Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 2: Let's wind it.
Speaker 3: I love letting these guys after the show, just thank you.
Speaker 4: Give me are your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion.
Speaker 6: Put a small soft time they get up people what
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Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of the
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 6: Dodgers certainly glad to get out of New York after
Speaker 6: an exhausting three days. It's City Field, as the Dodgers
Speaker 6: lost tonight three to one to the New York Mets.
Speaker 6: They lost to the Mets last night at City Field.
Speaker 6: On Friday night, they almost lost the series opener, a
Speaker 6: game in which they blew a three run lead in
Speaker 6: the ninth inning, only to win it in thirteen innings
Speaker 6: in a marathon of a night that included a ninety
Speaker 6: eight minute rain delay. After three days in New York,
Speaker 6: the Dodgers now certainly happy to get a fresh start
Speaker 6: on this road trip, and that'll be in Cleveland tomorrow,
Speaker 6: Memorial Day for the start of a three game series.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 6: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the number.
Speaker 6: We got a lot to get to here on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 6: including an update on show Hey O Tani. We're gonna
Speaker 6: hear from hopefully show Hey who is talking to the
Speaker 6: media here in the next couple of minutes at City Field.
Speaker 6: We're also expecting to hear the next couple of minutes
Speaker 6: here from manager Dave Roberts postgame, his thoughts on the
Speaker 6: game tonight, and certainly the big news before the game,
Speaker 6: Show Hey O Tani. The Dodgers lost on the field.
Speaker 6: There's a lot to digest from that game, Dodger fans.
Speaker 6: The defense was not very good behind landonk Landon Naka
Speaker 6: has taken his lumps. Landon Knack is prone to give
Speaker 6: up the home run ball, Yes, that is true. But
Speaker 6: what is also true that when you get two outs
Speaker 6: and a ground ball from lons to in the first inning.
Speaker 6: You should get off the field, get out of it clean,
Speaker 6: and go back to your dugout with a one to
Speaker 6: nothing lead. Instead, an airon Max Munsey brings up Pete
Speaker 6: Alonzo with two outs, and the first pitch she sees
Speaker 6: from Landon Nak, who is getting prone to give up
Speaker 6: the home run ball, gives up a two run home run.
Speaker 4: But the game, the inning should have been over.
Speaker 6: A ground ball to Max Munsey boots it and then
Speaker 6: throws it one hopper to Freddie Friedman.
Speaker 4: What Juan Soto beats it out? Extended the inning?
Speaker 6: Okay, you go to the third inning, the same thing happened.
Speaker 6: You open the door for a Mets team that has
Speaker 6: been struggling offensively. A runner on base ball hit up
Speaker 6: the middle, nice grab by Mookie Betz. He tries to
Speaker 6: flip it to Tommy Eman to get Lindor on the force.
Speaker 6: What happens He flips it over his head. Lindor vances
Speaker 6: to third, and then Juan Soto's fielder's choice brings in Lindor.
Speaker 6: You just extended the inning and gave him a run.
Speaker 6: Three runs given up by land and Nak, one of
Speaker 6: which was earned. But In reality, beIN Alonzo shouldn't have
Speaker 6: even been up in the first inning, but he made
Speaker 6: the Dodgers pay with a curveball over the middle of
Speaker 6: the plate from land and neck, and after jumping out
Speaker 6: to the one nothing lead, the Dodgers lose three to one.
Speaker 4: Defense can come back to haunt you.
Speaker 6: And I loved Rick Monday talking about the m word momentum,
Speaker 6: and I loved how he described it. You can't see it,
Speaker 6: but you can feel it. You can hear it, momentum
Speaker 6: changing from one team to another, from one side of
Speaker 6: the field or court, whatever sport it is, to another.
Speaker 6: You can certainly feel it. You may not see it directly,
Speaker 6: you could hear it in a crowd. And that's exactly
Speaker 6: what happened tonight. The Dodgers had the momentum early. The
Speaker 6: solo blast from show Heyo Tani on the second pitch
Speaker 6: of the game was a just blow to the head
Speaker 6: to show from show Hayo Tani and the Dodgers to
Speaker 6: Code I Singa. The Dodgers then were able to get
Speaker 6: runners on second and third.
Speaker 4: Nobody out a one nothing lead.
Speaker 6: You've got Code I Singa on the ropes in the
Speaker 6: final game of this three game series in which the
Speaker 6: bullpens got spin on Friday night and you're hoping to
Speaker 6: get after their starter again in the third game of
Speaker 6: this series and get to that bullpen early, second and third,
Speaker 6: nobody out, won nothing lead, Will Smith HiT's a shallow
Speaker 6: ball to center field. Taylor makes the throw home on
Speaker 6: the tag play for Mookie Betts initially called safe, but
Speaker 6: he was out. That's a double play. That's an eight
Speaker 6: to two double play in your score books, folks. On
Speaker 6: the throw, Will Smith or Freddy Free was able to
Speaker 6: advance the third it didn't matter because tasker Hernandoz struck
Speaker 6: out looking the very next batter. Second and third, Nobody out,
Speaker 6: and within the next four pitches you're out of the
Speaker 6: Indian with no more damage done. CODEI Singa gets off
Speaker 6: the ropes after you you hit him in the head
Speaker 6: early on with the Otani home run. You had him
Speaker 6: on the ropes and you're hitting body shots against him.
Speaker 6: Runners on second and third, a chance to knock him
Speaker 6: out early, and you let him up, and then he
Speaker 6: goes on to pitch into the sixth inning and he
Speaker 6: got into trouble. The fourth inning, Dodgers leadoff single Will
Speaker 6: Smith double play Taskar Hernandoz then doubled. I mean, if
Speaker 6: they don't hit into a double play the Taskar Hernandez double,
Speaker 6: they score a run. Months he walked. The Dodgers had
Speaker 6: runners on first and third, two outs. Andy Poe has
Speaker 6: lined out to end the fourth inning. Fifth inning lead
Speaker 6: off walk from Michael Conforto loaded the bases with two outs.
Speaker 6: Will Smith grounded out to in the inning. Sixth inning,
Speaker 6: Max Munsey a one out walk. All right, got something
Speaker 6: going again, Andie Poz hits into a double play. Just
Speaker 6: anytime they got an ounce of momentum, got a runner
Speaker 6: on either started inning or early in the inning, they
Speaker 6: ground into a double play. The innings inns, they can't
Speaker 6: advance the runner. They couldn't get the big hit when
Speaker 6: they needed it. They get it after the fact with
Speaker 6: the Tasker double, after the will Smith double playing the fourth,
Speaker 6: but when they had the ducks on the pond, so
Speaker 6: to speak, they could not get the hit they needed.
Speaker 4: They had their opportunities.
Speaker 6: Only six hits though in the entire game for the
Speaker 6: Dodgers and for the Mets, three runs on six hits,
Speaker 6: and again Gift rappted three runs by the Dodgers defense
Speaker 6: today Mookie Bets an air in an air for Max Munsey.
Speaker 4: The months he play, he's shaded towards short.
Speaker 6: With one Soto up and two outs in the first inning,
Speaker 6: they've got one Soto to pull. Yeah, you can't do
Speaker 6: the shift shift with a heavy load on one side
Speaker 6: the endfield. But with Mookie Betts playing straddling kind of
Speaker 6: wrapped the middle. You have Max Munsey basically playing at
Speaker 6: shortstop and a ball was hit to him. He misplayed it,
Speaker 6: has to pick it up off the ground and then
Speaker 6: one hops it the first and one Soto, who is
Speaker 6: it known for running out plays, ran out the play
Speaker 6: and beat it, and next thing you know, Pine Alonso
Speaker 6: hits a home run and it's a two to one game.
Speaker 6: That has how fast momentum can change. You have a
Speaker 6: guy on the ropes in the top of the first.
Speaker 6: You come back in the bottom of the first with
Speaker 6: the one nothing lead, a two out air opens the door,
Speaker 6: extends the inning, and next thing you know, City Fields
Speaker 6: got live. Pete Alonso's doing the polar bear walk around
Speaker 6: the bases, flexing his muscles, and the Mets have a
Speaker 6: two to one league. That's how quick a game can change,
Speaker 6: and momentum can change in a baseball game. You just
Speaker 6: heard it in the first inning of tonight's Dodgers Mets
Speaker 6: game eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 6: Now some good news for the Dodgers in New York.
Speaker 6: It wasn't all bad news, losing two to three this
Speaker 6: weekend at City Field. Now, certainly you don't want that
Speaker 6: to happen. You'd like to win the series at least.
Speaker 6: But at two point thirty pm Eastern Standard Time today,
Speaker 6: four hours before this Sunday night matchup in New York,
Speaker 6: show hey Otani took the mount at City Field. Dodger
Speaker 6: players and coaches were all gathered around home plate. They
Speaker 6: had a mini batting cage setup, not the full one
Speaker 6: they used for batting practice, but a smaller one setup.
Speaker 6: And they he had even Mets manager Mendoza. You had
Speaker 6: a couple of Mets players and coaching staff hanging on
Speaker 6: the top deck of their dugout watching out on the field.
Speaker 6: They wanted to get eyes on show Heyo Tani as
Speaker 6: he threw his first live batting practice session since twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three. Now keep in mind his last outing was
Speaker 6: August twenty third, twenty twenty three with the Anaheim Angels
Speaker 6: elbow surgery. Did not pitch a year ago. This year,
Speaker 6: has not pitched, will not go on minor league rehab
Speaker 6: assignments because he's the Dodgers DH.
Speaker 4: We understand that.
Speaker 6: So he's gonna get built up by throwing side sessions,
Speaker 6: simulated games.
Speaker 4: And today the first.
Speaker 6: Check mark live batting practice and he threw to hayes On,
Speaker 6: Kim Dalton Rushing and Dodger coach J. T. Watkins, who's
Speaker 6: their game planning coach.
Speaker 4: All three of them.
Speaker 6: Put the helmet on, got in the box and faced
Speaker 6: show Hao Tani, who threw twenty two pitches in live
Speaker 6: BP today. Now you heard from Mark Pryor in the
Speaker 6: Clubhouse show. He talked about what he saw and how
Speaker 6: excited he is to see him back out on the mound.
Speaker 4: Let's go back out to city Field.
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, we heard him in pregame talk
Speaker 6: about Showy O Tani. I'm sure he's got some thoughts
Speaker 6: on that and the loss to the Mets.
Speaker 4: Let's hear from him.
Speaker 7: Kind of feel like another frustrating night offensively with the
Speaker 7: double plays and those chances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think, you know, tonight, you never
Speaker 1: want to feel that the first inning was worth a game,
Speaker 1: but you know the double play that Taylor play in
Speaker 1: center for the heck of a play, and you know
Speaker 1: you have a chance to get three runs on the
Speaker 1: board versus one. They come back and hit a two
Speaker 1: run homer in the bottom half, And yeah, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought Landing pitched really well tonight and giving these
Speaker 1: six innings, allowing us giving us a chance to win.
Speaker 1: But you know, tonight was one of those nights that
Speaker 1: we just gave him extra outs and they took advantage
Speaker 1: and we just couldn't, you know, put much together versus
Speaker 1: saying of the rest of the way.
Speaker 7: Well, what is your level of concern with Max's defense
Speaker 7: right now?
Speaker 1: You know, uh, he he's he's working hard, but obviously
Speaker 1: you know there's there's plays that need to be made
Speaker 1: that that he hasn't made, and he'll be the first
Speaker 1: to say it, you know. Right now, all we can
Speaker 1: do is just keep h running him out there and
Speaker 1: keep trying to get better.
Speaker 8: The most is really sometimes they are they starts to
Speaker 8: tack moving a little bit, just so especially Sho doesn't
Speaker 8: stretch it.
Speaker 1: I I think there there might be something to that.
Speaker 1: You know, what I see is, you know, I I
Speaker 1: think he's sure handed that obviously there's plays that you know,
Speaker 1: he's not making. You know, he wears it. He wears
Speaker 1: it hard and he takes it hard. But again the work,
Speaker 1: the work that he does every day, and uh, I
Speaker 1: had no comp rip. Yeah, we still got to at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. We still going to make
Speaker 1: plays and can people way out.
Speaker 7: So good to see show Hay come in and Homer
Speaker 7: after the life EP earlier, just from the you know,
Speaker 7: the workload, how he's feeling, the kind of standpoint.
Speaker 1: It was, it was and you know, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how much correlation there is to the workload for
Speaker 1: the sim games and things like that, but we're still
Speaker 1: going to keep.
Speaker 5: An eye on it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think for him to come up and
Speaker 1: you know, him against his own countryman, a friend hit
Speaker 1: a Homer, I thought that infuse some life into us.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, after the two.
Speaker 1: Eighth after we just couldn't scratch anything past that.
Speaker 6: All right, there's a manager Dave Roberts thanks to Jack
Speaker 6: Harris from the LA Times for that. As the Dodgers
Speaker 6: loose to the New York Mets three to one. He
Speaker 6: talked about it, extending innings, giving them out, opening the.
Speaker 4: Door, however you want to phrase it.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers did that tonight in the first inning, leading
Speaker 6: with Peede Alonso two run home run, and they did
Speaker 6: it again the thirty you know, the Mookie bets air,
Speaker 6: Francisco Lindor advancing to third and then scoring on the
Speaker 6: one Soto fielder's choice. All three runs came via the airs,
Speaker 6: one Earn run officially to Land and Neck off the
Speaker 6: Pede Alonzo home run. The Dodgers jumped out to the
Speaker 6: early one to nothing lead, but that was it. Dodgers
Speaker 6: couldn't do anything offensively. And you heard Dave Roberts I
Speaker 6: just mentioned it. He alluded to it as well. You've
Speaker 6: got to jump on Code I singa when you got
Speaker 6: him on the ropes like they did in the first inning,
Speaker 6: and you got runners on second and third, nobody out,
Speaker 6: and you got Will Smith up the bat, and the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: as it is, saw Taylor make a great play on
Speaker 6: the catch and throw it a home to get Mookie
Speaker 6: for the bang bang double play. And the Dodgers offensively
Speaker 6: just didn't have anything after that fourth, fifth, and sixth
Speaker 6: innings had runners on but just could not get opportunities
Speaker 6: to get them in with the big hit, and they
Speaker 6: lose the series finale to the New York Mets three
Speaker 6: to one. As the Mets and Dodgers both have identical
Speaker 6: records at thirty two and twenty one, the Mets looking
Speaker 6: up at the Phillies and the NLS, the Dodgers a
Speaker 6: one game lead over the Giants in the NL West. Canon,
Speaker 6: Newport Beach, Welcome to Dodger Talk. Can you just heard
Speaker 6: from the manager Dave Roberts. I know he was talking
Speaker 6: about something you want to talk about in Max Munsey.
Speaker 3: Well, first, I want to say that there is some
Speaker 3: good news by the Doctors winning Game one. They're not
Speaker 3: if they lost it, they'd be ten or eleven the
Speaker 3: month of May. So there were one game off of
Speaker 3: a five hundred instead of one game behind. So there's
Speaker 3: a good news. Now, I'm going to ask you a
Speaker 3: couple of question. First, I want to make a comment.
Speaker 3: You played baseball. I played baseball. I coached baseball in
Speaker 3: Little League. One thing I always told my player is
Speaker 3: if there is a pop up and there is no
Speaker 3: outs in you're in third base, do not think about
Speaker 3: coming home because there's only one out. For some reason,
Speaker 3: Mookie decided to come home and he was out. Sure
Speaker 3: it was close, but that was a mental mistake. Okay,
Speaker 3: he made a physical mistake a little bittings later, but
Speaker 3: you don't make those kind of mistakes. Have you been
Speaker 3: in baseball for that law? Now for my questions. All right,
Speaker 3: your left fielder is hitting one sixty three and has
Speaker 3: six RBIs. That's playing forty eight games. Your shortstop is
Speaker 3: now second in the major leagues and errors with eight
Speaker 3: and he's also barely above two hundred. I just made
Speaker 3: you the general manager of the Dodgers. What do you
Speaker 3: do about those two players who are hurting you every
Speaker 3: single game?
Speaker 6: Well, I look at the season. I say it's still May.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna give him another month. I'm gonna give hi
Speaker 6: another fifty at bats. I don't know what the number is,
Speaker 6: but I'm gonna keep running them out there, figuring that
Speaker 6: they're going to eventually turn things around and your lineup
Speaker 6: is going to be so good around them. You've invested
Speaker 6: a lot of money in these players. You just can't
Speaker 6: keep going and signing players and then dumping them just
Speaker 6: because of lack of production.
Speaker 4: For the first two months of a season.
Speaker 6: You just financially cannot work that way for the Dodgers
Speaker 6: or any team in baseball. Ken, Okay, what is your
Speaker 6: answer then, to these two players? What is your answer
Speaker 6: to fill the rosters in What do you want to
Speaker 6: do with those spots?
Speaker 3: Well, it's very difficult to consider you're left fielder because
Speaker 3: he is absolutely horrible. You can't play in this many
Speaker 3: games and only have six runs batted in, and those
Speaker 3: are at the first week of the season. You're getting
Speaker 3: nothing out of him. He's a good fielder, Fine, I
Speaker 3: think you need to move. You've got three good outfielders.
Speaker 3: Let them play the outfield. Let him sit. Max. I
Speaker 3: feel like he's going to get better offensively, but we've
Speaker 3: seen this defense for a while and I wish there
Speaker 3: was another place you could put them, but there isn't.
Speaker 3: Right now. You can't really do anything with Max other
Speaker 3: than hit some home runs make up for the errors.
Speaker 3: But you're left fielder. I mean six RBIs recently played
Speaker 3: thirty five percent of the season. Yeap, that just can't continue,
Speaker 3: all right, Ken?
Speaker 6: I appreciate the phone call first off the play from
Speaker 6: Tyrone Taylor and watching the replay he is running in
Speaker 6: catching the ball in shallow right center field and catching
Speaker 6: a glove side with his left hand, has to then
Speaker 6: turn his body and throw on the run home to
Speaker 6: get Mookie Betts. And it was only going to take
Speaker 6: a bang bang play and a great throw from Tyrone
Speaker 6: Taylor to get Mookie Betts. And guess what it was.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a high throw. If it is Mookie scores,
Speaker 6: it's safe. It wasn't a throw up the line. It
Speaker 6: wasn't a throw that the catcher has to backhand and
Speaker 6: then come back and sweep and make a tag on
Speaker 6: Mookie Betts. It was right where the catcher is positioned,
Speaker 6: awaiting to throw and putting a quick tag on Mookie Betts.
Speaker 6: It couldn't have been a better throw if he drew
Speaker 6: it up from Tyrone Taylor. If that's the case, you
Speaker 6: tip your cap to that guy and say, great job.
Speaker 6: Nine times out of ten, we're still gonna go and
Speaker 6: be safe on that play because that's not gonna be
Speaker 6: a perfect throw like it was right.
Speaker 4: That's just good baseball. I think, just to keep going.
Speaker 6: It's gonna take a great catch and a great throw
Speaker 6: to get Mookie Betts.
Speaker 4: And it did. And it did, so.
Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with Mooki going on the
Speaker 6: play and furthermore, the Michael can afford a discussion. It
Speaker 6: kind of feels like we're just keep punting it week
Speaker 6: to week and well, he'll turn things around. Give him
Speaker 6: another week. Punt it to the next weekend. You know what,
Speaker 6: still hasn't turned things right. It's still early, it's still April.
Speaker 6: He'll turn things around. Let's punt it to next weekend. Well,
Speaker 6: I am starting to lean on the side of some
Speaker 6: of you Dodger fans who are like, wait, how long
Speaker 6: are we going to go with this in left field
Speaker 6: and the lack of production now great swings just miss
Speaker 6: it is hitting it right to guys.
Speaker 4: I get all that. That happens in baseball.
Speaker 6: You know, that's the reason why when you fail seven
Speaker 6: times out of ten and you only succeed three times
Speaker 6: out of ten, you're hitting three hundred and you're a
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame player. You know if you do that
Speaker 6: over the course of your career. With that being said,
Speaker 6: you can only say he's hitting it right at guys
Speaker 6: so many times, Oh he's squaring it up, but he
Speaker 6: just hit it right.
Speaker 4: To the center. Fielder.
Speaker 6: Ah, he squared it up, but just on a line
Speaker 6: right to right center field. The balls eventually can either
Speaker 6: start falling or that's just not going to be his luck.
Speaker 6: And this is what is it is, It is what
Speaker 6: it is with a Michael Conforto, and you have to
Speaker 6: either start making a decision. Is he your guy You're
Speaker 6: going to keep running out there as a left handed
Speaker 6: left fielder, or do we have other options? And if
Speaker 6: you have got a better options outside of going and
Speaker 6: making it blockbuster trade, which is not gonna happen, they
Speaker 6: got to have somebody waiting or somebody on the bench
Speaker 6: that can do a better job than Michael Conforto. But
Speaker 6: I think we can all agree that the runway is
Speaker 6: getting a little smaller every week that goes off the
Speaker 6: calendar here in this baseball season. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 6: two five seven. We'll take a break, We'll come back.
Speaker 6: We will hear from show Hey Otani, Yes, speaking to
Speaker 6: the media at City Field after he homered and after
Speaker 6: he threw a twenty two pitch live bullpen session batting
Speaker 6: practice session before the game. Today Dodgers lose in New
Speaker 6: York three to one.
Speaker 4: We'll catch up with Jose Mota as well.
Speaker 6: It can be a busy, busy time after the top
Speaker 6: of the hour as the Dodgers lose to the Mets
Speaker 6: three to one right here on five seven e LA
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Speaker 6: Tim Katson for David bassaying, show, Hey Otani, what a
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Speaker 6: As the Dodgers lose to the Mets in New York
Speaker 6: three to one, let's check in with those It's.
Speaker 4: Time to go around the horn with hojse Modo.
Speaker 6: All right, Jose, I think we'll just start off with
Speaker 6: the good Today Show. Hey Otani throwing twenty two pitches today.
Speaker 6: He hasn't started a game since August of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: What a huge step in his comeback.
Speaker 2: It is big because it's big for show, Hey, and
Speaker 2: I know he's been chumping at the bit to get
Speaker 2: to this point.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If they would have been up to him, this would
Speaker 2: have happened earlier, but there's no need to rush it
Speaker 2: in today he saw, I mean even his attitude on
Speaker 2: the mound, his brunting, throwing pitches reaching ninety seven, filling
Speaker 2: his own pretty much spectacle.
Speaker 3: Even for EARLYBP.
Speaker 2: I mean, in for a LIVEVP session. It seems like
Speaker 2: show he just stops the whole world is Let trust me,
Speaker 2: there's the whole world watching this and including as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: you know, their manager Carlo Mendoza because he just can't
Speaker 2: miss this top of episode, right. But I'm glad he
Speaker 2: came out, Okay, went out there and got the big
Speaker 2: home run unfort the team just to not you know,
Speaker 2: they hit the ball consistently throughout the series, and again
Speaker 2: they're fixing the best staff in baseball, and you know,
Speaker 2: to some point they made adjustments that they hadn't seen before,
Speaker 2: meaning the mess make good adjustment against the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: terms of perch selection. And there you have Butcher for
Speaker 2: show a huge day.
Speaker 6: The defense behind landing neck it's frustrating because he gets
Speaker 6: two out. He gets Juan Soto to hit a ground ball,
Speaker 6: Max Munsey can't feel it. Then One hops it over
Speaker 6: to Freddie Freeman and the one time one Soda decides
Speaker 6: to run hard down the first he beats out the
Speaker 6: play and then the next pitch it's a two run
Speaker 6: home for run from Pine Alonzo. Later in the third,
Speaker 6: Mookie tries to flip the ball on a base hit
Speaker 6: up the middle. It causes an air and allows a
Speaker 6: runner to go to third in Lindor he would then score.
Speaker 6: I feel really bad for landing that because he pitched
Speaker 6: really good for six innings tonight here was excellent.
Speaker 2: I love that slider a combination, I mean, and the
Speaker 2: slider to me is a pitch which really served to
Speaker 2: use the other side of the home plate, his glove
Speaker 2: side to spread the zone a little bit more without
Speaker 2: change up, and he was outstanding overall. The one thing
Speaker 2: I wish you would have done is to just go
Speaker 2: out there and just take another breath and use a clock,
Speaker 2: you know, after you go through a session where or
Speaker 2: just to play where it doesn't go your way, make
Speaker 2: sure the next hitter has to wait as much as
Speaker 2: possible for you deliver. And that ball just spun right
Speaker 2: into Peter Lawns's wheelhouse, going through the longest drought of
Speaker 2: home runs in his career, happy to see that pitch
Speaker 2: line right there at him, and there's no doubt he
Speaker 2: didn't miss it. But you know, overall, if you look
Speaker 2: at this series, it was a team, or even this game,
Speaker 2: a very good team like the Mets, really capitalizing on
Speaker 2: every single mistake that Dodgers made from game one, game
Speaker 2: two games and also, as I mentioned earlier, they did
Speaker 2: a very good job at least, you know, come up
Speaker 2: pitching backwards a little bit, yeah, to say the least
Speaker 2: and line the neck actually did the same today because
Speaker 2: he was able to go to fastball down good zones
Speaker 2: along with that slide on that chainle to neutralize a
Speaker 2: very good lineup.
Speaker 6: We talk about it all the time, especially if you're
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, especially when you're the defending World Series champions.
Speaker 6: Every team you play it is a big series for
Speaker 6: that team. They are going to rise up and want
Speaker 6: to beat the world champions. They want to beat the
Speaker 6: big boys, the high spending Dodgers, they want to beat
Speaker 6: the MVPs. They get up for these Dodgers series, and
Speaker 6: Carlos Mendoza said a postgame he said, we're a good team.
Speaker 6: And I told my guys, hey, we just went out
Speaker 6: and beat a really good team. Confidence wise. These are
Speaker 6: these series that the Dodgers they lose, but the other
Speaker 6: team really good about themselves and thinking about long term
Speaker 6: October baseball. This is a New York Mets team they
Speaker 6: saw last year in the NLCS, maybe they face again
Speaker 6: in October. Now they got a little bit of confidence, like, hey,
Speaker 6: we got to beat last year, but we feel pretty
Speaker 6: good about this year's team.
Speaker 4: Now we stack up against them.
Speaker 2: Let me tell them that conversation happens a lot. It
Speaker 2: happened last year around the All Star break when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers lost to Detroit and A. J.
Speaker 3: Hinch told his.
Speaker 2: Wall Cup if he guys but are considered to be
Speaker 2: at the bottom of this division, go out there and
Speaker 2: beat these guys in this series. I believe we're gonna
Speaker 2: need some special things and what happened for the Detroit
Speaker 2: since that second half of the last year going to
Speaker 2: the playoffs and where they're at today. So those things
Speaker 2: that happen a lot, and I think the Dodgiers ought
Speaker 2: to take a lot of pride in that so many
Speaker 2: teams just see that bar that says so high on
Speaker 2: every single aspect and phase of their game, from the spending,
Speaker 2: to the quality of people in the clubhofs, to the
Speaker 2: quality of talent they acquired, to the depth that they have.
Speaker 2: They suffered so many injuries and again here we are
Speaker 2: back with the injuries and again on top. But you
Speaker 2: gotta admired that the fact that so many teams pay
Speaker 2: attention to that, and for the Dodgers for themselves to say, hey,
Speaker 2: we sit the highest standards, so we need to clean
Speaker 2: up some things. We saw the defense, remember the first
Speaker 2: tub was back Keith, so they falter also and give.
Speaker 3: Up a lot of runs.
Speaker 2: But the teams at domestic not allow to go out
Speaker 2: there and give extra runs. And we know monst these
Speaker 2: issues defensively, especially going to his right, going to his
Speaker 2: left or right out him.
Speaker 3: He's been pretty good.
Speaker 2: This one today he botched overall and then for Mookie
Speaker 2: bats that play right, Terry going up to the middle,
Speaker 2: send them. One thing he could do is don't just
Speaker 2: take another and make sure you throw that boone straight line,
Speaker 2: straight line for one out through your second Mason. But
Speaker 2: experience it's really going to make a difference for MOOKI
Speaker 2: in thinking better about that play.
Speaker 6: Well, tomorrow's a new day and a new series for
Speaker 6: the Dodgers. They head to Cleveland. Jose, we appreciate it.
Speaker 6: We'll talk to you in a couple of days, Okay,
Speaker 6: I mean, well, all right, the adios there, he goes,
Speaker 6: Jose motas the Dodgers lose in New York to the
Speaker 6: Mets three to one. Asdai Singa gets the win land
Speaker 6: and knack the tough luck loser, he falls to two
Speaker 6: and to Ray and Georgia's next up here on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Ray doing fine?
Speaker 9: And listen, Gods, we should be considered as ourselves fortunate
Speaker 9: where we are, considering the pitching injuries is unprecedented and
Speaker 9: major League Baseball, so we should consider as ourselves fortunate
Speaker 9: that we have a one game lead. We have this
Speaker 9: hard stretch coming up, but we're in a good position
Speaker 9: considering what we've endured, and it's only going to get
Speaker 9: better because the pitching's going to come back. You know,
Speaker 9: they're going to get healthy, so and it's going to come.
Speaker 9: It's going to come right there before the All Star break,
Speaker 9: after the All Star break, and if we're down three
Speaker 9: or four games, that's going to be nothing compared what
Speaker 9: it could have been for another team. So I think
Speaker 9: we're in a good position. I want to talk about
Speaker 9: Mookie Bets. Mookie didn't make the decision to go to
Speaker 9: short They asked him to go to short and nobody
Speaker 9: makes a transition from at thirty three or thirty four
Speaker 9: to go to shortstop. That's the most demanding position other
Speaker 9: than the catcher. And when he went out to right
Speaker 9: field again last year, he started hitting even better. He
Speaker 9: had his hand problem where he was out for six weeks,
Speaker 9: but then he just played different, you know, and you
Speaker 9: could see his tents up there at the plate on
Speaker 9: the game tonight. I don't know if you saw where
Speaker 9: ESPN said the stab cast that Mooki Betts's bat speed
Speaker 9: has went down considerably and and maybe it's an illness
Speaker 9: he had heard earlier in the year. But I don't
Speaker 9: understand we could have not had to sign Conforto. If
Speaker 9: Mooki was in the outfield. We needed to sign Hernandez
Speaker 9: and we could have signed a shortstop, maybe Willie Adonis, but.
Speaker 4: He ended up going to San Francisco. Ray I appreciate
Speaker 4: the phone call.
Speaker 6: It wasn't the Dodgers who said we need you to
Speaker 6: go to shortstop. It was Mookie Betts last year because
Speaker 6: of the struggles of Gavin lux in spring training. It
Speaker 6: was Mookie who approached the Dodgers and said, I want
Speaker 6: to play shortstop. It was Mooki who said, I want
Speaker 6: to make this a challenge and go out there and
Speaker 6: be the opening days shortstop. It wasn't the Dodgers going
Speaker 6: to him. It was Mooki going to the Dodgers talk
Speaker 6: about the injuries. Michael Kopek and Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6: One inning, pitch, no runs, one strikeout, one walk in
Speaker 6: a second scoreless rehab outing in Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 6: He threw the ball mid nineties, touched ninety nine on
Speaker 6: one of his fastballs, So he is trending in the
Speaker 6: right direction to come to help out this Dodgers bullpit.
Speaker 6: How about show Heyo Tani twenty two pitch live batting
Speaker 6: practice on the field. Let's hear what show had to
Speaker 6: say afterwards.
Speaker 4: How did how would you evaluate your pitching today?
Speaker 8: And how good it did it feel to go out back
Speaker 8: on the mound ivocus this Scott.
Speaker 1: Edition.
Speaker 8: He just really felt good overall, just looking out the
Speaker 8: overall execution. It was a really good first step and
Speaker 8: looking forward to the next one.
Speaker 7: Are you surprised that your stuff is kind of playing
Speaker 7: up to where it was today from the v LO
Speaker 7: to just the movement you're able to generate?
Speaker 8: Thank you? So cut out look for the I kick.
Speaker 7: He must among sony tight shit, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Plenty pitch, coolbody, I'll get seen off.
Speaker 8: Not even good.
Speaker 2: Hit the way.
Speaker 4: Humble sessions.
Speaker 8: I am aware that I through I do throw a
Speaker 8: little harder when there's a hitter in the box. I
Speaker 8: try to keep it ninety three four, but I know
Speaker 8: I was touching six and sevens, which I wanted to
Speaker 8: not do. But it's a good sign that.
Speaker 4: You know I could hit that all right.
Speaker 6: That is a great sign. The velocity is back for show,
Speaker 6: heyl Tani. But again another check mark off the boxes
Speaker 6: for show. Hey the bullpen sessions check and now you
Speaker 6: can check off throwing live diding practices first at City
Speaker 6: Field today twenty two pitches and that was him after
Speaker 6: the game tonight as the Dodgers fell to the Mets
Speaker 6: three to one, the only offense coming from guess who
Speaker 6: show hey O Tani a solo home run in the
Speaker 6: first inning, his eighteenth of the season. That's going to
Speaker 6: do it for Dodger Talk on this Sunday as the
Speaker 6: Dodgers wrap up this three game series in New York,
Speaker 6: they lose two to three to the Mets, and the
Speaker 6: roachup continues tomorrow on Memorial Day in Cleveland against the
Speaker 6: Guardians while Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck in and all
Speaker 6: started at two pm. First pitch Yoshinobu Yabamoto and right
Speaker 6: handered Gavin Williams, who goes for the Guardians. That is
Speaker 6: at three ten. Thanks to Colin Ye. Thanks to all
Speaker 6: you for being a part of the show. Sorry Brad
Speaker 6: Paisley didn't have time tonight. Maybe next time. Have a
Speaker 6: great rest of your Sunday night, Happy Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 4: Everybody, Please be safe. Song