Speaker 1: One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
Speaker 2: one on Tom.
Speaker 3: Let's wind it.
Speaker 4: I love writing these guys after the show. So just
Speaker 4: thank you, give me are.
Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 6: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion.
Speaker 5: Put a small soft time they get up people what
Speaker 5: they want to die in a row two is special.
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Speaker 6: on the show called eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 6: two five seven and go to the show. And now
Speaker 6: your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kains.
Speaker 7: Not the way you wanted to start a ten game,
Speaker 7: ten day road trip if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 7: getting so close to a win in Atlanta, as we
Speaker 7: are now in a raindow at Chewest Park in Atlanta, Georgia,
Speaker 7: and looking at the weather.
Speaker 5: It does not look good.
Speaker 7: For a while now, and they're expecting rain all weekend long.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow's game could be in jeopardy. Looking good on Sunday,
Speaker 7: but the rain has come and hopefully the Dodgers and
Speaker 7: Braves can finish off this game sooner rather than later.
Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine to eighty seven, two five seventy
Speaker 7: Thanks for being with us is. The Dodgers and Braves
Speaker 7: have officially played eight innings in Atlanta, with the Dodgers
Speaker 7: a two to one lead, Yoshi yamamotos six shutout inning,
Speaker 7: six strikeouts for the Dodgers, a sac fly from Will
Speaker 7: Smith in the fourth.
Speaker 5: Mookie Bets a.
Speaker 7: Solo home run in this sixth inning as the Dodgers
Speaker 7: had a two to nothing lead to Matt Olsen a
Speaker 7: lead off home run in the eighth of the seventh
Speaker 7: inning off of Kirby Yates after Yoshi Yamamoto went the
Speaker 7: ninety one pitches, that's the only run for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 5: And we were in inning away from getting this game.
Speaker 7: Over with and David vassay Oh about forty five minutes ago,
Speaker 7: shot me at text and said, rain is coming, Rain
Speaker 7: is coming.
Speaker 5: Let's get this thing in. And we were in the
Speaker 5: sixth inning.
Speaker 7: We got through the seventh inning, and we got through
Speaker 7: the eighth inning with a couple of pitching changes, and
Speaker 7: we just could not get to the finish line. And
Speaker 7: here we are now through eight innings. The tarp is
Speaker 7: on the field at Truest Park in Atlanta, and it's
Speaker 7: time to play the waiting game as far as when
Speaker 7: the weather will clear up in Atlanta, and looking at
Speaker 7: the forecast, not looking too good for the immediate future.
Speaker 7: But we'll see how the weather plays out because it
Speaker 7: could blow through quickly. We'll see what happens. But plenty
Speaker 7: of time for your phone calls. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 7: eight seven two five seventy. Hoose Moto will join us
Speaker 7: eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. What
Speaker 7: a performance so far from the Dodgers and Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 7: Yamamoto today was announced as the National League Pitcher of
Speaker 7: the Month for the first month of the season three
Speaker 7: and two record okay but a one oh six ero
Speaker 7: in six starts and holding opponents to a one ninety
Speaker 7: batting average. It's his first MLB weekly or monthly award
Speaker 7: for the second year pitcher out of Japan, and based
Speaker 7: on what he did the first month and continuing that
Speaker 7: tonight with six no run Indians that he gave up
Speaker 7: six shutout Indians for Yamamoto today just the one hit
Speaker 7: which came with two outs in the sixth inning.
Speaker 5: That was it. Six strikeouts. He was fantastic.
Speaker 7: Yoshi Yamamoto is off to a fantastic start in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five.
Speaker 5: We saw it in spring training.
Speaker 7: We talked about what the start he had in Japan,
Speaker 7: what he continued to do stateside in his next, second, third,
Speaker 7: fourth start. And here he is tonight, six shutout innings,
Speaker 7: striking out six along the way, and he is dropped
Speaker 7: his er now to sub one. Yoshi yamamotos Era is
Speaker 7: zero point nine zero. Think about when he signed with
Speaker 7: the Dodgers a year ago, the start that he got
Speaker 7: off to over in Seoul, South Korea.
Speaker 5: It was like, uh oh, that's.
Speaker 7: Three hundred and twenty five million dollars for a young
Speaker 7: right hander. And he battled through his rookie year pitching well,
Speaker 7: and then as the postseason came along, he looked really
Speaker 7: good in October as he was really a guy that
Speaker 7: Dodgers can count on Game five of the NLDS into
Speaker 7: the NLCS and the World Series, elevating his game, and
Speaker 7: it kind of find out he kind of put his
Speaker 7: stamp on his career in the big leagues, got comfortable,
Speaker 7: got used to it, and it was just at the
Speaker 7: perfect time. And he continued that into twenty twenty five
Speaker 7: and tonight, six shutout innings.
Speaker 5: One hit that was it.
Speaker 7: It was an Austin Reiley two out double that broke
Speaker 7: open the no hitter in the sixth inning. Yoshi Yamamoto
Speaker 7: was fantastic and just as well as he is pitching.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers offense starting to get into gear. Mookie Betts
Speaker 7: a solo home run tonight, Mookie's fifth of the year.
Speaker 7: Don't look now, but Mooki has himself a nice little run,
Speaker 7: going seven RBIs in the last three games for Mookie Bets.
Speaker 7: He struggled for a ten game period and there was
Speaker 7: some question of whether or not the defense was taking
Speaker 7: too much time and the offense was suffering because the
Speaker 7: average dipped, the production dipped. And you look at now
Speaker 7: what Mookie Betts has done. He has himself a five
Speaker 7: game hitting streak. You go back to the game against
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh last Sunday starting that streak, had a really great
Speaker 7: series against Miami, the multi hit game on Tuesday, the
Speaker 7: four RB guy game on Wednesday, and Mookie Betts continuing
Speaker 7: to stay hot even on the road now two for
Speaker 7: four with the home run and the RBI as the
Speaker 7: Dodgers again in a rain delay, a two to one
Speaker 7: lead over the Atlanta Braves at Truest Park in Atlanta.
Speaker 7: We were three outs away from getting to the bottom
Speaker 7: half of the ninth inning and a possible close out
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers. Evan phillips On in relief, and now
Speaker 7: we'll have to wait for that as the Dodgers lead
Speaker 7: it two to one over the Atlanta Braves now in
Speaker 7: a rain delay. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to
Speaker 7: two five seventy is the number. Jose Moto is gonna
Speaker 7: join us in just a little bit. We got plenty
Speaker 7: of time for your phone calls, Dodger fans, as you
Speaker 7: make your way home on this Friday afternoon now early
Speaker 7: evening here in beautiful southern California, sitting in traffic and
Speaker 7: joining some Dodger baseball. Let's talk about at eight sixty six,
Speaker 7: nine eighty seven two five seventy. David Vesse and I
Speaker 7: were talking about it in the pregame show, and it's
Speaker 7: something that's kind of a lot of national attention in
Speaker 7: the last few days. Now that we have flipped the
Speaker 7: calendar to May. There are baseball punt. Baseball fans, those
Speaker 7: who cover the game say, what's wrong with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: They're not running away with the division. The payrolls so big,
Speaker 7: they got all these superstars on their team. Twenty one
Speaker 7: to ten, a game and a half lead in the
Speaker 7: NL West. Shouldn't they be the best record in baseball?
Speaker 7: Shouldn't they be running away with things in the NL West. Well,
Speaker 7: they haven't, and the New York Mets are certainly a
Speaker 7: talk of baseball at twenty one and eleven, but they've
Speaker 7: lost now two in a row. The Dodgers twenty one
Speaker 7: to ten on their way to being the first team
Speaker 7: in baseball to get to twenty two wins. Think about
Speaker 7: the first month of the season, the injuries they've had
Speaker 7: to deal with, the lack of starting pitching, the over
Speaker 7: usage of the bullpen that's been fantastic for the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: and the fact that for the first eighteen to nineteen
Speaker 7: games of the season, we didn't have the Big three
Speaker 7: all together. For that many games, we didn't have sho
Speaker 7: Heyo Tani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts in the lineup
Speaker 7: together because of in and viruses. To Mookie Betts. They
Speaker 7: just weren't playing together until the final week of April.
Speaker 7: And now that we've gotten to May second, we started
Speaker 7: to see this team. What happened on the last homestand
Speaker 7: now extending on the first game through the first eight
Speaker 7: innings to tonight's game in Atlanta, the top of the lineup,
Speaker 7: the big three producing for this Dodgers team. So when
Speaker 7: the national pundits say what's wrong with the Dodgers, when
Speaker 7: those out there saying, how is this team not running
Speaker 7: away with the division? Well, don't look now, but they're
Speaker 7: about to become the first twenty two win team in baseball.
Speaker 7: They have a game and a half lead in the division.
Speaker 7: They're three outs away from getting to a six game
Speaker 7: winning streak. And all that happening with the injuries, the
Speaker 7: lack of starting pitching, I mean, Blake Snell hasn't done
Speaker 7: virtually anything for this Dodgers team. Tyler Glassnell is hurt again.
Speaker 7: This is a Dodger lineup that hasn't been at full strength.
Speaker 7: Max Munsey who hit his first home run just in
Speaker 7: the last game against the Miami Marlins the last homestand
Speaker 7: was that get right Homestand for the Dodgers, as we
Speaker 7: alluded to on Dodger Talk on Wednesday, and get right
Speaker 7: series against the Marlins, where you just feast on a
Speaker 7: bad team, take advantage of bad pitching, bad defense, and
Speaker 7: bad offense, and you get right. You get your stats right,
Speaker 7: you get your swing right, you get your pitching right,
Speaker 7: you get your defense right, you get everything right and
Speaker 7: turn things around individually and collectively. And I think that
Speaker 7: is where the Dodgers are right now. And for those
Speaker 7: pundits I want to write about, well, the Dodgers. They
Speaker 7: have been a disappointment the first month of the season.
Speaker 7: All this Dodgers team, How are they not running away
Speaker 7: with the division? How are they not out in front
Speaker 7: of everybody by now? John Hayman wrote about it today
Speaker 7: in the New York Post MLB Networks his article Dodgers
Speaker 7: in trouble after an underwhelming April. That's a false narrative,
Speaker 7: And here's why he wrote, He's absolutely right. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: have been hit by the injuries. They've been hit by
Speaker 7: a limp that hasn't been consistent, and they still sit
Speaker 7: where they're sitting. And to think of where they could
Speaker 7: be at or where the will get to with this
Speaker 7: lineup when full strength, healthy and clicking. Pretty scary to think.
Speaker 7: So those riders, those baseball guys that want to sit
Speaker 7: there and and poke the Dodgers, and oh, I guess
Speaker 7: they're not as good as we thought.
Speaker 5: Oh the first month of the season.
Speaker 7: Now we're into May and this team's the Mets got
Speaker 7: the same amount of wins. The only game up on
Speaker 7: the Giants, the Padres. I mean, I thought this was
Speaker 7: a Dodger team is gonna run away with things. Oh
Speaker 7: not so fast, my friends. As Lee Corso would say
Speaker 7: on game day eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 7: five seventies, number, let's go out to the phones. I
Speaker 7: got one line to open if you want to jump
Speaker 7: on board and take it. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 7: seven two five seventy game where you are in a
Speaker 7: rain delay as the rain has come down in Atlanta
Speaker 7: and does not look like it's gonna let up anytime soon.
Speaker 7: The tarp is on the field and the Dodgers a
Speaker 7: two to one lead through eight innings. They just completed
Speaker 7: eight innings. Ten Or Scott on the mound for the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: got a ground ball out to end the inning, and
Speaker 7: when they were going to the top of the ninth inning,
Speaker 7: the umpiring cruise set up. No raining too hard. Let's
Speaker 7: get to the tarp and that will be where we're
Speaker 7: at for this foreseeable future. Here with the rain going
Speaker 7: through the Atlanta, Georgia area. All right, let's go out
Speaker 7: to Martin in Orange County starts things off on this
Speaker 7: rain delay edition of Dodger Talk on this Friday.
Speaker 5: How you doing Martin?
Speaker 8: I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 2: How are you today?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great.
Speaker 7: Dodgers are three ounce away from a win margin to
Speaker 7: make it six in a row.
Speaker 8: I know I've been listening to the game. Hey, I
Speaker 8: just wanted to speak up listening to the game. I
Speaker 8: wanted to mention and correct Rick Monday on something. And
Speaker 8: he was talking about when when the Empire damaged his
Speaker 8: throat guard, and then he's talking about Steve Yeger. That's
Speaker 8: when it was invented for.
Speaker 9: Steve Yeger, and Monday said Yeger got hit in the
Speaker 9: throat by a ball. That's not true. I was watching
Speaker 9: the game. Bill Russell was at matt Yanger was on deck.
Speaker 9: Bill Russell's bat broke in half. The barrel of the bat,
Speaker 9: the jagged edge of the barrel of the bat kit
Speaker 9: Jaeger in the neck one inch. Either way, Yeager would
Speaker 9: have been dead. Somehow Yeager survived, and Bueller invented the
Speaker 9: throat guard because of that, not not by getting hit
Speaker 9: by a ball.
Speaker 7: I'll point that out, Mart, and I appreciate that. Eight
Speaker 7: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. I think
Speaker 7: the point of all is that the throat guard is
Speaker 7: there for the protection of the catchers, which I can appreciate,
Speaker 7: and the umpires, which we could all certainly appreciate. And
Speaker 7: tonight there was a foul ball there in the eighth inning,
Speaker 7: and the throat guard there was to protect, and the
Speaker 7: throat guard helped out the home plate umpire. Tonight there
Speaker 7: at Truest Park and a foul ball that was, you know,
Speaker 7: ninety eight miles an hour off the bat will little
Speaker 7: behind the plate.
Speaker 5: The throat guard protected him. So however it was.
Speaker 7: Invented, we're just glad it was invented for the safety
Speaker 7: of catchers and for the umpires. Eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 7: eighty seven two five seventy. It is a rain delay
Speaker 7: edition of Dodger Talking here on a five seventy LA
Speaker 7: Sports and the Dodgers Audio network in Silver Lake here
Speaker 7: in southern California.
Speaker 5: How you doing Allen?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Great?
Speaker 10: And the two things? Three things? Maybe I would Rick
Speaker 10: Monday is right about almost everything, so let's give him
Speaker 10: that credit. And I used to work for the New
Speaker 10: York Post, so don't get too lound up. Our job
Speaker 10: is to inflame people. My question is, and I don't
Speaker 10: have an opinion or an answer on this, I'm curious,
Speaker 10: what is the plan B on third base? If Monsey,
Speaker 10: if even with the signs that he's coming awake, if
Speaker 10: he doesn't hit, what's gonna happen there?
Speaker 7: What are the options if Monsey can't turn things around? Alan,
Speaker 7: Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my question.
Speaker 7: Thanks, Well, I think they got a lot of answers
Speaker 7: they can go to. But keep this in mind. This
Speaker 7: is not a short runway for a Max Mounsey. This
Speaker 7: is not a We're gonna give him another twenty five
Speaker 7: at bats, another fifty at bats and then see where he's.
Speaker 5: At make a decision there.
Speaker 7: Max Monsey's gonna have a long runway to turn things around.
Speaker 7: And quite frankly, Max Munsey has looked better at the play.
Speaker 7: Sure he's got you know, a strikeout or two tonight.
Speaker 7: He had the home run on Wednesday. We hope that,
Speaker 7: you know, unlock something offensively for the Dodger third baseman.
Speaker 7: Still not hitting over two hundred on this season. I
Speaker 7: worry more about Michael Confordo in left field because quite frankly,
Speaker 7: Max Munsey has earned the right to get out of
Speaker 7: his hitting funk, to get out of wherever he's at
Speaker 7: offensively forever long it takes Michael Conforto, to me is
Speaker 7: the bigger issue.
Speaker 5: Michael Conforto hashit. He won fifty two on the season.
Speaker 7: Michael Conforto has been the everyday left fielder and as
Speaker 7: a left handed bat, has been a guy at the
Speaker 7: bottom of the lineup that they can roll out there
Speaker 7: every time they face a righty. I have to start
Speaker 7: wondering how long is his runway in left field, because
Speaker 7: if you're gonna swap out somebody, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 7: throw two names out there, Keith a Hernandez Chris Taylor
Speaker 7: to play left field on an every day basis instead
Speaker 7: of Michael Conforto.
Speaker 5: Now you're going to a right handed bat. Okay, now
Speaker 5: you're no.
Speaker 7: I don't think you're swapping out a lesser defensive player.
Speaker 7: I think it's kind of an equal, you know, Key
Speaker 7: k Conforto, Chris Taylor all about the same defensively. In
Speaker 7: left field, it's the bat, and you're getting now a
Speaker 7: right handed bat as opposed to another left handed bat
Speaker 7: in Michael Confordo. But you're gonna get hopefully more consistency
Speaker 7: out of whatever bat that's gonna be at the bottom
Speaker 7: of the lineup playing left field. That's the one I
Speaker 7: think about more than Matt's Muncie is what's gonna happen
Speaker 7: with Michael Conforto if he continues to struggle tonight zero
Speaker 7: for two, a walk, but a couple of strikeouts. Because
Speaker 7: everybody else seems to be either getting out of their
Speaker 7: early season slumps or seems to be finding a way
Speaker 7: to get back on track. If a little bit of
Speaker 7: a blip on the radar, like Mookie Betts had that
Speaker 7: ten game stretch where things just weren't going right offensively well,
Speaker 7: seems to you has turned the page. Freddie Freeman's hitting
Speaker 7: three twenty four Now folks don't look now Will Smith
Speaker 7: hitting three twenty one on the season and not worried
Speaker 7: about the top of the lineup. Andy Paez has a
Speaker 7: stretcher that he has been unconscious. You know, he was
Speaker 7: the National League Player of the Week last week. It's
Speaker 7: Michael Conforto that is really the one that I would
Speaker 7: have concern with over Max Mounsey eight six, six, nine
Speaker 7: eighty seven to two five seventy.
Speaker 5: Let's go to.
Speaker 7: Eric and Studio City is next up here on rain
Speaker 7: delayed Dodger Talkers. The Dodgers have a two to one
Speaker 7: lead over the Braves through eight innings with the tarp
Speaker 7: on the field in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Eric good?
Speaker 2: How you doing good?
Speaker 1: So with Max Munsey, I'm excited he's wearing glasses again
Speaker 1: or no for the first time, kind of doing what
Speaker 1: Key k Hernandez did last season. Yeah, so hopefully that'll
Speaker 1: get him out of the slump. But I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: with our bullpen.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our bullpen beat up on some pretty weak teams in
Speaker 1: the last six games, but they have not been doing well.
Speaker 1: And especially seeing Kirby Yates come in and almost blow
Speaker 1: another game with a home run like he did with
Speaker 1: the Cubs. It's pretty disappointing as a Dodger fan to
Speaker 1: watch Yosanovo amazing start today, watching him go stick to
Speaker 1: shutout innings. Such a special performance from him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was great. He continues to be great.
Speaker 7: I think last year in October, Eric, he really took
Speaker 7: that next forward. I think it's the confidence to go
Speaker 7: out there and to get the results and to be
Speaker 7: that dominant guy on the mound, not being dominant in size,
Speaker 7: not being dominant in overpowering hitters, but just being dominant pitching.
Speaker 7: He settled in very nicely into the major league second
Speaker 7: half of the season, really into October, and that's carried
Speaker 7: over to this year. The confidence is just oozing from
Speaker 7: Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, and it's fun to watch as a
Speaker 1: Dodger fan. It's fun to see his progressed in and
Speaker 1: hopefully he can being motivating, a good motivator for younger
Speaker 1: guys who were in the same position as him last year,
Speaker 1: like Roky Sustaki. You know, I know Roki Sutaki has
Speaker 1: been having a little trouble with his command, and hopefully
Speaker 1: he'll be a guiding light for Roki this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Eric, I appreciate the phone call things for checking
Speaker 7: in eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seven.
Speaker 7: Will keep going on the phones we'll hear from Jose
Speaker 7: Mota as we play the waiting game on this Friday
Speaker 7: night Dodgers in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: The tarp is on the field.
Speaker 7: They've played eight full innings, Dodgers with a two to
Speaker 7: one lead. They were getting ready to go back out
Speaker 7: and bat in the top of the ninth before the
Speaker 7: tarp was put on the field. And now we wait
Speaker 7: for the rain to pass through the south, northern Era
Speaker 7: and northern Atlanta and hopefully finish off this game soon
Speaker 7: eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five to seventy
Speaker 7: rain delayed. Dodgita continues right here in Los Angeles. Dodgers
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Speaker 12: He's bet the highest exit velocity of any player in
Speaker 12: this game.
Speaker 5: It's almost ninety six miles an.
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Speaker 6: deep going back is per Dugo still going.
Speaker 12: Back and this bowl has gone. It's a home run
Speaker 12: for Bets, his fifth of the season, a solo shot
Speaker 12: for Mookie, and the Dodgers lead it two to nothing.
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Speaker 7: We're in a rain delay in Atlanta. This game is
Speaker 7: not finished quite yet, but almost, as they have played
Speaker 7: eight full innings at Truest Park in Atlanta. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: with a two to one lead over the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 7: Tanner Scott had a one, two three bottom of the
Speaker 7: eighth inning.
Speaker 5: The rain was starting to.
Speaker 7: Fall, got heavier and heavier, and then they said, that's it.
Speaker 7: Even though we were one eating away from this game
Speaker 7: being officially over in a final, we are now in
Speaker 7: a waiting game to see what will happen for the
Speaker 7: rest of this game and the conclusion. The Dodgers again
Speaker 7: clinging to a two to one lead. While we wait,
Speaker 7: let's check in with Jose. It's time to go around
Speaker 7: the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: All right, Jose, I got a lot to get to
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 7: First off, what's the deal with the weather right now?
Speaker 7: What's happening at Truest Park.
Speaker 12: Oh, it's Atlanta, man. I mean, we see this band
Speaker 12: coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama.
Speaker 1: We know he's going to hit us, and here it is.
Speaker 12: But I'll tell you what though, Seeds fans here are
Speaker 12: keeping this environment alive. The music. It's like an all
Speaker 12: American dance stuff going on right now.
Speaker 11: Put it in.
Speaker 5: That is great.
Speaker 7: We had a couple of callers calling here, raindol Aid
Speaker 7: Dodger talking and they mentioned the Steve Yeger incident.
Speaker 5: That was a lot mentioned and.
Speaker 7: You've got a real up close and personal view of
Speaker 7: that moment, right man.
Speaker 12: Let me tell you the Motor family was allowed to
Speaker 12: go to San Diego for road trips and it was
Speaker 12: my first day as a bat boy, Thank you, Jerry Turner,
Speaker 12: and I am nearly behind Steve Dieger. Okay, third base dugout.
Speaker 12: You know, the old Jack Murphy was a very short
Speaker 12: run from the dugout to home play. And let me
Speaker 12: tell you, I saw that bats line like a helicopter
Speaker 12: blake coming in and I saw a story Steve Viegger
Speaker 12: rather than neck saw when he fell right in front
Speaker 12: of me, and it was quite scary. I mean, I'm like,
Speaker 12: what what happened here? Like? What do I do to
Speaker 12: I'm supposed to be up the bat?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I pick out the broken bat and rests history.
Speaker 12: Bill Bueler, by the way himself with former athlet I
Speaker 12: turned for so many years, and I mean this guy
Speaker 12: was a classic key was right on that Danny come
Speaker 12: up with the design to protect your your's throats. Of
Speaker 12: what you see hanging you know under the umpires now
Speaker 12: and some of the catcher's maskbots up. It is a
Speaker 12: day I will never forget. My first day of that
Speaker 12: boy on the road great unis. I'm so excited. There
Speaker 12: we go on a moment I will never ever forget.
Speaker 7: It's interesting watching the newer catchers now where those hockey
Speaker 7: masks that don't have the full protection on the neck.
Speaker 7: I know it covers, you know, kind of to the
Speaker 7: middle of the neck, but it still doesn't I don't
Speaker 7: think I have full coverage, which is kind of scary.
Speaker 12: No, And all they've done is through through the years
Speaker 12: they have been able to make it where they kind
Speaker 12: of study where most of the foul balls were coming
Speaker 12: and just to create more of the reflection with the
Speaker 12: angles because I mean, go back to the old days.
Speaker 12: And then one bother went across the eyes. I mean
Speaker 12: that was a full on catch a foul ball in
Speaker 12: your brain was rocket man. So I'm glad through the years,
Speaker 12: thanks Hockey by the way in the designs and the
Speaker 12: flection of the bucks, they've been able to do it
Speaker 12: for base But you know what, if it's gonna get you,
Speaker 12: it's gonna get you. I mean it's like a guy
Speaker 12: worrying all the protection of his elbow or protection on
Speaker 12: the ankles and shins. Before you know it, that ball's
Speaker 12: gonna find exactly where you're not covered. So go figure
Speaker 12: that out. That's baseball for you.
Speaker 7: We are in Raindolai Dodger Doak Jose Mota Live and
Speaker 7: Truest Park in Atlanta. Dodgers a two to one lead
Speaker 7: over the Braves through eight innings with the tarp on
Speaker 7: the field. The first six innings were fantastic pitching match
Speaker 7: up back and forth from Grant Holmes and Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 7: For Yamamoto, Jose did not allow his first hit until
Speaker 7: two outs in the six. Austin Riley at two out
Speaker 7: doubled the end of the no hitter. Yoshi Yamamoto, he
Speaker 7: looks fantastic.
Speaker 12: He's been outstanding. He threw today a tot of twenty
Speaker 12: seven splitters, seventeen turbolls. And to me, even though the
Speaker 12: curveball came into this game having been a pitcher, when
Speaker 12: they make contact, they hit well against it. But to me,
Speaker 12: is a pitch that sets up everything for him because
Speaker 12: it upsets the angle of the eyes for the past
Speaker 12: ball up and it offsets the splitter. And today the
Speaker 12: splitter man it was tumbling a whole lot. I think
Speaker 12: he might be picking up a little bit of Sosaki
Speaker 12: there by the way, I'm just taking a little bit
Speaker 12: often and using more of a what was like a
Speaker 12: football type type deal. Today we see some of those
Speaker 12: scenes flying in and you know, Yoshi knows how to page.
Speaker 12: I think Yosha has a great understanding as to what
Speaker 12: the big league is about. More now the pressure of
Speaker 12: October making every game count. I think you know we
Speaker 12: see him practically at javelin. I bet he'd be great
Speaker 12: throwing darts, because it seems like he throws darts with
Speaker 12: the fastball and he paints wherever he wants.
Speaker 7: Tonight, the offense, it took a spinner around the lineup
Speaker 7: Jose for them to get to Grant Holmes. When they
Speaker 7: did in the fourth inning, bets the infield single freeman,
Speaker 7: the infield single tay Oscar drew a gwalk to load
Speaker 7: the bases. The main part of the lineup finally broke through,
Speaker 7: and then Will Smith at.
Speaker 5: The sack fly.
Speaker 7: That seems to be something that the Dodgers do really
Speaker 7: well and have done well the last few seasons is
Speaker 7: figure out us starting pitcher. It may take a spin
Speaker 7: through the lineup, may think two or you know, no
Speaker 7: more than two times around the line, but they'll eventually
Speaker 7: get to you.
Speaker 12: Exactly, you know, and getting to somebody it doesn't mean
Speaker 12: going to go out there and blow him up and
Speaker 12: scores six or seven rounds. It means just what can
Speaker 12: we exploit whatever he's given us. Because this version of
Speaker 12: Grat Holmes was excellent. The one of Dodger Stadium gave
Speaker 12: up four ernies and you know what, four guys gave
Speaker 12: Oppah home run this one was really good.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 12: And he was painting and he's he trying to show
Speaker 12: he really badly.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 12: Breaking Bill's down an end. Tanging speeds both sides of
Speaker 12: the plate. But as you mentioned, you know, even though
Speaker 12: the Dodgers went out there too kill the pirates and
Speaker 12: the monitors, but there is this development now or more
Speaker 12: fundamental baseball understanding what's going to take more and more
Speaker 12: to beat good teams. And he carry that off. It
Speaker 12: doesn't matter who's on the mound where you're playing against.
Speaker 12: Once you have a feeling like that, it's very contagious him.
Speaker 12: I'm telling you, Bokie Bez puts the ball in play,
Speaker 12: that's contact. Fredit Freeman puts the ball in play, luckily
Speaker 12: deflected up. Matt Olson was an excellent first base and
Speaker 12: then how about to Oscars That that to me changed everything. Yeah,
Speaker 12: before the sax fly by Will Smith and one thing
Speaker 12: for the Dodgers, I mean, there was going to be
Speaker 12: right a top of Sax flies. I think there was
Speaker 12: their eleventh for the season started the big leagues. But
Speaker 12: we saw happen in the postseason. We saw it happen
Speaker 12: in their most important games. They are very patient and
Speaker 12: they know exactly without approach you got to have with
Speaker 12: a sackfly possibility is to stay through the middle, big
Speaker 12: part of the field because most fly balls you hit
Speaker 12: are going to be without wanting to to the opposite field.
Speaker 12: And in that case, I mean hitting coaches will tell you, hey,
Speaker 12: if there is a choice of the calls for you know,
Speaker 12: infield in fly ball, don't try to pull because they're
Speaker 12: going to be playing run into the pitcher's hands. So
Speaker 12: I think the great approach by Will Smith and certainty,
Speaker 12: one more thing, you have my motitude going back to pitching.
Speaker 12: How about the reaction again? Another line drive that he's
Speaker 12: got a glove exactly where it needs to be, Tim,
Speaker 12: how about that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's gonna win a gold Glove for his defense.
Speaker 7: I'm convinced of that. We had a caller bring up
Speaker 7: Max Munsey and his struggles. Jose and how long is
Speaker 7: that runway for Max Munsey if he continues to struggle
Speaker 7: and the power just isn't there consistently. I said, he's
Speaker 7: earned the right to have the longest runway possible, And
Speaker 7: I brought up Michael Conforto's name is a guy who's
Speaker 7: struggling even more than Max.
Speaker 5: Munsey offensively, and.
Speaker 7: I don't think you're gonna lose anything if you swap
Speaker 7: him out, whether Chris Taylor or a Kik defensively, you
Speaker 7: may see and improve it offensively. But he's hitting one
Speaker 7: fifty two two punch outs tonight. He's zero for two
Speaker 7: with the walk. Michael Conforto to me, is more of
Speaker 7: a worry than Max Munsey.
Speaker 5: Am I wrong?
Speaker 12: I think you're absolutely right, because I think you know
Speaker 12: when when the Max monthly struggles come up and people
Speaker 12: bring his name about what's gonna happen, it's almost like
Speaker 12: come on to somebody available, like they want to start baseball, right,
Speaker 12: Max Bundzy is gonna have a long runway because Max Munsey,
Speaker 12: even when he got playing, well, there's some games here
Speaker 12: and there that when he's not hitting, he's gonna go
Speaker 12: up through prolong and editing with a walk. He sees
Speaker 12: a lot of pitches. Now, remember he started using this glasses,
Speaker 12: the corrective glasses. He's gonna be able to see the
Speaker 12: ball a little bit better today. Help And I'll tell
Speaker 12: you what. It takes an adjustment sometimes for your brain.
Speaker 12: And I'm telling you from experience for your brain to say,
Speaker 12: oh wait, a minute. I can see the ball all
Speaker 12: the way now, I can see the edges of the
Speaker 12: ball and not just like this blur. Right, and you
Speaker 12: have to be even more selective with discipline.
Speaker 2: Munsey has a long runer.
Speaker 12: Max Mussey did not get a hit in the World Series, right,
Speaker 12: and the dollar's lung Okay, he's got along leash now
Speaker 12: from Florido. I agree with you. We need to see
Speaker 12: more competitive mats. We need to see better fights on
Speaker 12: certain pictures. We need to see better coverage of the plate,
Speaker 12: and we need to see a better plan to stay
Speaker 12: with it. I think when he is any is a
Speaker 12: kid that has success. We know what happened last year.
Speaker 12: He at twenty home runs seventeen on the road. But
Speaker 12: there's a time in which he has to just be
Speaker 12: athletic and let it fly and just go out through
Speaker 12: and trust that whatever they got you here for is
Speaker 12: going to work, and go in try to be so perfect.
Speaker 12: To me, he's cut off in the perfection of trying
Speaker 12: to just be perfect with a sewer approach, and he's
Speaker 12: catch them so thinking too much. This guy can do
Speaker 12: some damage. We just have to know how much is
Speaker 12: left in him, and you have you do have options
Speaker 12: because obviously you have Kik as you mentioned, Yeah, Chris Taylor,
Speaker 12: and I think the lease is a little bit shorter
Speaker 12: for him, but hopefully he'll get out of it. But
Speaker 12: the val you'd need both of these guys. And the
Speaker 12: good thing is is we mentioned they have a lot
Speaker 12: of death when it comes out to somebody not producing.
Speaker 7: All right, this game is eventually gonna get over at
Speaker 7: some point. We saw them brushing off water off the
Speaker 7: top of the tarp. Who knows that that's a sign
Speaker 7: that is starting to let up. But it's give me
Speaker 7: weather tomorrow. If it gets banged and there's no game tomorrow.
Speaker 7: What does Jose Mota do in Atlanta? Is there a
Speaker 7: food spot you go to? I know in every city
Speaker 7: you've got a spot you like to go to.
Speaker 5: Where is it in Atlanta?
Speaker 12: Well, it's about barbecue. I hit it off quite nicely
Speaker 12: last night. I actually got some Dominican from here today.
Speaker 12: So tomorrow an the option. Let's see what happens, hey,
Speaker 12: game or not, I'm gonna go out there and try
Speaker 12: something new. So hopefully we will be interrupted by by
Speaker 12: the rain. We're gonna have a ball, but I might
Speaker 12: even make some a little uh pictures there and do
Speaker 12: a little hot yoga too.
Speaker 5: Oh I love that, Jose.
Speaker 7: All right, any update are they are they working on
Speaker 7: the They are.
Speaker 12: They have the big air blowers blowing under them and
Speaker 12: they're using this we used to get the water off.
Speaker 12: So the plant has to kidting on because it's lading
Speaker 12: on right now more than miss right now.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so it's lighting up a little bit, Jose.
Speaker 7: We appreciate it, and we'll check with you hopefully tomorrow
Speaker 7: after the.
Speaker 12: Game and hopefully three more outs of the Dodgers then
Speaker 12: get this.
Speaker 7: W absolutely there he goes Jose Mota live from Scheuest
Speaker 7: Park in Atlanta. We are in a rain delay here
Speaker 7: on the Dodgers Audio Network as the Dodgers have a
Speaker 7: two to one lead over the Atlanta Braves through eight innings.
Speaker 7: Yoshi Yama Moto was fantastic for six shutout innings. He
Speaker 7: didn't allow us first hit until two outs in the
Speaker 7: sixth to Austin Reiley, a two out double struck out
Speaker 7: six along the way walk to both of the walks
Speaker 7: in this game where Tomorzella Zuna, the designated hitter and
Speaker 7: quite frankly their biggest threat in the Atlanta offense with
Speaker 7: his back as he can just absolutely tattoo the baseball,
Speaker 7: and he was nibbling a little bit trying to get
Speaker 7: Ozuna to chase.
Speaker 5: He didn't chase on.
Speaker 7: The splitter of the fastball, and those are the two
Speaker 7: walks that he gave up. Was to the designated hitter
Speaker 7: for the Atlanta Braves. Did not come around to hurt
Speaker 7: him as he had six shutout innings tonight for the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: who would gaint have a two to one lead over
Speaker 7: the Braves through eight innings in Atlanta. Weather expected to
Speaker 7: be an issue tomorrow, so hopefully this game could get
Speaker 7: concluded and tomorrow we'll see what happens. Sunday Night baseball
Speaker 7: from Truest Park is scheduled for four to ten Pacific
Speaker 7: on Sunday afternoon. By the way, Rookie Sasaki scheduled to
Speaker 7: go tomorrow in the second game of the series, and
Speaker 7: then Code Red Dustin May will go at it against
Speaker 7: Bryce Elder on Sunday eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 7: two five seven. He got time for your phone calls
Speaker 7: as the ground screw continues to work on the tarp
Speaker 7: which is still on the field at Truest Park. In Atlanta.
Speaker 7: As Jose mentioned, they got squeeze. He's out there. They
Speaker 7: got a human line of guys just squeezing off that
Speaker 7: tarp on the top of it into the left field
Speaker 7: outfield grass. So hopefully this is a sign that the
Speaker 7: rain is letting up and they feel like we can
Speaker 7: at least get a conclusion to the final inning of
Speaker 7: this game in Atlanta. Again, a ten day, ten game
Speaker 7: road trip for the Dodgers with stops in Atlanta, Miami,
Speaker 7: and Arizona with four against the Diamondbacks. Not ideal to
Speaker 7: have the opening game in Atlanta with the rain delay,
Speaker 7: but it will certainly be a lot easier going to
Speaker 7: bed tonight for the Dodgers if they can get a
Speaker 7: win in this game and again one inning away from
Speaker 7: that as soon as this rain delay is over. Eight
Speaker 7: sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy Mark and
Speaker 7: Boyena Park is next up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: I do it, Mark, I'm doing sign thanks.
Speaker 2: You know, I was just wondering how is James Auman
Speaker 2: doing in the minor leagues. Could he be an option
Speaker 2: for the outfield.
Speaker 7: Well, we'll see if Autman, you know, when his turn
Speaker 7: and number is called again. He's a great eight defensive
Speaker 7: center field there. There is no doubt about that. He
Speaker 7: just won the Player of the Week in Triple A
Speaker 7: down in Oklahoma City. Had a good week for sixty
Speaker 7: two average, twelve hits, two home runs, five RBIs twenty
Speaker 7: one total bases.
Speaker 5: Not a bad week for James Outman.
Speaker 7: Let's see if he can continue that overall in Triple
Speaker 7: A hitting just two forty five and has six home
Speaker 7: runs and nineteen ribies, so a lot that production. I
Speaker 7: just mentioned why he won Player of the Week in
Speaker 7: Triple A last week was in that little short week
Speaker 7: where he had an offensive spurt there, so hopefully he
Speaker 7: can continue that. I love James Outman. I love the
Speaker 7: way he plays. I love his tenacity out in the outfield.
Speaker 7: He's not afraid to dive after a ball, whether it's
Speaker 7: glove side or a backsided catch. I love the fact
Speaker 7: that he's not afraid to go back to the wall
Speaker 7: and make a catch. He plays a tough center field
Speaker 7: and it's been the offensive struggles and he came onto
Speaker 7: the scene early on with the Dodgers and offensively was like, Wow,
Speaker 7: this is gonna be hard to take this guy out
Speaker 7: of the lineup, and then he cooled off and last
Speaker 7: year was a struggle for James Outman, up and down
Speaker 7: and really not got his job back and started the
Speaker 7: year in Triple AY. This year, I know he wanted
Speaker 7: to have a really good spring in hopes of opening
Speaker 7: the eyes of the Dodgers and for him to make
Speaker 7: a serious case to play center field. Unfortunately, he got
Speaker 7: beat out by Andy Pajz and the Dodgers signed Michael
Speaker 7: Confordo in the offseason. He got ta Oscar Hernandez and
Speaker 7: right thankfully, the outfield is not hurt right now. I mean,
Speaker 7: tay Oscar is healthy and he Pajes is healthy and producing.
Speaker 7: Michael Conforto he's not producing, he's healthy, and you've still
Speaker 7: got Kek Hernandez, and you've got uh, you know, Chris
Speaker 7: Taylor who can play the outfield. These guys are healthy,
Speaker 7: so there's no open spot for James Outman. Now, let's
Speaker 7: hope that nobody gets hurt. But if somebody in the
Speaker 7: outfield were to get hurt and have to go on
Speaker 7: the injured list, I got a feeling James Outman's that
Speaker 7: first call for the Dodgers to call him up from
Speaker 7: Triple A eight sixty six, nine eighty.
Speaker 5: Seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 7: Shay and Glenn in the eight one to eight joins
Speaker 7: us now here on Dodger Talk during this rain delay.
Speaker 5: Shay, how you doing doing well?
Speaker 10: How about yourself?
Speaker 5: I'm doing good.
Speaker 12: Awesome question for you.
Speaker 10: If the rain doesn't stop, what are the umpires going
Speaker 10: to rule?
Speaker 7: Well, they would continue it tomorrow and pick up and
Speaker 7: going into the top half of the ninth inning. But
Speaker 7: we're getting indications right now that this game will start
Speaker 7: in less than thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: It's what we're here, not bad. Yeah, yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: we're getting right now.
Speaker 13: That it might be an official games since more than
Speaker 13: five innings, Well, I.
Speaker 7: Guess they could officially bang it and say yeah, it's
Speaker 7: an official game and call it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: I think the Braves would have to agree to that
Speaker 7: as well, And in a two to one game they
Speaker 7: probably would say, Hey, no, let's let's try to wait
Speaker 7: it out and let's try to play it tomorrow.
Speaker 5: But appreciate the phone call shape.
Speaker 7: It looks like this game is going to get resumed
Speaker 7: here at seven thirty seven thirty five ish is what
Speaker 7: we're looking at right now for resuming in the top
Speaker 7: half of the ninth inning. In case you're just joining
Speaker 7: us year on a FI seventy LA Sports and the
Speaker 7: Dodgers Audio Network, the Dodger Game's not over yet.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers were up two to one.
Speaker 7: They've played eight innings at Truest Park in Atlanta, and
Speaker 7: going in knew the weather was going to be an issue.
Speaker 7: As the night went along, this game was in a
Speaker 7: full sprint. The first six innings. It was a pitcher's
Speaker 7: duel between Grant Holmes and Yoshi Yamamoto. It was really
Speaker 7: fantastic back and forth. The strikeouts were starting to mount
Speaker 7: up for both Homes and ya Yoshi Yamamoto, who both
Speaker 7: pitchers win six innings and they combined for fifteen strikeouts
Speaker 7: Homes in Yama Moto, and then it became a bullpen
Speaker 7: game after that. After Grant Holmes gave up a sackfly
Speaker 7: and a solo home run in the fourth and sixth inning,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers went to the bullpen with Kirby Yates and
Speaker 7: he gave up a home run to Matt Olson in
Speaker 7: the seventh inning. And it's a two to one game
Speaker 7: through eight innings right now. As the Dodgers have that
Speaker 7: lead over the Atlanta Braves, and it will continue to
Speaker 7: be a bullpen game when it resumes. In the top
Speaker 7: half of the ninth inning, Dodgers looking for some insuredurance runs,
Speaker 7: and it looks like it'll probably be Evan phillips On
Speaker 7: in relief. That would be my guest, since Yates has
Speaker 7: already pitched an inning and Tanner Scott has already pitched
Speaker 7: the eighth inning, so the high leverage relievers getting used
Speaker 7: tonight in the seventh and eighth. It looks like probably
Speaker 7: the ninth inning with Evan phillips I would assume would
Speaker 7: go out there and pitch to close it out for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, who again have a two to one lead
Speaker 7: over the Atlanta Braves but would love to get some
Speaker 7: insurance runs. Would love to come back out in the
Speaker 7: top half of the ninth inning with Freddie Freeman due
Speaker 7: to lead things off for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Win play resumes, and again they are working on the
Speaker 5: tarp right now.
Speaker 7: We expect the tart to come off the field here
Speaker 7: in the next five to ten minutes, and all indications
Speaker 7: from the Great DWAYN McDonald and the booth there at
Speaker 7: Truest Park is that this game is scheduled to get
Speaker 7: underway just after seven thirty Pacific ten thirty local time
Speaker 7: in Atlanta, So we got time for your phone calls
Speaker 7: Dodger fans. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 7: seventy Dodgers sitting in the top first place in the
Speaker 7: nl Wes mentioned it earlier, Mookie Betts starting to get hot,
Speaker 7: this Dodger offense clicking out that they're pretty much healthy.
Speaker 7: Tommy Edmond will find out more postgame. What's the status
Speaker 7: with Tommy Eman who's missing now second straight game with
Speaker 7: a foot injury. So hopefully it's nothing serious for Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 7: We'll find out more from Dave Roberts on the severity
Speaker 7: of that. He touched on it in the pregame about
Speaker 7: maybe an IL stint. Maybe not too early to tell,
Speaker 7: And right now the Dodgers would love to get him
Speaker 7: back in the line of how versu till he is
Speaker 7: playing second base and certainly playing center field, but without
Speaker 7: Tommy emand in the lineup tonight, Andy Potter has playing
Speaker 7: center field and Miguel Rojas getting the start at second
Speaker 7: base eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 7: Man well in guardena Manuel Happy Friday to you, how
Speaker 7: you doing?
Speaker 2: Hey, Happy Friday. Timmy kind of got my thunderstole from
Speaker 2: Shade because I was gonna ask you the same thing,
Speaker 2: and if you didn't have the answer, I was hoping
Speaker 2: maybe I know it all. Martin could call back and
Speaker 2: correct you. But when exactly do they deem it like
Speaker 2: a total game, call it as a game, or decide
Speaker 2: to continue it on? You know, do you know, like
Speaker 2: the timeframe is like one hour, two hours, or well, this.
Speaker 7: Game is gonna get underway so we don't have to
Speaker 7: worry about the what ifs. If this game where that
Speaker 7: can keep going, they would wait it out, and being
Speaker 7: that it's only what seven fifteen, seven thirteen now Pacific time,
Speaker 7: ten thirteen on the East coast, they would give it
Speaker 7: a couple more hours it hopes that it hopes it
Speaker 7: would clear out. Before making a decision. It's past the
Speaker 7: five to any mark, so you could call it if
Speaker 7: you want it. But I imagine the Brakes would say,
Speaker 7: uh uh, it's not a blowout.
Speaker 5: It's not a nine to one game. It's not a
Speaker 5: seven to one game that's out of control.
Speaker 2: They would have kep the team kind of kind of understanding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm ashamed to say I don't have a
Speaker 7: rule book in front of me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's all good. Maybe Martin will call back
Speaker 2: and correct you. But hey, on one other note, it's
Speaker 2: just nice to see that the Dodgers, you know, not
Speaker 2: even firing on all cylinders, not even having all the
Speaker 2: horses out there from the starting, starting pitching and everything
Speaker 2: like that, are still out to such a great start.
Speaker 2: And I think that's a tribute to Doc Roberts, the
Speaker 2: greatest MLB manager here through the first ten years of history,
Speaker 2: for those of you guys that don't know and try
Speaker 2: to hate on Doc, and then also for my man
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman for the way he puts together this roster
Speaker 2: every year. So I'm looking forward to a deep run
Speaker 2: once again. And let's see if anybody could stop these Dodgers, baby,
Speaker 2: because we know they are world champions and looking to
Speaker 2: go back to back.
Speaker 5: Love you, Jimmy, love you calling all right, man, Well,
Speaker 5: great to hear your voice.
Speaker 7: Eight sixty six nine seven two five seven. Again we're
Speaker 7: in a rain delay Dodger Talk here on NI seven,
Speaker 7: DLA Sports and the Dodgers Audio Network. They have finished
Speaker 7: squeezing off the tarp that is on the field at
Speaker 7: Truest Park in Atlanta. The rain has been now falling
Speaker 7: for just about forty five minutes or so.
Speaker 5: You've been in this rain.
Speaker 7: Delay, and we've got eyes on the field at Truest Park,
Speaker 7: and they have the grounds crew lined up in a
Speaker 7: row in left field in preparation of rolling this bad
Speaker 7: boy up. And it's not supposed to stop raining, from
Speaker 7: what we understand. Dwayne McDonald, the great Dodger producer, engineer
Speaker 7: in the booth with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett, it's
Speaker 7: not supposed to stop raining, but it'll be a drizzle.
Speaker 7: It'll be good enough for them to get an inning
Speaker 7: into baseball in and hopefully it can be a quick
Speaker 7: inning and the Dodgers can come out of this with
Speaker 7: the two to one win, if not more, by attacking
Speaker 7: on some runs to the top half of the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: And again, they've played eight full innings at Truest Park,
Speaker 7: Dodgers a two to one lead. It'll resume with the
Speaker 7: Dodgers batting in the top half of the ninth inning
Speaker 7: real quick before we get back out to the phones.
Speaker 7: In case you missed it, yesterday, the Dodgers added a
Speaker 7: pair of relievers, claiming JP Fireheusen off waivers from the
Speaker 7: Arizona Diamondbacks and also picking up Ryan Lutos from Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Both were designated for assignment earlier this week, and the
Speaker 7: corresponding Knew moves Michael Kopek and Blake Trining, were moved
Speaker 7: to the sixty day IL. Now, keep in mind, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers have already used twenty three different pitchers through thirty
Speaker 7: one games this year, one more than the Braves and
Speaker 7: the Orioles for the most of the major leagues. Again,
Speaker 7: last year, they set a franchise record with forty different
Speaker 7: pitchers used in the twenty twenty four season. Now Here
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty five, already up to twenty three pitchers.
Speaker 7: And we talked about this for the last three weeks,
Speaker 7: the amount of usage the bullpen is getting.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to add more arms because.
Speaker 7: They just cannot maintain this pace of pitching two out
Speaker 7: of every three days or three out of it four days,
Speaker 7: and the amount of innings that continue to rack up
Speaker 7: for high leverage and low leverage relievers. They just can't
Speaker 7: do that, and they don't have the depth right now
Speaker 7: in TRIPAA to bring guys up and to eat innings.
Speaker 7: And so what we've seen this Dodger front office do
Speaker 7: over the years, go out pick up guys like Brent
Speaker 7: Honeywell off of waivers and they come in and they
Speaker 7: eat up innings like pac Man. And tonight the Dodgers
Speaker 7: did that again, acquiring right hander Ryan Lutos from the
Speaker 7: Cardinals for cash considerations and picking up old friend JP
Speaker 7: firehis and off waivers from the Diambacks, who Jp has
Speaker 7: already pitched for the Dodgers the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: So there'll be.
Speaker 7: Arms that will come in and help out this Dodgers team,
Speaker 7: like the Luis Garcias of the world, who have been
Speaker 7: really big for the Dodgers, helping them out here the
Speaker 7: first month of the season. A Luis Garcia who many
Speaker 7: didn't even know who he was and certainly didn't expect
Speaker 7: him to be pitching this much for the Dodgers in
Speaker 7: the first thirty one games eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 7: five seventy of the good news is the tarp is
Speaker 7: being rolled up right now as we speak at Truest
Speaker 7: Park in Atlanta, So this game is scheduled to start
Speaker 7: a little after seven point thirty Pacific ten thirty Eastern,
Speaker 7: and we'll get it back out to the booth with
Speaker 7: Tim Neverd and Rick Monday, shortly before they resume this game,
Speaker 7: which we'll start back up in the top half of
Speaker 7: the ninth inning. Freddie Freeman will be due up for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers. We'll see who the Atlanta Braves throw back
Speaker 7: out there in the top half of the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: After this, it will be about an hour raindo lay
Speaker 7: hour plus rainde lay in Atlanta. Let's go back out
Speaker 7: to the phone. So let's go to Paul and Elsa.
Speaker 7: Gundo has been very patient. You're on raind Lay Dodger
Speaker 7: talk here, Paul, are you doing good?
Speaker 9: Till?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Hey? Early Strange off the cut. So, I've been in
Speaker 4: the movie business for thirty years and I am a
Speaker 4: riflong Dodger. How do I get a job holding the hose?
Speaker 4: What they do to the infields for my retire my job?
Speaker 1: I want a.
Speaker 4: Job just holding the hose in the spring of it.
Speaker 4: How do I do that?
Speaker 5: Any aggress Yeah, you want me the hose guy, Paul,
Speaker 5: I get that. I understand what you want to do.
Speaker 7: You have to go to school for that, probably you
Speaker 7: have to probably get a master's degree, get holding a hose.
Speaker 7: So I would have figured that's what you have to
Speaker 7: go do. If you were a coaching move that you
Speaker 7: wanted to make, I would suggest the Masters in Coaching
Speaker 7: at Concordi University of your Vine if you wanted to
Speaker 7: get into that. If you wanted to find out more
Speaker 7: about how to better your career, Paul in Elsigundo as
Speaker 7: a coach or administrator CUI dot edu slash coaching CUI
Speaker 7: dot edu slash coaching again to better your career, Paul,
Speaker 7: But as soon as like you've been in the business
Speaker 7: for thirty years, the movie business, which certainly has taken
Speaker 7: a turn for the worse, I guess as far as
Speaker 7: production here unfortunately in Southern California, a lot of things
Speaker 7: moving out of Southern California into other states.
Speaker 5: As far as.
Speaker 7: Filming, which we hate to see, including Atlanta, Georgia, where
Speaker 7: they film a lot of things now. So if you're
Speaker 7: looking for changing your career, Paul, may I suggest coaching
Speaker 7: or an athletic director CUI dot edu slash coaching. Adam
Speaker 7: and Phoenix out in the six OZ two was just
Speaker 7: out there last week.
Speaker 5: How you doing Adam what JT. What's going on?
Speaker 11: Adam?
Speaker 3: So, yeah, so I like that. I also want to
Speaker 3: hold a hose.
Speaker 1: But uh, dude, we're we're all good. Stop, We're all good.
Speaker 3: It from the pitching standpoint, I think everybody needs to
Speaker 3: chill out.
Speaker 1: We're all good.
Speaker 12: All.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, Adam, Yeah, all good and the Dodgers
Speaker 7: feeling all good right now with the two to one
Speaker 7: lead as the game will resume officially at seven thirty five.
Speaker 7: They will resume the game at seven thirty five Pacific,
Speaker 7: ten thirty five Eastern. The tarpa is off the field,
Speaker 7: the grounds crew is working on home plate in the
Speaker 7: pitcher's mound right now, and we're starting to see some
Speaker 7: of the players starting around in the dugouts there for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves. So again, this game
Speaker 7: will resume with after an hour plus raindo Lay in Atlanta.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers a two to one lead in this game
Speaker 7: going to the top half of the ninth inning. Nico
Speaker 7: in Torrance joints us here on Raindolay, Dodgers talk.
Speaker 5: Hi do a Nico, good, how you doing man?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good. Better now that they're going to resume
Speaker 7: this game. Hopefully the Dodgers can get a win.
Speaker 13: I know, yeah, I'm right there with you. I want
Speaker 13: to take a minute talk about Dalton Rushing. Yeah, I
Speaker 13: really pegged him to get called up last year, and
Speaker 13: I was surprised when the Dodgers signed Michael Confordo for
Speaker 13: this season. I really like Rushing's offensive game. I know
Speaker 13: he's not there, he's so somewhat of a question mark defensively.
Speaker 13: Maybe that's holding him back, but I did think that
Speaker 13: he was gonna play left field for us start and
Speaker 13: starting at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that experiment has ended, Nico, and I
Speaker 7: appreciate the phone call. He's not playing left field anymore,
Speaker 7: and that was something they tried with Dalton Rushing in
Speaker 7: the second half of the minor league season last year.
Speaker 7: Seeing that there's a roadblock at both catcher and first base,
Speaker 7: well at least for the immediate future. At first base,
Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman's not getting any younger. But when you signed
Speaker 7: Will Smith to a ten year contract, right there is
Speaker 7: a roadblock for anybody below Will Smith at the catching position.
Speaker 7: And we've already seen the Dodgers trade off a couple
Speaker 7: of their young catching prospects. Now, Dalton Rushing is the
Speaker 7: next in line for the Dodgers behind the plate. As
Speaker 7: I mentioned, they played him in left field a couple
Speaker 7: of games last year. In the minor leagues, he's been
Speaker 7: primarily a designated hitter and a catcher in TRIPAA, Oklahoma City.
Speaker 7: Now the offense, there's no question he can produce. The
Speaker 7: twenty four year old. He's a left handed hitting catcher.
Speaker 7: In seventy six at bats already, he's hitting three sixteen
Speaker 7: with a nine to thirty two OPS with three home
Speaker 7: runs and eleven RBIs. So the production is there for
Speaker 7: Dalton Rushing. I just don't know what his future is
Speaker 7: with the Dodgers at the big league level. And I
Speaker 7: say that having doing the Farmer Report on off night
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk for the last couple of years and seeing
Speaker 7: his rise and seeing other catchers like Diego Kartaia as
Speaker 7: an example, be shipped off and again, you're gonna run
Speaker 7: into a wall at the major league level when you've
Speaker 7: got Austin Barnes, a veteran, and you've got Will Smith
Speaker 7: who's here for the long haul catching, and you're not
Speaker 7: gonna move Dalton Rushing to the left field because it
Speaker 7: just didn't work.
Speaker 5: So where does he fit? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think it'll be interesting to see what his future
Speaker 7: is past the trade deadline this year top prospect. Dodgers
Speaker 7: have some needs at other positions, certainly pitching, and the
Speaker 7: lack of starting pitchers that are healthy right now has
Speaker 7: been an issue. Could the Dodgers use him to go
Speaker 7: out and get some help as far as arms the
Speaker 7: second half of the season, legitimate arms to help him
Speaker 7: the second half of the season, another bat in the outfield.
Speaker 5: We'll find out.
Speaker 7: But the more and more you look at Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 7: he's not getting any younger. He's twenty four and he's
Speaker 7: kind of got to that pinnacle of the minor leagues
Speaker 7: at TRIPAA. Where where do you go after that? You're
Speaker 7: producing offensively? What else is there left for you to prove?
Speaker 5: Not much?
Speaker 7: He's just hit a wall with Will Smith and Austin
Speaker 7: Barnes ahead of him at the catching spot. So we'll
Speaker 7: see what the Dodgers end up doing. It's only the
Speaker 7: beginning of May, but certainly something to keep in mind,
Speaker 7: and I think it could be where the Dodgers are
Speaker 7: late leading to maybe dealing him at the trade deadline,
Speaker 7: because he is a highly sought after prospect and certainly
Speaker 7: somebody who could be playing at the major league level
Speaker 7: for a long time, like a Kyle Schwarber. Is the
Speaker 7: best comp that players have been compared to him with,
Speaker 7: you know, former catcher, a guy who maybe can be
Speaker 7: a DH for you, maybe play a little first base,
Speaker 7: a little bit of outfield when needed, but primarily a
Speaker 7: designated hitter. Michael and Shatsworth is next up here on
Speaker 7: rain Delayed Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: How you doing there, Michael, just fine.
Speaker 11: David and I want to first off, just thank all
Speaker 11: you radio guys for the great job you do. Your
Speaker 11: your insights and explanations and stuff are delightful.
Speaker 1: David, you're one of the good ones.
Speaker 11: And Tim and Steven and Mo those guys are absolutely tops.
Speaker 11: They are. They have taken up where Vince Scully left off.
Speaker 11: And oh, by the way, I'm not looking for a job.
Speaker 11: About the only thing I'd be good for as a
Speaker 11: coach would be to help him come up with better
Speaker 11: wise cracks, you know, like go get it out of
Speaker 11: the ocean.
Speaker 5: That was a good one.
Speaker 11: Yeah. My question is what can you tell us about
Speaker 11: Charlie Steiner, I have a family situation with blood cancer,
Speaker 11: and Charlie is an inspiration besides being a terrific broadcaster.
Speaker 11: What do you know about Charlie, Well.
Speaker 7: We were thinking of Charlie. Appreciate the phone call, Michael.
Speaker 7: Hope to have Charlie part of the broadcast a lot
Speaker 7: more moving forward here. But I know he's resting and
Speaker 7: recovering and getting better day by day. So hopefully we'll
Speaker 7: hear Charlie's voice more and more as the season goes on.
Speaker 7: And you're right, Stephen and Tim have done a great
Speaker 7: job and continue to do a great job calling Dodger
Speaker 7: baseball with the great Rick Monday. So yeah, everybody's doing
Speaker 7: a great job covering and Charlie. Hopefully we'll be back
Speaker 7: soon when he's able to. As looking right now on
Speaker 7: sports and at LA we got ti Oscar Hernandez warming
Speaker 7: up playing catch with Miguel Rojas, so we're getting closer
Speaker 7: to first pitch resuming in Atlanta after an hour plus
Speaker 7: rain delay, Dodgers a two to one lead over the
Speaker 7: Atlanta Braves. Dodger's two runs on four hits, the Atlanta
Speaker 7: Braves just two hits in the game. The first hit
Speaker 7: of the game did not come until the sixth inning
Speaker 7: with two outs, Austin Reiley a two out double off
Speaker 7: of Yoshi Yamamoto, who had a no hitter for five
Speaker 7: and two thirty innings. Now keep in mind he threw
Speaker 7: ninety one pitches, no runs, just the one hit, six strikeouts.
Speaker 7: Going into tonight's start, Yamamoto had an ERRA.
Speaker 5: Just a tick over one tonight.
Speaker 7: If you add these six innings, no runs, one hit,
Speaker 7: six strikeouts, he has now hit forty innings on this season,
Speaker 7: twenty four total hits. He has given up forty nine
Speaker 7: strikeouts in forty innings, and he has lowered his RRAY
Speaker 7: to now zero point nine zero on the season. Again,
Speaker 7: he was just announced earlier today as the National League
Speaker 7: Pitcher of the Month for his record and his roray
Speaker 7: and outs and his dominance in the first half of
Speaker 7: the first month of the season. And he has continued
Speaker 7: to pick up where he left off in October. And
Speaker 7: it's fun to see Yoshiyamamoto dominated on the mount has.
Speaker 5: Become the Friday starter. It's like college baseball.
Speaker 7: Now we have the Tuesday starter, the Friday pitcher, the
Speaker 7: Saturday pitcher. Now you've got Yoshiyamamoto, who has now become
Speaker 7: the Friday starter for the Dodgers, and Roki Sasaki who
Speaker 7: has now become the Saturday starter for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 7: all the other starters are just kind of filling in
Speaker 7: after that, including Dustin May who will get the start
Speaker 7: on Sunday. Our final call. Let's squeeze in Mark and
Speaker 7: leg Forest Mark. Welcome to raindelay Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: HOWI you doing awesome?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. How are you loving me? Sa Yamamoto? Hey,
Speaker 3: I think this rushing thing, this is going to work out.
Speaker 3: We all know Will Smith mid season at that starts
Speaker 3: to slow down. He gets tired. He's great, but I
Speaker 3: think he gets tired. Right, So you have Barnes on
Speaker 3: the roster too, great catcher, great for the pitchers. Right,
Speaker 3: you have Otani coming back. You can use Otani to be,
Speaker 3: you know, as a DH for Barnes when Otani pitches,
Speaker 3: and then you can use rushing behind the plate from
Speaker 3: time behind to give Barnes arrest. Russian can also play
Speaker 3: first base rest freeman a little bit fis feet. I
Speaker 3: think he can fit perfectly into that utility mold with
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and it took a better bat than what
Speaker 3: they have out there with Conforto and Taylor, So find
Speaker 3: a way to get one of those guys off the roster.
Speaker 3: I think he would get enough at bats and benefit
Speaker 3: the team.
Speaker 11: What do you think?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think he could get the bats when Otani
Speaker 7: is pitching that that is certainly a case.
Speaker 5: But that's gonna be once a week. It's not gonna
Speaker 5: be once every five days. It'll be once a week.
Speaker 7: So that's just not enough at bats for a young
Speaker 7: twenty four year old who's trying to set and get
Speaker 7: his you know, bearings here at the big league level.
Speaker 7: I wish it would have worked out for him playing
Speaker 7: left field last year.
Speaker 5: I don't know, if it was just not in the.
Speaker 7: Cards for him, he couldn't figure it out, just didn't
Speaker 7: play good defense and left I don't know, but ideally,
Speaker 7: I imagine, if you to the Dodger front office, if
Speaker 7: he could have figured it out in left field and
Speaker 7: hunkered down as a defensive player in left field, there
Speaker 7: could have been a spot for him. Heck, if they
Speaker 7: would have known that in the offseason, they probably would
Speaker 7: have opened up a spot for him going into left
Speaker 7: field in twenty twenty five as it is, Michael Confordo's signed.
Speaker 7: You got other guys who are playing out there. Andy
Speaker 7: Pie is now playing in center field more so. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we'll see what the future is with Dalton rushing, but
Speaker 7: we know the future of this game.
Speaker 5: We're gonna finish it. So we go to the top
Speaker 5: half of the ninth Inna.
Speaker 7: We played eight full at truest Park, an hour plus
Speaker 7: rain delay, and the tarp.
Speaker 5: Is off the field. They're getting ready to resume play
Speaker 5: when we come back.
Speaker 7: Dodgers a two to one lead over the Atlanta Braves.