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Speaker 7: For the first time in what six hundred and thirty
Speaker 7: three days, show hey Otani was back on the mound
Speaker 7: pitching in a baseball game tonight, donning a Dodgers uniform.
Speaker 7: One inning of work for show Heyotani in his return,
Speaker 7: and then he went to work at the plates as
Speaker 7: the Dodgers leadoff hitter. A RBI double on the third,
Speaker 7: then an RBI single in the fourth, two for four tonight.
Speaker 7: A couple of ribis for show Aotani as the Dodgers
Speaker 7: beat the Podres tonight sixty three. Welcome to Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: Everybody AMPHI seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 7: A sold out crowd here at Dodgers Stadium on this
Speaker 7: Monday night. Fans rushed to get tickets once it was
Speaker 7: announced on Dodger Talking yesterday with Devid Vesse that show
Speaker 7: Ayotani would be the starting pitcher tonight for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: A sellout crowd is.
Speaker 7: What they had here at the ravine and they saw
Speaker 7: show Eyotani warming up. I mean as soon as he
Speaker 7: came out of the dugout to go out and start
Speaker 7: playing long toss and left field fans along the third
Speaker 7: base line were standing, and as he made his way
Speaker 7: out into the outfield, they continued to stand all the
Speaker 7: way down by the foul pole on the field level.
Speaker 7: And then you looked in the bullpen area along the
Speaker 7: gate along the field level, in the pavilion and left field,
Speaker 7: everybody standing. And then you looked up in the reserve
Speaker 7: level as he was throwing his bullpen session, a line
Speaker 7: of people hanging over the railing looking down into the
Speaker 7: Dodgers' bullpen just to see number seventeen show Aotani warm
Speaker 7: up in the Dodgers' bullpen. It's like nobody had ever
Speaker 7: seen show Ayotani pitch before in the United States. I
Speaker 7: had to remind some folks today he pitched for six
Speaker 7: years for the Anaheim Angels. Six years we seen him
Speaker 7: pitch in the big leagues. He's faced the Dodgers before,
Speaker 7: but yet tonight it's like we had never seen him
Speaker 7: pitch before. And Dodger fans were here tonight in force
Speaker 7: to see him pitch against the San Diego Padres. Just
Speaker 7: one inning of work, one run, two those strikeouts, no walks.
Speaker 7: Should have had a punch out of Manny Machado. Instead
Speaker 7: it was a sack fly. Later in he had bat
Speaker 7: bringing in a run in the first inning to give
Speaker 7: the Padres a one to nothing lead. But overall some
Speaker 7: command issues in that one end of work for show Aotani.
Speaker 7: You heard from Max Munsey, you heard Dave Roberts, you
Speaker 7: heard from showing himself with David Vasse on the field.
Speaker 7: Felt good about his performance and something to now build
Speaker 7: on moving forward again. A reminder he didn't go to
Speaker 7: Rancho Cucamonga. He didn't go to Oklahoma City. There was
Speaker 7: no rehab outings to face live hitting, live bullets.
Speaker 4: As they say, in a competitive game.
Speaker 7: In the minor leagues, he didn't have that luxury of
Speaker 7: going out and pitching. He had a couple of sim games,
Speaker 7: most recently last week, forty four pitches at Petco Park
Speaker 7: down in San Diego. That was it as far as
Speaker 7: live action and ramping up to come back and pitch
Speaker 7: with the Dodgers. So tonight, his first competitive was the
Speaker 7: one inning of work against the San Diego Padres. And
Speaker 7: for those who were calling a FI seventy earlier today,
Speaker 7: I heard you on Rogan and Rodney. This wasn't the
Speaker 7: Dodger saying we need you show hey, we go, We
Speaker 7: need you to go out and make a start.
Speaker 8: Go.
Speaker 7: This was Show Aotani on his schedule, part of his
Speaker 7: plan going out and pitching tonight. This wasn't him being
Speaker 7: forced out. This wasn't him being kicked and pushed and
Speaker 7: told go out and pitch by the Dodgers Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: or Mark Pryor or Andrew Freeman. No, this was the
Speaker 7: schedule and plan all along for Show Aotani he got
Speaker 7: to a point SIM games have been enough. He got
Speaker 7: out of him what he was gonna get forty four pitches,
Speaker 7: couple of updowns, as they say in a SIM game.
Speaker 4: Last week.
Speaker 7: He was ready. The next step was to face live
Speaker 7: hitting in a game. And he's not going to the
Speaker 7: minor leagues on a rehab start, as we have mentioned,
Speaker 7: so the other option is to have him pitching the game,
Speaker 7: and he did tonight.
Speaker 4: As in essence, he was the opener for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: It was gonna be one, maybe two innings of work
Speaker 7: if it was a light inning. In that first inning,
Speaker 7: as it turns out, he threw twenty eight pitches, sixteen strikes,
Speaker 7: a little bit of an issue with his command, got
Speaker 7: a couple swinging misses into night's one inning of work.
Speaker 7: He had two flare base hits that he gave up
Speaker 7: in that first inning from Luisa Rise and Fernando Tetiz Junior,
Speaker 7: a sack five for Manny Machado, limited damage against show
Speaker 7: Hey Otani and certainly something to build on. And how
Speaker 7: exciting was it to see him hit triple digits on
Speaker 7: the radar gun here at Dodger Stadium, one hundred miles
Speaker 7: an hour a couple times, sitting ninety six ninety seven
Speaker 7: miles an hour consistently in his one inning of work tonight.
Speaker 7: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 7: a number. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 7: seventy ten. Kate's postgame Dodger Talk here at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 7: as the Dodgers get to win sixty three over the
Speaker 7: Padres talked about it in pregame. We were gonna see
Speaker 7: Ben Casparius in a heavy dosage tonight as the quote
Speaker 7: unquote bulk inning guy for the Dodgers. He's now part
Speaker 7: of this rotation. But because Showhy wants to pitch the
Speaker 7: one inning, he gets the nod as the opener, the starter,
Speaker 7: and then it was gonna be Ben Casparius getting a
Speaker 7: bulk of the innings tonight.
Speaker 4: And that's what we saw.
Speaker 7: Three and two thirds, two runs, three hits, a couple
Speaker 7: of strikeouts. He had a leadoff walk in the fourth
Speaker 7: that turned into a run on a double by the
Speaker 7: next batter in the fourth inning from Xander Bogart's His
Speaker 7: RBI double gave up a leadoff home run in the
Speaker 7: sixth inning to Manny Machado. But other than that, gave
Speaker 7: the Dodgers what they needed, some length in this game
Speaker 7: to get to Vesia Kopek, Tanner, Scott and then Kirby
Speaker 7: Yates to pitch the ninth inning that back into the bullpen.
Speaker 7: By the way, starting to look good, starting to get
Speaker 7: to what we thought it was gonna look like in
Speaker 7: whatever combination. Vessia, Kopek, Scott, Yates, all four of those
Speaker 7: guys can close out games. We're starting to see identity
Speaker 7: down there in that bullpen. We're starting to see rules
Speaker 7: start to form in that Dodger's bullpen. Is it gonna
Speaker 7: stay that way every single night? No, but you're starting
Speaker 7: to see four main, high leverage relievers out there, and
Speaker 7: for what they can go ahead and get the net
Speaker 7: final nine twelve, fifteen outs if need be in a game.
Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 7: the number we're gonna hear from. Jose Mota coming up
Speaker 7: in just a little bit. Let's go out to the phone,
Speaker 7: Zough start things off. Joseph leaving the game tonight here
Speaker 7: at Dodger Stadium. Joseph, what a night for showing oh Tani.
Speaker 7: It was like a playoff atmosphere tonight, wasn't it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was really quiet when he was out there
Speaker 9: in the stadium, like you could heart. You could hear
Speaker 9: like a pin drop pretty much. And Yep, my buddies
Speaker 9: and I noticed how quiet it was while he was pitching.
Speaker 9: It was pretty insane.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: One thing I was disappointed though, is that, uh, when
Speaker 9: Conforto just wasn't really making making his plays. Is that
Speaker 9: Roberts didn't play Kim in the game though, And I
Speaker 9: thought he would have Kim in the game, and so
Speaker 9: I was just wondering, like, why they haven't gone to
Speaker 9: Kim is more of an everyday player.
Speaker 7: Appreciate the phone call, Joseph. You brought up something I
Speaker 7: wanted to make sure we hit on when shoey Otani
Speaker 7: was pitching tonight, and it wasn't unnoticed at first. You
Speaker 7: kind of had to stop and think, what's what's different
Speaker 7: right now? What is I can't put my finger on
Speaker 7: it initially, And after a few pitches from shoey Otani
Speaker 7: in that first inning, facing to tease and then the
Speaker 7: single to a rise, I figured it out and Joseph
Speaker 7: just brought it up. It was quiet inside Dodger stadium.
Speaker 7: There was no deed or rule on the organ.
Speaker 4: There there was no music being played.
Speaker 7: There was no oh, you know, the charge stuff in
Speaker 7: between pitches to get the fans going and to get
Speaker 7: a rhythm going out there in a game. In between
Speaker 7: pitches for show Eotani tonight, it was quiet. You could
Speaker 7: almost hear a pen drop with a sellout crowd here
Speaker 7: at Dodger State, and I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 4: It was eerily quiet.
Speaker 7: Maybe it's Dodger Stadium is so loud during games, but
Speaker 7: at the same time, when you don't hear anything in
Speaker 7: between pitches, nothing, nothing from deeeda rule on the organ, nothing,
Speaker 7: and it's just showy Otani out there and facing batters
Speaker 7: and when he's going two two, three to two full
Speaker 7: count and guys, it feels like forever it was just
Speaker 7: a battle on the mound and we're just observers in
Speaker 7: a quiet, you know, vacuum somewhere watching this all happen.
Speaker 4: It was really weird to see.
Speaker 7: But I don't know if that's what show he wants,
Speaker 7: if it's a respect thing, I don't know, but I
Speaker 7: thought it was interesting. There was just dead silence when
Speaker 7: show A was on the mound in that top half
Speaker 7: of the first inning eight six, six, nine.
Speaker 4: Seven, five seventy.
Speaker 7: Jose Mota is going to join us after the top
Speaker 7: of the hour. Dodgers get the six to three win
Speaker 7: over the Padres tonight show a Otani two for fourth
Speaker 7: to plate and RBI double an RBI single. He got
Speaker 7: the start tonight in his one inning of work. Damn
Speaker 7: it into Mechil You're next up here on Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: on this Monday night.
Speaker 4: Hi doing David.
Speaker 9: I'm doing awesome.
Speaker 10: We're about fifty minutes from home. My girlfriend's driving. It's awesome.
Speaker 10: It was great to be there. We actually are quarter
Speaker 10: season ticket holders and the reserve section normally, but we
Speaker 10: sold a game we're supposed to. We sold last next
Speaker 10: Saturday's ticket and upgrade it before it happened. It was
Speaker 10: phenomenal being there for Show's first appearance on the mound.
Speaker 10: Like you said it was, it was quiet out there,
Speaker 10: but it was also electric in a way because the
Speaker 10: way he was just throwing and very powerful on the mound.
Speaker 10: It was just amazing to see. And I can't wait
Speaker 10: until he could build up and pitch a solid five
Speaker 10: for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt. I appreciate the phone call, David.
Speaker 7: The command wasn't there, and I keep alluding to that
Speaker 7: because it's important to remember that Dodger fans that, yeah,
Speaker 7: he missed the zone twelve times. He had a wild pitch,
Speaker 7: and that wild pitch would come into score on the
Speaker 7: Manny Machado sack fly. He got some swinging missus. He
Speaker 7: had some two strike counts. I think he had about
Speaker 7: four or five of them. He should have had a
Speaker 7: strike out of Manny Machado on a two strike sweeper,
Speaker 7: but was not wrung up on the call, and it
Speaker 7: turned out that Manny machatdo flew out to bring in
Speaker 7: the first run of the game. But you can see
Speaker 7: him out there in command. The velocity was there once
Speaker 7: that command gets dialed in. I mean, look out, this
Speaker 7: is a guy who made his first pitching appearance since
Speaker 7: August twenty third of twenty twenty three, and sim games is.
Speaker 4: All he threw in.
Speaker 7: You had to expect a little bit of command issues
Speaker 7: out there as he zeros it in on the scope,
Speaker 7: as they say, with all of his pitches, and tonight
Speaker 7: you saw him in that one inning of work glimpses
Speaker 7: of what he was and what we're going to see
Speaker 7: was shoe Aotani moving forward as he gets ramped up,
Speaker 7: and as David Vassi mentioned it, it's gonna be and
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts talked about it with the media earlier. We
Speaker 7: expect to see him once a week, just like we're
Speaker 7: seeing from Yoshiamamoto. Is gonna be once a week for
Speaker 7: show Ayotani when he's out on the mountain and the
Speaker 7: next time out it could be just one inning of work.
Speaker 7: It could be an inning in of third, it could
Speaker 7: be an Indian in two thirds. I truly believe they're
Speaker 7: gonna just take it as far as a pitch count
Speaker 7: range and a load, as far as how he's out
Speaker 7: there on the mount is it gonna be stressful inning?
Speaker 7: Is he being taxed out there like tonight a one
Speaker 7: inning of work twenty eight pitches? He wasn't going back
Speaker 7: out there for a second inning in his first outing
Speaker 7: of the year.
Speaker 4: Now, let's just play.
Speaker 7: You know what if here, if he had gone out
Speaker 7: and had an eight or nine pitch first inning and
Speaker 7: retired the side from the San Diego Padres tatis Ariiza Machado,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't have been shocked to see him go back
Speaker 7: out there and maybe face a batter or two and
Speaker 7: see what the pitch count and the stress load is
Speaker 7: looking like in that second inning. But as it is
Speaker 7: first time out, twenty eight pitch inning, sixteen strikes, gave
Speaker 7: up a run on a sack fly, couple flare base hits,
Speaker 7: didn't get his strikeouts, but a couple of swinging misses.
Speaker 4: A good overall return to the.
Speaker 7: Mound for Show Aotani, And again I shouldn't be shocked,
Speaker 7: but just in awe, I guess is the best way
Speaker 7: to describe it. In watching show Ayotani, just run onto
Speaker 7: the field, warm up, play long toss, throw his bullpen
Speaker 7: warm up, and then come out to the mound. It's
Speaker 7: like nobody had ever seen him pitch before. It's just
Speaker 7: to me, having watched him pitch for six years in Anaheim,
Speaker 7: watch him pitch against the Dodgers, and tonight the one
Speaker 7: inning of work, the twenty pitches he threw in the
Speaker 7: bullpen pregame, it's like people were hanging on every pitch
Speaker 7: just trying to get a glimpse of number seventeen.
Speaker 4: Like he's babe, Ruth, I mean, he is a unicorn.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 7: I understand It's just amazing for a guy who's in
Speaker 7: his eighth season in the big leagues making his.
Speaker 4: First start in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 7: That's the power of the brand that is the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: that is the power of Dodger Blue, of Dodger Baseball.
Speaker 7: That a guy can spend six years down the road
Speaker 7: with a different team, come to the Dodgers, win a
Speaker 7: World Series, have the marketability that he does, have the
Speaker 7: power of stardom that he does as a player on
Speaker 7: and off the field at that point of his career,
Speaker 7: and to be now in a Dodger uniform for the
Speaker 7: next eight plus years, It's it's pretty crazy. Mike and
Speaker 7: Sun Valley is next up here on postgame Dodger Talk
Speaker 7: on seventy I Sports.
Speaker 11: How you doing, Mike, Hey, Cam, how you doing?
Speaker 12: Thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm great. I' what a great night out of
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 12: Oh very great guy. And you know, show hey for
Speaker 12: the first time in almost two years pitching, uh beat
Speaker 12: the Padres. That makes it even more special. One more
Speaker 12: thing I want to talk about. At the start of
Speaker 12: this twenty seven game stretch, didn't know how it was
Speaker 12: gonna go a little worried with all the injuries, and
Speaker 12: yet here we are still in first place at the
Speaker 12: conclusion of this rough stretch, and uh, we're going to
Speaker 12: get some more pictures back and look out, National League.
Speaker 12: You know we're going to be there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's scary, and I appreciate the phone call, Mike.
Speaker 7: It's scary to think that the Dodgers, with all the
Speaker 7: injuries fourteen players as far as pitchers on the injured
Speaker 7: list as of a couple of days ago, that their
Speaker 7: first place team. And I shape the phone call. Their
Speaker 7: first place team. They have one of the best records
Speaker 7: in baseball. They have the second best home record in
Speaker 7: the National League. Obviously, expectations are high. They're expected to win,
Speaker 7: no doubt about it, with this team and the way
Speaker 7: it's constructed. But through all the injuries, the way they've
Speaker 7: just hung in there and continue to win series after
Speaker 7: series and be in first place in the division. And
Speaker 7: now the trickle back of players to this rotation, to
Speaker 7: the bullpen, to the lineup, you know, getting back Kirby Yates,
Speaker 7: getting back Michael Kopek. Blake Trining was throwing a bullpen
Speaker 7: session earlier today. Blake Snell throwing a bullpen session earlier today,
Speaker 7: show Aotani on the mound tonight for one inning of work.
Speaker 7: We are starting to see guys come back and trickle
Speaker 7: back healthy and add to what is already a first
Speaker 7: place team. It is kind of scary to think about
Speaker 7: what this team is going to look like and be
Speaker 7: like when they are at full strength, and quite frankly,
Speaker 7: Dodger fans, I'm hoping they're at full strength at the
Speaker 7: mid to late part of September. That's when they need
Speaker 7: to be healthy. That their peak. You know, it's great
Speaker 7: to be healthy and have the lineup and roster you
Speaker 7: thought you're gonna have in July and early August and
Speaker 7: early September. But let's face it, this team is built
Speaker 7: to win a championship. And you play one hundred and
Speaker 7: sixty two games, you win your division, you take care
Speaker 7: of business during the season, but you better be at
Speaker 7: your best when that calendar flips to October one and
Speaker 7: you start playoff baseball eight to six, nine, eight, seven,
Speaker 7: two five seventy Dodgers get the victory tonight six to
Speaker 7: three over the San Diego Padres. They're now forty two
Speaker 7: and twenty nine on this season. They pick a half
Speaker 7: game up on the San Francisco Giants, and now they
Speaker 7: pick up a full game on the San Diego Padres
Speaker 7: in the NL West. So the Dodgers gaining ground in
Speaker 7: some momentum. Now having taken two or three over the
Speaker 7: weekend from the Giants, they win the series open or
Speaker 7: tonight over the Padre is now four games up in
Speaker 7: the division over San Diego, and again the Diamondbacks just
Speaker 7: can't can't get any momentum going.
Speaker 4: They're a game over five hundred.
Speaker 7: They win six of their last ten, but you know,
Speaker 7: they just can't get on a roll, and they've dug
Speaker 7: themselves a seven game hole in the division, looking up
Speaker 7: with three teams ahead of him in the standings. It's
Speaker 7: gonna be a tough going for them in the NL West.
Speaker 7: But if you're the Dodgers, you're feeling good about where
Speaker 7: you're at right now. Winners of three straight, three of
Speaker 7: their last fourth, they have been winners here at home,
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers get the win tonight's sixty three over
Speaker 7: the Podgers. Will take one more call before we take
Speaker 7: a break and checking with Jose Mota uh noah, leaving
Speaker 7: the games next up here on Dodgers lock.
Speaker 11: How you doing, Noah, Yes, sir, how are we doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Dodgers win tonight. Shoe a Otani is.
Speaker 11: Back, yep show, he's back.
Speaker 9: What a guy?
Speaker 4: What a guy is right? Noah?
Speaker 7: What'd you think of the one inning to work? What
Speaker 7: do you think about the buzz that was at Dodger
Speaker 7: Stadium tonight? You were at this game, a sellout crowd
Speaker 7: watching him warp. I was here since two three in
Speaker 7: the afternoon, Noah, and watching the fans file in early.
Speaker 7: When they opened the gates early tonight to get this
Speaker 7: capacity crowd here to Dodger Stadium, it was five thirty three.
Speaker 7: I looked at my watch, Noah, and I said, Wow,
Speaker 7: the pavilion's full. The lower field level tickets are filling in,
Speaker 7: the load sections, filling in, the reserve sections, filling in.
Speaker 7: It was a playoff like atmosphere. Fans got here early,
Speaker 7: Noah to see Showyotani pitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was amazing just getting there. We got there
Speaker 1: about three hours early, and just the aura around Otani
Speaker 1: when he came out was just amazing. You could just
Speaker 1: feel it and everybody was excited and it was just
Speaker 1: amazing when he came out and he pitched for the inning.
Speaker 11: I was I was shaking, and I was kind of
Speaker 11: nervous because I wanted him to do good. But I
Speaker 11: know he'll build up and be better on and start
Speaker 11: to be a good picture for us and give us
Speaker 11: alid innings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's just getting started. Knowing I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 7: He's just getting going. One inning of work tonight. He'll
Speaker 7: build on that. We may see more. We may see
Speaker 7: the same thing next time out next week when he
Speaker 7: goes out there and pitches for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: alluded to it where we expect now to see showy
Speaker 7: Otani once a week out there starting for the Dodgers. Tonight,
Speaker 7: it's one inning, and he's going to continue to build
Speaker 7: on that moving forward into the All Star break and
Speaker 7: then post All Star break. Really start to see it
Speaker 7: ramp up as far as his workload on the mound
Speaker 7: once a week pitching for the Dodgers. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: real quick before we take a break, Dave Roberts hit
Speaker 7: it on the head. Seeing a lot of baseball as
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts as a player, a coach and now manager,
Speaker 7: longtime manager now for the Dodgers. You don't see it
Speaker 7: very oftense, how rare it is to see a two
Speaker 7: way player in baseball. That's why he's a unicorn Showyotani.
Speaker 7: But to see show Hey throw the top half of
Speaker 7: the first inning, race over to the dugout, not even
Speaker 7: go into the dugout, standing on the dirt right in
Speaker 7: front of the steps, putting on his shin guard, putting
Speaker 7: on his outside shing guard, then putting on his elbow brace,
Speaker 7: getting his gloves on his batting gloves, and start to
Speaker 7: do his warm up swings in the minute and forty
Speaker 7: five seconds that he has in between innings between the
Speaker 7: top half of the first and the bottom half of
Speaker 7: the first and go out there and lead off for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers in the bottom half of the first inning.
Speaker 7: You just don't see it. That's like high school baseball.
Speaker 7: It's like literle league baseball, where the best player goes
Speaker 7: out and pitches. Next thing you know, he's leading off
Speaker 7: the inning. You don't see it the big leagues. That's
Speaker 7: why it's so cool when you see something like that tonight.
Speaker 7: And we've seen show Hey be a two way player
Speaker 7: for six years in Anaheim, it's not nothing new. But
Speaker 7: as a leadoff hitter, depitch the top of the first,
Speaker 7: lead off the bottom of the first. As a hitter,
Speaker 7: that is pretty cool. Eight six, six nine eight seven
Speaker 7: two five seventy. We'll take a time out, We'll come back.
Speaker 7: We'll hear from mose Mota.
Speaker 4: We'll get to a fin. I'll sleep with the calls.
Speaker 7: As the Dodgers beat the Padres tonight six to three,
Speaker 7: show a Otani one inning of work in his return
Speaker 7: to the mount, goes two for four to plate Dodgers
Speaker 7: with a five run fourth inning, come back and beat
Speaker 7: the Padres six to three. Right here on A five
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Speaker 4: The old one. Tani fights it toward right field.
Speaker 6: This one is gonna drop.
Speaker 4: I'll look place.
Speaker 13: Hit Pott hustling. Hold had been going for third ho
Speaker 13: he scores show Hey Otani drives in another that picture
Speaker 13: can absolutely ray five two lay.
Speaker 4: What can he do?
Speaker 7: Showe Eotani Tonight gets to start one inning of work
Speaker 7: in his first time back out on the mound since
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, goes two for fourth to play. Tonight
Speaker 7: tied the game in the third part of the five
Speaker 7: run fourth inning for the Dodgers offense, in which they
Speaker 7: batted around the lineup against Dylan Cease as they get
Speaker 7: to win sixty three over the podres.
Speaker 4: Tim Kates with you here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk continues on a FI seventy LA Sports Live
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Speaker 4: Let's check in with Jose.
Speaker 6: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moga.
Speaker 7: All right, Jose, you got to witness it in Anaheim
Speaker 7: for many years. Show hey Otani, the two way player,
Speaker 7: the unicorn. What he does is so special as a pitcher,
Speaker 7: as a hitter, and Dodger fans for the first time
Speaker 7: tonight got to see him back on the mount.
Speaker 4: What did you think in that oneting of work?
Speaker 2: I thank you sing the ball quite well, Shohe is
Speaker 2: predicted last night was going to be so harder than
Speaker 2: we saw in sim games. I've seen this show happen
Speaker 2: many times. I feel quite blessed and privileged, but very
Speaker 2: proud of him for the fact that he knew that
Speaker 2: it was a stake too. He's facing the padres and
Speaker 2: he knows these hitters, these hitters know him. Loved the velocity,
Speaker 2: loved the command location. Also, one thing too that we
Speaker 2: should ever lose sight of Tim is like he wanted
Speaker 2: to make every pitch competitive pitch, and there is no
Speaker 2: wasted movement, no wasted pitch. Pretty much everything was on time.
Speaker 2: Just a little offset maybe with his upper body lower body,
Speaker 2: but overall, I'll take that the way the wall's coming
Speaker 2: out of his hands, especially a two seamed fast. But
Speaker 2: he's been working on that pitch for a long time,
Speaker 2: back since last year, thinking about it and watching video
Speaker 2: and how to execute it better. But to see it
Speaker 2: today with velocity, it was quite a plus. But I'm
Speaker 2: so glad fans of Los Angeles, with the big lights,
Speaker 2: where he has never pitched before, a two way player,
Speaker 2: never plays a two way player, got to see what
Speaker 2: a show this is, and certainty it was the attraction
Speaker 2: all around, globally, the globally all around baseball anywhere you were.
Speaker 7: It's amazing, you know, Hose and I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 7: And to see the fans get here early in their
Speaker 7: seats early, to see people stand up along the third
Speaker 7: baseline as he made his way out of the Dodgers
Speaker 7: dugout to go warm up and left field. To see
Speaker 7: him in the bullpen getting warmed up, and people hanging
Speaker 7: over the railings on the reserve section looking down just
Speaker 7: to get eyes on him. You would have never known
Speaker 7: that this guy is in his eighth season in the
Speaker 7: big leagues and pitch for six season down the road
Speaker 7: in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: That's how speciable player he still is.
Speaker 2: And that's how unique Dodger fans make it. I mean
Speaker 2: to see him number seventeen and Dodger white and blue
Speaker 2: under these lights, under the whole expectations. Not just go
Speaker 2: out there and put up your stats, but no, you
Speaker 2: expect to do well. You prepare for this. He wanted
Speaker 2: to be on the mound sooner rather than later. He
Speaker 2: knows that those bullets could not be saved anymore, and
Speaker 2: why not go out there and try now here and there.
Speaker 2: But you know, on top of that is is you
Speaker 2: know Max Mounsey was talking about. And I got to
Speaker 2: see a lot too, is he really does not get
Speaker 2: too distracted from and separates one thing from the other.
Speaker 2: He knew what he had to face, and Dylan sees
Speaker 2: he knew that any time that he could buy to
Speaker 2: get to the conject circle was valuable, and he wanted
Speaker 2: to go out there and be a hitter. And that's
Speaker 2: the video of the whole thing. And tim The thing
Speaker 2: too is I've gotten to see the evolution of this
Speaker 2: whole thing. How was evolved. And consider this, when he
Speaker 2: first came to the big leagues, the rule was, and
Speaker 2: there was implemented by GM back then, no hitting the
Speaker 2: day before, the day of, and the day after you pitch.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, if he was doing
Speaker 2: it in Japan, I understand his different baseball and everything
Speaker 2: in the rigors of baseball in long season, but he's
Speaker 2: losing a lot in terms of timing with his hit,
Speaker 2: with his as a hitter. Right and then oh and
Speaker 2: go and play now I'm going to face Verlander and
Speaker 2: Garrett Cole, Thank you very much. Right, So Dan came,
Speaker 2: Joe Madden and Paramantas just say you no, no, how
Speaker 2: much you want to play. He goes, I want to
Speaker 2: play every single day, and there he have it. That's
Speaker 2: what he is at Unicorn.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers tonight in the fourth inning and put up
Speaker 7: a five spot. Freddy Freeman led off the inning. Freddie
Speaker 7: Freeman made the final out of the inning.
Speaker 4: He made two of the three outs, by the way
Speaker 4: in that fourth inning for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: I thought a big moment was when Andy Paez got
Speaker 7: hit by a pitch.
Speaker 4: It was a three to two Dodger lead.
Speaker 7: Max Munsey just singled into Oscar Hernandez and Will Smith
Speaker 7: and on the second pitch from Dylan Seas, he takes
Speaker 7: a ninety seven mile an hour fastball in the side
Speaker 7: and he didn't like it, and he said something out
Speaker 7: to Dylan Cees. The benches, you know, got stirred up
Speaker 7: a little bit. Both managers came out of the field,
Speaker 7: cooler heads prevailed. The Dodgers then would go on to
Speaker 7: score four more runs in the inning, a five spot
Speaker 7: put up in the inning, six hits total, and that
Speaker 7: was really the difference in the game. Getting to l
Speaker 7: season that anything, I think that Andy pie is getting
Speaker 7: hit by a pitch kind of let a fire underneath
Speaker 7: the Dodgers and got this crowd going too.
Speaker 2: Let me Terry Man, I tipped my hat to Andy
Speaker 2: Pines as a young player. You sent the statement right
Speaker 2: there to your teammates too, saying you know what you
Speaker 2: can pitch inside, but I also know that I got
Speaker 2: you in the first time up the first hit double.
Speaker 2: The other way the Dodgers did get Tatis over there
Speaker 2: in San Diego, and he goes, okay, but I'm not
Speaker 2: going to go lightly And the best thing for a
Speaker 2: player is to go out there and get on base,
Speaker 2: say thanks for the base runner, by the way, and
Speaker 2: then to score. You talk about the ultimate slap that
Speaker 2: really hurts a guy like Dylan seasons if in terms
Speaker 2: of numbers he just struck out twenty Dodgers his last
Speaker 2: two outings in twelve innings and today one small window
Speaker 2: because of the tope of game they play with a
Speaker 2: stolen base, with alert base running, with just putting the
Speaker 2: ball in play, this small one. Do you take advantage
Speaker 2: of the against the premier pitchers a they did against
Speaker 2: him in the playoffs is exactly what you want to
Speaker 2: see from this type of offense, not necessarily going on
Speaker 2: just looking for those lugs.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it. We will check in with you tomorrow. Nights.
Speaker 7: As the Dodgers rolling, now winners of three in a row,
Speaker 7: it took two or three from San Francisco. They take
Speaker 7: the series opener tonight, looking to keep the winning going
Speaker 7: to morrow against San Diego.
Speaker 4: We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Hey, historic night in La Man.
Speaker 4: Thanks absolutely, there he goes.
Speaker 7: Jose motives the Dodgers get the win over the Padres
Speaker 7: tonight six to three show. Hey Otani drives in a
Speaker 7: pair of runs, also gets to start tonight twenty eight
Speaker 7: pitches in one inning of work in his first outing
Speaker 7: in six hundred and thirty three days.
Speaker 4: Lee is next up on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Lee?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 9: Jim?
Speaker 3: And I didn't call you Jim, And you're not going
Speaker 3: to have to carry me like you've carried these last
Speaker 3: few callers before, Jose. So the first thing I want
Speaker 3: to touch on. I was at the game, and you're right,
Speaker 3: it was quiet when Shoe was on the mound, but
Speaker 3: my son was with Van. I was telling him it
Speaker 3: was sort of like watching a Laker game and Lebron
Speaker 3: shooting free throws. The crowd's quiet, and that's what I
Speaker 3: think it was. We want to show it to do
Speaker 3: so good. We weren't getting into it like we would normally.
Speaker 3: The second thing I want to touch on is that
Speaker 3: the Dodger pull bit when healthy is the strength of
Speaker 3: their team, over the starters, over over the players. When
Speaker 3: they're healthy, they are They're going to be the team
Speaker 3: to beat going forward when healthy, because if you have
Speaker 3: a lead after five minutes, their pull vend it's lights out.
Speaker 3: If they can be anything like they've been in the past.
Speaker 3: And the third thing, and the last thing is I
Speaker 3: root for every Dodger as hard as I can, but
Speaker 3: it's time to give Kim. I heard another call of
Speaker 3: call earlier. It's time to let him play like for
Speaker 3: a month. Whether it's right righty's or lefties, it's time
Speaker 3: to let him play. And Confordo can play here and there,
Speaker 3: he can be a small player, but we got to
Speaker 3: see what Kim can do over a course of a month.
Speaker 3: So that's all I got And I'll take your comments
Speaker 3: and I'll listen to it that I drive out here.
Speaker 3: Thank you Jim rightly, Thank you Lee.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you. Thank you for the nice words.
Speaker 7: It'll be interesting to see how much more playing time
Speaker 7: I saw Kim gets on an everyday basis, I'm with you.
Speaker 7: I think he brings a spark and energy on the
Speaker 7: bass pass. Defensively, he's getting better in center field. Certainly
Speaker 7: at the plate, he brings something to the bottom of
Speaker 7: the lineup, and the speed is an issue as well
Speaker 7: and a problem for teams. Even the ground ball. He
Speaker 7: can lay it out and beat out a play and
Speaker 7: make it tough on a defense when he puts the
Speaker 7: ball in play. I would love to see more of him, absolutely,
Speaker 7: but we'll see where he fits into the equation on
Speaker 7: an every day basis, or if he's gonna get a
Speaker 7: start once the series moving forward.
Speaker 4: I just don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, Michael Conforto's at a sluggish start, There's no
Speaker 7: doubt about it. He picked it up, but you know,
Speaker 7: he's just kind of just at cruise control right now.
Speaker 7: And I know a lot of Dodger fans would live
Speaker 7: to see Kim out there on an everyday basis. Daniels
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Speaker 7: All right, Adrian, wrap things up here, our final call
Speaker 7: on this Dodger talk here on Monday and night.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Adrian.
Speaker 11: I'm doing pretty great.
Speaker 8: I'm almost home. And what a game today?
Speaker 4: What a game? What about?
Speaker 7: As I described Adrian, the pregame warm ups of show,
Speaker 7: Hey o Tani, the long toss in the outfield, the
Speaker 7: bullpen session, people just were clamoring over each other just
Speaker 7: to see him throw the baseball.
Speaker 4: It was amazing.
Speaker 7: And the quietness of the top half of the first
Speaker 7: inning in between pitches. It was something to see out
Speaker 7: there tonight. And I can't see I can't wait to
Speaker 7: see more of it moving forward.
Speaker 8: I know, It's just I guess I got a feeling
Speaker 8: of it just being super surreal, Like we signed this
Speaker 8: guy for so much back in December twenty twenty three,
Speaker 8: and now we're seeing him fully realizing in all of
Speaker 8: his Dodger potential.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's gonna be fun seeing him healthy and
Speaker 7: on the mound pitching once a week for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 7: And I appreciate the fall phone call Adrian just quickly,
Speaker 7: Dodger fans, think about this.
Speaker 4: You got Kershaw pitching the way he's pitching.
Speaker 7: Yoshi Yamamoto has been the best Dodger starter here in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five, certainly in the first half of this season.
Speaker 7: You add to that Dustin May when he's on, he's
Speaker 7: really good. You're gonna get Tyler Glass now back, Blake
Speaker 7: Snell's gonna come back. You got Ben Casparius, who has
Speaker 7: proven whatever role he has been asked to be in opener,
Speaker 7: long guy, reliever, and now back into this rotation where
Speaker 7: he was as a starter in the minor leagues.
Speaker 4: He can do it.
Speaker 7: And now you add Shoeyo Tani pitching once a week,
Speaker 7: making a start and ramping up and hopefully getting back
Speaker 7: to an elite level. This is how we pitched it.
Speaker 7: This is how the front office imagine the Dodger rotation
Speaker 7: would look win healthy. We just haven't seen it all
Speaker 7: season long, but it was starting to get into that
Speaker 7: that look where we're gonna see all the starting pitchers healthy.
Speaker 7: The bullpen looks the way it has tonight. Look out
Speaker 7: when you got Vesia Kopek, Tanner, Scott Kirby, Yates for
Speaker 7: high leverage relievers to get you the final twelve outs
Speaker 7: of a game, the final nine outs of a game,
Speaker 7: in whatever kind of combination. It's gonna be hard to
Speaker 7: get runs against this Dodger's bullpen and this Dodgers' offense
Speaker 7: we certainly know can put up runs at any time.
Speaker 7: All Right, that's gonna do it for Dodger Talk tonight. Sorry,
Speaker 7: Brad Paisley didn't have time for you tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here in the booth for staying
Speaker 7: up late with us. Appreciate that, thanks to calling you
Speaker 7: back at the studio. Great to see Rick Monday and
Speaker 7: Steven Nelson out here at Dodger Stadium. Eric Carroll's hanging
Speaker 7: out with him earlier today as well. A great atmosphere
Speaker 7: heart Dodgers Stadium from when the gates open to when
Speaker 7: the last Dodger employee leaves tonight.
Speaker 4: A good night to be a Dodger fans.
Speaker 7: They get the padres tonight six to three five benks
Speaker 7: Varius the when Kirby Yates gets to save show Hey
Speaker 7: Otani one inning of work and goes two for four
Speaker 7: at the plate.
Speaker 4: What can't this guy do for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Dodgers back at it tomorrow night, Morogo Casino, Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 7: We'll get it started at six pm, first pitch seven ten.
Speaker 4: Dodgers and the Padres.
Speaker 7: Have a great, safe rest of your Monday night. Bet
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