Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Cubs on Sunday Night Baseball by a final
Speaker 2: score of four to two. Welcome to Dodger Talk, David
Speaker 2: Vase with you until eight thirty tonight on AM five
Speaker 2: to seventy LA Sports. We will hear from Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: We'll get you an update on Blake Snell and Evan Phillips.
Speaker 2: And you'll also hear from one of the bullpenned dogs
Speaker 2: from a year ago, Ryan Brasier, who got his World
Speaker 2: Series ring on Friday because he's part of the Cubs
Speaker 2: team now. So you'll hear from Ryan Brasier about the
Speaker 2: sequence of events that saw Walker Buehler come in and
Speaker 2: close Game five of the World Series last year. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open at eight six, six, nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Tonight, Tyler Glass now bounce back
Speaker 2: after below parper performance in Philadelphia In many ways, Tonight
Speaker 2: Glass now very good on a national stage. Six innings,
Speaker 2: seven strikeouts and allowed just two earned runs. One of
Speaker 2: them was a solo home run to Michael Bush. The
Speaker 2: other was a home run to pie Crow Armstrong. So
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass now bounces back, did not have a lot
Speaker 2: of traffic on the bases, which was a good thing,
Speaker 2: and certainly got hurt by two solo home runs. But
Speaker 2: it really is about the Dodger offense, right There's we're
Speaker 2: not used to seeing the Dodger scoring no runs and
Speaker 2: two runs and back to back games. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: in the Clubhouse show at bears repeating because it's somewhat shocking.
Speaker 3: Number one, that the Dodgers had.
Speaker 2: A consecutive game streak of fifty three consecutive games with
Speaker 2: an extra basic come to an end last night when
Speaker 2: they scattered six singles. And something that Jose Mota brought
Speaker 2: to our attention that certainly is on the radar of
Speaker 2: a lot of people now, the fact that show hey Otani,
Speaker 2: who drove in one hundred and thirty runs last year
Speaker 2: at the top of the lineup, only has four at
Speaker 2: bats with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 3: Tonight he had none.
Speaker 2: And it's not a good thing when Otani's leading off
Speaker 2: innings outside of the first inning. He led off the
Speaker 2: third inning, and he led off the seventh inning, and
Speaker 2: then he came up in the ninth inning with nobody
Speaker 2: on base. It was a nice try by Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: to bring Freddy Freeman off the bench for a pinch
Speaker 2: hit in the ninth spot for Miguel Rojas. Freddie hit
Speaker 2: a ball up the middle that may have seen some
Speaker 2: grass if not for Dansby Swanson, his old teammate, robbing
Speaker 2: him of what might have been a single to get
Speaker 2: the possible tying run at the plate in the form
Speaker 2: of show Hey Otani, I also thought another great opportunity
Speaker 2: to get somebody up there with Otani coming up with
Speaker 2: Otani on deck, I should say, was in the sixth
Speaker 2: inning when Miguel Rojas was at the plate.
Speaker 3: He did a pretty good job a couple.
Speaker 2: Of nights ago of getting on base twice in that
Speaker 2: spot in the ninth spot. But tonight, in the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: he was up three to zero in the count and
Speaker 2: he flew out to center field.
Speaker 3: So uh, that kind of.
Speaker 2: Ended what might have been a bigger inning for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers if he gets on base with Otani on deck,
Speaker 2: because they already had scored one run in that inning
Speaker 2: and they were hitting the ball pretty hard. Kick Hernandez
Speaker 2: lined out to third base. He was he hit a
Speaker 2: rocket there and Max Munsey just missed a home run instead,
Speaker 2: it was a game tying sacrifice fly. So that sixth
Speaker 2: inning really had a bigger inning written all over it,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't meant to be. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Also
Speaker 2: in the eighth inning, when the Cubs tacked on an
Speaker 2: insurance run in the form of Kyle Tucker, who led
Speaker 2: off the inning with a double down the left field line,
Speaker 2: I felt like that was that should have been caught
Speaker 2: by Michael Confordo. And I'm sure he'd be the first
Speaker 2: one to tell you that, because he did have some.
Speaker 3: Ground to cover there.
Speaker 2: But he was there, but he pulled up because he
Speaker 2: felt like the foul line was the wall and it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was the line and the ball hit the chalk
Speaker 2: and that was appealed rightfully, so and it was a
Speaker 2: double by Kyle Tucker. Whenever new corner outfielders start playing
Speaker 2: every day for the Dodgers, it seems like they are
Speaker 2: apprehensive that they're closer to the wall than they really
Speaker 2: are because it is a short wall and you could
Speaker 2: go tumbling over. Even in twenty twenty, when Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: played his first year with the Dodgers. He had some
Speaker 2: trouble chasing down balls down the line because of the
Speaker 2: short wall. But with more time, Confordo's gonna feel more
Speaker 2: comfortable and have more field awareness of where he was
Speaker 2: because he had a lot of room and he didn't
Speaker 2: need to pull back, which he did. So that was
Speaker 2: that as far as the game goes, And really this
Speaker 2: was the Michael Bush and Pete crow Armstrong game for
Speaker 2: the Cubs, as those two guys drove in three of
Speaker 2: the four runs tonight with home runs eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. We have two
Speaker 2: lines open, and before we go to the phones, I
Speaker 2: just want to remind you that before the panic really
Speaker 2: sets in. And yes, the Dodgers have lost three straight
Speaker 2: series going back to their last road trip in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: This did happen last year in April of last year,
Speaker 2: early on in the season, like it's happening right now.
Speaker 2: And the difference is the Dodgers lost all three of
Speaker 2: those series in April at home. This situation is they
Speaker 2: lost two series on the road in really great conditions
Speaker 2: on the East Coast, no excuses, but much different than
Speaker 2: losing three straight series at Dodger Stadium like they did
Speaker 2: last year. Let's go out to mission via ho Bill,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Bill?
Speaker 4: Pretty good? Thanks for the take my call. Yeah, Glassnoe
Speaker 4: seems to give up home runs a lot, but he
Speaker 4: does scatter him at least, you know, they're not like
Speaker 4: three run home runs and everything like that. And my
Speaker 4: other point is Crow Armstrong worth these his first two
Speaker 4: home runs of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he really hasn't done much of anything offensively this year,
Speaker 2: and yeah they were his first two home runs, but
Speaker 2: he seems to play his best against the Dodgers, right.
Speaker 4: And then also, I think Munsey can come out of it.
Speaker 4: At least he got one in the air that was
Speaker 4: hit pretty deep. I mean that's at least he wasn't
Speaker 4: striking out. But he's got to make more contact.
Speaker 2: All right, Bill, I'll pass that advice along. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call. All joking aside, You're right, Max Muntsey
Speaker 2: has not started off the season well offensively. He's still
Speaker 2: looking for his first home run. He came a few
Speaker 2: feet away from that in the sixth inning. Instead it
Speaker 2: was a sacrifice fly. But like you mentioned, it was
Speaker 2: good to see him get it in the air and
Speaker 2: drive the ball. That's not something we've seen a lot
Speaker 2: from Max Munsey to start the year, and he's got
Speaker 2: a lot of strikeouts. Two more strikeouts tonight. It has
Speaker 2: not been a great start to the season for Max Mounsey.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned, he has twenty four strikeouts to start
Speaker 2: the year and he's only walked four times. You know,
Speaker 2: a few years back, Monthssey told me a great indicator
Speaker 2: that he's going good is when he's taking walks. It's
Speaker 2: not necessarily the home runs, and he's a thirty five
Speaker 2: home run guy, but he said, when I'm going good
Speaker 2: and I'm seeing the ball really well, it's when I'm
Speaker 2: taking my walks, And right now he's not, and it
Speaker 2: feels like he's pressing and he's trying to get back
Speaker 2: his previous forty at bats in one at bats. So
Speaker 2: hopefully that sacrifice flying the sixth inning will relax him
Speaker 2: and start to get him on the right track. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Pico Rivera. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Eric.
Speaker 5: Hey, David, how are you you give us the best
Speaker 5: information year after year? And it seems to get better
Speaker 5: and better year after year.
Speaker 6: Thank you, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Hey, you're too kind, Eric.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, what's the plan for Austin
Speaker 5: Barnes and Chris Taylor moving.
Speaker 6: Forward this year? David, I thought that Chris.
Speaker 5: Taylor being inserted in left field could have made that
Speaker 5: play that Conforto made. And then our friend Austin Barnes
Speaker 5: was O for eleven yesterday and swung at the first
Speaker 5: pitch when coming up to bat. So I'm just wondering he.
Speaker 2: Wasn't oh for Technically he wasn't OH for eleven last night.
Speaker 2: He's now OH for eleven on the season, maybe for
Speaker 2: thirteen now. Yeah, he does not have a hit yet
Speaker 2: this year, but he plays once a week.
Speaker 6: Eric, Right, No, I understand.
Speaker 5: I'm just wondering, you know what, what's gonna jump start
Speaker 5: these two guys, if anything, or we're gonna dfam in
Speaker 5: the middle of the season. I don't want to see
Speaker 5: that happen, but you know, I'm just wondering what the
Speaker 5: plan is.
Speaker 2: Well, Chris Taylor's paid a lot of money this year,
Speaker 2: so you're not going to see that happen anytime soon,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't gotten many opportunities quite honestly to make
Speaker 2: any sort of judgment on him.
Speaker 3: You know that ball in the eighth inning that.
Speaker 2: Michael Confordo probably should have caught. You know, I can
Speaker 2: understand why you're keeping Confordo in there. It's a tied game.
Speaker 2: You need his bat in the lineup. But if the
Speaker 2: Dodgers had a lead, I think that Dave Roberts may
Speaker 2: consider having Chris Taylor go out there in left field.
Speaker 5: Good enough, I'll take that, Dave.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Eric, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: By the way, Chris Taylor and Austin Barnes did not
Speaker 2: have an at bat in the game tonight, but the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense stalled out without those two guys in the lineup.
Speaker 2: They were shut out last night and tonight only scored
Speaker 2: two runs after scoring three runs on a three run
Speaker 2: home run.
Speaker 3: By Tommy Edmonds.
Speaker 2: So the Dodger offense no secrets about it not going
Speaker 2: really well right now. I pointed out last night that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers five through nine hitters were combined one for
Speaker 2: sixteen and hitting under one eighty on the season. Tonight
Speaker 2: it was a little bit better because of Confordo and
Speaker 2: Will Smith.
Speaker 3: They each had two hits.
Speaker 2: Confordo scored both of the Dodger runs tonight, so that
Speaker 2: was a little better. But like I talked about last night,
Speaker 2: we all know most of these guys are going to
Speaker 2: get it going, and in fact, Will Smith has gotten
Speaker 2: off to the best start of any Dodger hitter.
Speaker 3: He's hitting three forty one.
Speaker 2: And the bottom line is the last three hitters, the seven,
Speaker 2: eight nine hitters, have got to get on They've got
Speaker 2: to get on base to flip that lineup over for Otani, Betts, Freeman,
Speaker 2: Taeoscar Hernandez. And you know, once you get Freddy in
Speaker 2: there again, which he will be tomorrow, then you start
Speaker 2: to lengthen your lineup by having Edmund hit behind those
Speaker 2: guys and have him hit in front of guys like
Speaker 2: Smith and Munsey and Confortos. So Freddie Freeman means a
Speaker 2: lot to this lineup when he's starting, and this was
Speaker 2: a scheduled day off for Freddie Freeman. The Dodgers were
Speaker 2: not going to have Freddy play six consecutive games, or
Speaker 2: start six consecutive games right after coming off the il
Speaker 2: with that reaggravation of the right ankle. We'll just say,
Speaker 2: is right ankle. It's not going to be one hundred
Speaker 2: percent all year. It's going to have to be managed
Speaker 2: all season long. And that's what the Dodgers did tonight.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. When we continue here from Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota. Plus we'll give you
Speaker 2: an update on Blake's now and Evan Phillips. And I
Speaker 2: know the trade deadline is not until the end of July,
Speaker 2: but we had a trade rumor floated out earlier today
Speaker 2: by Bob Nightingale and it included the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: We'll let you know what that was as well.
Speaker 2: So we got a lot to get to between now
Speaker 2: and a thirty plus your phone calls at eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Cubs beat the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers four to two and take two out of three
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Speaker 1: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Vasse.
Speaker 7: Trying to come set for Armshaw high fly ball right
Speaker 7: center field hit very well. PCA watches this one goal.
Speaker 7: It's a two home run game for the local product.
Speaker 7: He salutes the bullpen and rounds the bases, having given
Speaker 7: the Cubs the lead.
Speaker 3: Right back, it's.
Speaker 7: Now three to Chicago.
Speaker 2: He Crow Armstrong, with his parents sitting behind home plate,
Speaker 2: comes back home and beats the Dodgers four to two
Speaker 2: as the Cubs take two out of three here in
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Speaker 3: All right. I know it's a little too early to.
Speaker 2: Be talking about trades and trade rumors, but I was
Speaker 2: taking a little off guard that. Bob Nightingale, in his
Speaker 2: Sunday column, reported that the Dodgers in White Sox had
Speaker 2: been discussing a train that would send Louise Robert Junior
Speaker 2: from the White Sox to the Dodgers in exchange for
Speaker 2: James Autman and a quote top tier prospect. Louise Robert
Speaker 2: Junior has not gotten off to a great start with
Speaker 2: the White Sox.
Speaker 3: I think when I checked it, he's hitting a buck eighty.
Speaker 2: In fact, I know he's hitting a buck eighty this
Speaker 2: year to start the season, and he has won.
Speaker 3: A Gold Glove.
Speaker 2: But a lot of scouts that I talked to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, that gold Glove ain't everything that it's
Speaker 2: cracked up to be. He's not that great of a
Speaker 2: center fielder, so take it for what it's worth. Maybe
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and White Sox talked about it in spring training.
Speaker 2: I heard this same trade last year as well, so
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not buying it, to be honest,
Speaker 2: I love Bob and I'm not saying that it wasn't discussed,
Speaker 2: but I'm not saying it was close to getting done.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. I actually think the Dodgers could do
Speaker 2: a lot better than Louise Robert if they're looking to
Speaker 2: trade for his center fielder.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Long Beach. Marco.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk live from Cheveez Ravine. How you doing, Marco?
Speaker 8: I'm good?
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Look great.
Speaker 2: We established that you're doing great. You're calling a Dodger
Speaker 2: talk show. What do you have to say?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just was wondering if Mookie's gonna be the
Speaker 10: shortstop for the rest of the year because the defense,
Speaker 10: especially in the outfield, has been pretty bad, and since
Speaker 10: we have Rojas playing every day, I think it'd be
Speaker 10: more beneficial to have him at shortstop and maybe have
Speaker 10: used Mooki in center or right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, centerfield, I don't believe the Dodgers would put him there,
Speaker 2: even though I believe he could play it and if
Speaker 2: he wants action and being engaged, center field would do
Speaker 2: that for him.
Speaker 3: He could do it.
Speaker 2: He got called up as a he played center field
Speaker 2: for the Red Sox, but Jackie Bradley Junior was so
Speaker 2: good defensively they moved Mookie to right field.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are not even thinking about moving Mookie from
Speaker 2: shortstop uh anytime soon. And in fact, Mooki made a
Speaker 2: nice play tonight in the third inning to throw out
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker. So, yeah, I understand the outfield defense is
Speaker 2: not as good without the best right fielder in the
Speaker 2: game out there, but I don't think that played a
Speaker 2: huge part into why the Dodgers lost tonight.
Speaker 3: It was the offense and it's been the.
Speaker 10: Just for future sakes, because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, future reference.
Speaker 10: I don't understand how he went from a right fielder
Speaker 10: to wanting to play second to playing shortstop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he got He was a second baseman in
Speaker 2: the minors, then got moved to right, and he got
Speaker 2: thrust into playing shortstop for the first half of last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wacky.
Speaker 2: It's wacky, Marco, but he's holding his own and he's
Speaker 2: put in a lot of work to try to make
Speaker 2: it work. Thanks for the phone call. Eight six six
Speaker 2: two seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Dallas, Jason.
Speaker 2: You're a little early calling Dodger Talk. They're not there
Speaker 2: until next week.
Speaker 8: You're right, Dave. How's it going, man, Hey, it's going great.
Speaker 8: A great Dodger fan, casual observer, but just trying to
Speaker 8: get everybody to kill out and relax, enjoy the season,
Speaker 8: and enjoy what we're seeing. I mean, we have a
Speaker 8: great team on the field. Everythone's doing fine. There's no
Speaker 8: we're only two and a half back in the division. Relax,
Speaker 8: enjoy what we're watching, and just kind of just pull back.
Speaker 8: Everyone knows well, I would say the front office knows
Speaker 8: what they're doing. Wow, that Luis Roberts, I just heard
Speaker 8: about you that mention. That would be pretty good. But
Speaker 8: I think we're at all positions. We're pretty solid. It's
Speaker 8: just a matter of you know, people getting used to
Speaker 8: the season, get acclimated to the positions being worked out.
Speaker 8: I know that everyone thought that we were so great,
Speaker 8: but you could see that, you know, pitching is at
Speaker 8: a I would say, it's all it's not always what
Speaker 8: we work it out to be, because you could see that,
Speaker 8: you know, they thought we were at a position of riches.
Speaker 8: But I'm gonna say, injuries happen in baseball and we
Speaker 8: just have to ride with the flow of everything. But
Speaker 8: enjoy watching what we're seeing from Dodger Baseball and take
Speaker 8: it all in. It's a little bit too early to
Speaker 8: try to make judgments on, you know, you know what
Speaker 8: we're seeing so early.
Speaker 2: Sixteen games, Jason, sixteen games, the big question is Are
Speaker 2: you gonna find your way to Globe Life Field when
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get there next week?
Speaker 8: Yes, I have all I have tickets for all three games.
Speaker 8: I was there for opening days. Matter of fact, I
Speaker 8: was just there. I just flew back in this week.
Speaker 8: But you know I'm from the Mars area. My family's there.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll see you out there. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, and I think he calmed everybody down.
Speaker 2: You're the man, Jason.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Cuts tonight four
Speaker 2: to two. I promised a Blake Snell update. I expect
Speaker 2: Blake Snell to be back before the end of May,
Speaker 2: so I can conceivably see from what I've been able
Speaker 2: to gather, Blake Snell being able to come back and
Speaker 2: pitch on the next homestand when the Dodgers host the
Speaker 2: Pirates and Marlins.
Speaker 3: That's a nice soft landing for Snell.
Speaker 2: Zilla, who is now continuing the uh right or wrong
Speaker 2: stereo type that he's not a first half pitcher, but
Speaker 2: you know some guys are, and if I had to
Speaker 2: choose one, I'd rather have a second half pitcher. Than
Speaker 2: a first half pitcher, if that's what you're.
Speaker 3: Going going to call him.
Speaker 2: But he's on the il with some shoulder soreness stiffness,
Speaker 2: but should be back for the next homestand which will
Speaker 2: be a big boost to the Dodger rotation and hopefully
Speaker 2: there's no looking back for his season. And Evan Phillips,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's the forgotten guy. Remember he's been
Speaker 2: the guy in the Dodger bullpen the last couple of
Speaker 2: years and missed the World Series because of a torn
Speaker 2: muscle around his right shoulder rotator cuff. Well, that muscle
Speaker 2: is healed and he's been out on rehab assignments and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts told me that he's antsy to get back,
Speaker 2: And it just feels like the Dodgers have a date
Speaker 2: picked out in the near future where they want to
Speaker 2: activate Phillips, and it feels like it's coming here in
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: So that's great news.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We'll get back to your phone calls
Speaker 2: in a moment, but first.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota coming on Dodger Talk last night enlightened all
Speaker 2: of us from Rick Monday to Dave Roberts and now
Speaker 2: to everybody on Sunday Night Baseball, dropping that knowledge on
Speaker 2: us and making us realize that show, hey, Otani has
Speaker 2: only four at bats with runners in scoring position, Jose,
Speaker 2: I hate to tell you this, but it's still four
Speaker 2: at bats with runners in scoring position after tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is no bueno, man. And I mean, we
Speaker 6: talked about the Otani thing, and certainly I tells you
Speaker 6: how many people listen to you, Davesa. You do a
Speaker 6: fantastic job with that. But I'm looking also at something
Speaker 6: we touched upout was just getting that first guy on
Speaker 6: leading up an inning tonight one time faith. That's not
Speaker 6: going to get it done. That, combined with the fact
Speaker 6: that the Dodgers are, you know, scoring about sixty two
Speaker 6: percent of the time the runs will be a home run,
Speaker 6: that's also not going to be sustainable. But I think
Speaker 6: overall is going to come down to Dave Roberts even
Speaker 6: taking more opportunities and control of the offense in implementing
Speaker 6: place and creating some havoc and guys, you know, taking
Speaker 6: the extra base a little bit more. But you got
Speaker 6: to get that first guy on base just to have
Speaker 6: a chance for your manager to be more fusible and
Speaker 6: do some things.
Speaker 3: I was thinking the same thing, Jose.
Speaker 2: But in Dave's defense, like you said, he really hasn't
Speaker 2: had a lot to work with because guys are not
Speaker 2: getting on base to create something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is hard, and I think overall, when you're
Speaker 6: leading off an inning, you're not thinking about walking. You
Speaker 6: think about how could I get my best at that?
Speaker 6: You're also no one thing. And I was talking to
Speaker 6: pitching coach about this today and he said, you know
Speaker 6: what's happening with the Dolluer right now too. That they
Speaker 6: got to really understand is they are the team that
Speaker 6: every pitching coach, every staff targeted to say, let's make
Speaker 6: sure that we face them. We are at our best
Speaker 6: and we are seeing it now. Contradicting that myself is
Speaker 6: the fact that Dollgiers have not had that approach at times,
Speaker 6: home play guys mechanically. Sometimes at this time some guys
Speaker 6: are not there, but overall the opposing team is also
Speaker 6: doing the homework saying this lineup is one through nine
Speaker 6: could really hurt me, or one through six, one through wait,
Speaker 6: whatever it is. So I'm going to make the best pitches,
Speaker 6: and obs seems and guys make some very good pitches
Speaker 6: on pretty much every single guy up now that lineup.
Speaker 6: But now they got to understand that Legue's pitching to them.
Speaker 6: Made the adjustment necessarity to make sure that they have
Speaker 6: more team at bats.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like Max Munsey had better at bats tonight?
Speaker 2: He had the sacrifice fly to tie the game in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning. I know he struck out twice, but
Speaker 2: do you feel like that sixth inning at bat where
Speaker 2: he hit the ball to the warning track in right field?
Speaker 2: Could that change his mindset? Maybe let him relax, give
Speaker 2: him some confidence. I'm looking for anything here.
Speaker 6: I think it will Dave, there's no doubt. And then
Speaker 6: the walk the bat before that, of course, there's you know,
Speaker 6: a couple of strikeous there in that game too. Now
Speaker 6: he has twenty four in the season. But Max is
Speaker 6: not far away from where he needs to be and
Speaker 6: triggering and laying off certain pitches. When he starts on time,
Speaker 6: his hands don't drop. There's some things that he lays
Speaker 6: off of him. Right now, he's chasing those pitches because
Speaker 6: he's not on time. A few days ago, he was
Speaker 6: trying that step back that we've seen before. Remember that
Speaker 6: step back he tried that. Yeah, he got away from that,
Speaker 6: and now it's just like findering and tinkering. But when
Speaker 6: Max as well. He seeing the ball well as he's
Speaker 6: told you. But it all starts with how his hands
Speaker 6: are located, in terms of where the pitch is, the
Speaker 6: lanes of the pitcher that you know he's being exploited with.
Speaker 6: But I think overall, driving that ball to I feel
Speaker 6: the way he did today is going to bring it back.
Speaker 6: I just want to see him go back to the
Speaker 6: mentality he had when he was at his best last
Speaker 6: season when Dave Roberts said, listen, I want you to
Speaker 6: become a singlesitter, and that wasn't just let me Transformula's
Speaker 6: pretty much take that approach because you're strong enough to
Speaker 6: hit the ball at the center field and hit the
Speaker 6: ball the other way with some authority, and thus he
Speaker 6: become a better hitter. You wait for the ball a
Speaker 6: little bit longer. Not his antsy. Anytime I tell you, Dave,
Speaker 6: you tell a young young player, little kid, hey, I
Speaker 6: want you to try. He had a whole month. He's
Speaker 6: gonna muscle up all right, stiffen up. If you say, hey,
Speaker 6: try to get a single, It's like, okay, I don't
Speaker 6: have to try that hard. So it ap plus is
Speaker 6: the big leaguers too, and Max Mounsey proved it last
Speaker 6: year and the year before that. When that approach is there,
Speaker 6: he's much better. Hopefully we will see that.
Speaker 3: Jose Mota is joining us on Dodger talk.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers fall to the Cubs four to two,
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the starting pitching tonight, Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: coming back off of uh, you know, disappointing outing showing
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. The fastball velocity was fluctuating tonight. Jose was
Speaker 2: that just a guy that really gets into his mechanics
Speaker 2: and if he's off a little bit, you may see
Speaker 2: ninety three instead of ninety six.
Speaker 3: So what was going on with that?
Speaker 6: I think that's one of them. And also the fact
Speaker 6: that when when men on base, he's using that slides
Speaker 6: step all the time, which I like. The slide step
Speaker 6: is a great weapon, but I don't think you need
Speaker 6: to utilize it with everybody on base. You got to
Speaker 6: say that for when somebody is really a threat to
Speaker 6: go up there, short down and give you a catcher
Speaker 6: a chance. Now, going back to his fastball, the one
Speaker 6: thing he did so well today at whatever ninety five,
Speaker 6: ninety six or whatever, it was the fact that he
Speaker 6: pitched well with the shadows. And I was talking to
Speaker 6: Lose Cruise about this during broadcasts, said, listen, he's six eight,
Speaker 6: great extension of seven plus feet right, go after and
Speaker 6: let them react to your fastball. And if they're not reacting, well,
Speaker 6: you don't need to go anywhere else but to that pitch.
Speaker 6: And I think overall is the best I've seen anybody
Speaker 6: in a while use the shadows in the sun to
Speaker 6: pitch against that, even though Velosi is not there, perceive
Speaker 6: velocity with him. As you know, ninety three is like
Speaker 6: ninety nine miles an hour. So he was on his
Speaker 6: game today and I'm glad that, even though he said
Speaker 6: he didn't feel very well, he needed an outing like this.
Speaker 6: But the one thing with him too is we talk
Speaker 6: about it so many times. They've not letting the bottom
Speaker 6: of the line up beat him. And again not that
Speaker 6: it beat him, but to hurt him with that home
Speaker 6: run by PCA, and those are things that I know
Speaker 6: really bother him like they do bother you know, the
Speaker 6: top tier pitchers.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, we'll see if the Dodgers can get
Speaker 2: well against the Rockies like the Padres did.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers will face the Rockies for three games and
Speaker 2: Dustin Mays on the Mount tomorrow night. So we look
Speaker 2: forward to seeing you. And maybe you'll take a selfie
Speaker 2: with Hello Kitty tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Jose.
Speaker 6: I will love that. Of course I made it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's oh yeah, okay, thanks a lot, Jose.
Speaker 2: Maybe you and Louis Cruz. Louis Cruz loves selfies. Maybe
Speaker 2: you could get in with him, all three.
Speaker 6: Of you, he does. Huh, let me check it out
Speaker 6: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, there he goes Jose Mota, part
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Cubs tonight four to two, And you heard Jose mention
Speaker 2: the home run by PCA p Crow Armstrong. It was
Speaker 2: his first of the year, and it would came off
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass. Now he kind of just muscled that down
Speaker 2: the right field line. And then for good measure, he
Speaker 2: hit the go ahead home run off of Blake Trining
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. So a big night for PCA,
Speaker 2: A big night for Michael Bush as the Cubs take
Speaker 2: two out of three from the Dodgers here at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium after the Dodgers look to be in a different
Speaker 2: weight class than the Cubs in Tokyo. The Dodgers man
Speaker 2: handled these same cubs in Tokyo, and they just look
Speaker 2: like different teams right now. The Dodger offense does not
Speaker 2: look like the heavyweight champion that it was in Tokyo
Speaker 2: right now, but it'll come back. Let's go out to Danny,
Speaker 2: who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Danny, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 12: Hey Dave, thanks for getting me on. I love when
Speaker 12: you got mister Jose Modon.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 12: He's always so insightful, always bringing a perspectives that.
Speaker 6: Most a lot of people won't see.
Speaker 12: But yeah, and have me thinking about a old school
Speaker 12: Dodger baseball and back in the day. You know, I've
Speaker 12: been listening to Dodger Talks forever and back in the day, man,
Speaker 12: I'd get so frustrated when people would call in complaining
Speaker 12: about like Alex Korra or or you know whoever's hitting eighth.
Speaker 12: Then they're hitting like two twenty and I'm like thinking,
Speaker 12: like you know, if this team loses or doesn't win
Speaker 12: this year, it's not gonna because the number eight hitter
Speaker 12: was hitting two twenty or two thirty. But you know,
Speaker 12: now fast forward twenty years or whatever, and the lineup
Speaker 12: construction has changed, and this team now is predicated on
Speaker 12: players getting on before show Hey and Mookie come up,
Speaker 12: and it just it puts so much pressure on the pitchers.
Speaker 12: And that's what they when they really found success last
Speaker 12: year when they flip show Hey to hit him first,
Speaker 12: because you put so much pressure on that picture when
Speaker 12: you got runners on base and you got Otani at
Speaker 12: the plate and to hear you know, he's only had
Speaker 12: four or five at bats this year's corn position. You know,
Speaker 12: that's a problem with deployment. And so it's early in
Speaker 12: the year. It's April, and you know, the first part
Speaker 12: of the year you pretty much use to figure out
Speaker 12: what kind of team you have and how you're gonna
Speaker 12: approach it. But they really got to figure something out
Speaker 12: with that bottom of that lineup. And I don't know
Speaker 12: if if kim down in triple A might be the answer,
Speaker 12: or you know, dropping Edmund in the lineup when Spreadie
Speaker 12: gets going again. But they really got to figure that out, Dave,
Speaker 12: because you can't have Showy coming up there with nobody
Speaker 12: on base all year long. That's how they won last year,
Speaker 12: is putting all that pressure on the pitcher when the
Speaker 12: line of clips, Hey, I'm with.
Speaker 3: You, I'm with you. That's when we talked about it.
Speaker 3: Last year. They were at their best.
Speaker 2: And teams actually told me the one thing that they
Speaker 2: wanted to avoid was Otani coming up with men on base.
Speaker 2: In fact, that's when the NLDS changed, when guys were
Speaker 2: getting on base in front of Otani when they were
Speaker 2: playing the Padres. And you mentioned Hay Song Kim. I'm
Speaker 2: glad you brought him up because he's a name to remember.
Speaker 2: In spring training, he was not very good at hitting
Speaker 2: because he was learning a whole new swing. But he
Speaker 2: has taken what he has learned and applied it so far.
Speaker 2: Early on in Triple A tonight, Hay Song Kim had
Speaker 2: a single for the OKC comments. He has now hit
Speaker 2: safely in ten of his last eleven games, and he's
Speaker 2: hitting three to oh eight with nine extra base hits
Speaker 2: and nine RBIs, and he has scored fifteen runs, So
Speaker 2: you know, Dave Roberts said, earlier today. He likes to
Speaker 2: give guys at least, you know, the fifty fifty at
Speaker 2: bats fifty games margin. But after that, you know, there's
Speaker 2: got to be competition, not only on this twenty six
Speaker 2: man roster, but when you have a player like that
Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City that could really change the bottom of
Speaker 2: your lineup by getting on base with that speed, you
Speaker 2: got to take a serious look at it. And if
Speaker 2: if this bottom third of the order is not making
Speaker 2: that happen, I would imagine the Dodgers will seriously consider
Speaker 2: calling up Kim after fifty or so games. Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Bruce,
Speaker 2: who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi Bruce, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Hey, you want to bedb So, if this were October
Speaker 9: and we were facing a three game series with the
Speaker 9: CU in the wild Card and all three games are
Speaker 9: a Dodger Stadium and the matchups were Matthew Boyd, Ben
Speaker 9: Brown and Colin Ray against our top three pitchers, I'm
Speaker 9: on that all the time. You know, it didn't work
Speaker 9: out this weekend. Some bats weren't We didn't have the
Speaker 9: bats and Michael Bush just killed us. But I agree
Speaker 9: with the with you and the other callers about Haysan
Speaker 9: Kim lengthening the bottom of the lineup, moving Tommy Edmant
Speaker 9: to center field. He's our best glove, center field, second base, shortstop.
Speaker 9: But I look at Michael Bush kill us this weekend
Speaker 9: and I wonder, is that what we're gonna end up
Speaker 9: doing with Dalton Rushing Because we couldn't find a position
Speaker 9: for him. The bat was there and we moved on
Speaker 9: and Jackson Farris Zire hope those are blue trip prospects.
Speaker 9: They're going to contribute soon. But you know, if doll
Speaker 9: rushings hitting, can we make a space for him with
Speaker 9: conforno and left that's my question.
Speaker 2: Well, they made the decision not to have Rushing play
Speaker 2: left field anymore in the minor leagues. But what they
Speaker 2: have done this year, Bruce is get him reps at
Speaker 2: first base. So you usually see catchers play first base
Speaker 2: more than you see him play left field. So the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are trying to get him to be versatile, so
Speaker 2: they have multiple options to try to get his bat
Speaker 2: in the lineup whenever that is now, Remember Dalton Rushing's
Speaker 2: not even on the forty man roster, and I don't
Speaker 2: see the Dodgers trading him unless they got a big
Speaker 2: haul in return. Thanks for the phone call, Bruce, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Look the Dodgers where they draft. Because
Speaker 2: they signed so many guys and are above the luxury
Speaker 2: tax threshold, they they had a strategy to kind of
Speaker 2: replenish their farm system with two blue Chippers in Zayir
Speaker 2: Hope and Jack Ferris.
Speaker 3: And Jackson Ferris has started.
Speaker 2: The year at Double A, and everybody around baseball believes
Speaker 2: he's going to be a really good pitcher. And if
Speaker 2: you had a chance to watch him in spring training
Speaker 2: or even in that Freeway Series game, you know that
Speaker 2: young man has the mound presence and the stuff to
Speaker 2: be able to be here one day. But as far
Speaker 2: as Michael Bush goes, he wasn't good enough to play second.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers had Max Munsey at third, they have Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman at first, so they decided, you know, instead of
Speaker 2: letting this guy just be twenty five, twenty six years
Speaker 2: old at Triple A, why not trade him and give
Speaker 2: him an opportunity to live out his Major League dreams
Speaker 2: and get regular at bats and in turn get some
Speaker 2: good players that could help us in areas that we need.
Speaker 2: So it was, you know, there's not always these trades
Speaker 2: where you have to win and bludgeon the other team
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers did last year at the deadline bludgeoning
Speaker 2: the Cardinals in white Sox for Michael Kopek and Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: The best trades are where it helps out both teams.
Speaker 2: And it helped out the Cubs right now where they
Speaker 2: needed help, and it's helped the Dodgers where they need it,
Speaker 2: and that's not right now, it's in the next year
Speaker 2: or so with a Jackson Ferris and a Zair Hope.
Speaker 2: So that's the way I feel on that. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number speaking of the Cubs and Dodgers and making transactions.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers sent Ryan Brasier to the Cubs this offseason.
Speaker 2: Braziers on the il right now with the Cubs, but
Speaker 2: made the trip so he could get his World Series ring,
Speaker 2: and his former relievers from a year ago presented him
Speaker 2: with that ring on the first day right outside of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers or excuse me the Cubs dugout and it
Speaker 2: was led by Blake training Alex Vessi and those guys
Speaker 2: that were his brothers in the bullpen last year. And
Speaker 2: Ryan Brasier was one of those relief pitchers that came
Speaker 2: in after Jack Flair already in Game five to try
Speaker 2: to help the Dodgers hang in there and try to
Speaker 2: piece it together, which they eventually did thanks to a
Speaker 2: herculean effort by Blake Trinan and Walker Buehler with the
Speaker 2: heroics in the ninth innings saving that game, striking out
Speaker 2: Alex Verdugo to end the game and end the World Series.
Speaker 2: I'm always curious the behind the scenes with the guys
Speaker 2: that were in the bullpen or in the dugout, with
Speaker 2: those sequence of events and how they came to fruition.
Speaker 2: And Ryan Brasier shared a unique perspective on the whole
Speaker 2: sequence of events of last year's Game five, with Blake
Speaker 2: trining throwing more pitches than he ever has before and
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler closing out the World Series. Can you take
Speaker 2: us through where you were and just what that meant
Speaker 2: to the team to have Blake and Walker do what
Speaker 2: they did.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so you know, Walker was in. I went inside
Speaker 13: after I pitched and he was on the training table
Speaker 13: and we scored all those runs, and you know, av see,
Speaker 13: the bullpen came in early that game. So Walker was like,
Speaker 13: all right, you got to stop working on me because
Speaker 13: I'm gonna go down to the bullpen. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 13: you're think, aren't you supposed to pitch tomorrow or whatever?
Speaker 13: And anyways, you know, he went down to the bullpen
Speaker 13: and you know Blake coming in and getting Olex. But
Speaker 13: Blake was huge, you know, all the whole postseason last year,
Speaker 13: and he you know, I got big out after big
Speaker 13: out and and you know, threw more pitches and I
Speaker 13: think I've ever seen him throw in a game, you know,
Speaker 13: a couple of times during throughout the playoffs, and you
Speaker 13: know Walker coming in to shut the door like he did,
Speaker 13: you know, after after some some rough outings or whatever.
Speaker 13: Just like I said, just getting twenty seven outs, but
Speaker 13: as quick as we can. And you know, everybody was
Speaker 13: kind of bought into the same idea.
Speaker 2: So that was Ryan Brazier's perspective from the training room
Speaker 2: onto the field, Walker Buehler getting ready to go out
Speaker 2: there and in his mind, helped the Dodgers close out
Speaker 2: Game five and not even worry about starting Game seven,
Speaker 2: and that certainly will go down in Dodger history forever.
Speaker 2: Those are some of the images that flash into our minds,
Speaker 2: right yeah, the fifth inning of Game five, Yes, Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman's walk off Grand Slam in Game one, but Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler closing out the World Series and Blake Trin and
Speaker 2: doing what he did and telling Dave Roberts and Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman telling Dave Roberts leave him in here, he could
Speaker 2: do it, he can get this guy, and he delivered,
Speaker 2: which was really special. And I know it's twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five and we're talking about what the Dodgers are trying
Speaker 2: to do this season, but when you get that kind
Speaker 2: of first hand perspective from guys that were part of
Speaker 2: that World Series.
Speaker 3: Team, it's always special.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate Ryan Brazier for taking the time out
Speaker 2: for us yesterday after getting his World Series ring. And
Speaker 2: you can listen to that full interview on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Now tomorrow the Dodgers will turn the page and start
Speaker 2: a three game series against the Rockies to close out
Speaker 2: this homestand on Hello Kiddy Night, Antonio Senza Tela will
Speaker 2: be on the mound for the Rockies. He has made
Speaker 2: three starts this year and has given up eight runs.
Speaker 2: Dustin May will try to continue what he has started
Speaker 2: this year. In two starts and eleven innings, Dustin May
Speaker 2: has only given up one earned run, so he's been
Speaker 2: really good despite not having a win this season. Morongo
Speaker 2: Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock tomorrow with
Speaker 2: first pitch from Dodgers Stadium at seven to ten.
Speaker 3: That'll do it for us.
Speaker 2: On Dodger Talk tonight, thanks to Colin Yee back at
Speaker 2: our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. Dwayne, Dwayne, maybe he's waiting for me in
Speaker 2: the parking lot.
Speaker 11: He always packs up so quick. It's quicker than Rick Monday. Anyway,
Speaker 11: we'll talk to you tomorrow night. A new series, a
Speaker 11: new day for the Dodgers in a long season. Tonight,
Speaker 11: the Cups beat the Dodgers four to two. Fox Sports
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Speaker 3: See yourself