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Speaker 6: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5: We are live at Dodger Stadium. After the Dodgers send
Speaker 5: the Yankees home very sad today, beating them in a
Speaker 5: big way eighteen to two. And it wasn't even that
Speaker 5: close if you can believe that the Dodgers were up
Speaker 5: ten to nothing after the first two winnings of today's game.
Speaker 5: And I gotta give a lot of props to Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer John Smoltz, who was in the booth with
Speaker 5: our guy Joe Davis today. We were talking before the
Speaker 5: game today and Smoltz was telling us that he had
Speaker 5: watched the last five starts of the Yankee starting pitcher today,
Speaker 5: Will Warren, and he said, this might be a tough
Speaker 5: matchup for Will Warren because over sixty five percent of
Speaker 5: his pitches, the first pitch is a fastball, and then
Speaker 5: he tries to get guys to chase with a slider
Speaker 5: down in a way, and the Dodger offense does not chase,
Speaker 5: and they love seeing first pitch fastballs. And John Smoltz
Speaker 5: doing his homework and enlightening us before the game, and
Speaker 5: I'm sure he did during the broadcast. He was spot
Speaker 5: on Will Warren was throwing first pitch strikes. And we
Speaker 5: found out from the booth their guy and kind of
Speaker 5: my guy, Rick Krajuski, he let me know that Hasan
Speaker 5: Kim was the first Dodger in the first inning to
Speaker 5: take a strike. The Dodgers were all over Will Warren
Speaker 5: and those fastballs in the zone in that very first
Speaker 5: inning and they were able to score four runs. So
Speaker 5: it was not a good matchup for Will Warren, and
Speaker 5: certainly a great matchup for the Dodgers and a great
Speaker 5: matchup for Max Munsey, who hit his career number two
Speaker 5: hundredth home run part of that big second inning for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. It was a three run home run, the
Speaker 5: first of two three run home runs for Max Munsey.
Speaker 5: He also went deep for a three run shot in
Speaker 5: the fifth inning. But Max Munsey, just think about where
Speaker 5: he was, not only at the beginning of this year.
Speaker 5: He's starting to come around now, obviously with some confidence
Speaker 5: and looking more like the Max Mounthsey we've known since
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen. But wind to the off season of twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: He was very close to just leaving Major League baseball
Speaker 5: and going to play in South Korea until the Dodgers
Speaker 5: signed him to a minor league contract and then brought
Speaker 5: him up in twenty eighteen, and the rest is history.
Speaker 5: Max Monthsey now with two hundred and one career home
Speaker 5: runs after two home runs and tying a career high
Speaker 5: of seven RBIs today, Ken Rosenthal caught up with Monksy
Speaker 5: after the game.
Speaker 3: Max, Congratulations home runs two hundred and two hundred and
Speaker 3: one today.
Speaker 5: He had four entering this game. We're changed today. Well,
Speaker 5: on the one.
Speaker 3: I finally hit a fair.
Speaker 5: I thing.
Speaker 3: I've hit about ten of those balls this year that
Speaker 3: have been foul by bout three or four feet, so
Speaker 3: finally got one of them fair. Just trying to get
Speaker 3: the ball off in his own No, they were gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, throw a lot of soft stuff and just
Speaker 3: got some good.
Speaker 5: Signs off into spring training.
Speaker 3: Twenty seventeen, you get released by the Oakland As.
Speaker 2: Now you're eighth on the Dodgers all time home run
Speaker 2: lest If I had told you all.
Speaker 5: This was going to happen back then, what would you said?
Speaker 3: I thought you were crazy. I'm definitely a blessing, you know,
Speaker 3: Monard to being able to hit as many home runs,
Speaker 3: to have more in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 5: Hopefully I got a lot more.
Speaker 3: In me and hopefully we got a lot more wins.
Speaker 5: Like today and I matchngratulations, thank you all right. There
Speaker 5: is Max Mounsey who now has two hundred and one
Speaker 5: home runs. As you heard, Ken Rosenthal, one of the
Speaker 5: best in the business, understood the significance of that milestone
Speaker 5: home run and having two hundred and one. Can you
Speaker 5: believe Max Monsey's just two away from tying mag Camp
Speaker 5: with two hundred and three home runs in Dodger franchise history,
Speaker 5: and after a dismal March in April, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: now Max Monsey ends the month of May with a
Speaker 5: two point fifty batting average, a three seventy six on
Speaker 5: base percentage, and also a four to seventy five slugging
Speaker 5: for an eight to fifty one ops monthly. After two
Speaker 5: home runs today finish May with five home runs and
Speaker 5: twenty six RBI. He also walks sixteen times and struck
Speaker 5: out sixteen times. That's a one to one raceiow, not
Speaker 5: too many guys can do that and hit five home runs.
Speaker 5: So has Max Munsey silenced the critics or has he
Speaker 5: only silenced them for today? Maybe tomorrow? Because I feel
Speaker 5: like the appreciation for what Max Munsey does for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers is not fully appreciated by you. Now. I did
Speaker 5: say this on Thursday during the Off Day show, and
Speaker 5: I'll stand by it. I do believe the Dodgers need
Speaker 5: to mix in more Key k Hernandez at third base
Speaker 5: because Munsey has not done well against lefties this year.
Speaker 5: He's not hitting even one hundred against lefties this year.
Speaker 5: Munsey against lefties is just three for forty two Max
Speaker 5: Munsey and keyk Hernandez. That's a pretty good combination at
Speaker 5: third base to go with the platoon, and possibly could
Speaker 5: be the best tune at third baseman since Mike Sharperson
Speaker 5: and Lenny Harris the right left combo in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 5: That's the best in recent memory as far as a
Speaker 5: platoon at third base for the Dodgers. But I'm all
Speaker 5: in with Max Munsey, I'm all in with Key Hernandez,
Speaker 5: and I both believe they can live happily ever after
Speaker 5: platooning at third base for the foreseeable future. Eight six
Speaker 5: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Dodgers beat the Yankees eighteen to two, and you gotta believe,
Speaker 5: you know. Somebody asked Dave Roberts in the postgame press
Speaker 5: conference if the Dodgers made a statement to the Yankees.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say the Dodgers made a statement to the Yankees.
Speaker 5: I believe the Dodgers made a statement to themselves, because
Speaker 5: even Dave said this, They've been playing kind of average
Speaker 5: mediocre baseball here for the last three weeks. For them
Speaker 5: to come back home and feed off the energy of
Speaker 5: this series, despite all of them saying it's just another game,
Speaker 5: it's just another series. It's not the World Series. Really, really,
Speaker 5: the way they played last night, the way they played today,
Speaker 5: there was a little bit more than just another regular
Speaker 5: season game. Guys, this is a statement to themselves and
Speaker 5: maybe this propels them to the All Star Break. And
Speaker 5: certainly the Dodger offense is the best in baseball. They
Speaker 5: have proven that already nineteen comfort behind victories. That's Dodger offense.
Speaker 5: They're the best hitting team with two outs and runners
Speaker 5: in scoring position. They did it again today. This is
Speaker 5: a statement to the Dodgers themselves to get them going again,
Speaker 5: maybe give them that juice they needed in the middle
Speaker 5: of summer, considering the way their bullpen is so beat
Speaker 5: up and thin. And look, I've said this before, it's
Speaker 5: no secret the Dodger offense carried them today and gave
Speaker 5: landon Nak a ten to nothing lead after the first
Speaker 5: two innings. But back to back games now. They got
Speaker 5: six from their starter Tony Gonsolin last night after a
Speaker 5: rough first three innings. That's all guys were talking about today,
Speaker 5: and also tonight six innings from Landon Nac did not
Speaker 5: have to use a high leverage relievers. So in combination
Speaker 5: with the Dodger offense, the Dodgers have gotten two solid
Speaker 5: starts from the two guys that have been a little
Speaker 5: bit inconsistent here recently and not giving the Dodgers length.
Speaker 5: And now they got Yamamoto on the mount tomorrow. They're
Speaker 5: in a great position to win tomorrow night's game. And also,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a big believer in mental you know, warfare,
Speaker 5: for a lack of better term, the Dodgers beating the
Speaker 5: Yankees last year in the World Series, with the way
Speaker 5: Game five went in that fifth inning and Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 5: walk off Grand Slam right here at Dodger Stadium. These
Speaker 5: group of Yankees, these guys, they can't have too many
Speaker 5: good feelings when they walk into Dodger Stadium. And if
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and Yankees meet again in the World Series,
Speaker 5: you gotta believe the Dodgers have the mental edge and
Speaker 5: the confidence edge over the Yankees. So don't discount them
Speaker 5: coming from behind against Max Freed last night and then
Speaker 5: coming back today and putting a thumping on the Yankees.
Speaker 5: Eighteen to two, eight six six nine eight seven, two
Speaker 5: five seventy is the phone number I thought hay Sung
Speaker 5: Kim and Tommy Edmund today they're gonna be overshadowed by
Speaker 5: a few different things. But Haysung Kim to me, you
Speaker 5: know how they do it in hockey, the three stars
Speaker 5: of the game. He would be my number two star
Speaker 5: behind Max Muncie. Hay Sung Kim was tremendous filling in
Speaker 5: at shortstop for Mookie Beds today. He made a great
Speaker 5: plane the third inning on a line drive by Vivas,
Speaker 5: the nine hitter, and then doubling off Austin Wells by
Speaker 5: diving with his glove, balling glove, diving to tag second
Speaker 5: base before Wells could get back, and then throwing out
Speaker 5: Aaron Judge in the sixth inning when he got moved
Speaker 5: out to center field. Judge trying to do too much
Speaker 5: in a fourteen to one game there, But nonetheless, Kim
Speaker 5: was all over it and threw a strike to nail Judge.
Speaker 5: So not only was Kim four for four today with
Speaker 5: three runs scored and two RBIs in the nine hole,
Speaker 5: he played great shortstop and great center field today. Tommy
Speaker 5: Edmund and hay Sung Kim tonight combined eight for nine
Speaker 5: with five runs scored and four RBIs just a tremendous
Speaker 5: game by those two guys up the middle for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. We have phone lines open. We're gonna take
Speaker 5: a time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 5: you'll hear from Alex Rodriguez. Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and
Speaker 5: Big Poppy were in the house today doing Fox Sports.
Speaker 5: The Great Brad Zeger understanding this was an event. Dodgers
Speaker 5: Yankees brought out the heavy hitters. You'll hear from Alex
Speaker 5: Rodriguez as he threw his opinion in whether or not
Speaker 5: Otani should pitch this season. You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 5: And also you'll hear from Evin Phillips and Blake's Now.
Speaker 5: Plus we'll catch up with Jose Mota and your phone
Speaker 5: calls at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
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Speaker 5: the Yankees eighteen to two on a five to seventy
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Speaker 6: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse latter out of.
Speaker 7: The stretch, first base, out of the rubber, looks at
Speaker 7: Otani's got a quarter the way down the line. Two
Speaker 7: one pitch to Monsie, turns on a ball down the
Speaker 7: right field wine, will it stay fair? Hits off the
Speaker 7: ball then gone. Max Monsey you with this second of
Speaker 7: the game career home run two oh one.
Speaker 5: Max Mounsey tying a career high with seven RBIs today
Speaker 5: hitting a pair of three run home runs as the
Speaker 5: Dodgers blow out the Yankees eighteen to two in Game
Speaker 5: two of this three game series. David Vasse live at
Speaker 5: Dodgers Stadium with you until nine o'clock tonight right here
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Speaker 5: Dodgers hit five home runs tonight. Monsey with two, Hay
Speaker 5: Sung Kim with a home run, a two run shot
Speaker 5: in the second inning. Andy pa has hit his tenth
Speaker 5: of the year, and Dalton Rushing hit his first career
Speaker 5: home run in the eighth inning. Off in fielder Pablo
Speaker 5: Reyes and keyk Hernandez pitched a scoreless ninth inning for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, wearing his protective pitching helmet that he was
Speaker 5: given by or he took from Gary Green, the Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball Director of Health Services. That's actually a helmet
Speaker 5: that Major League Baseball doctors and Gary Green specifically designed
Speaker 5: after pitchers were getting hit in the head and in
Speaker 5: spring training he brought it to show Bobby Miller, and
Speaker 5: Bobby passed, and keyk Hernandez took it, and now he's
Speaker 5: using it, bringing pitcher safety awareness to every ballpark near you.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Let's go out to Wan, who is
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Wan, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Hey Dave, I just wanted to make a quick comment,
Speaker 2: very very happy without the overall team at batt.
Speaker 5: Series And oh, Wan, you must be leaving the parking
Speaker 5: lot right now. Call me back. I'm sorry, you want
Speaker 5: to make those two big points. Let's go out to
Speaker 5: La Puente. Al You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: Hi, al.
Speaker 1: Well's mister, it's been a good week show. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: very good show man.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The file even enduring, like the comments and stuff. Thanks
Speaker 1: for keeping with it.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, man, get emotional too, al I told you
Speaker 5: this is an emotional show, and sometimes I get on
Speaker 5: that emotional roller coaster when I got to stay steady.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what, being human and being in the
Speaker 4: moment is the most you know, authentic thing you could
Speaker 4: be doing. So good job, man, But like tonight and yesterday,
Speaker 4: like the spotlight is not too big, La, that is
Speaker 4: what I wanted to say, and and like when.
Speaker 1: It comes down to it, like like.
Speaker 4: LI does the simple.
Speaker 1: Things good, and with the World series and with diversities,
Speaker 1: like they do the simple things good. And you know,
Speaker 1: everyone just needs to realize that maybe this is like
Speaker 1: a good series enough for a wait to call, like Spike,
Speaker 1: like all the things.
Speaker 5: You just get back to a little bit of focus
Speaker 5: and you can't let down after tomorrow because the Mets
Speaker 5: are coming in for four games and you got to
Speaker 5: play well against them. They're one of the better teams
Speaker 5: in the National League. I'm with you, Al, thanks for
Speaker 5: the phone call. Appreciate it. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 5: the Yankees eighteen to two, and in the Dodgers last
Speaker 5: eleven offensive innings against the Yankees, they have outscored them
Speaker 5: twenty four to two, including putting up eighteen runs tonight.
Speaker 5: That's the most runs any National League team has scored
Speaker 5: against the Yankees in the regular season or postseason in
Speaker 5: the Yankees long storied franchise history. So the Dodgers flat
Speaker 5: out embarrassed Aaron Boone and the Yankees tonight and certainly
Speaker 5: looking for the sweep with Yamamoto on the mound tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. Big Series, Big Event with the Yankees and
Speaker 5: Dodgers World Series rematch the Fox Stellar crew of a Rod,
Speaker 5: Jeter and Big Poppy. We're out here today and on
Speaker 5: the pregame show, Alex Rodriguez gave his opinion on whether
Speaker 5: or not O'tani should even attempt to pitch. Because O'tani
Speaker 5: was out here as he will be every Saturday more
Speaker 5: than likely throwing live batting practice to ramp up to
Speaker 5: pitch for the Dodgers after the All Star break. So
Speaker 5: here was Alex Rodriguez giving his opinion on whether or
Speaker 5: not O'tani should attempt to pitch again this year. But
Speaker 5: it is a tough one for me.
Speaker 8: We were having dinner with Hall of Famer John Smokes
Speaker 8: last night. That'll name drop and he said, Poppy. In
Speaker 8: twenty twenty three, he had the best stuff of any
Speaker 8: pitcher in the game.
Speaker 5: This is not a stuff stuff. Obviously, his talent's off
Speaker 5: the charts.
Speaker 8: But if Otani gets hurt and makes it fifteen pitchers nile,
Speaker 8: the season's over. So for me, the risk and rewards
Speaker 8: not there something else to think about us. He's not
Speaker 8: a finesse pitcher. He's a power pitcher, fastball, tight, slider
Speaker 8: and split. He's already had to Tommy John injury. He
Speaker 8: had a separate shoulder injury in the World Series. I
Speaker 8: would let that lie. I would have a whole offseason
Speaker 8: in spring training to set this up physically, emotionally and mentally.
Speaker 5: All Right, there is Alex Rodriguez on the Fox Sports
Speaker 5: pregame show today, and look, I respect Alex Rodriguez a lot.
Speaker 5: He was a great player, no matter what you think
Speaker 5: about him or some of the mistakes that he made.
Speaker 5: I guess you know, I'm not one of those guys
Speaker 5: that is going to hold all that steroid stuff against
Speaker 5: these players, because that's a different topic for a different time.
Speaker 5: Alex Rodriguez is a Hall of Famer, one of the
Speaker 5: greatest players based ball has ever seen, and I respect
Speaker 5: his opinion, but I disagree with that one. Because the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have given Otani a full spring training, they have
Speaker 5: slow played this incredibly. What he's suggesting now is that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers slow play it again for another full year.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers have done everything that he said he would
Speaker 5: like the Dodgers to do. He has slow played. They
Speaker 5: have slow played Otani. And just like we saw last
Speaker 5: year in the World Series, Otani can get hurt sliding
Speaker 5: into second base just because he's going to come back
Speaker 5: and pitch in a limited role on a limited basis,
Speaker 5: in a shortened type of season and into the postseason.
Speaker 5: To me, the risk is no higher than him being
Speaker 5: out there in the game today and maybe getting hit
Speaker 5: and breaking his hand, or felling a ball off his
Speaker 5: ankle or twisting his ankle running the bases. The injury
Speaker 5: risk to pitchers these days is obviously higher because because
Speaker 5: of everything that a Rod said right there. But the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have played this extremely carefulle with Otani. That's not
Speaker 5: the question. And as far as injury risk goes, like
Speaker 5: I said, you could be walking in the middle of
Speaker 5: the night and break your toe on the way to
Speaker 5: the bathroom. It doesn't take just pitching. Eight six six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Dodgers beat the Yankees eighteen to two. Let's go out
Speaker 5: to Woodland Hills. David, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David?
Speaker 9: Pretty good good. I want to apologize for a few
Speaker 9: months ago, I bad mouth Munsey really bad, and I
Speaker 9: wasn't even very polite about it, I guess, and you
Speaker 9: hung up on the practically, And I don't blame you
Speaker 9: because and mony somebody. I don't know if someone gave
Speaker 9: him adrenaline or something. It's suddenly he's a new man.
Speaker 9: I want to apologize.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's the eyeglasses that's wearing.
Speaker 9: Whenever it is, he's doing it right, I mean, you know, so.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's a good that has a track record and
Speaker 5: has built credit with the fan base like you, David.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, So it's just exciting that what the
Speaker 9: Dodgers have turned around their whole It looks like maybe
Speaker 9: they've turned around their lackluster playing the last U. Yeah,
Speaker 9: from this couple of games.
Speaker 5: It's amazing. What will happen to you when you leave Cleveland?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely definitely an He's scary, man.
Speaker 5: There's only David. Can I just share this with you?
Speaker 5: Since you're from my hometown of Woodland Hills. There's only
Speaker 5: two cities where I question my life every year, and
Speaker 5: that's Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Whenever I go there.
Speaker 9: Really well, i've never been to either city. I think
Speaker 9: I probably better avoid it there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, not much to see there except the Rock
Speaker 5: and Roll Hall of Fame. But yeah, this long road
Speaker 5: of a season. Those are the two cities I always question,
Speaker 5: like what am I doing here? Why am I here?
Speaker 5: But anyway, I'll let Munsey know that, David and Woodland
Speaker 5: Hills apologizes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I was wrong. I was wrong in the way.
Speaker 5: Here we go, all right, and he might go into
Speaker 5: another slump, and that doesn't mean you have to give
Speaker 5: up on him, But I am a big believer with
Speaker 5: the way things have gone so far this season, despite
Speaker 5: a resurgent May for Monsie Keik and Munseie platoon at
Speaker 5: third base. I think that should be the way to
Speaker 5: go here for the foreseeable future and maybe the rest
Speaker 5: of the year. Thanks for the phone call, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 5: the phone number. Now, yesterday we got the news that
Speaker 5: Evan Phillips is going to have season ending elbow surgery,
Speaker 5: Tommy John surgery, and he won't be back the rest
Speaker 5: of the year, a big blow to the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 5: When we walked into the Dodger Clubhouse today, Evan Phillips
Speaker 5: was there and obviously not feeling great about the situation.
Speaker 5: But since he came to that determination a few days ago,
Speaker 5: he's come to peace with the fact that he will
Speaker 5: require elbow surgery. And here's what Evan told us about
Speaker 5: the whole, the whole unfortunate situation. Evan, obviously disappointing news
Speaker 5: yesterday that Tommy John is in your future. How have
Speaker 5: you digested all that?
Speaker 10: It's been, you know, a pretty heavy past few weeks,
Speaker 10: you know, Ever, since we we got the MRI readings
Speaker 10: and that became an option. You know, we started to
Speaker 10: explore what we can do, and you know, these next
Speaker 10: few weeks to give it a look and see if
Speaker 10: we can try to rehabit and see where we get,
Speaker 10: and ultimately didn't make much progress at all, so that
Speaker 10: you kind of validated how the MRI I was reading
Speaker 10: and what the surgeons were saying. So I'm kind of
Speaker 10: at peace with it, you know, on that sense, having
Speaker 10: a clear direction forward. Just you know, sad, disappointed, bum
Speaker 10: that I'm going to miss so much time and the
Speaker 10: opportunity with this team, but you know, ultimately, I know
Speaker 10: it's what I have to do to get back to
Speaker 10: being my normal self.
Speaker 5: Do you believe that the shoulder injury maybe we're over
Speaker 5: compensating and created something or how do you kind of
Speaker 5: put this in con text?
Speaker 10: You know, it's it's a human body in baseball. It's like, sure,
Speaker 10: it's probably connected in some way. But you know, my
Speaker 10: shoulder felt great, you rehab went great. It could probably
Speaker 10: stem back to you know, years of just pitching and
Speaker 10: you know, commensating in different ways over the years. So
Speaker 10: I certainly had never experienced something like this before, and
Speaker 10: I was kind of naive to you know, my discomfort,
Speaker 10: and I wasn't sure what was going on. I was
Speaker 10: just optimistic that it would round itself out, and you know,
Speaker 10: unfortunately didn't.
Speaker 5: Go that way. Evan already I've gotten text where do
Speaker 5: you believe it was the sweeper? Because you throw it
Speaker 5: harder than most? Do you believe that's contributing to pictures
Speaker 5: injuries like this?
Speaker 10: You know, I think we're you know, high performance athletes.
Speaker 10: Everyone's training and looking for more. I would say, you know,
Speaker 10: this could probably be attributed to just you know, years
Speaker 10: and years, you know, all the way tracking back to
Speaker 10: my childhood of you know, training at a high clip
Speaker 10: and you know who's the who's to know for sure?
Speaker 10: It's just the game we play and it's a unfortunately
Speaker 10: Tommy John surgery has become a big part of our game.
Speaker 10: And you know, I can look around the clubhouse and
Speaker 10: lean on a lot of these guys for you know,
Speaker 10: guy to ensue this process as well.
Speaker 5: Are you hopeful that you haven't thrown your last pitch
Speaker 5: as a Dodger?
Speaker 10: Oh, I'm very confident that that's not the case. Yeah,
Speaker 10: So I feel, you know, very confident that this is
Speaker 10: the right call for you know, not just my my
Speaker 10: tenure here with the Dodgers, but for the rest of
Speaker 10: my career as well. I know that once we get
Speaker 10: this thing fixed and I get myself built back up,
Speaker 10: I'll be, you know, the best version of myself and
Speaker 10: hopefully you contributing for the Dodgers for years to come.
Speaker 5: That's great news from Evan Phillips, who is a Super
Speaker 5: two player, so he is a free agent, not at
Speaker 5: the end of this season, but at the end of
Speaker 5: next year. And if he's able to come back in
Speaker 5: July of next year, that certainly will help his own
Speaker 5: personal career and certainly would be a big boost to
Speaker 5: to the Dodger bullpen next year. But right now, the
Speaker 5: here and now, the Dodgers are very thin with right
Speaker 5: handed relievers, high leverage right handed relievers, and it makes
Speaker 5: sense why Andrew Friedman made a by load type of
Speaker 5: trade with a high payoff. If Alexis Diaz can come
Speaker 5: back to form where he was a couple of years
Speaker 5: ago when he was an All Star with the Reds
Speaker 5: and save thirty eight games, that would be huge for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers if they can find a way to fix
Speaker 5: his delivery and get him back on tracks. So the
Speaker 5: Dodgers certainly will be looking for even more right handed
Speaker 5: relievers as they get closer to the July thirty first
Speaker 5: trade deadline. This year, the Cardinals are surprisingly hanging in
Speaker 5: there in the NL Central. A lot of people believe
Speaker 5: that they would be sellers when the season began, and
Speaker 5: they have a rental right handed closer and Ryan Helsley.
Speaker 5: So sorry, Nolan Aronado and the Cardinals. I'm rooting against
Speaker 5: you to give the Dodgers a chance to make a
Speaker 5: trade for that guy. If the Cardinals decide that they
Speaker 5: are sellers. Eight six six nine seven two five seventy
Speaker 5: is the phone number. The Dodgers are also missing Blake Snell,
Speaker 5: the two times Cy Young Award winner they signed at
Speaker 5: the beginning of the year. Blake held true that he
Speaker 5: would give us an update every Saturday on where his
Speaker 5: progress is, and today was no different, and things are
Speaker 5: getting a lot more encouraging for Snell to return to
Speaker 5: the Dodger rotation.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm throwing one hundred and twenty feet now it's
Speaker 11: coming out, no pain. I feel good. I'm excited. Through
Speaker 11: a couple of change ups. Shut a tear pretty excited. No,
Speaker 11: but I can't wait. Man's you know, when I signed,
Speaker 11: I was so excited and it's all I wanted to do,
Speaker 11: and then you know, having to wait it sucks, and
Speaker 11: you know it's it's a long it's a long process.
Speaker 11: But I'm gonna go slow. I'm gonna make sure I'm ready.
Speaker 11: So when I when I started pitching, I can get
Speaker 11: going and do my thing.
Speaker 5: I was on you yesterday. I'm so eager. Maybe not
Speaker 5: as much as you are, but we all are very
Speaker 5: eager to see you on the mound. What's the fine
Speaker 5: line there of not trying to rush it but also
Speaker 5: know where the team that where they need you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it was tough today. I mean you
Speaker 11: see Jeter ay Rod big coffee.
Speaker 5: I went out there.
Speaker 11: I started thought, I was like, okay, I do to
Speaker 11: slow down.
Speaker 5: You just get excited.
Speaker 11: You see you know Hall of Famers, and you're just like, man,
Speaker 11: that's what I'm chasing. And yeah, it's tough. But today, yeah,
Speaker 11: I got a little excited. I just slow myself down. Hey, like,
Speaker 11: let's really focus mechanically on how I'm throwing the ball,
Speaker 11: which I never do. I'm always like feeling it's a
Speaker 11: little things here and there, but today it's like I
Speaker 11: learned a lot. Connor helped me a lot. So I
Speaker 11: was really excited about that. Started feeling better at the
Speaker 11: end too.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, when do you think you'll throw off the
Speaker 5: mound and really take the next step? Ironically, I think
Speaker 5: it's San Diego, very fitting. Yeah, I think so. I
Speaker 5: think that's the plan.
Speaker 11: And we'll see though, but I think sometime in San
Speaker 11: Diego is the plan. But they'll let me know and
Speaker 11: I'll be ready. But yeah, I'm just I'm excited.
Speaker 8: I'm throwing.
Speaker 11: There's no pain and like I can actually you're not
Speaker 11: gonna actually be excited for something like it's it's gonna
Speaker 11: come and it's gonna happen soon, and I'll take my
Speaker 11: time through it. And as long as my shoulder feels good,
Speaker 11: which I pray every day.
Speaker 5: Man, and I'll just get.
Speaker 11: Back out here and and just you know, feel what
Speaker 11: pitching's like. I love I love going to battle, and yeah,
Speaker 11: I can't wait to feel that again.
Speaker 5: That's Blake Snell snell Zilla's Saturday, giving us the latest
Speaker 5: on where he's at with his shoulder, and that's great news.
Speaker 5: He is throwing pain free, and starting to ramp things
Speaker 5: up and throwing from a further distance. By the way,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers will be in San Diego for the first
Speaker 5: time this season a week from Monday, June ninth, So
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if Blake was trying to tell us
Speaker 5: he's going to be facing hitters in San Diego or
Speaker 5: if he's just throwing a bullpen session. But getting off
Speaker 5: the mound and throwing is a huge step, and hopefully
Speaker 5: he could return before the All Star break if all
Speaker 5: continues to go this swell. Eight six six, eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 5: Yankees today eighteen to two. Let's go out to our guy,
Speaker 5: Jose Moda.
Speaker 6: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: Oh, very much different game tonight, Jose Mota compared to
Speaker 5: yesterday at ten to nothing lead after the first two innings,
Speaker 5: felt like the Dodgers were not the right offense for
Speaker 5: Will Warren.
Speaker 2: They were not. And as you were talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: John Small's comments and things like that, as we all
Speaker 2: get times of research from pitchers, you could tell that
Speaker 2: Warren is a guy that was very proud of that
Speaker 2: fastball and today, let me tell you something. We look
Speaker 2: it up and down collectively and what teams have been
Speaker 2: doing against certain pitches and chases, no chases. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are just on top of pretty much everything. I mean,
Speaker 2: secondary pitches they crushed and slug fastballs they're really getting
Speaker 2: to remember last season there was an issue with some
Speaker 2: fastballs to the pow where Freddie Freeman said, we need
Speaker 2: to get better at hitting fastballs. They took got the
Speaker 2: heart got better to the season. But this year he
Speaker 2: can not go out there and just think that you're
Speaker 2: gonna get by throwing fastballs and pulling guys because the
Speaker 2: other part is they're so tough to pitch too, because
Speaker 2: they don't taste. I mean, they'll spread their own a
Speaker 2: whole lot. Go back to look the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks in the amount of strikehouse, how much they have
Speaker 2: diminished that and really reduced that, and it's making it
Speaker 2: for a very tough one through nine for anybody on
Speaker 2: that mound.
Speaker 5: When you look at this Dodger lineup, I mean, everybody
Speaker 5: got into the eighteen run barrage today. But we talked
Speaker 5: so much about the top part of the order today.
Speaker 5: I thought tom Y Edmund and Hayesan Kim low Key
Speaker 5: were right there with Munsey as the biggest key to
Speaker 5: the offense today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great because we understand that Tommy Emmon got
Speaker 2: off to tremendous start and he was slugging in the
Speaker 2: ball and big RBI's and all that. But I mean
Speaker 2: without muki Bez's injury, we don't know about this game
Speaker 2: from his on Kim and he shows some flashes I
Speaker 2: mean flashy, I should say, and all the things that
Speaker 2: we know about him that have not been on display.
Speaker 2: But he gives a good at bat. He's really shortened
Speaker 2: on that swing that like kick it out of the way,
Speaker 2: has making better and just reaching the zone. But the
Speaker 2: combination eight hits between those two guys is more than
Speaker 2: enough to think well as this season and the weather
Speaker 2: warms up. It's one thing I noticed this series, the
Speaker 2: balls flying out of the ballpark nicely. But the guys
Speaker 2: are really taking ideal swings and really feeling that bad
Speaker 2: in their hands with better grips and understanding why they
Speaker 2: can handle why they cannot. But welcome anytime David guys
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the order fee the gods at
Speaker 2: the top because it's always fun to watch. It's altainly
Speaker 2: much tougher for the guys on the other side.
Speaker 5: Do you feel like the Dodgers something has kicked in here,
Speaker 5: whether it's the adrenaline of facing the Yankees or being
Speaker 5: back home in front of a sellout crowd against the Yankees,
Speaker 5: feels like there is a little bit more focus and
Speaker 5: adrenaline from the Dodgers than what we saw in any
Speaker 5: of the games that on the last road trip.
Speaker 2: There's something obviously when you play the Yankees, you cannot
Speaker 2: deny it. Players usually don't tell you that during the series,
Speaker 2: but they understand and tell you a little bit later.
Speaker 2: You want to go out there and perform against a
Speaker 2: very good team, a team that has been on top
Speaker 2: of the AO East, a team that came in with
Speaker 2: a tremendous pitching staff, and at the same time, you know,
Speaker 2: if I'm scouting the Dollars today or this series, one
Speaker 2: of the biggest points they're going to make is in
Speaker 2: my notes, this team plays at one level. They do
Speaker 2: not let up. You think about at bats today, you
Speaker 2: think about base running today, you think about defense today,
Speaker 2: and land and knack on the mound is like they
Speaker 2: pretty much keep it on one level. It's not cruise
Speaker 2: control because the intensity is there, but it's truly admirable
Speaker 2: to watch just how professional they are about it with
Speaker 2: a very blue collar attitude, understanding that every pitch counts,
Speaker 2: every back counts. Guys on the bench with their depth
Speaker 2: that they have so me the scout will say, this
Speaker 2: is probably the most complete team right now in all
Speaker 2: of baseball, because even on the death side, there's a
Speaker 2: lot of guys that you have to go out there
Speaker 2: and put up with. It can hurt you make place.
Speaker 2: Also on the defensive side, do you.
Speaker 5: Feel like the Dodgers are living rent free in the
Speaker 5: Yankees' heads?
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, Yes, it's tough to get through
Speaker 2: knowing that you didn't play well in the World Series.
Speaker 2: They exposed every weakness about your defense, about your base running,
Speaker 2: about your outfield, about your throwing, and pretty much with
Speaker 2: all the trashtot got happened in the offseason and coming
Speaker 2: into this one and getting swat about the Dodgers the
Speaker 2: way they have, there's no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 2: they're thinking about, Wow, I mean, what else can we
Speaker 2: do to bit these guys?
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers score eighteen
Speaker 5: runs and beat the Yankees today eighteen to two. Jose,
Speaker 5: it felt like the Dodgers when they came back home,
Speaker 5: they found something here in these first two games, obviously
Speaker 5: coming back to beat Max Freed, but Max Muntsey himself.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's surprising, just the contrast lefty versus right.
Speaker 5: And you're old enough to remember a pretty good platoon
Speaker 5: with Dodgers Mike Sharperson and Lenny Harris. I know Kik
Speaker 5: is not doing great against lefties this year, only hitting
Speaker 5: two h nine, but Munsey only has three hits against
Speaker 5: lefties this year. Do you believe that's a platoon worth
Speaker 5: examining for the Dodgers moving forward?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Why not? I mean you don't have to look
Speaker 2: at Kiks overall numbers or how pretty or ugly the
Speaker 2: line looks. Sometimes it's about what Kika brings in his defense.
Speaker 2: A third base or anywhere you put Kik is gonna
Speaker 2: play and give you Golglub caliber defense. He comes through
Speaker 2: in the big Bambus. It could be a one for five,
Speaker 2: but the one hit becomes like the biggest hit of
Speaker 2: the night, and you need players like that for Max Munsey.
Speaker 2: I think, and I really believe that now seeing the
Speaker 2: ball better has been such a plus for him. Hopefully
Speaker 2: he can go out there and any opportunities that he
Speaker 2: gets against certain lefties or he matches up well, he
Speaker 2: can capitalize and just put the ball in play and
Speaker 2: don't try to prove to anybody about hitting lefties or
Speaker 2: not because he'll get out of his game. Take your watch.
Speaker 2: May contact is a big part of the field. Who
Speaker 2: use the other part of the field. He's there today,
Speaker 2: But that's a good option to have because he mentioned
Speaker 2: that as the season progresses in more teams matchup against you,
Speaker 2: and then you got to look at the bullpen matchups
Speaker 2: two Dave. To have a keyk monthly combination will not
Speaker 2: be a bad thing. If I'm Max Monsey, I'm saying
Speaker 2: there's no way I'm an everyday player, and I don't
Speaker 2: want to see that happen. So I'm going to do
Speaker 2: everything in my power to say I'm not a platoon player.
Speaker 2: I'm a full time player. A lot of good things
Speaker 2: have happened since I arrived here, go in the World
Speaker 2: Series and winning championship, but the push is always going
Speaker 2: to be there from Kik and I hope that the
Speaker 2: Max Monky takes off from where he is right now.
Speaker 2: He doesn't even think about being a platoon player.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. We'll
Speaker 5: see you tomorrow night Sunday Night baseball as Yamamoto looks
Speaker 5: to help the Dodgers sweep the Yankees out of La.
Speaker 2: Make it a Domingo Falise.
Speaker 5: Oh love it, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in
Speaker 5: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and
Speaker 5: Inguez and Luis Cruise. All right, that'll do it for
Speaker 5: us on Dodger Talk here. The Dodgers certainly had a
Speaker 5: big night tonight, eighteen run scored. They beat the Yankees
Speaker 5: eighteen to two. Land and Knack with the win will
Speaker 5: warn the losing pitcher. The Dodgers hit five home runs tonight,
Speaker 5: including two from Max Muncie. He tied a career high
Speaker 5: with seven RBIs tonight. Hayesan Kim a four for four day,
Speaker 5: including a two run home run. Andy Paez hit his
Speaker 5: tenth home run of the year in Dalton, rushing with
Speaker 5: his first career home run in the bottom of the
Speaker 5: eighth inning. It does bear repeating. We talked about Freddie
Speaker 5: Freeman and the doubles all time doubles leader in Major
Speaker 5: League Baseball history. Freddy continues to climb that list. He
Speaker 5: passed Ken Griffy Junior today with his five hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty fifth double of his career. He is now tied
Speaker 5: with Willie Mays and Ted Williams as far as forty
Speaker 5: seventh on the all time doubles list. So Freddy canntinues
Speaker 5: to trend towards Cooperstown and tonight it wasn't just a
Speaker 5: double for him. He did a lot for the Dodgers
Speaker 5: tonight again, two for three with two runs scored in
Speaker 5: an RBI. Freddie is now hitting three seventy four on
Speaker 5: the season. Aaron Judge was three for four today with
Speaker 5: two home runs. He's hitting three ninety eight with an
Speaker 5: no ps of twelve seventy, including twenty one home runs.
Speaker 5: Can you believe it's not Aaron Judge that's tied with
Speaker 5: Otani for the most home runs in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 5: It's the Mariners catcher Cal Rawley that's tied with sho
Speaker 5: Hey Otani for the most home runs in Major League
Speaker 5: Baseball this year twenty two. Yeah, we'll see where it
Speaker 5: goes tomorrow. By the way Otani, he does not break
Speaker 5: the franchise record for the most home runs hit in
Speaker 5: Dodger history in a single month. He now is tied
Speaker 5: and he will go down in the record books at
Speaker 5: least four this month, tied with Pedro Guerrero and Duke
Speaker 5: Snyder with fifteen home runs, the most hit in any
Speaker 5: single month during the regular season. Guerrero did it in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty five, Duke Snyder did it in nineteen fifty three,
Speaker 5: and the Great Show Aotani did it in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Thanks to calling ye back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks
Speaker 5: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. Tomorrow the
Speaker 5: Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball first pitch at four ten.
Speaker 5: Our coverage begins at three o'clock. In case you missed
Speaker 5: any of the show or our interview with Blake Snell,
Speaker 5: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you tomorrow. The Dodgers looking for a
Speaker 5: sweep over the Yankees after an eighteen to two win tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I said it. That was the final score tonight, eighteen
Speaker 5: to two. Fox Sports Radios. Next, have a great rest
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