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Speaker 9: Vasse, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Peco
Speaker 9: Park in San Diego. After the Padres beat up the
Speaker 9: Dodgers tonight by a final score of eleven in a
Speaker 9: blowout victory for San Diego in game two of this
Speaker 9: three game series, after the Dodgers came to town and
Speaker 9: beat the Padres last night and ten innings eight to seven,
Speaker 9: they come back and they CounterPunch with eleven to one
Speaker 9: drubbing of the Dodgers tonight, and look coming into the
Speaker 9: game tonight, it was a pitching mismatch. Even with Dylan
Speaker 9: Cease not being the consistent Dylan Cees the Padres got
Speaker 9: last year.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers were.
Speaker 9: Going with a bullpen game with two journeymen and Lou
Speaker 9: Trevino and Matt Sour, and it just didn't work out.
Speaker 9: Matt Sour, unfortunately tonight, really was hung out to dry
Speaker 9: because the Dodgers when they saw this game get a
Speaker 9: little bit out of hand, they were down five nothing
Speaker 9: and then all of a sudden it turned into a
Speaker 9: nine to nothing game in the sixth inning. They did
Speaker 9: not want to go to any more of their relief
Speaker 9: pitchers in that bullpen, and Matt Sower had to throw
Speaker 9: one hundred and eleven pitches in four and two thirds innings.
Speaker 9: He gave up thirteen hits and nine earned runs. Just
Speaker 9: to put it all into context, this is nothing that
Speaker 9: we have seen in a long time. Matt Sower's one
Speaker 9: hundred and eleven pitches in relief tonight are the most
Speaker 9: by a Dodgers since the knuckleballer Tom Candiotti threw one
Speaker 9: hundred and eleven pitches at Shay Stadium in New York
Speaker 9: against the Mets on July eighteenth, nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 9: the thirteen hits allowed in relief are the most by
Speaker 9: a Dodger pitcher since Clyde King allowed thirteen on August twelfth,
Speaker 9: nineteen forty five, against the Cubs. Rick Monday heard me
Speaker 9: talk about that during the Clubhouse Show. Our guy Dwayne
Speaker 9: McDonald found that, and then obviously Rick has seen a
Speaker 9: lot of baseball over the years and recognized Clyde King's
Speaker 9: name as a manager. He was the man of the
Speaker 9: Yankees in nineteen eighty two, and he also was the
Speaker 9: manager of the Braves when Hank Aaron broke Babe Bruce
Speaker 9: home run record against the Dodgers back in I think
Speaker 9: it was nineteen seventy four. That's right, Okay, So there
Speaker 9: you go. That's Clye King. And in case you're not
Speaker 9: familiar with the rule about bringing in a position player,
Speaker 9: the new rule that Major League Baseball implemented a couple
Speaker 9: of years ago to try to stop this from happening
Speaker 9: more often than it was is that any team that
Speaker 9: is down eight runs or more at any point in
Speaker 9: the game can bring a position player in and if
Speaker 9: you're up or down ten runs or more in the
Speaker 9: ninth inning, you can bring in a position player. So
Speaker 9: that's the reason why they were able to bring in
Speaker 9: keyk Hernandez after it turned into a nine tohing game
Speaker 9: in the sixth inning. And you really feel for Matt Soer, right,
Speaker 9: I feel like he was hung out to dry out
Speaker 9: there and obviously was out of bullets, did not have
Speaker 9: anything left, the tank was empty, whatever a cliche you want.
Speaker 8: To use, he just didn't have it.
Speaker 9: And that's when Dave Roberts decided, you know what, it's
Speaker 9: not going to look good. It's not a great reflection
Speaker 9: on any of us, but we're going to keyke Hernandez
Speaker 9: with two outs in the sixth inning. This is just
Speaker 9: a strategic, big picture, regular season move. And look, the
Speaker 9: Dodgers punted on two playoff games to preserve their pitching
Speaker 9: in their bullpen in last year's NLCS, So you're telling me,
Speaker 9: in a situation that they felt like they were in
Speaker 9: in game sixty eight of one hundred and sixty two,
Speaker 9: they weren't going to do something similar if they did
Speaker 9: it in the NLCS under thin pitching circumstances. They certainly
Speaker 9: weren't going to hesitate to do it on a game
Speaker 9: like tonight, and they still have a chance to win
Speaker 9: the series tomorrow, and obviously that means more than losing
Speaker 9: eleven to one and having Keik Hernandez come in and pitch.
Speaker 9: So those are some of the reasons. It wasn't a
Speaker 9: great look. It wasn't great for the fans that were
Speaker 9: listening that we're here or watching on television. But that's
Speaker 9: the reality of the situation for the Dodgers right now.
Speaker 9: No Roki Sazaki, no Tyler Glass Now, no Blake Snell,
Speaker 9: no Tony Gonsolin, and Bobby Miller was not an option
Speaker 9: because he gave up ten runs tonight for Oklahoma City
Speaker 9: and Albuquerque. So this was the only option the Dodgers
Speaker 9: had tonight. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 9: seventy is the phone number. As we roll on to
Speaker 9: the top of the hour, we also have some information
Speaker 9: on Blake Snell and show hey Otani simulated game. You'll
Speaker 9: hear from Dodgers pitching coach Mark Pryor on Otani and
Speaker 9: you'll all so here from Blake Snell himself, who did
Speaker 9: throw a bullpen session today at pet Goo Park. But
Speaker 9: before we go to the phones, let's hear from Matt
Speaker 9: Sour who's in the clubhouse on sports at LA.
Speaker 10: I mean, every time I come and there's a you know,
Speaker 10: opener in front of me, I know, my job is
Speaker 10: to just beat as many as I can. And obviously
Speaker 10: today I didn't have my as good as stuff, but
Speaker 10: I felt like I was just out there, you know,
Speaker 10: pitching my ass off, trying to compete and trying to
Speaker 10: get as many innings as I could for the bullpen.
Speaker 10: Frustrated as that there seas just with the two out
Speaker 10: hits that kind of got strung together there. Yeah, No,
Speaker 10: I mean a lot of times just gotta be better
Speaker 10: with loking in the ball. I you know, to out
Speaker 10: walk there hurt big time. Can be walking guys with
Speaker 10: two outs, and then you know, after after the walking
Speaker 10: stuff hit the fan and you know I'll be able
Speaker 10: to compete a little better and get out of the
Speaker 10: anthing quicker.
Speaker 11: Sound like a local pride take out of still being
Speaker 11: able to just kind of eat up innings like you
Speaker 11: did know on kind of like what it could mean
Speaker 11: bigger picture for the team.
Speaker 10: I wouldn't necessarily like say a pride thing you know,
Speaker 10: I know my role is to eat up innings, and
Speaker 10: I feel like I got the frame and the repertoire
Speaker 10: to do that, and I'm gonna go out there and
Speaker 10: compete every time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Matt Sour has done that in previous times, we've
Speaker 9: seen him.
Speaker 8: This year, it just wasn't his night.
Speaker 9: And I don't believe anybody's putting this on Matt Sour's shoulders.
Speaker 9: It just wasn't the best of appearances for the Dodgers
Speaker 9: to go to a position player at that juncture of
Speaker 9: the game.
Speaker 8: And look, it was weird.
Speaker 9: You know, you kind of felt like it was coming though,
Speaker 9: because after the Padres got to the ninth spot, you're thinking,
Speaker 9: there's nobody as that inning's unfolding. You're not seeing any
Speaker 9: movement in the Dodger bullpen, and you're thinking, oh, all right,
Speaker 9: so they're just gonna leave Matt Sour out there, and
Speaker 9: if Kik doesn't come in in the sixth inning, he's
Speaker 9: coming in in the seventh inning.
Speaker 8: So what's the difference at that point? And I did
Speaker 8: get some text from.
Speaker 9: People around the league and they said, you know, they
Speaker 9: were frustrated as well seeing this unfold, and some were
Speaker 9: even saying, okay, you do that, but you're basically white
Speaker 9: waving the white flag. How about your hitters don't swing
Speaker 9: and just end this game as quickly as possible if
Speaker 9: you're waving the white flag to live another day, which
Speaker 9: hard to argue with. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 9: two five seventy is the phone number. Padres beat the
Speaker 9: Dodgers tonight, eleven to one. Danny in Claremont, You're on
Speaker 9: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Danny.
Speaker 11: Hey, Dave, thanks for getting me on, as always, my man,
Speaker 11: my pleasure.
Speaker 8: What do you got?
Speaker 11: I got, well, I got a strong disagree with you
Speaker 11: on your last Dave and how you said it's the
Speaker 11: hard to argue with going up there and just letting
Speaker 11: the guys take ditches and not swing the bat. I mean,
Speaker 11: I love you, Dave, I love this show. But come on, man,
Speaker 11: that's gotta be one of the most in name things
Speaker 11: I've ever heard.
Speaker 9: What are you talking about? The Dodgers waved the white
Speaker 9: flag in the sixth inning. Did you think they were
Speaker 9: going to come back?
Speaker 11: Of course not, Dave, But there's a there's a number
Speaker 11: of good reasons why you would never ever do that,
Speaker 11: and why You've never ever seen that happen in the
Speaker 11: history of baseball. There's a number of reasons why you
Speaker 11: wouldn't do that day.
Speaker 9: I haven't seen a position player pitch in the sixth
Speaker 9: inning too many times either, Danny not.
Speaker 11: I haven't seen that either, Dave. That was a new
Speaker 11: one for me too. That was that was a good one.
Speaker 11: But that doesn't that doesn't mean you can You're gonna
Speaker 11: send a player like Dalton Rushing or Kim Up or
Speaker 11: Conforto and tell them just to go look at three
Speaker 11: pitches and sit back down. You know, these guys are
Speaker 11: still playing every day and rhythm is such a big
Speaker 11: thing for them. You're gonna tell them to go up
Speaker 11: there and just take some strikeouts. I mean, that's not
Speaker 11: how it goes. You can't take off your competitive naybe.
Speaker 9: Should the game after seven innings? Maybe they should end
Speaker 9: also the game after seven innings?
Speaker 11: Well, that's another in an idea I've heard before. I
Speaker 11: don't like that one either, But that's.
Speaker 4: Better than what you're suggesting, Dave.
Speaker 11: And also, you know there's a game tomorrow, right, I mean,
Speaker 11: what if those guys put together a three or four
Speaker 11: one rally there? They're not going to win this game.
Speaker 11: But if they get another Padres picture in or two
Speaker 11: pictures in, you know, it's another picture down tomorrow. They're
Speaker 11: not going to see tomorrow. So there's reasons I didn't have.
Speaker 9: A I don't have as big of a problem with
Speaker 9: what we saw on the sixth inning, Danny. We saw
Speaker 9: the Dodgers basically say we're going to live another day
Speaker 9: in playoff games.
Speaker 8: So that was my point.
Speaker 9: If you were listening and not hearing and just harping
Speaker 9: on one part of what I said, The bigger picture
Speaker 9: here is the Dodgers did something similar to this in
Speaker 9: the postseason last year twice against the Mets, to live
Speaker 9: another day and to win four games before they did
Speaker 9: and not just worry about one game. So this is
Speaker 9: game sixty eight. They're trying to win the series tomorrow,
Speaker 9: and that's the way they played it tonight, And considering
Speaker 9: where they're at with their pitchers, it's that's hard to
Speaker 9: argue with too. But I don't believe you're redlining anybody
Speaker 9: if you bring him in for an inning apiece like
Speaker 9: Jose Motas suggested. I don't think you're red lining anybody
Speaker 9: outside of Michael Kopek, who just came back from not
Speaker 9: pitching all season long.
Speaker 11: I think you misunderstand me, Dale. I'm not talking about
Speaker 11: the Dodgers. I'm talking about the Dodgers getting more padres
Speaker 11: pitchers in the game. You're saying you're telling them to
Speaker 11: go up there and take pitches and not have competitive
Speaker 11: at bats. I'm saying, if they put together some competitive
Speaker 11: the bats and they score years, they're going to.
Speaker 8: Bring relievers the game. They did that last morrow. They
Speaker 8: did that last night. They did that last night.
Speaker 11: And also, you know, I know you probably don't remember.
Speaker 8: Think the Dodger players.
Speaker 9: You don't think the Dodger players feel the vibe of
Speaker 9: what's taking place in that game. Taoscar Hernandez is out
Speaker 9: of the game, Mookie Betts is out of the game.
Speaker 9: You really thought the Dodgers were going to come back
Speaker 9: and make this a game tonight.
Speaker 11: That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: Also, with a position player on the mountain, you're all right,
Speaker 9: we're around in circles. Danny will agree to disagree tonight.
Speaker 9: Thank you for the phone call. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 9: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. I mean, geez,
Speaker 9: let's go out to San diego, Ray, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: How you doing? Ray?
Speaker 1: Hey, David, thanks for taking my call. Longtime listening, first
Speaker 1: time called her a couple of things. I think Pot
Speaker 1: has earned the clean up spot. Bring down Tail until
Speaker 1: he fixes things.
Speaker 9: I'm glad you brought up I'm glad you brought up Tail.
Speaker 9: Can I just interrupt you really quick? That third inning,
Speaker 9: ta Oscar Hernandez was running back and forth on so
Speaker 9: many hits from the Padres in that third inning. And
Speaker 9: I'm not saying this is the reason why he may
Speaker 9: be hurt, but I believe he came into this game
Speaker 9: not feeling great. Remember the groin injury that kept him out.
Speaker 9: He came back quicker than most guys, and over the
Speaker 9: course of his last twenty games, coming into tonight, he
Speaker 9: was just twelve for his last seven three with one
Speaker 9: home run, and he wasn't you remember he had to
Speaker 9: take a time out in his last at bat tonight
Speaker 9: to Ray. So I would say, give ta Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 9: a break. I don't believe he's playing at one hundred percent,
Speaker 9: and I would be surprised if you saw him in
Speaker 9: the starting lineup tomorrow in a day game after a
Speaker 9: night game after what we saw.
Speaker 4: No, I get that.
Speaker 1: I get it, and I'm not like, you know, like
Speaker 1: pointing fingers saying Tail, You're like you're being terrible, Like no, No.
Speaker 4: I get it, Like he's got to be eased in.
Speaker 8: But he hasn't been good, but there might be a
Speaker 8: reason why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely thinks maybe earned a spot to move
Speaker 1: up a little bit on the lineup wild Tail either
Speaker 1: recovers or maybe takes a couple of days off here
Speaker 1: and there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The next thing I want to say was comfort o,
Speaker 1: Like whatever they paid this guy, Like, I'm so over
Speaker 1: he's taking swings away from Kim possibly maybe guys that
Speaker 1: we could maybe bring up to give some like you know,
Speaker 1: you know, big show swings or something, because I don't
Speaker 1: even know what the guy's uh how many times he's
Speaker 1: struck out?
Speaker 4: How many times is that runners on day? I'm over it.
Speaker 4: I'm overseeing this guy swinging. I get it. You might
Speaker 4: have something there that that the number see, but you
Speaker 4: know you can't the high test. He's failed it every
Speaker 4: single time practically. Yeah, he got to run today great
Speaker 4: in a in a losing contest that we already saw
Speaker 4: was gonna be No.
Speaker 12: You're not going to celebrate that, Ray, No, absolutely not absolutely.
Speaker 12: Like maybe, by the way, I agree with you.
Speaker 9: I agree with you dropping Taoe down in the order
Speaker 9: if he's going to continue to go out there every day.
Speaker 9: But I would say Will Smith should be the guy
Speaker 9: hitting behind the MVPs, not Andy Piez in the cleanup spot.
Speaker 4: Oh, you know what, You're right, You're right.
Speaker 1: I'm basically I'm going off with tonight's.
Speaker 5: Lineup, but absolutely, absolutely either way.
Speaker 4: I still think Piez should be hitting in front of tail.
Speaker 13: But yes, and the last thing, the last thing here, David,
Speaker 13: I read something funny. I read something funny or kind
Speaker 13: of interesting about ever since the Dodgers going to Drive Line,
Speaker 13: the injuries shot through the roof.
Speaker 2: I think they were.
Speaker 1: Ranked like low twenties and now they're like top five
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I saw that.
Speaker 8: I saw it. Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 9: They're trying to pin it on Rob Hill, who the
Speaker 9: Dodgers hired away from Drive Line a few years ago. Well,
Speaker 9: I saw Carlos Bierga post it. Ray, I don't I
Speaker 9: don't know if that's a coincidence. I don't know if
Speaker 9: there's a direct correlation, But you know, that I don't
Speaker 9: have the proof, and neither does anybody else.
Speaker 8: I mean, those are just the numbers.
Speaker 9: So the Dodgers are not the only organization to hire
Speaker 9: guys out of that drive line think tank.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I saw it. I saw it.
Speaker 1: I think it's I just think it's just like something
Speaker 1: is going on, and yeah, the guys.
Speaker 9: Are chasing velocity too much. They got to put down,
Speaker 9: you know what they gotta do. They've got to be
Speaker 9: able once they break spring training to understand how to
Speaker 9: use those heavy balls. Those weighted balls I think are
Speaker 9: really hurting these guys. Not because the way I feel
Speaker 9: like the way they're using the weighted balls are hurting them.
Speaker 9: Maybe they're abusing or the way they throw them. But
Speaker 9: in spring training there's a lot more monitoring over that.
Speaker 9: So when these pitchers go off to double A or
Speaker 9: triple A, there's got to be more monitoring of the
Speaker 9: way they use it.
Speaker 8: Hey, Ray, I got to move on. Thanks a lot
Speaker 8: for the phone call.
Speaker 9: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 9: number speaking of injured pitchers for the Dodgers show, Hey
Speaker 9: Otani through a simulated game today, you'll hear from Mark Pryor.
Speaker 8: I was here to watch it. I'll share that with you, and.
Speaker 9: Also Blake Snell through a bullpen session today. I'll share
Speaker 9: with you what Blake had to say after the bullpen session.
Speaker 9: But things are looking very good for him and Tyler Glass,
Speaker 9: so we'll get to that after this, and also we'll
Speaker 9: take more of your phone calls. At eight sixty six nine,
Speaker 9: eight seven two five seventy. Dodgers fall to the Padres
Speaker 9: tonight eleven to one. And by the way, I guess
Speaker 9: I should say this before we do take that break.
Speaker 8: You can roll a call and keep rolling it.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to point out again tai Oscar Hernandez,
Speaker 9: you don't all of a sudden be one of the
Speaker 9: best hitters in the National League and then fall off a.
Speaker 8: Cliff for no reason, including tonight.
Speaker 9: Oscar Hernandez in his last twenty games, hitting a bucks
Speaker 9: seventy one with twenty six strikeouts and only four walks,
Speaker 9: and more importantly, only one home run. There is something
Speaker 9: going on physically with Taioscar Hernandez.
Speaker 8: I am sure about it.
Speaker 9: I don't know exactly what it is, but he just
Speaker 9: has not looked like himself, and I think it was
Speaker 9: evident tonight where he was grimacing at the plate, kind
Speaker 9: of moving his right legs.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Maybe that groin injury has re emerged here, So hopefully
Speaker 9: he gets it back where it needs to be for
Speaker 9: him to be the ta Oscar Hernandez that we saw
Speaker 9: at the beginning of this year. Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 9: Padres tonight eleven to one on the world champion Dodgers
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Speaker 9: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 9: the phone number. We'll get to your phone calls in
Speaker 9: a moment, but I want you to hear from Mark
Speaker 9: Pryor because I got here around one o'clock one thirty
Speaker 9: and show he Otani emerged from the Dodger dugout in
Speaker 9: his betting practice uniform to go out to the bullpen
Speaker 9: and warm up for his simulated game. And this is
Speaker 9: the most we have seen Otani throw in these simulated games.
Speaker 9: He simulated three innings. He threw forty four pitches. He
Speaker 9: threw his whole array of pitches. His uh I actually
Speaker 9: spoke to one of the minor leaguers that faced him.
Speaker 9: He said, the best pitch he saw from Otani was
Speaker 9: his sweeper.
Speaker 8: So he used the sweeper.
Speaker 9: He he was the splitter, and he threw the fastball
Speaker 9: as high as ninety six miles an hour. And after
Speaker 9: he was done with it, he went to go visit
Speaker 9: with my guy, you Darvish. We had a little fun
Speaker 9: me and O'tani. After that we were debating whose guy
Speaker 9: you Darvish is, And I said Darvish is my guy,
Speaker 9: and O'tani came back and said, no, Darvish is my guy.
Speaker 9: I said, all right, all right, all right, you want
Speaker 9: to believe that, go ahead. But anyway, he was in
Speaker 9: great spirits after the simulated game, which tells you he
Speaker 9: felt good about the way the ball was coming out
Speaker 9: of his hand. And Mark Pryor, the Dodgers pitching coach,
Speaker 9: also felt good about what he saw today from show.
Speaker 8: Hey Otani, he.
Speaker 14: Started getting close to forty four, He start getting into
Speaker 14: the sixties seventy pitch range. You know, then you can start,
Speaker 14: you know, envisioning and dreaming about, you know, being in
Speaker 14: a game, because then you know that he has the
Speaker 14: volume under him to go out there and at least
Speaker 14: take down multiple innings in a real game. And again,
Speaker 14: I think that a lot of it coincides what does
Speaker 14: that look like?
Speaker 8: Is that real?
Speaker 14: And what are kind of where we are with.
Speaker 10: The rest of our staff as a whole.
Speaker 15: Has there been any the discussion about deviating from that
Speaker 15: plan of having him patronate game after the All Star break,
Speaker 15: considering how many injuries do you have in your rotation?
Speaker 14: Now, I'll be honest, I haven't heard about that plan.
Speaker 14: So I can't answer to that one. Like I said,
Speaker 14: you know, for me, it's evaluating what he does today
Speaker 14: and then evaluating how he feels where he's at. And
Speaker 14: again we go like day by day with him, you know,
Speaker 14: for me, you know, because things change all the time.
Speaker 14: I mean, like I said, Friday, he was gonna throw,
Speaker 14: and then there's weather, and then we got day games,
Speaker 14: and you know, it's Fouling getting hit in the heel,
Speaker 14: and so there's a lot of variables that change on
Speaker 14: a daily basis with him that we don't you know,
Speaker 14: normally come across at pitchers. So right now, I thought, again,
Speaker 14: today was a great day for him, and I think,
Speaker 14: you know, we'll take the next step forward here in
Speaker 14: the coming days.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the next step forward will be another simulated game
Speaker 9: in a week, whether it's this Saturday at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 9: or maybe a couple of days after because of the
Speaker 9: schedule being pushed back with the weather in Saint Louis
Speaker 9: and the day games in Saint Louis. But you heard
Speaker 9: me ask Mark Pryor if they have thought about maybe
Speaker 9: having Otani start pitching in games before the All Star break,
Speaker 9: considering where the Dodger pitching staff is with all the injuries,
Speaker 9: and Dave Roberts spoke after Mark Pryor and he maintained
Speaker 9: what he told us a couple of weeks ago that
Speaker 9: you will not see Otani pitch in a game before
Speaker 9: the All Star break. If you remember, Dave Roberts told
Speaker 9: us exclusively a couple of weeks ago that Otani is
Speaker 9: going to start in games after the All Star break.
Speaker 9: So now potentially you're looking at an Otani glass. Now
Speaker 9: Snell return right out of the All Star and you're here,
Speaker 9: and we'll get to blake'snell a little bit later in
Speaker 9: the show, but we want to get to the phone
Speaker 9: calls at eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 9: Let's go back out to Palmdale.
Speaker 4: Darryl.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk live from Peco Park. Hi, Darryl.
Speaker 5: All right, Dave, thanks to taking my call.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I gotta give it up to you, brother. You are
Speaker 5: the pulse of the Dodgers. I mean, you can really
Speaker 5: keep us informing what's going on. And as far as games, Darryl, Okay,
Speaker 5: as for as games like this, you know, you win something,
Speaker 5: you lose something, they're gonna come. You can't do anything
Speaker 5: about it. You just gotta play it like it is.
Speaker 5: And and I have to crawl here on something I
Speaker 5: said about Bookie Betts. This guy is a student of
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 4: I mean, I was.
Speaker 5: Went over wherever the ball is hit. He always positioned
Speaker 5: himself to be there. He made a place tonight that
Speaker 5: he wasn't supposed to make. So guy's doing okay, you
Speaker 5: know he's he's doing okay a short.
Speaker 8: He's doing more than okay at shortstop this year, Darryl.
Speaker 9: And you're talking about the play he made on Luisa
Speaker 9: Rise in the first inning where he dove up the middle,
Speaker 9: made the stop and made a strike through a strike
Speaker 9: to Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8: So you're right.
Speaker 9: And you can catch Mookie Betts on our pregame show
Speaker 9: yesterday on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for the phone call,
Speaker 9: appreciate it. Let's go out to Norwalk. Jose You're on
Speaker 9: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Jose Hi, David, are you doing I'm doing great? You
Speaker 8: being safe out there, jose.
Speaker 3: Hey, safe as could be. You know how Ali is tonight.
Speaker 3: But I got a question for you. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know we're playing against the Padres, one of our toughest
Speaker 3: teams in the nl West throwing a game like this
Speaker 3: and giving them a chance to win the seers tomorrow.
Speaker 3: What kind of message are you saying against everybody else?
Speaker 9: Well, that's a glass half empty type of look at it, Jose.
Speaker 9: I'm looking at it similar to the way the Dodgers
Speaker 9: looked at it last year during the NLCS. Different circumstances, obvious.
Speaker 9: The regular season is a much different animal than a
Speaker 9: short series. But the Dodgers are looking to win the
Speaker 9: series tomorrow by not using their high leverage relievers tonight,
Speaker 9: and it will be all hands on deck tomorrow because
Speaker 9: of the day off on Thursday. So they chose they
Speaker 9: wanted to win this series, but they felt like once
Speaker 9: they got down five to nothing then six and seven,
Speaker 9: they'd figure they'd live another day and throw everything they
Speaker 9: got at the padres tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And is that based just on the bullpen, because I
Speaker 3: think we have a lineup that could have overcome the
Speaker 3: five oh deficit in four or five innings.
Speaker 9: But you're right, that's kind of the catch twenty two.
Speaker 9: With this offense, you're never out of a game. But
Speaker 9: that was the decision Dave Roberts went with when they
Speaker 9: were down five to nothing. It didn't seem like the
Speaker 9: Dodgers were going to do much of anything against Dylan
Speaker 9: Cees who by the way, Oh by the way, Dylan,
Speaker 9: see seven scoreless innings tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if you look at it that way,
Speaker 3: I totally understand. But I don't like giving up a
Speaker 3: game in the fourth or fifth inning with the lineup
Speaker 3: that we have.
Speaker 9: But I agree, Well, they didn't give up with that,
Speaker 9: all right, Jose. They didn't give up in the fourth
Speaker 9: or fifth inning. They waved the white flag in the
Speaker 9: sixth inning. That's a big difference. Eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 9: eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number. All right,
Speaker 9: he's been on hold. Uh he called after a Dodger
Speaker 9: win last night, So we'll give him a free pass tonight,
Speaker 9: Ken in Newport Beach. I know you're not happy, so
Speaker 9: UH go ahead and vent. We're here for you.
Speaker 2: Okay. First off, I have all the respect in the
Speaker 2: world for.
Speaker 4: You, Dave.
Speaker 2: I wish I had your job. I don't care how
Speaker 2: much money I made doing other things. I wish I
Speaker 2: had your job. But here's the problem. Sixty seven years
Speaker 2: I've been a Dodger major fan, never saw Walt Wilson
Speaker 2: quit on a team and let a picture stay for
Speaker 2: nine and eighth. No way Losorta would do that under
Speaker 2: any circumstances. Because what you just did, and I watched
Speaker 2: the faces of Freemen and Mookie, you embarrassed the players,
Speaker 2: You humiliated the franchise, and every fan like me out
Speaker 2: there who's a big fan and is worried about San
Speaker 2: Diego and who's going to finish first, just completely kicked
Speaker 2: off about what was going on there. There was no
Speaker 2: reason to do it that way.
Speaker 9: Ken, Let's take a deep breath. Number One, they did
Speaker 9: not embarrass the franchise tonight. They just months removed from
Speaker 9: winning the World Series, so they did not embarrass the franchise.
Speaker 9: Number two, do you really you're talking about Walter Alston
Speaker 9: and Tommy Lesorta? I mean that is another that's another
Speaker 9: universe these days. Ken, Do you really believe Dave Roberts
Speaker 9: made that decision all by himself. No, there's a pregame
Speaker 9: plan put in place with Mark Pryor, with his bench
Speaker 9: coach Danny Lehman, and obviously the front office is heavily involved.
Speaker 9: Don't you believe that decision and roadmap was made before
Speaker 9: the game. You heard Dave Roberts. He didn't sound like
Speaker 9: he loved doing that either.
Speaker 2: Okay, go back and take it a chance. Go back
Speaker 2: and watch the game on TV. Three times he was
Speaker 2: laughing in the dugout, smiling and laughing. Sure, we know
Speaker 2: he lives in San Diego and he's lived there for
Speaker 2: thirty years. But that's not the kind of thing that
Speaker 2: you want to show the fans, and not the kind
Speaker 2: of thing you want to do with your players, who
Speaker 2: right now are probably pretty angry when you left the
Speaker 2: pitcher in for nine runs. You don't know what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers could have done. They maybe could have come back
Speaker 2: or at least scored some runs. I think they quit.
Speaker 2: I think when they're manager quit on them. They quit
Speaker 2: on the game.
Speaker 9: All right, Well, thank you for the phone call, Ken,
Speaker 9: I appreciate it, and we'll see how things go tomorrow.
Speaker 9: If the Dodgers win the series, then I feel like
Speaker 9: tonight will not sting as much as it obviously has
Speaker 9: with you and a few others.
Speaker 8: And look, I respect that.
Speaker 9: I understand it wasn't great for fans listening or watching or.
Speaker 8: Being here at Petco Park.
Speaker 9: I completely understand that eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 9: two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: All right, I want you to hear from Blake Snell.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 9: He's part of the reason why the Dodgers were in
Speaker 9: this predicament with his injury. Nothing he can't control, but
Speaker 9: certainly him, Glass now and Sazaki being on the shelf
Speaker 9: have complicated matters. And here's what Blake had to say
Speaker 9: after his twenty somethingter pitch bullpen session today.
Speaker 16: It's just like a conversation, you know, like, let's see
Speaker 16: how tomorrow go. Let's see tomorrow goes. Like that's a
Speaker 16: lot of it, but they're like listening, Like to have
Speaker 16: a bullpen here in front of Mark and Connor, For
Speaker 16: me personally, that was huge. I want to I want
Speaker 16: to throw around them because I know they know what
Speaker 16: to look for, and uh yeah, it's gonna help me
Speaker 16: a ton.
Speaker 8: Where's your head out?
Speaker 15: You feel like as you've gotten healthier and more pain free,
Speaker 15: your head's in a better spot.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, because there's you know I could do something
Speaker 16: early on, I just I knew I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 16: And and then you know you have to hear like, well,
Speaker 16: when are you gonna pitch every day?
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 16: It's exhausting, and you're like, I have no idea, And
Speaker 16: it's the fans, it's your family. I mean, my dad
Speaker 16: text me every day.
Speaker 8: You're gonna pitch.
Speaker 16: You're gonna pitch, Like you know, I'm trying.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 16: But yeah, like it's just you know what, what what
Speaker 16: you go through. But I'm very excited, Like after this pen,
Speaker 16: I know, like the grampup's gonna start and I can
Speaker 16: start pitching, and I know like I'm gonna be a
Speaker 16: factor on the team again, and I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 9: All Right, there's Blake Snell, who threw his first bullpen
Speaker 9: session since going on the injured list, and he's gonna
Speaker 9: throw another one Friday at Dodgers Stadium. But the Dodgers
Speaker 9: are being extra cautious with him and Tyler Glass now.
Speaker 9: When they activate both those guys, they don't want them
Speaker 9: going back on the injured list. So as much as
Speaker 9: Blake wants to pitch before the All Star Break, my
Speaker 9: prediction is you won't see Blake Snell pitching an All
Speaker 9: Star pitch in a game until right after the All
Speaker 9: Star Break, not a couple of weeks after I'm predicting
Speaker 9: that Snell, glass Now, and Otani will be pitching in
Speaker 9: that first series against the Brewers right out of the
Speaker 9: All Star break. Especially Snell, because he's pain free. He
Speaker 9: wants to ramp this thing up. But the Dodgers obviously
Speaker 9: want him, glass Now and Otani and to a certain extent,
Speaker 9: Sazaka if he's able to come back and be strong
Speaker 9: the final two and a half months of the regular
Speaker 9: season and be ready for the postseason.
Speaker 8: So I just that's my prediction.
Speaker 9: I don't know anything more than you, but just the
Speaker 9: sense I'm getting feels like that first game right out
Speaker 9: of the All Star Break at home against the Brewers
Speaker 9: would be the game that Blake Snell would pitch in
Speaker 9: for the first time since going on the injured list,
Speaker 9: and glass Now I would predict in the same area
Speaker 9: of time.
Speaker 8: All Right, that'll do it for us.
Speaker 9: On Dodger Talk tonight, coming up tomorrow, Justin Robleski is
Speaker 9: on the mound for the Dodgers, going up against Randy
Speaker 9: Vasquez Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at noon, first
Speaker 9: pitch at one ten Thanks to Colinie back at our
Speaker 9: Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Peggo
Speaker 9: Park in San Diego, and thanks to you for listening
Speaker 9: in case you missed any of the show.
Speaker 8: If you really want to go through it.
Speaker 9: Again, the iHeartRadio app is where you can find it.
Speaker 9: But unless painful listen is our pregame conversation with Will Smith,
Speaker 9: so you can find all of that in yesterday's conversation
Speaker 9: with Mookie Betts as well. Once again, the final score
Speaker 9: from Peco Park in San Diego. The Padres blow out
Speaker 9: the Dodgers eleven to one.
Speaker 8: Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 9: We'll talk to you tomorrow afternoon from Peco Park in
Speaker 9: San Diego.
Speaker 8: Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio is next. La. Please
Speaker 8: be safe, Please be safe, Have a great rest of
Speaker 8: your night. See you