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Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
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Speaker 6: And go to the show.
Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Bassing.
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm back. That's right, Dodger Talk live from Dodgers
Speaker 6: Stadium with you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM
Speaker 6: five to seventy LA Sports. After the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 6: Diamondback tonight by a final score of three to one.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers winning these last two games of the home
Speaker 6: stands certainly was big and leaves a better taste in
Speaker 6: their mouth, especially if they would have lost tonight or
Speaker 6: last night and lose the series. That would have meant
Speaker 6: the Dodgers lost two out of the three here on
Speaker 6: this nine game homestand and look, it's one thing to
Speaker 6: lose four in a row, but you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: losing four in a row at Dodgers Stadium, that's just
Speaker 6: not something that happens. And that was the first time,
Speaker 6: in fact, before winning last night, that the Dodgers had
Speaker 6: lost four in a row at Dodgers Stadium since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 6: But certainly a better way to leave for New York
Speaker 6: winning tonight and winning last night as well, pulling that
Speaker 6: one out. And look, that was a subplot to tonight's
Speaker 6: game as well, Right, Tanner Scott last night gave up
Speaker 6: the game tying home run, gives up the go ahead
Speaker 6: two run home run in the tenth inning last night,
Speaker 6: the Dodger offense bailed him out with the last at
Speaker 6: bat of the game being at home. And then tonight,
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts did not hesitate to get Tanner Scott back
Speaker 6: in the saddle tonight in the ninth inning, and he responded,
Speaker 6: retiring the Diamondbacks in order, striking out two of the
Speaker 6: three batters. He faced, So that was a big deal
Speaker 6: to me in tonight's game as well, and for the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: it's no secret how they won these last two games
Speaker 6: compared to the way things went in that Angel series,
Speaker 6: including Dustin May, yes, going five innings in that first
Speaker 6: game against the Angels but not being very good. But
Speaker 6: tonight much better for Dustin May. He went six innings tonight,
Speaker 6: allowed just a solo home run to could Tell Marte.
Speaker 6: He only threw eighty eight pitches tonight and had eight
Speaker 6: strikeouts coming on the heels of Yoshi Yamamoto doing what
Speaker 6: stoppers and cy Young's do for their staff, and that's
Speaker 6: really setting the tone. And that's what Yamamoto did last night,
Speaker 6: pitching seven scoreless innings. So really, you could look at
Speaker 6: so many different things. I know many of you want
Speaker 6: to point out Michael confordo and you know Chris Taylor
Speaker 6: is released, but I'm sure many of you will still
Speaker 6: call in and blame Chris Taylor. It's really simple. You
Speaker 6: can't tax your bullpen the way the Dodgers have taxed
Speaker 6: it at the beginning of this season. You've got to
Speaker 6: get better starting pitching. Your starters have got to go
Speaker 6: deeper in the game. They've got to be allowed to
Speaker 6: go deeper in the game, and they're the ones that
Speaker 6: are going to dictate that. So coming off the heels
Speaker 6: of a great start from Yamamoto, Dustin May rebounded after
Speaker 6: a very mediocre start against the Angels, and that's what
Speaker 6: the Dodgers are going to need on the becoming road trip,
Speaker 6: especially in New York, because I know many of us
Speaker 6: did not believe the Mets starting pitching was going to
Speaker 6: be their strength, but it's turned out to be. Their
Speaker 6: starting pitching is really good. Their offense right now is
Speaker 6: a little consado. It's a little quiet these days, and
Speaker 6: Juan Soto is watching fly balls off the Green Monsters.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see if the Dodgers can
Speaker 6: keep this starting pitching momentum rolling into New York. Eight
Speaker 6: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 6: phone number. Let's head downstairs right now to the Dodger
Speaker 6: Clubhouse to hear from tonight's winning pitcher, Dustin May.
Speaker 7: I was able to establish fast, woarly sleepers going in
Speaker 7: and out, was being able to land it when I
Speaker 7: needed to. I was getting ahead of guys, and they're
Speaker 7: going to set theirselves out, so it was good.
Speaker 8: This is just kind of an important one for you,
Speaker 8: and you look at your last few outings. Obviously you
Speaker 8: were excellent against this team in Arizona, but kind of
Speaker 8: coming off with this last one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's always good to go out and
Speaker 7: give the guys in the bullpen break. Being able to
Speaker 7: go six is huge. Being able to keep a few
Speaker 7: runs off the board is always good too. And then
Speaker 7: Tail came up huge and hit the through on Homer
Speaker 7: played really good defense behind me, and so you can
Speaker 7: team one.
Speaker 2: I feel like you could.
Speaker 3: Could like swing and miss tonight in the Vela was
Speaker 3: a little up, like you just feel like the stuff
Speaker 3: you're just playing up for you tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean I felt much better today physically than I
Speaker 7: did the last outing, So I just felt way more
Speaker 7: in tune myself and I was able to execute some
Speaker 7: more thrist.
Speaker 3: I feel like you can get into a little bit
Speaker 3: more of a rhythm now, like two months into this
Speaker 3: coming back from surgery, like it does almost feel kind
Speaker 3: of like you're back into a normal kind of grief
Speaker 3: a raadular season at this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's been a long time since I've
Speaker 7: I've thrown eight starts, so I mean it's getting back
Speaker 7: into the spots that I feel like I need to
Speaker 7: and being able to come in every day and get
Speaker 7: my work in, just being able to replicate stuff.
Speaker 9: When I got on the mountain, Dustin the lasted out
Speaker 9: against Pa Smith.
Speaker 7: It was huge to be able to come off with
Speaker 7: only one and give the guys a better chance that
Speaker 7: going and only need to get one was was huge
Speaker 7: for my metagrahy.
Speaker 6: All right, there's Dustin May after going a strong six
Speaker 6: innings tonight, a line just one and run, And the
Speaker 6: way he was coming off the mound after that sixth inning,
Speaker 6: you would think that he had just thrown a no hitter.
Speaker 6: That was how excited he was for himself. But it
Speaker 6: was six innings and Corbyn Burns, even though he gave
Speaker 6: up more runs and was down three to one going
Speaker 6: into the seventh inning. Tory Lavello also at a tough
Speaker 6: spot with his bullpen. That's kind of shaky, not kind of,
Speaker 6: it is shaky sent Corbyn Burns out there for the
Speaker 6: seventh inning despite being down three to one, And that's
Speaker 6: really American League baseball right there. We saw that tonight
Speaker 6: in the National League under the old rules where the
Speaker 6: pitcher was hitting. If the starting pitcher, no matter how
Speaker 6: good he was going, was down three to one, he
Speaker 6: would have been out of the game in that seventh inning.
Speaker 6: But because of the DH and the way Corbyn Burns
Speaker 6: was pitching in how economic he was, that's the reason
Speaker 6: why toy Lavello sent his ace back out there. Burns
Speaker 6: went seven innings tonight. He had six strikeouts and only
Speaker 6: one walk. The only mistake he made was to a
Speaker 6: guy that has come to the rescue for the Dodgers
Speaker 6: so many times this season and so many times since
Speaker 6: putting on a Dodger uniform, and that was the one
Speaker 6: and only Taoscar Hernandez, who if you were watching on
Speaker 6: television or listening on radio, or were here at the game,
Speaker 6: if you were paying attention, after Taoscar Hernandez swung and
Speaker 6: missed after that second strike, he took a walk around
Speaker 6: home plate to reset himself, to take a deep breath
Speaker 6: and was able to just relax a little bit more,
Speaker 6: not be over anxious, and talking to Luis Cruz in
Speaker 6: the hallway, he said, we believe Taoscar Hernandez just came
Speaker 6: up with a plan not to chase anything away from him,
Speaker 6: meaning that cut fastball he was looking middle in and
Speaker 6: Corbyn Burns made a mistake with his slider and Taoscar
Speaker 6: Hernandez did not miss it for a go ahead three
Speaker 6: run home run. In case you were keeping score at home,
Speaker 6: ta Oscar Hernandez now this season with two outs, hitting
Speaker 6: three ninety two, with four home runs and twenty one
Speaker 6: RBIs we had a chance to catch up with the
Speaker 6: smiling Taoscar Hernandez after the game. Don't think I didn't
Speaker 6: notice that long walk around home play before you hit
Speaker 6: that home run. Were you telling yourself, you know, to
Speaker 6: come down.
Speaker 1: I chased super just out of the strike selling over there.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just trying to get going to Helvis
Speaker 1: and when you know, slow the game down, get a
Speaker 1: good pace and just got to go to it on it.
Speaker 1: He hangs one. He was dealing the whole game. I
Speaker 1: think he missed that one. He was trying to go
Speaker 1: away for a ball. He hanged over the play and
Speaker 1: I just hit it up.
Speaker 6: He was using that cutter away from you right east.
Speaker 6: Do you feel like he was trying to keep you
Speaker 6: off balanced with a fastball.
Speaker 1: He was missing his pitch is really good today. He
Speaker 1: was hitting the corners in and now down up missing
Speaker 1: with the stuff that he has. Everybody knows that kind
Speaker 1: of picture he is. So hopefully we can get this
Speaker 1: going and I can get more pictures like that.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 6: With Tascar Hernandez back, the Dodgers will keep it going.
Speaker 6: Winning two out of three from the Diamondbacks. Now a
Speaker 6: big road trip, Thanks Tail, Thank you. Taascar Hernandez, always
Speaker 6: a great spirit about him, was a phenomenal tonight. Being
Speaker 6: able to do what he's done all season long, and
Speaker 6: that's to hit behind the Big three and become part
Speaker 6: of the Big four, the Fab four toa Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 6: and Burns tonight eight strikeouts in seven innings Tonight, that
Speaker 6: one mistake to Tascar Hernandez cost him and the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 6: and for the dot they gotta feel good now heading
Speaker 6: to New York. Despite being swept by the Angels. They
Speaker 6: take two out of three from the A's take two
Speaker 6: out of three from the Diamondbacks, and those games count
Speaker 6: for more than just one game. Those division games count
Speaker 6: as two. So the Dodgers now with the second best
Speaker 6: record in the National League. The Phillies have passed him
Speaker 6: in that Department by one game. But the Dodgers in
Speaker 6: the NL West have a two game lead over the
Speaker 6: Giants and don't look now, but the Padres have lost
Speaker 6: five in a row, and the Dodgers are two and
Speaker 6: a half games ahead of San Diego and five games
Speaker 6: ahead of Arizona. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 6: five seventy is the phone number David Vasse live at
Speaker 6: Dodgers Stadium. After the Dodgers defeat the Diamondbacks three to one,
Speaker 6: Let's go out to Georgia. Ray, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 6: stand up Late. How you doing?
Speaker 9: Ray? Oh yeah, Dave, thank you so much for the
Speaker 9: great job you do. Matter of fact, if I was
Speaker 9: Jimmy Kimmel, he's a big Dodger fan, I would have you,
Speaker 9: Kirsten and Jack Harris on the show when that would
Speaker 9: be great.
Speaker 6: Isn't he retiring? He said he's a grandpa. He's retiring, right.
Speaker 9: No, I don't think so. But I know he's on
Speaker 9: vacation for two weeks because they've been running repeats. But anyway, Hey,
Speaker 9: I want to talk about bunting because it's like sometimes
Speaker 9: when you see Munsty and you see they're in the
Speaker 9: slumps with Hernandez and Conflorido, and you see the third
Speaker 9: basement playing back ten feet. You know, even with with
Speaker 9: no the count just starting, it's not like we have
Speaker 9: two strikes. You can just run a startup.
Speaker 10: You can.
Speaker 9: It does so much for you by just getting a
Speaker 9: bunt base hit psychologically and for the team because they're
Speaker 9: given that to you. And you see what I'm.
Speaker 5: Saying is.
Speaker 6: And I know we've talked about it up in the
Speaker 6: booth where if there's a struggling left handed hitter especially
Speaker 6: and they're shifting on you to pull and they're giving
Speaker 6: you that left side of the infield, there's no reason
Speaker 6: not to take advantage of that and just get on
Speaker 6: base and have something good happen. So that's not completely
Speaker 6: crazy talk right there, Ray.
Speaker 9: Is there a way that you can? I mean, I
Speaker 9: know the Dodgers use their dynamics with their statitsas so much.
Speaker 6: Well they talked to name about but the player's got
Speaker 6: to be comfortable doing it. I don't see a lot
Speaker 6: of guys practicing bunting during batting practice, Ray, So on
Speaker 6: the one player I remember the most, there's two players
Speaker 6: that I remember the most. Taking advantage of what you're describing,
Speaker 6: and that's the infield being shifted, and that was even
Speaker 6: before the rules where you had to have two infielders
Speaker 6: on both sides of second base. Jock Peterson was working
Speaker 6: on it in twenty eighteen spring training twenty nineteen. He
Speaker 6: didn't fully buy in, but he would do it once
Speaker 6: in a while. And Gavin Lux even told the Reds like, Hey,
Speaker 6: the Dodgers got me to practice bunting, and in crucial
Speaker 6: moment it's like a playoff game, bunting came into play.
Speaker 6: So those are the two guys that I remember the most.
Speaker 9: Wow, I got one more thing. I remember reading in
Speaker 9: La Times last year that the Dodgers were going to
Speaker 9: do a study about what happened why they have so
Speaker 9: many pitching injuries. And I have never read anything what
Speaker 9: they have a conclusion to this because I don't know
Speaker 9: if it's the weather, because the weather's so good. They're
Speaker 9: in southern California and when you go to the East
Speaker 9: coast maybe in the winter time, I mean early in
Speaker 9: the spring and the season that it's cold, does it
Speaker 9: have an effect on their arms?
Speaker 1: What is the what is the.
Speaker 9: Analysis of this? Why so many injuries?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I don't know the Dodgers really haven't disclosed what
Speaker 6: their findings were. Maybe there's still ongoing, but honestly, Ray,
Speaker 6: I feel like a case to case basis, especially with
Speaker 6: their young starting pitchers. Thanks for the phone call, Ray appreciated.
Speaker 6: You know, the best explanation I've heard about why pictures
Speaker 6: may be getting injured is from our very own Oral Herscheizer,
Speaker 6: who knows a thing or two about pitching and biomechanics.
Speaker 6: Oral told us during a rain delay last year in Chicago,
Speaker 6: and he has said it since and other interviews that
Speaker 6: he believes part of the reason why pitchers are getting
Speaker 6: injured is not because of what they're doing in the game,
Speaker 6: but what they're doing in between starts, and that's having
Speaker 6: touch and fuel. Bullpen sessions turning into competition against yourself
Speaker 6: because you're trying to chase velocity and the best metrics
Speaker 6: you can find in that bullpen session. And there's a
Speaker 6: lot of pressure on these guys to prove that they
Speaker 6: still are trending in the right direction, especially if you're
Speaker 6: a young pitcher, because that's the way you're being judged
Speaker 6: these days in baseball, by what is being read on
Speaker 6: that iPad, what the track man that's with the technology is,
Speaker 6: and maybe pitchers have got to learn to go back
Speaker 6: and take it a little easier, throttle back on those
Speaker 6: bullpen sessions. And it made complete sense what Oral was describing.
Speaker 6: And I'll take it a step further. When Jim Palmer
Speaker 6: and the Orioles were in town last year. Jim Palmer, Yeah,
Speaker 6: that Jim Palmer. That was a cy young winner that
Speaker 6: beat Sandykofax and the Dodgers in the sixty six World
Speaker 6: Series and a Hall of famer. I thought he came
Speaker 6: away with a great point as well. Take away the
Speaker 6: technology the first two weeks of spring training. There's no
Speaker 6: reason why anybody should be tracking anything pitchers are doing
Speaker 6: just to ease into spring training. So two guys that
Speaker 6: know a lot about pitching and have done it at
Speaker 6: the highest levels, I think they have some pretty valid suggestions.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to one.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to the seven to ten. David, you're
Speaker 6: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David? Good DV? How
Speaker 6: are you, buddy?
Speaker 2: Always you have pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 6: Thank you, David appreciate that now.
Speaker 9: My question.
Speaker 10: I've noticed in the past, like the last season, in
Speaker 10: the last few seasons, there's some Major League teams that
Speaker 10: have worn I call them like traditional batting practice jerseys,
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, Like the Red Sox at
Speaker 10: home sometimes they wear like the red jersey with the
Speaker 10: Red Sox across the chest, or like Kansas City they'll
Speaker 10: wear like a blue jersey with the KC across the chest.
Speaker 10: Do you think or maybe not think the Dodgers should
Speaker 10: do anything like that, like wear like a dark blue
Speaker 10: jersey with the LA logo on it.
Speaker 6: They used to do that in the early two thousands.
Speaker 6: I don't think it went over that well, David. I mean,
Speaker 6: those were the Omado signs days, so I remember those days.
Speaker 6: I didn't like them. I like the Dodgers wearing their
Speaker 6: home whites. I like the Dodgers wearing their home grays,
Speaker 6: similar to the Yankees pinstripes at home, road grays on
Speaker 6: the road. So instead of and I think they're the
Speaker 6: Dodgers City connect jerseys are very tasteful as well. They're
Speaker 6: not over the top. But you know, I would love
Speaker 6: to see a throwback night where the Dodgers are wearing
Speaker 6: their jerseys from the eighties where they have the big
Speaker 6: Dodgers script on the front, and they even have the
Speaker 6: white outline on the numbers, the lettering and all that.
Speaker 6: I feel like, you know, the NBA does a lot
Speaker 6: of throwbacks where the Lakers are wearing Minneapolis jerseys. They're
Speaker 6: wearing the Forum gold short shorts back in the day.
Speaker 6: I would love to see the Dodgers do something like
Speaker 6: that one day.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I remember those jerseys. No, yeah, I've been I've
Speaker 10: been a Dodger fan for many, many years.
Speaker 6: I could tell David thanks a lot for the phone.
Speaker 10: Call, Thanks for taking Anyboddy.
Speaker 6: All right, David, be safe out there on the seven
Speaker 6: ten eight six six eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to
Speaker 6: one thanks to a go ahead home run by taoscar
Speaker 6: her name, But it was set up by a couple
Speaker 6: of ground balls that got through the infield tonight. One
Speaker 6: of them was from Mookie Bets that hit a ground
Speaker 6: ball past Uguenio Suarez at third base. I think Max
Speaker 6: Munsey gets that ground ball. I think a lot of
Speaker 6: third basemen gets that ground ball. But Suarez is not
Speaker 6: known for his defense, and the Dodgers had something in
Speaker 6: the works for Freddie Freeman and Tioscar Hernandez. Freddie struck
Speaker 6: out against Corbyn Burns, so there were two on and
Speaker 6: two out and Taoscar was down to his last strike
Speaker 6: and was able to hit the go ahead three run
Speaker 6: home run off of Corbyn Burns, but certainly was set
Speaker 6: up by Miguel Rojas and Mookie Betts getting on base.
Speaker 6: Let's head back downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to hear
Speaker 6: from the Dodgers shortstop.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he was mixing it up really really good.
Speaker 4: I mean he still went seven innings, so it wasn't
Speaker 4: wasn't much that he did wrong. But I guess he
Speaker 4: just left the slider I would have played for ten
Speaker 4: able to uh do some damage with make You did
Speaker 4: a great job getting started there, and I was able
Speaker 4: to a sneak one through. But Tayo definitely came up huge.
Speaker 8: What is it like just having him back in the lineup.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's huge. It just makes our uh lineup a
Speaker 4: lot longer. It makes it uh tough to kind of
Speaker 4: navigate through and uh he does things like this, so
Speaker 4: uh that's what that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 8: Destin May was excellent tonight. Just how important was it
Speaker 8: for you guys just to give him that run support
Speaker 8: that he deserved to get the wins?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a game like this, you know that
Speaker 4: he any any guy's gonna need a win out of
Speaker 4: something like that, and especially where I bullping is. You know,
Speaker 4: it was h huge that he came up.
Speaker 6: Uh big for us.
Speaker 4: And it's good to see uh Dmat pitching.
Speaker 8: Wills some games on this road trip.
Speaker 1: How's a big t get those two to hit all
Speaker 1: this road trip?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean, you know, any windsor are are big,
Speaker 4: but especially against our Indivision rivals. Well, I guess all right,
Speaker 4: divisions are right his rivals, so Indivision winds are always huge.
Speaker 4: But I know it's gonna be a tough road trip
Speaker 4: coming up. We've got two really good ball friends and
Speaker 4: it'll be it'll be fun.
Speaker 6: All right. There's Mookie Beds. After the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 6: Diamondbacks tonight three to one. When we continue from Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 6: we'll check in with Jose Mota get his thoughts on
Speaker 6: how the Dodgers' homestand went and how Tonight's game turned
Speaker 6: out after the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks three to one
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Speaker 6: One two pitch too, ty Oscar the swings hits a
Speaker 6: high fly ball to center int this Paul headed toward
Speaker 6: the wall. It has gone a three run home run.
Speaker 6: Tioscar Hernandez and the Dodgers have jumped down in front
Speaker 6: three to one. Well, he got a hold of it.
Speaker 2: It was a slider, but it hung over the heart
Speaker 2: of the plate and.
Speaker 6: Ta Oscar drilled at the dead center field four hundred
Speaker 6: and thirteen feet. Teo, Teo, Teo, Sometimes you just hypnotize me.
Speaker 6: Ti Oscar Hernandez with a go ahead, three run home
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Speaker 5: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose.
Speaker 6: Mota, all right, Jose Mota. No secret. Why the Dodgers
Speaker 6: were able to win these final two games of the
Speaker 6: home stand a great starting performance from Yamamoto, and then
Speaker 6: tonight Dustin May bounced back after a shaky performance against
Speaker 6: the Angels.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, David has said, Yes, you're absolutely right, David.
Speaker 2: Seven innings last night, no runs at one hit. And
Speaker 2: I was standing job today by Dustin May, who had
Speaker 2: pitched very well, in fact against the Dbacks over in
Speaker 2: Arizona and where you got a little upset with Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts for taking him out with six and two turns.
Speaker 2: But we saw a better picture today, more polished pitcher,
Speaker 2: better rhythm, more usage again of my favorite pitch for him,
Speaker 2: which is that four seamer or that that sink rush
Speaker 2: a say, but it's just tells you about you know,
Speaker 2: the fact that, as he said during an interview, that
Speaker 2: he's getting into rhythm now, you know, making it eight
Speaker 2: stars like you haven't seen that in a long time
Speaker 2: and nine stars now. But it's good to see the
Speaker 2: fact that he was able to say in there long
Speaker 2: enough to get that. Doubly because one sing of the
Speaker 2: bat makes a difference.
Speaker 6: We always talk about the picture when things go well,
Speaker 6: but nobody ever talks about the catchers. So young Dalton
Speaker 6: Rushing was handling dustin May tonight. What have you seen
Speaker 6: from him in the small sample size.
Speaker 2: I like the way he presents the baseball, which is
Speaker 2: a big thing nowadays. Not a lot of pitches missed
Speaker 2: tonight behind the play by Chad Whitson, and he does
Speaker 2: the one knee thing. But if you notice, well he
Speaker 2: gets that knee lower, so he's not just leaning on
Speaker 2: that knee and standing up a little bit more. He
Speaker 2: is actually leaning more of an all style top of catching.
Speaker 2: And what was very noticeable to me at least tonight,
Speaker 2: is that his rhythm, he gets rhyth of the ball quicker,
Speaker 2: he gets the ball, he sends it back to the picture.
Speaker 2: In other words, you are in charge, you can control
Speaker 2: the temple. I'm not going to hold it back. We
Speaker 2: already have a game plan. Let's go out through an executor.
Speaker 2: And no doubt in my mind that even as Kerschel
Speaker 2: said after the start, this kid pays attention. He wants
Speaker 2: to do well on both sides of the plate, and
Speaker 2: to me is just keeping the temple and the rhythm,
Speaker 2: the framing, whoever you want to call it, and then
Speaker 2: having a conference to bounce something and he a react
Speaker 2: to block, and he's done a very good job blocking
Speaker 2: because you know very well the command also means throw
Speaker 2: the ball down there where you need to, and so
Speaker 2: far the youngster has done a very good job with that.
Speaker 6: Well, how about this too, hose Another layer to all
Speaker 6: that is the fact that the Diamondbacks have really run
Speaker 6: on the Dodgers the last couple of years, and tonight
Speaker 6: they didn't even try to run on Dalton rushing. That
Speaker 6: was a big indicator as well of the scattered report
Speaker 6: being out there that his arm's pretty good and Dustin
Speaker 6: may must have been doing something right as well to
Speaker 6: deliver the ball to him quickly.
Speaker 2: Deliver the wall quickly you get into that temple. Give
Speaker 2: him a chance. And it's not all the catchers, but
Speaker 2: I think we saw the pop time the other day.
Speaker 2: It's pretty impressive and I'm glad that that that weapon
Speaker 2: is there. We know the all stars will smith and
Speaker 2: all that, but it's only going to make the Dodgers
Speaker 2: deeper and better. And for a youngster that has the
Speaker 2: eagerness to, you know, watch the gate closely and a
Speaker 2: apply to it, I think you'd be willing to, you know,
Speaker 2: just concentrate more on the defensive side of things for now.
Speaker 2: The hitting will come. He didn't have a tough night
Speaker 2: on the play, but it's one another thing, a.
Speaker 10: Layer to this.
Speaker 2: He did not allow whatever happened in the home plate
Speaker 2: to get in the way of what he did in
Speaker 2: calling the game and keeping him nice up, big tempo
Speaker 2: with Dustin May.
Speaker 6: Yeah, great call by you. Jose Rushing tonight was over
Speaker 6: three with three strikeouts, but did not allow that to
Speaker 6: affect what he was doing behind the plate. Dodgers win
Speaker 6: tonight three to one over the Diamondbacks, and it was
Speaker 6: one mistake by Corbyn Burns and Taoscar Hernandez For the
Speaker 6: second straight year, different uniform for Burns hits a go ahead,
Speaker 6: three run home run. You know, I thought that was
Speaker 6: so great how Taoscar took a walk around home plate
Speaker 6: before he hit that home run. Jose, I wish more
Speaker 6: guys would just reset in the middle of an at
Speaker 6: bat like that.
Speaker 2: Gotta do something like that. You gotta go Billy Chappell
Speaker 2: and clear the mechanism once in a while.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: But here's here's a pattern I got today. And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers hit the ball hard in every single inning, at
Speaker 2: least once leading up to that inning. Then the soft
Speaker 2: stuff starts happening, with Rohause getting up groundble up the middle,
Speaker 2: then mulkive is getting a ball pass Suarez and then
Speaker 2: to Oscar chasing pitches and Cloburn Burns is a guy
Speaker 2: that usually does not have control issues. He's had it
Speaker 2: this year with a very high walk ratio. But as
Speaker 2: a as a hitter, you're always thinking to yourself, at
Speaker 2: some point this pattern of hitting the ball hard every
Speaker 2: and he has to come. And there it was to
Speaker 2: Oscar taking his time, knowing that to beat a guy
Speaker 2: like Cloburn Burns, he has to take advantage and tries
Speaker 2: to do less in fact, and think through the middle
Speaker 2: like he did to come up big again with two
Speaker 2: else and to come up again in the situation whered.
Speaker 2: Obviously he was missed.
Speaker 6: When he was on Round Hoose. You saw ta Oscar
Speaker 6: play his entire career. Why is he so much better
Speaker 6: with the Dodgers the last two years. Is it just
Speaker 6: being part of this type of lineup or is there
Speaker 6: something that Oscar Hernandez has found going back to last year.
Speaker 2: We can go so far back to tell you how
Speaker 2: impolished he was when he first came up, how undisciplined
Speaker 2: he was.
Speaker 9: But in short, the things that you share with me
Speaker 9: is he was a very good.
Speaker 2: League player when he got the Dodgers. He's become a
Speaker 2: star player because he's mentioned to me the support system obviously,
Speaker 2: the teammates, the leadership in that clubs, but also the resources.
Speaker 2: He said, there are things that I've been explained to
Speaker 2: him that he had not heard before. Explaining that way
Speaker 2: that made a lot of sense. As he recalled David
Speaker 2: when they got to Oscar and they thought it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: you got a great bat to bad against lefties. Who's
Speaker 2: going to hit against righties?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers answer was We're going to find a
Speaker 2: way to make him better at home. He's not playing
Speaker 2: and stalele anymore against righties too. And there you have it.
Speaker 2: The answer is the ta Oscar has two and there's
Speaker 2: only one like.
Speaker 6: Him, no doubt about it. Another big home run for
Speaker 6: Tioscar Hernandez. Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. We'll
Speaker 6: talk to you when the Dodgers head to New York.
Speaker 2: Good to hear back, Dave, good job, thank you.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it. Nothing that a few medications can help. And
Speaker 6: also an infrared sauna today got me going, Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: why I'm here anyway. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three
Speaker 6: to one, and they took the shortest well second shortest
Speaker 6: time of the season. Tonight's game was only two hours
Speaker 6: and seventeen minutes. It was the second shortest game of
Speaker 6: the year the Dodgers have played. So when you have
Speaker 6: two really good starting pitchers pitching the way they were.
Speaker 6: You heard Jose talk about Dustin May's rhythm, Corbyn Burns
Speaker 6: obviously a strike thrower, and especially tonight, you're gonna get
Speaker 6: a quick game, especially when there's only four runs scored
Speaker 6: combined between these two teams. So a big win for
Speaker 6: the Dodgers and they end this nine game homestand four
Speaker 6: and five a disappointing middle part of this homestand to
Speaker 6: get swept by the Angels. But look, it goes back
Speaker 6: to starting pitching, and if the Rodgers can get the
Speaker 6: type of starting pitching, not even what they got from
Speaker 6: Yamamoto last night, but even what they got from Dustin
Speaker 6: May tonight, six innings keep your team in the game.
Speaker 6: That's all they're asking from their starters. They don't want
Speaker 6: four innings. They can't live with four innings anymore. We've
Speaker 6: talked about the bullpen throwing over two hundred innings already
Speaker 6: this season. Do you know the other two teams that
Speaker 6: are behind the Dodgers as far as most innings pitched
Speaker 6: by their bullpen. They're two of the worst teams in baseball,
Speaker 6: the Marlins and the White Sox. What that tells you
Speaker 6: is that is not a recipe for success. We all
Speaker 6: know that Dave Roberts knows that Mark Pryor knows that
Speaker 6: Connor McGinnis knows that. But the starters have got to
Speaker 6: get deeper into the game. And Friday night is going
Speaker 6: to be a big test for Clayton Kershaw because he
Speaker 6: was able to have a soft landing a against the Angels,
Speaker 6: and outside of that first inning for Kershaw against the Angels,
Speaker 6: he pitched pretty well and probably could have got into
Speaker 6: the fifth inning if not for that thirty eight pitch
Speaker 6: first inning. So I expect Kershaw to at least give
Speaker 6: the Dodgers five innings and a very big ballpark at
Speaker 6: City Field and a team. You know, I go back
Speaker 6: to when Don Manningly was managing the Dodgers. He always
Speaker 6: talked about it's not the record of the team you're playing,
Speaker 6: it's when you're catching them. And right now, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: are catching a Mets team that's pitching really well but
Speaker 6: not hitting really well. So the Dodger starters are going
Speaker 6: to have to try to give this offense an opportunity
Speaker 6: to score and score early instead of putting them in
Speaker 6: a hole early on. So it's it's not rocket science.
Speaker 6: There's a reason why the Dodger bullpen has been put
Speaker 6: in that position. And look, that bullpen is thinner than
Speaker 6: what it was two weeks ago. They don't have Evan Phillips,
Speaker 6: they don't have Kirby eights. They're relying on guys like
Speaker 6: Anthony Bonda, Ben Casparius, Jack Dryer and trying to set
Speaker 6: up guys like Vessie and Tanner Scott. So that makes
Speaker 6: it even more important for the Dodger starters to try
Speaker 6: to shorten the game and not have that bullpen have
Speaker 6: to cover so many innings, especially in close games. Eight
Speaker 6: six six, nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 6: phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks tonight three to one. Obviously,
Speaker 6: I had lost my voice last night, so I wasn't
Speaker 6: on the show. But while I was at home before
Speaker 6: the Dodger game started last night, I was watching the
Speaker 6: Mets and Red Sox. I wanted to kind of get
Speaker 6: an advanced scout on the Mets and see what they
Speaker 6: were all about, because I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 6: watch nine innings of Mets baseball this year. But I
Speaker 6: was watching that game last night when our old buddy,
Speaker 6: and that was another reason why I wanted to watch it.
Speaker 6: It was on TBS, and I wanted to see Walker Buehler.
Speaker 6: I want to see Walker Buehler make a full start
Speaker 6: with the Red Sox. He was coming off the fifteen
Speaker 6: day il and he was he had some shoulder inflammation
Speaker 6: that they put out pretty quickly by putting him on
Speaker 6: the il without trying to overextend him, and it seemed
Speaker 6: to work. His fastball had Walker Buhler life to it
Speaker 6: ninety five ninety six, But in the third inning, after
Speaker 6: he had hit Francisco Lindor to put him at first base,
Speaker 6: Lindor took off while Jan Sota was at the plate.
Speaker 6: You saw it, right, you saw it. Walker Bueller threw
Speaker 6: a strike right down the middle that the home plate
Speaker 6: umpire and Mike Esterbrook called the ball and Bueller got
Speaker 6: really upset, so much so that he got thrown out.
Speaker 6: But I wanted to defend our guy, Walker Buehler because
Speaker 6: Mike Esterbrook and every other major league umpire out there
Speaker 6: has got to realize nobody pays to see them. A
Speaker 6: sellout crowd at Fenway Park was not there to see
Speaker 6: Mike Esterbrook. They were there to see Walker Bueller against
Speaker 6: the Mets, and Mike Esterbrook, in my estimation, was overly
Speaker 6: aggressive and trying to be the center of attention when
Speaker 6: he took off his mask and walked towards Walker Buehler.
Speaker 6: The umpires are supposed to try to avoid confrontation with
Speaker 6: the players and not escalate it. Obviously, Walker Bueller was hot,
Speaker 6: but Mike esterbrook did not need to take off his
Speaker 6: mask and certainly did not need to throw out Walker
Speaker 6: Buehler from that game. And then he threw out Alex
Speaker 6: Korra after that, and the Red Sox bullpen was able
Speaker 6: to hang in there and they helped beat the Mets
Speaker 6: last night. But I mean, and another layer to that is,
Speaker 6: why does Alex Cora and Walker Bueller and every other
Speaker 6: major league player and manager have to answer questions in
Speaker 6: a press conference setting but the umpires don't. The way
Speaker 6: it works is the writers select a writer, one writer
Speaker 6: to go speak to the ground, the head umpire and
Speaker 6: the crew chief and be the poll reporter. I mean,
Speaker 6: in a situation like that, don't you think Mike Esterbrooks
Speaker 6: should speak for himself instead of Las Diez the crew chief,
Speaker 6: speaking to one reporter in a pool setting. I always
Speaker 6: thought that was ridiculous how players and managers, GMS owners
Speaker 6: have to all speak to the media, but in a
Speaker 6: controversial setting like that where the umpire was the one
Speaker 6: that throughout Bueller, he can hide in the umpire's locker
Speaker 6: room and not have to talk it's ridiculous. I think
Speaker 6: they should. They should be front and center in situations
Speaker 6: like that. That's my opinion. And I thought Mike Esterbrook
Speaker 6: went way overboard last night to throw out our guy,
Speaker 6: Walker Buehler. All right, that'll do it for us. On
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk tonight. Coming up tomorrow, we have off day
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk for you at seven o'clock. You don't want
Speaker 6: to miss that show. And on Friday night, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: will open up their six game road trip, starting with
Speaker 6: three games at Cityfield against the Mets. It will be
Speaker 6: Curshaw Day on Friday night. It will be Kershaw's second
Speaker 6: start this season, going up against Griffin Canning. The UCLA
Speaker 6: Bruin has found something at Cityfield because he is having
Speaker 6: his best year so far. Canning is five to one
Speaker 6: with an ERA of two forty seven. Marongo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 6: on Deck begins at three o'clock tomorrow with first pitch
Speaker 6: at four to ten. Right here on a five to
Speaker 6: seventy LA Sports. Thanks to Colin Ye back at our
Speaker 6: Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out of here at
Speaker 6: Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to you for listening. The Dodgers thet
Speaker 6: Corby Burns and the Diamondbacks tonight three to one. Coming
Speaker 6: up next, Ben Mallor on Fox Sports Radio. Have a
Speaker 6: great rest of your night. See you