's giving
Speaker 3: up a lot of home runs. He has given up
Speaker 3: two home runs in five of his last thirteen starts.
Speaker 3: A we can hear about stuff, and his stuff is
Speaker 3: as good as it was in twenty one or tonight.
Speaker 2: His stuff was good? Was it good?
Speaker 3: He gave up three runs in a two run home
Speaker 3: run on a ninety six fastball, and then his fastball
Speaker 3: was trending down ninety four. I did think he was
Speaker 3: going in the right direction in his last two starts,
Speaker 3: So I'm not ready to just say, you know what,
Speaker 3: no chance, No way should the Dodgers allow Walker Bueller
Speaker 3: to start a game in the playoffs. But can he
Speaker 3: really be trusted He's one in five with an a
Speaker 3: of five ninety five in thirteen starts this year. Can
Speaker 3: he really be trusted? That's that's the biggest question facing
Speaker 3: the Dodgers between now and then, because it's one thing
Speaker 3: to believe that he can do it, or want to
Speaker 3: believe that he can do it. And look at all
Speaker 3: you know the data that says, oh, his stuff is
Speaker 3: as good as ever. I just don't see that translating
Speaker 3: on the field consistently. And if you give up three
Speaker 3: or four runs in the first inning of a playoff game,
Speaker 3: are you telling me the Dodgers are going to be
Speaker 3: able to recover from that. I mean, they tried to,
Speaker 3: but the hole was so deep tonight they couldn't come back.
Speaker 3: Mookie match tried to make this a game. He drove
Speaker 3: in three of the Dodgers' four runs. He hit a
Speaker 3: two run home run in the seventh inning. It was
Speaker 3: seven to four, So if the Dodgers would have kept
Speaker 3: it there, there was a chance they would come back.
Speaker 3: But it was against the Cubs. The Cubs are not
Speaker 3: a great team. Their bullpen is not a great bullpen,
Speaker 3: their offense is okay. They're not even challenging for the
Speaker 3: week and now central and when you talk about their
Speaker 3: wildcard chances, those are starting to dim which each passing day.
Speaker 3: So let's not get this twisted. The Cubs scored ten
Speaker 3: runs off of the Dodgers. It wasn't the Padres or
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks, it was the Cubs. And I was a
Speaker 3: little surprised that Walker Buehler was allowed to go out
Speaker 3: there to start the sixth inning. I did not think
Speaker 3: he was pitching that well to be allowed to go
Speaker 3: back out there. But obviously Dave Roberts was trying to
Speaker 3: get some length out of him to ease the burden
Speaker 3: on his bullpen. Let's head downstairs right now to here
Speaker 3: from Walker Buehler on Sports at LA.
Speaker 4: Let's scree this from the jump. Obviously, three rounds in
Speaker 4: the first it can kind of suck the energy out
Speaker 4: of the building. And you know, it's hard of the
Speaker 4: first thing that's been a weird thing for me this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, so it's a lot to ask of
Speaker 4: the rest of our guys to dig me out of
Speaker 4: a hole every game.
Speaker 5: Why do you think you were jumping earlier?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I made a couple back of pitches obviously, you know,
Speaker 4: to belly you know, I'm kind of trying to let
Speaker 4: the ball go and and he clips it. He's had
Speaker 4: a lot of home runs, but you know, it's not
Speaker 4: where I'm trying to go with the ball, and he
Speaker 4: kind of made me pay for it.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they put good swings on.
Speaker 4: A couple of decent pitches, obviously a ton of hits,
Speaker 4: and just it wasn't goodness or home run ball is just.
Speaker 6: More elevated than you were intending to, both to Belly
Speaker 6: and to Bush.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think that's a super surprising thing. They're
Speaker 4: both at the top of the zone.
Speaker 5: Before the game, we're tuggling with Dave and he acknowledged
Speaker 5: that the injuries of rotation have kind of opened up
Speaker 5: a lane for you to pitch your way into a
Speaker 5: postseason roll. Do you think in those terms every time you.
Speaker 4: Go out there now, No, I mean, at some point, like,
Speaker 4: given the way his season is going, I'm kind of
Speaker 4: just trying to survive at some point, And you know,
Speaker 4: the past two of past two or three have given
Speaker 4: me a little bit of confidence and feeling more like myself,
Speaker 4: But you know, at some point, I'm just kind of
Speaker 4: waiting on that six on one and feel good and
Speaker 4: you know, punch more more than innings I throw and
Speaker 4: things like that. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: I've got to perform. And I've kind of said that
Speaker 4: for a long time, so you know, I got to
Speaker 4: perform for for myself, but more for our team. You know,
Speaker 4: we're we're kind of getting to the end of a
Speaker 4: race here.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 4: Whether I pitched in the playoffs or not or whatever, like,
Speaker 4: we need to make the playoffs and be in a
Speaker 4: good spot and let the guys that have carried us
Speaker 4: all year kind of carry us wherever we're going to go.
Speaker 4: So you know, at this point, I'm trying to go
Speaker 4: and and a s win the game when I start.
Speaker 3: There is Walker Buehler, and he seems to be more
Speaker 3: real about himself than anybody else. I thought he was
Speaker 3: spot on with his evaluation of himself. And uh, Walker
Speaker 3: Buehler is not a guy to mince words. He's not
Speaker 3: a guy to have some sort of false idea of
Speaker 3: who he is, because he has been very honest about
Speaker 3: the way he's pitching, going back to at the end
Speaker 3: of last year on why he shut things down and
Speaker 3: also in spring training where he was and why they
Speaker 3: were doing things and why he wouldn't be starting until
Speaker 3: a certain point in time in May. And I thought
Speaker 3: his evaluation of his performance tonight and the way he's
Speaker 3: been pitching lately was spot on. So kudos to Walker
Speaker 3: Bueller for being as real as it can be.
Speaker 2: Right there.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Let's go out to the phones after
Speaker 3: the Cubs beat Buehler and the Dodgers tonight ten to four.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Dave who was at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 2: Hi, Dave, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dave, just wanted to give my two cents here
Speaker 7: on your show about Walker Buehler.
Speaker 8: I was at the stadium today.
Speaker 7: I had this game lined up because I wanted to
Speaker 7: see Walker Buehler, my guy, pitch.
Speaker 9: To me.
Speaker 7: He's my favorite Dodger of time, well not of all times,
Speaker 7: so sorry, but I really love Walker Bueler and.
Speaker 8: This season specifically since he's.
Speaker 7: Gotten back the injured list.
Speaker 10: I've I've observed that it's just like.
Speaker 11: The mentality like this is at the end all be
Speaker 11: all of why he's not performing, but it's just like
Speaker 11: he doesn't have a good head on his shoulders. It
Speaker 11: seems like he's just very defeated and frustrated and it
Speaker 11: just kind of spirals on him. And uh, that's what
Speaker 11: I see with my eyes on TV, and that's what
Speaker 11: I saw today at the game while he's.
Speaker 7: Warming up, And I just wanted to know, you, you
Speaker 7: know better than us fans. You you're you're around these guys.
Speaker 10: You you've set.
Speaker 7: Eyes on these guys more than we have, and UH
Speaker 7: just wanted to know what's her perspective.
Speaker 10: Do you feel like.
Speaker 7: That that's an assessment that you would agree with? What
Speaker 7: do you think?
Speaker 3: I feel like Walker in the last five starts, you
Speaker 3: feel like it's two steps forward and then one step back.
Speaker 3: And that's the way I felt tonight after his last
Speaker 3: two starts. I isn't doing cartwheels over the way he
Speaker 3: pitched against those two teams that obviously aren't great offensive teams,
Speaker 3: but certainly he was encouraging and he needed confidence, right
Speaker 3: And I started to feel like before these games, the
Speaker 3: last three or four starts, including today, he did have
Speaker 3: the confidence the old Walker Buehler swagger about himself.
Speaker 2: But also what comes with.
Speaker 3: That is Walker Bueller's ego when it's on, when he's
Speaker 3: on the mound. I think back to earlier this season,
Speaker 3: he wanted to throw a fastball by Corey Seeger. Well,
Speaker 3: he doesn't have the command that he used to have
Speaker 3: right now to be able to execute that pitch, and
Speaker 3: Sieger made him pay for it. Same thing tonight, Saya Suzuki.
Speaker 3: He strikes him out, and all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 3: feeling he's feeling like big. You know that that ego
Speaker 3: is bigger than ever. He sees his former teammate Cody Bellinger,
Speaker 3: he hasn't faced him before, tries to throw ninety six
Speaker 3: up in the strike zone to him, misses his and
Speaker 3: Cody made him pay. Why would you throw Cody Bellinger
Speaker 3: a first pitch fastball? We've seen Cody, he loves fastball's Dave.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just think like the pitch sequencing to
Speaker 3: me has been a question mark, not only when Bueller pitches,
Speaker 3: but other guys pitch. And I just think, you know,
Speaker 3: you feel like he's getting through the first inning and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, the bridge collapses. He had
Speaker 3: two outs and then he gave up three runs. It
Speaker 3: just is so weird and bizarre that he's able to
Speaker 3: get too quick outs, but then after that the wheels
Speaker 3: fall off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you cannot.
Speaker 2: Put that in a playoff game, Dave. That's the thing,
Speaker 2: and he was.
Speaker 3: More real about it then I heard Dave Roberts b
Speaker 3: I mean, he was pretty transparent about the way he
Speaker 3: pitched tonight, and I thought that was refreshing. At least
Speaker 3: he can self evaluate himself pretty well and not try to,
Speaker 3: you know, duck away from what we all saw.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, Dave, Dave Roberts doesn't have very many options.
Speaker 7: He's gonna have to lean on Walker Buller for a
Speaker 7: better rewards because there's no week he doesn't bodies at
Speaker 7: this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at this point, I would say so. And thanks
Speaker 3: for the phone call, Dave. And Dave's a guy that
Speaker 3: protects his players publicly and I applaud him for that.
Speaker 3: But we saw what was happening out there and it
Speaker 3: just wasn't pretty. And really it makes it concerning that
Speaker 3: we all want this to work.
Speaker 2: For Walker Buehler.
Speaker 3: He's a great guy, great competitor, great big game pitcher.
Speaker 2: In his Dodger.
Speaker 3: Career fifteen postseason starts with an ERA under three. Everybody
Speaker 3: wants this to work, But so far, I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: you can say definitively. Yeah, I want Walker Buehler starting
Speaker 3: a playoff game for me, especially in a short series.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Rich who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Rich,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey, how's the going.
Speaker 2: I guess we've had better nights, Rich, But I'm doing well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel I was. I was excited and I
Speaker 10: thought we were gonna have the late ending come back,
Speaker 10: but it didn't happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what you think about Cody Billinger and Michael Bush
Speaker 3: driving in six of the ten runs tonight?
Speaker 10: You know what? I was getting into the parking lot
Speaker 10: and I was kind of bummed. I miss a belly
Speaker 10: bomb in person. I guess the opposing team. I can't
Speaker 10: hate on Belly but he had a great play in
Speaker 10: the outfield of the extra ending or end of the
Speaker 10: inning too. But it is what it is. But however,
Speaker 10: Walker Wheeler, I don't think they can trust him in
Speaker 10: the playoffs. Is he a bulletin piece by chance in October?
Speaker 10: And also my concern is it seems every time the
Speaker 10: Dodger's safe, a decent, well known starter or someone that
Speaker 10: has our number, we can't hit him and October is
Speaker 10: all pitching. So what do we do in October? Will
Speaker 10: the offense show up or are we just gonna.
Speaker 3: Well, I feel like the Dodger offense is pretty good, Rich,
Speaker 3: I mean, I know tonight wasn't a great showing, but
Speaker 3: top to bottom most nights, I feel like one through
Speaker 3: nine the Dodger offense is pretty good. So I feel
Speaker 3: like the offense is the least of their worries right now.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 3: seven two five seventy is the phone number. The MVPs
Speaker 3: did their job tonight. They get on base, they drove
Speaker 3: in runs, they got on scoring position. Otani was two
Speaker 3: for four tonight, on base three times. He stole his
Speaker 3: forty seventh base of the year. Mookie Betts was on
Speaker 3: base three times tonight, he hit a two run home
Speaker 3: run in the seventh inning, and Freddie Freeman was on
Speaker 3: base all four times tonight with three walks.
Speaker 2: So they did their job.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Max Munsey did not deliver with the bases loaded
Speaker 3: a couple of different times. He did sacrifice fly home
Speaker 3: Otani on the second time he came up with the
Speaker 3: bases loaded, but obviously you're looking for more right there,
Speaker 3: especially when you're in an early hole. Let's go out
Speaker 3: to Ben who also was at Dodgers Stadium tonight, fifty
Speaker 3: thousand plus at Chevez Ravine tonight.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Ben?
Speaker 9: Hey, dave been better, but glad to meet you and
Speaker 9: happy to be on the live.
Speaker 2: Hey, great to meet you too.
Speaker 3: At least you got to see two former Dodgers beat
Speaker 3: the Dodgers tonight, rather than you know, a giant or
Speaker 3: a Padre do it. At least you know two good
Speaker 3: guys and Bush and Bellinger.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was cool. And we were over behind first
Speaker 9: base and we were seeing him get some respect, that
Speaker 9: he was getting some respect from the fans from the
Speaker 9: last five or so years. So, yeah, you're right, that
Speaker 9: was nice. I guess my question for you is where
Speaker 9: do you think the rotation could go if Bueler isn't
Speaker 9: a part of it in the October lineup? And then
Speaker 9: here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I'm a big believer, and I may be completely crazy,
Speaker 3: but I'm a firm believer that Glass Now and Yamamoto
Speaker 3: will be in the Dodger rotation come Game one of
Speaker 3: the NLDS. What the Dodgers can expect from them, I
Speaker 3: can't tell you that. But if they're healthy and they
Speaker 3: get at least two starts under their belt before the postseason,
Speaker 3: I feel like that's all you can ask for if
Speaker 3: you're a Dodger fan, to have glass Now and yama
Speaker 3: Moto upright and able to start games one and two
Speaker 3: of a playoff series. I think Jack Flaherty is right
Speaker 3: there with them as well. I wouldn't you know, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't mind having Jack Flaherty start Game one with those
Speaker 3: two guys behind him.
Speaker 2: So I'm a big believer.
Speaker 3: With Yamamoto pitching tomorrow, glass Now on pace to travel
Speaker 3: with the Dodgers to Atlanta and throw a simulated game.
Speaker 3: Those are all positive signs that they're going to be
Speaker 3: there for the playoffs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's amazing, that's those are those words are music
Speaker 9: to my ears. And so how do you think about
Speaker 9: them getting ramped up for faytime postseason matchup?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 9: Do they have enough time to get back to yama
Speaker 9: Moto's pitch tomorrow?
Speaker 3: So that's huge because the Dodgers still had three more
Speaker 3: weeks to go, so he should be able to get
Speaker 3: at least two starts in and hopefully glass Now can
Speaker 3: get at least a one or two in as well.
Speaker 3: He's pitched more this year than Yamamoto, so I think
Speaker 3: that's fair. And also, let's keep in mind we can't
Speaker 3: ignore the fact that Jack Flaherty has had some back
Speaker 3: issues this season. The Dodgers have got to keep Jack
Speaker 3: Flaherty healthy as well.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, all right, Well, I appreciate your take as always.
Speaker 2: Okay, Ben, thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number. Cubs beat the Dodgers tonight ten to four.
Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger had a two run home run.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 3: Michael Bush had four hits, including a solo home run
Speaker 3: off of Walker Buehler that went over the short wall
Speaker 3: in the top of the fourth inning. I've brought this
Speaker 3: up during the Clubhouse show, and I even tweeted it
Speaker 3: when it happened. I was really confused why Chris Taylor
Speaker 3: just stopped in his tracks, because if he keeps going
Speaker 3: there to the spot in front of where that ball
Speaker 3: landed over the short wall, two rows back, Taylor catches
Speaker 3: that home run ball, and maybe this game is a
Speaker 3: little bit different, And certainly Walker Buehler's line does not
Speaker 3: show two home runs. But Taylor looked like he was
Speaker 3: trying to play the ball off the wall. But if
Speaker 3: he kept going, it feels like he misjudged it. Obviously
Speaker 3: he did, because if he runs to the spot, he
Speaker 3: catches it. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy is the phone number. Oh, we got a trifecta
Speaker 3: of callers that were at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 2: Hi, Brian, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey Dan, how you doing?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 2: I love talking baseball.
Speaker 3: It's great to see Cody Billager, Michael Bush back at
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was down the right field line by by Bellinger.
Speaker 8: He was a talking ball to defense in between. Seems
Speaker 8: like people were generally happy to see him. But uh,
Speaker 8: you know, I got a different fib and what would
Speaker 8: going on just with all the starting pitching injuries and
Speaker 8: the debaffle of the first innings and innings one of
Speaker 8: Games one and two last year, it's just concerning that
Speaker 8: I was wondering if they were just trying to push
Speaker 8: Bueller as far as they could to see if he
Speaker 8: could do it. Because we all know Dodger Fann from
Speaker 8: playoff time. He's as tenacious and as reliable as anyone
Speaker 8: in the playoffs, and we all would love to see
Speaker 8: him be ready. And so I was wondering if they
Speaker 8: were just trying to say, hey, we got you, give
Speaker 8: us what you got in the hopes of what if
Speaker 8: we don't know what we're gonna get from Glasgow, Yamamoto,
Speaker 8: Clarity and Kershaw. It's the last thing we need injuries.
Speaker 2: So hold on, Brian.
Speaker 3: I think I know there's a better sense of what
Speaker 3: you're getting with those three guys in Flarty, Glass Now
Speaker 3: and Yamamoto if they're healthy. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 3: you do know a lot more what you're going to
Speaker 3: get or what you hope to get.
Speaker 2: Uh are you going?
Speaker 3: There's been so many first innings for Walker Bueller where
Speaker 3: things have gone sideways, even with two outs.
Speaker 2: That's concerning.
Speaker 3: But he did minimize damage up until he was going
Speaker 3: back out there for the sixth inning and let the
Speaker 3: first two batters get on.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And it's scary, And I thought of it more
Speaker 8: from an its situation. What if the other guys can't
Speaker 8: go and now they're by process from elimination, but they aren't.
Speaker 2: Going to go.
Speaker 3: I'm believing that they are going to go Yamamoto.
Speaker 2: That's not a ghost on the mound tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That will actually be number eighteen Yoshi Yamamoto making the
Speaker 3: start tomorrow night against Shota Imanaga. Brian, nobody seems to
Speaker 3: acknowledge that fact that the guy is actually going to
Speaker 3: pitch in the game tomorrow. It's not like he's weeks away.
Speaker 3: He's pitching tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it wasn't ave a shoulder injury, and you
Speaker 8: know how those things are. You just never right. I'm
Speaker 8: going to start barking again.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just saying he's pitching tomorrow. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: say that his shoulder is gonna fall off tomorrow. If
Speaker 3: he's pitching tom tomorrow, makes me believe that he's healthy
Speaker 3: to pitch.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but if it's shorter did ball off in the
Speaker 8: middle of the game, that would make a really good highlight.
Speaker 2: I think sure would.
Speaker 3: But I don't believe that's going to happen. Thanks for
Speaker 3: the phone call, Brian, appreciate it. Eight six six nine
Speaker 3: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: There is so much doom and gloom around here.
Speaker 3: Number one, the Dodgers' magic number to clinch the NL
Speaker 3: West is thirteen with eighteen to go. Number two Tyler
Speaker 3: Glasnow is going to throw his second bullpen session and
Speaker 3: we'll be pitching in a simulated game Saturday in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Number three Yamamoto has been I feel like checked off
Speaker 3: every box possible to be able to be on the
Speaker 3: Mount tomorrow in a game for the first time.
Speaker 2: Since June fifteenth.
Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty yesterday just went seven and a third scoreless innings. Yes,
Speaker 3: the fastball velocity average was down a half mile an hour. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll concede that, But he looked very happy at the
Speaker 3: Sparks game court side yesterday, so that tells me his
Speaker 3: back was feeling pretty good after that game last night.
Speaker 3: So can we just take a deep breath, exhale and
Speaker 3: believe that these guys have been trying to get one
Speaker 3: hundred percent or as close to one hundred percent healthy
Speaker 3: at the right time, and it's starting to come to
Speaker 3: fruition with Yamamoto on the Mount tomorrow night for the
Speaker 3: first time since June fifteenth. All Right, I have your
Speaker 3: first trivia question for a pair of tickets to tomorrow
Speaker 3: night's game between the Dodgers and Cubs. I have two
Speaker 3: pairs to give away. So here is the number one
Speaker 3: trivia question. Which years did Cody Bellinger win the National
Speaker 3: League Rookie of the Year and the National League MVP
Speaker 3: eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy. If
Speaker 3: you had that answer, you'll have a chance to win
Speaker 3: a pre tickets to tomorrow night's game between the Dodgers
Speaker 3: and Cubs. Let's go out to one of my favorites
Speaker 3: U Sports Talk calling legend, Iray Craig from Long Beach.
Speaker 12: What up, Craig, Hey, Davy, what's going on? My friends?
Speaker 2: Oh? How you doing? Iray?
Speaker 12: I'll tell you, man, like you said, I'm listening to
Speaker 12: all the fans here, and uh, I mean, we do
Speaker 12: have the best record in baseball, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Tied with the Phillies for the best record in baseball.
Speaker 12: Now, that's what I thought. And there might be a
Speaker 12: little bit of a doom and gloom. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 12: I understand it. We failed to get past the rounds
Speaker 12: that we should be getting through. And I understand that
Speaker 12: they're they're the only looking at what's happened?
Speaker 3: People change, Craig, those were last two years.
Speaker 12: I really thought. I really thought Clary yesterday did a
Speaker 12: great job man, he looked good, no matter that his
Speaker 12: fastball was down a half a mile on an hour
Speaker 12: or whatever. I mean, that guy has what it takes.
Speaker 12: He's going almost eight innings throwing shut out ball. That's
Speaker 12: what the Dodgers need. I mean, besides Kershaw, who's questionable
Speaker 12: at this point. I mean, I gotta say our rotation
Speaker 12: it's getting healthy. But man, it's just I don't know
Speaker 12: if I hope we have the horses to get it done. Man,
Speaker 12: that's all I'm worried about. I mean, they're playing great. There's,
Speaker 12: like I said, the best team in baseball. You can't
Speaker 12: argue with that. But come playoff time, I hope that
Speaker 12: they have the horses and the arms to get through
Speaker 12: these divisional series and nlcs and all this, because another failure.
Speaker 6: Is just going to be catastrophic.
Speaker 12: Fan for these fans, who are you know already sounding
Speaker 12: like it's catastrophic.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you for the phone call, Iray Craig.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure you calmed the waters, but you certainly
Speaker 3: put it him to perspective, so appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in, and we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: Okay, All right, by y'all.
Speaker 12: Let's see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: There it goes Iray Craig and long Beach, a long
Speaker 3: time sports talk caller, and appreciate him checking in eight six, six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: It's funny what he brought up, because that's the sense
Speaker 3: we all been getting if the Dodgers don't win the
Speaker 3: World Series. This was a complete failure, and to a
Speaker 3: certain extent, every year is if you don't win the
Speaker 3: World Series, and you're the Dodgers since twenty thirteen, right,
Speaker 3: they've had the talent to be able to do it.
Speaker 3: They've only gotten it done once. I know you want
Speaker 3: to say that twenty seventeen was stolen from them. To
Speaker 3: a certain extent, it was. But let's not forget. Game
Speaker 3: seven was here at Dodger Stadium. Game two was here
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium. If not for Marwin Gonzalez hitting a
Speaker 3: home run off of Kenley Jansen, the Dodgers go to
Speaker 3: Houston up two OHO. But that's neither here or there.
Speaker 3: But before today's game, Mookie Betts was named the Dodgers
Speaker 3: nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award. We'll get to what
Speaker 3: he had to say about that honor, But he also
Speaker 3: was asked the question about whether or not the joy
Speaker 3: is not as great this season because of the expectations
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty four Dodgers fan base.
Speaker 13: You know, it's you come come to the park each
Speaker 13: and every day and you want to have fun. And
Speaker 13: this is a game, right, this is a game. We're
Speaker 13: supposed to have fun with it. And when you mess up, yeah,
Speaker 13: I mean, people are gonna mess up, but it shouldn't
Speaker 13: meet the end of the world. And I think the
Speaker 13: expectations placed on us make it make it the end
Speaker 13: of the world. They make it, you know, where it's
Speaker 13: not as fun going out there to play because if
Speaker 13: you're not flawless, you get completely criticized, like and you're
Speaker 13: criticized by people that are not out here doing it,
Speaker 13: you know. And so that's the part that definitely makes
Speaker 13: it a job. But it's what we signed up for
Speaker 13: as well, and so you know, kind of is what
Speaker 13: it is. We gotta go out there, whether it's fun
Speaker 13: or not. They gotta go play baseball more this year,
Speaker 13: maybe at an expectation space something if you expect this
Speaker 13: Winther's yeah, I mean, of course, you go, you know,
Speaker 13: spend that kind of money, bring bringing the guys that
Speaker 13: we brought in. There's gonna be more at an expectation
Speaker 13: definitely from the outside, but you know, we we don't
Speaker 13: show up here not expecting to win. You know, we
Speaker 13: we expect to win. But the rest of it, like
Speaker 13: we're gonna mess up, We're gonna go throw ups in
Speaker 13: our downs. But I think the outside expectation is that
Speaker 13: we're machines that do something, you know, or hit a
Speaker 13: thousand and never give up runs and all those type
Speaker 13: of things, and so that part kind of sucks. That's
Speaker 13: what makes uh, that's what makes it kind of suck.
Speaker 13: But again, it's what we signed up for and it
Speaker 13: is what it is.
Speaker 3: You've talked about the journey before. The journey is more
Speaker 3: of a reward than what the end result is.
Speaker 2: Even this season that you're embracing this.
Speaker 13: Journey absolutely absolutely, you know, the end results that's what
Speaker 13: gets criticized, and that's what if you just focus on that,
Speaker 13: that's that'll tear you down. But you know, going in
Speaker 13: the cage and trying to chase this perfect swing, or
Speaker 13: going out and working on defense and trying to chase
Speaker 13: the perfect way to fill the ground or whatever. You know,
Speaker 13: I just kind of get lost in that. I just
Speaker 13: get lost in that. And the game is the game.
Speaker 13: You know, the game is going to show up. You know,
Speaker 13: whatever happens in the game is what's going to happen
Speaker 13: in the game. But I really try and get lost
Speaker 13: in the process, and that's what brings me joy for sure.
Speaker 3: All Right, there's Mookie Bets earlier today after he was
Speaker 3: named the Dodgers nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award. And
Speaker 3: obviously the Dodgers are very aware of their expectations. They've
Speaker 3: been very aware of it since the moment they signed
Speaker 3: show Heyo Tani and when they arrived at spring training.
Speaker 3: I just hope these guys can enjoy the moment. I
Speaker 3: hope when they do clinch the NL West, they can
Speaker 3: enjoy the fruits of their labor. Eight six six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. All right,
Speaker 3: let's see if we got a winner on our first
Speaker 3: question of the night for a pair of tickets to
Speaker 3: tomorrow night's Dodgers Cubs game.
Speaker 2: Brandon in Valencia, do you have an answer?
Speaker 3: And when Cody Bellinger won the National League MVP and
Speaker 3: when he won the National League Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 6: I do I missed Cody Bellinger, and I believe it
Speaker 6: was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry he did not win either award that season.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your try. Let's go out to Panorama City.
Speaker 2: Miguel.
Speaker 3: Do you have the correct answer? What were the year
Speaker 3: or years that Cody Bellinger won the National League Rookie
Speaker 3: of the Year and the National League MVP?
Speaker 6: That should be twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: You got one of them, right, You didn't get both
Speaker 3: of them, right? Thanks for the try, Miguel.
Speaker 2: So close. All right, let's go out to Ben in Temecula.
Speaker 3: All right, Ben, can you tell me when Cody Bellinger
Speaker 3: won the National League Rookie of the Year with the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and the National League MVP with the Dodgers.
Speaker 10: All right, I got you, Dave, we got Toddy Bellinger,
Speaker 10: my favorite, one of my favorite Dodgers.
Speaker 9: We got twenty seventeen when we should have run a
Speaker 9: ring is his Rookie of the Year. And then twenty
Speaker 9: nineteen when he was hitting four hundred almost all year.
Speaker 2: That was an MVP year, no doubt, Ben, you got it. Right,
Speaker 2: you are a two Cody Bellingers fan.
Speaker 3: Congratulations you are coming to the game tomorrow night. You
Speaker 3: got a pair of tickets for Dodgers Cubs.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Dave.
Speaker 3: Have a good night, hey, Courtesy of and five to
Speaker 3: seventy LA Sports, Ben, you're home for Dodgers Radio, no doubt,
Speaker 3: all right. You enjoy hearing yourself win those tickets. We'll
Speaker 3: put you back on hold when we continue here on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk. We have another pair of tickets to give
Speaker 3: away to tomorrow night's game, if you can tell me
Speaker 3: which Dodger hit three home runs in Game five of
Speaker 3: the twenty seventeen NLCS. Also, we're gonna check in with
Speaker 3: Jose Mota and we'll give you an update on when
Speaker 3: Bruce Stargredol will be activated by the Dodgers. A lot
Speaker 3: more to come when we continue live from Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 3: on Dodger Talk. Tonight, the Cubs beat the Dodgers ten
Speaker 3: to four on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: David Live and Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: After the Cubs beat the Dodgers tonight by a final
Speaker 3: score of ten to four, the Dodgers man Chick number
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Speaker 3: Ta Oscar Hernandez was not in the Dodgers starting lineup
Speaker 3: for the second straight game because still nursing Bruce in
Speaker 3: that left foot he was hit by a pitch in
Speaker 3: the first game of the Guardians series. I mentioned yesterday.
Speaker 3: I observed that he was still having some discomfort in
Speaker 3: that left foot with certain movements, and Dave Roberts said
Speaker 3: as much before today's game. But Dave went out there
Speaker 3: to watch ta Oscar run and there is a greater
Speaker 3: chance that he will be in the starting lineup tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And as far as Bruce star Grattarol goes, Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: indicated that the Bazooka will be activated on Wednesday, the
Speaker 3: final game of this series against the Cubs. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll get to the more phone calls and the trivia
Speaker 3: in a moment, but first let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose Mota, we seem to be getting mixed
Speaker 3: messages about Walker Buehler's start tonight. Maybe you can clarify
Speaker 3: what you saw and what you believe the future as
Speaker 3: far as the postseason should be for Walker Buehler.
Speaker 6: I believe more what I heard from Walker Buehler when
Speaker 6: he went out there invaluator himself, knowing that the fastball
Speaker 6: was not missing, you know, out of the twenty swings,
Speaker 6: one swing and missed. The picture was missing the most
Speaker 6: of the sweeper three out of four swings. But in
Speaker 6: his voice, it seems like a little confused or baffled
Speaker 6: by going why happening right now? Why is it that
Speaker 6: I can go through a nice, nice cleaning. But what
Speaker 6: re capture my ears was when he's talking about more
Speaker 6: punch oels than innings. Pitch Dave, what does I tell you?
Speaker 6: Still thinking? How about this tracka You know, I talked
Speaker 6: before well during the game and I said, tray gout
Speaker 6: to Suzuki, even though it was a high fast of
Speaker 6: ninety six, may not be the best thing that happens
Speaker 6: to him. There's a lot of times in what you
Speaker 6: get a misread on where your stuff is and by
Speaker 6: one player you can go off of that. You got
Speaker 6: to go out there and understand that. You know, upstairs,
Speaker 6: like the per Bad is when we saw eleven pitches,
Speaker 6: writer is all you focus on on the letters up
Speaker 6: and he's going he's not going to try to get
Speaker 6: me anything down the way. And just you know, Walker,
Speaker 6: as much as he tries, cannot get the breaking ball
Speaker 6: down or the fast falls down, even pitching inside effectively
Speaker 6: during that at Bad, but you see paraders stood write
Speaker 6: home play saying I'm going to challenge you to throw
Speaker 6: your best breaking ball away and I'm going to fight
Speaker 6: it off. And that's just an example of what happens
Speaker 6: when hitters tell you I don't think your stuff is
Speaker 6: good enough to get it by me right now, and
Speaker 6: we're going to battle. There's a lot of hard content
Speaker 6: against India.
Speaker 3: Today when you look at what the Dodgers are trying
Speaker 3: to search for When it comes to Walker Bueler, he's
Speaker 3: talked about trying to earn a spot on the postseason roster.
Speaker 3: If he has a game like this or another one
Speaker 3: of these games where he gives up runs with two
Speaker 3: outs in a playoff game, that just isn't acceptable, right Jose.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's one thing to ask your team to
Speaker 3: come back in a regular season game against a lesser opponent.
Speaker 2: But if this was a sellout crowd at Dodger.
Speaker 3: Stadium and he gives up three or four runs in
Speaker 3: the first inning of a game, that's got to be
Speaker 3: even more deflating. Can the Dodgers trust putting Bueler out
Speaker 3: there to start a game?
Speaker 6: You almost have to go out there and say and say, Walker,
Speaker 6: give us five good inns. That's all we want. Give
Speaker 6: me your best five innings today. And that is a
Speaker 6: mentality that really carries on with a pitcher, to say, Okay,
Speaker 6: they're minimunizing for me, so I'm going to go out
Speaker 6: there and just have everything kind of slaid out of
Speaker 6: the way. I want to pitch.
Speaker 1: Dave.
Speaker 6: In terms of confidence, you know that you want some
Speaker 6: zeros and somebody's giving you the ability to see zero's
Speaker 6: in consistent basis. In a playoff situation scenario, you're also
Speaker 6: going to be facing the top notch pitcher. You're not
Speaker 6: going to be facing four and five and six in
Speaker 6: that case. You know, making comebacks is a lot tougher.
Speaker 6: And everybody on Dawn, your nation is pulling for this
Speaker 6: kit to be good. But we need to see more
Speaker 6: in terms of the resources. There's been times when he's
Speaker 6: gotten to be by the teep hit here and there,
Speaker 6: but today I think it was more in vindication of
Speaker 6: him trying to out of where he was previous starts.
Speaker 6: I mean against Baltimore, it was a really good, good
Speaker 6: hitting team, power team against the Angels gets fine. I
Speaker 6: would say the consistency and giving you a chance to win,
Speaker 6: Dave comes better. And you mentioned earlier in the show
Speaker 6: about stuff you know stuff and people you know relign
Speaker 6: on stuff. Stuff is what hitters tell you where your
Speaker 6: stuff is. To me, it doesn't matter that it's ninety six,
Speaker 6: ninety seven Bieler or other pictures. Hitters will let you
Speaker 6: know where your stuff plays, how it's playing, how cool
Speaker 6: I feel against you right now? You see a lot
Speaker 6: of comfortable swings against Walker.
Speaker 2: Builder all right, we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 3: SoSE Hopefully things continue to or start to get better
Speaker 3: for Bueler in a more dominating, convincing fashion. We'll see
Speaker 3: you back out here tomorrow night for another great game,
Speaker 3: a big game, Hose. It will be Yamamoto against Shota Imanaga.
Speaker 3: Obviously all of Japan will be watching. That should be fun.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow night should be a lot of fun. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 6: have a Yoshinova is gonna come out and not chase podcast,
Speaker 6: but be effective enoughfully faces seen before it threw very
Speaker 6: well over Wrigley and can implement the break in more
Speaker 6: more than anything. And with that fast book come on,
Speaker 6: because no one thing keep over throw strikes hopefully a
Speaker 6: lot of calling strikes more for your shoo.
Speaker 3: Realistically, how far do you believe Yamamoto goes tomorrow?
Speaker 6: If he's efficient, I think even the sixty five seventy range,
Speaker 6: hopefully four innings out of it and get him going
Speaker 6: and dress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be good.
Speaker 3: It would be nice to have Yamamoto and or Glass
Speaker 3: now ready for the NLDS. Thanks, Jose, we'll see you tomorrow. Well,
Speaker 3: not just there he goes Jose Mota part of the
Speaker 3: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and Ingez and of
Speaker 3: course the great El Toro Fernando Vealezuela. Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 3: all right here it is our final pair of tickets
Speaker 3: for tomorrow night's game Dodgers Cubs. If you can tell
Speaker 3: me which Dodger hit three home runs in Game five
Speaker 3: of the twenty seventeen NLCS, let's try with Malhammed in Azuza.
Speaker 3: You've been on hold for a while, so you get
Speaker 3: the first crack.
Speaker 2: Mohammed.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Hey, Dave, great points tonight, And the correct answer
Speaker 9: is Chris Taylor.
Speaker 2: Sir, it is not.
Speaker 3: It is not Chris Taylor. Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: Thanks for holding, Mohammed. I appreciate it. All right. The
Speaker 3: tie is going to the collor that was holding on longer,
Speaker 3: so that is Sam and U Kaipa.
Speaker 2: You'll get the first crack at this.
Speaker 3: Sam, who is the Dodger that hit three home runs
Speaker 3: in Game five of the twenty seventeen NLCS. Yes, I
Speaker 3: remember because this was the one of my favorite games
Speaker 3: I got to send to the Fall Classic.
Speaker 10: It was Key k Hernandez.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was, and it was I remember Key k
Speaker 3: Hernandez showing me his Dodger hat before that game where
Speaker 3: he wrote a special inscription for the people of Puerto
Speaker 3: Rico who were dealing with the aftermath of a huge hurricane.
Speaker 3: And he hit three home runs that night to send
Speaker 3: the Dodgers to the World Series. That is also one
Speaker 3: of my favorite moments. It was revenge against those Cubs
Speaker 3: at Wrigley Field that night. Sam, So love that you
Speaker 3: got that answer right, and love that you enjoyed that
Speaker 3: game as much as we all did.
Speaker 9: Oh, that was a great game and that was a
Speaker 9: memory of the one for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, Sam, congratulations courtesy of US five seventy LA
Speaker 3: Sports Dodgers Radio.
Speaker 2: Enjoy the game tomorrow night.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 9: I appreciate you, guys, appreciate you.
Speaker 3: All Right, We're gonna close out the show tonight in
Speaker 3: a special way, so we'll do all of this right
Speaker 3: now tomorrow. Like I mentioned, Yamamoto on the mound for
Speaker 3: the first time since June fifteenth, going up against fellow
Speaker 3: countrymen in Shota Emonaga. Imanaga this year has had a
Speaker 3: spectacular season twelve and three with an ERA of two
Speaker 3: ninety nine Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at six
Speaker 3: o'clock with first pitch at seven ten thanks to dwayn
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Speaker 3: back at our Burbank Studios. In case you missed any
Speaker 3: of the show, you can find it as always on
Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app. All right, we want to close out
Speaker 3: the show with a very special call in Dodger history.
Speaker 3: You may or may not realize that tonight, fifty nine
Speaker 3: years ago at Dodger Stadium, Sandy Kofax through is one
Speaker 3: and only perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. And who
Speaker 3: was on the call, of course, the great Vince Gully.
Speaker 3: This is the way we'll close out tonight's show. After
Speaker 3: the Dodgers fault of the Cubs ten to four, Vince
Speaker 3: Scully on the call for the final out of Cofax's
Speaker 3: perfect game fifty nine years ago tonight at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: Enjoy two and two to.
Speaker 14: Harvey Kane, one strike away, Sandy into his wind up.
Speaker 14: Here's the pitch.
Speaker 2: Swar that in this the perfect game.
Speaker 14: On the scoreboard and right field. It is nine forty
Speaker 14: six pm in the City of the Angels, Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 14: and a crowd of twenty nine thousand and thirty nine
Speaker 14: just sitting in to see the only pitcher in baseball
Speaker 14: history to herald four no hit, no run games. He
Speaker 14: has done it forced eight years and now he capped
Speaker 14: it on his fourth no hitter. He made it a
Speaker 14: perfect game.