Speaker 1: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Nationals Park after the Nationals defeat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight by a final score of eight to two.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk. We're here with you until eight o'clock,
Speaker 2: taking your phone calls at eight sixty six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two, five seventy. After starting the season eight to
Speaker 2: zero and everybody talking about the Dodgers breaking the Mariners
Speaker 2: record of one hundred and sixteen wins, They've lost four
Speaker 2: their last five and lost three in a row. I
Speaker 2: gotta look it up to see if the one Mariners
Speaker 2: ever did that when they were going for their one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixteen wins. But I can tell you that
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lost three in a row three different times
Speaker 2: last year on their way to ninety nine wins, so
Speaker 2: it's not like it's the end of the world. In fact,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' longest losing streak last year was five games
Speaker 2: in the middle of May. So you know, these things
Speaker 2: happened during a long season. And that's why you never
Speaker 2: really heard me jump on the bandwagon for one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixteen wins. It's really hard to do There's a
Speaker 2: lot of different variables that go into a season, like weather,
Speaker 2: like injuries, and the Dodgers have had all of it.
Speaker 2: On this road trip. In Philadelphia, Tyler Glassnell melted down
Speaker 2: in the third inning of his start because of rain.
Speaker 2: Something we have never seen a picture that I can
Speaker 2: remember with the Dodgers doing. And I know the Phillies
Speaker 2: broadcasters saw that. See a lot of teams and pitchers
Speaker 2: come through there and have to deal with rain. They
Speaker 2: said they never seen that either, so they had that.
Speaker 2: They have injuries. Blake's now was supposed to start tonight.
Speaker 2: He's on the il after a couple of weeks of
Speaker 2: the regular season and two stars. He's got left shoulder soreness.
Speaker 2: So Justin Robleski started tonight. They're going to have landon
Speaker 2: next start tomorrow to give this rotation an extra day
Speaker 2: of rest. My point is everybody was getting a little
Speaker 2: too far ahead of themselves after that eight and zero start.
Speaker 2: Was it a great start, of course it was, but
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were getting good starting pitching. They were playing
Speaker 2: at home for the majority of those eight wins. The
Speaker 2: two were in Tokyo. They were riding the emotions of
Speaker 2: being there with Otani and Yamamoto. But since that last
Speaker 2: home stand, or towards the end of that last home stand,
Speaker 2: even against the Braves, the Dodgers were getting sloppy with
Speaker 2: their defense and their offense having the last at bad
Speaker 2: of games, were able to take advantage of that and
Speaker 2: get them a couple of wins or stole a couple
Speaker 2: of wins. You know, it feels like even during that
Speaker 2: eight game winning streak, the Dodgers have been playing by
Speaker 2: playing from behind a lot. And you look at the
Speaker 2: first two games of this series, same thing. They're been
Speaker 2: put in a tough position. The last game on Sunday
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, same thing, put in a deep hole. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have the most comeback wins this season. Six of
Speaker 2: their nine wins are from coming from behind. That's not
Speaker 2: a way to live. It's great that they were able
Speaker 2: to do it, but it's not a way to live.
Speaker 2: They got to start playing with early leads and we
Speaker 2: just haven't seen that. Feels like one thing or another,
Speaker 2: whether it's defense, bad base running, or poor starting pitching,
Speaker 2: has really put them in a hole early in games.
Speaker 2: And it's hard as an offense to feel like, man,
Speaker 2: we gotta get two more runs just to tie it
Speaker 2: up after three innings, or like tonight, you're down eight
Speaker 2: to nothing after four innings. I mean, come on on
Speaker 2: the road in temperatures that felt like with the wind
Speaker 2: chill thirty six degrees, that's not a way to live.
Speaker 2: And Justin Robleski, you know, this was not easy by
Speaker 2: no means to be called up to make a spot
Speaker 2: start in this type of weather. But going back to
Speaker 2: spring training and just being around that clubhouse, you know,
Speaker 2: guys were trying to help Justin Robleski to realize that
Speaker 2: he doesn't have it all figured out, that you may
Speaker 2: want to try to use different pitches in different counts.
Speaker 2: He hung a curveball to James Wood. I know he'd
Speaker 2: been working on the curveball a lot this spring. It
Speaker 2: had looked good in spring training. But everything that looked
Speaker 2: good for Justin Robleski in spring training just didn't look
Speaker 2: good tonight. And the Dodgers fall eight to two, eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. And like I said, the Dodgers, Andrew Friedman,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman show, Heyotani. They had
Speaker 2: never said during spring training or the offseason. After the
Speaker 2: big offseason they had spending half a billion dollars on
Speaker 2: more players, that their goal was to break the Mariners
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixteen win record. That never came out
Speaker 2: of any of those people's mouths. Came out of other
Speaker 2: people's mouths, but it never came out of the guys
Speaker 2: that matter. I'm talking about media people, other players. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Those guys never said that was a priority.
Speaker 2: So one hundred and sixteen wins never was a priority
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. They have never made winning the most
Speaker 2: regular season games a priority. They're trying to win back
Speaker 2: to back World Series championships. And the one thing that
Speaker 2: we have agreed upon even before the Dodgers won the
Speaker 2: World Series, is that Andrew Friedman has pretty much mastered
Speaker 2: how to work one hundred and sixty two games and
Speaker 2: be there at the end. They've won the division every
Speaker 2: year except one since Friedman took over, so they know
Speaker 2: how to manage a full season. And in fact, I
Speaker 2: talked to Andrew Friedman before the game today. Here's what
Speaker 2: he told me about how he evaluates the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season, the highs of an eight to zero start
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't say the lows, but you know the
Speaker 2: adversity of losing four or five. Here's something I used
Speaker 2: to cover the Lakers when Phil Jackson was coaching, and
Speaker 2: he said he never evaluated any of his teams until
Speaker 2: probably a quarterway through the season. Do you look at
Speaker 2: it big picture like that? And also on a day
Speaker 2: to day basis, how do you view it this early
Speaker 2: in the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think you know where we will
Speaker 3: really take stock is basically a third of the season,
Speaker 3: get through May and get a real feel for things.
Speaker 4: That being said, we feel it intensely every day. And
Speaker 4: so it's how not to overreact to things that are,
Speaker 4: you know, happening in a moment in time and try
Speaker 4: to get a bigger, broader perspective before making you know,
Speaker 4: bigger changes.
Speaker 2: All Right, So that was Andrew Friedman giving you a
Speaker 2: peek into how he keeps a level head and obviously
Speaker 2: wants the Dodgers to play well, but is not going
Speaker 2: to overreact and pull Andy Pahz, Send Pahz down, make
Speaker 2: wholetsale changes. After three games sample sizes eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventies, the phone number Dodgers fall to the Nationals
Speaker 2: tonight eight to two. They have lost three in a
Speaker 2: row for their last five. We have two lines open,
Speaker 2: so let's go out to the phones. Tonight is your night.
Speaker 2: I want to hear where all the roller coaster fans are.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to La Eric. You're on Dodger Talk, Dave.
Speaker 5: I'm first of all, I agree with your take on
Speaker 5: the fact that they should not go for the record.
Speaker 5: I was always in agreement with that. I always said,
Speaker 5: just get to the playoffs and let's see what happens.
Speaker 2: Right, but don't get to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Don't look now because after starting eight to oh, we're
Speaker 5: we're third in our division right now, right, which is
Speaker 5: crazy to think. And I don't want to say this,
Speaker 5: but I think they might have started feeling themselves. Man.
Speaker 5: You know people talking about one sixty two and oh,
Speaker 5: you know after the eight and oh, after giving up
Speaker 5: zero unearned runs, all of a sudden, their defense becomes
Speaker 5: a sieve the unearned runs. After that, you know that
Speaker 5: that's one thing you can control is your defense, and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers have been lackluster on that end, which I will.
Speaker 2: Say that though it's not just the defense, but what's
Speaker 2: happened here in the last four or five games. Is
Speaker 2: bet starting pitching tonight with Robleski with Glass now on
Speaker 2: Sunday and Roki Sazaki is still a work in progress
Speaker 2: and only going four plus innings, so starting pitching really
Speaker 2: hasn't helped them outside of Dustin May and Yamamoto so far.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that and now when you look at his start,
Speaker 5: I mean how many he was it? One under and
Speaker 5: run and give it with five runs?
Speaker 2: Yeah, now sells on the l.
Speaker 5: I know, I get it, you know, and look you
Speaker 5: here here, I'll leave with this. I think. Look, it
Speaker 5: might be a little too soon to pull the plug
Speaker 5: on Bets that short stuff, but I'm hoping sooner or
Speaker 5: later you do that, okay, because you.
Speaker 2: Know where does he play?
Speaker 5: Look where does he play? Put him in put him
Speaker 5: in the outfield, maybe put him in center, put him
Speaker 5: in center, leekl out right, and.
Speaker 2: You are a smart because there is you can't put
Speaker 2: him in right because Taeoscar Hernandez is there, and you
Speaker 2: can't put him in left because you paid Michael Conforto
Speaker 2: eighteen million dollars, So you need some defensive help and
Speaker 2: center and Mookie Betts can play center. Field. If he
Speaker 2: wants action and wants to be engaged and be in
Speaker 2: every play, centerfield would be his spot.
Speaker 5: And you know, look, the middle end feels so important. Man,
Speaker 5: you can't have like I love Betts. I love that
Speaker 5: he's trying to do that. Let me ask you another question.
Speaker 5: Let me this is the only question I'm to leave
Speaker 5: with you. One was the last time a player in
Speaker 5: the middle of his career moved from one position to shortstop?
Speaker 5: That is absolutely unheard of. Man. I admire the BET's
Speaker 5: trying to do that, but man, come on now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, usually guys over thirty that have played that position
Speaker 2: their entire careers, they they move off that position, they
Speaker 2: don't move to that position. And that's why what Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts is attempting to do is unprecedented. The best right
Speaker 2: fielder in the game trying to play shortstop, and he's
Speaker 2: doing the best he can, and he's put in a
Speaker 2: lot of work this offseason. I disagree with pulling the
Speaker 2: plug on him playing shortstop right now. Like you heard
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman said, let the season breathe a little bit,
Speaker 2: Give this guy a chance. Eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you know it's I know it's hard for everybody to
Speaker 2: understand why he's playing shortstop. Sometimes I wonder the same thing,
Speaker 2: But tonight, Mookie Bets playing shortstop was not the reason
Speaker 2: why they lost, by the way. James Wood a really
Speaker 2: good player. I know a lot of times we focus
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers and what they did right or what
Speaker 2: they did wrong, but there's some good players on other teams,
Speaker 2: and James Wood is a really good player. That's why
Speaker 2: he was one of the centerpieces of the trade that
Speaker 2: sent Juan Soto to San Diego for James Wood for
Speaker 2: CJ Abrams and the guy you saw last night, Mackenzie Gore,
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Jean in Los Angeles. Gene, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: Gene, Hi, David, First of all, you are just terrific.
Speaker 6: I so admire everything you do. I love the way
Speaker 6: you're critical and yet supportive and just so smart about everything.
Speaker 6: So I just love listening to you. But last day, no,
Speaker 6: it's true, It's true. Last Saturday you talked about Austin
Speaker 6: Barnes and how important he was to Susake calming down
Speaker 6: and having a better outing. And if I know that
Speaker 6: Austin Barnes caught his second game, and I think he
Speaker 6: caught his first. So and today Austin Barnes was there
Speaker 6: for lub Letsky and he was calling the game. And
Speaker 6: I mean, you critics sized the young pitcher because he
Speaker 6: was using the wrong pitches. Is that Austin Barnes responsibility
Speaker 6: or you know, yes.
Speaker 2: But in that situation, you gotta the pitcher has got
Speaker 2: to have conviction in it. And there were a couple
Speaker 2: of times where maybe he shook him off as well.
Speaker 2: But that's uh, that's a good point with the pitch calling.
Speaker 2: But let's say Austin Barnes calls a certain pitch, if
Speaker 2: if Robleski doesn't have conviction behind it, then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, is it going to be the best pitch
Speaker 2: that he can throw. But that's a fair point. Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes was behind the plate tonight. If I'm going to
Speaker 2: give him credit for Sazaki the other night, then I gotta,
Speaker 2: I gotta, you know, give him some responsibility for tonight.
Speaker 2: And actually Barnes did not catch the first two starts
Speaker 2: for Suzaki. Will Smith did, so you know, it just
Speaker 2: wasn't a good night for the battery Robleski and Barnes tonight,
Speaker 2: can we agree on that?
Speaker 6: Okay? Fair enough? Fair enough? Can I ask you when
Speaker 6: is Freddy coming back?
Speaker 2: Great question, and that's a question I want to ask
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts tomorrow Freddy is eligible to come off the IL.
Speaker 2: I believe either Friday or Saturday. We all know the
Speaker 2: Freddie walk Off Grand Slam Bobblehead is on Friday. It
Speaker 2: would be great if he was back in the starting
Speaker 2: lineup for that, So we'll get that information for you tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: Can I ask you one last question? With him doing
Speaker 6: down well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's doing really well. The new swing he's eliminated, the
Speaker 2: lad kick, the overahul of the swing that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: helped him with with in spring training has started to
Speaker 2: show results. He's playing great defense in center and short
Speaker 2: and second. So yeah, things are starting to come together
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 6: How soon do you think he'll be up?
Speaker 2: He'll be here. He'll be here at some point, but
Speaker 2: right now, I don't believe it's going to.
Speaker 6: Happen later rather than sooner.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes. Guys get hurt, Guys, go
Speaker 2: into slumps. I think really the guys that you know
Speaker 2: Kim would replace on this roster, or Andy pie Has,
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor, Miguel Rojas, and I don't see Rojas or
Speaker 2: Taylor going anywhere. And Pie Has tonight was on base
Speaker 2: three times and hit a home run, So I think
Speaker 2: we have to give him a little bit of an
Speaker 2: opportunity as well.
Speaker 6: Do you okay? Promise last question? Has instinct are just.
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: He's not a center fielder. He's not a center fielder.
Speaker 5: And I could see Kim.
Speaker 2: Kim would play center field, he would play second, he
Speaker 2: would play short when he did, and you know, Kim
Speaker 2: could fit this roster and hit ninth and get on bass,
Speaker 2: get that speed going and get on base for Otani
Speaker 2: and flip that lineup over. Gotta run, Gene, thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: to eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's fair, Gene said. I praised Austin Barnes for Suzaki
Speaker 2: and tonight Robleski gave up eight runs. That's fair, you know,
Speaker 2: fair and balanced. I like that. Let's go out to Valencia. Carlos,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger talk. How are you doing, Carlos? Hey,
Speaker 2: let me ask you a question, Carlos, who do you
Speaker 2: think would win in a race? Adrian Gonzalez in his
Speaker 2: prime or Max Munsey right now?
Speaker 7: I mean, Max.
Speaker 5: Morty looks a little you know, he looks all right.
Speaker 2: I don't sneaky fast right, speaky fast money. Yes, the
Speaker 2: only guy Adrian Gonzalez could beat in a in a
Speaker 2: foot race was me. That was the only guy he
Speaker 2: could beat.
Speaker 5: I believe you.
Speaker 7: Dude.
Speaker 5: Listen about the Max Mrcy.
Speaker 8: You know, keeping everything in perspective, you know, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: are on pace to win one hundred and twelve games,
Speaker 8: so you know they look crappy these last few games,
Speaker 8: but you know it's it's it's week two or whatever.
Speaker 8: Having said that, like, I hate to dump on Marcy,
Speaker 8: but but you are the heels of an on the
Speaker 8: heels of it already terrible twenty twenty four, This dude
Speaker 8: is off to an atrocious start. I mean, and it's
Speaker 8: not just the numbers.
Speaker 5: He can't catch up to the fastball. He's he's fooled
Speaker 5: by any off speed.
Speaker 8: And not to mention, he's he's an average defender at best.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think.
Speaker 8: They need to give I would say, Chris Taylor, give
Speaker 8: me playing a few games.
Speaker 2: You just said it yourself. Spin twelve games, thirteen games,
Speaker 2: you're really gonna say Max Monsey's done. He is in
Speaker 2: the last year of his contract, so you know, let's
Speaker 2: see where it goes. But really we're gonna say, you're
Speaker 2: gonna say, on one side, it's been thirteen games. But
Speaker 2: because you have it and everybody else seems to now
Speaker 2: have a bullseye on Max Mounsey. Last year was Chris Taylor.
Speaker 2: Now everybody is all over Max Munsey. I think you
Speaker 2: all got to give him a little bit of a
Speaker 2: more time. At least call me in May. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about this in May.
Speaker 5: Hold on, it's been twelve games this year. Last year
Speaker 5: he was terrible, he was hurt.
Speaker 2: He played thirty three games last year. Do you know
Speaker 2: that he failed the record in the NLCS for getting
Speaker 2: on base the most consecutive times twelve consecutive played appearances
Speaker 2: getting on base? You know he serves the purpose right,
Speaker 2: He sees a lot of pitches. There is a like
Speaker 2: I say, the sum is greater than the parts.
Speaker 8: Carlos, listen, listen, Like I said, I hate the dump
Speaker 8: on the guy, all right, because you know, but.
Speaker 2: You are after twelve games. I mean, come on, sorry,
Speaker 2: this doesn't hold a lot of credibility with me right now.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, he called me back in May.
Speaker 2: I'll remember you. Call me back in May. Call me
Speaker 2: back in May.
Speaker 8: Hopefully, hopefully I call you back, and I say, you
Speaker 8: know what, I don't know what. I don't know what
Speaker 8: the hell I was saying, but but I don't know.
Speaker 2: You just said the Dodgers are not on the hill,
Speaker 2: but the next month's he's a disaster and he can't
Speaker 2: field the ground ball at third base. That's what you're
Speaker 2: telling me.
Speaker 5: Is he better than average? Do you think he's better
Speaker 5: than average fielder?
Speaker 2: Yes, the scouts say it, the scanner reports say it,
Speaker 2: the analytics support it. He's above average as a defender. Well,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you. That's for a phone call, Carlos.
Speaker 2: I left you speechless. Yeah. Sorry. You know, it just
Speaker 2: feels like fans zero in on a player that doesn't
Speaker 2: have a good game or a stretch of games, and
Speaker 2: they're all over them. Do you hear me kick Chris
Speaker 2: Taylor when he's down. We all know what's going on
Speaker 2: with Chris Taylor. We all know what was going on
Speaker 2: with him last year. He didn't perform up to what
Speaker 2: we're used to seeing Chris Taylor. But the facts are
Speaker 2: the Dodgers still won the World Series. He was the
Speaker 2: twenty six men on the bench. We're not gonna get
Speaker 2: all over Chris Taylor. Max Munsey was not the reason
Speaker 2: why the Dodgers lost tonight. Yeah. Did he have a
Speaker 2: couple of bat at bats, Yeah, he struck out three times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna tell me on one side it's
Speaker 2: only twelve games, you can't now tell me, oh, well,
Speaker 2: thirteen games in Max Montsey just completely stinks. And I'm
Speaker 2: not I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all.
Speaker 2: There's a resume, there's a track record, there's a functionality
Speaker 2: to what he means to the lineup. And like I said,
Speaker 2: if this continues as far as the offense goes and
Speaker 2: the defense being spotty for a month thirty games, then
Speaker 2: we could talk about it, but not right now. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check in with
Speaker 2: Jose Mota. Plus we have three lines open month. Sy
Speaker 2: hater line very available. Actually it's not. It's usually full
Speaker 2: for whatever reason this year. Dodgers fall to the Nationals
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Speaker 9: Keik swings Hammers won the left. This ball deep and
Speaker 9: heading to the wall. It is gone.
Speaker 2: It's a home run for Kik.
Speaker 9: Key k Hernandez with four hits on the season, all
Speaker 9: four of them have been home runs, and the score
Speaker 9: is now eight to two.
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Nationals eight to two. That was
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Speaker 2: Dodgers were down eight to nothing after four innings. Today,
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Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number, you know. I feel like when a player's
Speaker 2: really good, we take him for granted, and because he's
Speaker 2: not on this road trip, we forget that. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: are missing Freddie Freeman. I know they got good players
Speaker 2: at almost every position, elite players at a lot of
Speaker 2: their positions. But this offense starts with Otani, Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 2: That's what gets this offense going. And instead of having
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman hitting third, you've had to move up tom
Speaker 2: Y Edmond to third, who lengthens your lineup later in
Speaker 2: the order. And you have keyk Hernandez playing out a
Speaker 2: position at first base. And Key k only has four
Speaker 2: hits this year, four for third, and as you heard
Speaker 2: Tim Neverts say on the home run call, all four
Speaker 2: of his hits are home runs. You had Austin Barnes
Speaker 2: catching tonight, hitting ninth. I don't want to pick on him,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't have a hit. He's over ten this season.
Speaker 2: And you know that ninth spot in the Dodger order
Speaker 2: has not been as good as it was a year
Speaker 2: ago at this time, when Gavin lux was hitting ninth
Speaker 2: and turning that lineup over for Otani, Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 2: So those are a couple of things to keep in mind.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers miss Freddy Freeman. Let's not forget about him.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to San Clemente. Chris,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk live from our nation's capitol.
Speaker 5: Hi, Chris, Hey, how's going?
Speaker 2: What do you got for me? Chris?
Speaker 1: Hey? I just want to like the other. The other
Speaker 1: call it a confrey. It's like you can't, like you said,
Speaker 1: you can't say where. It's only twelve games in and
Speaker 1: then you're coming out to the Dodgers, right, we're twelve.
Speaker 2: Games in monthly.
Speaker 1: If you're coming out players in general, right, you got
Speaker 1: to get a feel of the game. It's a new season.
Speaker 1: It's new pictures you're seeing, it's a whole new rotation
Speaker 1: and everything's out there. You got to get a feel
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 5: Yes he was hurt.
Speaker 7: If this was all Star.
Speaker 1: Break getting close to it and you're still acting like this,
Speaker 1: I get it, then you can come like, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: it's time to take a step back. Maybe get some
Speaker 1: minor league games in and get your swing going, or
Speaker 1: get some other players in there.
Speaker 5: But we still have time.
Speaker 1: Dodgers had hurt players last year, and guess well, we're
Speaker 1: still the best record, right and we still had the
Speaker 1: West going, and we still had people that were in
Speaker 1: there that were injured off on the injury list, and
Speaker 1: we're still able to do it. Our roster only got better.
Speaker 1: Was still going to take time for everyone to get together,
Speaker 1: get things to her buried out. We know we could
Speaker 1: come from behind. We had six games already that we
Speaker 1: came from behind already this season. We can do it.
Speaker 1: Just give them time, Like it's too early, way too
Speaker 1: early in the season to be coming after anybody right now,
Speaker 1: Like if they were in their shoes right again, they're professionals,
Speaker 1: they got to be better, but guess what, they're still human.
Speaker 1: They still got to figure things.
Speaker 2: Out all right, Chris, thanks for the phone call. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine seven two five seventy. I remember Andre
Speaker 2: Ethier telling me and just stressing the fact that a
Speaker 2: lot of people don't realize and even players that are
Speaker 2: playing in the game, every season is unique to itself.
Speaker 2: You could have hit thirty home runs last year, that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean things are going to fall the same way.
Speaker 2: You've got to start from the bottom and climb to
Speaker 2: the top in this marathon of a season. And that's
Speaker 2: why that that's why the great ones, the Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame ones are so elite because they're able to put
Speaker 2: it together for their entire careers. The all Stars, the
Speaker 2: perennial all stars, like Freddie Freeman. That's why he's so great.
Speaker 2: He's able to start again from the beginning, and every
Speaker 2: year is unique. But he at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: he's always there with two hundred hits and and being
Speaker 2: a great eight hitter. So that's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to a Hambra, Javier, you're on Dodgery
Speaker 2: Talk with David veasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Aavier, Hey, things are taking my call. Hey, let's bump
Speaker 7: the brice a little right. The sky isn't falling yet.
Speaker 7: I think things will come well, we'll fall where they're
Speaker 7: supposed to fall, right, Freddy Freeman, it's crazy the effect
Speaker 7: of him being out, what it has on this Dodger's lineup.
Speaker 7: They looked a little lost about him. That's what I think,
Speaker 7: Max Muncy, I won't to worry about breaking.
Speaker 2: Out a lot more. It just button is them being
Speaker 2: passed the right way. They struck out fifteen times tonight.
Speaker 2: Keyk strikes out a lot. He's not Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 5: It hurts.
Speaker 2: So I wouldn't say it's it's not hitting on all cylinders.
Speaker 2: But you know they're just striking out too much right
Speaker 2: now on this road trip.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And then I think Max Moncy, I'll start to
Speaker 7: get concerned when he's not seeing a lot of pitches.
Speaker 7: He watch a lot of pitches and that's usually very
Speaker 7: good for him. And it's just stopped falling into place
Speaker 7: for him. And that's that's fine. It's a long season.
Speaker 7: But also give some credits to this nationals team. They're
Speaker 7: a good young team, right and they're only going to
Speaker 7: get better, I think.
Speaker 2: But that's really all that players, and look, they're trying
Speaker 2: to make a name for themselves and doing it against
Speaker 2: the Dodgers is going to uh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it's their world series this
Speaker 2: early in the year, but you know they're up for
Speaker 2: this series, all right. Thanks for the phone call, Javier,
Speaker 2: And I will say this. I remember Max Munsey telling
Speaker 2: me a few years back. It's not the home runs
Speaker 2: that tell you when he's going good. It's when he's
Speaker 2: seeing a lot of pitches, like our caller Javier said,
Speaker 2: and he's taking walks. That's a big part of his game.
Speaker 2: It's not just about the home runs. It's about walking
Speaker 2: and having a good strikeout to walk ratio. He's gonna
Speaker 2: strike out a lot his share of times. I mean,
Speaker 2: the most he's ever struck out in a season is
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty three times. And considering this day
Speaker 2: and age and if you're a three true outcome player,
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty times isn't that much. But he
Speaker 2: told me a few years back, when he's going good
Speaker 2: and seeing the baseball, he's walking, it's not just the
Speaker 2: home runs. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers fall to the Nationals.
Speaker 2: Tonight eight to two. Let's head out to check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota. It's time to go around the horn
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota. Yeah, Jose Mota. Max Mounsey three strikeouts
Speaker 2: tonight did not look good. But man, I it feels
Speaker 2: like Max Munsey now has become the target of Dodger
Speaker 2: fans to blame everything that goes wrong on him.
Speaker 10: Well, that's how my look Dodgers. The last five games,
Speaker 10: Max Monsey has not been on the man when they've
Speaker 10: had a five ra or what twenty four batters and
Speaker 10: forty one innings. But I can understand the frustration with
Speaker 10: the fans. I truly can understand. But at the same time,
Speaker 10: every single part, every single piece, plays its own part. Okay,
Speaker 10: you have a role to play in this ball club.
Speaker 10: Max Months, He's not expected to carry the team like
Speaker 10: a show Hey or Mookie or Freddie Freeman or even
Speaker 10: Will Smith. But he does a lot of things You've
Speaker 10: explained well through the years. Going back to the NLCS,
Speaker 10: one of the biggest hits came early in that series
Speaker 10: for Max Months against Thang. I mean that kind of
Speaker 10: broke a lot of things out. But Max Mounts will
Speaker 10: be the first one to tell you he's not where
Speaker 10: he needs to be. He needs to be more in time,
Speaker 10: He needs to be more into a consistency on topic
Speaker 10: with swinging approach at times, very patient at times we're
Speaker 10: going to seem to get more more, more aggressive. But
Speaker 10: he's not the reason the team is striking a way
Speaker 10: too much. They are not putting the ball in play.
Speaker 10: They're on base percentage coming into today very unusual, Dodger
Speaker 10: number three thirteen. So it's amount of things that happened.
Speaker 10: But obviously when things don't look well, one guy's going
Speaker 10: to be picked on, and it's Max Mumsey this time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Jose Dave Roberts has said this year
Speaker 2: after year being the manager of the Dodgers, it's the
Speaker 2: starting pitcher that day that sets the tone. And to
Speaker 2: get a winning streak going, you got to get some
Speaker 2: good starting pitching. And part of the reason why the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have lost four or five is because their starters
Speaker 2: are walking a lot, they're giving up a lot of runs,
Speaker 2: and they're not going deep into games.
Speaker 10: Well, i mean, how do they beat Trek Skoogle, how
Speaker 10: do they beat Chris Sale? Because with one swing, the
Speaker 10: pitchers on the mound. The starters were able to allow
Speaker 10: the offense to do that, right, But it's gonna it's
Speaker 10: gonna come around. I mean there was one point last
Speaker 10: year when the Values were a five hundred team for
Speaker 10: many weeks and they came out of one ninety eight games. Now,
Speaker 10: these are periods now where I really enjoy talking to
Speaker 10: you a little bit more because there's more to pike
Speaker 10: on and more to analyze I should say on things
Speaker 10: that need to be fixed, and one of them is
Speaker 10: the team that you have for longer, longer at bats.
Speaker 10: They need to understand that it's not just going to
Speaker 10: be all about the long ball. The Dodgers have not
Speaker 10: even had a lot of opportunity women in scoring position,
Speaker 10: way more from the opposing side against them, and the
Speaker 10: long ball is gonna be the regardless, but they need
Speaker 10: to get back into more team at bats, the same
Speaker 10: approach we saw perhaps the first what five six games
Speaker 10: with two strikes with two outs, where you sacrifice a
Speaker 10: little bit of power to work the guy in the
Speaker 10: mound and know that you still teem to be no
Speaker 10: matter what, you're the most talented team, the deepest team,
Speaker 10: but nonetheless, obviously without Freddy Freeman, and the em persistency
Speaker 10: of not having him look in the same line up
Speaker 10: for a while. It does put a little damper on
Speaker 10: things on how they should be and how they're gonna
Speaker 10: look a little bit later, which is gonna be much better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Andrew Friedman joined us on the pregame show,
Speaker 2: and he said as much. He feels like the offense
Speaker 2: had not reached its potential by a long ways, and
Speaker 2: he believes the Dodgers are so far a little too
Speaker 2: reliant on scoring runs by hitting home runs. So even
Speaker 2: the guy the boss feels that way that they could
Speaker 2: be better at putting the ball in play and keeping
Speaker 2: the line moving instead of just trying to wing for
Speaker 2: home runs.
Speaker 10: And again the same way that you got to have
Speaker 10: the mentality of beating good pitching. You're not gonna beat
Speaker 10: good pitching as the season progresses. It's slugging them out. Okay,
Speaker 10: it's gonna happen when you look guys out that have
Speaker 10: good pitchers. Is because you did something back before, in
Speaker 10: front of you, two ahead of you, to get you
Speaker 10: that mistake. Are you going to capitalize on?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 10: So matter of time, way too talented. Many pieces still
Speaker 10: not clicking. But the walks need to again be part
Speaker 10: of this arsenal and more contact perhaps should be better.
Speaker 10: Fifty strikeouts of last five games, that's not going to
Speaker 10: get it done and it just looks too easy for
Speaker 10: the opposing team.
Speaker 2: All right, hose Mo Odo, let's talk about something good.
Speaker 2: And Ben Caspiraus has been one of the bright spots
Speaker 2: from the beginning of this season again comes in in
Speaker 2: relief for Robleski and just dominates his groupings of hitters
Speaker 2: that he was facing out there, two scoreless innings with
Speaker 2: two strikes. Do you believe in a game like this,
Speaker 2: Dodgers down eight nothing, that's tough for Dave Roberts to
Speaker 2: go to Caspirius instead of having him in a situation
Speaker 2: where it's a closer game. Or do you think that
Speaker 2: was something that Dave would rather not have to do.
Speaker 10: This early in the season. You actually have to go
Speaker 10: out there and just keep guys on a more consistent schedule.
Speaker 10: If it was his time to go out there and
Speaker 10: give you two winnings CS, but later in the season,
Speaker 10: when you know he's such a great guy for leverage,
Speaker 10: you're gonna probably hold off. The one thing about Cosparis,
Speaker 10: and we talked about this the other day day spring training.
Speaker 10: Mentality of attacking is there, but also his arm angle
Speaker 10: is a little bit higher. And he told me this
Speaker 10: in one of the bullpens in spring training in Glendell,
Speaker 10: where he says, I think I'll get better bites, I
Speaker 10: get better feel for even rolling a breaking ball for
Speaker 10: a strike early with a higher angle. So he went
Speaker 10: for like forty three degrees of forty forty eight degrees,
Speaker 10: and that's helped him a whole lot because now the
Speaker 10: fastball coming from that slot, he can get some holes
Speaker 10: with a fastball up on the zone because where the
Speaker 10: ball's breaking and the loop at has in his brick
Speaker 10: and ball. But he's a guy that we have never
Speaker 10: heard the excuse that he doesn't like the role or
Speaker 10: that this role is not right from because as a
Speaker 10: starting pitcher, it's not easy to adapt to this. And
Speaker 10: he says, you know, being uncomfortable is the one thing
Speaker 10: you got to get used to it. And he's done
Speaker 10: a remarkable job because the guy goes out there in attack,
Speaker 10: he's got a bulld up mentality, and he throws a
Speaker 10: lot of strikes, a lot of leverage counts, and he
Speaker 10: finishes guys.
Speaker 2: Off and tomorrow Landon Nack another guy that I feel
Speaker 2: is underrated and maybe underappreciated. He was bounced around from
Speaker 2: starting to the bullpen to being sent down to Triple
Speaker 2: A at times last year, but he kept a good
Speaker 2: attitude and was pretty good for the Dodgers. I would
Speaker 2: expect him to have a better start tomorrow than we
Speaker 2: saw from Robleski tonight by a long shot.
Speaker 10: I would think so, because he faced the nets when
Speaker 10: he met his debut last season, and they ambushed him early,
Speaker 10: and he eventually settled down and gave the team a
Speaker 10: chance to win. One thing about Nack, and hear from
Speaker 10: scouts like he does give up a lot of hard als,
Speaker 10: a lot of hard ground balls, but if you look
Speaker 10: at the line, the bottom line is his lines look
Speaker 10: very good. In other words, he might give up, you know,
Speaker 10: a couple of bullets here and there are outs or
Speaker 10: long fly balls, but just great this guy on what
Speaker 10: he did and what he did for you as a
Speaker 10: starter and also long reliever, because the guy is a
Speaker 10: true Dodgers that understands the evolution of pitching, how to
Speaker 10: become a better pitcher, and how to make this stuff
Speaker 10: quite well. So you know, sometimes throw the numbers out.
Speaker 10: His numbers last year were very good, but there's no
Speaker 10: doubt that you got to go out there and give
Speaker 10: him a chance to grow in the big leagues because
Speaker 10: he has shown that he's earned it.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks a lot for the inside, Jose. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you after the game tomorrow and we'll see
Speaker 2: you when we return home to Dodgers Stadium on Friday.
Speaker 2: There he goes, Jose Moda. Always a very interesting dismount
Speaker 2: by Jose, but we appreciate him checking in part of
Speaker 2: the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. The Dodgers fault tonight to
Speaker 2: the Nationals eight to two. Like I mentioned Keik Hernandez Homer,
Speaker 2: so did Andy Pajas, but it was Justin Robleski who
Speaker 2: did not have a very good first start of the year,
Speaker 2: where he went five innings and gave up eight earned runs,
Speaker 2: including a pair of home runs to James Wood, who
Speaker 2: who homered and drove in five runs. The five RBIs
Speaker 2: for James Wood in a very young career, tied a
Speaker 2: career high. Our guy calling ye back at the Burbank Studios,
Speaker 2: by the way, checked on it. The one Mariners who
Speaker 2: won one hundred and sixteen games only lost three games
Speaker 2: in a row once during the two thousand and one season.
Speaker 2: They actually had a four game losing streak. That was
Speaker 2: the only time that they lost three games or more
Speaker 2: during that entire year. The Dodgers have lost three in
Speaker 2: a row for the first time this season. Last year,
Speaker 2: when they won ninety nine games, they lost three in
Speaker 2: a row three different times, including a five game losing
Speaker 2: streak in May. But like I mentioned at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the show, the Dodgers have never had their sights
Speaker 2: on one hundred and sixteen wins one hundred and seventeen wins.
Speaker 2: They've had their sights on being able to keep their
Speaker 2: focus during the regular season, be ready to play every day,
Speaker 2: and make it count in the postseason. Again. They know
Speaker 2: they're going to be judged in the postseason as they
Speaker 2: were last year, and they're trying to become Their mission
Speaker 2: is to become the first team since the Yankees twenty
Speaker 2: five years ago to win back to back championships. It's
Speaker 2: not about the Mariners in one. It's about and by
Speaker 2: the way, in case you're too young to remember, the
Speaker 2: Mariners did not win the World Series that year. They
Speaker 2: were knocked out, So that's not something to Dodgers are
Speaker 2: looking to do this season. If it happens in the
Speaker 2: process of things, that's fine. I mean, after seeing the
Speaker 2: first eight games of the year, he kind of felt
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers were in a different weight class and
Speaker 2: they're starting pitching, and they're pitching as a whole was
Speaker 2: looking so dominant, but all of a sudden, now on
Speaker 2: this road trip, we've seen some pitfalls, some trips, and
Speaker 2: that will happen during a long year. Tomorrow, Landon Knack
Speaker 2: will make his season debut. He went three and five
Speaker 2: last year in twelve starts with the three sixty five ERA.
Speaker 2: He's going up against Jake Irvin, who made thirty three
Speaker 2: starts for the Nationals. Last year, he was ten and
Speaker 2: ten with an ERA of four forty one. He faced
Speaker 2: the Dodgers twice, and his first start he went six
Speaker 2: scoreless against the Dodgers here at Nationals Park in April,
Speaker 2: and then faced the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium in the
Speaker 2: following start and gave up six earned runs. So that's
Speaker 2: something to keep in mind. We'll see if the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have the answer like they had for him at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium Tomorrow. Our coverage begins at noon with Tim Kats
Speaker 2: and First Pitches at one oh five with Rick Monday
Speaker 2: and Tim Neverett live from Nationals Park. Thanks to calling
Speaker 2: you back at our Burbank studios, thanks to Dwayne McDonald
Speaker 2: out here at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: That's also where you can listen to our full conversation
Speaker 2: with Andrew Friedman as well. Once again, the final score
Speaker 2: tonight the Dodgers fall to the Nats eight to two.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. See U.