Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium until ten thirty tonight
Speaker 2: right here on AM five seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: embarrassed at home tonight by the Cubs, sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 3: The final score.
Speaker 2: It is the largest shutout loss for the Dodgers since
Speaker 2: August eighth of nineteen sixty five in Cincinnati, when the
Speaker 2: Red shut the Dodgers out in sixty five eighteen to nothing.
Speaker 2: This loss right here, sixteen to nothing, it's the worst
Speaker 2: home shitout loss in.
Speaker 3: Franchise history for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And that's why I thought there was a fine line
Speaker 2: in the eighth and ninth inning when Miguel Rojas was
Speaker 2: doing the imitations of Landon Nack and Kershaw and you know,
Speaker 2: I just you're losing eleven twelve runs at home. You're
Speaker 2: the world champs. To me, that was that was a
Speaker 2: little bit over the top for my liking. And look,
Speaker 2: I know it's only one game, and you know tomorrow
Speaker 2: night the Dodgers will probably come out here and beat
Speaker 2: the Cubs and win the series two out of three.
Speaker 2: But still for the people that came here, I mean
Speaker 2: this might have been the one in only two games
Speaker 2: that a family of four come out to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: That's not what they want to see. I didn't hear
Speaker 2: laughs throughout the entire stadium, you know. I think the
Speaker 2: only four or five people laughing were a few of
Speaker 2: the guys in the dugout, in rojas on the mound.
Speaker 2: I don't believe Austin Barnes was laughing behind the plate,
Speaker 2: you know. I just I just think, like of Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: you know, he always said he had to give his
Speaker 2: best effort every single night because one kid, one family,
Speaker 2: that might be the only time they see him, or
Speaker 2: that might be the first time they saw him. So
Speaker 2: I'm not going to overreact to that, you know. I'm
Speaker 2: Miguel rojas Is is a pro, and I mean you
Speaker 2: got to give him credit for going out there for
Speaker 2: two innings. He's a he's an infielder, he's not a pitcher.
Speaker 2: But I just think there's a fine line there and
Speaker 2: when it comes out and we realized that this was
Speaker 2: the worst shutout loss in franchise history, that's not something
Speaker 2: anybody should be smiling about or laughing about. In the dugout,
Speaker 2: that's just my take eight six, six, nine, eight, seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number outside of the
Speaker 2: Cubs scoring fourteen runs in the final three innings of
Speaker 2: the game. It was a close game, and Sazaki was
Speaker 2: a big reason why. It was a huge step forward
Speaker 2: for Roki Sazaki tonight, going five innings, allowing just a
Speaker 2: solo home run to Michael Bush. And you have to
Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to Andy Pajz for that
Speaker 2: happening and allowing Sazaki to stay in the game for
Speaker 2: as long as he did because he was in a
Speaker 2: bases loaded jam with two outs, and Andy Pie has
Speaker 2: made a great catch, maybe the best catch he has
Speaker 2: made in center field. He's played a lot of corner outfield,
Speaker 2: not a lot of center field in the big leagues,
Speaker 2: and that was a great catch and that probably saved
Speaker 2: at least extra bases.
Speaker 3: I know there's some debate.
Speaker 2: Whether or not it would have gone over the wall
Speaker 2: for a Grand Slam, but nonetheless, that was a huge
Speaker 2: catch and you have to give Andy Pai has kudos
Speaker 2: because he's been putting in a lot of work early
Speaker 2: in the day with Dino Ebol to try to get
Speaker 2: better in center field, and I know there's been some
Speaker 2: growing pains, but that's not his natural position, and he's
Speaker 2: done a better job in the last handful of games,
Speaker 2: So you have to give Andy Paie has credit for that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I know there's gonna be a lot of talk about
Speaker 2: the last three innings or just this loss in totality,
Speaker 2: but for me, the bigger issue here is the Dodger offense,
Speaker 2: and specifically they're five through nine hitters. Tonight, they were
Speaker 2: combined one for sixteen on the season and it's only
Speaker 2: fifteen games. It's only fifteen games, but the Dodgers five
Speaker 2: through nine hitters through the first fifteen games of the
Speaker 2: season are hitting one seventy two and they're on base
Speaker 2: percentage is below three hundred. The reason why I bring
Speaker 2: that up and why it's so important for this Dodger
Speaker 2: offense to have at least their seven eight nine hitters
Speaker 2: getting on base and turning that lineup over for Otani,
Speaker 2: for Bets, for Freeman, for ta Oscar. If you look
Speaker 2: back at last year, Miguel Rojas and Gavin Lux did
Speaker 2: a great job of getting on base somehow, some way
Speaker 2: and turning that lineup over and having guys on base
Speaker 2: for Otani and Betts and that led to a fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty season for Otani. It led to a big
Speaker 2: year for Mookie and Freddy and ta Oscar. But right
Speaker 2: now the offense is stalling out. After ta Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: This blowout loss is gonna come and go. But that's
Speaker 2: a big problem and we have seen it for fifteen
Speaker 2: games now. It's got to change if the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going to reach the full potential of this offense. Eight six, nine, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: the phones for the first time tonight. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to San Diego. Gerbilto, I'll say that again, Gilberto, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I've seen better games, Gilberto. It's a mui malo.
Speaker 5: But tonight, don't be so hard on yourself. Even Stephen Nelson,
Speaker 5: brig Manday, we're having fun with it at the end.
Speaker 5: But I know it's a loss, and you mentioned it.
Speaker 5: It's a long season. But I want to look at
Speaker 5: the bright side. I love what Barnes is doing with Sasaki.
Speaker 5: He I mean, he's coming around and it's I mean,
Speaker 5: I love it. I can see this kids being very
Speaker 5: good throughout this year and taking and helping us in
Speaker 5: the post season. I mean, it's incredible. I hope he
Speaker 5: keeps growing the way we've seen him in the last
Speaker 5: two games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there might be something there because Sazaki
Speaker 2: only pitches once a week, and right now it's every Saturday,
Speaker 2: and you got to give Will Smith some days off.
Speaker 2: And it seems like Sazaki and Barnes have a good rapport.
Speaker 2: It felt like tonight, Barnes, and thank you for the
Speaker 2: phone call. Goodberto, appreciate it. It felt like tonight there was
Speaker 2: a concerted effort to just pump those fastballs by the
Speaker 2: Cubs and establish fastball command. Because Sazaki threw a career
Speaker 2: high eighty one pitches tonight. Over half of them were fastballs,
Speaker 2: and then he mixed in the liter and also the slider.
Speaker 3: But it's all about the fastball.
Speaker 2: We keep hearing about fastball command, fastball command, and Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes did not go away from it. He kept on
Speaker 2: going to that fastball, and that seemed to be a
Speaker 2: big reason for success for Roki Sazaki. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ken in Newport Beach. Who is
Speaker 2: making his Dodger Talk debut, not shockingly after the worst
Speaker 2: home shutout loss in franchise history.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Ken?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 7: How are you man?
Speaker 3: Oh? Just dandy?
Speaker 7: Yeah, me too. I got some illnesses that are stuck.
Speaker 7: Put this way, I won't be going golfing and putting.
Speaker 7: My hands will be shaking. So you made the good points,
Speaker 7: and the good points is that there's some missing hitting.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers are now hitting to twenty seven, which is
Speaker 7: I believe twentieth in.
Speaker 6: The major leagues.
Speaker 7: And the team that's first, which is hitting sixty points
Speaker 7: higher at two sixty eight or too to eighty eight,
Speaker 7: is the San Diego Padres. Now, not hitting is one thing,
Speaker 7: but you've got Mounsie and you've got Pages as among
Speaker 7: top five leaders in strikeouts. That's a concern. Yes, you
Speaker 7: got five guys below, but two of them are starting,
Speaker 7: and that's a big hole. And you pointed it out.
Speaker 7: And it's a difference between hitting line drivesing and ground
Speaker 7: balls and striking out all the time. I'm not sure
Speaker 7: what you can do about that. I don't think it's
Speaker 7: going to change with Pages, but I would have to
Speaker 7: think that money is not going to yeah, I can't
Speaker 7: say his name right ever, Piz Piz. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 7: I learned something today.
Speaker 3: Again, you'll get better.
Speaker 2: And you know, Joe Davis actually pointed this out on
Speaker 2: the broadcast last night, and Ryan Brazier of the Cubs
Speaker 2: actually pointed it out to me that Paz has seen
Speaker 2: more pitches per played appearance than any other player in baseball.
Speaker 2: So there's something to that. He has to get on base.
Speaker 2: It's fine to see a lot of pitches, but if
Speaker 2: you don't do anything, it really doesn't matter. But at
Speaker 2: least he's trying to work the count. He's making it
Speaker 2: a concerted effort. And like I said, it's fifteen games in,
Speaker 2: but it does have to change because it's not sustainable
Speaker 2: to have your five through nine hitters hitting a combined
Speaker 2: one seventy two and getting on base at you know,
Speaker 2: a two seventy five clip. With all that being said,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are still eleven and five, one of the
Speaker 2: best records in baseball, but there are flaws right now,
Speaker 2: They're not a perfect team. Let's go out to Phoenix,
Speaker 2: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hey, Phoenix, were you
Speaker 2: laughing during the eighth and ninth inning tonight.
Speaker 6: Left it was so bad.
Speaker 2: Oh well, that would have been a good opportunity to
Speaker 2: check out the new renovations around Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: That's what I told my cousin Tomi.
Speaker 6: Would have been a good idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next time there's a blowout, just have your parents
Speaker 2: walking around the stadium.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I got a question about Casparius.
Speaker 9: What was going on there?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Ben Casparius has been really good right
Speaker 2: Phoenix so far this season.
Speaker 3: This is his first bad outing, So.
Speaker 2: I I tend to believe the Cubs had his pitches
Speaker 2: because we haven't seen swings like that off of Casparius
Speaker 2: all year. You heard about tipping pitches sometimes that happens,
Speaker 2: m So, So what'd you do at the game tonight?
Speaker 2: Have some Dodger dogs some nachos?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I got two Dodger dogs.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Nice way to go, Phoenix, Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: You know who else was here at the game tonight?
Speaker 2: And you know it's embarrassing the Dodgers loss sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 2: When the DT himself, Petros Papadekas was here. I mean,
Speaker 2: god knows what he might say on Monday. I mean
Speaker 2: the first game he comes to brings his wife kids.
Speaker 2: He's got great seats. I don't know what's.
Speaker 3: Gonna happen on Monday.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers get blown out tonight sixteen to
Speaker 2: nothing to the Cubs. Sunday Night Baseball Tomorrow, Tyler glass
Speaker 2: Now is going to be on the mound. The sun
Speaker 2: will be shining, the mound will be very dry and comfortable.
Speaker 2: So I would imagine glass Now, who obviously would like
Speaker 2: to forget that start in Philadelphia, is gonna come out
Speaker 2: here tomorrow night, do his job, set the tone, and
Speaker 2: probably pitch six scoreless innings or I should say, six
Speaker 2: strong innings against the Cubs, and hopefully the Dodgers offense
Speaker 2: gives him an early lead and everybody will be happy
Speaker 2: with a series win over the Cubs. Also, keep in mind,
Speaker 2: this is the first time the Dodgers have lost at
Speaker 2: home since Game two of the NLCS. Remember that day
Speaker 2: game Sean Menia having the magic right there against the
Speaker 2: Dodgers against the Mets NLCS Game two. Yeah, that was
Speaker 2: the last time the Dodgers lost a home game. That
Speaker 2: was a ten game winning streak that came to a
Speaker 2: screeching halt. Tonight, let's go out to Pasadena. Fred, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Live from the Stadium. Hi, Fred, what's up?
Speaker 5: Dave?
Speaker 9: Longtime listener, first time caller. I go back to the
Speaker 9: days of Imcdonald Douglas with you.
Speaker 6: I remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they drinks for you today, Fred, No.
Speaker 9: I stayed dry today, Dave. But I did have a
Speaker 9: couple of points. I had two points one with Sasaki.
Speaker 9: I have a very different takeaway than Gid from San Diego.
Speaker 9: If I were to give Ozaki at great tonight, I'd
Speaker 9: give him a firm hard see. To me, his pitches
Speaker 9: didn't exactly zoot conviction tonight. He continually fell behind in
Speaker 9: count early. He let the number nine hitter Carson Kelly
Speaker 9: reach base twice with the bases empty and one out
Speaker 9: on both occasions. I mean, he was a great pie
Speaker 9: catch away from being pushed again, right, and you know,
Speaker 9: I feel like we would have seen Layrona come out
Speaker 9: of the bullpen in relief for Sasaki. How that happened,
Speaker 9: I think you see is.
Speaker 3: A fair grade. I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Let's have a conversation here, Fred, Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: As Sea is a fair grade. But the reason why
Speaker 2: I was impressed is because a he had a ten
Speaker 2: pitch first inning and he retired the side in order,
Speaker 2: first time he had ever done that. And if you remember,
Speaker 2: his Dodger Stadium debut was disastrous, a forty one pitch
Speaker 2: first inning, he couldn't even finish the second inning. Tonight
Speaker 2: he had career highs five innings, eighty one pitches. As
Speaker 2: the great victim break Jacobs would say, he bent but
Speaker 2: did not break. You know a lot of nights it's
Speaker 2: not going to be perfect, Fred, but your defense is
Speaker 2: there for a reason. Yes, great catch, but also he
Speaker 2: didn't give in and that showed me growth.
Speaker 6: That's fair.
Speaker 9: That's a fair point. And then my number two point, Dave,
Speaker 9: my my larger point. It's a point.
Speaker 2: Is that just a way to push me aside and
Speaker 2: move on to the next thing you want to say?
Speaker 9: No, no, no, that say I have.
Speaker 11: I have way too much respect for you to to
Speaker 11: do that.
Speaker 3: Yea, No, that's fair.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, I agree with you.
Speaker 8: That's fair.
Speaker 9: My larger point, though, is with the other Dave tonight,
Speaker 9: Dave Roberts, and I let me preface this by saying,
Speaker 9: I've been a hard champion for Dave Roberts ever since
Speaker 9: he test bumped Andy Green, the Foremer Potter's Skipper back
Speaker 9: in twenty seventeen. And I promise I'm eurotic, mom. But yeah,
Speaker 9: but but with tonight, I I just you know, in
Speaker 9: that sixth inning, Casparious didn't look Chris and I just
Speaker 9: to me, I would firmly brandislass on on Dave Roberts.
Speaker 9: I'm a little puzzle. That's why he kept Casparius in
Speaker 9: for the seventh. I had a few observations from that
Speaker 9: sixth inning alone and made my eyes deceive me. But
Speaker 9: Casparius's villa looked a bit down to me. Number two.
Speaker 9: You know, he kept desperately chasing that third out by
Speaker 9: throwing over the first base to try to get Nico
Speaker 9: Warner out. It was to me as it's a signal,
Speaker 9: you know, Dave, like.
Speaker 2: Skip, do you let me just stop you you're kind
Speaker 2: of going on and on here, Let me just stop.
Speaker 2: You know, my biggest issue with Benk Casparius was in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning. You know it It wasn't him throwing
Speaker 2: the ball well.
Speaker 3: You know what it was.
Speaker 2: It was the pitching made to Justin Turner that drove
Speaker 2: in that run in the sixth inning, he's talling gas right,
Speaker 2: and he throws ninety six miles in hour. I just
Speaker 2: saw it on MLB Network a couple of days ago,
Speaker 2: and take it for what it's worth. Justin Turner this
Speaker 2: season has one of the slowest bat speeds in baseball.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's forty years old. It's understandable.
Speaker 2: Why is he throwing him a slider up in the
Speaker 2: zone at eighty six when he probably if you get
Speaker 2: it over Justin's hands at ninety six, he's not touching it.
Speaker 2: So to me, that was the biggest issue I had
Speaker 2: with Ben Casparius in the sixth inning.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and that's kind of where I you know, to me,
Speaker 9: bad pitch selection.
Speaker 2: It didn't mean it was a typical example of a
Speaker 2: pitcher getting bored. Why would he do that just because
Speaker 2: he's bored he's tired of Justin fouling off fastballs?
Speaker 3: It makes no sense.
Speaker 2: Fred, I got a run right, fair, okay, fair, fair enough?
Speaker 3: Thanks Fred?
Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Hey, it happens. The seventh inning, happens.
Speaker 2: But in that sixth I didn't like that pitch to
Speaker 2: that hitter. It wasn't a good pitch eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy. Let's take one more
Speaker 2: phone call before we take a break. Bob in Malibu.
Speaker 2: You were on hold last night, Bob, so let's get
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: What's up.
Speaker 6: Thanks DEVI.
Speaker 10: I appreciate it's always great to talk to you. Man. Obviously,
Speaker 10: we've seen some better nights out there from the boys.
Speaker 10: But I'm not gonna throw the towel just yet.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 10: I mean, like you said, some great stuff from Sasaki,
Speaker 10: great stuff from Paz. Let's stay strong. I mean, it
Speaker 10: was a rough night, but we'll get back on the horse.
Speaker 10: Question for you, Dave, is when an opposing team comes
Speaker 10: in with a former Dodger, like the Cubs have Justin Turner,
Speaker 10: how much does that information that Justin knows about his
Speaker 10: former team come into play when facing you know, his
Speaker 10: old squad.
Speaker 2: Hey, Justin Turner learned from the best Chase Uttley on
Speaker 2: how to pick up pitchers tipping. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if it was Justin Turner that let the rest of
Speaker 2: the Cubs and picked up on some thing from Casparius.
Speaker 10: So we're on the same page on that. Then, because
Speaker 10: I felt the same thing. I felt like Turner's experience
Speaker 10: obviously as a former Dodger comes into play here when
Speaker 10: you've got such a blast, you know, sixteen ohero score tonight.
Speaker 3: Oh, without a doubt, Bob.
Speaker 2: You know, he may have only driven in one run
Speaker 2: in the box score, but there's a very good chance
Speaker 2: he had six RBIs tonight because of what he may
Speaker 2: have passed along to his teammates in that dugout.
Speaker 10: Well, that makes sense either way. It was just good
Speaker 10: to see our old boy JT out there on Dodger
Speaker 10: field again. So kudos to him. Man. You know, again,
Speaker 10: a rough knight will put it behind us. But thanks
Speaker 10: for taking my call tonight, Dave.
Speaker 3: All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Ben Casparius was probably tipping his pitches
Speaker 2: in some form or fashion that is beyond what I see.
Speaker 2: But players, I mean, that is a huge part of
Speaker 2: the game now where they're looking at video, they're looking
Speaker 2: at certain glove gestures, and you know how they hold
Speaker 2: the glove, how they hold the ball on sliders, on fastballs,
Speaker 2: and that's the reality, right. Chase Hutley was one of
Speaker 2: the best, and justin Turner was with Chase Utley with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and I'm sure Justin is just as good
Speaker 2: as Chase Utley was for the Dodgers in that department.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's the way it goes.
Speaker 2: Eight six six eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number speaking to Justin Turner. We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll share with you what Justin Turner told me yesterday
Speaker 2: about whether or not this is his last dance. He
Speaker 2: was our pregame guest. Ryan Brasier, part of the Dog
Speaker 2: bullpen last year that won the World Series, joined us today.
Speaker 2: But you'll hear from JT coming up, and also we'll
Speaker 2: check in with Jose Mota plus more of your phone calls.
Speaker 2: We have two lines open at eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. After the Cubs hand the
Speaker 2: Dodgers their worst home shut out loss in franchise history tonight,
Speaker 2: sixteen to nothing, the Lovable Losers beat the Dodgers on
Speaker 2: a five seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 1: David Bassa the two two.
Speaker 12: Bush takes it in the air left field, drifting back
Speaker 12: toward the wall. Conford Oh is at the wall. He
Speaker 12: leaps and this ball is gone. A two strike opposite
Speaker 12: field home run from Michael Bush that just scraped the
Speaker 12: wall in left field. The former Dodger has his second
Speaker 12: home run of the season and the Cubs heaven early
Speaker 12: won nothing, leave.
Speaker 3: Michael Bush with a big night.
Speaker 2: It could have been bigger if not for Andy pie
Speaker 2: Has robbing him of what might have been a grand
Speaker 2: slam in the third inning. Michael Bush, getting the start
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Speaker 2: six with three RBIs and four runs scored in the
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Speaker 2: Six, six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We'll check in with Jose Moda in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to your phone calls in a moment.
Speaker 2: But I want to share with you part of our
Speaker 2: conversation with Justin Turner yesterday on the pregame show, as
Speaker 2: he has now accomplished his goal that he had told
Speaker 2: me about many times over the years that he intended
Speaker 2: to play until he was forty years old and possibly beyond.
Speaker 2: So here we are, and here he is with the Cubs,
Speaker 2: and he believes in this team and that they have
Speaker 2: a chance to win the NL Central. That's why he
Speaker 2: signed with them, even though he may not play as
Speaker 2: much as he would on a team that would have
Speaker 2: more playing time but maybe not as many wins. So
Speaker 2: we're all wondering when is JT coming home and whether
Speaker 2: or not this may be his last dance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: You twisted your neck when I asked you that I'm
Speaker 2: not pushing you out of the game.
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't think you are. And I want
Speaker 4: to play as long as I can.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: If oh, here comes JMO and you're in the seats,
Speaker 4: I'll get up.
Speaker 3: I'll can stand up.
Speaker 6: Don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want or I've never been
Speaker 4: one to want like a spotlight shined on me or
Speaker 4: the accolades. I don't love talking about myself or hearing it.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna play this game as long as I can.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If I want to announce a retirement tour and go
Speaker 4: through all that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I deserve that.
Speaker 4: I've seen guys, you know, like Miguel Cabert and Albert
Speaker 4: Poolhols and you know, just absolute icons of the game.
Speaker 4: They're the ones that deserve that. I don't necessarily know
Speaker 4: if that's something for me, but it's definitely something I
Speaker 4: don't want even if it were the case. So I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna keep going day by day and playing as
Speaker 4: long as I can, and whenever the time comes, you know,
Speaker 4: then I'll make that announcement.
Speaker 2: Hey, the Dodger mantra with you and Rich Hill used
Speaker 2: to be be where your feet are, Stay in the moment.
Speaker 2: It sounds like you're living the words of the great
Speaker 2: Rich Hill.
Speaker 3: That is so true.
Speaker 4: And I love Dick Mountain. He's the man, and I
Speaker 4: think he'd be a great co host for you on
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk if you're looking for somebody. I don't know
Speaker 4: how much Dre's doing.
Speaker 3: It anymore, but maybe a rounder you, me and Rich Hill, Oh.
Speaker 4: Man, that would be you would get some great content
Speaker 4: on that one oh hello.
Speaker 3: Hello. Yeah.
Speaker 2: If we had Justin Turner, Rich Hill, Andre Ethier, me,
Speaker 2: that would be the new version of the Four Horsemen
Speaker 2: hosting Dodger Talk. They would be here with me at
Speaker 2: ten oh a going on ten oh nine at an
Speaker 2: empty Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: How about that? You think they would go for that?
Speaker 2: I mean Rich would have to move back to h
Speaker 2: to Luca Lake, Andre Ethier would have to leave it
Speaker 2: all behind in the desert, and Justin Turner, well, he's
Speaker 2: a Fullerton guy. He would hang out here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be an ideal Dodger Talk rounder one night
Speaker 2: eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. By the way, what I took away
Speaker 2: from that is Justin's not going to make any announcement now.
Speaker 2: He doesn't want that type of attention. But yeah, this
Speaker 2: may be his last season and he's hoping to go
Speaker 2: out on a winning note with the Cubs. Tonight, the
Speaker 2: Cubs uh went out on a winning note. Beating the
Speaker 2: Dodgers sixteen to nothing. Justin Turner got the started third
Speaker 2: base and drove in a run against benk Asparius in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning. Tonight, let's go out to the phones again, Sassan.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from Chavez Ravine.
Speaker 13: How you doing, Sassan, Hey, Dave, I just wanted to
Speaker 13: call into event about today's game. I was at the
Speaker 13: game today and it was just a brutal being in
Speaker 13: the stands and watching everything that transpired.
Speaker 3: How long am I start?
Speaker 13: When I stayed until the sixth inning and then they
Speaker 13: just did unraveled there and I just.
Speaker 3: That was even before things really got bad.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And I just I don't know, it was hard
Speaker 13: to Yeah, but it was it was nice to see
Speaker 13: when Justin Turner came up, you know, the crowd still,
Speaker 13: you know, remembers.
Speaker 11: All that he did in Dodger Blue and he got
Speaker 11: a lot of a lot of cheers.
Speaker 13: That was nice getting to see that response from the
Speaker 13: crowd today.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And I ended up watching the rest of the game
Speaker 13: on Sports LA and it was just, you know, it
Speaker 13: was just tough. It was tough seeing seeing them struggle
Speaker 13: out there, and you know, I think it's I'm glad
Speaker 13: it's just one game and hopefully it'smorrow. They can regroup
Speaker 13: and play better.
Speaker 11: But you know, I just I you know they will,
Speaker 11: you know they will.
Speaker 3: They will regret.
Speaker 2: It's a really good team. It was just one of
Speaker 2: those states. It's a really good team. I want to
Speaker 2: get too down about game fifteen, Sosana. It could be worse.
Speaker 2: You could be a Braves fan right now, and a
Speaker 2: team that everybody thought was going to be a playoff
Speaker 2: team has started the season three and ten.
Speaker 3: I mean, it could be a lot worse.
Speaker 2: And with everything we've talked about and some of the
Speaker 2: flaws the Dodgers have, they have one of the best
Speaker 2: records in baseball at eleven and five.
Speaker 3: Let's not lose sight of that.
Speaker 7: That's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're all cylinders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, so on, cheer up. Yeah, thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Appreciate it. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. All
Speaker 2: we're talking about is some of the imperfections of the
Speaker 2: team so far to begin the year. But it's only
Speaker 2: fifteen games. Let's not lose sight of the fact that
Speaker 2: both these teams, the Dodgers and Cubs started the year
Speaker 2: in Tokyo and have continued to play the season, so
Speaker 2: you have to take that into account as well. But
Speaker 2: it comes down to starting pitching. If you get a
Speaker 2: good start, you're in the game. Tonight, the Dodger offense
Speaker 2: was non existent, and you have to get Ben Brown
Speaker 2: some credit for that. Ben Brown was really good with
Speaker 2: his curveball. He threw ninety five ninety six and he
Speaker 2: had great spin, a lot of a lot of language
Speaker 2: on that ball, spinning towards Freddie Freeman and the rest
Speaker 2: of the crew tonight. So I know, we get caught
Speaker 2: up and what the Dodgers did or didn't do, but
Speaker 2: at times you have to give the other teams some
Speaker 2: as well. And Ben Brown for the Cubs tonight was
Speaker 2: really good. Eight six, six nine, eight seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Jose and Bakersfield. You're on Dodger Talk, Hi, Jose.
Speaker 8: Hey, what's up? David A. I'm the different Bakership that
Speaker 8: listens to you off and on, so but you're back
Speaker 8: on tonight, Yes I am. I'm more consistent, more consistent.
Speaker 8: But anyways, David bir for my I got two points
Speaker 8: two big points to point out. First of all, whether
Speaker 8: or not Ben Conspiras was tipping his pitches or not,
Speaker 8: my frustration really was all about why he was left
Speaker 8: out there for such a long time. It was almost
Speaker 8: like his as if he was left out there to drive,
Speaker 8: would you will we did?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: I mean, he was close to getting out of the inning,
Speaker 2: but he wasn't able to get that third out, so uh.
Speaker 2: And Dave Roberts is kind of handcuffed because of how
Speaker 2: much he's had had to use his bullpen, so it's
Speaker 2: not like Luis Garcia did much better after him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true, David, that's true. And my second point
Speaker 8: is that, hey, I'm glad you brought that up all
Speaker 8: about you know, the the uh all the goofing around
Speaker 8: that well not goofing around, but.
Speaker 7: We go roll.
Speaker 3: They were goofing around, yeah around.
Speaker 8: I'm so glad that you brought that up because to me, David,
Speaker 8: it was almost like like if at that moment they
Speaker 8: didn't really care about what the fans were feeling and
Speaker 8: whether they like it or not. Those Dodger fans were
Speaker 8: very loyal, but there is a funny line, like you mentioned,
Speaker 8: I'm so glad you brought this brought it up, is
Speaker 8: that there's a fine line as far as how far
Speaker 8: you can go when it turns down to you know,
Speaker 8: you're losing a game, you're down big, and and like
Speaker 8: you said, you also brought out that, you know, a
Speaker 8: fat like my family or family of eight. So whenever
Speaker 8: we go out to watch the Dodgers only twice a
Speaker 8: year and we spend close, I mean, there's hundreds of
Speaker 8: dollars that we spend and my family would sure be
Speaker 8: disappointed if we went out there and they got blown
Speaker 8: out the way they got They got blown out tonight,
Speaker 8: and I just that's just something they gotta I don't
Speaker 8: know think about. You know, that's my point of view, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick Coletti used to talk about presentation. That wasn't
Speaker 2: great presentation. This is the Dodgers. It's not the Marlins,
Speaker 2: you know. You know, so I feel you, Jose and man,
Speaker 2: you got a family of eight. You guys can't sit
Speaker 2: together at a Dodger game.
Speaker 8: Well you really quickly. Four of them have moved out recently,
Speaker 8: but they'll still tag along sometimes.
Speaker 3: But you gotta make two trips.
Speaker 2: You gotta make two trips to get everybody in Jose,
Speaker 2: I gotta run, but I love it.
Speaker 3: I hope to see the whole family here soon. Okay,
Speaker 3: let me.
Speaker 5: Know, thank you.
Speaker 8: I sure will, David, thank you to take away call.
Speaker 2: And I'll guarantee the Dodgers don't lose sixteen to nothing
Speaker 2: that night.
Speaker 3: That you come.
Speaker 2: Eight six, seven, two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers shut out by the Cubs tonight, sixteen to nothing,
Speaker 2: the worst home shutout loss in franchise history for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't a landslide from start to finish. The
Speaker 2: Cubs scored fourteen runs in the last three innings, so
Speaker 2: it was a close game up until the seventh. All right,
Speaker 2: let's head out to Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moda, let's start with the good Roki Sazaki.
Speaker 2: I know there was some tenuous moments there. He was
Speaker 2: saved by Andy Pajz, But all in all, what do
Speaker 2: you make of the start tonight?
Speaker 11: I will say that another step for him in the
Speaker 11: right direction. He got through five innings. He was saved
Speaker 11: by the belt and on the pies, But that's all
Speaker 11: part of being a big league pitcher. You make mistakes
Speaker 11: and you got defense at a big league level, they
Speaker 11: can go out there and help you the pitches. He
Speaker 11: got to eighty one pitches, the pitch, sequencing, the location,
Speaker 11: the life and everything else, not looking for the strakeout
Speaker 11: and necessarily, you know, over easing the splitter. To me,
Speaker 11: all positive things. And I really do feel they like
Speaker 11: he is even not letting go yet. I think he's
Speaker 11: still pull on the ball a little bit tentatively at times,
Speaker 11: a little bit cautious, some three ball counts that were unnecessary.
Speaker 11: But overall, you've got to give a lot of credit
Speaker 11: to himself and also to Austin Barnes in the way
Speaker 11: he conducted him.
Speaker 2: What do you make of the fact that Sazaki and
Speaker 2: Barnes went heavy and often with the fastball. Is that
Speaker 2: a trend we're going to see continue.
Speaker 11: That's the only way Sasaki is going to get better
Speaker 11: as a big league pitcher. We found out with Yamamoto
Speaker 11: last year, We found out with a Tani when he
Speaker 11: came with the Angels. You got to use a fastball.
Speaker 11: You got to be able to put it in good
Speaker 11: spots and in command is not necessarily controlled. Command is
Speaker 11: sometimes saying I'm gonna miss inside by four or five
Speaker 11: inches because I need to sit up.
Speaker 6: The next pitch.
Speaker 11: That's command and not command is when you say I'm
Speaker 11: gonna miss four and five inches insiding, leave it right
Speaker 11: over the middle. So he's working on that. The only
Speaker 11: way to do it is through repetition and everything else.
Speaker 11: Because he's helt the legs. He drove through very nicely
Speaker 11: again in his direction towards home plate velocity is going
Speaker 11: to improve with the season progresses, and also the strikecoals
Speaker 11: will also improve because it's a matter of him understanding
Speaker 11: that the extension that he has, the finish that he
Speaker 11: has with the festivals is gun lent to consistency in
Speaker 11: the mechanics, consistency in the finish, and obviously because he
Speaker 11: has such good extension, it'll happen a good step for him.
Speaker 2: Tonight, Jose Mota is joining us after the cub shut
Speaker 2: out the Dodgers tonight sixteen to nothing. What do you
Speaker 2: make of the Dodgers five through nine hitters? I mentioned
Speaker 2: it earlier tonight one for sixteen on the season of
Speaker 2: Bucks seventy two. Do they shuffle the chairs a little
Speaker 2: bit or do they just have to be patient.
Speaker 11: I think you got to shuffle a couple of things
Speaker 11: because if you're looking for ways in which that part
Speaker 11: of the lineup matches up against bullpens, then there's flexibility.
Speaker 11: And also in setting up old Tani bets Freeman in taskar,
Speaker 11: there's no doubt about it. You got to be able
Speaker 11: to see guys like Oltani has three at bats coming
Speaker 11: into today with men's scoring position three. That's it all
Speaker 11: season long.
Speaker 3: And you figures from last year.
Speaker 11: Absolutely right now. He drove one hundred and thirty runs
Speaker 11: last year because the guys in the bottom, as you
Speaker 11: had mentioned with Lux and Rojas and company, did a
Speaker 11: very good job getting a base and setting things up.
Speaker 11: Then he set things up for the guys following him.
Speaker 11: But I think you've got to do a little shuffling,
Speaker 11: a little reexamining us to how the league is approaching you,
Speaker 11: because it all comes down to me, Dave to maybe
Speaker 11: you're taking an approach where you're thinking that the leaf's
Speaker 11: going to stay one way with you. If you have success,
Speaker 11: they're going to change. You've got to be able to
Speaker 11: be flexible and adjust and go deeper into the at bats.
Speaker 11: You know, to go deeper sometimes when it's needed, but
Speaker 11: also be aggressive on your pitch early in counts and
Speaker 11: just lit the guy in the mount get into trouble.
Speaker 11: Certainly there's flexibility there, and I think if you leave
Speaker 11: with this way it is right now, is not the
Speaker 11: right way to go about it as of today.
Speaker 2: Well, what are you talking about as far as changes,
Speaker 2: What can you really change?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean little shuffle here and there. I mean
Speaker 11: pa is to me, even though he's seen a lot
Speaker 11: of pitches, what matters to me is that last pitch.
Speaker 11: Is he being selected with that last pitch if he
Speaker 11: better off batting eighth and third, batting ninth? And you know,
Speaker 11: we can talk about taking a lot of pitches, but
Speaker 11: if your decision making comes down to the very last
Speaker 11: pitch not making a good one, then so what if
Speaker 11: you're seeing six pitches per plate appearance, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 11: But I think you've got to consider more too on
Speaker 11: who batches will against right is and go back to
Speaker 11: back lefties. It doesn't matter at this point if that
Speaker 11: is an issue right now, just find the way in
Speaker 11: which you can prolong innings and have more guys on
Speaker 11: base leading off inning, which is one asflet of the
Speaker 11: values that not done very well with this season so far.
Speaker 2: How about last night, Jose, we saw Miguel Rojason the
Speaker 2: starting lineup at third base against the lefty. He was
Speaker 2: on base twice. He was so good him and lux
Speaker 2: able to turn that lineup over. Would you be opposed
Speaker 2: to going to a platoon or finding a way to
Speaker 2: get Rojas in there more often, because you know he's
Speaker 2: not gonna hit two eighty again this year, but he's
Speaker 2: gonna find a way to get on base.
Speaker 11: At this point. Whatever provides you a little boost, a change,
Speaker 11: and even a little challenge to the guy that's supposed
Speaker 11: to be playing a lot in different positions, then why not.
Speaker 11: And it's a case of, you know, big leagues about competition.
Speaker 11: We heard mountagers talk about that all the time. Big
Speaker 11: league players when they're challenge with competition have actually elevate
Speaker 11: their game a little bit more. Unless you're a superstar
Speaker 11: that you know you know what to do. But it's
Speaker 11: not a bad thing to at least make a couple
Speaker 11: of changes, little tweaks here and there, just to vary
Speaker 11: things up and then get back to where you know
Speaker 11: where you have a very good team that's going to
Speaker 11: produce regardless of who's playing. But right now I think
Speaker 11: things in the bottom need to be a little altered,
Speaker 11: no doubt.
Speaker 3: No doubt.
Speaker 2: We'll see what Dave Roberts decides to cook up moving forward.
Speaker 2: We'll see what he has for Colin Ray tomorrow night. Jose,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for checking in after such an ugly
Speaker 2: game here at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Speaker 11: Dave as Mike so she used to say, it only
Speaker 11: counts for one loss. That's the good thing.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: There's a game tomorrow, Jose, Yes, see you tomorrow. There
Speaker 2: he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio
Speaker 2: broadcast with the best tressed man pet Bee and Ingez
Speaker 2: and the second best dressed man, Luis Cochito Cruz. Eight
Speaker 2: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to our guy, Ira Craig in Long Beach.
Speaker 2: It's fitting that you're calling in today, Craig, because Eric
Speaker 2: Harros has been on the call and we all know
Speaker 2: about Fabio and his history in the jungle.
Speaker 6: E K is a good friend of mine. Man. I
Speaker 6: love that guy. He has set me up with tickets
Speaker 6: for decades, man, and I always appreciate it, okay, but listen,
Speaker 6: one thing I don't appreciate days is the Dodgers' effort tonight. Man.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know what, It's one game. But I'll
Speaker 6: tell you what. Dave Roberts probably isn't real happy with
Speaker 6: that performance tonight, with guys in the dugout, laughing and
Speaker 6: all that junk. You know what, how come this guy
Speaker 6: didn't make somebody wear a pitch in the back.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would have gone that. What
Speaker 2: did the Cubs do wrong? I mean, if somebody's gonna
Speaker 2: wear it in the back, you can get a.
Speaker 6: Little bit of attitude, a little bit of pride and
Speaker 6: put one in someone's back.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 2: Well, like Barry Bond said on all the Smoke podcasts recently,
Speaker 2: it's batting practice all day long, from two o'clock all
Speaker 2: the way to ten o'clock. That's not the game anymore, Craig.
Speaker 6: Hey, you know what, that's That's how I learned the game.
Speaker 6: I used to pitch, and that's what I would have done.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have let those guys be teeing off on
Speaker 6: you like that.
Speaker 3: You gotta get guys off the mound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if your conspiracy gotta guys off the mound with
Speaker 2: your ninety six ninety seven. If you feel like you're
Speaker 2: tipping pitches and they got your pitches, there's other ways
Speaker 2: to combat here, right.
Speaker 6: Easy to do it, all right? Rolling over in his.
Speaker 2: Grave, Yeah, he would not like a game like tonight,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Craig, you're the man, all right, Thanks, Craig, appreciated.
Speaker 2: Ira Craig legendary sports talk caller goes all the way
Speaker 2: back to Jim Rome in the Jungle and when Eric
Speaker 2: Carros used to go in studio with Jim Rome, and
Speaker 2: Rome gave him the nickname Fabio because of that great hair,
Speaker 2: and he still got it.
Speaker 3: What can I say?
Speaker 2: By the way, I gave Eric Carros the thrill of
Speaker 2: his life since nineteen ninety seven going to dinner with
Speaker 2: me and the crew in Philadelphia, So there you go.
Speaker 2: Caros has not lived life that way since nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven when him and Piazza were hanging out at Paisanos
Speaker 2: down there in the South Bay.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Tyler Glass now will be on the mound looking
Speaker 2: to bounce back from that.
Speaker 3: Not so great start.
Speaker 2: In Philadelphia, going up against Colin Ray Morongo Casino. Dodgers
Speaker 2: on Deck begins at three o'clock with first pitch at
Speaker 2: four oh five on Sunday Night Baseball. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald,
Speaker 2: Dwayne still here, Dwayne somewhere.
Speaker 3: Around here, maybe warming up the car.
Speaker 2: Thanks to calling ye back at our Burbank studios, and
Speaker 2: thanks to you for listening. In case you missed any
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Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight, flush it down. The Cubs shut
Speaker 2: out the Dodgers sixteen to nothing. We'll talk to you tomorrow,
Speaker 2: see you, and then.
Speaker 3: Thank you so ras
Speaker 2: Send it away.