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Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers come from behind to get to the
Speaker 2: Mariner's bullpen tonight, it was Jason Hayward in the eighth
Speaker 2: inning off of Andres Munios with a go ahead pinch
Speaker 2: hit three run home run to give the Dodgers a
Speaker 2: six to three win. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse
Speaker 2: with you until midnight tonight. We have phone lines open
Speaker 2: at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We have a lot to get to between now and midnight.
Speaker 2: We will get you a Chris Taylor update and get
Speaker 2: his thoughts on the Dodgers division race. Also will get
Speaker 2: you a Yoshi Yamamoto update, and we will hear from
Speaker 2: Justin Turner who joined us earlier today on our Instagram
Speaker 2: live and also on the pregame show, so you'll hear
Speaker 2: part of that conversation and Justin Turner's thoughts about the
Speaker 2: emotional pregame ceremony last night as he returned to Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium for the first time since leaving the Dodgers a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. And we do have Brent Honeywell news.
Speaker 2: I can't hold it any longer. I got good Brent
Speaker 2: Honeywell news for you. Brent Honeywell went unclaimed. So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers did not want to lose Honeywell. But because of
Speaker 2: the roster crunch and needing a fresh charm last weekend,
Speaker 2: they had to dfa Brent Honeywell. And there were some
Speaker 2: reports out there the Boston Red Sox, who were in
Speaker 2: need pit of need of pitching, were going to claim Honeywell,
Speaker 2: but they did not. So Honeywell has been sent to
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City and can be called back in ten days
Speaker 2: from now. So Brent Honeywell stays in the organization. And
Speaker 2: that's big because he was really good for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: pitching out of the bullpen in seven different several different roles.
Speaker 2: So good news. The Dodgers keep Brent Honeywell. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to tonight's game. Walker Buehler, we had talked
Speaker 2: a lot about how long of a leash do the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have for Walker Bueller. I wouldn't say tonight was convincing.
Speaker 2: He only went four innings tonight and he only struck
Speaker 2: out one Mariner. The Mariners have struck out more times
Speaker 2: than any other offense in Major League Baseball, as evident
Speaker 2: by last night's ten strikeout performance by Gavin Stone. One
Speaker 2: strikeout against this team is not great if you're Walker Bueller.
Speaker 2: But he was able to go at least four innings.
Speaker 2: Is that positive? I'm not sure. And we saw still
Speaker 2: trouble with him commanding his f ball.
Speaker 3: That was a big issue tonight.
Speaker 2: His curveball, I thought was really good, and his curveball
Speaker 2: got him back into counts. I was keeping track of
Speaker 2: how many pitches he was throwing behind in the count
Speaker 2: from the second inning on. Between the second and fourth
Speaker 2: inning tonight, Walker Buehler threw twelve pitches behind in the count.
Speaker 2: That's not a way to live now. Dave Roberts said
Speaker 2: before the game when he was asked what do the
Speaker 2: Dodgers do if Bueller does not have a good performance,
Speaker 2: and he talked about what are the alternatives? You have
Speaker 2: a guy like Bobby Miller who is still searching so far,
Speaker 2: this season, Justin Robleski has not really given the Dodgers
Speaker 2: consistent length. His best start was in Houston. I know
Speaker 2: he got his first major League win in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: He was solid then as well. There's an argument to
Speaker 2: be made that Justin Robleski and Landon Nack have both
Speaker 2: been more effective than Walker Bueller trying to find himself.
Speaker 3: And look, it's not as easy as you think.
Speaker 2: Talking to a couple of different pitchers that have come
Speaker 2: back from two Tommy John surgeries, sometimes you don't feel
Speaker 2: like yourself until two years after that.
Speaker 3: It's not an easy.
Speaker 2: Surgery to come back from once. It's even harder to
Speaker 2: come back twice. And right now, Walker Bueller, he's healthy,
Speaker 2: but he's still trying to figure out who.
Speaker 3: He is in this stage of his career.
Speaker 2: Now, if he was on the Marlins or you know,
Speaker 2: a last place team, pick any one, he would have
Speaker 2: the luxury to try to figure this out in the season.
Speaker 2: But the issue is the Dodgers are in a division race.
Speaker 2: They are only three games ahead of the Padres and
Speaker 2: only four games ahead of the Diamondbacks, so they don't
Speaker 2: have the luxury to allow Walker Buehller to find his footing.
Speaker 2: They have to win games and they can't compromise their bullpen.
Speaker 2: So that's the issue for Walker Buehler being on this team.
Speaker 2: He needs to figure it out now, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: need him to figure it out now. Easier said than done.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs right now to hear from Walker Buehler.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, in general, getting No. Two
Speaker 4: is kind of a weird victory for me right now.
Speaker 4: But you know, I felt like I was kind of
Speaker 4: two or two oh the whole night, and we made
Speaker 4: a couple of bad pitches.
Speaker 3: Planco got me twice, and it's a tough one. He
Speaker 3: doesn't come off the.
Speaker 4: Heater and try to throw kind of the front hip
Speaker 4: two seamer and he kind of smother hooked it and
Speaker 4: hit it hard and uh for two in the first.
Speaker 4: But I'm so tired of saying that. I feel closer.
Speaker 4: But I kind of explained to people I felt like
Speaker 4: a bad version of myself in twenty one, and I
Speaker 4: think that's as that's as close as I felt the
Speaker 4: kind of me of old as I have, you know,
Speaker 4: as I felt this year. And yeah, I don't want
Speaker 4: to I didn't throw the ball well, and our team
Speaker 4: really helped me out and got us back in the game.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to sound too optimistic about it
Speaker 4: just because of kind of the results, but you know,
Speaker 4: I came out of that one feeling pretty good about
Speaker 4: where I'm at and what we've done this week in
Speaker 4: terms of the delivery.
Speaker 3: And now now it's you.
Speaker 4: Know, I've been saying it's I got to perform, and
Speaker 4: I got to perform, but I feel like I can
Speaker 4: actually perform now, and and you know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: five six days to throw and feel the same thing
Speaker 4: that I've been feeling the past three or four days, and.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel better about it.
Speaker 4: And and I think also like this is the kind
Speaker 4: of power of being on a team like this, right,
Speaker 4: I can throw the ball not great, you know, we
Speaker 4: get we get their guy out of there quickly and
Speaker 4: and kind of chip away at it and then explode
Speaker 4: and we got guys off the bench that are veteran
Speaker 4: players and really prepared.
Speaker 3: And j it's a big homer and wins us the game.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 4: You know, it's hard to say, like keep sticking with me,
Speaker 4: but I feel a lot better about it. And obviously
Speaker 4: it's nice not to lose every game that I start.
Speaker 6: Giving you a contractual situation, right.
Speaker 3: We don't care about my contract, but.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess just the fact that this.
Speaker 4: There's just not a whole lot to talk about it, man,
Speaker 4: Like I have a six ra like I'm trying to
Speaker 4: figure out how to get people out in the major leagues,
Speaker 4: like free agencies. For talking about when you have a
Speaker 4: two five and you're rolling through the league, you know,
Speaker 4: I really don't care. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: I've played here in my whole career. I love playing here.
Speaker 4: We've won the World Series here. That's all I give.
Speaker 3: Is all right.
Speaker 2: There's Walker Buehler on Sports in at LA responding to
Speaker 2: you know, a pointed question that has got to be
Speaker 2: somewhere and in the back of his mind that.
Speaker 3: He is on the brink of free agency.
Speaker 2: He's not just pitching for the Dodgers, but he's pitching
Speaker 2: for the rest of the league to be able to.
Speaker 3: Find a landing spot.
Speaker 2: And obviously the business of baseball is on the horizon.
Speaker 2: But honestly, at this point in time, I feel like
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller is just trying to find his confidence again.
Speaker 2: And if the Dodgers aren't going to have him start again.
Speaker 2: I don't think tonight was a start where you say
Speaker 2: we have to pull the plug on Walker Bueller. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just that type of game. But the facts are
Speaker 2: the Mariners are not a good offensive team, and I
Speaker 2: guess getting to the fourth inning and not giving up
Speaker 2: more than three runs was a victory. But only striking
Speaker 2: out one Mariner is alarming to me. And when he
Speaker 2: comes back to make his next start, it's going to
Speaker 2: be a huge test compared to what he saw tonight
Speaker 2: because he's either going to face the Rays on four
Speaker 2: days rest.
Speaker 3: He just said five or six days rest.
Speaker 2: So that makes me believe he's pitching the first game
Speaker 2: of the Baltimore Orioles series on Tuesday, a week from tonight.
Speaker 2: So the Orioles are one of the best offensive teams
Speaker 2: in baseball. He is going to have to be better
Speaker 2: than he was tonight and even better than what we've
Speaker 2: seen this year to get outs. Eight six, six, nine, eight,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: I will say.
Speaker 2: The most entertaining part of Bueller's start tonight was him
Speaker 2: screaming at C. B. Buckner for missing one of many
Speaker 2: balls and strikes tonight. That was in the fourth inning
Speaker 2: during the Julio Rodriguez at bat, it was strike three
Speaker 2: and Buckner, who may want to go see key Y
Speaker 2: Hernandez is optometrist, doctor Lou maybe to get you know,
Speaker 2: if it works for players, it could work for umpires.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones. Bruce, who is at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight? Hi, Bruce, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hey mes say always something interesting to do and say
Speaker 6: that left side of.
Speaker 8: The MC tonight.
Speaker 6: I know that hairword is going to get the in
Speaker 6: the bullpen rightfully, so we'll get the headlines. But seeing
Speaker 6: Tommy Edmond make that infield play as a backup shortstop
Speaker 6: to you know, Rojas, who's mister glove. And then to
Speaker 6: see Months he not only hit another homer and both
Speaker 6: those guys were you know, got hits tonight and last night,
Speaker 6: but to see Months he work that walk. Our lineup
Speaker 6: is just much deeper. Lux is back. There's just a
Speaker 6: different feel to it. We got down three to nothing
Speaker 6: and we just chipped away at it at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the most formidable lineup in baseball, Bruce,
Speaker 2: one through nine, anyway you slice it, this is a
Speaker 2: very different lineup than what we saw even two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: And I'm with you.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund was everything is advertised that Andrew Friedman was
Speaker 2: telling us about Tommy Edmund, elite defender at shortstop, elite
Speaker 2: defender in see in her field, and we have seen
Speaker 2: it the first two games and he puts back to ball,
Speaker 2: and tonight he doubled in the seventh inning and scored
Speaker 2: the tying run thanks to Mookie Betts double with two outs.
Speaker 3: So I'm with you.
Speaker 2: All points accounted for eight six, six, seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Michael,
Speaker 2: who was also at Dodger Stadium tonight. Did you get
Speaker 2: your ta Oscar Hernandez bobblehead tonight?
Speaker 3: Michael?
Speaker 5: Yeah, sir, I did you kind of saw my thunder
Speaker 5: with the pitching thing, but just kind of going into.
Speaker 7: The playoffs obviously, Bobby Miller, maybe you think he'll be
Speaker 7: able to runt for him? Looks like Feeler obviously struggling.
Speaker 9: Hopefully I'll find it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't tell you that right now. I'm
Speaker 2: a big believer in Bobby Miller. I'm not jumping off
Speaker 2: the bandwagon like everybody else. Is Look, he's he's had
Speaker 2: some adversity this year. Everybody does not have a linear
Speaker 2: path to a great career. So he's taking his lumps.
Speaker 2: Now let's see him bounce back. You know, I feel
Speaker 2: like he has that fighter mentality, so he's working to
Speaker 2: get better. And he actually told me that today you're
Speaker 2: going to see a better version of me next time
Speaker 2: I start.
Speaker 3: He is determined to be better.
Speaker 2: So I can't tell you whether or not that's going
Speaker 2: to happen, but I will say that I would bet
Speaker 2: on Bobby Miller and I would bet on Walker Buehller
Speaker 2: to try to compete, to try to get better. But honestly,
Speaker 2: the jury is still out on Walker Buehler. I know
Speaker 2: he said he's getting closer. He's getting closer, But like
Speaker 2: I said, he can have that luxury with the Pirates
Speaker 2: or the Marlins, he can't have that luxury in a
Speaker 2: division race. Now, if the Dodgers even had a ten
Speaker 2: game lead right now, he would have that luxury, but
Speaker 2: unfortunately he doesn't. All Right, thank you for the phone call, Michael,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Look it's hard. I'm not saying that I'm
Speaker 2: pulling the plug on Walker Bueller, but it goes back
Speaker 2: to everything I said. I completely believe him that he's
Speaker 2: getting closer, but we need to see it. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: need to see it going down the stretch here because
Speaker 2: they need to win games. Even though with the win tonight,
Speaker 2: they maintain a three game lead over the victorious Padres
Speaker 2: at three games, and the Diamondbacks won again as well,
Speaker 2: so all three teams win again and the Dodgers only
Speaker 2: have a three and four game lead in the division,
Speaker 2: but winning their seventy fifth game of the year. They
Speaker 2: also have the best record in baseball, one game ahead
Speaker 2: of the Guardians, the Phillies, Brewers, and Orioles. So that
Speaker 2: just shows you how tight baseball is these days. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to San Pedro. Eddie, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Eddie?
Speaker 8: Hey, Dave, thanks for thanking my call. I've got three
Speaker 8: quick points. I just wanted to do a comments. I
Speaker 8: wanted to make sure one is I haven't seen Dave
Speaker 8: Roberts run that asked they won the World Series onto
Speaker 8: the field, trying to get out there to protect Dealer,
Speaker 8: and I know he wanted to get Dealer a victory
Speaker 8: tonight and channeling one pinch hitter, Dodger pinch hitter to
Speaker 8: another Jay Hay wearing Gibbie's number hit probably one of
Speaker 8: the biggest home runs that I remember in recent time,
Speaker 8: and it was real exciting. And three, are you going
Speaker 8: to go out and investigate that ghost baseball that came
Speaker 8: out of right center field that LuxI hit out?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was wondering about that, like where did that ball
Speaker 2: come from? Did it just drop through? Like, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I was even asking our producer engineer. It's kind of
Speaker 2: strange how the baseball was underneath the padding right there,
Speaker 2: So we'll try to figure that out, Eddie.
Speaker 3: But it was a home run.
Speaker 2: It was a strange night umpiring, umpiring wise and also
Speaker 2: review wise as well. Well, it just didn't sit right tonight.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers were beneficiaries of a couple of them,
Speaker 2: especially in the ninth inning where Luis Rivas was very safe.
Speaker 2: Leo Revas was very safe and the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to get the call on the field as an out
Speaker 2: and New York did not overturn it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Eddie, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number we're gonna take a time out here
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Speaker 2: will hear from Chris Taylor. We also will share part
Speaker 2: of our conversation with Justin Turner as well. Dodgers come
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Speaker 3: Two ball, one strike, pitch to Hayward. He plays and
Speaker 3: hits a deep track right. This ball has got It's
Speaker 3: a home run, a three.
Speaker 2: Run pitch head home run for Chason Hayward and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers lead at six to three.
Speaker 3: Oh, how do you like that day? He comes up.
Speaker 9: Big time bus the pench for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Jason Hayward.
Speaker 2: Making the case that he belongs on this roster and
Speaker 2: is a big part of it coming off the bench
Speaker 2: a go ahead, three run home run in the bottom
Speaker 2: of the eighth inning to give the Dodgers a six
Speaker 2: to three win. The six to three lead was preserved
Speaker 2: by Daniel Hudson, his tenth of the season, Andres Munnos
Speaker 2: through a ninety nine fouall at the top of the
Speaker 2: strike zone that Hayward head out to right field. He
Speaker 2: takes the loss and Joe Kelly gets his first win
Speaker 2: in relief this season, and the Dodgers win their seventy
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Speaker 2: beat the Mariners six to three tonight. They are now
Speaker 2: twenty two to twelve against the American League and now
Speaker 2: have an eight game winning streak over Seattle going all
Speaker 2: the way back to twenty twenty one. Let's go back
Speaker 2: out to the phones. Miles, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight? Hi, Miles,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hey, how are you doing things to taking like I
Speaker 7: got two questions perfect to the different observation. You know,
Speaker 7: the last couple of seasons, as you well know, the
Speaker 7: Dodger used for doing great during the season and then
Speaker 7: they collapse in the postseason. And if you look at
Speaker 7: what very telling statistic time.
Speaker 3: Wait, can we pump? Are you just talking about the
Speaker 3: last two seasons?
Speaker 7: Yeah, the last two seasons the postseason when they collapsed.
Speaker 7: What was evidence statistic was both seasons they had a
Speaker 7: losing record in extra in the games when there's a
Speaker 7: lot of pressure on the team with the man on
Speaker 7: second basis, etc. So I was wondering this year they
Speaker 7: had a winning record in post in extra innings. But
Speaker 7: also what do you think there's any correlation between that
Speaker 7: phase to be seen of course how they do this postseason,
Speaker 7: But my question would be do you think that they
Speaker 7: could benefit from having the sports psychologist address the team
Speaker 7: for the postseason. That's voluntary for the players. I realized
Speaker 7: that pros they used to pressure that clutch players, but
Speaker 7: it seemed as a team that maybe the pressure got
Speaker 7: to that one. Maybe they the rust of not playing,
Speaker 7: you know, for a number of days just to ask
Speaker 7: such a great record.
Speaker 2: Well, Miles, Miles, number one, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 2: Great question number one on that. As you know, in
Speaker 2: the postseason, there is no gifted runner at second base,
Speaker 2: so whatever happened in the regular season with extra innings
Speaker 2: really doesn't correlate to the postseason because you don't get
Speaker 2: a runner at second base.
Speaker 3: But I understand your question.
Speaker 2: It's more about having team at bats, hitting the ball
Speaker 2: to the right side, doing the little things instead of
Speaker 2: just trying to hit a two run home run.
Speaker 3: That's number one.
Speaker 2: Number two, the Dodgers have a sports psychologist on their staff.
Speaker 2: He's on their coaching staff. He's in the dugout every
Speaker 2: game in coach's uniform, so they have that at their disposal.
Speaker 2: Do you have another question.
Speaker 7: Yeah, My other question, as a general baseball question, how
Speaker 7: many reviews can candle at the same given time, considering
Speaker 7: their multiple games being played. If there were many, you know,
Speaker 7: calls for review at the same time, how many could
Speaker 7: they handle to say time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they have multiple umpires looking at games, right,
Speaker 2: There's not just one umpire back there, so they have
Speaker 2: a few different people, a few different umpire umpiring crews
Speaker 2: in the command center. For that reason, so if there
Speaker 2: is a review at the same time, let's say, uh
Speaker 2: here and in San Diego, the Dodgers and Mariners don't
Speaker 2: have to wait for them to settle what else is
Speaker 2: going on in San Diego? And in fact, the guy
Speaker 2: that would be the best to answer any replay questions
Speaker 2: would be Rick Monday, who actually was able to take
Speaker 2: a tour of the command center in New York a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, and he said it was remarkable
Speaker 2: what they're able to do.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's a you.
Speaker 2: Know how umpiring crews switched through different cities, Well, the
Speaker 2: command center in New York is a stop for every
Speaker 2: rotating umpiring crew.
Speaker 7: Okay, well thanks to my questions.
Speaker 2: Answer Okay, thanks, Miles appreciated. Eight six six nine seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Kind of felt
Speaker 2: like I was taking a test right there, like the SATs.
Speaker 3: I was starting to get the sheiks. I was hoping
Speaker 3: I get the answer right.
Speaker 2: Well, when you're prepared and you understand, and you're around
Speaker 2: people like Rick Monday, you get an education every night.
Speaker 2: And also the coaching staff down there with Dino Ebel
Speaker 2: and Clayton McCullough and obviously Dave Roberts and Bob Garren
Speaker 2: knows his stuff pretty well. With the rule book, you
Speaker 2: start to understand things a little bit better, so better
Speaker 2: prepared to answer calls like that from Miles. By the way,
Speaker 2: speaking of being on the witness stand, I don't know.
Speaker 2: For some reason today I felt like Dave Roberts pre
Speaker 2: game press conference.
Speaker 3: I felt bad for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: I want to step in front of the press conference
Speaker 2: room and say stop badgering the witness. I mean, these
Speaker 2: writers were coming after him. Who's the closer?
Speaker 3: Is Copek? The closer is Evan Phillips the closer?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: What's the roster move? What are you gonna do with
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor? It's like whoa, whoa pump the breaks there.
Speaker 2: He's the manager, He's not making roster decisions. He has
Speaker 2: some input. And you know, these writers, there's one in
Speaker 2: particular that wants to continually ask about who the Dodger
Speaker 2: closer is. Dave Roberts is on the record as saying
Speaker 2: he is comfortable with closer by committee right now. Last night,
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips closed out the game. Daniel Hudson closed it out. Tonight,
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek closed out a two to one win in
Speaker 2: Saint Louis. They got three guys capable of doing that,
Speaker 2: especially when Phillips is on his game. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. Let's go out to La Morata. Mike,
Speaker 2: you're on DOC you talk.
Speaker 10: How you doing Mike, Hey, I'm doing well. Thanks for
Speaker 10: taking my call. It is actually at the game tonight
Speaker 10: was an awesome, awesome game to watch. That hit by
Speaker 10: Jay he it was huge. But watching that game and
Speaker 10: I made me want to ask you if you're concerned
Speaker 10: about the Dodgers and like productive outs and them being
Speaker 10: able to manufacture runs in the postseason. I know there's
Speaker 10: a couple opportunities tonight, Mookie with Showy at third and
Speaker 10: then Keik not getting Edmond over to third, but nobody
Speaker 10: out in the eighth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a little bit of a concern. Those
Speaker 2: are the little things that can get a much needed
Speaker 2: run across in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 2: But even talking to Freddie Freeman, he said it's tough
Speaker 2: to string three or four hits together in the playoffs
Speaker 2: against number ones and number two's. And that's why, as
Speaker 2: much as we don't like to hear it, having players
Speaker 2: that are capable of doing what Jason Hayward did tonight,
Speaker 2: even as unexpected as it was, can help you win
Speaker 2: a playoff game. So having that ability and more players
Speaker 2: having that ability to be able to hit the ball
Speaker 2: out of the ballpark can be the difference in winning
Speaker 2: or losing a playoff series.
Speaker 10: Oh no, I agree, I agree, that's your Miller.
Speaker 2: I think back to the twenty nineteen and LDS Matt
Speaker 2: Batty had an opportunity and see it goes back to
Speaker 2: the situation and the player, right, Matt Baty shouldn't be
Speaker 2: trying to be hero.
Speaker 3: He should have been trying.
Speaker 2: To hit the ball to the right side to get
Speaker 2: the run home in the twenty nineteen and LDS Game five.
Speaker 2: To me and talking to some other managers that we're
Speaker 2: watching that series, that was the play that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: may have lost Game five because they needed that run
Speaker 2: and it would have given them more insurance in that
Speaker 2: Game five. I know I'm going way back, but that's
Speaker 2: an example to what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, no, and again they hit him off to
Speaker 10: get arms and with one of those excuse me, with
Speaker 10: Miller and Munios. But I mean, you're gonna be facing
Speaker 10: tough arms in the postseason, So I was just wanted
Speaker 10: if that was any any time, I know you need
Speaker 10: those those power bats off the bench.
Speaker 2: I'm with you to be able to I think that's
Speaker 2: been part of the downfall the last couple of postseasons,
Speaker 2: as well being one dimensional and not making adjustments in
Speaker 2: the middle of the game.
Speaker 3: So I think you're onto something.
Speaker 2: But adding a player like Tommy Edmund and also having
Speaker 2: a player like Gavin Lux swinging the bat the way
Speaker 2: he is difference making lineup right now Mike one through nine.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I agree with the way Lux has been
Speaker 10: swinging it. And Tomy Edmund clutch at bat today, clutch
Speaker 10: play at short And then Brazier's two innings were huge
Speaker 10: I thought tonight too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great point.
Speaker 2: Ryan Brazier looked great in Saint Louis, and he looked
Speaker 2: great tonight, two scoreless innings after Walker Bueller only went
Speaker 2: four tonight. There were a lot of This was a
Speaker 2: team win to keep the score where it was and
Speaker 2: to be able to chip away. How about Max Munsey
Speaker 2: and Gavin Lux homering in the same inning for the
Speaker 2: second straight last night it was in the seventh inning. Tonight,
Speaker 2: it was in the fourth inning, Gavin Lux with a
Speaker 2: solo home run, and then Munsey a couple.
Speaker 3: Of batters later, also a solo home run.
Speaker 2: Monsey with two home runs and as many nights since
Speaker 2: his return, this is a tough lineup to get through.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine seven two five seventy is the
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Speaker 2: Here was part of our conversation with Justin Turner sharing
Speaker 2: his thoughts on the emotional pregame ceremony last night.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 11: It was something. It was pretty special, and you know,
Speaker 11: I want to thank the whole Dodgers organization for putting
Speaker 11: so much thought and time into that and and making
Speaker 11: it in a night that myself in court and one day,
Speaker 11: Bo we'll always remember.
Speaker 2: So I know you had some idea the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: going to honor your first return back here.
Speaker 3: But did it exceed your expectations?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I knew, I knew someone was going on. They
Speaker 11: told me that they were going to do a presentation
Speaker 11: after the anthem and then didn't know what. Obviously go
Speaker 11: out there and the tribute video was was amazing. Had me, uh,
Speaker 11: you know, in all my feels and running back all
Speaker 11: the memories, all the great memories we've had here. The
Speaker 11: Czech presentation to the Foundation, I think was certainly spectacular.
Speaker 11: I think everyone here knows how much the Foundation means
Speaker 11: the court and I how much work, especially Courtney puts
Speaker 11: into the foundation. So that was definitely a nice, nice touch.
Speaker 11: But the thing that got me the most, and you know,
Speaker 11: thinking back and I actually wrote text to a bunch
Speaker 11: of the guys this morning, but you know, I've been
Speaker 11: a part of that on the other side. You know,
Speaker 11: when guys make their return to down your stadium, and
Speaker 11: usually it's one or two guys come out and give
Speaker 11: a gift or a jersey or a picture or something.
Speaker 11: When I turned around and saw ten guys coming out
Speaker 11: of the dugout, uh, you know that that kind of
Speaker 11: got me a little bit and uh, I don't know
Speaker 11: if that was planned. I don't know if that's how
Speaker 11: it was supposed to go. But you know, I wrote
Speaker 11: all those guys this morning and that that meant the
Speaker 11: world to me, and uh that was at that point
Speaker 11: I started getting a little little moke. I was doing
Speaker 11: great until I saw all those guys walking out.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh man, this is this is cool.
Speaker 2: That is so cool to have Justin Turner share those feelings.
Speaker 2: And I know how much his teammates meant to him
Speaker 2: and how much uh uh he means to them, and
Speaker 2: that was evident by what we saw last night. And
Speaker 2: I even got a phone call from Andre Ethier, who was, uh,
Speaker 2: he checks in almost every other day, but he wanted
Speaker 2: me to send his best to Justin Turner because he
Speaker 2: even acknowledged that without Justin they don't have as much
Speaker 2: winning as they did while Drey was on the team
Speaker 2: and obviously during his nine years.
Speaker 3: And how about this.
Speaker 2: Andre Ethier also told me, because we talked shot, we
Speaker 2: talk baseball, I told him about Key Hernandez going to
Speaker 2: an optometrist to get a different type of eye exam
Speaker 2: and it found out that you know, he needed a
Speaker 2: different prescription for his glasses and that's when he's taken
Speaker 2: off in the month of August. Andre Ehier actually told
Speaker 2: me he did the same thing after the twenty fourteen season.
Speaker 2: He went to go see an i specialist after he
Speaker 2: only hit two forty nine and twenty fourteen. He got
Speaker 2: corrective contacts and he came back in twenty fifteen hitting
Speaker 2: two ninety four with fourteen home runs and fifty three RBIs.
Speaker 2: So what keiy K a Hernandez did is something more
Speaker 2: hitters should do. Because Andre was telling me that he
Speaker 2: just didn't feel right, he couldn't see the ball out
Speaker 2: of the hand of the picture, and it sounded exactly
Speaker 2: like what Keik was describing. And he also said the
Speaker 2: eye test given in spring training, like key K said,
Speaker 2: is very standard. So if you're feeling a little off
Speaker 2: with your eyes, you have to go to a specialist
Speaker 2: like these guys did. So uh Kik way to go,
Speaker 2: and other players should not be afraid to do the
Speaker 2: same if they're feeling the same way.
Speaker 3: As far as their their depth.
Speaker 2: Vision from you know, where it's coming out of the
Speaker 2: pitcher sand to oncoming vision. As a hitter, that's number one.
Speaker 2: You need that all right, let's go out to Mario Bay. Julian,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. I love Morobay.
Speaker 5: Hey, David, Yeah, it's a great place to visit, great
Speaker 5: place to live too. And do you think any of
Speaker 5: the umpires could go to Keyk's optometrist?
Speaker 3: That would be right? Gave you three guess is what
Speaker 3: CB stands for? And see B. Buckner?
Speaker 5: I don't. I was trying to believe it, right, I can't.
Speaker 2: Think, but he's definitely optically challenged when it comes to
Speaker 2: balls and strikes. And look, I remember Chick hern saying
Speaker 2: this as an NBA announcer when it came to referees.
Speaker 2: If you know their names, they're not very good.
Speaker 3: So we know C. B.
Speaker 2: Buckner's name, we know Angel Hernandez's name. We knew Joe
Speaker 2: West's name, so as we know C. B. Buckner, that's
Speaker 2: not a good thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was listening to the audio feed and I
Speaker 5: like to say a shout out to Charlie Steiner. It's
Speaker 5: great to hear him coming back and being on more
Speaker 5: of the audio. But Rick Monday had an interesting point
Speaker 5: about that lux home run that he thought about it
Speaker 5: and since he played a lot of outfield. He said,
Speaker 5: you know, there may have been a second ball trapped
Speaker 5: behind the padding that got laudged loose when the outfielder
Speaker 5: hit the wall and it dropped out, And by looking
Speaker 5: at the replay on TV, it sure looks like that
Speaker 5: maybe what happened. It'd be interesting if you can find
Speaker 5: out later did the actual home run ball fall behind
Speaker 5: the fence and was that really a second ball that
Speaker 5: appeared out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: So there you go, Rick Monday giving us the answer.
Speaker 2: I actually missed that part of the broadcast, but that
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense because on the replay the
Speaker 2: ball cleared the center field wall. So yeah, that makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense. Thanks Julian. And yes, it was
Speaker 2: nice to have Charlie stop by the booth today and
Speaker 2: hear his voice. It was nice to see Chris Taylor
Speaker 2: in the Dodger Clubhouse yesterday. Tonight he was playing for
Speaker 2: Rancho Cucamonga, the first of two rehab games scheduled for
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor in Rancho Cucamonga. He's on the injured list
Speaker 2: with a groin injury, and yesterday he told me that
Speaker 2: he has made some noticeable changes in his swing and
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor has been part of this team since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: and he has seen a lot of different seasons with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, including the close races of the one sixty
Speaker 2: three season in twenty eighteen, and also the Dodgers winning
Speaker 2: one hundred and six games in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 2: coming up one game short to the Giants. So I
Speaker 2: asked him whether or not this season feels like those.
Speaker 9: I mean, I guess as far as like us not
Speaker 9: having a huge lead, you know, which a lot of
Speaker 9: the years who've been here, we've been fortunate enough to
Speaker 9: have that comfortable lead, and I think maybe two of
Speaker 9: the seasons I've been here, it's been like pretty tight
Speaker 9: down to the end, and you know, so from that regard,
Speaker 9: yet feels kind of like that. It's like definitely like
Speaker 9: a heavy, a tough, top end division. You know, it's
Speaker 9: three legit like World Series contenders. So I think it's
Speaker 9: good though, and you know, we're really just focused on
Speaker 9: ourselves and like for us, it's big like getting healthy.
Speaker 9: I think we're finally starting to get some guys back
Speaker 9: and you know, hopefully some of the guys that just
Speaker 9: recently got banged up and play. I don't know yet.
Speaker 9: But but yeah, I think it's more just focusing on
Speaker 9: if we know, if we perform the way we're capable of,
Speaker 9: we'll be We'll be there.
Speaker 2: It's Taylor talking about this year's division race as tight
Speaker 2: as twenty eighteen and twenty twenty one were for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and Chris Taylor tonight was one for four with two
Speaker 2: RBIs playing second base at Rancho Kucamonga.
Speaker 3: Now this is.
Speaker 2: Where there are tough roster decisions to be made. The
Speaker 2: previous one to activate Monthsey and Edmund did not seem
Speaker 2: as tough because Nick on med was not going to
Speaker 2: get a lot of playing time with Tommy Edmund on
Speaker 2: this team with Miguel Rojas playing the way he is,
Speaker 2: Andy Pa has had options. So those were the two
Speaker 2: logical choices and kind of layups to activate Muncie and
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond. And tomorrow Blake Trining is going to be activated.
Speaker 2: So there's a good chance Ben Casparrius is return to
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City because the Dodgers did not use him tonight,
Speaker 2: and Jack Flaherty is pitching tomorrow, so you expect him
Speaker 2: to go at least six innings. But here it is
Speaker 2: you got Chris Taylor, you got Kevin Kiermyer, and you
Speaker 2: got Jason Hayward. How do the Dodgers keep all three
Speaker 2: on the roster. That's a tough question. And rosters do
Speaker 2: expand by two in the month of September, but that's
Speaker 2: not happening for another six or seven days here. So
Speaker 2: do the Dodgers make Chris Taylor extend his rehab assignment
Speaker 2: for another week? Can they ask him to do that?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It would be convenient for everybody involved, because then you
Speaker 2: wouldn't be forced to try to maneuver for Kevin Kiermeyer
Speaker 2: or Jason Hayward for however you want to do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, ker Myer was picked up off of waivers,
Speaker 2: so there were other teams that had a chance to
Speaker 2: claim him and they chose not to. But kier Myers
Speaker 2: played great defense, He's had some team at bats. But
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward showed tonight what he can do off the
Speaker 2: bench and has showed it over the course of this
Speaker 2: season in small sample sizes. Tonight was Hayward's eighth pinch
Speaker 2: hit at that He is now four for eight with
Speaker 2: two home runs and seven RBIs. And that's what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are thinking when it comes to Hayward catching lightning
Speaker 2: in the bottle like they did tonight in the eighth
Speaker 2: inning where he was able to hit a ninety nine
Speaker 2: fastball at the top of the strike zone for a
Speaker 2: three run home run off the bench. What are the
Speaker 2: chances Kevin Kiermeyer could do that. Two different players that
Speaker 2: bring two different styles to the Dodgers bench. I would
Speaker 2: take Kevin Kiermyer AND's center field defense civilly over anybody
Speaker 2: right now. I like the way he has team at bats.
Speaker 2: He's a great clubhouse guy. But you could say the
Speaker 2: same about Jason Hayward. I you know, I just Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmond's gonna get a lot of time in center field.
Speaker 2: He's gonna spot start at shortstop on those days like tonight.
Speaker 2: It was great to have a player like Kevin Kiermyer
Speaker 2: in center and frankly, the Dodgers, between Paz and Outman
Speaker 2: have not gotten great center field defense, and that was
Speaker 2: a part of their team they needed to shore up,
Speaker 2: and they did that with two different players and kier
Speaker 2: Meyer and Edmund. Now kier Meyer was playing a lot
Speaker 2: more because Edmund was still on the il, but with
Speaker 2: Edmund back.
Speaker 3: Now here we go.
Speaker 2: You know, the Dodgers have a tough decision to make,
Speaker 2: so we'll see what direction they go in. But I
Speaker 2: would love to see all three still on this roster
Speaker 2: on September.
Speaker 3: First.
Speaker 2: All right, here's your Yoshi Yamamoto update. He is going
Speaker 2: to throw another simulated game here Dodgers Stadium. Once he
Speaker 2: does that and he feels good, he will do it
Speaker 2: one more time and extend himself to three innings tomorrow,
Speaker 2: two innings, one more time, three innings, and then the
Speaker 2: Dodgers will send him out on a rehab assignment and
Speaker 2: from there they should have him back sometime in the
Speaker 2: middle of September to get at least two starts before
Speaker 2: the postseason. And Yamamoto better be prepared to ramp this
Speaker 2: thing up. As far as getting five six days of
Speaker 2: rest in the postseason, that's not how it works, unless
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are thinking about a five man rotation in
Speaker 2: the playoffs. But as you know, in the postseason, you
Speaker 2: ride the hot hand. So if Yamamoto pitches five or
Speaker 2: six scoreless innings, he'd better be ready to go again
Speaker 2: in a short series or in a best of seven series.
Speaker 3: That's the way it works.
Speaker 2: That's why you got the richest contract of any starting
Speaker 2: pitcher in baseball history. Tomorrow, Jack Flaherty, who I believe
Speaker 2: will be one of the first three starters in a
Speaker 2: postseason series for the Dodgers, will be on the mound.
Speaker 2: He's nine to five with an ERA at three zero six,
Speaker 2: going up against a very good pitcher in Logan Gilbert,
Speaker 2: who is having another really good year, even though his
Speaker 2: record doesn't reflect it lack of offense. Seven and nine
Speaker 2: with an ERA of two ninety six. He will be
Speaker 2: going up against the Dodgers and trying to avoid the
Speaker 2: Dodgers sweeping the Mariners out of La Morongo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 2: on Deck begins at six o'clock tomorrow, with first pitch
Speaker 2: at seven ten.
Speaker 3: That'll do it for us tonight from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Yee back at our Burbanks Studios, Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald doing a great job out here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.
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