Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on tone, Let's wind it.
Speaker 4: I love listening to these guys after the show.
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Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson. This is
Speaker 5: world champion, Dodger world championing for a small soft time.
Speaker 5: They get up people what they want to die too?
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Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 1: One of a con.
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Speaker 6: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 5: Vasse, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse, back with you
Speaker 5: live at Dodgers Stadium tonight until eleven thirty. We have
Speaker 5: phone lines open at eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy. Other exciting game between the Dodgers and Padres.
Speaker 5: These two teams seemed to give us our money's worth
Speaker 5: and then some so far this year and going back
Speaker 5: to last year's regular season and five game thrilling finish.
Speaker 5: In the NLDS Tonight, another thrilling finish as the Dodgers
Speaker 5: beat the Padres thanks to a pinch hit walk off
Speaker 5: home run by Will Smith off of Robert Suarez. It
Speaker 5: was an interesting battle as the Dodgers catcher came off
Speaker 5: the bench he was not starting tonight. Dalton Rushing got
Speaker 5: the start tonight, but the Dodgers took their shot with
Speaker 5: Smith after the Padres tied it up in the top
Speaker 5: of the ninth inning. He pinch hit in the eighth spot,
Speaker 5: which was occupied by Hayesung Kim to start the game.
Speaker 5: Keiky Hernandez came in in the middle of the game
Speaker 5: and Dave Roberts went to Smith to be able to
Speaker 5: try to win the game. In the bottom of the
Speaker 5: ninth inning, he was down two after he fouled off
Speaker 5: the second fastball down the left field line foul. It
Speaker 5: had the distance for a home run, but it was foul.
Speaker 5: In fact, the foul ball went farther probably than the
Speaker 5: home run. So that'll show you that all this launchangle
Speaker 5: and distance of home runs really don't mean a lot
Speaker 5: unless you get it over the wall and in fair
Speaker 5: territory and that's exactly what Will Smith did. On the
Speaker 5: third pitch, Suarez tried to throw him a change up.
Speaker 5: Smith was all over it like he was last night.
Speaker 5: Just put the barrel of the bat on the baseball,
Speaker 5: just dropped it right on the ball, and he pushed
Speaker 5: it to right field, just over the outstretched glove a
Speaker 5: Fernando Tatist Junior into the home run seats. It was
Speaker 5: served up on a platter right there for those lucky fans.
Speaker 5: It looked like the gentleman's wife, I hope just shied
Speaker 5: away from trying to try to grab the ball, which
Speaker 5: was smart because you don't want any questions of finn
Speaker 5: interference when you're sitting in those home run seats. And
Speaker 5: it was right there for them on the table, right
Speaker 5: next to their nachos, their surveysas, and they were able
Speaker 5: to have a walk off home run pinch it style
Speaker 5: from Will Smith and Fernando Tatist Junior. Not sure what
Speaker 5: was going on with him. It didn't seem like he
Speaker 5: really had the hops getting off the ground. If he did,
Speaker 5: he may have caught that. The timing also was a
Speaker 5: little off, But Will Smith and the Dodgers will take
Speaker 5: it on a four to three win eight six six
Speaker 5: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 5: the Dodgers had fifty three thousand, five hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: eight at Dodgers Stadium tonight to witness their fifth win
Speaker 5: in a row. The Dodgers' attendance now over two billion.
Speaker 5: Fans have come through the gates here at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 5: and they thank you for your support. Without the passion
Speaker 5: of the fans, Dodger Stadium would not be the home
Speaker 5: field advantage that it is these days. It wasn't that
Speaker 5: way fifteen years ago, it wasn't that way twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: But Dodger Stadium has turned back into one of the
Speaker 5: toughest places to play. And that's why home field advantage
Speaker 5: is so important to the Dodgers as they try to
Speaker 5: get into the postseason and also have as many home
Speaker 5: games as possible. Don't discount that. I feel like people
Speaker 5: discount how tough of a place Dodger Stadium is to
Speaker 5: play these days, and the Padres and Giants have found
Speaker 5: that out yet again. The Padres fanned that out in
Speaker 5: the postseason last year, and the Giants found it out
Speaker 5: again before the Padres came to town, and the Dodgers
Speaker 5: have certainly taken care of business on this homestand they
Speaker 5: were able to take two out three from the Giants.
Speaker 5: They are now four and a half games ahead of
Speaker 5: San Francisco and they've won the first three games of
Speaker 5: this four game series against the Padres, so they're now
Speaker 5: six games ahead of San Diego in the NL West.
Speaker 5: The Diamondbacks are nine games back of the Dodgers in
Speaker 5: the NL West. So the Dodgers have actually separated themselves
Speaker 5: to start this ten game homestand from the rest of
Speaker 5: the NL West by beating the teams that are right
Speaker 5: behind them. And that's why, you know, I know the
Speaker 5: Dodgers and Dave Roberts want to downplay the significance of
Speaker 5: these games in division, but the reality is they're worth
Speaker 5: two games, a two game swing in the standings. So
Speaker 5: the Dodgers taking two out of three from the Giants
Speaker 5: when they came in here, and we're thinking about leaving
Speaker 5: town in first place. Now they're four and a half
Speaker 5: games back after they've lost four in a row. So
Speaker 5: the Dodgers have won the first three games of this
Speaker 5: series against the Padres and are looking to sweep them out.
Speaker 5: Of town in a four game series for the first
Speaker 5: time since two thousand and nine at Dodgers Stadium. Not
Speaker 5: to mention the Dodgers, which they started this twenty nine
Speaker 5: game stretch of facing teams above five hundred and teams
Speaker 5: that were fighting for a division or a wildcard spot
Speaker 5: back on May nineteenth, when they started the three game
Speaker 5: series against the Diamondbacks. The Dodgers during this twenty nine
Speaker 5: game stretch, which will end tomorrow against the Padres, have
Speaker 5: played the Diamondbacks three times. They have played the Mets
Speaker 5: seven times. They have played the Guardians three times in Cleveland,
Speaker 5: they have played the Yankees three times. They have played
Speaker 5: the Cardinals, and they have played the Padres now seven
Speaker 5: times during this twenty nine game stretch, and so far
Speaker 5: are seventeen and eleven during this grueling twenty nine game
Speaker 5: stretch really impressive. Also impressive was Emmitt she And tonight
Speaker 5: in his return to Major League Baseball, first time on
Speaker 5: the mound since September twenty seventh, twenty twenty three four innings,
Speaker 5: tonight one earned run with six strikeouts. Emmig Sheen was solid,
Speaker 5: and he was on Sports in at LA after Tonight's game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was awesome. Once I was out there. It
Speaker 8: was kind of just back in compete mode once she
Speaker 8: hit her in the box. But definitely before and then after,
Speaker 8: you're feeling emotions of just the past year for.
Speaker 2: Sure, stuff wise.
Speaker 6: Were you feeling lying, you felt comfortable with kind of
Speaker 6: the velocity, how you were attacking them, where things.
Speaker 8: Were, Yeah, I think so. I mean definitely maybe it
Speaker 8: ticked down on the VLO, but other than that, I
Speaker 8: feel like execution was really good. No walks, I'll take
Speaker 8: that every time. So definitely feeling a different pictures were
Speaker 8: before showgury it should body a little bit different, right,
Speaker 8: but how you not really maybe slightly different, but for
Speaker 8: the most part, everything feels pretty close to where it
Speaker 8: was before.
Speaker 1: And it's six strikeouts.
Speaker 4: You watch, you look at all your work this year,
Speaker 4: got twenty seven strikeouts.
Speaker 2: One watch has been what's the biggest key to gain
Speaker 2: at command?
Speaker 8: I think it's just you know, being in control of
Speaker 8: my body, being able to repeat my mechanics and just
Speaker 8: trying to, you know, keep that release point consistent and
Speaker 8: try to make adjustments when I do throw, you know,
Speaker 8: pitches where I don't want them to be. You know,
Speaker 8: that's a that's kind of a two yids the last
Speaker 8: thing of them.
Speaker 2: Why do you think it's come back to pick the
Speaker 2: pretty much the play was.
Speaker 8: I don't really know, but I'm definitely, you know, happy
Speaker 8: with it. I think, you know, it just comes from
Speaker 8: Burke being put in all the mound work before throwing
Speaker 8: multi bullpens, before even facing hitters.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 8: What was this process like over the last year and
Speaker 8: a half. How difficult was it just to kind of
Speaker 8: you know, push through rehab and how much more meaningful
Speaker 8: did it kind of make a going out there.
Speaker 6: And just be back out there?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I was thankful we had a we
Speaker 8: had a really good group in Arizona this year, so
Speaker 8: it was good to spend time with those guys and
Speaker 8: not have to go through it alone. That was big.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it definitely meant a lot to get back
Speaker 8: out there, and you know, to watch what the team
Speaker 8: did last year was really special and definitely motivated me
Speaker 8: to get back out there.
Speaker 5: And she and tonight in his four innings of work
Speaker 5: where he allowed us one run and had six strikeouts
Speaker 5: with no walks through sixty five pitches, twenty eight of
Speaker 5: those were his fastball, he was able to throw his
Speaker 5: sweeper nineteen times. Tonight. He also mixed in his change
Speaker 5: up and even dabbled with the curveball, so he was
Speaker 5: using all four pitches tonight. And he was telling me
Speaker 5: yesterday that, you know, he's been feeling out the curveball.
Speaker 5: Maybe not a pitch that he's going to go to
Speaker 5: a lot, but he is certainly going to show it
Speaker 5: and put it in the back of hitters' minds. And
Speaker 5: tonight sixty five pitches and four innings, I would anticipate
Speaker 5: the next time she and is on the mound with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, he'll go a little bit further, maybe five
Speaker 5: innings and stretch it out to seventy seventy five pitches
Speaker 5: when he's on the mount. So that was a great sign.
Speaker 5: And Justin Robleski also really good for the Dodgers tonight
Speaker 5: as he went five innings. Even though the Padres tied
Speaker 5: the score against Robleski in that ninth inning, he did
Speaker 5: his job. He hung in there for five innings, and look,
Speaker 5: it was big for the Dodgers not to go extra
Speaker 5: innings because they allowed Robleski to pitch that ninth inning
Speaker 5: because they wanted to try to give not just one
Speaker 5: or two guys or three guys arrest in that bullpen.
Speaker 5: They wanted to give everybody a rest in that bullpen.
Speaker 5: And if you go to extra innings, you may have
Speaker 5: to dip into it. But Max Muntsey made an air
Speaker 5: and throw on a ground ball by Manny Machado couldn't
Speaker 5: get the force out at second base, possibly even a
Speaker 5: double play, which really would have changed the dynamics of
Speaker 5: that inning being up three to one. But you know,
Speaker 5: Max has been playing so much better defense the last
Speaker 5: couple of weeks. That was just, you know, a mistake.
Speaker 5: These guys will make mistakes, and it was an unfortunate
Speaker 5: throw that Tommy Edmund was not going to be able
Speaker 5: to dig out. And Uh, look, Max Mounsey uh has
Speaker 5: done so well offensively and defensively since the beginning of May.
Speaker 5: I think we understand that we can uh with the
Speaker 5: way things ended tonight, We're not going to focus on that.
Speaker 5: Nex monthly on base three times tonight, including his second
Speaker 5: triple of the season. Eight six, six, seven, two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Padres four
Speaker 5: to three. Let's go out to Ben in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5: Thanks for staying up late. In our nation's capital.
Speaker 2: Ben, always a pleasure day walk off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was pretty cool. A lot of the guys,
Speaker 5: you know, even the umpires, This umpiring crew does not
Speaker 5: communicate really well because they did not really give that
Speaker 5: home run signal out and some of the guys, even
Speaker 5: Alton Rushing said he wasn't sure went over the wall,
Speaker 5: but uh, luckily it counted.
Speaker 2: Ben, what do you got We'll take it, We'll take it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually wanted to ask about what Dave had said
Speaker 1: today about.
Speaker 2: Hang Kim and get more playing time. What should we
Speaker 2: view this like for Michael Conforto especially.
Speaker 1: And what should we see as a progress for has
Speaker 1: On Kim over the last couple of months.
Speaker 5: Well, look at you, and I'm ready for that question.
Speaker 2: Ben.
Speaker 5: It sounded like Dave Roberts was giving us a soft,
Speaker 5: a soft answer that maybe Michael Conforto is going to
Speaker 5: be benched for the time being. And he didn't put
Speaker 5: it that way, but that's my translation. Listen to this, Ben.
Speaker 5: This was Dave Roberts earlier today talking about how Michael
Speaker 5: Conforto maybe sitting out a few more games than he
Speaker 5: has recently. Okay, we'll get that to you in a
Speaker 5: little bit. All right, Ben, we'll get it to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, pleasure Dave there, all right, no.
Speaker 5: Problem, thank you for the phone call. I'm going to
Speaker 5: get that to Colin Yee because Dave Roberts kind of
Speaker 5: made it sound that Hay Sung Kim is going to
Speaker 5: get more time in the outfield and the you know,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers have given Michael Conforto ample opportunity to try
Speaker 5: to bail his way out of this whole slump here.
Speaker 5: It's it's been a little bit. It's been a little
Speaker 5: disappointing for Michael Conforto, who's on a one year contract.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers signed him to a seventeen million dollar deal.
Speaker 5: It just hasn't come to fruition. So we'll get to
Speaker 5: that at the top of the hour. Ray and Georgia,
Speaker 5: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Ray, Hey, David, a great job on the show as usual.
Speaker 7: And one of the things I want to say is,
Speaker 7: peep what we're doing and the Dodgers are doing with
Speaker 7: all these injuries I'm talking about with Freeman Betts and
Speaker 7: the pitching staff, and plus the fact that the Dodgers
Speaker 7: are playing these teams that are after them because they're
Speaker 7: world champions. And we're are with a four and a
Speaker 7: half game lead over the Giants and now a six
Speaker 7: game lead over the Padres. It's amazing. And if we
Speaker 7: get these starters back last now and Snell and I
Speaker 7: don't know about Asasaki if he's coming back, but I mean,
Speaker 7: it could be amazing. We may be able to build
Speaker 7: that record. So we do get those that first round
Speaker 7: by and it gives them a rest before they start
Speaker 7: playing again, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: Look right right, I say this all the time when
Speaker 5: certain teams hang in there in games with the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: but then seventh, eighth, and ninth innings they just don't
Speaker 5: have enough coming out of the bullpen or don't have
Speaker 5: enough depth in their lineup. I feel the same way
Speaker 5: about the regular season. Yeah, the Giants and Padres are
Speaker 5: hanging in there until June, maybe July, but they just
Speaker 5: don't have enough to hang in there for the whole season,
Speaker 5: especially the Padres, who obviously have their ownership in a
Speaker 5: weird situation right now after the unfortunate passing of a
Speaker 5: great man, Peter Seidler. They don't have a lot of
Speaker 5: prospects to trade because they already traded them, so aj
Speaker 5: Preller is in a tough position to even try to
Speaker 5: add to a very thin depth group. So I just
Speaker 5: don't see them having enough to even win the division,
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be a photo finish in my opinion,
Speaker 5: for them to make a wild card push.
Speaker 7: Right, And let me ask you this, David. You know
Speaker 7: when you guys are playing, when we're playing the Giants
Speaker 7: in San Francisco, is there any chance you can do
Speaker 7: an interview view with John Miller? Because a lot of
Speaker 7: times I'm watching the Dodger games and I'll listen to
Speaker 7: the broadcast because I think John Miller and Vin Scully
Speaker 7: were two of the best I've ever heard, and so
Speaker 7: I was just wondering if you could do an interview
Speaker 7: with John Miller.
Speaker 5: I don't usually take requests, Ray, but yes, I'll try
Speaker 5: to get John Miller on the pregame show before the
Speaker 5: end of the season. How about that.
Speaker 7: That'd be great.
Speaker 1: And just hang in there.
Speaker 7: We were doing a great job and I can't wait
Speaker 7: for our next World championship.
Speaker 5: It's on his way, all right, Ray, thank you for
Speaker 5: the phone call. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 5: five seventy is the phone number. Last night, we had
Speaker 5: some hitters being hit by pitches. The Dodgers. Lu Trevino
Speaker 5: hit Fernando Tattist Junior last night, and then the Padres
Speaker 5: responded by having Randy Vasquez hit sho He Otani in
Speaker 5: the next at bat that he came to the plate.
Speaker 5: And the issue the Dodgers had with Vasquez was, it
Speaker 5: took you two times to try to hit him. You
Speaker 5: try to hit him on the first pitch and you missed,
Speaker 5: and then you hit him right above the knee on
Speaker 5: his right leg. And I guess one of the unwritten
Speaker 5: rules is you get one shot if you miss it. Sorry,
Speaker 5: but Vasquez took another shot and he hit Otani. So
Speaker 5: Mike Shildt after the game last night kind of laid
Speaker 5: that out that he wasn't happy that Lutrevio hit Fernando
Speaker 5: Tattos Junior last night after hitting Tattas Junior in the
Speaker 5: first inning of last Tuesday night's game, But talking to
Speaker 5: Lou before the game tonight, he just said, you know,
Speaker 5: I can't explain it. I haven't hit a batter in
Speaker 5: four years, and I've hit him twice in the last week,
Speaker 5: and I completely understand the optics but I wasn't trying
Speaker 5: to hit him. I was just trying to come inside,
Speaker 5: and that's what I do against right handed hitters. I
Speaker 5: just yanked it a little bit too far, and I
Speaker 5: think if Mike Shildt took a step back, he'd understand that.
Speaker 5: But nonetheless, I don't believe Mike shilt whether or not
Speaker 5: he thought Trevino hit Tattas Junior intentionally. If your best
Speaker 5: player gets hit twice against the same team, a division rival,
Speaker 5: where you know attentions are high, you got to protect
Speaker 5: that hitter, and you got to understand that. But you
Speaker 5: only get one shot. You know you can't try to
Speaker 5: take if you don't get it on the first pitch.
Speaker 5: A little iffy right there, But nonetheless everything was cooled
Speaker 5: off tonight. The umpires did not issue warnings before first pitch,
Speaker 5: and even when Andy pie Has was hit again tonight
Speaker 5: in the bottom of the seventh inning by the Padre
Speaker 5: starter Stephen Colek, he understood it wasn't on purpose. And
Speaker 5: even when Mike Schiltz brought in the reliever and they
Speaker 5: crossed paths going across the field, Colick coming off the field,
Speaker 5: Paz and Colic did not have any issues with each other.
Speaker 5: So that was good, and look, this is great. This
Speaker 5: reminds me of a rod veritec Yankees Red Sox type
Speaker 5: of games, where you're seeing these teams battle it out
Speaker 5: in the postseason and certainly high intensity during the regular season.
Speaker 5: We saw it last year, we've seen it since twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: but it feels like it's been raised a notch after
Speaker 5: these two teams have faced each other in the postseason
Speaker 5: a couple of times in the last two or thre
Speaker 5: three years, and certainly after the Dodgers came back in
Speaker 5: that five game NLDS. And another layer to why the
Speaker 5: tensions may be running hot is because these two teams
Speaker 5: are seeing each other seven times within a week after
Speaker 5: not seeing each other for the first sixty games of
Speaker 5: the season. So you pack in these many games in
Speaker 5: such a short period of time, it'll feel like the postseason.
Speaker 5: And these two teams don't like each other. The Padres
Speaker 5: obviously do not like the Dodgers. Their emotions spill out
Speaker 5: over the dugout railing often, it's really obvious. And the
Speaker 5: Dodgers probably don't like the Padres either. In fact, I'll
Speaker 5: say it, the Dodgers don't like the Padres or their antics,
Speaker 5: and the Padres are resentful that the Dodgers are the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: So when you bring all of those factors in, you're
Speaker 5: going to have tempers boil over like we've seen. Eight
Speaker 5: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 5: phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll hear from Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts about where the Dodgers are going with Michael Confordo
Speaker 5: after a slow start to begin the season. And also
Speaker 5: we'll check in with Jose Mota and hear from Justin
Speaker 5: Robleski after the Dodgers walk it off on a pinch
Speaker 5: hit home run by Will Smith in the bottom of
Speaker 5: the ninth inning off of Robert Suarez four to three
Speaker 5: victors over San Diego on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 6: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse allowed and long
Speaker 6: strike for ss now The O two pitch Smith, which
Speaker 6: is a fly ball right center field tatis on there
Speaker 6: on at the warning track.
Speaker 5: Pat it's gone, It's gone, and this games is over.
Speaker 9: Just got be all to reach it for no no
Speaker 9: top Tis Junior.
Speaker 5: Will Smith comes home and now we go home. Brick
Speaker 5: Monday and Steven Nelson on the call tonight. That was
Speaker 5: the pin hit, walk off home run by Will Smith
Speaker 5: to give the Dodgers the win four to three over
Speaker 5: Robert Suarez and the San Diego Padres David Vasse live
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium. We are with you until the bottom
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Speaker 5: the dream all right. I had a chance to catch
Speaker 5: up with another Dodger catcher who was the starting catcher tonight,
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing. He had a big, go ahead, two run
Speaker 5: single in the game to give the Dodgers a three
Speaker 5: to one lead in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Speaker 5: He also made a nice block of the plate in
Speaker 5: the ninth inning on a great throw by Freddie Freeman
Speaker 5: to get Brandon Lockridge out in the top of the
Speaker 5: ninth inning. A good all around game for rushing, and
Speaker 5: he had a great view of Will Smith's walk off
Speaker 5: home run because he was on deck. Here was rushing
Speaker 5: moments after Smith's heroics.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you branding it early. Well, nobody wanted to
Speaker 4: play extras. And there's one guy you trust going up
Speaker 4: there in that situation as well.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it was pretty cool to say you had
Speaker 5: a great view you were on deck. How did you
Speaker 5: see that at back going, especially after that fall ball
Speaker 5: down the left field line. Uh, not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I was about just as confused as Will was. We
Speaker 4: thought Tatis caught it. I also thought he caught it
Speaker 4: and then he just started walking. So yeah, it all
Speaker 4: worked out. I mean, Will, he's such a great player.
Speaker 4: It's fun to be able to see that that close.
Speaker 5: You had a big part of tonight's game. Let's go
Speaker 5: back to the ninth inning. Freddie Freeman is able to
Speaker 5: have the field awareness to realize the runner at third
Speaker 5: Lockridge is breaking home. Were you surprised in that situation
Speaker 5: he was coming home.
Speaker 4: No, I mean they're pressing the envelope. They're gonna try
Speaker 4: to get a run across the board anyway possible. Guy
Speaker 4: like Freddy just fundamentally sound with the best of him,
Speaker 4: and obviously he's gonna make that play and take the
Speaker 4: out at home.
Speaker 5: What could you say about what Emmett and Robleski did tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's massive being able to have those two guys
Speaker 4: come out here and just essentially just do their job.
Speaker 6: Do their job.
Speaker 4: They save a bullpen and give us a chance to
Speaker 4: obviously go ahead and sweep the weekend, sweep the series
Speaker 4: tomorrow and moving into the weekend a better situation.
Speaker 5: Hey, this is the way that Dodgers planned it. The
Speaker 5: one two combo behind the play tonight. Rush again, Will Smith, thanks.
Speaker 4: A lot for stopping absolutely, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: There he is Dalton Rushing, who had a really good
Speaker 5: game tonight, including that go ahead two runs single in
Speaker 5: the fifth inning, part of a three run inning for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers to take a three to one lead into
Speaker 5: the ninth inning. The Padres would tight in the top
Speaker 5: of the ninth inning, and the other catcher, Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: the All Star Will Smith with the pinch hit walk
Speaker 5: off home run for the Dodgers to give them the
Speaker 5: win four to three. You know, it's funny. Will Smith
Speaker 5: really made a reputation for himself during his rookie year
Speaker 5: of twenty nineteen being part of that weekend remember with
Speaker 5: Alex Verdugo and Matt Batty walk off Weekend. Will Smith
Speaker 5: hitting a walk off home run against the Rockies on
Speaker 5: that Friday, Saturday Sunday weekend in the middle of that
Speaker 5: twenty nineteen summer. And he has now three pinch hit
Speaker 5: walk off home runs for the Dodgers and s a
Speaker 5: big deal because number sixteen has broken a record that
Speaker 5: are number sixteen, Rick Monday held with the Dodgers. That
Speaker 5: was Will Smith's third career pinch hit walk off home run,
Speaker 5: breaking a tie with Rick Monday for the most in
Speaker 5: Dodger history. So it was passed down to a numbers
Speaker 5: another number sixteen. And we can't forget about the other
Speaker 5: number sixteen, Andre Ethier, who made a reputation being mister
Speaker 5: clutch as well. So something about that number with the
Speaker 5: clutch Gene. Let's go out to Sarkis in Valencia. You're
Speaker 5: on Dodger talk with David vasse Hi Sarkies.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dave, how you doing that? Just two quick points.
Speaker 9: First one is finally the concerto thing. It's way overdue
Speaker 9: in my opinion. You know, the analogy I'm going to
Speaker 9: use is you got a Ferrari sitting in the garage. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you continue to drive your pino. Dave Roberts finally made
Speaker 9: their decision. I'm play over due. Second point, the Dodgers
Speaker 9: have to reason to start the call. Hey, so look,
Speaker 9: I'll see you. The trade deadline has to come into
Speaker 9: a lot clear picture. With emmit Chian doing what he
Speaker 9: did tonight, that has to be a game changer for
Speaker 9: the Dodger front office. He basically upgraded himself to number
Speaker 9: two or number three?
Speaker 5: Oh really after four innings?
Speaker 9: I think so he looked amazing.
Speaker 5: What about when Blake Snell comes back? What about the
Speaker 5: future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw? What about Glass? Now
Speaker 5: you think he's uh, he's a number two over those.
Speaker 9: Guys they come back. No, Well, once they come back,
Speaker 9: you know, we'll see what happens. I don't trust anybody
Speaker 9: until they actually come back and pitch.
Speaker 5: All right, great, sarchise, I appreciate the phone call. Look,
Speaker 5: Emma Sheian's great, and certainly even Dave Roberts said a
Speaker 5: couple of months ago that Emmit Shean's going to have
Speaker 5: a big role and even a sleeper type of bet
Speaker 5: on Emit she in the second half of the season.
Speaker 5: And I'm not going to say that he is not
Speaker 5: going to have a great year, but that's a little presumptuous.
Speaker 5: After his first start, going four innings, throwing sixty five pitches,
Speaker 5: I believe he's going to be really good. But if
Speaker 5: Blake Snell and Tyler Glass now are back in healthy
Speaker 5: when October rolls around, they're going to be your number
Speaker 5: two and number three starters, with Yamamoto and Kershaw alongside them.
Speaker 5: And already we've gotten two phone calls about Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 5: He was not in the starting lineup tonight. He's batting
Speaker 5: a buck sixty eight. The Dodgers have given him a
Speaker 5: very long leash, longer than a lot of players have
Speaker 5: been given the last ten years. If they would be
Speaker 5: performing this way, and Dave Roberts said before the game
Speaker 5: that he may not be getting as many opportunities to
Speaker 5: they want to give Kim some opportunities. I would be
Speaker 5: an advocate of mixing in kek Hernandez a little bit
Speaker 5: more because he's been relegated to pinch hit duties because
Speaker 5: they haven't been facing a lot of lefty starters. But
Speaker 5: you got to give them some credit at bats to
Speaker 5: be ready when those lefty starters are on the mound.
Speaker 5: Here's what Dave Roberts had to say before the game
Speaker 5: about Michael Confordo's struggles and the fact that he may
Speaker 5: not be getting as many opportunities as much as he
Speaker 5: was before.
Speaker 10: Just not getting to the heater. I think that's probably
Speaker 10: the start of it. And you know, when you don't
Speaker 10: hit the fastball, that starts to lends to a little cheating,
Speaker 10: chasing on spin, and so we got to get him
Speaker 10: back to the heater, to the big part of the field.
Speaker 10: But he's working on that. He knows that it's not
Speaker 10: something he doesn't know, and he's not trying to miss fastballs.
Speaker 10: So that's probably the genesis of the whole deal. I
Speaker 10: see him playing a lot still.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 10: I do think that in a meritocracy, in that vein,
Speaker 10: I think that Heysong has earned opportunities and I don't
Speaker 10: want to just kind of get him to lose his
Speaker 10: mojo and sit for four or five six days and
Speaker 10: expect good at bat. So I think that he's earning
Speaker 10: the opportunity to get somewhat of a consistent look and
Speaker 10: we'll go from there.
Speaker 5: Look that's fair. I mean, this is a results oriented business.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers have given Michael Confordo two hundred and forty
Speaker 5: three plate appearances. He's now hitting eighth. Whenever he has
Speaker 5: been starting recently, he has four home runs. They're far
Speaker 5: and few between. It just hasn't clicked. And quite honestly,
Speaker 5: I don't believe he's this bad of a player. He's
Speaker 5: a really good player, but for whatever reason, it just
Speaker 5: hasn't clicked yet. So maybe giving him a few starts
Speaker 5: off to work with Rob Van Sooye and Aaron Bates
Speaker 5: to get him mechanically straight, maybe get his confidence up,
Speaker 5: give him a mental breather, can help him reset his season.
Speaker 5: Because the Dodgers aren't just going to cut him, they're
Speaker 5: not giving up on him. But certainly, you know they've
Speaker 5: got really good players, and really good players need to play,
Speaker 5: and if you're not up to par, they're gonna find
Speaker 5: somebody else. And I think that's where the Dodgers are
Speaker 5: with Michael CONFORDO, Hey Sung Kim, and like I said,
Speaker 5: I really am a big advocate that Keith a Hernandez
Speaker 5: needs to get more starts when you don't see a
Speaker 5: lefty starter for seven to ten games. By the way,
Speaker 5: speaking of those groupings of hitters, we were talking about
Speaker 5: this before the game up here in the press box
Speaker 5: amongst the broadcasters. It is really sticking out the difference
Speaker 5: between the Dodgers seven eight nine hitters and the Padres
Speaker 5: seven eight nine hitters in this series and quite frankly
Speaker 5: for the Padres all season long. I believe last night
Speaker 5: the seven eight nine hitters for the Padres did not
Speaker 5: even have a hit, and in the first three games
Speaker 5: of this series, San Diego's bottom third of the order
Speaker 5: is a combined six for thirty two with two RBIs
Speaker 5: and only four runs scored. In contrast, the Dodgers seven
Speaker 5: eight nine hitters, including tonight's pinch hit home run by
Speaker 5: Will Smith, are combined eleven for thirty two, a three
Speaker 5: forty three batting average with three home runs, eight RBIs
Speaker 5: and nine runs scored. It's really been those guys, the
Speaker 5: seven eight nine hitters that have really done damage against
Speaker 5: the Padres in the first three games of this series
Speaker 5: because o'tani drove in a couple of runs in the
Speaker 5: first game of this series, but last night zero for
Speaker 5: four with four strikeouts. Tonight nothing significant. He struck out
Speaker 5: with the bases loaded to end the bottom of the
Speaker 5: seventh inning. Freddie Freeman is now getting base hits to
Speaker 5: get back on track to be driven in by those guys,
Speaker 5: and Mookie Betts has really not done much of anything
Speaker 5: in this series either. So it's been Andy Paiez, Tommy
Speaker 5: Edmund Will Smith, those guys that have been keeping this
Speaker 5: line moving. And you're gonna need guys like that. So
Speaker 5: the seven, eight nine hitters have been a big difference
Speaker 5: maker for the Dodgers. Eight six, six nine, eight, seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. We have a
Speaker 5: few lines open. We'll try to get to you, but
Speaker 5: we're gonna take another time out here. When we continue,
Speaker 5: Jose Moda will join us. Oh, Jose's there. Let's not
Speaker 5: take a time out. We're gonna roll on. We're gonna
Speaker 5: keep it going. That's what we do here. We keep
Speaker 5: it going. Let's check in with our guy, Jose.
Speaker 6: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: All Right, the Dodgers are looking for their first four
Speaker 5: game sweep over the Padres at Dodgers Stadium since two
Speaker 5: thousand and nine. Jose Mota. This has been hotly contested
Speaker 5: first three games and tonight was no different.
Speaker 2: They're not wonderful, just to see that a rivalry is
Speaker 2: really playing up to the fans, to the player, to
Speaker 2: the intensity and to the results that you want. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Dagdiers have going a very good job set bringing
Speaker 2: themselves from those behind them, the ones that are pushing
Speaker 2: them and turning. I expect this happened all throughout the
Speaker 2: rest of the season, but it's good to see how
Speaker 2: they have rebounded and have understood Dave with all the
Speaker 2: stretch of good pitching they face, and teams have put
Speaker 2: the ball in play, and teams that don't strike out
Speaker 2: like a Potters and so the Cardinals and all that
Speaker 2: of the Mets, they're finding a way in those small
Speaker 2: little windows to really go out there and do some
Speaker 2: damage effectively.
Speaker 5: It feels like the intensity picked up when the Dodgers
Speaker 5: started that three game series at Petco Park, and it's
Speaker 5: carried over. Have you felt that I did.
Speaker 2: I think coming out of that star by Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: and Saint Louis, it was like, Okay, off to San
Speaker 2: Diego and you got to go out there and play well.
Speaker 2: I know everybody's going to be against you. The fans
Speaker 2: know what happened in October. They want a little revenge,
Speaker 2: and you go out there and take care of business.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, obviously he's playing it well with a medium
Speaker 2: with the players saying it's just another series. We got
Speaker 2: to play well.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt in my mind that between the fact
Speaker 2: that the Potters are a good team and Mike shild
Speaker 2: does want to be the Dodgers badly and knowing that
Speaker 2: they're always pursuing, they've stepped up in many ways. And
Speaker 2: you know, from catching the baseball, we're not talking about
Speaker 2: bag base running, We're talking about feeling the baseball. All
Speaker 2: those things that really went along with just not being
Speaker 2: coordinated at times are happening at the right time right now.
Speaker 5: How about that seventy eight to nine hitter discrepancy, The
Speaker 5: Dodgers seventy eight nine hitters really doing get Jose in
Speaker 5: the first three games of this series. Do you believe
Speaker 5: that's been a big difference maker.
Speaker 2: Oh that has been here today, there's no doubt. And
Speaker 2: now with the options of sometimes even moving monthly down
Speaker 2: a little bit more, Tommy Evans has been of presence
Speaker 2: down there where he had best. But the real difference
Speaker 2: think has been Hony Pious and what he's done from
Speaker 2: from the five spots six spot down and what he's
Speaker 2: brought to the at bat's the decisions he's making in
Speaker 2: the batter's box. He plays with a lot of intensity
Speaker 2: himself and then you know, on top of that, you
Speaker 2: replace a very popular guy in Austin Barnes with a
Speaker 2: young kid, and young kid behind the plate is doing
Speaker 2: a job that you expect him to do in terms
Speaker 2: of just one phase at a time. So the pitt
Speaker 2: he's not going to be there right now, don't worry
Speaker 2: about it. And the daughters have been very transparent. But
Speaker 2: they beneath those guys because if you look at the
Speaker 2: top of the odor today it cannot just be all
Speaker 2: about the one hint they got on base twice between
Speaker 2: show Hey, Mukia and Freddy and that's what you need.
Speaker 2: Tasker is you know, not quite there yet. But the
Speaker 2: guys at the bottom are making their lives and their
Speaker 2: evenings much easier than pleasant.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tonight was the first night where you could say
Speaker 5: it was the one to two punch behind the plate
Speaker 5: with the Dodger catchers right with Rushing starting the game
Speaker 5: catching two guys he knows really well from Oklahoma City
Speaker 5: coming up with a big two run base it in
Speaker 5: the fifth inning to break the tie, and then you
Speaker 5: got Will Smith with the heroics in the ninth inning.
Speaker 5: That's that's a threat that not a lot of teams have.
Speaker 2: Correct And then you know the whole thing about managing
Speaker 2: Will Smith. I see it's going to be very advantageous
Speaker 2: to the team and to Will Smith and for god
Speaker 2: like Will Smith to get his ego out of the way.
Speaker 2: He says, I know why they're doing this. He wants
Speaker 2: to play every day. He wants to be catching I
Speaker 2: should say, the majority of the game. But understanding that
Speaker 2: he also play a big role in developing this young
Speaker 2: catcher that's helping the Dodgers behind the plate and with
Speaker 2: a bat and guys that are behind the plate, and
Speaker 2: you ask for just continuity of sequencing, understanding a game plan,
Speaker 2: executing a game plan, and being a leader behind the
Speaker 2: plate anything to do offensively is a plus, but Will
Speaker 2: Smith has taken it to a new level. And then
Speaker 2: for God like Russia to be watching this, Dave, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you right now, I'm seeing the past. It is
Speaker 2: such an honor for him obviously, and a luxury to
Speaker 2: see somebody like that that sets a tone like Will
Speaker 2: Smith does. And communication that has been made and informed
Speaker 2: to Dallas and Russian is about catching catch and the
Speaker 2: hitting will come. We know you have not played, You've
Speaker 2: been an everyday player for all your life. Just understand
Speaker 2: your role right now. Take care of being great behind
Speaker 2: the plate, and everything else will be better. He's getting
Speaker 2: much better also now with a bet, now that there's
Speaker 2: a little like separation and knowing that I don't have
Speaker 2: to carry the team in the bottom of the order.
Speaker 2: I don't have to go out there and get base
Speaker 2: hits all the time. But of course he wants to
Speaker 2: get him, but he's understanding that you got to break
Speaker 2: it up sometimes. Just be a good catcher. Right now,
Speaker 2: the rest will come.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers defeat the
Speaker 5: Padres tonight four to three. On top of the Dodgers
Speaker 5: winning this game, they also win in another department, the
Speaker 5: big picture department, by not having to go to their
Speaker 5: bullpen and use any of their high leverage relievers. We
Speaker 5: all know the Dodger bullpen has been used more than
Speaker 5: any other bullpen in baseball. How about Emid Sheen and
Speaker 5: Justin Robleski tonight combining to go the full game and
Speaker 5: not issuing a single walk. The Padre struck out nine times,
Speaker 5: six of them against Shean and did not take a
Speaker 5: single walk. The Robleski and Sheen did not issue a
Speaker 5: single walk. That is remarkable from two rookies.
Speaker 2: A great example of when Theaytelier pound the zone, Glattherm
Speaker 2: pound the zone. And for m I mean who The
Speaker 2: whole team is so happy for this kid who has
Speaker 2: worked so hard to get here. He's gotten a bigger
Speaker 2: and stronger He showed very good command today of three pitches.
Speaker 2: I know we had a conversation with him in terms
Speaker 2: of the curveball, which is a great show pitch. If
Speaker 2: he's not dropping for a strike, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: It's a great show pitch. Just to offset your hitters
Speaker 2: and change just the way east west and north south
Speaker 2: that you pitch. But man, without thirty the riagle he
Speaker 2: has in his arm. Those risers are really exploding. And
Speaker 2: we saw a lot of check swings upstairs, swings and
Speaker 2: misses upstairs, and the bolt coming out of his hand
Speaker 2: really hot. And rob Leski, you know, having a conversation
Speaker 2: with him in San Diego. Actually there's outing in Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: and he was telling me that at times he's become cerebral,
Speaker 2: like thinking too much. How do I get this guy out?
Speaker 2: How how do I set them up to put him away?
Speaker 1: And he goes.
Speaker 2: I can just think about putting him away early, because
Speaker 2: this stuff is good enough. And in that case, I
Speaker 2: got to make my slaughter good early accounts and make
Speaker 2: it tight if I need too. So all the young
Speaker 2: players that I'm talking to and talking about Dave have
Speaker 2: all understood that it is a luxury to be in
Speaker 2: the big leagues, but to be learning from the guys
Speaker 2: are around, and certainly they're putting all that time on
Speaker 2: the bench of the bullpen VP to good use.
Speaker 5: Right now, all right, Jose Mota, we'll see you back
Speaker 5: at the ballpark tomorrow night. I'm sure these two teams
Speaker 5: will give us everything and more, and certainly a fun
Speaker 5: night here at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks for joining us, Jose.
Speaker 2: You got it.
Speaker 5: Good night, there he goes Jose Mota, part of the
Speaker 5: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Luis Cochito Cruz and Pepe
Speaker 5: and Ningaz. And I still owe Pepe those tacos. I
Speaker 5: will get them those tacos after before the homestand is over,
Speaker 5: by the way, because I had predicted a Giants I
Speaker 5: had predicted a Dodger's sweep over the Giants, so it'll
Speaker 5: be easier to deliver these tacos after the Dodgers beating
Speaker 5: the Giants two out of three and now taking the
Speaker 5: first three games against the Padres. So you know I'll
Speaker 5: I'll feed that booth no problem, after the way things
Speaker 5: have gone on this homestand eight six six nine seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy is the phone number. Speaking of the
Speaker 5: end of the home stand, the Dodgers announced just about
Speaker 5: an hour ago that show hey. Otani's next start is
Speaker 5: going to be on Sunday against the National Sunday afternoon
Speaker 5: here at Dodgers Stadium, a one ten start. Otani makes
Speaker 5: his second start as a Dodger pitcher, so that'll be
Speaker 5: exciting as well. To close out this ten game homestand
Speaker 5: let's go back out to the phones. Bruce, who is
Speaker 5: here at Dodgers Stadium tonight? Bruce? Is that is that
Speaker 5: a big Sunday game changer for you? That Otani's pitching.
Speaker 3: I went through the uh, the craziness on Monday, and
Speaker 3: boy was worth it. It's just just the thrill of
Speaker 3: the idea that the generational player that he is, the
Speaker 3: that we get to see him come full circle and
Speaker 3: and just add to what he's already doing inane.
Speaker 1: I mean, the.
Speaker 3: Nationals aren't a big draw compared to all these division games,
Speaker 3: but I mean i'd watch him brush his teeth.
Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd pay on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be there for sure. I was just really
Speaker 3: happy today that the game, the talk after the game
Speaker 3: was not about umpiring. That we don't need an Angel
Speaker 3: Hernandez situation with with somebody making the game about themselves
Speaker 3: instead of about the product on the field.
Speaker 2: And so thank you, Trip Gibson.
Speaker 3: See I hope you get out of town tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: And maybe maybe he gets an Angel Hernandez Award for
Speaker 3: being the worst umpire.
Speaker 5: Yes, well you know you knowing his name is not
Speaker 5: a good thing for Trip Gibson. That's something that I
Speaker 5: learned at an early age. When you know a referees
Speaker 5: name or an umpire's name, that means that they're they're
Speaker 5: putting themselves out there and maybe having more controversial calls
Speaker 5: or bad calls when you don't know an umpire's name.
Speaker 5: That's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Totally agree, and let's go for the sweep.
Speaker 3: I'm greedy, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Bruce.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Let's sweep these guys out of town and break
Speaker 5: their hearts because they wanted so bad against the Dodgers
Speaker 5: and if they lose. If the Padres lose tomorrow, they'll
Speaker 5: be seven games back of the Dodgers and not going
Speaker 5: to see them for a couple of months. Let's go
Speaker 5: out to North Hollywood. James, you're on Dodger Talk Live
Speaker 5: from Dodgers Stadium. Hi James, Hey David.
Speaker 2: Great to see it for the first time this season.
Speaker 1: Talk to Tim Kaits a while ago about Ben Casperius
Speaker 1: during the rotation and with Otani coming in now. I
Speaker 1: love the Otani Casparius combo. But as for it tonight,
Speaker 1: it's the youth movement. I am so stoked to see
Speaker 1: these young guys taking the ball and taking the pedestal
Speaker 1: Da've been given and delivering because a lot of other
Speaker 1: guys that have been giving that, you know, sixth man opportunity,
Speaker 1: have not delivered. And to see Emmitt Shean coming back off,
Speaker 1: Tommy John doing his thing, and the TV casters talked
Speaker 1: about Robo coming out and there's some different, there's some
Speaker 1: different about him, and he has been doing that the
Speaker 1: last three times.
Speaker 2: And so I just have to say that the Dodger's
Speaker 2: depth is lifting us up.
Speaker 1: It's bouncing, bullying the ship. And I feel really good
Speaker 1: about this season when we get our prime guys back
Speaker 1: to health.
Speaker 5: No doubt, they're not even at full strength, and they're
Speaker 5: in first place by four and a half games and
Speaker 5: six over the third place San Diego Padres. Thanks for
Speaker 5: the phone call, James appreciated. Here's another angle to this
Speaker 5: Dodger Padre rivalry, and like I said, it is a rivalry.
Speaker 5: And it reminds me of the Sacramento Kings when they
Speaker 5: rose up for about four or five years, and them
Speaker 5: and the Lakers had a thing going for that four
Speaker 5: or five year stretch from ninety nine to two thousand
Speaker 5: and five. The Kings have never been back since or
Speaker 5: relevant since, So this too will pass. This whole Padre
Speaker 5: are a team thing, but for right now, it's really fun.
Speaker 5: And I was on with Tony Gwinn Junior and his
Speaker 5: radio partner in San Diego the other day and his
Speaker 5: partner brought up how Padres fans really dislike Will Smith.
Speaker 5: He may be the most disliked Dodger to the Padres
Speaker 5: and that's a good thing, right because he's doing a
Speaker 5: lot of damage against San Diego. Not to mention he
Speaker 5: was a baseball prophet in some ways when he told
Speaker 5: me last year that Jerkson Profar was myster irrelevant. I
Speaker 5: mean Profar is out of baseball right now because he
Speaker 5: was suspended for ped so in some ways, Will Smith
Speaker 5: was ahead of his time calling Profar mister irrelevant. And
Speaker 5: another reason why Padres fans dislike Will Smith is because
Speaker 5: he has done so much damage already this year in
Speaker 5: the first six meetings between these two teams. Will Smith
Speaker 5: against the Padre this year nine for seventeen with three
Speaker 5: home runs, seven RBIs and two doubles. That'll make you
Speaker 5: really dislike the opposing player, especially when he does it
Speaker 5: in the clutch like he did tonight, a pinch hit,
Speaker 5: walk off home run off the Padres closer Robert Suarez.
Speaker 5: Before we say goodnight, I want to recognize a big
Speaker 5: anniversary in Dodger history, maybe one of the best no
Speaker 5: hitter pitch games in baseball history. Even though it wasn't
Speaker 5: a perfect game, it was a Hanley Ramirez error away
Speaker 5: from being a perfect game. This is the anniversary of
Speaker 5: Clayton Kershaw's one and only no hitter in his career
Speaker 5: to this point. It was against the Rockies, and here
Speaker 5: was the final out on Dodgers Radio.
Speaker 11: No balls, two strikes, two outs, fourteen strikeouts for Kershaw.
Speaker 11: Corey Dickerson is the batter. Here comes the two swung
Speaker 11: out and miss strike three and a no hitter. On
Speaker 11: the fifteenth strikeout of the game, Clayton Kershaw about to
Speaker 11: be mobbed by his teammates. The Dodgers win ate nothing.
Speaker 11: The greatness of Clayton Kershaw shown off yet again, another
Speaker 11: strikling chapter in the career of Clayton Edward Kershaw.
Speaker 5: That's a great call from our guy Charlie Steiner who
Speaker 5: was on the call with Rick Monday, and many believe
Speaker 5: that that was one of the greatest pitch no hitters
Speaker 5: in baseball history. In fact, Kershaw's fifteen strikeouts in that
Speaker 5: no hitter eleven years ago tonight against the Rockies are
Speaker 5: tied for the third most strikeouts in a no hitter
Speaker 5: in baseball history. The only pitcher in baseball history with
Speaker 5: more strikeouts in a no hitter is a fellow Texan,
Speaker 5: Noan Ryan, who did it twice with seventeen strikeouts and
Speaker 5: two of his no hitters seventeen with the Angels in
Speaker 5: nineteen seventy three and sixteen strikeouts in his no hitter
Speaker 5: when he was pitching with the Rangers in nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 5: By the way, Kershaw that night ted Warren Spawn for
Speaker 5: the most strikeouts and a no hitter by a left
Speaker 5: handed pitcher. Spawn did it back in nineteen sixty. And
Speaker 5: speaking of strikeouts, Kershaw's next start is on Friday night
Speaker 5: here at Dodgers Stadium against the Nationals. He is just
Speaker 5: twelve strikeout shy of three thousand in his career. He
Speaker 5: would join Randy Johnson, CC Sabathia and who else am
Speaker 5: I missing? Dwayne Steve Carlton as the only left handers
Speaker 5: to have three thousand strikeouts as a left handed pitcher
Speaker 5: in Major League Baseball history. So twelve away for the
Speaker 5: great Kershaw. Fifteen of those strikeouts eleven years ago tonight
Speaker 5: in that no hitter against the Rockies. So that was
Speaker 5: a special night. And I felt like Kershaw could have
Speaker 5: had at least one more a few years ago in Minnesota.
Speaker 5: But I'll just keep that to myself. Well, I really
Speaker 5: haven't kept it to myself. I've expressed that many times
Speaker 5: over the years. But happy anniversary Clayton Kershaw. Happy anniversary
Speaker 5: to Miguel Rojas, who made a great play to preserve
Speaker 5: that no hitter. He was starting at third base as
Speaker 5: a rookie that night. Happy anniversary to aj Ellis, one
Speaker 5: of Kershaw's closest friends to this day, who was catching
Speaker 5: that night. It was good that aj Ellis recovered after
Speaker 5: stepping on Drew but Terra's catcher's mask after the celebration
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia a week and a half earlier, when Beckett
Speaker 5: threw a no hitter in Philadelphia against the Philly So
Speaker 5: there we go, crazy to believe I was there for
Speaker 5: all that, lived all that, and we're gonna live tomorrow
Speaker 5: night too. To see Yoshi Yamamoto on the against the Padres.
Speaker 5: Ryan Burgett is on the mound for San Diego Morongo Casino.
Speaker 5: Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock tomorrow with first
Speaker 5: pitch at seven to ten. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here
Speaker 5: at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to Colin you back at our
Speaker 5: Burbank Studios. Great job screening the calls tonight, Colin, Great
Speaker 5: job doing it all back there in Burbank. Colin's gonna
Speaker 5: podcast the show and our pregame conversation with Max Munsey
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Speaker 5: app once again tonight. The final score from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers defeat the Padres four to three on a
Speaker 5: pinch hit walk off home run by number sixteen Will Smith.
Speaker 5: Coming up next is Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5: Have a great rest of your night. Happy to be
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