WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.480 One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:06.919 that they have. 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:09.400 This team is really becoming a family. 4 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:10.839 Let's not play one on Tom. 5 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:11.720 Let's wind it. 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.400 I love letting these guys after the show, just thank you. 7 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:17.480 Give me are your attention, your fire and not a pisson. 8 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.120 This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion. 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.440 Put a small soft time they get up people what 10 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:26.000 they want to die to A two is special. 11 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.000 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of the 12 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:33.759 cop This ball's gone. You ready to go? Hell time 13 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:34.799 to the South. 14 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:37.359 Grab your phone to get in on the show called 15 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:40.880 eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. 16 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:41.399 And go to the show. 17 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:45.320 And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes. 18 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.399 Dodgers certainly glad to get out of New York after 19 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:56.920 an exhausting three days. It's City Field, as the Dodgers 20 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.560 lost tonight three to one to the New York Mets. 21 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.600 They lost to the Mets last night at City Field. 22 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.879 On Friday night, they almost lost the series opener, a 23 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.400 game in which they blew a three run lead in 24 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:13.959 the ninth inning, only to win it in thirteen innings 25 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.920 in a marathon of a night that included a ninety 26 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.799 eight minute rain delay. After three days in New York, 27 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:24.120 the Dodgers now certainly happy to get a fresh start 28 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.319 on this road trip, and that'll be in Cleveland tomorrow, 29 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.560 Memorial Day for the start of a three game series. 30 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.480 Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight 31 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.760 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the number. 32 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.239 We got a lot to get to here on Dodger Talk, 33 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.920 including an update on show Hey O Tani. We're gonna 34 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.519 hear from hopefully show Hey who is talking to the 35 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.319 media here in the next couple of minutes at City Field. 36 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:52.799 We're also expecting to hear the next couple of minutes 37 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:56.400 here from manager Dave Roberts postgame, his thoughts on the 38 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.480 game tonight, and certainly the big news before the game, 39 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.640 Show Hey O Tani. The Dodgers lost on the field. 40 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.200 There's a lot to digest from that game, Dodger fans. 41 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:10.639 The defense was not very good behind landonk Landon Naka 42 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.080 has taken his lumps. Landon Knack is prone to give 43 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.120 up the home run ball, Yes, that is true. But 44 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.680 what is also true that when you get two outs 45 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.400 and a ground ball from lons to in the first inning. 46 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:24.280 You should get off the field, get out of it clean, 47 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:25.960 and go back to your dugout with a one to 48 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:30.479 nothing lead. Instead, an airon Max Munsey brings up Pete 49 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:33.560 Alonzo with two outs, and the first pitch she sees 50 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:35.599 from Landon Nak, who is getting prone to give up 51 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.280 the home run ball, gives up a two run home run. 52 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:40.280 But the game, the inning should have been over. 53 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.800 A ground ball to Max Munsey boots it and then 54 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.240 throws it one hopper to Freddie Friedman. 55 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.719 What Juan Soto beats it out? Extended the inning? 56 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.719 Okay, you go to the third inning, the same thing happened. 57 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.400 You open the door for a Mets team that has 58 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.719 been struggling offensively. A runner on base ball hit up 59 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.879 the middle, nice grab by Mookie Betz. He tries to 60 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.240 flip it to Tommy Eman to get Lindor on the force. 61 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:11.199 What happens He flips it over his head. Lindor vances 62 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:15.199 to third, and then Juan Soto's fielder's choice brings in Lindor. 63 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:18.560 You just extended the inning and gave him a run. 64 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:22.280 Three runs given up by land and Nak, one of 65 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:26.120 which was earned. But In reality, beIN Alonzo shouldn't have 66 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:29.280 even been up in the first inning, but he made 67 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:31.919 the Dodgers pay with a curveball over the middle of 68 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.680 the plate from land and neck, and after jumping out 69 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.599 to the one nothing lead, the Dodgers lose three to one. 70 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.520 Defense can come back to haunt you. 71 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.520 And I loved Rick Monday talking about the m word momentum, 72 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.000 and I loved how he described it. You can't see it, 73 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:55.400 but you can feel it. You can hear it, momentum 74 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.360 changing from one team to another, from one side of 75 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.240 the field or court, whatever sport it is, to another. 76 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.439 You can certainly feel it. You may not see it directly, 77 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.479 you could hear it in a crowd. And that's exactly 78 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.360 what happened tonight. The Dodgers had the momentum early. The 79 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:16.199 solo blast from show Heyo Tani on the second pitch 80 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.639 of the game was a just blow to the head 81 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:22.920 to show from show Hayo Tani and the Dodgers to 82 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.759 Code I Singa. The Dodgers then were able to get 83 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.560 runners on second and third. 84 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.000 Nobody out a one nothing lead. 85 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:34.800 You've got Code I Singa on the ropes in the 86 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.319 final game of this three game series in which the 87 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.639 bullpens got spin on Friday night and you're hoping to 88 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.160 get after their starter again in the third game of 89 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.079 this series and get to that bullpen early, second and third, 90 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:52.399 nobody out, won nothing lead, Will Smith HiT's a shallow 91 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.199 ball to center field. Taylor makes the throw home on 92 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.639 the tag play for Mookie Betts initially called safe, but 93 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:04.759 he was out. That's a double play. That's an eight 94 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.759 to two double play in your score books, folks. On 95 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.160 the throw, Will Smith or Freddy Free was able to 96 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.399 advance the third it didn't matter because tasker Hernandoz struck 97 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.600 out looking the very next batter. Second and third, Nobody out, 98 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:22.839 and within the next four pitches you're out of the 99 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.040 Indian with no more damage done. CODEI Singa gets off 100 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:28.959 the ropes after you you hit him in the head 101 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.519 early on with the Otani home run. You had him 102 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:33.800 on the ropes and you're hitting body shots against him. 103 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.519 Runners on second and third, a chance to knock him 104 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:41.199 out early, and you let him up, and then he 105 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.839 goes on to pitch into the sixth inning and he 106 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:48.680 got into trouble. The fourth inning, Dodgers leadoff single Will 107 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:52.279 Smith double play Taskar Hernandoz then doubled. I mean, if 108 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:55.480 they don't hit into a double play the Taskar Hernandez double, 109 00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.240 they score a run. Months he walked. The Dodgers had 110 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.800 runners on first and third, two outs. Andy Poe has 111 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:06.560 lined out to end the fourth inning. Fifth inning lead 112 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:10.319 off walk from Michael Conforto loaded the bases with two outs. 113 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:13.399 Will Smith grounded out to in the inning. Sixth inning, 114 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.600 Max Munsey a one out walk. All right, got something 115 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:20.360 going again, Andie Poz hits into a double play. Just 116 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:24.560 anytime they got an ounce of momentum, got a runner 117 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:29.519 on either started inning or early in the inning, they 118 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:33.839 ground into a double play. The innings inns, they can't 119 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.959 advance the runner. They couldn't get the big hit when 120 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.839 they needed it. They get it after the fact with 121 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.519 the Tasker double, after the will Smith double playing the fourth, 122 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:44.519 but when they had the ducks on the pond, so 123 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.959 to speak, they could not get the hit they needed. 124 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.199 They had their opportunities. 125 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.680 Only six hits though in the entire game for the 126 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.800 Dodgers and for the Mets, three runs on six hits, 127 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.920 and again Gift rappted three runs by the Dodgers defense 128 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.319 today Mookie Bets an air in an air for Max Munsey. 129 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:06.319 The months he play, he's shaded towards short. 130 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:09.959 With one Soto up and two outs in the first inning, 131 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:12.439 they've got one Soto to pull. Yeah, you can't do 132 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.759 the shift shift with a heavy load on one side 133 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.519 the endfield. But with Mookie Betts playing straddling kind of 134 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.319 wrapped the middle. You have Max Munsey basically playing at 135 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.480 shortstop and a ball was hit to him. He misplayed it, 136 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.160 has to pick it up off the ground and then 137 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.680 one hops it the first and one Soto, who is 138 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.120 it known for running out plays, ran out the play 139 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.560 and beat it, and next thing you know, Pine Alonso 140 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.879 hits a home run and it's a two to one game. 141 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.279 That has how fast momentum can change. You have a 142 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.120 guy on the ropes in the top of the first. 143 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:53.079 You come back in the bottom of the first with 144 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.199 the one nothing lead, a two out air opens the door, 145 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.319 extends the inning, and next thing you know, City Fields 146 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.639 got live. Pete Alonso's doing the polar bear walk around 147 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:06.120 the bases, flexing his muscles, and the Mets have a 148 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:09.639 two to one league. That's how quick a game can change, 149 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.199 and momentum can change in a baseball game. You just 150 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:17.199 heard it in the first inning of tonight's Dodgers Mets 151 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.839 game eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. 152 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:23.040 Now some good news for the Dodgers in New York. 153 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:26.319 It wasn't all bad news, losing two to three this 154 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.279 weekend at City Field. Now, certainly you don't want that 155 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:31.600 to happen. You'd like to win the series at least. 156 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:37.080 But at two point thirty pm Eastern Standard Time today, 157 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:43.919 four hours before this Sunday night matchup in New York, 158 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:49.720 show hey Otani took the mount at City Field. Dodger 159 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.440 players and coaches were all gathered around home plate. They 160 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.080 had a mini batting cage setup, not the full one 161 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.080 they used for batting practice, but a smaller one setup. 162 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.919 And they he had even Mets manager Mendoza. You had 163 00:09:02.919 --> 00:09:06.080 a couple of Mets players and coaching staff hanging on 164 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.799 the top deck of their dugout watching out on the field. 165 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:13.279 They wanted to get eyes on show Heyo Tani as 166 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.559 he threw his first live batting practice session since twenty 167 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.240 twenty three. Now keep in mind his last outing was 168 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.960 August twenty third, twenty twenty three with the Anaheim Angels 169 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:31.480 elbow surgery. Did not pitch a year ago. This year, 170 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.799 has not pitched, will not go on minor league rehab 171 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.720 assignments because he's the Dodgers DH. 172 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:36.679 We understand that. 173 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.639 So he's gonna get built up by throwing side sessions, 174 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:42.879 simulated games. 175 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.120 And today the first. 176 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:49.559 Check mark live batting practice and he threw to hayes On, 177 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:53.320 Kim Dalton Rushing and Dodger coach J. T. Watkins, who's 178 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:54.320 their game planning coach. 179 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:55.360 All three of them. 180 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:57.639 Put the helmet on, got in the box and faced 181 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:02.000 show Hao Tani, who threw twenty two pitches in live 182 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:04.240 BP today. Now you heard from Mark Pryor in the 183 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.919 Clubhouse show. He talked about what he saw and how 184 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:08.960 excited he is to see him back out on the mound. 185 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:10.679 Let's go back out to city Field. 186 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.360 Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, we heard him in pregame talk 187 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.720 about Showy O Tani. I'm sure he's got some thoughts 188 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:18.159 on that and the loss to the Mets. 189 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:18.879 Let's hear from him. 190 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.639 Kind of feel like another frustrating night offensively with the 191 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:23.159 double plays and those chances. 192 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.039 Yeah, you know, I think, you know, tonight, you never 193 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:29.879 want to feel that the first inning was worth a game, 194 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.120 but you know the double play that Taylor play in 195 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.080 center for the heck of a play, and you know 196 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.399 you have a chance to get three runs on the 197 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:41.960 board versus one. They come back and hit a two 198 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.879 run homer in the bottom half, And yeah, I thought, 199 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:50.120 I thought Landing pitched really well tonight and giving these 200 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:53.159 six innings, allowing us giving us a chance to win. 201 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.039 But you know, tonight was one of those nights that 202 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:01.039 we just gave him extra outs and they took advantage 203 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.759 and we just couldn't, you know, put much together versus 204 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:05.960 saying of the rest of the way. 205 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:08.720 Well, what is your level of concern with Max's defense 206 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:09.279 right now? 207 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:16.000 You know, uh, he he's he's working hard, but obviously 208 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.399 you know there's there's plays that need to be made 209 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:20.559 that that he hasn't made, and he'll be the first 210 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.600 to say it, you know. Right now, all we can 211 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.519 do is just keep h running him out there and 212 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:28.600 keep trying to get better. 213 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.519 The most is really sometimes they are they starts to 214 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:34.919 tack moving a little bit, just so especially Sho doesn't 215 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:35.519 stretch it. 216 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.960 I I think there there might be something to that. 217 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.799 You know, what I see is, you know, I I 218 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.559 think he's sure handed that obviously there's plays that you know, 219 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:52.200 he's not making. You know, he wears it. He wears 220 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.960 it hard and he takes it hard. But again the work, 221 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.320 the work that he does every day, and uh, I 222 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:03.120 had no comp rip. Yeah, we still got to at 223 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.480 the end of the day. We still going to make 224 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:06.200 plays and can people way out. 225 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:10.759 So good to see show Hay come in and Homer 226 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:13.120 after the life EP earlier, just from the you know, 227 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.720 the workload, how he's feeling, the kind of standpoint. 228 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.240 It was, it was and you know, and I don't 229 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.759 know how much correlation there is to the workload for 230 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.200 the sim games and things like that, but we're still 231 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:26.720 going to keep. 232 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:27.840 An eye on it. 233 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:30.440 But yeah, I think for him to come up and 234 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:34.559 you know, him against his own countryman, a friend hit 235 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.639 a Homer, I thought that infuse some life into us. 236 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:40.759 Unfortunately, after the two. 237 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.000 Eighth after we just couldn't scratch anything past that. 238 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.080 All right, there's a manager Dave Roberts thanks to Jack 239 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:50.279 Harris from the LA Times for that. As the Dodgers 240 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.039 loose to the New York Mets three to one. He 241 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.440 talked about it, extending innings, giving them out, opening the. 242 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:57.879 Door, however you want to phrase it. 243 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.919 The Dodgers did that tonight in the first inning, leading 244 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:02.039 with Peede Alonso two run home run, and they did 245 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.000 it again the thirty you know, the Mookie bets air, 246 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.399 Francisco Lindor advancing to third and then scoring on the 247 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:11.679 one Soto fielder's choice. All three runs came via the airs, 248 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:14.519 one Earn run officially to Land and Neck off the 249 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:16.840 Pede Alonzo home run. The Dodgers jumped out to the 250 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.720 early one to nothing lead, but that was it. Dodgers 251 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.200 couldn't do anything offensively. And you heard Dave Roberts I 252 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.720 just mentioned it. He alluded to it as well. You've 253 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.919 got to jump on Code I singa when you got 254 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.960 him on the ropes like they did in the first inning, 255 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.039 and you got runners on second and third, nobody out, 256 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:35.799 and you got Will Smith up the bat, and the Dodgers, 257 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.240 as it is, saw Taylor make a great play on 258 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:39.919 the catch and throw it a home to get Mookie 259 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.039 for the bang bang double play. And the Dodgers offensively 260 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.720 just didn't have anything after that fourth, fifth, and sixth 261 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.679 innings had runners on but just could not get opportunities 262 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.399 to get them in with the big hit, and they 263 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.120 lose the series finale to the New York Mets three 264 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.000 to one. As the Mets and Dodgers both have identical 265 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.120 records at thirty two and twenty one, the Mets looking 266 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.440 up at the Phillies and the NLS, the Dodgers a 267 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.799 one game lead over the Giants in the NL West. Canon, 268 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.039 Newport Beach, Welcome to Dodger Talk. Can you just heard 269 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.559 from the manager Dave Roberts. I know he was talking 270 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:11.519 about something you want to talk about in Max Munsey. 271 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:15.600 Well, first, I want to say that there is some 272 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:19.639 good news by the Doctors winning Game one. They're not 273 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.399 if they lost it, they'd be ten or eleven the 274 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.679 month of May. So there were one game off of 275 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:28.600 a five hundred instead of one game behind. So there's 276 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.639 a good news. Now, I'm going to ask you a 277 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.360 couple of question. First, I want to make a comment. 278 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:37.879 You played baseball. I played baseball. I coached baseball in 279 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.399 Little League. One thing I always told my player is 280 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:42.639 if there is a pop up and there is no 281 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.159 outs in you're in third base, do not think about 282 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:50.960 coming home because there's only one out. For some reason, 283 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.039 Mookie decided to come home and he was out. Sure 284 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.879 it was close, but that was a mental mistake. Okay, 285 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.120 he made a physical mistake a little bittings later, but 286 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.080 you don't make those kind of mistakes. Have you been 287 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.840 in baseball for that law? Now for my questions. All right, 288 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.639 your left fielder is hitting one sixty three and has 289 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.480 six RBIs. That's playing forty eight games. Your shortstop is 290 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.919 now second in the major leagues and errors with eight 291 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.200 and he's also barely above two hundred. I just made 292 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.320 you the general manager of the Dodgers. What do you 293 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:31.399 do about those two players who are hurting you every 294 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:32.240 single game? 295 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:37.399 Well, I look at the season. I say it's still May. 296 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:39.360 I'm gonna give him another month. I'm gonna give hi 297 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.600 another fifty at bats. I don't know what the number is, 298 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.320 but I'm gonna keep running them out there, figuring that 299 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:46.000 they're going to eventually turn things around and your lineup 300 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:47.840 is going to be so good around them. You've invested 301 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.360 a lot of money in these players. You just can't 302 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.679 keep going and signing players and then dumping them just 303 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:53.840 because of lack of production. 304 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:55.559 For the first two months of a season. 305 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:58.279 You just financially cannot work that way for the Dodgers 306 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.240 or any team in baseball. Ken, Okay, what is your 307 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:07.440 answer then, to these two players? What is your answer 308 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:09.480 to fill the rosters in What do you want to 309 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:10.720 do with those spots? 310 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:19.120 Well, it's very difficult to consider you're left fielder because 311 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.320 he is absolutely horrible. You can't play in this many 312 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.159 games and only have six runs batted in, and those 313 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:29.240 are at the first week of the season. You're getting 314 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.480 nothing out of him. He's a good fielder, Fine, I 315 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.120 think you need to move. You've got three good outfielders. 316 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.639 Let them play the outfield. Let him sit. Max. I 317 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:43.559 feel like he's going to get better offensively, but we've 318 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.440 seen this defense for a while and I wish there 319 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.600 was another place you could put them, but there isn't. 320 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.679 Right now. You can't really do anything with Max other 321 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.440 than hit some home runs make up for the errors. 322 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:00.919 But you're left fielder. I mean six RBIs recently played 323 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:05.119 thirty five percent of the season. Yeap, that just can't continue, 324 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:05.759 all right, Ken? 325 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:09.759 I appreciate the phone call first off the play from 326 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:14.039 Tyrone Taylor and watching the replay he is running in 327 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.240 catching the ball in shallow right center field and catching 328 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:21.279 a glove side with his left hand, has to then 329 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:26.039 turn his body and throw on the run home to 330 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.359 get Mookie Betts. And it was only going to take 331 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.920 a bang bang play and a great throw from Tyrone 332 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.839 Taylor to get Mookie Betts. And guess what it was. 333 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.559 It wasn't a high throw. If it is Mookie scores, 334 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:43.039 it's safe. It wasn't a throw up the line. It 335 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.519 wasn't a throw that the catcher has to backhand and 336 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:47.880 then come back and sweep and make a tag on 337 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.000 Mookie Betts. It was right where the catcher is positioned, 338 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.160 awaiting to throw and putting a quick tag on Mookie Betts. 339 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.200 It couldn't have been a better throw if he drew 340 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:02.039 it up from Tyrone Taylor. If that's the case, you 341 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:05.279 tip your cap to that guy and say, great job. 342 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:08.920 Nine times out of ten, we're still gonna go and 343 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:11.759 be safe on that play because that's not gonna be 344 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.599 a perfect throw like it was right. 345 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.319 That's just good baseball. I think, just to keep going. 346 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.119 It's gonna take a great catch and a great throw 347 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.640 to get Mookie Betts. 348 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.839 And it did. And it did, so. 349 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.680 I don't have a problem with Mooki going on the 350 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:32.160 play and furthermore, the Michael can afford a discussion. It 351 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:34.519 kind of feels like we're just keep punting it week 352 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:38.000 to week and well, he'll turn things around. Give him 353 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:40.599 another week. Punt it to the next weekend. You know what, 354 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.599 still hasn't turned things right. It's still early, it's still April. 355 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:47.920 He'll turn things around. Let's punt it to next weekend. Well, 356 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.240 I am starting to lean on the side of some 357 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.920 of you Dodger fans who are like, wait, how long 358 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:55.559 are we going to go with this in left field 359 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.839 and the lack of production now great swings just miss 360 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:01.799 it is hitting it right to guys. 361 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.880 I get all that. That happens in baseball. 362 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.000 You know, that's the reason why when you fail seven 363 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:10.359 times out of ten and you only succeed three times 364 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:12.400 out of ten, you're hitting three hundred and you're a 365 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:14.400 Hall of Fame player. You know if you do that 366 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.960 over the course of your career. With that being said, 367 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:20.079 you can only say he's hitting it right at guys 368 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:22.680 so many times, Oh he's squaring it up, but he 369 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:23.680 just hit it right. 370 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:24.519 To the center. Fielder. 371 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:26.960 Ah, he squared it up, but just on a line 372 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:31.240 right to right center field. The balls eventually can either 373 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.119 start falling or that's just not going to be his luck. 374 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:37.000 And this is what is it is, It is what 375 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:39.160 it is with a Michael Conforto, and you have to 376 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:41.400 either start making a decision. Is he your guy You're 377 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:43.480 going to keep running out there as a left handed 378 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:47.920 left fielder, or do we have other options? And if 379 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.079 you have got a better options outside of going and 380 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:52.799 making it blockbuster trade, which is not gonna happen, they 381 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.279 got to have somebody waiting or somebody on the bench 382 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.599 that can do a better job than Michael Conforto. But 383 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.480 I think we can all agree that the runway is 384 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:04.720 getting a little smaller every week that goes off the 385 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.039 calendar here in this baseball season. Eight six, six, nine, seven, 386 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:09.799 two five seven. We'll take a break, We'll come back. 387 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.680 We will hear from show Hey Otani, Yes, speaking to 388 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:16.480 the media at City Field after he homered and after 389 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:21.519 he threw a twenty two pitch live bullpen session batting 390 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:27.079 practice session before the game. Today Dodgers lose in New 391 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:28.319 York three to one. 392 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:30.000 We'll catch up with Jose Mota as well. 393 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.160 It can be a busy, busy time after the top 394 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.400 of the hour as the Dodgers lose to the Mets 395 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:37.000 three to one right here on five seven e LA 396 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:39.440 Sports Live Everywhere in the iHeartRadio book. 397 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:45.839 Dodger Talk is available on AM five to seventy LA 398 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:50.039 Sports dot Com hand on the iHeartRadio app. Back to 399 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:54.359 more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Bass saying. 400 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:01.960 Tim Katson for David bassaying, show, Hey Otani, what a 401 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:05.559