Speaker 1: One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have. This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 2: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 3: Let's wind it.
Speaker 4: I love letting you guys after the show.
Speaker 5: Just thank you, give me all your attention, your fires.
Speaker 6: This this is world champion, Dodgers, world champion thing for
Speaker 6: the small song time they get at people what they
Speaker 6: want to die to.
Speaker 4: In a row two is special.
Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache's one of a con.
Speaker 7: This ball's gone. You ready to go? He go to
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Speaker 6: David Basse.
Speaker 7: We are live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: After the Pirates and in particular Paul Schemes shut out
Speaker 5: the Dodgers tonight by a final score of three to nothing.
Speaker 5: We are with you until eleven fifteen tonight at eight
Speaker 5: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Jose Mota
Speaker 5: will check in before eleven o'clock.
Speaker 7: We'll hear from Paul Skins.
Speaker 5: In a moment, and we do have phone lines open
Speaker 5: at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 5: I mentioned this during the Club Out show, but I'll
Speaker 5: mention it again. Jordan Lorenz, the head ground screwkeeper here
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium and his crew have rolled out the tarp.
Speaker 5: They have covered the infield at Dodger Stadium, towing in
Speaker 5: the tarp from the seventy six gas station and have
Speaker 5: the infield covered because rain is in the forecast overnight
Speaker 5: and possibly into the early afternoon tomorrow, so hopefully there
Speaker 5: are no rain delays tomorrow night, a rare rain delay
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium, but they are doing the responsible thing,
Speaker 5: unlike the Orioles ground screw a couple of years ago,
Speaker 5: where on the East Coast in August, with the humidity
Speaker 5: at nearly one hundred percent, neglected to cover the infield
Speaker 5: and the Dodgers and Orioles were standing around for an
Speaker 5: extra forty minutes while they try to fix the infield
Speaker 5: after not covering it overnight. But here in La Jordan
Speaker 5: Lorenz and his crew have a lot of due diligence
Speaker 5: and even though it may be a light rain, they
Speaker 5: have the tarp covered or the infield covered with the tarp,
Speaker 5: so a rare side of here at Dodgers Stadium in
Speaker 5: the wee hours of the evening on a Friday night
Speaker 5: that La is sad. Not only did the Dodgers get
Speaker 5: shut out by Paul Skeins, the Lakers lost in Minnesota,
Speaker 5: and the Kings lost to the Edmonton Oilers in their
Speaker 5: playoffs series. So a sad night in LA. But really,
Speaker 5: I know fans are frustrated with the Dodger offense. And yes,
Speaker 5: it's frustrating when you haven't scored in your last twelve
Speaker 5: innings and you have guys like Otani, Betts and freemen
Speaker 5: four to zero month see Tommy Edmund Tascar, Hernandez. But
Speaker 5: Paul Skeens had a lot to say about tonight. You know,
Speaker 5: it wasn't Colin Ray. I mean, you're talking about Paul Skeens,
Speaker 5: one of the top three pitchers in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 5: and he rose to the occasion tonight. He knew this
Speaker 5: was a big stage for him, and he came and
Speaker 5: was you know, I saw some photos of him walking in.
Speaker 5: He was locked in from the moment he got off
Speaker 5: the team bus tonight to be ready to do what
Speaker 5: he did. Six and a third scoreless sinnings throws a
Speaker 5: career high one hundred and eight pitches, has nine strikeouts,
Speaker 5: and the Dodgers just were overwhelmed tonight. They had no
Speaker 5: answers for Paul Skeens tonight. And you know, it reminds
Speaker 5: me of when guys like Dwight Gooden used to come
Speaker 5: to Dodgers Stadium and shut out the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: He was good.
Speaker 5: Paul Skeens is that good. He's like Dwight Gooden in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty five. That's how good he is. And you
Speaker 5: at times have to might be tough, and you always
Speaker 5: want to look at your own team and say, we
Speaker 5: could have done this better, or they we could have
Speaker 5: you know, got to base it or bunt it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, maybe, but Paul Skeens was really good tonight.
Speaker 5: I guess the only glaring offensive shortcoming tonight against Skeens
Speaker 5: was in the fourth inning when Freddie Freeman doubled and
Speaker 5: got to third on a poor defensive play by Brian
Speaker 5: Reynolds in right field, who, by the way, I can't
Speaker 5: believe how bad of a right fielder Brian Reynolds is.
Speaker 5: He was having a real issues out there tonight. But nonetheless,
Speaker 5: Freddie at third when nobody out and the Dodgers can't
Speaker 5: get him in. That has a lot to do with
Speaker 5: Paul Skeen's no doubt about it, But it also has
Speaker 5: to do a lot with the Dodgers trying to do
Speaker 5: too much, and that was to me the only glaring
Speaker 5: thing that you could say the Dodgers failed at show. Hey, Otani,
Speaker 5: he is human, He is proving that he is just
Speaker 5: one for his last fifteen the Dodgers are zerover fifteen
Speaker 5: with men on base now, So just a really frustrating
Speaker 5: night for the Dodger offense. All in all, eleven strikeouts
Speaker 5: and we're seeing way too many nights where the Dodgers
Speaker 5: have double digit strikeouts and not really taking their walks.
Speaker 5: They had eleven strikeouts tonight and only walked once. Again,
Speaker 5: a lot of that had to do with Paul Skans,
Speaker 5: who really showed a lot tonight going out in the
Speaker 5: seventh inning with one hundred and three pitch count at
Speaker 5: that point in time and try to finish the seventh
Speaker 5: but was taken out after getting one out and finishes
Speaker 5: six and a third scoreless tonight. So really a great
Speaker 5: performance from the kid from Eltora High School. Let's go
Speaker 5: downstairs right now, to the Pirates Clubhouse to hear from
Speaker 5: Paul Skeens.
Speaker 4: It was cool.
Speaker 8: I mean just really just about executing. And you know,
Speaker 8: sometimes there's a you know, two or three in the
Speaker 8: in the run column when you execute, but today was zero,
Speaker 8: So it felt good.
Speaker 4: I glad would pulled it out.
Speaker 9: You've faced this lineup before, but it is elite. What
Speaker 9: did you buy comparison? Feel you did better tonight?
Speaker 4: Executed better? I mean they.
Speaker 8: I mean you saw it today with a lot of
Speaker 8: the hits that they got. Like, even when you execute
Speaker 8: your pitches, they're still gonna they're still gonna find ways
Speaker 8: to get on.
Speaker 4: And uh, that's not.
Speaker 8: Exactly like I definitely executed better today than I did
Speaker 8: the other two times that I've faced them, But that's
Speaker 8: just kind of the nature of it. They're they're they're,
Speaker 8: you know, really good hitters and just you know, find
Speaker 8: ways to to get you know, through innings.
Speaker 9: I know you threw sixteen curve balls. I believe it
Speaker 9: was tonight. How pleased you with how that pitch worked?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Felt good? Definitely, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 8: Did you know, good job kind of resetting their eyes
Speaker 8: and a couple of things of misses in there at times.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean, you kind of got to do
Speaker 8: different things when when you face guys like that.
Speaker 4: So I was pleased with.
Speaker 8: It wasn't one of those games where it just felt
Speaker 8: like everything was working.
Speaker 4: For you at times.
Speaker 8: Early my heater command was pretty pretty poor, I thought.
Speaker 8: I actually, to an extent, I thought it was pretty
Speaker 8: poor throughout the game, but kind of had it when
Speaker 8: I needed it. We knew what pitches we could go to,
Speaker 8: you know, to get outs, to get weak contact, and
Speaker 8: we went to them and we needed to. So the
Speaker 8: bullpen before the game was good. But that's a little
Speaker 8: misleading sometimes. So it felt good, it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 8: you know, there were there were some big misses in
Speaker 8: there too, So it wasn't.
Speaker 4: Like everything was, you know, firing.
Speaker 8: And also and there's just kind of when I needed
Speaker 8: to execute, I executed.
Speaker 5: All right, There's Paul Schemes And thanks to Sportsnet Pittsburgh
Speaker 5: for bringing us tonight's winning pitcher and one of the
Speaker 5: best pitchers in baseball, young Paul Skeens, who by the way,
Speaker 5: had thirty five friends and families at Friends and Family
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium tonight. In a suite he had his
Speaker 5: parents here, his aunts, his uncles, a lot of friends.
Speaker 5: So the Orange County native out at El Toro High
Speaker 5: School had a lot of people supporting him here tonight
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium. It was the third time, by the way,
Speaker 5: and just a little over a year that Paul Skeeness
Speaker 5: has faced the Dodgers. He first faced them last year
Speaker 5: at PNC Park where he dominated them there. The Dodgers
Speaker 5: got him for four runs at Dodgers Stadium last last August,
Speaker 5: and then tonight. Obviously it goes to Skiens. So Skeens
Speaker 5: has won two out of the three against the Dodgers
Speaker 5: in his young career. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. I guess the bigger,
Speaker 5: big picture issue for the Dodgers is they're not getting
Speaker 5: a lot of production from key guys that are not
Speaker 5: named betts O'tani Freeman, Taoscar Edmund will Smith, and I'm
Speaker 5: talking about two guys in particular, that's Michael Conforto and
Speaker 5: Max Munsey. Confordo going into that road trip that took
Speaker 5: the Dodgers to Washington, d C.
Speaker 7: And Philly.
Speaker 5: Going into that road trip, he led the Dodgers with
Speaker 5: the highest ops. His OPS was at eleven hundred going
Speaker 5: into that road trip, and all of a sudden, now
Speaker 5: it's taken a huge downturn. Michael Conforto, oh for for
Speaker 5: tonight with three strikeouts, he's sitting a buck eighty seven
Speaker 5: with an OPS of six point fifty. In spring training,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts was trying to reinforce to him think opposite field,
Speaker 5: and right now not a lot of Dodgers are thinking
Speaker 5: opposite field and having a shorter swing. But Conforto looks
Speaker 5: really lost out there after being locked in to begin
Speaker 5: the year, and Max, he looks like a player that's
Speaker 5: just not playing with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 5: It feels like his confidence is at an all time low.
Speaker 5: It feels like he's looking at the scoreboard and he's
Speaker 5: seen zero home runs and he's chasing that. It feels
Speaker 5: like his swing is more violent than it needs to be.
Speaker 5: His UH batting average is that one seventy one, is
Speaker 5: on base is that two seventy three, and his OPS
Speaker 5: is that five ten. You know, I this doesn't look
Speaker 5: like the Maximunsey that we have known over the course
Speaker 5: of his Dodger career. And I know it's easy to
Speaker 5: use him as a punching bag. And yeah, I saw
Speaker 5: that video that was circulating on social media that was
Speaker 5: that was uncalled for two and you know it's it's
Speaker 5: it's one thing to come to a ballpark and boo
Speaker 5: a guy in the stadium, but then to wait for
Speaker 5: a guy outside of Wrigley Field and start yelling profanities
Speaker 5: at him. I mean, that's overstepping a little bit in
Speaker 5: my opinion. But nonetheless, uh Unsei's thirteen for seventy six
Speaker 5: to start the year, that's just uncharacteristic of Max Muncy.
Speaker 7: And you know it's he's just a guy.
Speaker 5: Right now that doesn't have a lot of confidence, and
Speaker 5: I'm not sure how he gets that confidence back. He
Speaker 5: had a throwing error tonight, so you know that confidence
Speaker 5: I'm not just talking about at the plate. It's kind
Speaker 5: of bleeding over into his defense. So he's got to
Speaker 5: figure it out point blank, or you know, Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: has got to consider using a combination of Miguel Rojas
Speaker 5: and Keyky Hernandez until Munsey gets his confidence back. Eight
Speaker 5: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check in with
Speaker 5: Jose Mota. Also, i'll get you an update on Blake
Speaker 5: Snell and Tony Gonsolin. Gonsolin maybe starting here sooner than
Speaker 5: you realize, so we'll get to that news as we
Speaker 5: continue live from Dodgers Stadium. After Paul Skeen's and the
Speaker 5: Pirates shut out the Dodgers tonight three to nothing on
Speaker 5: a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 5: It was all Paul Skeens tonight, as Skiing's in the
Speaker 5: Pirates shut out the Dodgers by a final score of
Speaker 5: three to nothing.
Speaker 7: Skeens with his third win of the year. He's now
Speaker 7: three and two.
Speaker 5: Yamamoto three and two, David Bednar with his second save
Speaker 5: of the year. Yama Moto just his worst start of
Speaker 5: the season, and it wasn't even that bad.
Speaker 7: That's how good he's been all year long.
Speaker 5: It just wasn't enough when the offense was shut out
Speaker 5: by Paul Skeens Yamamoto in the first three innings of
Speaker 5: tonight's game gave up a leadoff walk, and all three
Speaker 5: of those first innings, so three of the five of
Speaker 5: the innings he he surrendered a walk a free pass,
Speaker 5: and that's not a way to live and that's not
Speaker 5: Yamamoto esque. Five innings tonight, five hits, four walks, one
Speaker 5: earned run, eight six six seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Let's go out to Long Beach. Will
Speaker 5: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Will, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 3: Hey, check us out.
Speaker 4: I've been on hold so longer for Governor.
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you, but Hey, you took kind
Speaker 2: of touches on it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: The eras was like monsty pages.
Speaker 4: And all these guys, you know, they're not really.
Speaker 3: They're not getting it yet.
Speaker 2: But you know what, if this would have been last
Speaker 2: year and they hadn't won the championship, we'll be having
Speaker 2: a different conversation.
Speaker 3: But I think they get a pass.
Speaker 4: What do you think? Hey?
Speaker 7: Will, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 5: Yes, Andy, PAHs, yes, and their batting averages and not
Speaker 5: their e R yes or not where you would want
Speaker 5: it to be.
Speaker 7: Pa has Tonight three for three with two.
Speaker 5: Doubles and his home run on Wednesday's game at Wrigley
Speaker 5: Field in the sixth inning was the last time the
Speaker 5: Dodger offense scored a run. So he's starting to come
Speaker 5: around and we'll see where it goes. The Dodgers are
Speaker 5: not going to pull the plug on Andy Poz after
Speaker 5: just one month and twenty five games or so. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to alta Dina, Greg, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Greg?
Speaker 1: Hey, that's say I don't know how I follow up
Speaker 1: that call. I don't know where that was going.
Speaker 5: I don't know either. Sounded like the guy that was
Speaker 5: streaming at months at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you play it back later and you
Speaker 1: don't have any time for that, I think he calls
Speaker 1: you Max and what's up Mad?
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh no, this is this is
Speaker 3: going to go off the rails fast.
Speaker 1: But on that subject, two things, right. I think this
Speaker 1: is the first year I can say every like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The first three innings were always playing from behind,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's eating into these guys
Speaker 1: taking these hacks. I think Otani missed one of the
Speaker 1: splinkers today, and I'm like, I don't know how he
Speaker 1: doesn't flip at this with how hard he swings and
Speaker 1: he missed and he whipped, and it's one of those
Speaker 1: things like that's going to be on schemes, is like
Speaker 1: highlight reel. So there's that. Maybe they're pressing because of that.
Speaker 1: But with Munsey, you hit it on the head and
Speaker 1: I called in to talk about this, but you kind
Speaker 1: of already did it that his defense, Like Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: deserves a Gold Glove every year or at least consideration
Speaker 1: for having to put up with that left side of
Speaker 1: the infield and it's bleeding into the plate, and if
Speaker 1: the plate's bleeding to the field, he doesn't have options. Right,
Speaker 1: He's thirty four?
Speaker 2: How long?
Speaker 1: And I know I love him, right, so I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm saying this. How long does this go before
Speaker 1: there's an il stint? He can't move to first, right,
Speaker 1: Freddie's not going to learn a new position. He's not
Speaker 1: fleet of foot to play the outfield. How long do
Speaker 1: you think long?
Speaker 5: Remember we saw this two years ago, I believe, where
Speaker 5: the Dodgers sent him to the minor leagues on kind
Speaker 5: of an Iel stint. But he wasn't really that hur
Speaker 5: Aaron Bates, one of the Dodger hitting coaches, went to
Speaker 5: the minor leagues with him. That's when they came up
Speaker 5: with that backfoot step back and Tony Larusa walked the
Speaker 5: bases loaded ahead of month. See, and he hit a
Speaker 5: home run when he first came back. So we've seen
Speaker 5: months he go through struggles like this, and the Dodgers
Speaker 5: have found a way to give him a reset. Maybe
Speaker 5: that's coming soon if he can't find his way out
Speaker 5: of it, but right now, he's a player with no confidence.
Speaker 7: And if you don't have confidence.
Speaker 5: Whether it's little league, college, high school, or the major leagues,
Speaker 5: it's tough to perform.
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, and I'll end on this, Dave. You coined
Speaker 1: this two years ago and they were doing it, and
Speaker 1: then Game five when they quinched the World Series pass
Speaker 1: in the baton. I haven't seen any of that since
Speaker 1: the Ji Japan series. Right, these guys are all three
Speaker 1: true outcome. It feels like one through nine it's either
Speaker 1: a home runner or bust or Today Freddie hits an
Speaker 1: extra base, he gets an extra base. The third, we
Speaker 1: can't even move a runner home right now, So hopefully
Speaker 1: they get back to playing with one another, not playing
Speaker 1: home run derby. It'd be nice to see the old
Speaker 1: Dodgers back.
Speaker 5: Okay, Greg, thanks a lot for the phone call. And
Speaker 5: when I interviewed Andrew Friedman in Washington, d C. He
Speaker 5: said the same thing. Even at that time two weeks ago,
Speaker 5: he was concerned the Dodgers were scoring too many of
Speaker 5: their runs with home runs. And home runs are great.
Speaker 5: He's constructed a slugging team, but he's the guy that
Speaker 5: coined that phrase. And the players actually coined that phrase
Speaker 5: back when Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Turner were on the team.
Speaker 5: They talked about passing the baton and that's when the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are at their best, taking walks, taking getting base hits,
Speaker 5: and really breaking that picture. They were at that best
Speaker 5: passing the baton in twenty seventeen, and that's when they
Speaker 5: started to coin that phrase, and that became the identity
Speaker 5: of every Dodger team. And we saw that a lot
Speaker 5: last year. We just haven't seen it consistently this year.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Paul Skens pitches six and a third
Speaker 5: scoreless innings tonight and the Pirates shut the Dodgers out.
Speaker 7: Three to nothing.
Speaker 5: Now, I told you I'd give you a Blake Snell
Speaker 5: and Tony Gonsolin update. Tony Gonsolin pitched his last rehab
Speaker 5: start for the Oklahoma City Comets last week, which puts
Speaker 5: them online to make his first major league start in
Speaker 5: a couple of years this Tuesday against the Marlins, and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers need Tony Gonsolin, and it feels like he
Speaker 5: is itching and ready to go. He's still got a
Speaker 5: shaved bald head courtesy of Miguel Rojas and Anthony Banda,
Speaker 5: So there's a very good chance you see Tony Gonsolin
Speaker 5: make the start Tuesday against the Marlins. Now, as far
Speaker 5: as Blake Snell goes, Dave Roberts said today they are
Speaker 5: shutting him down for the time being. They plan on
Speaker 5: in acting giving him a quarterzone injection, and that's to
Speaker 5: basically get the inflammation out of his left shoulder that
Speaker 5: has been tight and not cooperating since the last couple
Speaker 5: of weeks of spring training. He tried to pitch through
Speaker 5: it the first start two starts of the regular season,
Speaker 5: and when I spoke to Snell, he's in a good headspace.
Speaker 5: And the Dodgers don't want to rush him when he
Speaker 5: comes back, and when he's activated off the IL, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers want him to not look back with his shoulders.
Speaker 5: So that's the reason why they're not rushing him. And
Speaker 5: he's in a good spot with it. And I would
Speaker 5: imagine that he will be back sometime before the All
Speaker 5: Star break, but he's basically going to have to restart
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Speaker 6: It's tough to go around the horn with Hosean Mota.
Speaker 7: All right, jose Mota.
Speaker 5: I know everybody wants to freak out over the Dodger offense,
Speaker 5: and yeah, it hasn't been good, But Paul Skens was
Speaker 5: on the mound tonight.
Speaker 3: He was on the mountain on and he was on
Speaker 3: a mission. This kid really is is pitching like he's
Speaker 3: a ten year veteran who understands what modern based on
Speaker 3: what modern hitters are all about. When you talk about
Speaker 3: a guy that implemented his curveball today more frequently than
Speaker 3: the past. And also his word just expressed stay so
Speaker 3: much respect for that lineup. He did not take one
Speaker 3: pitch for granted. But also at the same time, every
Speaker 3: pitch has a purpose. He's okay, well, he's not a thrower.
Speaker 3: This guy's a complete pitcher and he how your hands full.
Speaker 3: So that's what with a minimum opportunities, you have to
Speaker 3: take advantage of it, like you did against the ground recently.
Speaker 3: And the Dodgers, I mean, they've digging up a big
Speaker 3: hole because now against a guy like Skien s Dave,
Speaker 3: you cannot be chasing basis and it seems like collectively
Speaker 3: they're chasing basis and con forgetting about the process.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt about it. What was up? I mean,
Speaker 7: Paul Skeens is amazing, isn't he?
Speaker 5: Jose he kind of he doesn't pitch the same way
Speaker 5: that Dwight Gooden did or some of these young guys
Speaker 5: like de Grom when he first came up. But man,
Speaker 5: he really he's only twenty two years old, and you
Speaker 5: feel like he's been in the league for seven years
Speaker 5: the way he has such great mound presence.
Speaker 3: And then you know the ability to go out there
Speaker 3: and go for one hundred miles an hour he averages
Speaker 3: ninety eight coming into tonight to down to eighty three
Speaker 3: with that curve ball. I mean for a hitter who
Speaker 3: has respect first of all, his angle, which is even
Speaker 3: lower than last year, okay, at twenty degrees, and his
Speaker 3: vertical moving along with horizontal, it's just hard to square
Speaker 3: something up. And if you're not disciplined enough and quite enough,
Speaker 3: and in fact, talking to hitting coaches, the pass guys
Speaker 3: like this, if you don't take a two strike approach, Ertie,
Speaker 3: you're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble,
Speaker 3: which is what Fred did today. Hit a nice two
Speaker 3: strike approach, even early in counts, to go out there
Speaker 3: to maximize those whatever mistakes he made, which were not
Speaker 3: a whole lot of them.
Speaker 5: Have you seen Otani in this type of slump. It's
Speaker 5: not one for thirty, but certainly one for his last fifteen,
Speaker 5: and just his swings and the way that he's not
Speaker 5: really seen pitches.
Speaker 7: How does he get out of this.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen it. The worst I saw Tony was
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty season and when, as we said,
Speaker 3: he was hitting on skates. But show Hey right now
Speaker 3: needs to go back to watch the first week of
Speaker 3: spring training where has happened to show Hey and those
Speaker 3: balls he hits the other way so well, that's what
Speaker 3: gets him back on track. His sona is too big.
Speaker 3: He's trying to weigh too much for a guy as
Speaker 3: strong as he is. And he understands his game. When
Speaker 3: he's going well, he's going to really minimize everything for
Speaker 3: movement to the way he takes pitches. In fact, the
Speaker 3: way he takes pitches and a lot of Dodger players
Speaker 3: today I saw it's pretty much dictating the way they're
Speaker 3: swinging the bat. And it's not ideal on your approach
Speaker 3: if your hands are moving forward, if you're not staying back,
Speaker 3: if you're not cutting down on your swing and seeing
Speaker 3: the ball. But for show Hey, he's got to go
Speaker 3: out there and not try to beat the zone in
Speaker 3: through different zones. He's got to beat one spot, sit out.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter for fall behind on one. But you've
Speaker 3: got to be more selective in the way you approach
Speaker 3: your swing and what you're trying to cover, because you
Speaker 3: cannot cover those seventeen inches against a guy that throws
Speaker 3: the way he does and not like this.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers are shut
Speaker 5: out by the Pirates three to nothing. We've been talking
Speaker 5: about Max Muncy, and look, the Dodgers' offensive woes don't
Speaker 5: lay at his doorstep alone. But it's hard to ignore
Speaker 5: the fact that he's homerless to start the year. And
Speaker 5: it just seems to me, Jose, he seems like he's
Speaker 5: playing with no confidence right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know that talk about conference being a
Speaker 3: high for a player when things are going well, but
Speaker 3: with Max, he is very emotional. And Max is a
Speaker 3: guy that wants to do so well so badly that
Speaker 3: you know, he puts all that weight on his shoulders
Speaker 3: and it is noticeable. You're absolutely right, it will not
Speaker 3: be a bad idea to go out there and get
Speaker 3: a key in there. And you brought us some opportunities
Speaker 3: and you're not sitting down or benching. Max might as
Speaker 3: well just say hey. And Dave Roberts obys is very
Speaker 3: good about this. The Dollons organization communicates solo with players.
Speaker 3: When you have a plan about weight trying to implement
Speaker 3: and get the most out of them, just sit them
Speaker 3: down and say, listen, let's watch a game from the
Speaker 3: bench for two or three games. It's still your spot,
Speaker 3: but just allow yourself to think through it. Get more
Speaker 3: luck hopefully when he hits. Guys don't get out of
Speaker 3: suns by sitting, but it does help to just bring
Speaker 3: the game back a little bit, slow it down, study
Speaker 3: a little bit more. Don't have the pressure of going, Okay,
Speaker 3: here we go again. I'm going to be hitting in
Speaker 3: six batters. I'm going to be hitting in seven batters,
Speaker 3: and then big opportunities find you. So doggiars do have options,
Speaker 3: have death to at least for now absorbed just not
Speaker 3: having money in there for now every single day. But
Speaker 3: just allow him a chance to watch again from afar
Speaker 3: and know that Tom he's going to come around. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you look at the chase rates or high eggs
Speaker 3: of Veloski is not all that far from us from
Speaker 3: what we did last year, but it's certainly the approach
Speaker 3: right now is just one where he's almost in between Dave.
Speaker 3: And when you're in between and your thoughts. You ended
Speaker 3: up missing your pitch and you end up chasing more
Speaker 3: because you're just undecided on what's the swing at and
Speaker 3: not able to know what has worked for you in
Speaker 3: the past or recently.
Speaker 5: And sometimes you take that out to the field right
Speaker 5: you're thinking so much about offense.
Speaker 3: It does and guys say no, but it does happen
Speaker 3: a lot. Will you find yourself And Mookie talked about
Speaker 3: this last year. He's like, I'm taking my approach and
Speaker 3: to in right field. Nobody could see it, but I
Speaker 3: can't do it a short stop when I'm like working
Speaker 3: on my stands and things like that. But yeah, and
Speaker 3: the ball's gonna find you. That's the other thing too.
Speaker 3: So you want to keep that balance and know that
Speaker 3: it is big league baseball. It is tough, and you
Speaker 3: have to be mentally tough to understand and separate those things.
Speaker 3: But man, when when it's just on you constantly and
Speaker 3: you're not getting hits and hitting the ball you know
Speaker 3: on one O three, one oh five and is not falling,
Speaker 3: it gets a little bit tough to even be out
Speaker 3: there in constary defensive signs.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose, the good news is there's a game tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Hopefully it doesn't rain too much.
Speaker 7: The tarp.
Speaker 5: I'm staring out at Dodgers Stadium right now, and the
Speaker 5: tarp is on the infield right now.
Speaker 7: Jose.
Speaker 3: They were more than ready, man. I saw it come in,
Speaker 3: and I think they were on their game day. If
Speaker 3: they listened to you, no doubt.
Speaker 5: They're more on their game than the ground screw in Baltimore.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: Oh that's for another show, all with Cleveland. Remember Cleveland
Speaker 3: two years ago?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Cleveland. Always quick with the trigger, always.
Speaker 4: Quick with the tri Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: But uh hey, no game tomorrow. Got to pick up,
Speaker 3: got to pick it up.
Speaker 7: Love it, Jose, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 8: You got it.
Speaker 7: There, he goes.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. As
Speaker 5: the Dodgers fall to the Pirates tonight, three to nothing.
Speaker 5: Let's take one more phone call before we say goodnight.
Speaker 5: Brian calling all the way from Florida tonight. Hi, Brian,
Speaker 5: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hey, what's up guys? Hello?
Speaker 7: How you doing? Yep? Good?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 7: I'm doing great? Calling all the way from Florida.
Speaker 2: Good Man, calling all the way from South Florida one
Speaker 2: time Brooken Dodgers saying back in the day, but schemes
Speaker 2: work us tonight. Yeah, you know, yeah, of course I
Speaker 2: love baseball.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Brian, appreciate it. Late night there in Florida.
Speaker 5: I know I shouldn't have taken that one last call.
Speaker 5: You shouldn't have taken that one last call. Sometimes you
Speaker 5: gotta let the game come to you before we say goodnight.
Speaker 5: Just want to echo everything that we started with with
Speaker 5: the pregame show. During the game Dodger Stadium celebrated it.
Speaker 5: Just want to recognize our guy Rick Monday once again
Speaker 5: for doing what not a lot of people could say
Speaker 5: they would do, react as quickly as he did in
Speaker 5: center field on this date in nineteen seventy six, forty
Speaker 5: nine years ago. No, not for a fly ball, but
Speaker 5: for saving the American flag out there from being burned
Speaker 5: from as Vin Scully described, two animals out there in
Speaker 5: centerfield trying to set fire to the American flag. Rick Monday,
Speaker 5: playing center field for the Chicago Cubs back on April
Speaker 5: twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six, reacted quickly enough where those
Speaker 5: guys could not burn the American flag, and certainly will
Speaker 5: always be remembered in baseball history and even American history.
Speaker 5: Rick told the story that George W. Bush invited he
Speaker 5: and his wife Barbara Lee to the White House and
Speaker 5: asked if they could bring the flag that he saved.
Speaker 5: So it'll go down in baseball history and American history
Speaker 5: for what he did. How much this country means to
Speaker 5: him as well. But yeah, Rick Monday was playing center
Speaker 5: field for the Cubs that day April twenty fifth, nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy six, and the very next season he was or
Speaker 5: during the offseason was traded to the Dodgers and was
Speaker 5: in the Dodgers Opening Days starting lineup in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5: Hit one of the biggest home runs in Dodger postseason
Speaker 5: history in Game five of the NLCS in nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 5: part of the eighty one World champion Dodgers who got
Speaker 5: redemption against the New York Yankees. So a big day
Speaker 5: in American history today, forty nine years ago, Rick Monday,
Speaker 5: as they wrote on the scoreboard that day in analog,
Speaker 5: he made a great play and it'll go down in
Speaker 5: history forever. All right, tomorrow, Rookie Sazaki will be on
Speaker 5: the mound for the Dodgers looking for his first major
Speaker 5: League win, going up against Mitch Keller, who was one
Speaker 5: and two with an ERA of four to eighteen. Morongo Casino.
Speaker 5: Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock tomorrow, with first
Speaker 5: pitch at six'. Ten thanks To Calling ye back at
Speaker 5: Our burbank, studios thanks To dwayne McDonald out here At Dodgers,
Speaker 5: stadium and thanks to you for. Listening in case you
Speaker 5: missed any of the show or our pregame conversation With Tyler.
Speaker 5: Glass now you can find it on The iHeartRadio app once.
Speaker 5: Again the final score tonight From Dodgers. Stadium The pirates
Speaker 5: shut out The dodgers three to. Nothing have a great
Speaker 5: rest of Your. Friday see y