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. Let's not play
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Speaker 3: Let's lend it.
Speaker 2: I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me are your attention, your
Speaker 4: fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a small
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 7: Welcome to Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Peco Park
Speaker 7: in San Diego. After the Dodgers defeat the Padres five
Speaker 7: to two and take two out of three in this
Speaker 7: series against San Diego, the Dodgers will see the Padres
Speaker 7: next week at Dodgers Stadium for a four game series.
Speaker 7: And last night, so many of you were outraged by
Speaker 7: the Dodgers doing what they did, and I explained that
Speaker 7: the Dodgers did something similar to what they did last
Speaker 7: night and today in a best of seven NLCS last
Speaker 7: year against the Mets. Once things went sideways and they
Speaker 7: were down five to nothing and Dylan Cees.
Speaker 6: Was dealing the way he was dealing, Dave.
Speaker 7: Roberts understood that it was about the big picture, not
Speaker 7: just about last night. And I even mentioned this on
Speaker 7: the last Homestand the difference between the Dodgers is other
Speaker 7: teams would fight tooth and nail and put together a
Speaker 7: pitching program where they would be futile in trying to
Speaker 7: win the game. Last night, the Dodgers knew more than
Speaker 7: you did. They knew more than I did. They had
Speaker 7: this in mind where they were going to not have
Speaker 7: Justin Robleski start, have Ben Caspirius start the game, and
Speaker 7: use in total, eight different pitchers. And you heard what
Speaker 7: Alex Vesia had to say. He gave so many kudos
Speaker 7: and props to Matt Sower for what he did yesterday
Speaker 7: to save the relief pitchers for what they had to
Speaker 7: do today. Now, if the Dodgers would have lost this game,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't say it would have been a disaster, but
Speaker 7: certainly it would have been a lot harder to stomach
Speaker 7: the final two games of this series. But the Dodger offense,
Speaker 7: as I have been preaching all season long, is the
Speaker 7: hero again, as they were able to come from behind
Speaker 7: again tie the score with a Michael Conforto solo home
Speaker 7: run in the fifth inning and ta Oscar Hernandez, who
Speaker 7: has been in a slump the last twenty games, hitting
Speaker 7: a huge, go ahead, three run home run. And then
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts deployed his high leverage relievers as he should.
Speaker 7: He went from Ben Casparius, who did a great job
Speaker 7: with four innings, Luke Trevino, who got the win, pitched
Speaker 7: the fifth inning, a scoreless fifth. Jack Dryer came in,
Speaker 7: Kirby Yates, Michael Kopek, who was not very good today.
Speaker 7: He had three walks and only could get one out.
Speaker 7: That might be the only concern about today. Anthony Bonda
Speaker 7: came in and I thought his inning was maybe the
Speaker 7: biggest as far as the Dodger bullpen went. In the
Speaker 7: seventh inning, after Copek walked the bases loaded, Anthony Bonda
Speaker 7: had to get the final two outs and he had
Speaker 7: no margin for air, and Mookie Betts made a great
Speaker 7: play defensively at shortstop to throw out Manny Machado to
Speaker 7: end the inning. To me, that seventh inning was huge
Speaker 7: and Anthony Bonda came a big time for the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: And how about Dave Roberts moving the infield to where
Speaker 7: he wanted right before the pitch to Manny Machado, where
Speaker 7: Mooki Bets was there to scoop it up and throw
Speaker 7: him out. Dave Roberts moved Mookie Betts himself a little
Speaker 7: bit more to the left side of the infield and
Speaker 7: that's exactly where Machado hit it. So give Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: a lot of credit. He was the one that moved
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts to where he was. So this was the
Speaker 7: epitome of a team win. And those of you that
Speaker 7: were so outraged over Game sixty eight yesterday understand now
Speaker 7: hopefully there's a bigger picture in mind. In fact, here's
Speaker 7: what Dave Roberts had to say before the game today
Speaker 7: when he was asked about it again and how it
Speaker 7: relates to the number of starting pitcher injuries that the
Speaker 7: Dodgers now are dealing with.
Speaker 8: No, there's no talking to the team. I think that
Speaker 8: our guys understand kind of they've been through it, unfortunately
Speaker 8: quite a bit. As far as kind of what we're
Speaker 8: going through right now, we've gotten to the other side.
Speaker 8: I think it happens like things like last night, where
Speaker 8: it's uncomfortable, it's awkward. Those are byproducts of what we're
Speaker 8: going through, and so it gets a little uncomfortable. But
Speaker 8: that's a part of it. But as far as kind
Speaker 8: of team meetings, everyone understands who's on the il, what
Speaker 8: guys can and can't do. You know, when we got
Speaker 8: to take shots to win games, and when we got
Speaker 8: to persevere to win the ensuing games. Those things that
Speaker 8: when you have smart players, they understand that. So I
Speaker 8: don't really need to have those conversations.
Speaker 7: Really, And look where the Dodgers are at right now,
Speaker 7: And I thought that was a great patient explanation from
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts in case you were wondering what was happening
Speaker 7: last night. And as far as the big picture goes,
Speaker 7: and if you look at the Dodger rotation now with
Speaker 7: Tony Gonsolin hurt and not able to come back until
Speaker 7: probably August at the earliest, since he's not going to
Speaker 7: pick up a baseball for the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers said before the game today, Dave Roberts said
Speaker 7: before the game today today was not just a one
Speaker 7: off where Ben Casparius is now opening today's game and
Speaker 7: going back to the bullpen with Tony Gonsolin injured. Ben
Speaker 7: Casparius now is going to be part of the Dodgers
Speaker 7: starting rotation. And that's who he was when he was
Speaker 7: coming up through the system. He was a starting pitcher.
Speaker 7: He had to go to the bullpen to be part
Speaker 7: of this team this year. And I've talked to Ben
Speaker 7: many times about the different roles he has had, the
Speaker 7: different situations the Dodgers have put him in. He doesn't care,
Speaker 7: and that's what makes him great, and that's the reason
Speaker 7: why he's able to excel in whatever they ask him
Speaker 7: to do. He just doesn't want to go back to
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City. So that is the greatest attitude you could
Speaker 7: have from a young player. So Ben Casparius now, in
Speaker 7: case you're joining us late or did not hear about
Speaker 7: this before the game, he is part of the Dodgers
Speaker 7: starting rotation probably until the All Star Break and maybe
Speaker 7: a little bit after because not only do the Dodgers
Speaker 7: not have Tony Gonsolin. Now they have been without Tyler Glass.
Speaker 7: Now they have been without Blake Snell, they have been
Speaker 7: without Roki Sazaki. And you talk about the guys that
Speaker 7: all believe so strongly, and so many of you were saying,
Speaker 7: what are they gonna do with Landon Nak, What are
Speaker 7: they gonna do with Bobby Miller, What are they gonna
Speaker 7: do with Justin Robleski.
Speaker 6: Well, here is the cold truth.
Speaker 7: None of those three guys have taken the opportunity and
Speaker 7: ran with it. The only rookie that has really run
Speaker 7: with the opportunity is Ben Casparius. And we have talked
Speaker 7: about this before. Many of you have called and asked
Speaker 7: how come Casparius doesn't become a starting pier, And I
Speaker 7: gave you the reasons. The Dodgers were thinking that he
Speaker 7: was more valuable in the role, the hybrid role that
Speaker 7: he was in in the bullpen. But you can't continue
Speaker 7: to go every fifth day having a flip of the
Speaker 7: coin as far as length, competitiveness, and effectiveness. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: need a little bit more stability in their starting rotation.
Speaker 7: And that's the reason why. So this decision is as
Speaker 7: much as an indictment on Bobby Miller, Landon Knack and
Speaker 7: Justin Robleski. As it is the Dodgers' injury situation, eight
Speaker 7: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 7: phone number. We have two lines open. I bet so
Speaker 7: many of you were itching to call in today if
Speaker 7: the Dodgers lost, but because they proved you wrong yet again.
Speaker 7: And how long are we just going to accept that
Speaker 7: the Dodgers may know what they're doing. They just won
Speaker 7: the World Series. They may know what they're doing. And
Speaker 7: I have said this even before they won the World
Speaker 7: Series last year. Andrew Friedman has perfected the regular season
Speaker 7: better than any other baseball management title. Guy you want
Speaker 7: to choose, you can't dispute that. And this three game
Speaker 7: series against the Padres was a great example of that
Speaker 7: on full display.
Speaker 6: How are the Padres, by the.
Speaker 7: Way, going to make it through the season when they're
Speaker 7: using their high leverage relievers when they're losing. That's not
Speaker 7: a way to get through a marathon, as we have seen.
Speaker 7: And that's why a guy like Lou Trevino is such
Speaker 7: a big find for the Dodgers, because you need guys
Speaker 7: when you're down two or three runs or even one
Speaker 7: run to come in and hold the game where it's at.
Speaker 7: And it can't be Anthony Bonda every night. It can't
Speaker 7: be Kirby Yates or Alex Vesi or Tanner Scott every night.
Speaker 7: You've got to have guys like Lou Trevino. And I
Speaker 7: was dumbfounded watching the first game of this series, watching
Speaker 7: today the way Mike Shield ran out his high leverage
Speaker 7: relievers in scores that did not favor that decision. So
Speaker 7: how are they a very thin roster going to get
Speaker 7: through the marathon while the Dodgers, with so many injuries
Speaker 7: still have a full compliment of depth despite the number
Speaker 7: of innings the Dodger bullpen has pitched this year. Let's
Speaker 7: head downstairs right now to hear from Ben Casparius, who
Speaker 7: certainly was strong as ever today starting the game and
Speaker 7: going four innings.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think, you know, trusting will there. I think
Speaker 9: five straight reached and everything. I think it's just you
Speaker 9: don't get back in the zone challenge, and I think
Speaker 9: I got the first pitch slider in there to tat
Speaker 9: he's gotten to fly out. I felt pretty good after that.
Speaker 10: There's a conversation about just continuing to build you up
Speaker 10: and moving you into the rotation. What has just kind
Speaker 10: of been shared with you and what this could mean
Speaker 10: moving forward?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's just you know, a steady build up.
Speaker 9: I don't know what next week's gonna look like obviously,
Speaker 9: but I feel pretty good. I was happy to get
Speaker 9: to fifty today. I thought the plan was two or three,
Speaker 9: so just to get through four was was huge and
Speaker 9: I felt good. Would you like to be a starter
Speaker 9: again full time?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think so, And like obviously, like I've been
Speaker 9: doing it for the majority of my professional career, so
Speaker 9: it's something I'm comfortable with routine wise, and I'm just
Speaker 9: looking forward to you know, what's what's going on and
Speaker 9: what's coming up next?
Speaker 4: Tell you that you're gonna be starting today, oh last night?
Speaker 4: Like how much do they like talk about like the
Speaker 4: plan about maybe stretching you out a little bit?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: Do you kind of look at like something like today
Speaker 4: as an opportunity to show like, hey, I can push
Speaker 4: into the third and the fourth inning and kind of
Speaker 4: do that like for sure.
Speaker 9: And I think too just obviously this being a playoff
Speaker 9: atmosphere against this team, awesome series to be a part of,
Speaker 9: and you know, getting a win like that's huge on
Speaker 9: the road, you know, back into the thirteen game, you
Speaker 9: know road trips. So yeah, it's been great, and the
Speaker 9: innication has been great the whole year, so I kind
Speaker 9: of had a feeling it was going to be multiples today.
Speaker 7: All right, there's Ben Casparius on sports Net LA, and wow,
Speaker 7: that's even more impressive for him to pitch the way
Speaker 7: he pitched today after finding out last night that he
Speaker 7: was going to start today's game, and he pitched phenomenal.
Speaker 7: The only inning where it was a little rocky for
Speaker 7: him was in the second inning, and Andy pie Has
Speaker 7: and Will Smith certainly came up to help Casparrius get
Speaker 7: out of that inning by only giving up one run.
Speaker 7: The throw from Pa Has and the incredible great tag
Speaker 7: from Will Smith to get Gavin Sheets to prevent a
Speaker 7: second run from scoring, to me was huge. Eight six
Speaker 7: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 7: beat the Padres today five to two. Let's go out
Speaker 7: to Long Beach the LBC. Nick, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing? Nick?
Speaker 11: I'd say I got two comments for you.
Speaker 12: The first one is a value.
Speaker 11: Man. We've seen you go from single A all the way
Speaker 11: up and out of the bigs. I've followed your whole
Speaker 11: career of essay and I gotta say, man, you are
Speaker 11: better than Jerry Doggett.
Speaker 3: You're right there with Ross Porter.
Speaker 11: You are a big part of what it means to
Speaker 11: be a Dodger fan and the time away from your
Speaker 11: family traveling with the team so you can bring us
Speaker 11: your insights. You're a real so cal bro, and I
Speaker 11: just wanted to give you my love and say thank
Speaker 11: you because before it used to be oh, no, here
Speaker 11: we go, and now it's oh, I can't wait for
Speaker 11: your reports. I can't wait for your interviews and your insights,
Speaker 11: and I want to thank you now.
Speaker 6: As far as that.
Speaker 3: Go, yeah, bro, as far as the Dodgers go.
Speaker 13: Man, on Monday, we won.
Speaker 11: Despite Mookie Betts playing short stoff that the He looked
Speaker 11: like such an amateur trying to stab at that ball
Speaker 11: thrown from the catcher that went into the center field
Speaker 11: and caused a run. And then of course Tay Oscar
Speaker 11: missing that ball and putting in three runs. I put
Speaker 11: that on Mookie too, because he should be out there
Speaker 11: with his gold gloves. Don't understand why they're in there,
Speaker 11: but I will say this, Mookie is improving. And today
Speaker 11: was the first game and I watch all the games.
Speaker 11: Today is the first game I've ever seen that we've
Speaker 11: won because of Mookie's fielding and not despite his fielding.
Speaker 11: And I still woul like to see him in right field,
Speaker 11: but you know, it's it's good to see he's getting better.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say he's been phenomenal Nick for the
Speaker 7: most part all season long. I mean the other night
Speaker 7: he made a diving stop and threw out I forgot
Speaker 7: who here in San Diego actually happened last night, So
Speaker 7: you know, Mookie, Mooky has really found confidence at that position,
Speaker 7: and that's the biggest thing. So uh, I can't I
Speaker 7: can't hate on MOOKI bets the shortstop, no doubt about it. Nick,
Speaker 7: and I appreciate the phone call, and that means a lot.
Speaker 7: Those guys as broadcasters meant a lot to the Dodgers
Speaker 7: in their history. And I grew up listening to Don Drysdale,
Speaker 7: Ross Porter and of course the all time goat Vince Scully.
Speaker 7: Let's go out to Santa Clarita. Brad, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Brad?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I just wanted to comment on what
Speaker 1: an unbelievable job Dave Roberts is doing. The fact that
Speaker 1: he basically conceded last night's ball game, which to keep
Speaker 1: his bullpen strong for today shows I don't think any
Speaker 1: other manager is that that start, and I think he
Speaker 1: should be Manager of the Year already.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, you know, I feel like Dave Roberts sometimes
Speaker 7: does not get the credit he deserves because of how
Speaker 7: much talent and the large scale of payroll the Dodgers have.
Speaker 7: But there's a lot more that goes into managing the
Speaker 7: Dodgers than managing the Cincinnati Reds or the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 7: There's a lot that Dave Roberts has on his plate,
Speaker 7: and he does a great job of delegating with a
Speaker 7: great coaching staff, and certainly he does a great job
Speaker 7: of collaborating and implementing the game plan that he and
Speaker 7: Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes come up with with their
Speaker 7: research development department to be able to win games and
Speaker 7: master the regular season. So yeah, he deserves a lot
Speaker 7: of credit. And it was Dave Roberts himself. I saw
Speaker 7: him get to the top step of the dugout and
Speaker 7: personally move Mookie Betts to the exact spot that Manny
Speaker 7: Machado hit that ground ball in the seventh inning, so
Speaker 7: a big team win. And look Conforto, I mean, I
Speaker 7: feel good for that guy. He's a great guy. He cares.
Speaker 7: It's just not happening for whatever reason this season so
Speaker 7: far coming into the game a bucks seventy three batting average,
Speaker 7: only three home runs, but that was I would argue,
Speaker 7: the biggest home run he has hit this season, a
Speaker 7: game tying home run in the fifth inning. And great
Speaker 7: to see te Oscar Hernandez bust out of his slump
Speaker 7: with a go ahead three run home run today eight
Speaker 7: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 7: Dodgers beat the Padres today five to two using eight
Speaker 7: different pictures and win two out of three here in
Speaker 7: San Diego. Let's go out to Anaheim Lewis. You're on
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi Lewis.
Speaker 12: Hey, what's up, David?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 12: Man?
Speaker 6: I'm doing great?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's good to hear man, Yeah and listening. I
Speaker 12: just wanted to make a comic quickly about the bullten man.
Speaker 12: This whole series just seems like the bullpen is just
Speaker 12: not getting enough credit. Where it's honestly due Ben conspirace man.
Speaker 12: He's just really come to fourth and really pulled us
Speaker 12: out of a lot of dire situations. And you know,
Speaker 12: it seems like this whole Padre series was like almost
Speaker 12: like Danjoon build Nlds from last year because it was
Speaker 12: just how bullpen bullpen just getting us through all these Indians.
Speaker 12: And you know, it just sucks to see that are
Speaker 12: starting pigeon can get us as far as we want
Speaker 12: them to. But this bullpen is really, you know, doing
Speaker 12: no justice. I guess for lack of no.
Speaker 7: Doubt, no doubt, the Dodger Dogs, the bullpen dogs have
Speaker 7: continued what they'd started last October. And look, bullpens are
Speaker 7: a bigger part of every team these days than even
Speaker 7: ten years ago, fifteen years ago. But the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 7: has really carried the weight with so many injuries, so
Speaker 7: many abbreviated starts, and you know, you can't say enough
Speaker 7: about the Dodger bullpen. And really, to me, outside of Yamamoto,
Speaker 7: the two most valuable pitchers for the Dodgers this season
Speaker 7: have been two rookies, Jack Dreyer and Ben Casparius. Hands
Speaker 7: down eight six six nine seven two. Five seventy is
Speaker 7: the phone number. Dodgers beat the padres today five to two.
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk until the bottom of the hour. That's when
Speaker 7: Petros and Money will take over with I'm sure a
Speaker 7: launching pad. Let's go out to Palmdale. Darryl, You're on
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk live from Peco Park.
Speaker 3: Hi, Darryl, Hey David, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: I really appreciate what you're doing, but I gotta get
Speaker 3: I gotta stay trust the process. Dave Robis knows what
Speaker 3: he's doing. We might not know and we might not
Speaker 3: agree with it, but this guy knows what he is doing.
Speaker 3: And then then I gotta give it up to the
Speaker 3: Dodger fans.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 3: They showed up and showed out. They really really made
Speaker 3: it different to today, really did.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this was a capacity crowd here at Peco Park again,
Speaker 7: and yesterday's crowd was a little subdued. Obviously not an
Speaker 7: entertaining game. Yesterday after the first game was maybe one of,
Speaker 7: if not the most entertaining baseball game we have seen
Speaker 7: the Dodgers play this season. But today there was another
Speaker 7: capacity crowd of forty five thousand, four hundred and eighty
Speaker 7: one here at Peco Park, and a lot of them
Speaker 7: were Dodger fans. And if you're a Dodger fan and
Speaker 7: you can't make it to San Diego, these padres will
Speaker 7: be back at Dodger Stadium on starting on Monday for
Speaker 7: a four game series. So these teams, after not seeing
Speaker 7: each other for the first three months of the season,
Speaker 7: are seeing each other seven times within a week. Go figure,
Speaker 7: let's go out to Alpine. A Joy, You're on Dodger
Speaker 7: Talk with David vasse Hi A Joy.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, David?
Speaker 12: Nice talk to you man.
Speaker 3: So, David, I had a question as a.
Speaker 14: You know, as a San Diego resident and having having
Speaker 14: to deal with my friends are potterish funds out here,
Speaker 14: I'm wondering if I am I still being a jerky's
Speaker 14: telling them we're not really a rivalry. I don't feel
Speaker 14: that way, but obviously I got to go to a
Speaker 14: game of this series and you know, they treated like
Speaker 14: the World Series every time, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 14: think it's good for baseball obviously too top tier teams
Speaker 14: in southern California.
Speaker 3: But that's my first question.
Speaker 14: How do you feel Do you feel it it's a
Speaker 14: true rivalry?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 7: A Joy I'm going to give you a comparison that
Speaker 7: I've been using going back to last year. I'm sure
Speaker 7: you're a big Laker fan too, right, yes, sir, so,
Speaker 7: all like in this Dodgers Padres rivalry over the course
Speaker 7: of the last five years to the Lakers and Sacramento
Speaker 7: Kings rivalry from two thousand ninety nine, two thousand to
Speaker 7: two thousand and four. The Kings were never on the
Speaker 7: Lakers radar before, and the Padres have never been on
Speaker 7: the Dodgers level before the year twenty twenty. So this
Speaker 7: too shall pass like the Sacramento Kings, trust me, But
Speaker 7: right now it is great for baseball.
Speaker 14: One hundred percent. My second question, and I'll be done
Speaker 14: with you here, Davi, is in regards to Kim, I know,
Speaker 14: I hear a lot of people saying that they believe
Speaker 14: you should get more time, and I understand it, But
Speaker 14: you know, I keep seeing him having some bad throws
Speaker 14: of Freddy. Is that kind of part of the reason
Speaker 14: why there's still kind of every other day in him?
Speaker 14: Are they still seeing some little issues there where?
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just nerves.
Speaker 7: Well, here's my thing, who do you believe Kim should
Speaker 7: play every day?
Speaker 6: Over? Is it Andy pa has is it? Tommy Ed?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 7: I mean I just right now, from what I've seen
Speaker 7: in a small sample size, he's an elite second baseman.
Speaker 7: He's pretty good at shortstop, and he's still learning center field.
Speaker 7: And right now, I haven't seen that he can hit
Speaker 7: high velocity.
Speaker 6: He can't hit.
Speaker 7: Ninety five consistently. So the Dodgers know what they're doing. Again,
Speaker 7: they don't want to overexpose him. He's a role player,
Speaker 7: he's a bench player, and he's really good. But if
Speaker 7: you start playing him every day at this point in
Speaker 7: time in his career, he's going to get exposed. And
Speaker 7: the Dodgers are doing a great job of picking their
Speaker 7: spots when they play Kim, when they use Kim off
Speaker 7: the bench against the right pitching matchups.
Speaker 10: I agree.
Speaker 5: Thanks to Dave.
Speaker 14: Appreciate it, man, Keep doing what you do.
Speaker 6: All right, A joy, Thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've said this, and I'm not going to go
Speaker 7: the Shaquille O'Neal route right now. In June, and you know,
Speaker 7: Shaq mocked the Sacramento Queens.
Speaker 6: Remember Shaq calling the Kings the Queens.
Speaker 7: I'm not gonna stoop that low and call the Padres
Speaker 7: the Madres right now. But I do firmly believe this
Speaker 7: rivalry and it is for the last five years, because
Speaker 7: there's been two playoff series between these two teams, the
Speaker 7: Padres beating the Dodgers in the NLDS back in twenty two,
Speaker 7: and the Dodgers beating them last year in a hotly
Speaker 7: contested battle against arguably the two best teams in baseball.
Speaker 7: It is a rivalry because of those reasons. But the
Speaker 7: Sacramento Kings were on the Lakers level from two thousand
Speaker 7: to two thousand and four five ish, and they haven't
Speaker 7: been since. And I don't see this rivalry of these
Speaker 7: two teams continuing for another five years. I hope it
Speaker 7: does because it's really good for baseball, but it's not
Speaker 7: as storied and sustainable as the Dodgers and Giants. It
Speaker 7: will never be that because the Padres were an expansion
Speaker 7: team in nineteen sixty nine. The Dodgers and Giants were
Speaker 7: rivals back in New York with the two boroughs, and
Speaker 7: they both came out West together San Francisco, La rivalry city.
Speaker 7: So that's why this will never be that. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 7: eighty seven, two five, seventy is the phone number. We're
Speaker 7: gonna take our final time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: When we continue more of your phone calls at eight
Speaker 7: sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. We will
Speaker 7: also hear from Michael Confordo, who hit a game tying
Speaker 7: home run today in the fifth inning, and coming up
Speaker 7: at the bottom of the hour, Petros and Money in
Speaker 7: their usual and rifle place in afternoon drive. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: beat the Padres five to two, Big Picture, Big Pick.
Speaker 7: Sure they take two out of three from San Diego.
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Speaker 3: Michael Confordo first pitch, swinging high fly ball left center field,
Speaker 3: Merril at the track.
Speaker 6: At the wall, did you go on? Michael Conforto.
Speaker 3: A game tying solo home run to left center field
Speaker 3: his fourth other season and we got a new Bowl
Speaker 3: game tied at one.
Speaker 7: Michael Conforto with his biggest home run as a Dodger so.
Speaker 6: Far, a game tying home run in.
Speaker 7: The fifth the first pitch he saw, and then Teoscar
Speaker 7: Hernandez with a go ahead three run home run in
Speaker 7: the sixth inning. The Dodgers would tack on another run
Speaker 7: in the ninth inning, Will Smith driving in show Heyo
Speaker 7: tani who had tripled earlier in the inning, and the
Speaker 7: Dodgers beat the Padres today five to two. Daniels Jewelers
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Speaker 6: We are going to the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 6: Have a day off, but we do have off day.
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk for you at seven o'clock tomorrow night Ken
Speaker 7: Rosenthal will make a rare appearance on Dodger Talk, so
Speaker 7: look forward to that. Though there's no game tomorrow, Let's
Speaker 7: head back downstairs right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to
Speaker 7: hear from Michael Conforto on Sports at l A.
Speaker 15: I think we're getting there. I think that the quality
Speaker 15: of the at bats have you know, definitely gone, you know,
Speaker 15: in the right direction, and you know, hitting the ball
Speaker 15: a little bit harder and just a little bit tougher
Speaker 15: of and out. You know, I think there's a lot
Speaker 15: of work to do. Uh still, but uh, just just
Speaker 15: a great team win. You know, Bullpen was amazing, uh
Speaker 15: tail getting that big swing will show at the end
Speaker 15: of the game, and you know, so just a great
Speaker 15: team win.
Speaker 10: You are showing power. Does that say something to you?
Speaker 10: And specific though just to where your swing isn't?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think one of the
Speaker 15: big things is, you know, putting good swings on on
Speaker 15: some fastballs, hitting those hard, and you know, that's kind
Speaker 15: of in my career, that's been my bread and butter.
Speaker 12: You'll always been a.
Speaker 15: Guy who who hits the fastball, and you know, so
Speaker 15: that's that's you know, more so than you know the
Speaker 15: ball leaving leaving the yard. You know, just hitting the
Speaker 15: fastball hard is h is one of the big things
Speaker 15: for me is.
Speaker 9: The cleaner swing. Is working to let you get to
Speaker 9: the basketball a little better.
Speaker 15: I mean, yeah, I think it's just a lot of
Speaker 15: the work that I've put in, you know, to get
Speaker 15: you know, getting my body in the right position, you know,
Speaker 15: get the plane of the swing right. You know, there's
Speaker 15: a lot of things that I've been working on, but
Speaker 15: really just being ready, you know, putting myself in the
Speaker 15: right position when I when I go to launch. It's
Speaker 15: been the biggest thing.
Speaker 6: Launch.
Speaker 7: Hey, I guess he's looking for that launch angle, and
Speaker 7: he got it in the fifth inning, first pitch. And look,
Speaker 7: a lot of times when a guy's struggling, why not
Speaker 7: be aggressive early in the count. The deeper you get
Speaker 7: into counts when you're struggling, a lot of times, that
Speaker 7: makes you feel like you're behind it the count more
Speaker 7: than you're ahead in the count. So I'm all about
Speaker 7: being aggressive early in the count.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Mooki Betts joined us on the pregame show before the
Speaker 7: first game of this series, and I remember when Mooki
Speaker 7: came over to the Dodgers in twenty twenty, his manager
Speaker 7: Alex Korra told me what his strengths were. When Mooky's
Speaker 7: going right and he's at his best, he's aggressive early
Speaker 7: in the count and he's pulling for power.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Joe Davis mentioned this stat which was shocking to me
Speaker 7: during the last road trip. The average four players in
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball this year swinging at the first pitch
Speaker 7: was thirty percent of the players or thirty percent of
Speaker 7: the time swinging at the first pitch. Mooki Bets this
Speaker 7: year is only swinging at the first pitch fourteen percent
Speaker 7: of the time.
Speaker 6: That's well below the major league average.
Speaker 7: And in this series, Mookie Betts was swinging at the
Speaker 7: first pitch more times than not. So maybe he is
Speaker 7: a kind of changing that mindset. And he said as much.
Speaker 7: After missing those four games and coming back, he's sitting
Speaker 7: close to five hundred, and he said it was great
Speaker 7: just to clear his mind and to get his confidence back.
Speaker 7: And we've seen that eight six, six, nine eighty seven two,
Speaker 7: five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Padres
Speaker 7: today five to two. Also, good to see sho he
Speaker 7: Otani get an extra base hit. Because after a tremendous
Speaker 7: May where he tied the Dodgers franchise record for the
Speaker 7: most home runs in a single month fifteen, tying Duke
Speaker 7: Snyder in nineteen fifty three and Pedro Guerrero in nineteen
Speaker 7: eighty five, it's been sort of June gloom for Otani
Speaker 7: at the plate because he's only hitting twoin fifty this
Speaker 7: month in eleven games, and only won a home run
Speaker 7: after fifteen in the month of May. So it was
Speaker 7: great to see him drive the ball the way he
Speaker 7: did in the ninth inning for a triple, and Will
Speaker 7: Smith doing Will Smith things with runners in scoring position,
Speaker 7: just getting a base hit to right field and getting
Speaker 7: the Dodgers a big insurance run. Eight six, six, two,
Speaker 7: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 7: Danny in Riverside. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: Danny, Hey, how.
Speaker 13: You doing, David.
Speaker 8: Great?
Speaker 13: I'm h yeah, a longtime fantas show, first time caller.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 13: My question to you was, is this really a sustainable
Speaker 13: thing for the Dodgers to win with's like the skeleton
Speaker 13: crew of pitching injuries. I just think that if they
Speaker 13: don't average five and a half runs or more for
Speaker 13: the summer that they can't really get you know, the big.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well they're doing a good job of doing that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but is it really sustainable. Do you really think
Speaker 13: it's sustainable.
Speaker 7: It's going to have to be at least until the rest,
Speaker 7: until the All Star break, because they're not getting Snail
Speaker 7: back before the break. I don't believe they're not getting
Speaker 7: Roki Sazaki back before the break, and Tyler Glass now
Speaker 7: maybe right around after the break, before the break, but
Speaker 7: it's going to have to be the offense again to
Speaker 7: carry them. But if you look at the rotation now,
Speaker 7: it is getting better. Dustin May, even when he struggling,
Speaker 7: gave them five innings the first night here. Kershaw was
Speaker 7: really good in Saint Louis, so that was encouraging. Yamamoto
Speaker 7: is the ace of the staff, and I love Ben Casparius.
Speaker 7: I've been an advocate for him to go back to
Speaker 7: the rotation, but I understood that he was more valuable
Speaker 7: in the bullpen, but these circumstances have dictated that. So
Speaker 7: it feels like the rotation is stabilizing Danny. They just
Speaker 7: gotta keep all these guys healthy until the All star
Speaker 7: break because they don't really have anybody else that's true.
Speaker 6: This is it, This is all they got, so they
Speaker 6: gotta stay healthy. Eight six six.
Speaker 7: Seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to gardena Man. Well,
Speaker 7: great to have you back on the show.
Speaker 2: Dave a Man, excellent show as usual. You know, our
Speaker 2: guy was pushing the panic button last night, not the
Speaker 2: usual Petrosen money types, but our guy, big Ben Mallard.
Speaker 2: You should have heard him, man, I mean it was
Speaker 2: just like, come on, Benny, you gotta understand that Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts and Andrew Friedman are out here playing chess.
Speaker 6: Well, where's Ben Mallard?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: Ben Maller asleep? Is he? I want you to let
Speaker 6: me know?
Speaker 7: Does he even mention that the Dodgers came back to
Speaker 7: not only win this game, but win the series? And
Speaker 7: maybe somebody should remind Ben Maller and everybody else out
Speaker 7: there the Dodgers are just five months removed from winning
Speaker 7: ninety nine games last year and winning the World Series.
Speaker 6: I'm going out on a limb right here.
Speaker 7: Many but Andrew Friedman may know just a little bit
Speaker 7: more than a guy in a house doing a radio show.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're absolutely right, But hey, Ben does give you
Speaker 2: his love too, you know, so it's not always just bashing.
Speaker 2: He knows that.
Speaker 7: Ben the Basher, that's his nickname, Ben the Basher, who
Speaker 7: was a bash tonight.
Speaker 2: He'll find somebody. I'm just glad that Comporto's getting on track.
Speaker 2: Let's hope he can show signs of the slugger he
Speaker 2: was in San fran and New York. And what could
Speaker 2: you say about Ben Casparius? Man, you told us about him,
Speaker 2: you know from the beginning, the guy's a stud. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's a great addition to this team. And Uh, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna worry about.
Speaker 12: Anything like you.
Speaker 2: I'm like you, Dave in the fact that I trust
Speaker 2: in Friedman, I trust in Dave Roberts, and I know
Speaker 2: that this is gonna be a back to back championship campaign.
Speaker 2: Go Dodgers.
Speaker 6: All right, Mannie, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Look, there were a lot of people that were upset
Speaker 7: with the Dodgers yesterday. And was it a great look
Speaker 7: to have a position player in the game in the
Speaker 7: sixth inning?
Speaker 6: Absolutely not.
Speaker 7: But if you're about the Dodgers winning the West and
Speaker 7: doing what's best to win a series, they obviously had
Speaker 7: a plan for today, and they obviously didn't want to
Speaker 7: be down nine to nothing in the sixth inning. They
Speaker 7: didn't want to be down five to nothing going into
Speaker 7: the sixth inning, and they certainly did not want to
Speaker 7: have Matt Sower out there for nine runs in one
Speaker 7: hundred and eleven pitches. That was extreme and uncomfortable to watch,
Speaker 7: no doubt about it. But obviously Matt Sower bought in,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers bought in, and those are the circumstances right
Speaker 7: now to win a series, and the Dodgers won the series.
Speaker 7: And that's the most important part of this. Last night
Speaker 7: was uncomfortable to watch. It wasn't pretty. It's not ideal
Speaker 7: if you were here at the stadium, no doubt about it.
Speaker 7: But if you care about the Dodgers navigating a marathon,
Speaker 7: nobody has done it better since twenty fifteen. Eight six six, seven,
Speaker 7: two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers get the
Speaker 7: win today five to two and take two out of
Speaker 7: three from the Padres, And today was a huge win
Speaker 7: more ways than one, especially after the way things went
Speaker 7: last night, and especially after the way things win in
Speaker 7: Saint Louis. Remember to start this six game road trip.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers lost the first two games in Saint Louis
Speaker 7: before Kershaw pitched a really good game to get them
Speaker 7: a salvage of that series coming into San Diego. So
Speaker 7: to take two out of three from the Padres was huge.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers have a day off tomorrow. They will host
Speaker 7: the San Francisco Giants for a three game series this
Speaker 7: weekend at Dodgers Stadium, and then they'll see the Padres
Speaker 7: again for four games, and they'll close out the next
Speaker 7: homestand that is ten games long with the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 6: We have off date Dodger talked for you tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Ken Rosenthal will be our guest and on Yoshi Yamamoto
Speaker 7: will be on the mound for the Dodgers, facing the
Speaker 7: Giants for the first time this year.
Speaker 6: The Giants, by.
Speaker 7: The way, they have some of that twenty twenty one
Speaker 7: mojo going on right now, because if you look at
Speaker 7: their lineup, you're wondering, how are they in second place
Speaker 7: in the NL West, only one game back of the Dodgers. Well,
Speaker 7: they're gonna have to beat the Dodgers without Matt Chapman,
Speaker 7: who's on the il with a right hand injury and
Speaker 7: without Patrick Bailey, who's on the IL as well. And
Speaker 7: the Giants pitchers are not as good away from that
Speaker 7: ballpark as they are in other stadiums. So I would
Speaker 7: venture to say the Dodgers have a very good chance
Speaker 7: to get at least two games over the San Francisco
Speaker 7: Giants this weekend at Dodgers Stadium, Morongo Casino. Dodgers on
Speaker 7: Deck begins at six o'clock on Friday, with Tim Kats
Speaker 7: first pitch at seven to ten from Dodgers Stadium on
Speaker 7: Friday night. That'll do it for us from Petco Park
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Speaker 7: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald here in San Diego, Thanks to
Speaker 7: Colin ye back at our Burg Bank Studios, and thanks
Speaker 7: to you for listening. Be safe out there, and we'll
Speaker 7: talk to you tomorrow night at seven o'clock for off
Speaker 7: day Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: But you got more great sports talk coming up. Next
Speaker 6: with Petros and money once again.
Speaker 7: The final score from Peco Park in San Diego. The
Speaker 7: Dodgers defeat the Padres five to two.
Speaker 6: See you