WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.480 One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:06.919 that they have. 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:10.199 This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play 4 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:10.839 one on Tom. 5 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:11.720 Let's wind it. 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.119 I love writing these guys after the show. So just 7 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:15.199 thank you, give me are. 8 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.480 Your attention, your fire and not a pisson. 9 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.120 This is world champion, Dodger, world champion. 10 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.440 Put a small soft time they get up people what 11 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:25.960 they want to die in a row two is special. 12 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.359 I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of a con. 13 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.759 This ball's gone. You ready to go old time? 14 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.439 Go to the sound, grab your phone to get in 15 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.399 on the show called eight six six nine eighty seven 16 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:42.159 two five seven and go to the show. And now 17 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.320 your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kains. 18 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.759 Not the way you wanted to start a ten game, 19 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.280 ten day road trip if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers 20 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.200 getting so close to a win in Atlanta, as we 21 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.079 are now in a raindow at Chewest Park in Atlanta, Georgia, 22 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:04.879 and looking at the weather. 23 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:06.719 It does not look good. 24 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.879 For a while now, and they're expecting rain all weekend long. 25 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:13.959 Tomorrow's game could be in jeopardy. Looking good on Sunday, 26 00:01:14.040 --> 00:01:17.439 but the rain has come and hopefully the Dodgers and 27 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:22.000 Braves can finish off this game sooner rather than later. 28 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.959 Eight six, six, nine to eighty seven, two five seventy 29 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.400 Thanks for being with us is. The Dodgers and Braves 30 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:32.840 have officially played eight innings in Atlanta, with the Dodgers 31 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.239 a two to one lead, Yoshi yamamotos six shutout inning, 32 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.079 six strikeouts for the Dodgers, a sac fly from Will 33 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.040 Smith in the fourth. 34 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:43.439 Mookie Bets a. 35 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.439 Solo home run in this sixth inning as the Dodgers 36 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.519 had a two to nothing lead to Matt Olsen a 37 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.599 lead off home run in the eighth of the seventh 38 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:55.040 inning off of Kirby Yates after Yoshi Yamamoto went the 39 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:58.239 ninety one pitches, that's the only run for the Atlanta Braves. 40 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:01.200 And we were in inning away from getting this game. 41 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.599 Over with and David vassay Oh about forty five minutes ago, 42 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.879 shot me at text and said, rain is coming, Rain 43 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:09.479 is coming. 44 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.400 Let's get this thing in. And we were in the 45 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:13.120 sixth inning. 46 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.080 We got through the seventh inning, and we got through 47 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.960 the eighth inning with a couple of pitching changes, and 48 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.000 we just could not get to the finish line. And 49 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.080 here we are now through eight innings. The tarp is 50 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:27.520 on the field at Truest Park in Atlanta, and it's 51 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.639 time to play the waiting game as far as when 52 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.879 the weather will clear up in Atlanta, and looking at 53 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:36.719 the forecast, not looking too good for the immediate future. 54 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.400 But we'll see how the weather plays out because it 55 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:42.439 could blow through quickly. We'll see what happens. But plenty 56 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:44.800 of time for your phone calls. Eight sixty six nine 57 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.120 eight seven two five seventy. Hoose Moto will join us 58 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:51.120 eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. What 59 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:55.639 a performance so far from the Dodgers and Yoshi Yamamoto. 60 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:00.599 Yamamoto today was announced as the National League Pitcher of 61 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.560 the Month for the first month of the season three 62 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:07.719 and two record okay but a one oh six ero 63 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.479 in six starts and holding opponents to a one ninety 64 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.039 batting average. It's his first MLB weekly or monthly award 65 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.199 for the second year pitcher out of Japan, and based 66 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.000 on what he did the first month and continuing that 67 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.520 tonight with six no run Indians that he gave up 68 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:32.039 six shutout Indians for Yamamoto today just the one hit 69 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.199 which came with two outs in the sixth inning. 70 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.639 That was it. Six strikeouts. He was fantastic. 71 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:44.000 Yoshi Yamamoto is off to a fantastic start in twenty 72 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:44.719 twenty five. 73 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.360 We saw it in spring training. 74 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:48.879 We talked about what the start he had in Japan, 75 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:53.120 what he continued to do stateside in his next, second, third, 76 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:57.240 fourth start. And here he is tonight, six shutout innings, 77 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.520 striking out six along the way, and he is dropped 78 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:07.120 his er now to sub one. Yoshi yamamotos Era is 79 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:12.400 zero point nine zero. Think about when he signed with 80 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.960 the Dodgers a year ago, the start that he got 81 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.279 off to over in Seoul, South Korea. 82 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.519 It was like, uh oh, that's. 83 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.199 Three hundred and twenty five million dollars for a young 84 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:27.319 right hander. And he battled through his rookie year pitching well, 85 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:31.639 and then as the postseason came along, he looked really 86 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:36.240 good in October as he was really a guy that 87 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.839 Dodgers can count on Game five of the NLDS into 88 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.639 the NLCS and the World Series, elevating his game, and 89 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.600 it kind of find out he kind of put his 90 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.839 stamp on his career in the big leagues, got comfortable, 91 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:50.639 got used to it, and it was just at the 92 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.680 perfect time. And he continued that into twenty twenty five 93 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.040 and tonight, six shutout innings. 94 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:58.160 One hit that was it. 95 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.600 It was an Austin Reiley two out double that broke 96 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:05.240 open the no hitter in the sixth inning. Yoshi Yamamoto 97 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.879 was fantastic and just as well as he is pitching. 98 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:13.079 The Dodgers offense starting to get into gear. Mookie Betts 99 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:16.519 a solo home run tonight, Mookie's fifth of the year. 100 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.680 Don't look now, but Mooki has himself a nice little run, 101 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:24.959 going seven RBIs in the last three games for Mookie Bets. 102 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.399 He struggled for a ten game period and there was 103 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.279 some question of whether or not the defense was taking 104 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.240 too much time and the offense was suffering because the 105 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.360 average dipped, the production dipped. And you look at now 106 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.560 what Mookie Betts has done. He has himself a five 107 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.439 game hitting streak. You go back to the game against 108 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.199 Pittsburgh last Sunday starting that streak, had a really great 109 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.720 series against Miami, the multi hit game on Tuesday, the 110 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.879 four RB guy game on Wednesday, and Mookie Betts continuing 111 00:05:56.959 --> 00:05:59.519 to stay hot even on the road now two for 112 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.480 four with the home run and the RBI as the 113 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.040 Dodgers again in a rain delay, a two to one 114 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.959 lead over the Atlanta Braves at Truest Park in Atlanta. 115 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.319 We were three outs away from getting to the bottom 116 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.759 half of the ninth inning and a possible close out 117 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.800 for the Dodgers. Evan phillips On in relief, and now 118 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:21.000 we'll have to wait for that as the Dodgers lead 119 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.160 it two to one over the Atlanta Braves now in 120 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:26.519 a rain delay. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to 121 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:28.879 two five seventy is the number. Jose Moto is gonna 122 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.199 join us in just a little bit. We got plenty 123 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:33.519 of time for your phone calls, Dodger fans, as you 124 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.600 make your way home on this Friday afternoon now early 125 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:40.839 evening here in beautiful southern California, sitting in traffic and 126 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.480 joining some Dodger baseball. Let's talk about at eight sixty six, 127 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:47.319 nine eighty seven two five seventy. David Vesse and I 128 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.519 were talking about it in the pregame show, and it's 129 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.439 something that's kind of a lot of national attention in 130 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.480 the last few days. Now that we have flipped the 131 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:01.920 calendar to May. There are baseball punt. Baseball fans, those 132 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.839 who cover the game say, what's wrong with the Dodgers. 133 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.399 They're not running away with the division. The payrolls so big, 134 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:13.079 they got all these superstars on their team. Twenty one 135 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.079 to ten, a game and a half lead in the 136 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.360 NL West. Shouldn't they be the best record in baseball? 137 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:26.279 Shouldn't they be running away with things in the NL West. Well, 138 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.839 they haven't, and the New York Mets are certainly a 139 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.560 talk of baseball at twenty one and eleven, but they've 140 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.000 lost now two in a row. The Dodgers twenty one 141 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.360 to ten on their way to being the first team 142 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:39.120 in baseball to get to twenty two wins. Think about 143 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.040 the first month of the season, the injuries they've had 144 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:43.319 to deal with, the lack of starting pitching, the over 145 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.160 usage of the bullpen that's been fantastic for the Dodgers, 146 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.879 and the fact that for the first eighteen to nineteen 147 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.800 games of the season, we didn't have the Big three 148 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.879 all together. For that many games, we didn't have sho 149 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.040 Heyo Tani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts in the lineup 150 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:02.480 together because of in and viruses. To Mookie Betts. They 151 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.160 just weren't playing together until the final week of April. 152 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:07.079 And now that we've gotten to May second, we started 153 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:09.639 to see this team. What happened on the last homestand 154 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.560 now extending on the first game through the first eight 155 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.240 innings to tonight's game in Atlanta, the top of the lineup, 156 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:18.240 the big three producing for this Dodgers team. So when 157 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:22.199 the national pundits say what's wrong with the Dodgers, when 158 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.879 those out there saying, how is this team not running 159 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.920 away with the division? Well, don't look now, but they're 160 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.879 about to become the first twenty two win team in baseball. 161 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:33.440 They have a game and a half lead in the division. 162 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.799 They're three outs away from getting to a six game 163 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:41.399 winning streak. And all that happening with the injuries, the 164 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.799 lack of starting pitching, I mean, Blake Snell hasn't done 165 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:49.000 virtually anything for this Dodgers team. Tyler Glassnell is hurt again. 166 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.639 This is a Dodger lineup that hasn't been at full strength. 167 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.240 Max Munsey who hit his first home run just in 168 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:59.159 the last game against the Miami Marlins the last homestand 169 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:01.480 was that get right Homestand for the Dodgers, as we 170 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.399 alluded to on Dodger Talk on Wednesday, and get right 171 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:06.919 series against the Marlins, where you just feast on a 172 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.000 bad team, take advantage of bad pitching, bad defense, and 173 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:12.879 bad offense, and you get right. You get your stats right, 174 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:14.840 you get your swing right, you get your pitching right, 175 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.679 you get your defense right, you get everything right and 176 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.360 turn things around individually and collectively. And I think that 177 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.679 is where the Dodgers are right now. And for those 178 00:09:23.679 --> 00:09:26.320 pundits I want to write about, well, the Dodgers. They 179 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.600 have been a disappointment the first month of the season. 180 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.159 All this Dodgers team, How are they not running away 181 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:34.679 with the division? How are they not out in front 182 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:38.720 of everybody by now? John Hayman wrote about it today 183 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:43.120 in the New York Post MLB Networks his article Dodgers 184 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:47.519 in trouble after an underwhelming April. That's a false narrative, 185 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:51.200 And here's why he wrote, He's absolutely right. The Dodgers 186 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.679 have been hit by the injuries. They've been hit by 187 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.559 a limp that hasn't been consistent, and they still sit 188 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:59.200 where they're sitting. And to think of where they could 189 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.519 be at or where the will get to with this 190 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.919 lineup when full strength, healthy and clicking. Pretty scary to think. 191 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.720 So those riders, those baseball guys that want to sit 192 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:13.639 there and and poke the Dodgers, and oh, I guess 193 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:14.879 they're not as good as we thought. 194 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:16.720 Oh the first month of the season. 195 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:19.600 Now we're into May and this team's the Mets got 196 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:21.799 the same amount of wins. The only game up on 197 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:25.200 the Giants, the Padres. I mean, I thought this was 198 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:27.639 a Dodger team is gonna run away with things. Oh 199 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:31.639 not so fast, my friends. As Lee Corso would say 200 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:36.360 on game day eight six six nine eight seven two 201 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.679 five seventies, number, let's go out to the phones. I 202 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.519 got one line to open if you want to jump 203 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:42.440 on board and take it. Eight sixty six nine eight 204 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.159 seven two five seventy game where you are in a 205 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.639 rain delay as the rain has come down in Atlanta 206 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.519 and does not look like it's gonna let up anytime soon. 207 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.360 The tarp is on the field and the Dodgers a 208 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.639 two to one lead through eight innings. They just completed 209 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.000 eight innings. Ten Or Scott on the mound for the Dodgers, 210 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.799 got a ground ball out to end the inning, and 211 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:04.559 when they were going to the top of the ninth inning, 212 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.120 the umpiring cruise set up. No raining too hard. Let's 213 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.799 get to the tarp and that will be where we're 214 00:11:10.799 --> 00:11:13.720 at for this foreseeable future. Here with the rain going 215 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.480 through the Atlanta, Georgia area. All right, let's go out 216 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.000 to Martin in Orange County starts things off on this 217 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:22.360 rain delay edition of Dodger Talk on this Friday. 218 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:23.039 How you doing Martin? 219 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:24.679 I'm doing fantastic. 220 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:25.440 How are you today? 221 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:26.360 I'm doing great. 222 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.840 Dodgers are three ounce away from a win margin to 223 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:29.840 make it six in a row. 224 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:33.720 I know I've been listening to the game. Hey, I 225 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:35.480 just wanted to speak up listening to the game. I 226 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.320 wanted to mention and correct Rick Monday on something. And 227 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:44.440 he was talking about when when the Empire damaged his 228 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:47.600 throat guard, and then he's talking about Steve Yeger. That's 229 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.840 when it was invented for. 230 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.840 Steve Yeger, and Monday said Yeger got hit in the 231 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.279 throat by a ball. That's not true. I was watching 232 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:59.320 the game. Bill Russell was at matt Yanger was on deck. 233 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.080 Bill Russell's bat broke in half. The barrel of the bat, 234 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:05.200 the jagged edge of the barrel of the bat kit 235 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.960 Jaeger in the neck one inch. Either way, Yeager would 236 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.679 have been dead. Somehow Yeager survived, and Bueller invented the 237 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:14.919 throat guard because of that, not not by getting hit 238 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:15.399 by a ball. 239 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.480 I'll point that out, Mart, and I appreciate that. Eight 240 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.240 sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. I think 241 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:22.559 the point of all is that the throat guard is 242 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.919 there for the protection of the catchers, which I can appreciate, 243 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.799 and the umpires, which we could all certainly appreciate. And 244 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.320 tonight there was a foul ball there in the eighth inning, 245 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.679 and the throat guard there was to protect, and the 246 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.519 throat guard helped out the home plate umpire. Tonight there 247 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.759 at Truest Park and a foul ball that was, you know, 248 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:41.840 ninety eight miles an hour off the bat will little 249 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:42.519 behind the plate. 250 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.440 The throat guard protected him. So however it was. 251 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.960 Invented, we're just glad it was invented for the safety 252 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:52.639 of catchers and for the umpires. Eight sixty six, nine 253 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.240 eighty seven two five seventy. It is a rain delay 254 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.919 edition of Dodger Talking here on a five seventy LA 255 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.600 Sports and the Dodgers Audio network in Silver Lake here 256 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:02.399 in southern California. 257 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:03.000 How you doing Allen? 258 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:04.159 Well? 259 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:04.679 Great? 260 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.679 And the two things? Three things? Maybe I would Rick 261 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.679 Monday is right about almost everything, so let's give him 262 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:13.320 that credit. And I used to work for the New 263 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.639 York Post, so don't get too lound up. Our job 264 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:21.120 is to inflame people. My question is, and I don't 265 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.440 have an opinion or an answer on this, I'm curious, 266 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:30.039 what is the plan B on third base? If Monsey, 267 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.200 if even with the signs that he's coming awake, if 268 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.679 he doesn't hit, what's gonna happen there? 269 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.879 What are the options if Monsey can't turn things around? Alan, 270 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:39.559 Is that what you're saying? 271 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:41.399 Yes, that's my question. 272 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.720 Thanks, Well, I think they got a lot of answers 273 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.360 they can go to. But keep this in mind. This 274 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.480 is not a short runway for a Max Mounsey. This 275 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.320 is not a We're gonna give him another twenty five 276 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:55.240 at bats, another fifty at bats and then see where he's. 277 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:56.240 At make a decision there. 278 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:00.960 Max Monsey's gonna have a long runway to turn things around. 279 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.320 And quite frankly, Max Munsey has looked better at the play. 280 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:07.080 Sure he's got you know, a strikeout or two tonight. 281 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:10.159 He had the home run on Wednesday. We hope that, 282 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:14.120 you know, unlock something offensively for the Dodger third baseman. 283 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.799 Still not hitting over two hundred on this season. I 284 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.080 worry more about Michael Confordo in left field because quite frankly, 285 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:25.799 Max Munsey has earned the right to get out of 286 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.960 his hitting funk, to get out of wherever he's at 287 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:33.600 offensively forever long it takes Michael Conforto, to me is 288 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:34.480 the bigger issue. 289 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.080 Michael Conforto hashit. He won fifty two on the season. 290 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.600 Michael Conforto has been the everyday left fielder and as 291 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.759 a left handed bat, has been a guy at the 292 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:47.200 bottom of the lineup that they can roll out there 293 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.399 every time they face a righty. I have to start 294 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.919 wondering how long is his runway in left field, because 295 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.440 if you're gonna swap out somebody, and I'm just gonna 296 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:01.320 throw two names out there, Keith a Hernandez Chris Taylor 297 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.919 to play left field on an every day basis instead 298 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:05.759 of Michael Conforto. 299 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:09.720 Now you're going to a right handed bat. Okay, now 300 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:11.039 you're no. 301 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.480 I don't think you're swapping out a lesser defensive player. 302 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.519 I think it's kind of an equal, you know, Key 303 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:22.639 k Conforto, Chris Taylor all about the same defensively. In 304 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.080 left field, it's the bat, and you're getting now a 305 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.240 right handed bat as opposed to another left handed bat 306 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:32.440 in Michael Confordo. But you're gonna get hopefully more consistency 307 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:34.840 out of whatever bat that's gonna be at the bottom 308 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.120 of the lineup playing left field. That's the one I 309 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:40.279 think about more than Matt's Muncie is what's gonna happen 310 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.519 with Michael Conforto if he continues to struggle tonight zero 311 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.720 for two, a walk, but a couple of strikeouts. Because 312 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.480 everybody else seems to be either getting out of their 313 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.600 early season slumps or seems to be finding a way 314 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.240 to get back on track. If a little bit of 315 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:55.960 a blip on the radar, like Mookie Betts had that 316 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 ten game stretch where things just weren't going right offensively well, 317 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.600 seems to you has turned the page. Freddie Freeman's hitting 318 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.159 three twenty four Now folks don't look now Will Smith 319 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.120 hitting three twenty one on the season and not worried 320 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.960 about the top of the lineup. Andy Paez has a 321 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.879 stretcher that he has been unconscious. You know, he was 322 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.919 the National League Player of the Week last week. It's 323 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:20.679 Michael Conforto that is really the one that I would 324 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.519 have concern with over Max Mounsey eight six, six, nine 325 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:24.960 eighty seven to two five seventy. 326 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:26.039 Let's go to. 327 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.080 Eric and Studio City is next up here on rain 328 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:32.120 delayed Dodger Talkers. The Dodgers have a two to one 329 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:34.360 lead over the Braves through eight innings with the tarp 330 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:36.080 on the field in Atlanta. 331 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.000 How you doing, Eric good? 332 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:39.159 How you doing good? 333 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:42.480 So with Max Munsey, I'm excited he's wearing glasses again 334 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.399 or no for the first time, kind of doing what 335 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.080 Key k Hernandez did last season. Yeah, so hopefully that'll 336 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.039 get him out of the slump. But I'm more concerned 337 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:52.919 with our bullpen. 338 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:53.200 Yeah. 339 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.279 Our bullpen beat up on some pretty weak teams in 340 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:59.639 the last six games, but they have not been doing well. 341 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.840 And especially seeing Kirby Yates come in and almost blow 342 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.799 another game with a home run like he did with 343 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.799 the Cubs. It's pretty disappointing as a Dodger fan to 344 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:15.119 watch Yosanovo amazing start today, watching him go stick to 345 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.680 shutout innings. Such a special performance from him. 346 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.160 Yeah, he was great. He continues to be great. 347 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:25.599 I think last year in October, Eric, he really took 348 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.680 that next forward. I think it's the confidence to go 349 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.119 out there and to get the results and to be 350 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.720 that dominant guy on the mound, not being dominant in size, 351 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:40.039 not being dominant in overpowering hitters, but just being dominant pitching. 352 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:43.720 He settled in very nicely into the major league second 353 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.759 half of the season, really into October, and that's carried 354 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.279 over to this year. The confidence is just oozing from 355 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:51.359 Yoshi Yamamoto. 356 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.279 Yeah, it is, and it's fun to watch as a 357 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:59.039 Dodger fan. It's fun to see his progressed in and 358 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:03.240 hopefully he can being motivating, a good motivator for younger 359 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.559 guys who were in the same position as him last year, 360 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.839 like Roky Sustaki. You know, I know Roki Sutaki has 361 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:12.359 been having a little trouble with his command, and hopefully 362 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.599 he'll be a guiding light for Roki this year. 363 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:16.880 Yeah, Eric, I appreciate the phone call things for checking 364 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.279 in eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seven. 365 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:21.039 Will keep going on the phones we'll hear from Jose 366 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.079 Mota as we play the waiting game on this Friday 367 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:26.440 night Dodgers in Atlanta. 368 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:27.759 The tarp is on the field. 369 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.880 They've played eight full innings, Dodgers with a two to 370 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.839 one lead. They were getting ready to go back out 371 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:35.839 and bat in the top of the ninth before the 372 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.559 tarp was put on the field. And now we wait 373 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.480 for the rain to pass through the south, northern Era 374 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:46.480 and northern Atlanta and hopefully finish off this game soon 375 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:49.240 eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five to seventy 376 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.960 rain delayed. Dodgita continues right here in Los Angeles. 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It's a home run 387 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:27.440 for Bets, his fifth of the season, a solo shot 388 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:30.400 for Mookie, and the Dodgers lead it two to nothing. 389 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:33.880 Rookie Betts goes deep to left center field on a 390 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.960 two fastball, his fifth of the year that gave the 391 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:40.000 Dodgers eighty two to ninhering lead in the top half 392 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:42.759 of the sixth inning. Daniels Jewelers presents the home run forecast. 393 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:45.000 Go to am FI seventy LA sports dot com keyword 394 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.599 home run for your chance to win a fifty dollars 395 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:50.319 Daniels Jewelers gift card just for predicting the number of 396 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:53.720 home runs in the next game. Daniels Jewelers own the dream. 397 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.720 We're in a rain delay in Atlanta. This game is 398 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:00.759 not finished quite yet, but almost, as they have played 399 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.799 eight full innings at Truest Park in Atlanta. The Dodgers 400 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.720 with a two to one lead over the Atlanta Braves. 401 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.319