Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers defeat the Braves six to one for
Speaker 2: their six straight win to begin the season, David Vasse
Speaker 2: live at Dodgers Stadium with you until eleven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We will hear from Eric Harros in
Speaker 2: just a moment. We also will hear from Dustin May
Speaker 2: later in the show. Who's making his big return to
Speaker 2: the mound tomorrow night here at Dodgers Stadium. It should
Speaker 2: be very emotional for Dustin May tomorrow night. But we'll
Speaker 2: get to him a little bit later. We'll get to
Speaker 2: those torpedo bats a little bit later and who may
Speaker 2: be using them from the Dodgers. But first, let's talk
Speaker 2: about tonight's game. Dodgers win six to one. They're now
Speaker 2: six to oh to begin the season. The nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: one Dodgers were the record holders of that distinction until
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Dodgers joined them to have the
Speaker 2: best start in LA Dodger history to begin the season.
Speaker 2: Six to zero. The nineteen fifty five Boys of Summer
Speaker 2: started that season ten and and oh, so that's the
Speaker 2: Dodgers franchise record for the most straight wins to begin
Speaker 2: a season. And really for the Dodgers, they're winning games differently.
Speaker 2: Right one night, it's dominant starting pitching. Another night, it's
Speaker 2: the offense rescuing Roki Sazaki, it's the bullpen rescuing a
Speaker 2: starting staff that is going five innings just to begin
Speaker 2: the season, first turnaround. So they're getting contributions from a
Speaker 2: lot of different people. Tonight it was Tyler Glassnow who
Speaker 2: had a very good first start of the year, five
Speaker 2: scoreless with eight strikeouts and three walks. Something that glass
Speaker 2: Now talked about during spring training was to be more
Speaker 2: athletic and not be so caught up in his body
Speaker 2: movements and really getting into his own head when it
Speaker 2: came to all that stuff. And you heard Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: talk about that after the game tonight, where he said
Speaker 2: he was in a good rhythm.
Speaker 3: And that's basically a tip of the cap to that.
Speaker 2: Just to put it into perspective what the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: is doing tonight. They had seven hits with two strikes
Speaker 2: on him. Will Smith had two of those seven hits
Speaker 2: with two strikes on Dodger hitters. The Dodgers tonight scored
Speaker 2: six runs. The Braves have only scored eight runs in
Speaker 2: their first five games of the year. The Braves are
Speaker 2: oh to five to start the year. They were swept
Speaker 2: in a four game series in San Diego. They lose tonight,
Speaker 2: so they'reh to and five for the first time since
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. They were zero to nine to begin that year.
Speaker 2: So my pick for the Braves to be a playoff
Speaker 2: team is not looking so great to start the year.
Speaker 3: But it's early.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are catching a Braves offense that is
Speaker 2: in a slump. They went twenty nine consecutive innings without
Speaker 2: scoring a run until Michael Harris the Second homered off
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott. Now, Michael Harris the Second's a very good hitter,
Speaker 2: but uh Dave Roberts has alluded to it a couple
Speaker 2: of times that Tanner Scott is trying to work through
Speaker 2: some things. He was in a low leverage, blowout type
Speaker 2: of game that sometimes works against relievers that are closers
Speaker 2: and high leverage guys, But nonetheless you hope that Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott gets on tracks sooner rather than later, and his
Speaker 2: resume says that in the last two years he probably will,
Speaker 2: So I'm not worried about Tanner Scott. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number,
Speaker 2: in case you missed it. Freddie Freeman was not in
Speaker 2: the starting lineup tonight because Dave Roberts said he's slipped
Speaker 2: in the shower on Saturday night. Here's Dave before the
Speaker 2: game explaining why Freddie was not in the starting lineup
Speaker 2: for the third time in six games.
Speaker 4: He had a little mishap in the shower, entering the shower,
Speaker 4: the bathtub and so slipped and it was kind it's
Speaker 4: the same ankle and so day to day and kind
Speaker 4: of swelled up a little bit. Not able to play tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, That was Dave Roberts. A couple of things.
Speaker 2: Number One, I have slipped in the bathtub slash shower before,
Speaker 2: but i haven't twisted my ankle, and I'm not on
Speaker 2: a surgically repaired right ankle, so that does happen. I'm
Speaker 2: sure most of you have experienced that, but caught yourself
Speaker 2: before any damage. Sometimes you do fall and cause some damage.
Speaker 2: Number two, the Dodgers played on Saturday night. Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 2: taking multiple showers after games. I mean, hey, Freddie's always
Speaker 2: smelling great anyway, Hopefully Freddie's back. All joking aside, Freddie
Speaker 2: was very handed with us in spring training that he
Speaker 2: was going to have to manage this surgically repaired right
Speaker 2: ankle that he hobbled through all of October with It
Speaker 2: was going to be a situation where he probably was
Speaker 2: going to have to manage it at least through the
Speaker 2: All Star break, if not the entire year, meaning that
Speaker 2: there were going to be times where, even though he
Speaker 2: wants to, he would not be able to play day
Speaker 2: games after night games. So I think him playing through
Speaker 2: this right ankle maybe gave him a false sense of
Speaker 2: security and maybe he forgot about it.
Speaker 3: Maybe not.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to speculate here, but you know, nobody
Speaker 2: wants to be on the field more than Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 2: and nobody wants to be on the field more against
Speaker 2: the Braves than Freddie Freeman. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Isidro who is at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Tonight. Hi, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hey there, how's it going.
Speaker 3: How did I do with the name?
Speaker 6: That was pretty good?
Speaker 5: You were one of the ones that said it.
Speaker 2: Right, that's a good way to start the show. What
Speaker 2: do you got for us?
Speaker 5: You know, I seen that the Dodgers have a really
Speaker 5: good team. I already think they're gonna lose under forty
Speaker 5: games this season.
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 2: So what would that be? I'm not great at math.
Speaker 2: Don't you think they're like you think they're gonna win
Speaker 2: a one hundred and twenty games?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't see them losing more than eight to
Speaker 5: ten games some month. That's kind of how I was
Speaker 5: looking at it, all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, Brett Boone was on with Petro some Money
Speaker 2: earlier today and he believes the Dodgers have a real
Speaker 2: chance at breaking the Mariners record that he was on
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and one. So all right, all right, well,
Speaker 2: right now it kind of feels that way. But it's
Speaker 2: a long season. There's still a long way to go.
Speaker 2: But right now, the Dodgers just seemed to be in
Speaker 2: a different weight class than everybody else in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Bob, who is
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 7: Hi, Bob, David Basse Dodger Bob from Malibu, Buddy, how
Speaker 7: you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Bob. How could it be bad if
Speaker 2: you're a Dodger fan these days?
Speaker 7: Your damn right, fifty thousand of us out there celebrating. Then, David,
Speaker 7: a couple questions for you real quick. Number One, your
Speaker 7: thoughts on Tanner Scott? And two, how about giving some.
Speaker 1: Flowers to Jack Dryer.
Speaker 7: This kid's pretty solid, man.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You know people that say they don't know who this
Speaker 3: kid is.
Speaker 2: I was visiting with my family on Saturday night after
Speaker 2: Suzaki came out of the game. There were some fans
Speaker 2: sitting in front of where they were. They're like, who's
Speaker 2: this guy? Jack Dryer. I can understand that he was
Speaker 2: just put on the forty man roster during the offseason,
Speaker 2: but he he is a homegrown kid and he's really good.
Speaker 2: He's now pitched in three games and has only given
Speaker 2: up and earned run. Jack Dryer is going to be
Speaker 2: part of this bullpen for the majority of the season.
Speaker 3: Bob, Yeah, good call.
Speaker 7: I agree. Man, it was a pleasure watching him and
Speaker 7: the rest of the team.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Yeah, no problem, Bob. Be safe out there.
Speaker 2: And Ben Casparius is another young Dodger through the farm
Speaker 2: system that is going to be a big part of
Speaker 2: this Dodger bullpen as well. First of all, though, they
Speaker 2: have to get some good starting pitching, and I think
Speaker 2: they got that covered, including Tyler Glass now who made
Speaker 2: a career high twenty two starts last year despite not
Speaker 2: pitching the second half of last year. Tonight eight strikeouts
Speaker 2: and five score is, and like Dave Roberts said, he
Speaker 2: was in a good rhythm. Let's head downstairs to the
Speaker 2: Dodger Clubhouse to hear from tonight's winning pitcher.
Speaker 9: It was good, I think, especially that first thing, I
Speaker 9: felt really synced up. I think that later except for that,
Speaker 9: we're like a little bit more of a challenge. But
Speaker 9: I think having that curve balls helped me out a lot.
Speaker 9: And then just like the ride on the heater early
Speaker 9: on was a lot better too, So just probably better
Speaker 9: to throw a little bit more strikes. But for the
Speaker 9: first one, it was good.
Speaker 10: When you think about just kind of seeing all that
Speaker 10: hard work you've put into, whether it's in the off season,
Speaker 10: the spring, seeing it play out in a game, kind
Speaker 10: of just how you're feeling out there just when you
Speaker 10: look at that, is this kind of where you want
Speaker 10: it to be? Kind of what the work that you
Speaker 10: put in this offseason?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I feel really comfortable with what I
Speaker 9: worked on and I'm not thinking about it a ton.
Speaker 9: I think it's the least I've thought like mechanically in
Speaker 9: a long time. So I feel athletic and free and good.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What do you think it allows you to do in
Speaker 1: the second inning where you had like a couple of walks.
Speaker 6: And being able to kind of move.
Speaker 1: Past as like an example of that where.
Speaker 9: I think, so I think just yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I think once you have a good inning and you
Speaker 9: go out and walk to guys, it's like immediately just
Speaker 9: kind of like lock it in, get it mode. I
Speaker 9: don't know why, but I just felt that a sync.
Speaker 9: I think getting in that quick step and I think
Speaker 9: that kind of helped me the rest of the game though,
Speaker 9: Just try to lock in and stay focused.
Speaker 11: What do you think it is that has allowed you
Speaker 11: to sort of feel free and not really think about
Speaker 11: her mechanics on the mounts, which I think.
Speaker 9: Just keeping momentum in it. And I think Mark has
Speaker 9: helped me a ton, like where I'd lift and put
Speaker 9: my hands and stuff. It was kind of early on
Speaker 9: just kind of all over the place and a little
Speaker 9: bit more compact. Change my throwting program a lot.
Speaker 3: He changed it.
Speaker 9: And then Connor's helped me a ton with like grips
Speaker 9: and stuff, and I think all of it has come
Speaker 9: together and they have have to in the weight room,
Speaker 9: Like I've kind of changed a ton of stuff, and
Speaker 9: like my body just feels a lot better. It's moving
Speaker 9: more fluid, and all those like little changes throughout my
Speaker 9: drawing routine and grips, like I said, have been really
Speaker 9: helpful so far. So the last few you have been
Speaker 9: feeling really good.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Tyler Glass now courtesy of Sports in at LA.
Speaker 2: And look the walks he was talking about where he
Speaker 2: had to reset. We're back to back walks to Ozuna
Speaker 2: and Albee's just start the second inning. Then he was
Speaker 2: able to retire the braves in order. Baldwin, Dela Cruz,
Speaker 2: and Jerry Kelnick all went down. It was a fly,
Speaker 2: a great catch by Andy Paez, by the way, on
Speaker 2: Baldwin for the first out of that second inning, and
Speaker 2: then De la Cruz popped up to Kei k Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Kelnick grounded or it was a force out to
Speaker 2: uh Well, it was a pop up to Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: to end the inning. So that was good. And when
Speaker 2: you talk about his three walks, I have to point
Speaker 2: out the top of the fourth inning when.
Speaker 3: Glass Now was facing Olson.
Speaker 2: If you go back to MLB Game Day, you'll see
Speaker 2: that glass Now probably struck out Matt Olsen.
Speaker 3: Despite Olsen walking in that.
Speaker 2: At bat to start the fourth inning, at least two
Speaker 2: pitches were strikes, clear strikes. If they were using the
Speaker 2: appeal system, glass Now and or Will Smith would have
Speaker 2: been pounding their heads during that at bat. But hey,
Speaker 2: it happens. Dan a great paison, a great umpiring crew.
Speaker 2: Here were Randazzo and Couzy and Dan Bellino. They're human
Speaker 2: and that's part of baseball, right, That's part of this
Speaker 2: game that makes it so special. You got to keep
Speaker 2: the human element, you got to keep the personality, and
Speaker 2: those things will happen. But Dan Bellino is one of
Speaker 2: the best umpires out there. But I did have to
Speaker 2: point out that at bat by Olsen in the fourth
Speaker 2: inning in defensive Glass now and everything. He was talking
Speaker 2: about how the pitch grips are helping, the workouts have
Speaker 2: been changed. That's great right now, but you hope that
Speaker 2: it lasts the entire season. That's the challenge for Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now to keep whatever he had going during the
Speaker 2: offseason and spring training and into this start, keep it
Speaker 2: going all the way through the season. And he's been
Speaker 2: building towards that twenty starts two years ago, twenty two
Speaker 2: last year. So you just hope he gets to the
Speaker 2: finish line this season. Eight six six seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Braves six
Speaker 2: to one. Let's go out to Todd, who's on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk tonight.
Speaker 12: Hi Todd, Hi David, Hey, thanks taking my call. I
Speaker 12: appreciate it. I really enjoyed the game tonight. I had
Speaker 12: great seats, so I had a really good you know,
Speaker 12: I cannot how were.
Speaker 2: Your seats, Todd, I'll be the judge of how great
Speaker 2: your seats were. Tell me where they were.
Speaker 12: Well, we were like we were k you know, I
Speaker 12: okay in one oh five field level.
Speaker 3: One oh five? What No, one o five?
Speaker 2: That can't be on the field level that's on the
Speaker 2: Loach second deck right one oh five no.
Speaker 12: No, no five or whatever. It's the five and it's
Speaker 12: a fifth rok.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, very suspicious, but at least you were here.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, I was there.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're a guy that was in the top deck.
Speaker 2: That's trying to sell me that you were on the
Speaker 2: field level top.
Speaker 12: That's your funny.
Speaker 13: I'm just let me say.
Speaker 12: I will say this.
Speaker 8: No, I appreciate it. Now.
Speaker 12: So here's the thing. There's two things that impressed me
Speaker 12: about this game. One was getting I love this guy
Speaker 12: taoskar hernanis he's becoming more. I'm more of a fan
Speaker 12: of this guy all the time. I mean, the ball
Speaker 12: he hit, the crack of the bat was so much
Speaker 12: different than any other home runner hit in the game tonight.
Speaker 13: Just nuts.
Speaker 12: And then so I love the fact that he'd scored
Speaker 12: three runs. I mean, the guy is just a gamer
Speaker 12: and a winner. But the second one was Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 12: You know you saw him out there. He made a
Speaker 12: great play a second base where the ball was in
Speaker 12: the dirt, very tough play. Max Munsey threw and Bretting
Speaker 12: impressed with that.
Speaker 6: And then his fly ball.
Speaker 12: It was almost a Grand Slam. Yeah great, you know
Speaker 12: he got that RBI got that run in love that kid.
Speaker 2: We were looking it up, Dwayne McDonald, our crack staff here,
Speaker 2: a one man's staff was looking it up. Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: two career Grand slams and he came a few feet
Speaker 2: away from his third, right there.
Speaker 3: Great call, Todd, you were at the game. You passed
Speaker 3: the test.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. And like I said, Otani, Mookie, Freddie
Speaker 2: well deserved.
Speaker 3: Those are the big three, but they can't do it alone.
Speaker 2: And me personally, I feel like Tommy Edmund and Taoscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez are two of the most unsung heroes on this team.
Speaker 2: Tao is starting to get his recognition, obviously, he was
Speaker 2: a fan favorite last year. That carried over into this year.
Speaker 2: I mean yesterday at the Citadel Outlets at the Polo
Speaker 2: Ralph Lauren event that we put on with ta Oscar
Speaker 2: Meeting and greeting, we had almost five thousand fans out
Speaker 2: there for Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 3: That's how popular he is.
Speaker 2: And Tommy Edmond does so many things that don't show
Speaker 2: up in the box score and I'm glad a fan
Speaker 2: that was at the game fifty thousand plus tonight recognize
Speaker 2: what Tommy Edmund did. Let's go out to the two
Speaker 2: to one three. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing?
Speaker 3: Eric H.
Speaker 2: Dave?
Speaker 8: I know we don't got enough time woman trying to
Speaker 8: rattle these off speaking about him, and I wonder if
Speaker 8: you just keep him that second. You know, the the
Speaker 8: amount of runs well Kim and triple A is bawling
Speaker 8: right now if you look at what he's doing in
Speaker 8: triple A. So when he comes in, what do you
Speaker 8: do with them? And you put him in center? Of course, I.
Speaker 3: Know that's all move around. That's the beauty of it.
Speaker 8: I know that when and when are the pioneers of that?
Speaker 6: Right? You know?
Speaker 8: Uh? Where was that going? Look? I think I think
Speaker 8: first of all as a Dodgers fans, just to put
Speaker 8: it in perspective, Garby say, and what to seem what
Speaker 8: with this Dodger organization has done this sustained excellence. I
Speaker 8: just can't say enough. It makes me feel so good
Speaker 8: when I see my Lakers team lose. You know how
Speaker 8: how even when they lose, I feel good because I
Speaker 8: know I'm rooting for these Dodges right now. So thank
Speaker 8: you Stan Cashi, and thank you Andrew Friedman. And this
Speaker 8: is what I'm gonna leave with you to day. Uh
Speaker 8: show Hey at the leadoff spot. Do we keep doing
Speaker 8: that or do we maybe flip flop Mookie and show Hey.
Speaker 2: I would not do that, Eric, You know, I was
Speaker 2: a little skeptical when they did it last year, but
Speaker 2: both guys excelled, So no, and show Hey won the
Speaker 2: MVP going away. Thanks for the phone call. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We have a few people ringing in, but we have
Speaker 2: two lines open. We're gonna take our first time out
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. When we come back. You'll hear
Speaker 2: all about these torpedo bats that the Yankees were using
Speaker 2: where they were hitting what.
Speaker 3: Fifteen home runs.
Speaker 2: We talked to the Dodgers hitting coach Rob van Zoyak,
Speaker 2: one of the few times he speaks publicly today, he
Speaker 2: did about what he thinks about hitters trying to get
Speaker 2: some of the edgeback from the pitchers in the technology department.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from him, We'll hear from Marek Carrol's. We'll
Speaker 2: check in with Jose Mota as well. After the Dodgers
Speaker 2: win their sixth in a row with a six to
Speaker 2: one win over the Braves on the World Champion Dodgers
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Speaker 1: Tay Oscar gets it high in the air deep centerfield,
Speaker 1: carrying great tore the wall, m gone into the netting,
Speaker 1: bell of patters tails, He's off and gives the Dodgers
Speaker 1: in early to nothing.
Speaker 2: Lead Dodgers in two home runs tonight. The Hernandez Armanos, Taoscar,
Speaker 2: and keik A each went deep tonight. Taoscars a two
Speaker 2: run shot in the first inning off of Grand Homes
Speaker 2: and the best part was that his protege, Andy pie
Speaker 2: Has was there waiting for him, greeting him with the
Speaker 2: sunflower seeds when he came back to the dugout. Loved
Speaker 2: seeing that the Dodgers go on to beat the Braves
Speaker 2: tonight six to one. They are undefeated to start the
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Speaker 2: Jewelers own the dream. All right, Well, you've heard about
Speaker 2: these torpedo bats. You may or may not have. The
Speaker 2: Yankees got an mit kid. They kind of zeroed in
Speaker 2: on where their Yankee hitters are often hitting the baseball
Speaker 2: as far as the location on the bat. They redistributed
Speaker 2: the weight of the bat to try to give the
Speaker 2: Yankee hitters more chances to get some barrel on the ball.
Speaker 2: And the Athletic is reporting that Max Munsey and Keik
Speaker 2: A Hernandez are going to experiment with the torpedo bat.
Speaker 2: Maybe more Dodgers will. But we all hear about the
Speaker 2: pitching labs and the technological advantage and scatting reports that
Speaker 2: pitchers have, but you never really hear about it when
Speaker 2: it comes to hitters. Well, Dodgers hitting coach rob An
Speaker 2: Zoyak spoke to myself and a couple of the beat
Speaker 2: writers before today's game regarding hitters trying to come up
Speaker 2: with some sort of counteraction to all the information and
Speaker 2: technology pitchers have at their disposal.
Speaker 11: It's the big part of it. They have track man,
Speaker 11: they have a lot more info on what they're doing
Speaker 11: and all that, And we don't catt the bat up
Speaker 11: to this point, so it's a little bit like less
Speaker 11: known on our end. So I think guys are gonna
Speaker 11: try it.
Speaker 6: I mean, how do you not?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 2: Hey, how do you not? But I will say this,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers may have been ahead of their times. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure whatever came of it, but I do remember
Speaker 2: showing up at the ballpark.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty one, twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Two, early in the afternoon, and similar to when you
Speaker 2: go to a golf store, it looked like they were
Speaker 2: trying to hook these hitters up. So they were going
Speaker 2: to customize bats for these hitters as far as their
Speaker 2: swing goes, they would match it with their swings. So
Speaker 2: maybe the Dodgers were toying with the torpedo bat idea
Speaker 2: back then. In fact, you know Cody Bellinger's on the
Speaker 2: Yankees now, he specifically I remember hooked up to all
Speaker 2: these wires and it seemed like the Dodgers were trying
Speaker 2: to customize a bat for Cody back then. But you know,
Speaker 2: I've heard of players even in the minor leagues that
Speaker 2: have been offered the torpedo bat but say they don't
Speaker 2: like the feel of it. And that's what it comes
Speaker 2: down to. As a hitter. You know, it may be great,
Speaker 2: it may be scientific. You should probably use it maybe,
Speaker 2: but if it doesn't feel right for the hitter and
Speaker 2: they don't have confidence in the box with it, then
Speaker 2: it's not going to work for them. Speaking of torpedo
Speaker 2: how about Jerkson Profar suspended eighty games by Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball earlier today, Mister irrelevant. There was a lot of
Speaker 2: buzz about torpedo bats and Jerkson Profar being suspended eighty
Speaker 2: games before the game today on the field, and a
Speaker 2: lot of players were saying, I knew something was off
Speaker 2: last year he had his best offensive season and then
Speaker 2: was rewarded with a big contract by the Braves. So
Speaker 2: Jerkson Profar back to being mister irrelevant.
Speaker 3: Some guy that's not irrelevant? Eric Carross.
Speaker 2: Eric Carros will be on the Sports in a LA
Speaker 2: broadcast when the Dodgers hit the road on Thursday to
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and Washington, DC. We had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with the LA Dodger home run king to talk about.
Speaker 2: Not him, of course, we care about Jered Carros, who
Speaker 2: had another great spring for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The spring went really well.
Speaker 14: I just had an outing yesterday and just done dominated again.
Speaker 14: And so he and Jackson Ferris, both guys are going
Speaker 14: to start the year at double A and you know,
Speaker 14: it's again. It's one of the great things about the
Speaker 14: organization is that you are going to be the best
Speaker 14: version of yourself and you're going to You're going to
Speaker 14: max out on your potential so that that you're forever grateful.
Speaker 14: The tough thing is the road to the big leagues
Speaker 14: isn't isn't always a straight line. And where guys that
Speaker 14: are in Triple A and even double A could be
Speaker 14: on big league staffs elsewhere, you know, not gonna happen
Speaker 14: here in LA because of the pitching riches.
Speaker 2: Did you ever feel that way coming up in the
Speaker 2: organization the Dodgers had Eddie Murray at the time, or
Speaker 2: did you feel like eventually your time would come.
Speaker 14: No, it was different because we weren't going out there
Speaker 14: signing you know, the top free agents and and you know,
Speaker 14: we didn't have the economic wherewithal the player development is
Speaker 14: how we lived basically. You know, it wasn't until really,
Speaker 14: you know, i'd say the late nineties we went out
Speaker 14: and signed Kevin Brown. That was a first hundred million
Speaker 14: dollar deal. And every once in a while they dip
Speaker 14: into the free agent market. I know when I was here,
Speaker 14: you know, they had signed Darryl Strawberry a few years earlier,
Speaker 14: Kirk Gibson. But what you weren't doing is signing six
Speaker 14: or seven guys right and or trading for them. And
Speaker 14: you know, that's the thing is it's but this is
Speaker 14: the reason that this is the best organization. It's got
Speaker 14: the best talent, it's got the best clubhouse, it's got
Speaker 14: the best player development, it's got the best management, it's
Speaker 14: got the best ownership. It's the best at everything, and
Speaker 14: so that creates a lot of competitiveness.
Speaker 3: Hey, first class, top to bottom.
Speaker 2: You hear about this in every sport, NFL, NBA, major
Speaker 2: League baseball. The tone is set with the ownership, and
Speaker 2: the Dodger ownership set that tone when they took over
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. And look, they have delivered on all
Speaker 2: their promises from renovating Dodger stadium for the fans, the players,
Speaker 2: to pouring in money and reinvesting into the roster the
Speaker 2: way they have, They have never led up, and it's
Speaker 2: paid off. It's a first class organization and certainly a
Speaker 2: great one to be part of if you're a Dodger.
Speaker 2: And look, the Dodgers are not stopping. They're going to
Speaker 2: continue to go. And they have a pretty good one
Speaker 2: to two punch of Double A with left handed Jackson
Speaker 2: Ferris and right handed Jerry Carross, not to mention what
Speaker 2: they have at Triple A. By the way, Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: his first start of the season for Oklahoma City four
Speaker 2: and a third scoreless inning, So Bobby's getting back on
Speaker 2: track as well.
Speaker 3: All right, let's head out to Jose Moda. It's time
Speaker 3: to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: Hey, you talk about first class. That comes down to
Speaker 2: the broadcasters as well. With Jose Moda, and earlier this morning,
Speaker 2: Jose Moda and a large swath of the Dodger front
Speaker 2: office organization got their championship rings. So you talk about
Speaker 2: first class. I heard it was a first class event, Jose.
Speaker 13: It was first class all the way. I mean, we actually,
Speaker 13: I think a lot of the employees felt like they played,
Speaker 13: you know what I mean. It was so great to
Speaker 13: see other people put so much hard work, and people
Speaker 13: like sancasting about wolf Lawn and Eric recognizing that. And
Speaker 13: I'm just so happy for the people have spend so
Speaker 13: much time during the morning, they leave late at night
Speaker 13: from you know, and all the time they do put
Speaker 13: in to make things easy for the players. Thanks for
Speaker 13: a couple of players that came in too, to recognize
Speaker 13: art work done by so many people. I just happen
Speaker 13: to be at the right place, at the right time day,
Speaker 13: just second in two thousand and two of the end,
Speaker 13: just so I'll take it. I didn't do anything for it.
Speaker 13: I called the games, I enjoyed the games, and they
Speaker 13: did all the work. So yeah, I'm so lucky and blessed.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: We were all along for a great ride last October
Speaker 2: with the world champion Dodgers, and they haven't stopped in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, improving their record a six to oh tonight.
Speaker 2: I thought Will Smith was the perfect guy to talk
Speaker 2: to after the game because he has it's a front
Speaker 2: row seat and is involved in so far a really
Speaker 2: good pitching staff and also a really good offense.
Speaker 13: You're right. Let me go back to October. Every inning
Speaker 13: was caught by one man. That was Will Smith. Everything
Speaker 13: that the bullpen did in that run day went in,
Speaker 13: it was Will Smith and I don't think he got
Speaker 13: a lot of credit for that. And he was playing
Speaker 13: hurt by the way too. And then a guy that
Speaker 13: we know when he's good, the same two strike approach.
Speaker 13: What we saw today is well we see from Will
Speaker 13: Smith using the middle of big little ballpark going the
Speaker 13: other way, spoiling good pitches. But also came to that
Speaker 13: calm demeanor, just like when he talks to you, keeping
Speaker 13: it all cool, like yeah, I mean that's what we
Speaker 13: expect to do it. I mean it's not being cockey,
Speaker 13: just being you know, simple and saying that's what I
Speaker 13: expect to do because that's my job. One thing too,
Speaker 13: is blocking Tyler. That was not easy. I mean, this
Speaker 13: guy's prone to the wild pitches. He saw how many
Speaker 13: balls he bounds at fifty five fifty feet today And
Speaker 13: Will Smith is like, okay, that's my job and got
Speaker 13: then get it done. So he and Austin Bonnes really
Speaker 13: make a lot of things easier for those on the mountain.
Speaker 3: I remember last spring training.
Speaker 2: Glass now's first, and Glass now acknowledged that he does
Speaker 2: beat up his catchers. Why does he beat up the catchers?
Speaker 2: Is it because of the curveball or is it his
Speaker 2: fastball and slider all part of that too.
Speaker 13: It's a combination. Think about six or eight great extension.
Speaker 13: By the time he releases the ball, he's not just
Speaker 13: like nobody is actually, but he's way it's likely shaking
Speaker 13: your hand. And on top of that, you have to
Speaker 13: react to the spin, the velocity, and also what directions
Speaker 13: are all going to go. So if he throws a slider,
Speaker 13: you gotta know they you're going to be blocking it
Speaker 13: different than with a curveball. But those guys actually live
Speaker 13: off of that. If you think about the strikes house
Speaker 13: he collected tonight, how many of them were strikes at
Speaker 13: the end, it was strikes made up by the hitters
Speaker 13: because they were fooled. And when you don't have the
Speaker 13: confidence your catchers up and stop those pitches, you sometimes
Speaker 13: are gonna be a little tentative and hang more pitches
Speaker 13: because he's like, well, I kind of have to throw
Speaker 13: more in the zone because my guys having trouble onder
Speaker 13: seeing it or reacting to it. But not with the
Speaker 13: guys here because they put their work in early to
Speaker 13: make for They understand how everybody's pitches spin when they
Speaker 13: hit the dirt. What's the direction of the native block?
Speaker 13: How do you know? Put in their bodies. But a
Speaker 13: guy like Tyler glassno anyway, hard with the big breaking
Speaker 13: ball will leave. It's always very tough to block.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 2: Dodgers defeat the Braves six to one. All right, Jose,
Speaker 2: I got to ask you about a fellow Dominican, a
Speaker 2: guy that everybody loves in LA after just one and
Speaker 2: a half seasons, and that is Taeoscar Hernandez, who is
Speaker 2: an All Star, a home run Derby champion, and a
Speaker 2: World Series champion. Why has he been able to hit
Speaker 2: his potential in Los Angeles more than in Toronto or
Speaker 2: Seattle or Houston.
Speaker 13: I think a couple of ideas here come to mine
Speaker 13: and into ostar Number one. He knows himself very good
Speaker 13: now as a player. Okay, he has told me he
Speaker 13: survives on this environment because is not just all on him.
Speaker 13: That's the number two that takes a lot of pressure
Speaker 13: off of you. You feed up the guys that you're
Speaker 13: playing with, because these guys are so good and so
Speaker 13: well prepared that just they make your job easier by
Speaker 13: you simplifying your Games's not sing for affections.
Speaker 6: The guy's got you.
Speaker 13: Know, thirty five power, but he is simply playing a
Speaker 13: lot of things with hitting coaches.
Speaker 6: He the big question last.
Speaker 13: Year was, well he didn't hit well, and see what's
Speaker 13: going to happen, is dow you're still going to be
Speaker 13: for him. Well, there's a reason why he just did
Speaker 13: not see the ball. Well, other things didn't go his way.
Speaker 13: The ball. You know, it's tough bull to hit no
Speaker 13: matter what. But pert Oscar is now that he knows
Speaker 13: more about who he is as a hitter, and he's
Speaker 13: going to have the same miss and the strikehouse, yes,
Speaker 13: but he also understands when to cut it down. All that,
Speaker 13: combined with age, maturity and being in this environment is
Speaker 13: only going to make you better if you are able
Speaker 13: to absorb it all and to apply it all and
Speaker 13: to also play with joy, because this guy really does
Speaker 13: enjoy playing baseball, and it's a smile says that all
Speaker 13: you guys have a great turnout. I congratulate you too,
Speaker 13: because yesterday was also terrific. See all those fans out there.
Speaker 2: No doubt four thousand plus there to see the great
Speaker 2: taoscar Hernandez Jose, including Cochito Cruz. He showed up late yesterday.
Speaker 2: He was shopping at the Citadel yesterday.
Speaker 13: I think you might have heard you, and Chief was like,
Speaker 13: sneak in there, Hey, my last point day strike hitting.
Speaker 13: You talked about this earlier. Dave Roberts was so emphatic
Speaker 13: on this spring training and going back to last year saying, hey,
Speaker 13: if half of your batchs in your career arguing to
Speaker 13: meet with two strikes, what do we do a better
Speaker 13: job in this era of baseball of making sure that
Speaker 13: you put yourself in a better position to be a
Speaker 13: better two stroke hitter, in a better contact hitter. That's all.
Speaker 13: And if you think about predictability on pictures, when you
Speaker 13: get the information from everybody else about where they throw
Speaker 13: to get even get ahead to put you away, usually
Speaker 13: the most predictable one is the one to put you away.
Speaker 13: So that helps guy two strikes, you go out there
Speaker 13: and say, let me anticipate what I might see you
Speaker 13: with you strikes, be confident enough that if I cut
Speaker 13: down my swing I'm gonna ask us sex, so hopefully
Speaker 13: this will continue for the rest of the season. Keep
Speaker 13: it simple, two strikes by contact, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jose, we got to run. Dwayne McDonald's unplugging over here,
Speaker 2: so thank you for checking in. Well, we'll just there,
Speaker 2: he goes, Jose Motive part of the Dodgers Spanish radio
Speaker 2: broadcast with number forty seven Luis Cochito Cruz and Pepe
Speaker 2: Iningez and Jose's right. Tonight, the Dodgers had seven hits
Speaker 2: with two strikes. Will Smith had two of those seven
Speaker 2: hits and drove in a run. And he's off to
Speaker 2: a great start. He is six for fourteen with six
Speaker 2: walks to start the year with a six hundred on
Speaker 2: base percentage. He was great in Tokyo, and he's seeing
Speaker 2: the baseball really well here in North America as well,
Speaker 2: along with catching a great pitching staff. Speaking of that
Speaker 2: great pitching staff, it continues tomorrow. The Dodgers get back
Speaker 2: Dustin May, who hasn't pitched in a Big League game
Speaker 2: since May of twenty twenty three, after he pitched in Anaheim.
Speaker 2: He already was feeling the emotions about tomorrow night, where
Speaker 2: he will be on the mound at Dodger Stadium again
Speaker 2: for the first time in almost two years.
Speaker 15: I feel like there's gonna be a lot more emotions
Speaker 15: for me because of all the time that I've had
Speaker 15: to think about it. When I first got called up
Speaker 15: for my debut, I mean, it was like a four
Speaker 15: day thing, so it was like kind of right on it.
Speaker 15: But for this, I mean, I've been I was waiting
Speaker 15: for I don't know, thirteen months, and then the esophagus
Speaker 15: thing happened, and then that changed my perspective on a
Speaker 15: lot of things in life. And it's gonna it's I'm excited,
Speaker 15: just gonna put it that way. I'm excited.
Speaker 16: With that being said, last time we saw you very
Speaker 16: emotional pitcher on the mound with that perspective that you gotten.
Speaker 16: Have you Are you the same emotional, fiery type of
Speaker 16: guy or is there a different.
Speaker 15: I definitely have. I definitely have the spark inside of
Speaker 15: me for sure. Still like it's in there. It's starting
Speaker 15: to wake up a little bit as I'm starting to
Speaker 15: get back into the games a little bit more. It
Speaker 15: was definitely very calm, collected, But as I'm starting to
Speaker 15: get back in the games and get kind of like
Speaker 15: my feeling and feet back under me. It's definitely definitely
Speaker 15: coming back.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's.
Speaker 15: Definitely going to be more on the shadowed side, but
Speaker 15: it's gonna it'll come out every now and then.
Speaker 2: Dustin May will be on the mound tomorrow night, making
Speaker 2: his first major League start since May of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: As you know, two elbow surgeries and then emergency esophagus
Speaker 2: surgery last year as he was making his way back
Speaker 2: and so close to possibly even helping the Dodgers down
Speaker 2: the stretch last year.
Speaker 3: But that was more than baseball.
Speaker 2: That was life threatening and certainly gave Dustin a new
Speaker 2: perspective not only on the game, but on life. And look,
Speaker 2: the real the facts are is that him and Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 2: we're fighting for that fifth spot in the rotation, and
Speaker 2: Gonsolin probably had the edge because Dustin May more than
Speaker 2: likely could have pitched out of the bullpen. But with
Speaker 2: the back injury to Gonsolin, that opened the door up
Speaker 2: for Dustin May. And Tomorrow night is going to be
Speaker 2: really special for him and his family. Looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing Dustin do well against this Braves lineup. Let's take
Speaker 2: a couple of more phone calls before we say goodnight,
Speaker 2: Jose and Bakersfield, thank you for being patient. Dwayne McDonald's
Speaker 2: very upset. I'm taking this call, Jose.
Speaker 6: Hey, David, how are you doing today?
Speaker 3: My man, I'm doing great.
Speaker 2: I can't get enough of Dodger baseball. I'm staying here
Speaker 2: all night.
Speaker 6: I can't either. If if you were on all night
Speaker 6: all morning, I'd be there, man, listen to you. So
Speaker 6: it's it's first of all, I'd like to point out
Speaker 6: it's an honor, as a privilege talking to you. Longtime
Speaker 6: listener off and on, first time caller.
Speaker 2: Uh wait a minute, long time listener off and onsome
Speaker 2: you turn me off for a period of times.
Speaker 3: Get tired of me.
Speaker 6: I can't lie to you, David. I can't. I can't
Speaker 6: listen to you all the time, David. But whenever I.
Speaker 2: Understand my wife feels the same way, Jose. But she
Speaker 2: can't go on and off when I go on the
Speaker 2: road trips. That's her off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's harder for you. I can understand that, David.
Speaker 6: But hey, David, the reason for my call is, you know, David,
Speaker 6: I've been watching these these first six games, and pretty
Speaker 6: much the Saint scenario seems to be Popp seems to
Speaker 6: come be coming off in every single games. Regarding the
Speaker 6: starting rotation, now, my concern is with the starting rotation,
Speaker 6: these pictures are only going three, four or five. I
Speaker 6: don't think I've seen any of the pitchers go six innings.
Speaker 6: Is there gonna come a point where we should be
Speaker 6: concerned about the the overworking the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Not well to a certain point, like it was getting
Speaker 2: to that point last year at the end of the
Speaker 2: year when the Dodgers starters were dropping like flies. But
Speaker 2: you know, it's so early in the season. It's the
Speaker 2: first turn for the majority of these guys, so five
Speaker 2: innings is standard. The only aberration was Sazaki only going
Speaker 2: an inning in two thirds on Saturday night. That was
Speaker 2: a little extreme, and he can't continue to put the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in that predicament. But a night like tonight eighty
Speaker 2: pitches for glass now on five scoreless, that's what you
Speaker 2: would expect the first time through, and then as they
Speaker 2: start building up, they'll go deeper into games.
Speaker 6: That is correct, David. And I'm so excited to watch
Speaker 6: you tomorrow. See Dustin May hopefully throws out you know,
Speaker 6: he throws a good game. And the Dodgers also come
Speaker 6: up on top. So I'm excited to watch our destiny tomorrow.
Speaker 3: No doubt, Jose. I hope I keep you on Okay,
Speaker 3: hopefully the on off is over, Jose.
Speaker 6: No. No, From now on, it's every single after every game,
Speaker 6: I'll be here, David.
Speaker 2: Love it, Hose, Thank you, Jose, appreciate it. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you soon. On and off, off, on and off listener. Wow, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm real. I remember Charlie Manuel when he was managing
Speaker 2: the Phillies. Somebody told me you got to go down
Speaker 2: and meet Charlie Manuel. You will love him. He's your
Speaker 2: type of guy. So we were talking in the visiting
Speaker 2: dugout here at Dodger Stadium, and they were right. Charlie
Speaker 2: Manuel was my type of guy. And you know, he
Speaker 2: was asking about my family, my kids, all that, and
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I'm not sure, you know, doing this
Speaker 2: job with a wife and kids if my marriage is
Speaker 2: going to last. And he said, let me tell you
Speaker 2: this in his old Southern drawl. You do this as
Speaker 2: long as you can, and your marriage will last longer
Speaker 2: because when you go away for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: your wife will miss you, and you give her a
Speaker 2: break from you, just like Jose and Bakersfield. Let's take
Speaker 2: one final call Trey in West La. Walk us off
Speaker 2: tonight on Dodger.
Speaker 17: Talk, David my man, thank you so much. We'll make
Speaker 17: you quick because I.
Speaker 3: Are on and off to Trey. Are we on and off?
Speaker 3: Are you on all the time? I can't get enough?
Speaker 6: No, all the time.
Speaker 17: I already talked to Tim when I called in from
Speaker 17: TYPEI in the first Tokyo series of the year. Oh okay,
Speaker 17: I just oh yeah, I'm always here, brother, real quick.
Speaker 17: I just want to say, like we talked last year,
Speaker 17: we didn't get too low when things were bad. We
Speaker 17: don't get too high when things are good. We stay humble,
Speaker 17: we do the work. We'll be rewarded.
Speaker 6: And I don't want to.
Speaker 17: Leave on a bittersweet note. This is a blessing. But
Speaker 17: let's get a shout out to Nancy b Hesley, our
Speaker 17: beloved organist thirty years almost she gave us her musical
Speaker 17: talent at Dodgers Stadium, and she's looking down and we
Speaker 17: should just be thankful we had her for when we did,
Speaker 17: and all the wonderful music and everything that she gave
Speaker 17: to the Dodgers unsung hero part of the team.
Speaker 2: And that's a great way to end the show. Beautiful,
Speaker 2: I love it. That's a great way to end the show.
Speaker 2: Call back anytime. We all love Nancy B. And like
Speaker 2: I said on Saturday Night when they gave out the
Speaker 2: Oral hers Scheiser replica Jerseys Nancy B. I remember Vin
Speaker 2: Scully always pointing out that she was playing Master of
Speaker 2: the House from the Phantom of the Opera for Oral Herscheizer,
Speaker 2: because Dodgers Stadium was his house and he certainly was
Speaker 2: the master of it when he was pitching in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight and until he left or was allowed to
Speaker 2: leave for Cleveland. So yes, we all appreciate and miss
Speaker 2: Nancy b. Indeta rule has taken the torch and has
Speaker 2: ran with it. He is awesome, the best in baseball
Speaker 2: as well, all right. Like I mentioned, tomorrow night, Dustin
Speaker 2: May will be back on the mound in a Major
Speaker 2: League stadium for the first time since May seventeenth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, going up against all adversary of the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: left hander Chris Saale. Our coverage begins tomorrow night at
Speaker 2: six o'clock with Tim Kits and Morongo Casino Dodgers on
Speaker 2: Deck six o'clock, First Pitch seven ten with Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Steven Nelson. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald, hey he started
Speaker 2: the car already. Thanks to ye back at our Burbanks Studios,
Speaker 2: and thanks to you for listening. Hopefully we're not on
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Speaker 3: And also you can hear our full.
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Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app once again. The final score tonight from
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium in front of fifty eight sixteen. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: improved their record a six to zero with a six
Speaker 2: to one win over the Braves. Coming up next, Ben
Speaker 2: Mallor on Fox Sports Radio. Have a great rest of
Speaker 2: your night.
Speaker 3: See you