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Speaker 3: Welcome the Dodgers Talk on this fourth of July David
Speaker 3: Basse live at Dodgers Stadium. Yes, I went through and
Speaker 3: said I'll do the show tonight despite the astros. Be
Speaker 3: the Dodgers eighteen to one. We have phone lines open
Speaker 3: at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Jose Moto will join us at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3: We will share with you our pregame conversation with Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 3: who is two days removed now from a big time milestone.
Speaker 3: One of the most memorable nights of a regular season game.
Speaker 3: I can remember two days ago with him recording his
Speaker 3: three thousandth career strikeout. We'll catch up with Kershaw two
Speaker 3: days later, see where his head's at, See if he's
Speaker 3: still on cloud nine after all the celebration and rightfully so.
Speaker 3: And later in the show, we'll share with you which
Speaker 3: Dodger hit three home runs on the fourth of July
Speaker 3: or former Dodger hit three home runs on the fourth
Speaker 3: of July. But tonight not a great night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: And look, the Dodgers have been blown out before this year,
Speaker 3: But why does it have to be again? The Houston Astros.
Speaker 3: You heard the way Dodgers Stadium welcome Jose Altuve with
Speaker 3: the booze from this sellout crowd. Nobody has forgotten twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: including Kershaw, including Keith Gay Hernandez, including anybody that was
Speaker 3: on that Dodger team in twenty seventeen, Guys that are
Speaker 3: still playing, guys that have retired. They will never forget it,
Speaker 3: no matter how much the league wants you to try
Speaker 3: to forget what the Astros did in seventeen. When you
Speaker 3: see the Houston Astros in Los Angeles, or when the
Speaker 3: Dodgers play the Astros, or when the Yankees play the Astros.
Speaker 3: That is something that's not going to go away for
Speaker 3: a long time. And as long as Jose Altuve is
Speaker 3: still playing and wearing that Astro's uniform, he's going to
Speaker 3: get that type of reception at Dodgers Stadium. I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if he gets that in other ballparks, but he's
Speaker 3: gonna get it here at Dodger Stadium until he's done playing.
Speaker 3: The only problem is when you're chanting cheater and you're
Speaker 3: raining down booze and then the guy makes two incredible
Speaker 3: plays at second base and homers twice, it obviously is
Speaker 3: not working. So JOSEL two is a pretty good player
Speaker 3: three for three tonight with two home runs and five RBIs,
Speaker 3: and the Dodger Killer was back in a different uniform tonight.
Speaker 3: Christian Walker first game at Dodger Stadium as a Houston Astro,
Speaker 3: and he picked up where he left off playing for
Speaker 3: the Diamondbacks, going four for five tonight. He scored three times,
Speaker 3: he drove in four runs, and he homered for the
Speaker 3: sixth consecutive game at Dodgers Stadium. Walker now has twenty
Speaker 3: career home runs at Dodger Stadium. That's tied for the
Speaker 3: most by any active visiting player. Paul Goldschmidt also hit
Speaker 3: twenty home runs at dodd has hit twenty home runs
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, and in his last six games, Walker
Speaker 3: is hitting five seventy seven with eight home and fifteen
Speaker 3: RBIs against the Dodgers. So yeah, there have been Dodger
Speaker 3: killers over the course of history. I can remember a
Speaker 3: guy by the name of Jim Eisenreich with the Phillies
Speaker 3: and Marlins. He was considered a Dodger killer in more
Speaker 3: than one ways because he was part of the Mike
Speaker 3: Piazza trade and he killed the Dodgers when he was
Speaker 3: playing in their uniform. He was that bad when he
Speaker 3: got traded to the Dodgers. So Christian Walker is certainly
Speaker 3: public enemy number one in baseball circles at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Ben Casparius not a.
Speaker 3: Great night, and I was relieved to hear Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: say they are going to move Ben Casparius back to
Speaker 3: the bullpen because Emma Sheehan is going to be back
Speaker 3: in the rotation. Tyler Glass now is going to be
Speaker 3: back in the rotation when the Dodgers are in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: If you count out the days.
Speaker 3: One of the last two games in Milwaukee, Glass now
Speaker 3: is going to pitch. So that's the role Ben Casparius
Speaker 3: can thrive in. We saw it and then all of
Speaker 3: a sudden they had him coming in after Otani. They
Speaker 3: had him starting a game tonight. Ben Casparius, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: can be a closer for the Dodgers eventually. He has
Speaker 3: that type of mentality, He has that kind of stuff
Speaker 3: when he's in the bullpen. You know, the Dodgers were
Speaker 3: raving about how his stuff plays up when he's in
Speaker 3: the bullpen. So keep him in the bullpen as a
Speaker 3: high leverage reliever.
Speaker 4: That's who he is.
Speaker 3: But obviously injuries to the Dodger rotation in effectiveness by
Speaker 3: Landon Nak and Bobby Miller had put Ben Casparrius in
Speaker 3: this position. But relieved to hear that he's going back
Speaker 3: to the bullpen because that's where I believe he can
Speaker 3: have a great career as a high leverage reliever a
Speaker 3: lah Evan Phillips, And tonight it wasn't because he was
Speaker 3: starting that he gave up six runs in three innings.
Speaker 3: He was tipping his pitches. There's no doubt in my
Speaker 3: mind he was tipping his pitches again because he told
Speaker 3: me he was tipping his pitches when he got rocked
Speaker 3: by the Cubs as they beat the Dodgers that night
Speaker 3: here at Dodgers Stadium sixteen to nothing. If you go
Speaker 3: back or if you were watching those swings by the Astros,
Speaker 3: they knew exactly what was coming. Even oral hersheis are
Speaker 3: on the sports net LA broadcast said some of those
Speaker 3: breaking pitches on the outer part of the plate from
Speaker 3: right handed hitters good pitches, but they were taking very
Speaker 3: aggressive swings off of him.
Speaker 4: So I mean, there were.
Speaker 3: No trash cans involved and no hidden ear pieces. It
Speaker 3: was just Ben Caspari's tipping pitches. I'm curious whether or not.
Speaker 3: Ben admitted that after the game tonight, he spoke to
Speaker 3: the media on sports net LA.
Speaker 8: I think just execution in general. I think teams are
Speaker 8: starting a game plan obviously, little bit more knowing I'm
Speaker 8: going to go, you know, more than one or two
Speaker 8: in ins, and just you know, mixing up where my.
Speaker 4: Fastball location is.
Speaker 8: I think it's been kind of the telltale.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's what kind of led to them
Speaker 3: being so aggressive on the first page.
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 8: I think part of it too is just they were
Speaker 8: kind of hunting me out over the plate. I think
Speaker 8: just a lack of going inside on writ He's has
Speaker 8: kind of gotten made to, you know, tough spots.
Speaker 3: And he's at least been learning experiences for you in
Speaker 3: which you can kind of now prepare for your next
Speaker 3: outing and kind of use it to make some adjustments.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 8: I mean it's still new at this level. For me,
Speaker 8: it's just kind of diving into the numbers and what
Speaker 8: it's working and what counts, and you know, maybe just
Speaker 8: being a little sharp.
Speaker 1: Run game planning adjust for other teams learning you and
Speaker 1: how does that process kind of work?
Speaker 8: For sure, I think it's a work in progress every
Speaker 8: single day. Obviously, you know, so this was a really
Speaker 8: righty Levey or righty heavy lineup, and obviously we're game
Speaker 8: planning kind of you know, going through the week, looking
Speaker 8: at who we who we have to face. So it
Speaker 8: kind of differs by week a little bit.
Speaker 6: Mark grabbing a long conversation after you're outing, just what
Speaker 6: kind of feedback or advice has he given you thus far?
Speaker 8: Yeah, just stay calm. A lot of it was just
Speaker 8: say we're gonna, you know, take a deep dive of
Speaker 8: what's going on, maybe tweak some things. I just really
Speaker 8: look at patterning and sequencing and interest to tell me
Speaker 8: to like stay calm and you know, keep doing my work.
Speaker 5: And everything like that.
Speaker 8: Well, you done to degree just because the results were
Speaker 8: what they were.
Speaker 4: Was there anything else?
Speaker 8: I'm not really sure.
Speaker 5: I think it was a result driven.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Ben Casparius after the game and obviously
Speaker 3: did not admit that he was tipping pitches, but hard
Speaker 3: to believe that he wasn't. And like I said, he's
Speaker 3: he's a really good pitcher. He's got testicular fortitude, which
Speaker 3: a lot of guys don't have these days. And that's
Speaker 3: why I believe that he will be excelling again in
Speaker 3: the Dodger bullpen. I mean, after tonight, you know, he's
Speaker 3: pitched fifty nine almost sixty innings, and a lot of
Speaker 3: that the majority of that as coming out of the bullpen.
Speaker 3: So I'm just looking forward to Ben getting back and
Speaker 3: settling into that role because that's where he's gonna be outstanding.
Speaker 3: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 3: the phone number Dodgers lose to the Astros tonight, eighteen
Speaker 3: to one. The Dodgers lost a game in the standings
Speaker 3: to the San Diego Padres. J Croninworth walked the Padres
Speaker 3: off against the Rangers at Peco Park. Today, the Padres
Speaker 3: forty seven and forty eight games back of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The Sacramento A's beat the Giants eleven to two, so
Speaker 3: the Dodgers maintain a nine game lead over the San
Speaker 3: Francisco Giants. And just speaking of what's going on around
Speaker 3: the league, you know, the Dodgers haven't played every team
Speaker 3: this year, but I feel like we can all agree that.
Speaker 3: I know it wasn't a great night for Benka Sparius.
Speaker 3: I know it was in Blake's New or Kershaw or
Speaker 3: Glass Now on the Mountain Night for the Dodgers, but
Speaker 3: the Astros appear to be maybe the best team the
Speaker 3: Dodgers have played this year. In fact, I'm gonna say it,
Speaker 3: they are the best team they have played. And they
Speaker 3: had one of their worst starters on the Mountain night.
Speaker 3: And Lance McCullers Junior, who had over a sixty RA
Speaker 3: this year. I know he's coming back from a arm injury,
Speaker 3: but tomorrow the Dodgers have their hands full with their
Speaker 3: best starter, Lefty from Bervaldez. I mean, it's not gonna
Speaker 3: get any easier. And you look at this Astros lineup
Speaker 3: that put up eighteen runs tonight. They don't even have
Speaker 3: Jeremy Pania right now, and they haven't had their DH
Speaker 3: Jordan Alvarez, the former Dodger either this season for the
Speaker 3: majority of the season. So once they get those two
Speaker 3: guys back, this lineup is even deeper. And the plays
Speaker 3: Altube was making at second base, that's not even his
Speaker 3: everyday position anymore. He plays left field and second base
Speaker 3: these days. This is the best team the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: played this year, and I know they're catching the Astros
Speaker 3: at their hottest.
Speaker 4: Of the season. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: The Astros and the Dodgers are playing are the hottest
Speaker 3: teams in Major League Baseball. Houston now is fifty three
Speaker 3: and thirty five. That means they're just two games worse
Speaker 3: than the Dodgers in the lost column. The Dodgers are
Speaker 3: fifty six and thirty three. I know everybody is all
Speaker 3: over the Detroit Tigers, and yes, they've had a really
Speaker 3: good year. But I would venture to say right now,
Speaker 3: if you had to ask me who will be in
Speaker 3: the playoffs, who would be in the World Series, I
Speaker 3: would say the Dodgers and Astros.
Speaker 4: We may have a repeat.
Speaker 3: Of the twenty seventeen World Series this year in the
Speaker 3: Fall Classic. I would not be shocked to see Dodgers
Speaker 3: Astros in the World Series this year. Six seven, two,
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a
Speaker 3: time out here on Dodger Talk. We have lines open
Speaker 3: on this fourth of July. We'll hear from Jose Mota,
Speaker 3: We'll share our conversation with Clayton Kershaw, and we'll let
Speaker 3: you know which former Dodger hit three home.
Speaker 4: Runs on the fourth of July.
Speaker 3: Tonight, Jose al two ve hit two at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 3: as the Astros run away with Game one of this
Speaker 3: weekend series eighteen to one on the World Champion Dodgers
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Speaker 4: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassan.
Speaker 9: Dodger's got a leadolf walk from Otani, but then Betts
Speaker 9: grounded into a double play, ultimately a twelve pitch first
Speaker 9: frame for mccolors. Facing the NL batting leader in Will
Speaker 9: Smith swings it, drives the ball left field and deep.
Speaker 9: This one's on the warning track at the wall. Come
Speaker 9: Will Smith cuts the Dodger deficit in half. It is
Speaker 9: now a two to one ballgame thanks to the twelfth
Speaker 9: home run from Will Smith, who is on some kind
Speaker 9: of power Serge.
Speaker 3: Will Smith, leading the National League and hitting hitting three
Speaker 3: point thirty this season. He homers for the sixth time
Speaker 3: in the last twelve games. Unfortunately, that was the only
Speaker 3: run the Dodgers scored. On the fourth of July this year.
Speaker 3: Eighteen to one, the Astros beat the Dodgers. It was
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Speaker 3: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two, five seventy is
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Speaker 4: Will Smith. What a season for him.
Speaker 3: Hitting three point thirty now, he has only struck out
Speaker 3: forty nine times and has walked forty two times. His
Speaker 3: on base percentage is the best in the National League
Speaker 3: as well, on base at a four to thirty three clip,
Speaker 3: twelve home runs forty five RBIs. I know cal Rawley's
Speaker 3: getting a lot of love for the power that he's
Speaker 3: showing this year, but if the game's on the line
Speaker 3: and there's a catcher that I need at the plate,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Will Smith, in my opinion, the best
Speaker 3: hitting catcher in Major League Baseball this year. Despite Cal
Speaker 3: Ray having a great power year, certainly those two guys
Speaker 3: are head and shoulders above the rest as far as
Speaker 3: hitting catchers go. As far as this game goes, I
Speaker 3: know the Dodgers gave up ten runs in the sixth inning,
Speaker 3: but in my opinion, this game was over after the
Speaker 3: third inning when the Astros scored four in the top
Speaker 3: of the third. The Dodgers had a chance to keep
Speaker 3: it close. They were down six to one. They had
Speaker 3: bases loaded in two outs with ta Oscar Hernandez at
Speaker 3: the plate, and he grounded out up the middle. Altube
Speaker 3: made a great play going from the second base side
Speaker 3: of the bag over to the shortstop side of the
Speaker 3: bag to throw ta Oscar out. But you need to
Speaker 3: get that ball in the air, get a base hit
Speaker 3: at the very least, and Taoscar has been struggling since
Speaker 3: the beginning of the last road trip, and to me,
Speaker 3: that's where I knew after that the game was over.
Speaker 3: The way the Astros were swinging, the game was over
Speaker 3: right there. Ten runs scored in the sixth inning. That's
Speaker 3: the most runs the Dodgers have allowed in a single
Speaker 3: inning since nineteen ninety nine, when the Cardinals scored eleven
Speaker 3: runs in a third inning on April twenty third, nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety nine. That was the game that Fernando Tattis Senior
Speaker 3: hit two Grand Slams in the same inning. Eight six, six,
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 3: coming up. In fifteen minutes, you'll hear from Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 3: Before we check in with Jose Mota, let's go out
Speaker 3: to the phones Ian in Encinitas. You're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 3: live from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 10: Hi en, Hey Dave, thanks for taking my call. This
Speaker 10: is kind of a I told you a screener. This
Speaker 10: is kind of a random question in light of what
Speaker 10: happened tonight. I don't really want to talk about tonight.
Speaker 10: But back in June, I went with my daughter. It
Speaker 10: was kind of a post Father's Day thing. We went
Speaker 10: to that Padres game. I think it was a Thursday night.
Speaker 10: We were down five nothing heading into the ninth. I
Speaker 10: went to the four plus one game, so I know
Speaker 10: things can happen. But before the game, we took the
Speaker 10: pregame tour. And when you're down in that corridor and
Speaker 10: they've got all the gold gloves and the silver sluggers,
Speaker 10: I look down and I noticed that Trake Nurse silver
Speaker 10: slugger from twenty two. On the plaque, it said Trae.
Speaker 10: It misspelled his name. Now, the guide said that these
Speaker 10: were replicas, but I had never heard that. And I'm
Speaker 10: wondering if you had ever heard that that, Because in
Speaker 10: Dodger Stadium his Silver Slugger Award. Is first name is misspelled?
Speaker 3: What do you think I've never I've never had a
Speaker 3: chance to really take the time to stop and look
Speaker 3: at every single back down there. I usually look at
Speaker 3: those MVPs more than anything else down there. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you brought it to everybody's attention now, so I'm sure
Speaker 3: they'll make that correction.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't know. I just wondered if it was
Speaker 10: something that was public knowledge or anyways. I figured tonight
Speaker 10: was a game to ask a random question, So thanks
Speaker 10: for taking that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no worries.
Speaker 3: It is public knowledge since the public is able to
Speaker 3: see it, but maybe nobody else caught it besides Ian
Speaker 3: and Encinitas.
Speaker 2: All right, TV late, all right, Ian, thanks.
Speaker 3: A lot for the phone call. Yeah, Trey t r
Speaker 3: e A. That's how you spell it? Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number?
Speaker 4: How do you spell Mota? With Jose? Let's check in
Speaker 4: with Jose. It's time to go around the horn with
Speaker 4: Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: Jose Mota joins us on this for the July man
Speaker 3: Ugly Night. Jose, are there any doubts that benk Caspirius
Speaker 3: was tipping his pitches tonight.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any doubt. And you know, and
Speaker 2: he spoke with you. He told me about what happened
Speaker 2: against the Cubs. And if you make ajustice with your
Speaker 2: hands where you put him, and then with your glove,
Speaker 2: sometimes guys goes a different glove, a little bit bigger,
Speaker 2: a little bit smaller. The Astros and Alex sing Tron
Speaker 2: through the years has been one of the best looking
Speaker 2: at what he can beat you. And if he sees
Speaker 2: something that just doesn't look natural, if you made an
Speaker 2: adjustment on your glove or your hand position, or how
Speaker 2: you curl your arm or your wrists, he's gonna find it.
Speaker 2: And the way they take pitches, the way they hung
Speaker 2: the pitches, all the rockets that were hit early in
Speaker 2: the game just tell you that if he hadn't located better,
Speaker 2: things are different. There's no doubt. But he was not
Speaker 2: able to locate because they've just and I gave him
Speaker 2: a chance to get to bost counts.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers have had Cospiras do a lot of different
Speaker 3: things this year. Any doubt that he can go back
Speaker 3: to his old role Jose and thrive the way he
Speaker 3: was before he was doing so many different things.
Speaker 2: I have every confidence in the world that he will
Speaker 2: go back to that role and be good. He's a
Speaker 2: smart kid. He knows exactly what he wants to do
Speaker 2: with the baseball. His stuff is really good. And you
Speaker 2: and I have talked about this too, Like he goes
Speaker 2: out there and just gets outs. It's not happening right now.
Speaker 2: We saw it happened in Kansas City when he wasn't
Speaker 2: fearing very well.
Speaker 5: But at this.
Speaker 2: Time, his best role for for this team is exactly that.
Speaker 2: It's a long man out of the bull who could
Speaker 2: have go out there and get some people out and
Speaker 2: save you and get some wins for you and keep
Speaker 2: a score where it needs to be. You know, the
Speaker 2: starting thing is it's it's one where he didn't really
Speaker 2: get a fair share of saying you be a star.
Speaker 2: But he's coming on behind. You know, somebody with an
Speaker 2: opener never gets to let Routino being a starter, which
Speaker 2: she has done throughout his whole career and his life.
Speaker 2: But there's a different monster now, and certainly when the
Speaker 2: league gets to know you a little bit better, it's
Speaker 2: time to make adjustice. Don't change, make adjustments and know
Speaker 2: that no matter what, you cannot make your pitches better,
Speaker 2: but you have to make better pitches.
Speaker 4: Jose Mota is joining us on fourth of July.
Speaker 3: After the Astros blow out the Dodgers tonight eighteen to one,
Speaker 3: the only highlight for the Dodgers tonight was Will Smith,
Speaker 3: not only the home run in the second inning, but
Speaker 3: Rick Monday and Steven Nelson were raving about the fact
Speaker 3: that he didn't give away his last at bat in
Speaker 3: the eighth inning, where he got a base hit in
Speaker 3: an eighteen to one game. I mean, that just shows
Speaker 3: you what that guy's about as a catcher.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, oh, I mean the maturity level and the fact
Speaker 2: that he does not throw away at bats. With all
Speaker 2: the prowels and all the talk about guys at walk
Speaker 2: a lot like once this guy was leading and still
Speaker 2: leaving the National League a non base percentage, and he's
Speaker 2: not a guy that willok for a walk. He is
Speaker 2: out there trying to swing the bat and do damage.
Speaker 2: But he's such a great at bat. And I spent
Speaker 2: a lot of time today on the other side talking
Speaker 2: to some Houston Astros members and they were talking about
Speaker 2: Will Smith the at bat and guys are like shaking
Speaker 2: their head going this guy's a catcher. He still had
Speaker 2: up to this homestead the fourth most inning's caught in
Speaker 2: the National League. Even though he's being managed a little
Speaker 2: bit differently. He does not have the ability or even
Speaker 2: the luxury, let's say, being at DH when he needs
Speaker 2: some rest and he goes out there and calls a game.
Speaker 2: And then on top of that, it's still at an
Speaker 2: offensive force right now. So what they're doing around with
Speaker 2: him is exactly perfect in terms of a low management
Speaker 2: and all that. He is an All Star by voute,
Speaker 2: which he deserves. But I mean, the guys with the
Speaker 2: asses were raving about the at bat like quote unquote, yeah,
Speaker 2: bad that he is because he can do so many
Speaker 2: things with the power. He can spoil the pitches he'll
Speaker 2: take his walks, and also the ability to be cluster
Speaker 2: because he stays calm, and really the ability to just
Speaker 2: load the game down when the game's on the line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's one.
Speaker 3: Ever since he got called up in twenty nineteen on
Speaker 3: walk off weekend, we were put on notice he's a
Speaker 3: clutch hitter, and that's continued. He's one of the best
Speaker 3: hitters not only with runners in scoring position, but also
Speaker 3: two outs and rather runs in scoring position.
Speaker 2: And on top of those great points you make is
Speaker 2: the fact that he hasn't changed who he is because
Speaker 2: the games has evolved and long tangles and things like that,
Speaker 2: he's stayed the same.
Speaker 5: Known that.
Speaker 2: Of course, he's sent to a long term deal, so
Speaker 2: he's secure in that athlete that he wants to get better.
Speaker 2: I mean, he wants to get better and be a
Speaker 2: very important piece of the offense, and he can do
Speaker 2: it in so many ways. I mean with Max, He's absence,
Speaker 2: you know, Max Monsky's absence. He's a guy that's going
Speaker 2: to take a walk in prolong innings. He's going to
Speaker 2: be a guy that other hitters look up to to
Speaker 2: see how they're pitching to him, to what kind of
Speaker 2: a prosentee to have from the index circle on. So
Speaker 2: he brings a lot to the table. Doesn't grab the attention,
Speaker 2: as he mentions other guys right now, but boy, he
Speaker 2: grubs the attention of many guys around the league with
Speaker 2: a lot of respect because of we is all right.
Speaker 3: Jose, we'll talk to you tomorrow after Otani pitches. We'll
Speaker 3: see how it goes offensively for him as well, because
Speaker 3: it hasn't looked the same when he's pitched so far,
Speaker 3: So we'll see how it looks tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hope that he remembers what he's done against
Speaker 2: probabald Is and the history they have. But for sure
Speaker 2: is showtime tomorrow, and I'll hopefully show he will keep
Speaker 2: it simple himself.
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, thanks a lot, happy for it to
Speaker 3: July be safe, but I know just there he goes.
Speaker 3: Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with
Speaker 3: Pep Bee and Ningez and Luis Cruz.
Speaker 4: Eight six six.
Speaker 3: Nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 3: on the topic of Will Smith. Before the game, Nomar
Speaker 3: and I were watching batting practice, and I do a
Speaker 3: lot of listening when I'm standing next to Nome and
Speaker 3: we're watching the Dodgers take batting practice, and he was
Speaker 3: just really complimenting Will Smith and his hands and just
Speaker 3: how quick his hands are and just how good of
Speaker 3: a hitter he has gone back to being. So uh,
Speaker 3: that's a high praise from a two time batting champion.
Speaker 3: And look, if a Dodger's ever struggling, not many teams
Speaker 3: have a guy like Nomar who was basically a hitting
Speaker 3: savant at their disposal. Over the years, not a lot
Speaker 3: of guys have taken advantage of that. I would if
Speaker 3: I was a guy that wanted to fix something or
Speaker 3: get back on track. You got the guy right there,
Speaker 3: and he's not a coach, so he's not going to
Speaker 3: approach you. He's waiting for you to approach him if
Speaker 3: you want any of his knowledge. Eight six six nine
Speaker 3: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number Dodgers
Speaker 3: fall to the Astros tonight, eighteen to one. Let's go
Speaker 3: out to Eric in Hall. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 3: David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: Eric Dodger.
Speaker 5: Great, sure, Wow?
Speaker 11: Did it happy for to you?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 11: I know you're working out there. You're going to get
Speaker 11: home to your family, so you probably missed the barbecue.
Speaker 11: But man, this game blowed.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 11: I did not love seeing this game at all. I mean,
Speaker 11: the asterisks, the trash Ros just winding in our house
Speaker 11: just just leaves a really bad thing in my in
Speaker 11: my stomach, you know what I mean. And we had
Speaker 11: here we walk.
Speaker 4: Around the stadium.
Speaker 3: I took a walk around the stadium when that sixth
Speaker 3: inning was going on. I walked all the way to
Speaker 3: the top of the reserve down the left field line.
Speaker 4: That's how frustrated I was with.
Speaker 3: Not a blowout Eric, but a blowout to the Astros.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, don't do that to us.
Speaker 11: Oh, dB, I mean, I'm with you, man, I mean
Speaker 11: I didn't like it, but I mean we're bullpenning it,
Speaker 11: you know, and I get it. I mean, Glass, Glass
Speaker 11: and Blake need to come back, man, we need to
Speaker 11: him that strong. And you know, hopefully there's a fire
Speaker 11: sail over there in Atlanta, like you've been saying, Man,
Speaker 11: we could get Chris on board, man, But uh, you know,
Speaker 11: a shout out to May Man. I just want to
Speaker 11: give him a shout out. May withold switch fiery the
Speaker 11: other night, and I hope he I hope that lasts
Speaker 11: for the next couple of starts.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 11: I love seeing May like that, and uh, first and foremost, Man,
Speaker 11: I know it's been a couple of days, but I
Speaker 11: cannot say this enough, dude, kersh was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 11: I almost shed a tear.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 11: I've seen a bunch of stuff on him online and
Speaker 11: just it's just really great. All all three thousand were
Speaker 11: with us, man, but uh, oh dde, I just can't
Speaker 11: I'm going to try. I'm going to try to forget
Speaker 11: this game. Actually I already forgot this game, like I
Speaker 11: forgot the asterisk in the tracks.
Speaker 4: It never happened. It never happened. It never happened. Twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: It did happen, though it did happen. And that's why
Speaker 3: that's a paper champion over there. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 3: Eric appreciated. Eight six six two five seventy is the
Speaker 3: phone number. Dot fall to the Astros tonight eighteen to
Speaker 3: one and Jose Altuve hit.
Speaker 4: Two home runs tonight.
Speaker 3: See a lot of people thought I was gonna come
Speaker 3: on the show and just lose my mind, just completely
Speaker 3: melt down, have a nervous breakdown. No, I am above that.
Speaker 3: I am not going to do that. I have not
Speaker 3: going I have not done that. It's just a little, uh,
Speaker 3: a little frustrating.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The Dodger fans came out, sell out crowd fourth of July.
Speaker 3: They booed Altuve when he was introduced, they booed him
Speaker 3: when he came to the plate. They chanted cheater when
Speaker 3: he was coming to the plate, and he shut this
Speaker 3: crowd up. I mean, that's what the really good ones do.
Speaker 3: Three for three with two home runs. Tonight, let's go
Speaker 3: out to North Hills. Scott, you're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 3: David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: Scott.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, you, Dave. It's just a real pleasure to
Speaker 6: talk to you. You got a little fan club out
Speaker 6: here in the A one A. We just love the
Speaker 6: work you do.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 6: I agree that it's gonna Sure, it's going to be
Speaker 6: an Astro Dodger World Series, and there's something about paybacks
Speaker 6: I've heard of saying about it. But my question to
Speaker 6: you is this, brother, if all the pitchers are healthy
Speaker 6: that are coming back, now, I see Otani pitching in
Speaker 6: that World series naturally, Yamamoto a healthy smell zillah. I
Speaker 6: guess now at that point I have trouble believing Kersh
Speaker 6: would not be the fourth And in that scenario, again
Speaker 6: all based on everybody's health, do you think Glassno could
Speaker 6: do some good work out of a bullpen? And if
Speaker 6: you have another few seconds when you answer this, I
Speaker 6: have one other thing, and if not, it's okay too.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, glassnow would not be coming out of the bullpen.
Speaker 3: I mean he is a starter, and if he's healthy,
Speaker 3: everybody says he has the nastiest stuff out there.
Speaker 4: So that's right.
Speaker 3: It would be off the top of my head if
Speaker 3: these guys are all healthy, Snell, Glass, now, Yamamoto and Otani,
Speaker 3: And where does Kershaw fit into all that?
Speaker 4: That still remains to be seen.
Speaker 3: Mike Borzello actually the guy that was with Kershaw back
Speaker 3: in nine I believe when.
Speaker 4: He discovered his slider.
Speaker 3: He was on Joe Torrey's staff going back to the Yankees,
Speaker 3: and he was telling me a story. Back in two thousand,
Speaker 3: David Cohne was in the twilight of his career. Joe
Speaker 3: Tory very loyal to his players, especially the great ones
Speaker 3: like David Khane, and a lot of teams probably wouldn't
Speaker 3: have put David Khane on their World Series roster, but
Speaker 3: Joe Tory did, and he put him in the bullpen
Speaker 3: to face one right handed hitter in that world series
Speaker 3: that was the Subway Series Yankees Mets. David Cohne came
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen to face Mike Piazza and struck
Speaker 3: him out. That was the only batter David own faced
Speaker 3: in that two thousand World Series. So there could be
Speaker 3: a scenario where Kershaw's not starting a game, but is
Speaker 3: a big part of coming in and facing one left
Speaker 3: hand or I don't know, I don't know where Otani's
Speaker 3: going to be. Maybe Otani goes the first three innings
Speaker 3: and Kershaw comes in after him. Those are the scenarios
Speaker 3: I've played out in July, and if you have.
Speaker 1: Just a few seconds, I saw an interview Willie Mays
Speaker 1: was interviewed by Bob Costas.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure you saw this, but either way.
Speaker 1: Willie Mays is talking about the best catch he's ever made,
Speaker 1: and it certainly wasn't a Vic Wirtz catch. And they
Speaker 1: show this and it's out there to right center, and
Speaker 1: naturally it's shaded more to Rice field. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the baby bull was out there. I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure who was out there. And you see him closing
Speaker 1: on the ball. It's only the Rice fielder. And at
Speaker 1: the last second, Willie May's hurtling into the picture, going airborne,
Speaker 1: and he makes the catch. And Willie May said he
Speaker 1: thought that was the best catch he had ever made.
Speaker 1: If I could just hear you on that, it'd be tremendous.
Speaker 4: Well, I know the catch that you're talking about. There's
Speaker 4: not video of it.
Speaker 3: I don't believe because if we're talking about the catch,
Speaker 3: all right, so I guess there is video out there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was that catch or another one,
Speaker 3: but Vin Scully told me once, and I think he
Speaker 3: shared it on his broadcast a few times. But that
Speaker 3: catch that you're talking about, where we see it's the
Speaker 3: famous one over the shoulder catch. Vin Scully told me
Speaker 3: that wasn't the best catch he ever made, and he
Speaker 3: described a place similar to the one that you're talking about.
Speaker 3: So maybe we're talking about the same one. But if
Speaker 3: Vin Scully validates it, you know it's it's true.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 1: Stun, Thank you so much, man, Thank you.
Speaker 4: No problem. Be safe.
Speaker 3: On fourth of July, all right, I had a chance
Speaker 3: to catch up with Clayton Kershaw. We're gonna share that
Speaker 3: conversation with you in a moment, but I promise to
Speaker 3: share with you which former Dodger hit three home runs
Speaker 3: on fourth of July today, and that was good guy
Speaker 3: Michael Bush, who is playing first base for the Cubs
Speaker 3: these days. Obviously Freddie Freeman's at first there's not a
Speaker 3: spot for him. But Michael Bush today on fourth of
Speaker 3: July at Wrigley Field. Hit three home runs against the
Speaker 3: Saint Louis Cardinals in a Cubs eleven to three win today.
Speaker 4: Here was the third one thanks to Cubs Radio.
Speaker 9: Wonning it in the game.
Speaker 4: Did drive to left? This boss?
Speaker 11: Got a chance?
Speaker 3: Gone number three from Michael Bush.
Speaker 4: Oh there's a field this time. That's a career high
Speaker 4: from Michael.
Speaker 3: What a day he is having, What a day, What
Speaker 3: a season for Michael Bush, who certainly has found a
Speaker 3: home in Chicago and couldn't be happier for him. A
Speaker 3: great guy and certainly a really good hitter. Four for
Speaker 3: four today for the Cubs, five RBIs against division rivals
Speaker 3: Saint Louis eleven to three. The Cubs beat the Cardinals
Speaker 3: hitting eight home runs. Harvard Westlake Zone Picro Armstrong also
Speaker 3: hit two home runs today. So between Michael Bush and PCA,
Speaker 3: they combined to hit five home runs against the Cardinals
Speaker 3: at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 4: And that was the Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: Pat Hughes on the call for the Cubs radio broadcast.
Speaker 3: So congratulations to Michael Bush a great fourth of July
Speaker 3: and being part of an eight homer day for the
Speaker 3: Cubs at Wrigley all Right, Speaking of the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame Clayton Kershaw will be there one day whenever he
Speaker 3: decides to hang him up. And he is two days
Speaker 3: removed now out of reaching three thousand strikeouts in his career.
Speaker 4: We caught up with Kershaw earlier today, two days later.
Speaker 3: Now, you've been celebrated so much around baseball in LA.
Speaker 3: How does it feel after you've been able to get
Speaker 3: through all that?
Speaker 5: Oh, it's so special.
Speaker 12: I mean I think that night, you know, obviously I'd
Speaker 12: like to have given up a few less runs and
Speaker 12: strike out the guy a little sooner, But you know,
Speaker 12: looking back on the whole night and everything that happened,
Speaker 12: it was so special, such a great night for my family,
Speaker 12: for me, and you know, obviously the fans reaction that
Speaker 12: whole night and just how they you know, you kind
Speaker 12: of just felt the tension that they had for me
Speaker 12: to figure this thing out and for get a strikeout finally,
Speaker 12: So just wouldn't have changed it for the world, just
Speaker 12: to blast so grateful for the night, And you know,
Speaker 12: I think you're slowly starting to move on get past
Speaker 12: it and try to look forward to facing the Brewers
Speaker 12: and get that three thousand and first one.
Speaker 3: You don't really show any sort of self importance. Were
Speaker 3: you surprised by how much the fan cared about you
Speaker 3: reaching that milestone?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 12: I mean I think, you know, from even just the
Speaker 12: warm ups before the game to you know, running back
Speaker 12: out for the sixth inning.
Speaker 5: There it was. It was definitely more than I expected.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 12: It was a very unique experience. It was awesome, awesome.
Speaker 3: I was doing Dodger talk upstairs while you came out
Speaker 3: after the game and the grounds crew started to dig
Speaker 3: up the pitching rubber. Was that on your request or
Speaker 3: did they do that as a gift to you?
Speaker 12: No, I didn't know they were doing that, So yeah,
Speaker 12: really nice of Jordan and all the guys to dig
Speaker 12: that up for me, and thanks heavy man. It's it's
Speaker 12: it's no small feet to get that thing out.
Speaker 5: It said.
Speaker 12: It took them five hours the next day to put
Speaker 12: the next one down, So labor of love for sure,
Speaker 12: but thankful to have it.
Speaker 5: That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: What do you do with the pitching rubber? Where were
Speaker 3: you put that in the trophy case?
Speaker 12: Great question. I'm not sure yet. I don't know, but
Speaker 12: it's a great story, so I'll keep it somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clayton Kershaw is our guest on fourth of July.
Speaker 3: You know, Clayton, when you look at this team, you
Speaker 3: guys have the best record again by two games over
Speaker 3: the Tigers. Do you feel like there's a lot more
Speaker 3: room to go as far as playing your best baseball?
Speaker 12: You know, I think it's probably twofold. I think we
Speaker 12: are playing good baseball right now, I really do. You know,
Speaker 12: we're winning games we're supposed to. We're getting great comebacks,
Speaker 12: playing like clean baseball.
Speaker 5: You know, starters are getting some.
Speaker 12: Length into the games, and so it kind of sets
Speaker 12: up the bullpen to do their role as well.
Speaker 5: And guys are getting big hits.
Speaker 12: But to your point, I mean, I think when we
Speaker 12: get some more guys back, you know, obviously months going
Speaker 12: down for you know, the six weeks or whatever is
Speaker 12: a tough blow.
Speaker 5: But you know, when when.
Speaker 12: Snell's back, when glasses back, when Trina's back, and get
Speaker 12: that pitching staff to one hundred percent or close to it, it's, uh,
Speaker 12: we should be able to keep winning games. And that's uh,
Speaker 12: that's an exciting thing to think about.
Speaker 4: The bullpen has already pitched those innings.
Speaker 3: Is there any way to compensate in the second half
Speaker 3: for the load they have shouldered the first half.
Speaker 12: Yes, and no, I mean I think, you know, I
Speaker 12: think with the opener situation, the bullpen innings get skewed
Speaker 12: a little bit, right because the bullpen, you know, the
Speaker 12: bulk guys are getting five or six six innings.
Speaker 5: That looks like it's the bullpen innings.
Speaker 12: But you know, the guys that have been healthy for
Speaker 12: the whole year, like Tanner vest some of these guys,
Speaker 12: uh Jack and Benny, some of the guys that have
Speaker 12: had big workloads. I think, I think there's ways to
Speaker 12: manage it. And but no, I mean, at the end
Speaker 12: of the day, they're gonna throw in big situations because
Speaker 12: those are our guys. It's just a matter of you know,
Speaker 12: getting a little more consistency in the starting rotation. And
Speaker 12: I think you're starting to see that too. I think
Speaker 12: guys are going, you know, six seven innings recently, which
Speaker 12: has been nice. And that's the biggest way to reset
Speaker 12: the pen. It's just for the guys to get a
Speaker 12: little bit deeper in the games.
Speaker 3: How much do we take for granted this offense best
Speaker 3: in baseball, but it still feels like there might be
Speaker 3: a little bit more which is kind of scary.
Speaker 12: Yeah, best, I think you said it the right way.
Speaker 12: I think there's a there's room for let me say
Speaker 12: it this way. Our offense is doing well and everybody
Speaker 12: swung the bat well at time, but I don't know
Speaker 12: if everybody swung the bat well at the same time.
Speaker 12: So once that happens, that's a scary thing. And that's
Speaker 12: hard to do throughout the rhythms of a season to
Speaker 12: have everybody swinging the bats well at the same time.
Speaker 12: But you know, once once everybody gets going, which you
Speaker 12: know they will, it's a scary thing to think about.
Speaker 3: You've taken a lot of pride out of being consistent
Speaker 3: in your career. How much do we take for granted
Speaker 3: how consistent Freddie Freeman has been for the Dodgers, not
Speaker 3: only this year but in his career. Does he get
Speaker 3: lost in the shuffle because he's so consistent?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Maybe so.
Speaker 12: I mean I think you know, at the beginning of
Speaker 12: the season, you know, you pencil Freddy in at first
Speaker 12: base every day and say, oh, he's going to hit
Speaker 12: three hundred, is ops is going to be nine hundred,
Speaker 12: He's going to do all this play every day, and
Speaker 12: you just kind of pencil that in and expect it,
Speaker 12: like you don't realize that that elite level of play.
Speaker 5: Is not easy to do every day.
Speaker 12: So yeah, I mean I think I think you expected
Speaker 12: out of Freddy, And that's why the expectations make it
Speaker 12: seem that, like, hey, this is just kind of home
Speaker 12: home what he does. But for him to continue to
Speaker 12: do it at the level that he is.
Speaker 5: It's an elite thing.
Speaker 12: It's a special thing that very few people can do
Speaker 12: in the game, and so it's nice to have.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 3: Since he was counting down to three thousand for you,
Speaker 3: can I be your sirrah No here to help you
Speaker 3: count down as far as doubles go, because he's climbed
Speaker 3: a lot of Hall of Famers this year and he's
Speaker 3: just four away from passing lou Garrick for the forty
Speaker 3: second most doubles in baseball history. Should I feed you
Speaker 3: the doubles stats as we go through the season.
Speaker 12: And if we start playing that game with hits and
Speaker 12: doubles with Freddie, we might be doing that every day
Speaker 12: with something. So it's just a testament to him. But
Speaker 12: that's a big name. Lou gerrik Go's special.
Speaker 4: Clayton Kershaw's our guest.
Speaker 3: Before I let you go, I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 3: were you surprised by any text you got from one
Speaker 3: person congratulating you.
Speaker 12: So many people reached out, which I was so thankful for.
Speaker 12: You know, obviously getting the guys from the current three thousand,
Speaker 12: you know, Sures and JV both reached out to say congrats,
Speaker 12: which I thought was was super cool. You know, obviously
Speaker 12: we've kind of I wouldn't say grow up together, but
Speaker 12: we've been in the big leagues kind of the same times,
Speaker 12: and so, you know, us three, I finally get to
Speaker 12: join their club with the three thousand strikeouts was awesome.
Speaker 12: So those guys a lot of friends and family, but
Speaker 12: it was everybody that reached out. It was just it
Speaker 12: was really cool to see everybody so happy for me.
Speaker 12: I was very thankful for all of it.
Speaker 3: Do you remember how how big the number was on
Speaker 3: the phone of text after the game.
Speaker 12: I don't know, it sounds I don't know, it sounds weird,
Speaker 12: but there was a lot.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was over five hundred, no, no, over three thousand.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, but it was awesome. Awesome.
Speaker 3: Hey, Clayton, it's been a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 3: For fourteen fourth of July's and just see how much
Speaker 3: work you put in. I feel like that's the reason
Speaker 3: why everybody was so happy for you, because you respect
Speaker 3: the game, You put in so much work, and you
Speaker 3: treat everybody really well. So you even treat slubs like
Speaker 3: me pretty well on the rate. Yea, So thank you well.
Speaker 12: You forced me to do this one today, so I
Speaker 12: had no choice, all right, Happy for to day.
Speaker 3: There he is, mister three thousand Clayton Kershaw. Great to
Speaker 3: catch up with him, and man, I've been talking to
Speaker 3: him virtually every week on the show these days. But
Speaker 3: certainly relevant and certainly a guy that one day will
Speaker 3: be in Cooperstown and doesn't take himself too seriously at
Speaker 3: this point in time. It was interesting because six seven
Speaker 3: years ago, Clayton Kershaw would not have done that reflective interview.
Speaker 3: He would have been onto the next opponent. But he
Speaker 3: is enjoying the moment more than I've ever seen him
Speaker 3: enjoy before, including the night that he reached his three
Speaker 3: thousand strikeout, saluting the crowd, going out for his pregame
Speaker 3: warmups and then allowing the game to be stopped and
Speaker 3: really take it all in. That just shows you where
Speaker 3: he's at in his career, and there's no guarantees that
Speaker 3: he'll be back next year, so it feels like he's
Speaker 3: in join the moments more than he ever has before
Speaker 3: and rightfully so great to see Clayton out here with
Speaker 3: his wife and kids for the Fourth of July fireworks
Speaker 3: as well. That'll do it for us Tonight on Dodger Talk.
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Speaker 3: be from Bervaldez on the Mound for the Astros. He's
Speaker 3: nine to four with an ERA of two seventy two.
Speaker 3: Show Hey Otani will be starting for the fourth time
Speaker 3: this year. He's expected to go two innings tomorrow and
Speaker 3: maybe Justin Robleski follows him.
Speaker 4: We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 3: Since Casparius pitch tonight, Morongo Casino, Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 3: at three o'clock tomorrow with first pitch at four fifteen.
Speaker 3: Thanks to calling me back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks
Speaker 3: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 3: to you for listening. We will talk to you tomorrow
Speaker 3: from Dodgers Stadium. I am certain the score will be
Speaker 3: much more competitive. Tonight, the Astros blow out the Dodgers
Speaker 3: eighteen to one. Be safe out there, Happy Fourth of
Speaker 3: July see them