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Speaker 7: host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 8: What an offensive explosion for the Dodgers as they beat
Speaker 8: the Washington Nationals thirteen to seven.
Speaker 6: Max mondsee have yourself a day, a grand.
Speaker 8: Slam, a three run home run, and for this second
Speaker 8: time in less than a month, he drives in seven
Speaker 8: runs in a game as the Dodgers just keep on winning. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 8: and welcome into Dodger Talk here on this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 8: Tim case with you here until the bottom of the
Speaker 8: hour eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 8: Let's line up those lines, Dodger fans eight six six
Speaker 8: nine eight seven two five seventy, if you were out
Speaker 8: at Dodgers Stadium, if you listen to the game, maybe
Speaker 8: just enjoyed it sitting back by the pool, by the water,
Speaker 8: driving around, whatever you were doing on this Sunday. Let's
Speaker 8: talk about it at eight sixty six nine eighty seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy.
Speaker 6: Is the Dodgers have a great home stand.
Speaker 8: It doesn't get much better than going seven and three
Speaker 8: on a ten game homestand including series wins against the
Speaker 8: Giants and the Padres, two teams in your rearview mirror
Speaker 8: here in the National League West standings, and then taking
Speaker 8: care of business against the Washington Nationals today.
Speaker 6: It was sort of a slope.
Speaker 8: Build for the Dodgers offensively, as the Dodgers could not
Speaker 8: figure out Mike Soroka the first five innings, just one
Speaker 8: base runner getting on base, and finally the six Dalton
Speaker 8: Rushings ground rule double to lead off the six kind
Speaker 8: of took the top off the lid, so to speak,
Speaker 8: and the offense got going after that. Max Munsey's Grand
Speaker 8: Slam off left handed reliever Jose Ferre really got the
Speaker 8: Dodgers going. They explode for seven more and the seven
Speaker 8: to two more in the eighth and go on to
Speaker 8: win thirteen to seven. Show Hey Otani, Max Munsey, the
Speaker 8: two of them had offensive explosions today. As Max Munsey
Speaker 8: drives in seven, shoe Aotani drives in five. They account
Speaker 8: for twelve of the thirteen Dodger runs that were driven
Speaker 8: in today. And shoey Otani also got his second start
Speaker 8: in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 6: And if you listen to the game, you'll watch the game.
Speaker 6: You were at the game.
Speaker 8: I'm curious your thoughts on shoey Otani in his second
Speaker 8: start eight six six, nine eighty seven two. Certainly in
Speaker 8: my mind, a different maybe approach, different mindset for show
Speaker 8: Heyo Tani. Monday night was the first time back. Monday
Speaker 8: Night was him amped up, adrenaline, sold out Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 8: all the attention for twenty four hours leading into that start,
Speaker 8: the padres on top of it, the rivalry there of course,
Speaker 8: and Show Hey just getting back on the mound for
Speaker 8: the first time since the end of the twenty twenty
Speaker 8: three season. There's a lot going into his mind. There's
Speaker 8: a lot of adrenaline going through those veins. That's why
Speaker 8: we saw him hit ninety eight ninety nine one hundred
Speaker 8: miles an hour with his fastball on Monday night.
Speaker 6: In a little bit of.
Speaker 8: A control issue in those twenty some odd pitches that
Speaker 8: he threw today Sunday afternoon game the Washington Nationals, you
Speaker 8: don't necessarily have the height that you did in the
Speaker 8: Monday night start against the San Diego Padres. A chance
Speaker 8: for him to settle in, I felt a chance for
Speaker 8: him to, Yeah, still be a little anxious coming back again.
Speaker 8: He's coming back from his second arm injury, extensive time
Speaker 8: he missed coming back from this elbow surgery again and
Speaker 8: start number two an inning pitched eighteen pitches total, twelve strikes.
Speaker 8: The only pitch he didn't have command of was the
Speaker 8: split finger. He bounced one of them for a wild pitch.
Speaker 8: He probably should have gotten out of that first inning
Speaker 8: with way less than eighteen pitches. His first at bat
Speaker 8: that he faced, the first batter cj Abrams grounded out
Speaker 8: in the first pitch, a forcing fastball, one pitch, one out.
Speaker 8: Then James Wood comes up and on the fifth pitch
Speaker 8: from James Wood. O'tani gets him on a sweeper to
Speaker 8: hit a pop up in the middle of the infield,
Speaker 8: and that ball has to be caught. It's an air
Speaker 8: on Mookie Betts for dropping a pop up in the
Speaker 8: middle of the infield.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 8: The sun's out at the bright day. Rick Monday talks
Speaker 8: about it all the time, how hard it is with
Speaker 8: the blue sky to see the baseball.
Speaker 6: It is tough. It's not easy to just look it up.
Speaker 8: The ball comes and falls in your mid If we're
Speaker 8: that easy, everybody can do it. But Mookie drops the ball.
Speaker 8: Garcia Junior comes up, strikes out, but it takes five
Speaker 8: more pitches to do that. Then he strikes out Nathaniel
Speaker 8: Low on seven pitches at twelve additional pitches. It took
Speaker 8: after what should have been the second out of that
Speaker 8: first inning. Would we have seen him for a second
Speaker 8: inning if the pitch count was even lower than the
Speaker 8: eighteen pitches he threw in the first inning.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: Didn't really get an answer out of that postgame from
Speaker 8: either Dave Roberts or show Heyo Tani, so we don't
Speaker 8: know if he was just going to go the one inning.
Speaker 8: No matter if it was a seven pitch inning or
Speaker 8: twenty seven pitch inning, or it turned out to be
Speaker 8: an eighteen.
Speaker 6: Pitch inning for show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 8: It got extended because of the dropped pop fly in
Speaker 8: the middle of the infil for Mookie Betts. But I
Speaker 8: loved how he buckled down there and got Garcia on
Speaker 8: fire pitchers with the sweeper to strike out, got him
Speaker 8: to chase, and then with Nathaniel Low up there, got
Speaker 8: him on a cutter to swing and miss on a
Speaker 8: ball low in the strike zone. He didn't have the
Speaker 8: command for the split finger, which is fine. That's a
Speaker 8: feel pitch. And how many times have we seen Yamamoto
Speaker 8: not have that or Sosaki not have that pitch.
Speaker 6: If you got the.
Speaker 8: Splitter going, look out, you're gonna have one of those
Speaker 8: games as the starting pitcher. If you don't have the command, okay,
Speaker 8: it's all right. You got more pitches in your arsenal.
Speaker 8: If you just don't have it, you're just not gonna
Speaker 8: go back to it. And I'm pretty sure I'm looking
Speaker 8: at the pitch count here at the eighteen pitches, we
Speaker 8: only saw the split finger.
Speaker 6: One is that it?
Speaker 8: Oh twice we saw two split fingers, had those eighteen pitches,
Speaker 8: went back to the fastball, the sweeper, and the cutter,
Speaker 8: and he was dialed in on those three other pitches.
Speaker 6: Ninety eight mile an.
Speaker 8: Hour fastball, he got would to pop up on the sweeper,
Speaker 8: got Garcia Junior to strikeout on the sweeper.
Speaker 6: I thought he pitched really well.
Speaker 8: Different scenarios probably today, more of a reg season feel
Speaker 8: for show Hey Otani. Monday night, you had the Padres
Speaker 8: the start of that series. The first time seeing the
Speaker 8: Padres in twenty twenty five, you had to return to
Speaker 8: show Hey, first time pitching at Dodger uniform, sold out crowd,
Speaker 8: twenty four hour. Notice a lot of pomp and circumstance,
Speaker 8: the quietness of his top of the first inning when
Speaker 8: he's pitching out there. Didn't have his command necessarily in
Speaker 8: that first start on Monday Night. Completely different, as I
Speaker 8: said here on Sunday. Not a sellout crowd Sunday afternoon game.
Speaker 8: It's the Washington Nationals. More of that regular season feel,
Speaker 8: which is great to get back into the routine of things.
Speaker 8: But we saw him just for the one inning and
Speaker 8: if you hear him in the postgame show and then
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts alluded to as well, this is a slow
Speaker 8: build for show, hey Otani, and I'm okay with that,
Speaker 8: colin Ee and I Happy birthday to colin Ee. By
Speaker 8: the way, we were looking at the schedule on the
Speaker 8: wall here in the studio and kind of looking.
Speaker 6: At the plan. All right, how many.
Speaker 8: More weeks until the All Star break? You know, if
Speaker 8: he's pitching once a week show Aotani? Is that two
Speaker 8: more starts?
Speaker 6: Okay? Post All Star break? What is it about?
Speaker 8: Ten weeks roughly? You know, two and a half months
Speaker 8: right September August, that's eight weeks roughly. Let's call it
Speaker 8: two weeks here the back in the July. That's ten
Speaker 8: more starts. But he's making one start a week. He's
Speaker 8: got twelve weeks in essence left in the season, Okay,
Speaker 8: so let's call it twelve starts left. You have to
Speaker 8: break down then those twelve starts the rest of the way,
Speaker 8: with a week of All Star break in between.
Speaker 6: So two starts? Is he going one inning next time?
Speaker 8: Then two innings and then the All Star break and
Speaker 8: then two innings of post All Star break and a
Speaker 8: slow build. I don't know the exact plan. I think
Speaker 8: only show Hey Otani in the inner circle know that plan,
Speaker 8: but I'm all for it. I'm all for the.
Speaker 6: Fact that he is.
Speaker 8: Looking at September and October is when he wants to
Speaker 8: be peaking at his top performance as a pitcher. And
Speaker 8: I also think he realizes he's got to get back
Speaker 8: into being a two way play shape.
Speaker 6: Pitching and hitting takes a taxing on you.
Speaker 8: You don't get a day off, I mean, the only
Speaker 8: days off, showy Otani's gonna get our scheduled days off
Speaker 8: when the Dodgers aren't playing games and traveling, So that's
Speaker 8: something also to keep a mind for show Ayotani. Overall,
Speaker 8: though today I thought it was a good one inning
Speaker 8: more down to earth regular season outing for show Hey.
Speaker 8: Didn't have all the pomp and circumstance of the padres
Speaker 8: in Town, which felt like a playoff atmosphere, and there's
Speaker 8: nothing wrong with that, and that was cool for show
Speaker 8: Hey to be a part of because he be honest,
Speaker 8: he didn't really pitching a lot of meaningful games in
Speaker 8: October games what he is with Anaheim, so kind of
Speaker 8: cool to see that on Monday. But today back into
Speaker 8: regular season mode, pitching against the Washington Nationals, and I
Speaker 8: thought he did really well. And to see him turn
Speaker 8: into that designated hitter and hit a basis clearing triple
Speaker 8: in the seventh and then muscle out a two run
Speaker 8: home run thanks to fan reaching over and dropping the ball.
Speaker 6: By the way. Fan, if you're a list if you're listening,
Speaker 6: got to catch that ball. Got to catch that ball.
Speaker 6: It's right there.
Speaker 8: I mean it was a little kid. I thought it
Speaker 8: was an adult that got it. A little kid. Okay,
Speaker 8: all right, I'll okay. It was a little kid that
Speaker 8: was crying on TV calling yasies have a birthday. Call him,
Speaker 8: all right, I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 8: The small child drop the ball, Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna be too mad about that. I thought it
Speaker 8: was the grown up that missed the fly ball. Nonetheless,
Speaker 8: it's a home run for shoe a Otani, his twenty
Speaker 8: sixth of the season. He now leads the National League
Speaker 8: in the home runs. A great home stand. I can't
Speaker 8: say it enough Dodger fans. This stretch that they went
Speaker 8: on against all those teams above five hundred, what we
Speaker 8: talked about, and then this home stand that featured the
Speaker 8: Giants for the first time the Padres for the first time,
Speaker 8: and then having to turn around get up after the
Speaker 8: emotions of those two series against the Washington Nationals to
Speaker 8: win all three series and come close to sweeping two
Speaker 8: of those three series. They got beat up by the
Speaker 8: the Nationals last night, but had a chance to sweep
Speaker 8: the Padres, and I had a chance to sweep the Giants.
Speaker 8: This is a really good home stand which you picked
Speaker 8: up some ground in the Division two. You picked up
Speaker 8: a couple of games on the Giants and Padres in
Speaker 8: the NL West, and now you go to Colorado and
Speaker 8: you go to Kansas City. And for this Colorado series,
Speaker 8: who I'm not gonna say it's a big series, but
Speaker 8: I think it's an important series for this Dodgers team
Speaker 8: to keep the momentum, to keep the edge, so to speak,
Speaker 8: out there as they're playing against a really bad Rockies team,
Speaker 8: one of the worst teams, if not the worst, yes,
Speaker 8: record wise, the worst in all of baseball, the Chicago
Speaker 8: White Sox sniffing around again as the worst team in
Speaker 8: the American League. The Rockies the worst team overall in baseball,
Speaker 8: but playing better as of late. The last thing you
Speaker 8: want to do is go into Colorado and have a letdown. Sure,
Speaker 8: it's a three game series, it's the end of June.
Speaker 8: But you can't have the let down series. You just can't.
Speaker 8: You got to go in and win every series. The
Speaker 8: Dodgers now have won what four straight series? I believe
Speaker 8: they're taking care of business as they should be. Eight
Speaker 8: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. All right,
Speaker 8: let's get out to the phones. Let's go to Robin
Speaker 8: Santa Karina. Start things off here on postgame Dodge Talk.
Speaker 8: Dodgers beat up on the Nationals thirteen to seven to day.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Rob? You doing?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 9: I Uh, it's a great game today, you know, good
Speaker 9: step for show. Hey uh, Dodger offense showed up this
Speaker 9: whole KEYK pitching thing. You know, he's cute and fun
Speaker 9: the first couple of times we saw it, uh last season,
Speaker 9: and you know, Key K would sell beers for this
Speaker 9: team if they asked him to. But at this point
Speaker 9: it's got to be embarrassing for him. You know, don't
Speaker 9: we have a back end of a bullpen that might
Speaker 9: need a little bit of work. We have an off
Speaker 9: day tomorrow. There was no reason for that today. You know,
Speaker 9: I actually ran into Rick Monday on the way out
Speaker 9: of the club level walking into the parking lot.
Speaker 2: Conversation he brought up.
Speaker 9: He said, you know what, I'm tired of this TK thing.
Speaker 9: We need to dump it.
Speaker 3: And I said, go free with it.
Speaker 9: So you know, and Rick probably mentioned that on his telecast.
Speaker 9: But look, if Rick says it's time to dump it,
Speaker 9: I'm with Rick, let's dump it. I'd be interested to
Speaker 9: hear your thoughts on that.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Colinie and I have a birthday colony Colinie, and we're
Speaker 8: talking I we're talking about this as it happened, and
Speaker 8: I think we have the same sentiment.
Speaker 6: I get it. It's a blowout game on a.
Speaker 8: Sunday afternoon, it's thirteen to three, and the Novelty I
Speaker 8: believe has war off. It's fun to see a position
Speaker 8: player pitch.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 8: It's fun when you're winning and blowing out a team
Speaker 8: to see a position player pitch, and guys go up
Speaker 8: there and take their hacks and maybe pop out, or
Speaker 8: you have some fun because you strike out a player
Speaker 8: on a thirty five mile an hour knuckleball or whatever.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's fun.
Speaker 8: We've seen it now five times this season with Key
Speaker 8: k Herz, the novelty has kind of worn off, and
Speaker 8: quite frankly, I would have liked to have seen this
Speaker 8: game just been finished off by whether it's Lee Trevino
Speaker 8: or anybody else in the Dodgers' bullpen. Okay, Trevino through
Speaker 8: eighteen pitches, you don't want him to throw an extra
Speaker 8: ten to twenty maybe in the ninth inning, so he's
Speaker 8: not available for Colorado.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 8: You're looking at Colorado in mind thinking I gotta have
Speaker 8: my bullpen fresh, I gotta have my bullpen ready to
Speaker 8: go for three games.
Speaker 6: That's where bullpens go to die is Coors Field. It
Speaker 6: just happens.
Speaker 8: And then post Colorado, you gotta go to Kansas City,
Speaker 8: and there's the whole letdown of leaving the Mile High
Speaker 8: City and going to the next city. That's real, folks,
Speaker 8: that happens anytime a team goes to Colorado.
Speaker 6: You keep that in mind. I get it.
Speaker 8: But ninth inning, thirteen to three game, it's just let's
Speaker 8: let's get out of Dodge, let's just go home. Let's
Speaker 8: get this thing over with. Keep Trevino out there. If
Speaker 8: you're gonna go to Vesia to get some work in great,
Speaker 8: Let's get three outs, let's go home, let's go to Disneyland.
Speaker 6: If you're calling you for your birthday, and let's call
Speaker 6: it a day.
Speaker 8: But instead it's a long ninth inning that takes another
Speaker 8: twenty minutes and we're watching Key k Hernandez out there,
Speaker 8: not get calls for strikes, not get the national players
Speaker 8: to chase. I mean, it's one thing that the national
Speaker 8: players are chasing and are also trying to get out
Speaker 8: of there really fast. But it was a bad combination.
Speaker 8: Key k couldn't throw strikes. They weren't chasing. So you
Speaker 8: have a walk, a double, a walk, a single, a sackfly,
Speaker 8: a walk.
Speaker 6: It just wasn't working today, folks. It wasn't.
Speaker 8: It wasn't what it was supposed to be fun in games,
Speaker 8: and then ninth inning it was anything but that. For
Speaker 8: Key k Hernandez, you can see it on his face
Speaker 8: before Alex Vesi had to come in and get the
Speaker 8: final two outs of the game, which included a RBI
Speaker 8: single four runs given up by keyk a Hernandez. Officially,
Speaker 8: I get it. There's a time and place for it.
Speaker 8: You don't want to wear out your bullpen. I understand
Speaker 8: all that I do. But thirteen to three, your team
Speaker 8: erupted for offense late in the game. Let's get three
Speaker 8: outs and go home. Eight six six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy Will in Long Beaches next up here
Speaker 8: on Dodger Talk, will welcome.
Speaker 6: How you doing this afternoon?
Speaker 10: Hey, I'm doing really good. Hey, you know what?
Speaker 3: I really want to talk about much.
Speaker 11: But now that you brought that up, you know, during
Speaker 11: the TV the guy said that it would be better
Speaker 11: off to just you know, call the game and just leave,
Speaker 11: because it seems like they give the team a chance
Speaker 11: to get back into the game.
Speaker 3: It happened against the Giants.
Speaker 4: I don't like you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's worn off. It's fun.
Speaker 8: At first, it was cool to see, Oh, a position
Speaker 8: player pitching.
Speaker 6: Will oh, this is kind of fun. Yeah.
Speaker 8: To me, it's kind of worn off. And it's not
Speaker 8: that it's time to go to a different position player.
Speaker 8: Go out there, take care of business, give the reliever
Speaker 8: and opportunity to go out there and get three out.
Speaker 8: You got a bullpen, you got arms you're gonna go
Speaker 8: to again. Keeping Colorado in mind, I would have liked
Speaker 8: to have seen just the bullpen come out in a
Speaker 8: regular arm get those final three outs. What do you
Speaker 8: want to say about Max Munsey will because man, what
Speaker 8: a performance he put on today at the plate.
Speaker 10: Oh, I called that I was watching it, I was
Speaker 10: video taping it, and then my wife called me out
Speaker 10: because right now I'm videotaping all the Monsey and comforto
Speaker 10: because they're not doing too well, you know.
Speaker 11: So I was like, man, he's gonna hit a Grand
Speaker 11: Slam team back damn hit the Grand Slam.
Speaker 6: Yes, hey, Just to let you go with one.
Speaker 11: Last question that I had to, I was gonna ask
Speaker 11: you was dang. I just gonna ask you a question too,
Speaker 11: I forgot. Well, thanks a lot for having me on Man.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, great to hear from you.
Speaker 8: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy Ish
Speaker 8: and Riverside. Next up on Dodger Talk as the Dodgers
Speaker 8: take care of the Washington Nationals thirteen to seven.
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 12: Ish Hey?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 12: Kim Man?
Speaker 10: Hey?
Speaker 3: I was also gonna call about Monsey and show hey too,
Speaker 3: but like I wanted to get him this conversation with
Speaker 3: Dik it like I don't know, it seems like when
Speaker 3: he was just like going from second base, for example,
Speaker 3: over to the mound like it seemed like he was
Speaker 3: more effective, like he was having fun. But today they
Speaker 3: also showed him on the TV like he was over
Speaker 3: in the bullpeg getting strategy and like more work than
Speaker 3: you know. But it just I don't know. I'm with
Speaker 3: everybody on that.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 3: I think it's time to just get some uh some
Speaker 3: service time for relievers. But big, big, big shot out
Speaker 3: to Max Munsey. You know, he's always been a big
Speaker 3: supporter to the you know, local Hispanic community. So Max,
Speaker 3: well done, dude, Congratulations, keep it going, keep those home
Speaker 3: runs going. Last thing, if I may just answer your
Speaker 3: question about show hate, Yeah, I thought he did super awesome.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: That first pitch was I think Abrams you say, like
Speaker 3: one out or one pitch out, you know, I mean
Speaker 3: that was super awesome. So a question for you is
Speaker 3: what do you like about this? This this battery? Uh
Speaker 3: made the combination with him in Russian? All right, man,
Speaker 3: you guys take care of all right.
Speaker 8: Thanks, Ish appreciate the phone call during the first inning.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you caught it calling E and
Speaker 8: I happy birthday calling.
Speaker 6: We caught it.
Speaker 8: As it was happening, and I text some people and
Speaker 8: they said I don't think it's happening, but shoey O'tani
Speaker 8: was calling some of his pitches and we find out
Speaker 8: afterwards we're gonna hear from Dalton Russian coming up in
Speaker 8: a few minutes after the break. But shoey Otani I
Speaker 8: went back and looked at at it and there was
Speaker 8: a post I reposted it on Twitter. And there he
Speaker 8: goes right there doing it again as we watched the
Speaker 8: replay on Sports in La on his left bicep area
Speaker 8: almost between your bicep and your tricep.
Speaker 6: I wish I knew the exact name of that.
Speaker 8: But he has the pitch com underneath his Dodger sleeve
Speaker 8: and with his right arm he is punching in the
Speaker 8: keypad and with his glove he's putting his hand over
Speaker 8: his ear. Now what he's doing is he's calling the pitches.
Speaker 8: And now I don't think he called all of them,
Speaker 8: but for a lot of them. You see him touching
Speaker 8: his left let's call it bicep, and he's also making
Speaker 8: sure he's on the right pitch. And here he is
Speaker 8: one to two count against Wood. He's pushing the buttons
Speaker 8: on his left bicep, listening with his glove over his
Speaker 8: ear to make sure he pushed the right buttons. I
Speaker 8: looked it up on x and I then reposted it
Speaker 8: a video from twenty twenty three in which I think
Speaker 8: it was. ESPN Sports Center said, here he is calling
Speaker 8: his own pitches with the PitchCom device underneath the sleeve.
Speaker 8: He was doing the exact same thing today, So I
Speaker 8: don't know if it was because Dalton Rushing, per se
Speaker 8: was the catcher. I don't think it mattered. Shoeyotani is
Speaker 8: in control of what he wants to do. Whether it's
Speaker 8: how many pitches he throws when he starts, all that
Speaker 8: is up to Shoeyotani.
Speaker 6: He makes the decision. He is the guy.
Speaker 8: So Shoeyotani has Will Smith behind the plate or if
Speaker 8: he has Dalton Rushing behind the plate, I don't think
Speaker 8: it would have mattered today. I don't think it's a
Speaker 8: slap in the face to Dalon Rushing. I don't because well,
Speaker 8: Will's not catching. I don't trust Dalton.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 8: I think it's showhy in control, knows what he wants
Speaker 8: to pitch. He's the guy in on the mount, in
Speaker 8: control of the game, and he's dictating what he throws.
Speaker 8: So I think that's sort of what we saw today
Speaker 8: from Shoho Tani, and I don't remember it on Monday night,
Speaker 8: But then again, we were so dialed into just him
Speaker 8: being on the mound. I don't remember looking that closely
Speaker 8: at what he was doing in between pitches. As we
Speaker 8: watch again, Yeah, he goes and punches in the code
Speaker 8: on an one pitch to is that Josh, Oh, that's
Speaker 8: Luis Garcia Junior in the first inning. We're watching the
Speaker 8: replay now, so yeah, he's calling a lot of the pitches.
Speaker 8: And again we'll see if that's the case moving forward,
Speaker 8: and we'll see if that's the case whether it's Will
Speaker 8: Smith or Dalton rushing behind the plate eight six six
Speaker 8: nine eighty seven two five seventy as a phone number.
Speaker 8: We'll take a break, we'll come back. We'll get to
Speaker 8: more calls. We'll hear from Dalt rushing as well, Hose Motive.
Speaker 8: We'll check in a lot to get into here the
Speaker 8: tight window as we celebrate Colin Yee's birthday here on
Speaker 8: postgame Dodger Talk, saying happy birthday to Colin Yee when
Speaker 8: you call in, shout him out on the air, as well.
Speaker 8: Hardest working guy here in sports radio here every single day,
Speaker 8: even though he's wearing a beach boy sweatshirt.
Speaker 6: We still love calling you. Dodgers. Get the win. They're
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Speaker 2: Two M two of the count to stretch by Ferrari
Speaker 2: kicks fires and Max.
Speaker 9: Wings trails want deep left center failed this Paul heading
Speaker 9: back to the wall.
Speaker 12: This ball is done.
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Speaker 12: Maxwell swing in the silver Hammer flips.
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Speaker 2: That's the first Grand Slam hit by a Dodger this season.
Speaker 12: Number seven of his career from Max Munsey.
Speaker 8: Max Munsey with the grand Slam in the six, then
Speaker 8: a three run home run in the seventh for the
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Speaker 8: to seven.
Speaker 12: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we check in with Jose Mota after a Dodgers
Speaker 8: win twenty ninth comeback win of the season. Jose and
Speaker 8: it all started with sho Hey Otani, a shutout inning
Speaker 8: of work, eighteen pitches. We noticed it and talked about it,
Speaker 8: calling his pitches on the PitchCom on his left bicep
Speaker 8: something he did in Anaheim with the Angel.
Speaker 6: What did you make of his second outing today?
Speaker 2: Jose much better command wise, pays on the mound, not
Speaker 2: Yankee pitches, so obvious. He's not thrown across his body
Speaker 2: as much, and the upper body is We know a
Speaker 2: show is all about rhythm ballanced imposter, and it applies
Speaker 2: to his hitting, and it applies to his pitching. And
Speaker 2: the first time out, as he mentioned, all the circumstances
Speaker 2: and the padres and a playoff atmosphere and everything. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was out tough. There's no doubt I didn't you know,
Speaker 2: I told that. I said this last night, so I said,
Speaker 2: if we don't see a hundred today, it really doesn't
Speaker 2: bother me. I just want to see better armslung consistency,
Speaker 2: repeating the mechanics. And the firstbee was back. You know
Speaker 2: that sweeper he throws up eighty three, eighty four miles
Speaker 2: an hour. It gets it gets guys out. His fastball
Speaker 2: and he was around his own. So you know, Mooki's
Speaker 2: era cost him another what seven pitches overall, but it
Speaker 2: does happen. He was able to bounce back and keep
Speaker 2: a very encouraged team, energetic team off the board in
Speaker 2: that first inning.
Speaker 8: They're pretty tight lipped about the plan for show, he
Speaker 8: Tani Jose, but I got a imagine, and I looked
Speaker 8: at the calendar and looking at maybe twelve more starts
Speaker 8: with twelve weeks left in the season, with the All
Speaker 8: Star break, they're looking September October to where he should
Speaker 8: be peaking. Right, This isn't about ramping them up to
Speaker 8: five inning seventy five pitches just to go into the
Speaker 8: All Star break or just to get to October.
Speaker 6: For August first, they're looking at the back half, right.
Speaker 4: You're exactly right.
Speaker 2: As much as progression Tozy, well, he on he went
Speaker 2: thirty three pitches in the sim game, and then he
Speaker 2: went twenty had in a regular game and eighteen today.
Speaker 2: Why not more because the plan is exactly that. There's
Speaker 2: no need to rush him considering that you know, Glasses
Speaker 2: on his way back. And pretty soon we'll see more
Speaker 2: guys get into their rotation and just have a plan
Speaker 2: because you know the dog days are coming.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean it's tougher to pitch, it's tougher to with
Speaker 2: in lineups August September. Obviously, the doctors always think there's
Speaker 2: an extra month of the season in which everybody loves
Speaker 2: and you prepare for. But there's reason to think that
Speaker 2: Shoe has accepted the plan, even though he kind of
Speaker 2: speed up the plant himself because he's like, I want
Speaker 2: to be making these pitches of a regular game. Because
Speaker 2: the rotations depleted, can help somebody out, can maybe save
Speaker 2: an inning out of the bullpen, and here we are.
Speaker 2: But the plan is there. He believes in, he's bought
Speaker 2: into it, and I mean the Dave will Vary too,
Speaker 2: is not going to be once a week. He's gonna
Speaker 2: pick on Sunday. So depending how everything goes and how
Speaker 2: it bounces back everything his touching field, bullpens and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But he certainly throw the ball
Speaker 2: well today and that's exactly what we wanted to see.
Speaker 8: Come on, as the kids say, Jose, I'm old enough
Speaker 8: to remember when Dodger fans were upset with Max Munsey
Speaker 8: two months ago for his slow start to the season.
Speaker 8: And Max Munsey now twice in the last month has
Speaker 8: had games where he drives in seven Max Monsey hitting
Speaker 8: over three hundred in his last two weeks driving in runs.
Speaker 8: The power is back. Max Mounsey is back, Ose.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey is back, and Max Mounsey I've always said
Speaker 2: this has been a part of a culture that have
Speaker 2: created here for years and he's a key part in
Speaker 2: what happened last year and the year before and all
Speaker 2: those things that go along with it with it. Though
Speaker 2: we have to be tolerant and they have to be
Speaker 2: patients because he is very streaky about I think now
Speaker 2: we're going to see a different Max Mounsky from here on,
Speaker 2: because I should say from you know, a month ago on.
Speaker 2: Now he's seen them all better. And now you think
Speaker 2: about he's not walking as much, but he's making better contact.
Speaker 2: He's driving the balls to every part of the field.
Speaker 2: He take today, he's a grand slam foreer comes in.
Speaker 2: He saw him last night. I had a better idea
Speaker 2: as to what the ball was doing when it was
Speaker 2: approaching him, and he just missed the foul ball through
Speaker 2: our left in the booth. And I'm like, if he
Speaker 2: can sat on top of that pitch, he's going to
Speaker 2: drive a long ways and for rare than the thing
Speaker 2: was going to catch up. And he makes it not
Speaker 2: adjustment and gets right to it. But you can question
Speaker 2: everything you want about Max Munsky. There's some things that
Speaker 2: he have defensively, he needs to get better, but there's
Speaker 2: something that he's so such an integral part of that
Speaker 2: culture that he created that you just don't want to
Speaker 2: mess with that chemistry. And he's showing you why he
Speaker 2: is a guy that got to run from Lee.
Speaker 8: Belue for Hernandez. I think, for the fifth time this year,
Speaker 8: I'm out and pitch in relief in a blowout situation.
Speaker 8: I said it earlier. I kind of feel the novelty
Speaker 8: is worn off. I understand why you do it leading
Speaker 8: into a series against Colorado in Denver and even the
Speaker 8: bullpen to be fresh. But today just kind of thought,
Speaker 8: like one of those days, let's get three outs and
Speaker 8: get out of here.
Speaker 2: The overall position player thing I'm not a big fan
Speaker 2: of and never have been ever, and I just gets
Speaker 2: it's a necessary thing now because when one guy does
Speaker 2: it or every team doesn't, I think some some.
Speaker 6: It's the truth.
Speaker 2: I mean, go back and look at Hunter, Alberto. How
Speaker 2: many times did you pitch? I mean, and then you
Speaker 2: have got Albert Poole's pitch and Rizzo pitch and you
Speaker 2: Malina Fistel. Something will be done because to me, my
Speaker 2: main concern is way too dangerous. You know, you have
Speaker 2: batting touches pitcher right, he throws with the screen line,
Speaker 2: you get hit exactly position player you exposed him to
Speaker 2: so much. I understand again, is not is one team?
Speaker 2: Is every team that goes through this. Certainly, I just
Speaker 2: don't want to see anybody's career end, because you know
Speaker 2: a position player's throwing and it's just the way you know,
Speaker 2: bupens are being man right now. But if I don't
Speaker 2: see k again on my own the rest of my life,
Speaker 2: I'll be just fine.
Speaker 6: I'm with you, say we appreciate it. What's that going
Speaker 6: with you in a couple of days?
Speaker 4: You got it? My friend?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 6: There he goes Jose Moda eighty six six nine seven.
Speaker 6: Don is in the city of industry with the deepest
Speaker 6: pipes in sports soccer radio. How you doing, Don?
Speaker 4: Dave say, let's wish Colin a happy birthday and watch
Speaker 4: them blow out the candles. Boy, we blew out the
Speaker 4: candles on the Nationalist Today. Man, good for Matt Max.
Speaker 4: What what a difference a pair of glasses makes?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 4: I mean I'm astigmatic. You know. I've been wearing glasses
Speaker 4: since I was a kid. Compacts the whole thing. So
Speaker 4: good for Max. He's getting back on track and show. Hey,
Speaker 4: what can you say, Dodger fans? We need to just relax,
Speaker 4: let him take his time, get in shape, and enjoy
Speaker 4: them while we got him. Because nothing lasts forever, but
Speaker 4: someday we'll be looking back telling our grandkids, Yeah I
Speaker 4: saw soho hey or Tarni when he was at his best, Like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's going to be beautiful. So let's just take our time.
Speaker 4: Like what did the man say?
Speaker 3: Relax?
Speaker 4: Let's just relax, all right?
Speaker 6: Don great to hear from you.
Speaker 8: Mark in locking YadA is next up here on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk after Dodgers thirteen to seven win with Tim k
Speaker 8: How you doing there, Mark.
Speaker 5: Ah Kim, it's actually Matt Sorry, no big deal, no problem,
Speaker 5: no hey, you know, I just wanted to talk real
Speaker 5: fast on the home stand. You know, I think a
Speaker 5: week ago, which would have been father's dad, I think
Speaker 5: they came in tied with the giants and the padres
Speaker 5: were knocking on the door. And then you take seven
Speaker 5: out of ten on the stand. And what's crazy is
Speaker 5: that two of those losses were by Yamamoto. And I
Speaker 5: don't think anybody probably had that on the bingo card,
Speaker 5: that two of those losses would have been by Yoshi.
Speaker 5: So I think it was a phenomenal Homestand what I
Speaker 5: like is that you make a great point about Colorado
Speaker 5: cannot go in there and lay an A you have
Speaker 5: to hope that they're like, Okay, all the bats wake up,
Speaker 5: Tayo Ahead, stays hot, shoe Hey stays hot, Mookie gets going,
Speaker 5: and maybe even Conforda could get going. But I'm not
Speaker 5: going to bang on Conflorida because that's all everybody does
Speaker 5: on this show. But you know, I think Colorado Kansas City.
Speaker 5: Then I think they played the White Sox and they
Speaker 5: could end up having a really nice June and extending
Speaker 5: the lead and real quick. I agree with everything you're
Speaker 5: saying on Otani, Blasz, noow is coming back and the
Speaker 5: main goal is Otani, Yoshi, Glasnow and Snell in October
Speaker 5: and let's go to war. I appreciate it, Tim, you
Speaker 5: do a great job on everything pregame this stuff. Just
Speaker 5: thank you for taking a call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Hey, Matt, I appreciate the night with words man, thank
Speaker 8: you so much. Thanks for checking in here. I think
Speaker 8: you hit it on the head. As far as the
Speaker 8: importance of this home stand and the fact that this
Speaker 8: Dodgers team now clicking, getting some separation in the division,
Speaker 8: and the injuries to this pitching staff have been a problem.
Speaker 8: They've overcome it for the most part, and we're starting
Speaker 8: to see the trickle effective arms coming back. Tyler Glass
Speaker 8: now looks like will be that next Dodger starter in
Speaker 8: line to come back into this rotation. And you're right,
Speaker 8: I don't think guy had Yamamoto making two starts on
Speaker 8: this homestand and two of the losses on this homestand
Speaker 8: being when he starts, I did not have those on
Speaker 8: the bingo card. As you said, Dalton Rushing today got
Speaker 8: to start behind the plate, he got to catch show
Speaker 8: hey Otani. Dalton Rushing also two for two with the
Speaker 8: double two walks, scored three times, had himself a nice
Speaker 8: day at the plate and behind.
Speaker 6: Let's hear what we had to say postgame.
Speaker 13: First question obviously catching Otani, what was that like? And
Speaker 13: what did his stuff look like?
Speaker 6: Look good?
Speaker 14: Everything was obviously explosive. Villa was good throwing breaking balls,
Speaker 14: sweepers on the zone, allowed us to get ahead and
Speaker 14: put guys away.
Speaker 13: What's it like to be the guy that's calling the
Speaker 13: pitches for him? What's the game planning going through and
Speaker 13: him going along with your game plan? It's good we
Speaker 13: were on the same page.
Speaker 14: She actually called some of his own pitches, so but
Speaker 14: essentially we were on the same page before the game
Speaker 14: and to see him have success, obviously, that's a good sign.
Speaker 13: Dalton. To get on base four times, it feels like
Speaker 13: you're starting to get into some sort of normalcy with
Speaker 13: this new role. How much more comfortable do you feel
Speaker 13: at the plate with getting adjusted to playing behind Will.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it was just the game of baseball,
Speaker 14: came out, had a good day at the plate, and
Speaker 14: I don't think it was anything really different that I've
Speaker 14: done the last few times. Like you said, maybe I'm
Speaker 14: getting a little more comfortable in the role. But yeah,
Speaker 14: good results today and allowed us to capitalize on top
Speaker 14: of some hits, walks and Max having a big day
Speaker 14: driving in some runs.
Speaker 9: With the biggest adjustment you've had to make, just like
Speaker 9: big league pitching and being up here and kind of
Speaker 9: seeing how guys throw you over the.
Speaker 14: Last month, Yeah, it's understanding their attack plan, understanding what
Speaker 14: they're trying to do. And I had a pretty good
Speaker 14: understanding after my first four or five starts, And yeah,
Speaker 14: I made a couple of adjustments, and like I said,
Speaker 14: feel good right now, ride the wave and continue to
Speaker 14: play good baseball fun.
Speaker 13: You're just a little bit worse than the things of
Speaker 13: those just be tea and I've talked about different.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's just respecting, respecting all pitches, not just going
Speaker 14: up there and ambushing, not going up there and expecting
Speaker 14: everybody to be a two pitch guy. Guys are gonna
Speaker 14: throw three or four pitches and you're expected as a
Speaker 14: hitter to be able to handle all four.
Speaker 8: All right, there's Dalton rushing post game two for two,
Speaker 8: a couple of walks, scored three runs. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 8: Washington Nationals thirteen to seven. Blake in Denver, Thanks for
Speaker 8: being patient, Blake. Welcome to Dodger Talk. How are you
Speaker 8: doing well.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go watch the DoD Is playing Kansas City
Speaker 1: and in Milwaukee and Kensdy and Dan Vine Milwaukee and
Speaker 1: what a big game it was from Shyo Tani and
Speaker 1: Max Muncy and yeah, there's a biggest game ever. I'm
Speaker 1: a big dodge of who's.
Speaker 8: Your favorite player, Blake? Who's your favorite Dodger player right now?
Speaker 6: On this team? Who's your favorite right now?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 8: That's a good one. That's a good one. Now, do
Speaker 8: you like the pitcher or Showtani the.
Speaker 6: Batter better.
Speaker 1: The battle?
Speaker 8: Yeah, well we'll see what he can do on the
Speaker 8: mound as he moves forward. Blake today the one inning,
Speaker 8: he looked really good. And they're going to Kansas City
Speaker 8: next weekend, so you're gonna see him in.
Speaker 1: Denver, yep, Denver, in Milwaukee, Kansas City and Milwaukee.
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 8: Have you been to a game in Kansas City before?
Speaker 8: At Royal Citium there?
Speaker 1: Now I'm trying them, I'm trying to catch Mark off MLB.
Speaker 6: Whoa Blake?
Speaker 8: How many state do you know offhand? How many stadiums
Speaker 8: you have been to already?
Speaker 1: Fifteen?
Speaker 6: Are you kidding me? You've been How old are you? Blake?
Speaker 8: You're fourteen and you've been to fifteen of the major
Speaker 8: league stadiums already, and you're gonna check off a box
Speaker 8: coming up here with can't now have you've been to Milwaukee?
Speaker 6: Will that be another one you check off your box?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Wow?
Speaker 6: Are you kid?
Speaker 8: You're gonna be up to seventeen stadiums by the time
Speaker 8: you go see the Dodgers play in Milwaukee and Kansas City.
Speaker 6: That is really cool, Blake.
Speaker 8: I don't I've never been to fifteen stadiums in Major
Speaker 8: League base I think I've been to like five.
Speaker 6: Good for you, yeah.
Speaker 8: Awesome, Blake, Will you have a great rest of your
Speaker 8: Sunday afternoon. Dodgers got the win, show, Hey, Otani got
Speaker 8: the start, and who knows, maybe you'll see him pitch
Speaker 8: next weekend in Kansas City.
Speaker 6: We'll find out. Thanks a lot, Blake, Ye, all right,
Speaker 6: see you later, Blake in Denver. How about that?
Speaker 8: Fourteen years old, he's been to fifteen stadiums already, and
Speaker 8: he's gonna go to Kansas City to see the Dodgers
Speaker 8: playing a set again, and then he's gonna go see
Speaker 8: them play the Milwaukee Brewers later on and check off
Speaker 8: two more boxes as far as.
Speaker 6: Stadiums he's gone to. That is cool.
Speaker 8: That is a great summer for Blake, having to go
Speaker 8: uh see and getting to go see more baseball across
Speaker 8: the country Isabelle and Anaheim. Our final call is he
Speaker 8: what's going on?
Speaker 15: Say nothing? Hey, I'm one glad they won't leave their
Speaker 15: homeschain seven three. I have a seven three against three
Speaker 15: and seven, so and well I'll take a happy birthday
Speaker 15: callin so, Hey, looks good today. I know we're don't
Speaker 15: want nay, but hey, if the gods you want him
Speaker 15: play when, I'm all for it. I don't want to
Speaker 15: watch him. I agree with you. I hate producing player.
Speaker 15: I've been hating him Plasticapan year, but this year they've
Speaker 15: been buggy. And then we'll read me every time key
Speaker 15: Cakes go out, you'll get hurt. I don't want handle
Speaker 15: any prosessing page get hurt. And then with the great
Speaker 15: Savings the candy, I hate Sandy's.
Speaker 8: A lot of hate coming from you, is he on
Speaker 8: this Sunday. Great to hear from you, as he os
Speaker 8: always big. Make sure be impatient and we'll talk to
Speaker 8: you on off night Dodger Talk tomorrow. Dodgers get the
Speaker 8: win today over the Washington Nationals, and she kind of
Speaker 8: hit something that I'm glad she pointed out. Is he
Speaker 8: you don't want to see anybody get hurt with a
Speaker 8: position player on the mound, and it's not just hurting
Speaker 8: his arm. You don't want to see him get hit
Speaker 8: by a line drive. You don't want to see anybody
Speaker 8: out there getting hit. And what in essence is a
Speaker 8: blowout situation, whether you're losing or you're winning, in that
Speaker 8: blowout game, you just don't want see anybody get hurt.
Speaker 8: That's why I bring up the fact that today, of
Speaker 8: all days, kind of just felt like Let's get a
Speaker 8: reliever out there, get the final three outs of the ninth,
Speaker 8: Let's get out of dodge.
Speaker 6: Let's get In off.
Speaker 8: This homestand on a winning note and hit the road
Speaker 8: tomorrow and then go to Colorado for a three game
Speaker 8: series against the Rockies. As it is, he gives a
Speaker 8: four runs in the ninth, Dodgers with a ten run
Speaker 8: lead get the win as they hang on for a
Speaker 8: thirteen to seven victory over the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 6: That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk. Sorry, Brad Paisley
Speaker 6: didn't have time today. Maybe next time. Happy birthday to
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Speaker 6: Thanks for all you for being a part of the show.
Speaker 8: Big win for the Dodgers as they wrap up this
Speaker 8: ten game homestand with the victory over the Nationals take
Speaker 8: two to three from Washington. They go seven to three
Speaker 8: on this homestand they remain a top of the division
Speaker 8: in the nl WES. And now it's off to Denver
Speaker 8: beginning on Tuesday with the Rockies. All have off night
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