Speaker 1: Now your host for playoff Dodger Toss sound off Angelinos
Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Techo Park after the Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Padres in Game three of the NLDS six
Speaker 2: to five. This is Dodger Talk David Vase, live at
Speaker 2: Pecho Park in San Diego, taking your phone calls until
Speaker 2: ten thirty tonight at eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. As you know, I don't need to
Speaker 2: remind you. The Dodgers' backs are against the wall. It's
Speaker 2: winner go home tomorrow night in Game four of the NLDS,
Speaker 2: and they are going with a bullpen game. The Padres
Speaker 2: are going with Dylan Cease on three days rest. A
Speaker 2: couple of things about this game before we hear from
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller, from Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: That second inning, you gave up six.
Speaker 2: Runs, Walker Buehler, in that second inning, That's a tough
Speaker 2: way to win a playoff game. Mueller threw thirty three
Speaker 2: pitches in that inning. I applaud him from hanging in
Speaker 2: there to be able to go five innings tonight, but
Speaker 2: that second inning was disastrous. That did the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: and you look back at that inning, a few different
Speaker 2: things happened. The number one thing that stood out to
Speaker 2: me was Walker Buehler had two strikes on virtually every
Speaker 2: one of the eight hitters that he faced or nine hitters,
Speaker 2: because they batted around in that inning and he could
Speaker 2: not put them away. For the most part, two fastball
Speaker 2: to Fernando Tattis Junior, he didn't miss it. The double
Speaker 2: by David Parolta down the line that scored two. Two
Speaker 2: strikes on David Parolta couldn't put them away.
Speaker 3: So I know, we.
Speaker 2: Could talk about the flip play to Gavin Lux that
Speaker 2: wasn't made, or many Machado being in the line for
Speaker 2: obstruction or interference. But if Walker Buehler is able to
Speaker 2: put away those hitters, it's a different game and it's
Speaker 2: a different inning, and that's unfortunate when you go back
Speaker 2: and look at those plays in the second inning. Number one,
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas most certainly should have tossed the ball to
Speaker 2: Gavin Lux on the ground ball by Xander Bogart's that
Speaker 2: was a huge misplay that cost the Dodgers. Jackson Merrill's
Speaker 2: the runner, He's a fast runner. Miguel Rojas, as we
Speaker 2: found out. Doesn't have a lot of range with the
Speaker 2: left groin adductor thing that's going on with him. So
Speaker 2: why are you trying to take it to the bag
Speaker 2: and beat a foot race with Jackson Merrill and try
Speaker 2: to throw make an unassisted double play. Toss the ball
Speaker 2: to Gavin lux who yes, was at the bag and
Speaker 2: ready for the throw. You have to get the out
Speaker 2: right there, and you have to know what your limits are.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if he could do it over again he would,
Speaker 2: But that extended the inning and put runners at first
Speaker 2: and second for David Peralta, who hit double down the
Speaker 2: right field line to score two more runs. So at
Speaker 2: that point three runs were in and the avalanche was happening,
Speaker 2: you know, Manny Machado single, and then the interference call
Speaker 2: on the ground ball by Jackson Merrill. He should have
Speaker 2: been out. He should have been called for interference. I
Speaker 2: don't know how the umpire misses that. Apparently, Miguel Rojas
Speaker 2: told the reporters that the umpire at second base tonight
Speaker 2: told him that, and that was trip. Gibson told him,
Speaker 2: I was looking at the bag, not at Manny Machado's
Speaker 2: bass line, and how he was out of the base line.
Speaker 3: In my opinion and most.
Speaker 2: Everybody else's what about all these other umpires? You're telling
Speaker 2: me the first base umpire, Dan Bellino can't make that call.
Speaker 3: I mean, you got extra umpires.
Speaker 2: Now you're telling me you guys can't get together and
Speaker 2: figure it out. That's not a reviewable play either. So
Speaker 2: that change the complexion of the inning as well. So
Speaker 2: that six run second inning did the Dodgers in the
Speaker 2: Padres never scored in any other inning except that second inning.
Speaker 2: And I'll say this as well for the Dodgers, they
Speaker 2: have shown more fight in this game and in this
Speaker 2: NLDS than what we seen the last two years in
Speaker 2: the postseason from them. So I give them credit for that,
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean anything if you're going home tomorrow
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers have got to find a way to
Speaker 2: force a Game five and bring it back to Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: And you know, I know, I said tonight was a
Speaker 2: must win for the Dodgers, and I firmly believe that
Speaker 2: their job would have been a lot easier tomorrow going into.
Speaker 3: The game with a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: I mean, here we are again, they don't have a
Speaker 2: starter in an elimination game. Last year was Lance Linnen. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: they're going with a bullpen game.
Speaker 3: That's not ideal.
Speaker 2: And we all knew going into this series and into
Speaker 2: October the Dodgers did not have a strong starting pitching staff.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless that's where they are. But I will say this,
Speaker 2: after what I saw tonight and ta Oscar Hernandez hitting
Speaker 2: that Grand Slam and the Dodgers setting the table for him,
Speaker 2: They're not going away easy like they did last year.
Speaker 3: I can guarantee that.
Speaker 2: Eight six six, seven, two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We have a full boarder calls. We will get you
Speaker 2: in a second, but first let's head downstairs to hear
Speaker 2: from Walker Buehler.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, mentally, you're done six one. You just
Speaker 4: give up six runs, And you know, at some point
Speaker 4: even in five game series, the bullpen usage is a thing.
Speaker 4: And you gave up the homer to Acona in eighteen
Speaker 4: and and got through three after that in kind of
Speaker 4: similar situation. But I remember having a ton of pride
Speaker 4: about getting through five innings in that game and kind
Speaker 4: of feel similarly about this one. And obviously Teo, you know,
Speaker 4: lands A Linds a big punch for us, and gets
Speaker 4: his back in there, and you know, we come up
Speaker 4: one one run short and give up the home er
Speaker 4: to Tatis that you know, there was a bunch of
Speaker 4: mayhem and then I made a bad o two pitch
Speaker 4: and and you know, he kind of.
Speaker 3: Does what he does.
Speaker 4: And you can't give up six runs in an inning
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and and expect to win. So you know,
Speaker 4: there's some things that I have some pride about about
Speaker 4: that game. But at the end of the day, I
Speaker 4: put us in a really bad spot and and we
Speaker 4: fought back, and I just you know, the spot was
Speaker 4: too big.
Speaker 5: Just considering just the fight back. I mean, what does
Speaker 5: that say about this team and understanding what you guys
Speaker 5: are coming into tomorrow and must win situation. But do
Speaker 5: you feel like just seeing how this team pop back,
Speaker 5: it did show something that puts you on a good
Speaker 5: spot potentially for tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, losing six to five, are being down
Speaker 4: six to one is definitely better than you know, losing
Speaker 4: twenty nothing. So you know, our guys in here like
Speaker 4: being around each other. I want to keep playing, want
Speaker 4: to want to go compete together, and you know, I
Speaker 4: don't think that's something that we've we've never had, but
Speaker 4: but having it is important and this team certainly, lad.
Speaker 6: Us, how did you feel out there? Physically and emotionally
Speaker 6: on the Physically felt great, emotionally good. You know, I
Speaker 6: think that's just one of those early endings. Man, It's
Speaker 6: it's hard to kind of explain, you know, some grandma's here.
Speaker 3: All right, let's send it right there, Colin.
Speaker 2: That was I feel like nobody's asking the questions that
Speaker 2: need to be asked to Walker Buehler at that point.
Speaker 2: Disappointing start for him anyway you slice it up. He
Speaker 2: gave up six runs in the second inning. That's not
Speaker 2: good enough. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 2: Mike and Rancho kucka manga. You're on Dodger Talk with
Speaker 2: David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Mike, Hey, David, how are you well?
Speaker 8: I know how you're feeling.
Speaker 7: I'm feeling the same way.
Speaker 8: Actually, so apologies for even asking the question. I have
Speaker 8: a couple of points. One, I got to give Roberts
Speaker 8: his kudos for kind of managing the bullpen the way
Speaker 8: that he did. Yeah, you know, Bueller gave up those
Speaker 8: six runs. Early, you know, but he gave us an
Speaker 8: opportunity to get outs and our infield wasn't able to
Speaker 8: turn those plays. So you know, I commend Walker. I
Speaker 8: commend Walker for his postgame interview. I think he took
Speaker 8: it on the chin. He didn't even mention, you know,
Speaker 8: those those ground balls that should have been out, those
Speaker 8: opportunities to be outs. And that gets me to my
Speaker 8: point about where I'm gonna have to knock Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: for not taking out Maggie row there early enough, given
Speaker 8: Key k Hernandez an opportunity to play this game, to
Speaker 8: take some at bats. He's a gamer, you know, you
Speaker 8: got to give him an opportunity to game, and he
Speaker 8: didn't even see him at bad you know, I would
Speaker 8: have liked to see him there in place of luck
Speaker 8: and given him an opportunity to maybe changed this game,
Speaker 8: but he didn't. He kept them on the bench, she
Speaker 8: didn't even use him. And it's a bullet in the holsters.
Speaker 8: So all the way around, Michael.
Speaker 3: I found, like Mike, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I was surprised when Miguel Rojas came out of this
Speaker 2: game that it was Andy Paez that Dave Roberts went
Speaker 2: to instead of Key k Hernandez because Key k is
Speaker 2: a Gold Glove caliber defensively in center field. And isn't
Speaker 2: that what we've been told all season long that the
Speaker 2: reason why the Dodgers brought Key k Hernandez back was
Speaker 2: for October. And I believe tomorrow night, Key k Hernandez
Speaker 2: should start in center field and Tommy Edmond should start
Speaker 2: at shortstop.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the phone call. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: As far as Walker Bueller goes.
Speaker 2: Bueller got bled to death by some paper cuts, but
Speaker 2: he can't be completely absolved by giving up six runs
Speaker 2: in that second inning. I'm sorry. I love the guy,
Speaker 2: but he threw thirty three pitches. He couldn't put guys
Speaker 2: away with two strikes, and that extended that bats and
Speaker 2: eventually really did him in eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Let's go out to Carlos sin Chino.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from San Diego, Hi, Carlos.
Speaker 9: Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call first and foremost
Speaker 9: before anything. I just want to appreciate you for taking
Speaker 9: everybody's calls all season long and obviously going into the postseason,
Speaker 9: I know a Dodger fans can get a little crazy.
Speaker 10: Won't you know?
Speaker 9: Do the good and bad?
Speaker 7: Oh, I just want to lead off with that.
Speaker 2: But that's all good, Carlos. You're making it sound like
Speaker 2: this is the last show. It's not the last show.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night's not going to be the last show. The
Speaker 2: show rolls on.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to say, obviously, today wasn't the you know,
Speaker 9: the way we wanted it to go. Oh, A couple
Speaker 9: of errors and you know, some crazy stuff obviously happened,
Speaker 9: and you know it did this in with those six
Speaker 9: runs in that second inning. I know, I mean, I
Speaker 9: know Walker gave up those six runs. Obviously. I think
Speaker 9: we could have gone out of that jam a lot earlier,
Speaker 9: if you know, it wasn't for that freaking with Machado
Speaker 9: and the misplay for Miggy. But I do want to
Speaker 9: say I want to agree with you with that comment
Speaker 9: that you said earlier about putting Edmond at short and
Speaker 9: uh keik and center. I was just curious. I don't
Speaker 9: know what the word is on Freeman, but I mean
Speaker 9: you could kind of see he sort of played a
Speaker 9: little bothered. I know, he's, you know, trying to tough
Speaker 9: it out for us, and I mean we hit tonight.
Speaker 2: I think he hit the ball hard tonight, and I
Speaker 2: don't think, uh, you know, he's figuring it out. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say the ankle did him in on any play tonight.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers took him out late in the game when
Speaker 2: he had a single. Chris Taylor came in to pinch
Speaker 2: run and that was another crusher for the Dodgers tonight,
Speaker 2: only having one base runner in the last six innings,
Speaker 2: Freddy single in the eighth inning.
Speaker 3: That was it. So Freddy's not the issue.
Speaker 2: And you know, let's you know, Miguel Rojas is limited
Speaker 2: defensively and offensively. He really hasn't made a difference. So uh,
Speaker 2: that's why I believe the Dodgers October player keithky Hernandez
Speaker 2: needs to be in there tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Carlos, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy Dodgers a fall
Speaker 2: in Game three of the NLDS six to five to
Speaker 2: the Padres. I want to head back downstairs right now
Speaker 2: to hear from Freddie Freeman on Sports at LA.
Speaker 10: What a fuck about the season?
Speaker 11: As a marathon, and the fact that you need to
Speaker 11: play one mute time.
Speaker 6: But when you're facing elimination in the end of an
Speaker 6: entire season, does a mindset where the approach change at all.
Speaker 12: Thinks it's the same pressure cud from the first game.
Speaker 12: Every game is trying to you know, it's treated as
Speaker 12: the end of the season because you're just never known
Speaker 12: in the playoffs, so you know, just that one beginning
Speaker 12: in the second and I'm happy for walkers and give
Speaker 12: us some link there and the ole point it was awesome,
Speaker 12: and just think anything more after the grand slam your throat.
Speaker 12: It's a big call for interference. I've looked at it
Speaker 12: many many times, replayed it in my head many times,
Speaker 12: or taught his base runners. I would have done the
Speaker 12: same thing as a base runner to banana in it.
Speaker 12: But usually you're supposed to do it after one or
Speaker 12: two steps in the dirt and go. But I would
Speaker 12: have done the same thing as a base runner. And
Speaker 12: you know, it's I'm really far in the grass and
Speaker 12: he got really far in the grass. I can certainly
Speaker 12: say I wouldn't do anything different. At first, I thought
Speaker 12: I made a perfect throw and just clicked his left
Speaker 12: shoulder and banana it enough into the into the line.
Speaker 12: Just that's what we're taught his base runners to get
Speaker 12: into the line, and you know he did it there.
Speaker 3: Freddie, what's it going to take you to get this
Speaker 3: here respectable?
Speaker 7: Sad?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 12: Score more runs than them. I just you know, I
Speaker 12: like that we fought, we came back after that six
Speaker 12: run inning. I know, doctor fans don't want to hear
Speaker 12: about fighting and stuff. But take the positive and.
Speaker 4: Come out here tomorrow.
Speaker 12: And you know, Mookie got some hits today and things
Speaker 12: are looking good, so we can get back on it tomorrow.
Speaker 13: Just compared as the last couple of years.
Speaker 8: You guys have face.
Speaker 12: I'm not even thinking about the last couple of years.
Speaker 12: If you're thinking about the last couple of years, now,
Speaker 12: that's the wrong attitude. We got to worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 12: I'm yeah, Mike just asked, I mean, get your tweaked it.
Speaker 12: I didn't tweak anything, and I just feels the same,
Speaker 12: just doing the best I can.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Freddy Freeman on sports and at LA, and I
Speaker 2: love hearing his perspective because he was the one throwing
Speaker 2: the baseball to Miguel Roahas in the second inning, when
Speaker 2: Machado obviously created his own base path to second base.
Speaker 2: But as he described it, and he described it perfectly,
Speaker 2: the banana type of a baseline that Machado created for himself.
Speaker 2: Usually you create your baseline within one to two steps.
Speaker 2: It seemed like Machado already had taken at least two
Speaker 2: steps before he started to, uh, you know, banana out
Speaker 2: as Freddy said, onto the grass. So very fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty type call as far as interference goes, and unfortunately
Speaker 2: it went against the Dodgers. Eight six, six, nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Another part
Speaker 2: of all this is the Dodger offense. Like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had only one base runner in the last
Speaker 2: six innings, that was Freddy Freeman's single in the top
Speaker 2: of the eighth inning. When you look at Max Muncy,
Speaker 2: will Smith, Gavin Lux, Tommy Edmund tonight, they were combined
Speaker 2: zero for fifteen with five drikeouts. That's not conducive to
Speaker 2: passing the baton, moving the line and flipping the lineup
Speaker 2: over to Dodgers had a lot of swings and misses
Speaker 2: and nobody had more of them than Max Munsey. Munsey
Speaker 2: took nine swings tonight, seven of them were misses. Also,
Speaker 2: coming into this series, I was asked who was the
Speaker 2: X factor, and I said it was Will Smith because
Speaker 2: he was going to come up in a lot of
Speaker 2: situations with runners on base that you know, the pitchers,
Speaker 2: the padres were going to pitch around other guys in
Speaker 2: this lineup and maybe be a little bit too fine,
Speaker 2: which was going to create opportunities for Will Smith. Well,
Speaker 2: Will Smith tonight was OH for four in this series.
Speaker 2: Will Smith is a combined OH for eight. That's tough
Speaker 2: to win as well. Remember Will Smith is supposed to
Speaker 2: be this offensive juggernaut from behind the plate. He just
Speaker 2: hasn't been that guy so far in this series. He
Speaker 2: was OH for two in Game one with a couple
Speaker 2: of walks. He was OH for two with a couple
Speaker 2: of walks in Game two, and tonight he WASZH for four.
Speaker 2: He does not have a hit in the NLDS yet,
Speaker 2: who does is Mookie Betts. He was getting a lot
Speaker 2: of criticism coming into the game tonight, being OH for
Speaker 2: his last twenty two in the postseason, three for his
Speaker 2: last forty four in the playoffs. Tonight, he hit a
Speaker 2: home run in the first inning to give the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the lead. Profar got a glove on it, going over
Speaker 2: the short wall down there the forty two sign here
Speaker 2: at Pego Park, but it was too far out of
Speaker 2: his reach, and you just saw the confidence in Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3: He already was defeated.
Speaker 2: Even though he hit a home run, he was headed
Speaker 2: back to the Dodger dugout. It was a home run
Speaker 2: kind of tells you where Mooki's head was at. But
Speaker 2: Muki had two hits tonight, included being on base when
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez hit his grand slamming the third inning.
Speaker 2: Let's go downstairs right now to here from Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: on sports net LA.
Speaker 12: I mean, it was cool.
Speaker 14: You know, obviously losing sucks and so it really kind
Speaker 14: of doesn't matter. But I mean, you know, I think, no,
Speaker 14: it was okay. Personally it was okay, but definitely it
Speaker 14: doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: Just considering how you guys did fight back in this one, though,
Speaker 5: does it give you all something to build off of
Speaker 5: heading into tomorrow.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think the winner lost today. Tomorrow's a
Speaker 14: new day, and so we know it's going to be
Speaker 14: a fight. Every game is going to be a fight.
Speaker 14: So we just got to turn the page. What's going
Speaker 14: to fuel this team?
Speaker 6: You've been through the frustrations the past, believes what it's
Speaker 6: going to feel.
Speaker 9: You to keep the season going to line?
Speaker 15: I mean, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 14: I mean, you just got to keep playing. I mean
Speaker 14: the World Series. That that's what fuels. I don't think
Speaker 14: there's like a magic potion or something, you know. I
Speaker 14: think we're all trying to do the same thing, and
Speaker 14: that's win a World Series, and each game is is
Speaker 14: one stepping stone towards.
Speaker 13: That, which is when you thought pro far came up
Speaker 13: with that ball initially in the first Yeah, I mean
Speaker 13: the the first game.
Speaker 14: I know they kind of Rob didn't act like he
Speaker 14: didn't catch it, and so I kind of thought it
Speaker 14: was the same thing. But uh fortunately went.
Speaker 9: Over did that?
Speaker 13: I mean, obviously the result is what you want, but
Speaker 13: did having that and then the single later kind of
Speaker 13: take off some of the pressure you've been feeling just
Speaker 13: with your own performance.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, whatever that we lost, So there's no
Speaker 14: personal goals out there right now. We just wanna win
Speaker 14: a World Series and however we get there, it is
Speaker 14: how we get there, But the main thing is getting there.
Speaker 13: How frustrating was it to be able to jump back
Speaker 13: in the game as quickly as you guys did, but
Speaker 13: did not be able to complete it, you know, offensively?
Speaker 14: I mean it's not it's just tough. I mean, it's
Speaker 14: not necessarily frustrating. You know, the game's part of the game.
Speaker 14: You know, the game's gonna go. We're gonna haven bere
Speaker 14: ups in your downs. Just uh, we didn't hit en
Speaker 14: up to obviously score more runs, and so we got
Speaker 14: to figure something out tomorrow.
Speaker 9: What did you make of that?
Speaker 14: Anywhere?
Speaker 16: It seemed like balls are just kind of bouncing crazy man.
Speaker 4: He got hit by a ball and.
Speaker 17: A couple of ground balls to walk around a tough
Speaker 17: time gating gett a.
Speaker 14: Uh spaceball, spaceball. You never know where the ball is
Speaker 14: gonna bounce, how it's gonna bounce. You know, he ran
Speaker 14: the basis the right way. So, uh, that's part of
Speaker 14: part of the game.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Mookie Bets on sports and at la at eight
Speaker 2: sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers fall to the Padres six to five
Speaker 2: in Game three, the NLDS. When we continue lying from
Speaker 2: Peco Park in San Diego, we will take more of
Speaker 2: your phone calls. We have a full board of calls
Speaker 2: at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll also head downstairs to get more postgame reaction after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers fall to the Padres six to five on
Speaker 2: a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 3: This is Dodger Tom with David Basse. Another one too.
Speaker 13: Hernandez HiT's a high fly ball center field Merrill going back.
Speaker 19: He's on the warning track at the wall.
Speaker 17: God and grand ti Oscar Hernandez parking down the first baseline,
Speaker 17: a grand slam of the Dodgers are right back at it.
Speaker 2: David Vasse live at Peco Park in San Diego, after
Speaker 2: the Dodgers come up a buck short in Game three
Speaker 2: of the NLDS falling to the Padres six to five,
Speaker 2: eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number there? It was Tioscar Hernandez is big
Speaker 2: grand slam to pull within one run The Dodgers did
Speaker 2: not have another base runner until the top of the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, and they fall six to five to the
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Speaker 2: A tough spot right They don't have a starting pitcher
Speaker 2: for tomorrow. It's not ideal to have a bullpen game
Speaker 2: in an elimination game. The Padres are going with Dylan
Speaker 2: Cees on three days rest. But the Dodgers need to
Speaker 2: have better at bats. And I love what Jose Mota
Speaker 2: said when he brought up with Tim Hyer's text his
Speaker 2: hitters last year during the World Series, where he told
Speaker 2: his hitters, let's all have a two strike approach from
Speaker 2: the first inning on. That's what the Dodgers need because
Speaker 2: too many big swings, too many swings and misses, and
Speaker 2: that's not going to work. I know hitting home runs
Speaker 2: is a big part of the postseason, but they are
Speaker 2: far and few between. Despite the Padres hitting six in
Speaker 2: Game two. Uh, that is not a way to live
Speaker 2: or die in the playoffs. You saw it in the
Speaker 2: third inning for the Dodgers. They strung together three consecutive
Speaker 2: base hits before Taoscar Hernandez hit a grand slam off
Speaker 2: of Michael King, which, by the way, was an eighty
Speaker 2: five flat sweeper. A lot of pressure, no margin for
Speaker 2: air for King right there. So that's that's going to
Speaker 2: be an interesting way to live for the Dodgers moving forward.
Speaker 2: They've got to find a way to have shorter swings
Speaker 2: and to be able to string together some hits. By
Speaker 2: the way, with the loss tonight, the Dodgers now have
Speaker 2: seven straight postseason losses on the road during the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: I was a little distracted.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure if somebody from the press box was
Speaker 2: screaming at me to not be doing my radio show.
Speaker 2: Not sure what they were doing. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: out to the phones, Ken in Newport. We're here until
Speaker 2: ten thirty, like it or not.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Ken, hy David?
Speaker 20: You answered a lot of the things that were bothering me,
Speaker 20: but these are two things that bothered me the most. Yeah,
Speaker 20: they were bad in fielding and when they scored all
Speaker 20: those six runts.
Speaker 7: They actually interviewed Dave after that ended.
Speaker 20: And asked him why he didn't take Bueller out, and
Speaker 20: his responses, well, we're saving our relievers for tomorrow. Really,
Speaker 20: that's something if you just gave up on the game, Dave.
Speaker 20: The other thing that really bothers me one for twenty
Speaker 20: one after the Hernandez home run one for twenty one,
Speaker 20: four guys are hitting under two.
Speaker 7: One hundred and.
Speaker 9: This is not good.
Speaker 20: I mean, this is total choking and you cannot expect
Speaker 20: to win. And it's been eight of the last nine
Speaker 20: years under Freeman and Roberts that they haven't won the
Speaker 20: World Series. I don't know what to say other than
Speaker 20: this was a massive disappointment for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I believe, well, you know, the Dodgers need
Speaker 2: to make some changes in their starting lineup tomorrow. They
Speaker 2: just can't continue with these same guys that are swinging
Speaker 2: and missing. And like I said, Key k Hernandez was
Speaker 2: signed back to play for the Dodgers for playoff time
Speaker 2: and we haven't seen them all but two at bats
Speaker 2: when he came in because of Freeman's injury in Game two.
Speaker 2: So I'm a firm believer it's not too late to
Speaker 2: have Key k Hernandez have an impact on this series.
Speaker 7: I agree with you, all right.
Speaker 3: Ken, Thanks for the phone call. Yeah, that's what I meant.
Speaker 2: One base runner since uh, the sixth inning on or
Speaker 2: and that's not something that is going to work. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers felt like it felt like the Padres were allowing
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to hang around a little bit too long,
Speaker 2: but unfortunately they only had one base runner the last
Speaker 2: six innings of this game. Let's go out to La Luis.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk Live from San Diego.
Speaker 7: Hi Luis, Hi, David, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I just want to mention three things for the Dodgers
Speaker 7: to win tomorrow.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have to have a consistent defense, consistent offense,
Speaker 2: and with consistent pitching.
Speaker 7: That's the only way you're going to win tomorrow. Other
Speaker 7: than that, the bats, to me, they're going to have
Speaker 7: to explode tomorrow if they want to. They want to
Speaker 7: win this game, for it, for it to send it
Speaker 7: to a game Fipper right now, it has to be
Speaker 7: a pitch by pitch type of thing where you have
Speaker 7: to secure this win to get to get a win
Speaker 7: and avoid the theys. That's what I don't want, all.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, Louis, thank you for all the cliches.
Speaker 3: We appreciated.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. By the way, the Dodgers' last road
Speaker 2: win in the playoffs was Game five of the twenty
Speaker 2: one NLDS against the San Francisco Giants. Remember that one,
Speaker 2: Max Scherzer coming out of the bullpen to save the
Speaker 2: game and then tapping out in the NLCS. That was
Speaker 2: the last time the Dodgers won a road playoff game.
Speaker 2: And look, if they can get this to a Game
Speaker 2: five and at Dodgers Stadium, they would be in a
Speaker 2: great position. But a bullpen game on the road, Uh,
Speaker 2: that's a tall order to ask from your team. And
Speaker 2: they just got to find a way to score runs.
Speaker 2: We talked about this at the beginning of the series.
Speaker 2: We all knew the Dodgers were very thin with their pitching.
Speaker 2: They needed to score at least five or six runs
Speaker 2: to win a game. Tonight, they scored five, butker Bueller
Speaker 2: gave up six in the second inning and some poor
Speaker 2: defensive place behind him as well. Wand was at Peco
Speaker 2: Park tonight?
Speaker 3: Hi wan?
Speaker 2: What was the experience like for you at Peco Park tonight?
Speaker 21: Look, I'm not gonna liehard Dodger fan. Grew up a
Speaker 21: Dodger fan. But what that crowd brings to the Podgers game,
Speaker 21: It's crazy.
Speaker 18: I've been to many.
Speaker 7: I mean, I get it.
Speaker 21: There was for it was one Dodger fan for every
Speaker 21: five thousand fans. I guess you wanted three thousand fans
Speaker 21: of theirs. I mean, we weren't that many Dodger fans,
Speaker 21: and I get it.
Speaker 7: They blow.
Speaker 2: Well the reason why is because they blocked Dodger fans out.
Speaker 2: You had to have a San Diego area code or
Speaker 2: a ZIP code to be able to purchase tickets, so
Speaker 2: they got what they wanted.
Speaker 7: I got lucky.
Speaker 21: One of my salesmen gave me a pair of take
Speaker 21: it easy, and I'm like, hell, yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 21: to take a problem. I'm on my way over there.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Yeah.
Speaker 21: But what I wanted to Yeah, but one thing I
Speaker 21: wanted to bring up, you know one and you probably
Speaker 21: talked about it. We kid, we brought Keken back mcke's
Speaker 21: because he's a he's a playoff guy. Why isn't I
Speaker 21: like Maximunsey's defense, but my god to play start him
Speaker 21: at third, start him at their Maximunkey or a center.
Speaker 2: You could maybe it's time to have keyk and center
Speaker 2: and Chris Taylor at third or some combination of that.
Speaker 2: You know, they they started both those guys in an
Speaker 2: elimination game last year and Taylor almost helped the Dodgers
Speaker 2: stave off elimination, but he hit it to the deepest
Speaker 2: part of the ballpark. Look, I'm not saying starting Key
Speaker 2: a Hernandez is going to guarantee you a win, but
Speaker 2: it bears the question to be asked, why hasn't he
Speaker 2: gotten more of an opportunity, especially with a limited Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, one appreciated. Eight six six
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to Mirietta. Bryce, You're on Dodger Talk Live from
Speaker 2: Pego Park. Hi, Bryce, Hey.
Speaker 10: David, I just want to say there's gonna be a
Speaker 10: lot of negativity with a lot of Dodger fans, but
Speaker 10: in retrospect. We just have to steal one game tomorrow
Speaker 10: and bring it back to La. The Padres have already
Speaker 10: tipped their hand and they're bringing season on three days rest.
Speaker 10: We already saw him in our last series in the
Speaker 10: regular season and beat him, and then we ended up
Speaker 10: winning in Game one when he pitched as well. We've
Speaker 10: lived and we've died by the bullpens. All right, it's
Speaker 10: gonna come down to it. It's just how it is
Speaker 10: with all of our injuries, and at the end of
Speaker 10: the day, we have sho hailed Tani and Mookie Betts.
Speaker 10: Freddy Freeman has already proved he's gonna give it his
Speaker 10: all at the end of the day, these guys are
Speaker 10: not gonna quit. So I just want to bring some
Speaker 10: positivity to all Dodger fans.
Speaker 2: All right, Brice, appreciate it. Eight six six seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Like I said, I
Speaker 2: feel like we have seen more fight from the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in this series and in this game than we saw
Speaker 2: in each of the last two years. So that is
Speaker 2: something to be optimistic about that the Dodgers, even if
Speaker 2: they go down in the game tomorrow night, they're not
Speaker 2: just going to lay down. We saw that tonight they
Speaker 2: very easily could have packed it in after going down
Speaker 2: six to one. But not only ta Oscar hitting the
Speaker 2: Grand Slam, but how about the guys ahead of him
Speaker 2: that continue to fight and set the table for him.
Speaker 2: They strung together three consecutive hits. So I think all
Speaker 2: of that is very encouraging, But the facts are they
Speaker 2: lost the game tonight, and you can string together all
Speaker 2: the hits you want, but if you lose tomorrow, you're
Speaker 2: going home. Bottom line is, forget about all this other stuff.
Speaker 2: They've got to find a way to win, and it's
Speaker 2: going to be a challenge going with a bullpen game.
Speaker 2: You're asking multiple pitchers to be able to be on
Speaker 2: their game to hold down the opposition that sometimes doesn't
Speaker 2: always go to plan, and that's where they are. We
Speaker 2: knew going into this series the Dodgers had Landon Knack
Speaker 2: as their fourth starter, and what we saw in the
Speaker 2: last regular season series in Denver told us the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were at the very least considering using an opener before
Speaker 2: they went to Landon Nac. That's what we're going to
Speaker 2: see tomorrow and we'll see how far it goes or
Speaker 2: when Neck gets into into the game. Eight six, six, nine, eight,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: to the Padres. In Game three of the NLDS six
Speaker 2: to five, San Diego scored six runs in a disastrous
Speaker 2: second inning for Walker Bueller and the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Fernando Tattis Junior.
Speaker 2: If you had to hand out an MVP trophy so
Speaker 2: far in this series, it would have to go to
Speaker 2: Fernando Tattis Junior, who hit his fourth home run in
Speaker 2: this series. Let's head downstairs right now to hear from
Speaker 2: Tatis and former Dodger David Peralta, who had a two
Speaker 2: run double in that six run second inning.
Speaker 16: Definitely no fear, but that's something that you build through
Speaker 16: the year, you know, getting experienced playing against those guys,
Speaker 16: and uh yeah, definitely no fear. I mean, we're showing
Speaker 16: out to play the best basketball we can, especially knowing
Speaker 16: the type of group that we're facing. So man, we
Speaker 16: just were just showing up and playing ball.
Speaker 4: Mark second row on the left.
Speaker 11: How you've obviously had a lot of big home runs here,
Speaker 11: but how did that one tonight rate as far as
Speaker 11: the crowd noise and what did you say to your dugout,
Speaker 11: because you were obviously saying something to the dugout on
Speaker 11: the way to first base.
Speaker 16: Definitely the noise that has to be up there, Uh,
Speaker 16: I guess so. And man, then when I headed, I
Speaker 16: didn't know. I just I just blacked out, started screaming
Speaker 16: at my dugout. Just the energy through the roof, especially
Speaker 16: that type of inning that we build after two outs,
Speaker 16: but I had getting the big double people on base.
Speaker 16: I mean, it was just momentum and Man's definitely definitely
Speaker 16: a beautiful finish at the end of that inning.
Speaker 4: But the third round the.
Speaker 11: Left Fernando, this is your first time playing like a
Speaker 11: legitimate MLB postseason, because in twenty twenty there were fans
Speaker 11: for most of it.
Speaker 3: What has this experience been like? Is it?
Speaker 14: I'm sure you thought about it a lot of your
Speaker 14: mind going into this.
Speaker 9: So what has it been like so far?
Speaker 16: It's just beautiful, Definitely rewarding to through everything that I've
Speaker 16: been to, through what we have been through as a group,
Speaker 16: you know, building building together to get over here is
Speaker 16: just really really hard work from from the front office,
Speaker 16: from the players, you know, getting involved, putting their heart
Speaker 16: into it. And man, when you when you play baseball
Speaker 16: like this in a postseason is you know, you get
Speaker 16: all those memory backs and you just feel grateful where
Speaker 16: you at and just embracing every single moment and definitely
Speaker 16: not taking for granted.
Speaker 2: All Right, There's Fernando Tattoos Junior and David Peralta after
Speaker 2: the Padres defeat the Dodgers in Game three of the
Speaker 2: NLDS six to five.
Speaker 3: The final score.
Speaker 2: Game four coming up tomorrow night at Pecko Park, Same
Speaker 2: bad time, same bad channel, Morono Casino. Dodgers on Deck
Speaker 2: begins at five o'clock with first pitch just a little
Speaker 2: after six oh five.
Speaker 3: Let's go back out to the phones.
Speaker 2: Manuel in Guardina, you're on Dodger Talk live from Petco Park.
Speaker 7: Hi, Many, Hey DV.
Speaker 18: Excellent job. Man, I'm gonna kind of echo with last
Speaker 18: guy said, Man, you know what, I'm gonna keep it
Speaker 18: positive right now going into tomorrow. It's Mount Everest to climb, right,
Speaker 18: But we've seen it done before, you know, Uh, the
Speaker 18: Dodgers have climbed some insurmountable hills and come out on top.
Speaker 7: And that's what we got to hope for.
Speaker 18: Man, Just gotta hope that we don't get no BS
Speaker 18: calls or anything like that, because you know, it affects
Speaker 18: the mentality. It seems like of the team, as any
Speaker 18: team that gets you know, jobbed gets affected. But that's
Speaker 18: not an excuse. Man, they beat us, you gotta tip
Speaker 18: your hat to them. I hate tatis, but you know what,
Speaker 18: man easy right now, the quotoe Pedro Martinez, he's our daddy,
Speaker 18: and Manny much fraud ho too.
Speaker 9: Also.
Speaker 18: Man, hey, man, they're they're they're putting.
Speaker 19: It on us.
Speaker 18: So we just got to hope that this heart comes
Speaker 18: through because I'm seeing the heart too, Dave. And we
Speaker 18: just need more from the bottom of the lineup. Man,
Speaker 18: that's the bottom line. We need more from the bottom
Speaker 18: of the lineup. But I'm gonna believe man keeping.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers up. That was the success for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in Game one. They're uh seven eight nine hitters got
Speaker 2: on base for Otani, and that's what the Padres don't
Speaker 2: want to see base runners when Otani comes to the plate,
Speaker 2: and the last two games they have not been able
Speaker 2: to create some traffic when Otani comes up, and that
Speaker 2: makes life a lot easier for the opposing pitchers. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the phone call, Manuel and Guardina eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy Otani by the way, one
Speaker 2: for for tonight, Mookie bets two for four with a
Speaker 2: first inning home run that he wasn't sure of. Neither
Speaker 2: was anybody else in the ballpark, as Jerkson Profar almost
Speaker 2: rob Mooky again of a home run in the first inning.
Speaker 3: This time it was.
Speaker 2: Beyond the outreach glove of tatists down the line in
Speaker 2: left field, and just speaking of it, it reminded me
Speaker 2: that I wanted to bring this point up. Our guy,
Speaker 2: Joe Davis is getting a lot of, you know, unwarranted
Speaker 2: criticism from folks that are outside of LA in particular
Speaker 2: former padre Eric Hosmer, who has a platform, he has
Speaker 2: a really good podcast, but he's just like everybody else
Speaker 2: in America.
Speaker 3: Joe Buck used to run into this as well.
Speaker 2: If if the game isn't going your team's way, you
Speaker 2: want to blame Joe Buck or in this case, Joe Davis.
Speaker 3: Dodger fans love Joe Davis.
Speaker 2: Some may think that, oh, he's doing a little bit
Speaker 2: too much for the Padres. On the padres side of things,
Speaker 2: they think that he's shading towards the Dodgers I can
Speaker 2: tell you Joe Davis is a pros pro. He's calling
Speaker 2: the game right down the middle. We all know he's
Speaker 2: a Dodger broadcaster, but when he's on a national broadcast
Speaker 2: with John Smoltz as the a voice of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 2: he is not trying to shade it the Dodgers way.
Speaker 2: If you go back to listen to the home run
Speaker 2: call of Fernando Tattis Junior, he called it the way
Speaker 2: he would a Mookie Bets home run in June for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. So I really thought it was a cheap
Speaker 2: shot from a former player in Eric Costmer to go
Speaker 2: after Joe Davis. You expect that from somebody in El cahoone,
Speaker 2: but you don't expect that from a former major league
Speaker 2: player Eric Costmer. So I just wanted to point that
Speaker 2: out that I feel like Joe Davis is getting a
Speaker 2: lot of unwarranted shade from the Padres faithful out there.
Speaker 2: If things are not going your way, you're going to
Speaker 2: blame him. You're going to start to believe that he's
Speaker 2: calling the game from the Dodgers side, which he's not.
Speaker 2: Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2: I honestly haven't heard the game, but i know who
Speaker 2: Joe Davis is. And I'm listening to Rick Monday and
Speaker 2: Stephen Nelson. Let's go out to Montabello. Rudy, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Hi Rudy, Hi Dave, Thank thank you for taking him
Speaker 4: a call.
Speaker 7: I just had three things to say.
Speaker 22: We can't blaming Bueler Builder Builder, he had a bad ending,
Speaker 22: yeares he did, But when the deafis did nothing? Throw
Speaker 22: Freddy did to second base wasn't a good one.
Speaker 7: What about Miguel Robas? What about Duley?
Speaker 3: I pointed that out, Rudy, I pointed that out.
Speaker 2: But the fact is he had two strikes on a
Speaker 2: lot of those hitters, Rudy, and he can't put them away.
Speaker 3: Bad players. I'm going to have been behind you. You've
Speaker 3: got to find a way not to give up six runs.
Speaker 15: And another thing, Max Monsey, Max Munsey and Will Smith
Speaker 15: they keep swinging at the first pitch. Why you said
Speaker 15: it earlier? How come they just don't have patience? But
Speaker 15: they want to hit for defenses? Why do they want
Speaker 15: to hit for the defences all the time?
Speaker 2: Well, Max Munsey is a three true outcome player, Rudy,
Speaker 2: you know what that is, right, yes, sir, home run,
Speaker 2: strikeout or walk. That's Max Munsey and right now he's
Speaker 2: striking out a lot more than he's walking or hitting
Speaker 2: home runs.
Speaker 3: So that's why it looks ugly.
Speaker 2: But Will Smith, I don't know when we're going to
Speaker 2: find out the truth, but Will Smith has not looked
Speaker 2: like himself since the beginning of June. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what is going on or when we're going to find
Speaker 2: out the real story. But there's got to be something
Speaker 2: physical going on with Will Smith because he can't catch
Speaker 2: up the fastballs and that's two years running now.
Speaker 3: He to me, he was the X factor of this series.
Speaker 2: They needed to get Will Smith to drive in runs
Speaker 2: and he's zero for eight with UH with four walks
Speaker 2: and two strikeouts. They need Will Smith and they haven't
Speaker 2: gotten him yet so far this series.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Rudy appreciated.
Speaker 2: Eight six y six nine eighty seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Padres beat the Dodgers tonight six
Speaker 2: to five, And like I said, you know, Walker Buehler,
Speaker 2: he was a victim of the paper cuts, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: But he can't be absolved of that six run second inning.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Tyler, who is at Petco Park tonight. Hi, Tyler,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Dave, I feel like you're putting way too
Speaker 1: much pressure on Walker.
Speaker 7: He's had a great pressure inning there.
Speaker 1: And listen, he was he was a victim of Manny Mafrado.
Speaker 1: If that guy doesn't pull his punt BS and go
Speaker 1: inside the line, we're out of that inning, maybe with
Speaker 1: one run.
Speaker 20: So I mean Manny.
Speaker 2: Tossing it to Gavin Lux that was another one. Look,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman said it perfectly. He would have done the
Speaker 2: same thing. Machado made a smart baseball play and he
Speaker 2: got away with it.
Speaker 1: Well, we we we got to change the rules then,
Speaker 1: because that's that's BS and and and you know what.
Speaker 7: I I don't.
Speaker 1: Think Vanny Mafrado gets enough flack around the league for
Speaker 1: all the antics that he pulls.
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
Speaker 1: He needs to be the hoe they can say, go look,
Speaker 1: they look down upon it's just a punk of the league.
Speaker 2: All right, Tyler, thanks for the phone call. Hey, that's
Speaker 2: the that's the emotions that many Machado sparks he is
Speaker 2: the ultimate heel in Major League Baseball. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Corona. Eric, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 19: Hi, Eric any thanks for taking the call. But you
Speaker 19: know that previous color I put more blame on Rojas.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's just a week take from that guy.
Speaker 19: But what I was trying to call about is, Uh,
Speaker 19: these Dogger teams, year by your we get the same
Speaker 19: playoff energy.
Speaker 9: I hate to say.
Speaker 19: So this game did not fall on Roberts at all.
Speaker 19: It are the players, But I hate to say, but
Speaker 19: it's tension Roberts. These teams roll in with tension every
Speaker 19: year and the same energy. Players change in and out,
Speaker 19: different year, different players. We get the same attitude from
Speaker 19: these players. I add to the biggest elephant in the room.
Speaker 19: I mean, you hear the guys talk postgame, in pregame
Speaker 19: for these playoff games. He's not the same Roberts as
Speaker 19: we get during the regular season. Honestly, I think that
Speaker 19: is the biggest issue with the organization.
Speaker 2: By the same Dave Roberts as we get during the
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 3: You feel like he's a little tight. Is that what
Speaker 3: you're saying, Eric.
Speaker 19: He's a whole, He's a whole different character. He's a
Speaker 19: whole different person. He's chill, lax Roberts come playoffs. I
Speaker 19: think they're just feeding off the energy he gives them.
Speaker 7: That's just my personal take on it.
Speaker 2: I feel like Roberts has been pretty relax this playoffs. Eric,
Speaker 2: I don't feel like that's the correct read on Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts this postseason.
Speaker 3: I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Maybe in years past he's felt that, but not this postseason.
Speaker 2: It feels like he's a little bit more relaxed and
Speaker 2: understands these are the players and pitchers he's he has,
Speaker 2: and you know tomorrow he doesn't have a starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: so they're going with a bullpen game. They actually have
Speaker 2: a starting pitcher in Landon Knack. We'll see how this
Speaker 2: all works out, but it's not ideal to use a
Speaker 2: bullpen game on the road.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The last time the Dodgers did win a playoff game,
Speaker 2: Eric on the road was back in Game five of
Speaker 2: the twenty one NLDS and if you remember, they got
Speaker 2: away with an opener and then Julio Orias and they.
Speaker 3: Won that game.
Speaker 2: So maybe maybe it is a bullpen game that helps
Speaker 2: them win again, because that's the way they went the
Speaker 2: last time opener Julio Orias and then Max Scherzer.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how it works out.
Speaker 2: But honestly, I don't feel like Dave Roberts has done
Speaker 2: any thing to cost the Dodgers in this series. I
Speaker 2: just would love to see him penciling Key k Hernandez
Speaker 2: tomorrow night in center field.
Speaker 19: Well, well tension, Roberts would have won a freelancing guy
Speaker 19: like keyk out there.
Speaker 9: So back to that point.
Speaker 3: All right, Eric, thank you for the phone call. I
Speaker 3: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to El Paso, Texas. Omar,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David basse Hi. Omar, Omar,
Speaker 2: you waited all this time. You're there, He goes, Look,
Speaker 2: the one thing I could say is, I know it's
Speaker 2: easy to blame Dave Roberts when things don't go the
Speaker 2: Dodgers way in the playoffs, But what could you point
Speaker 2: out tonight or in the any of the three games
Speaker 2: of the NLDS that Dave Roberts has done to directly
Speaker 2: cost the Dodgers the game? He just has it same
Speaker 2: thing last year. You can argue whether or not he
Speaker 2: should have taken lance Lynn out or not. But you know, honestly,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts has done a pretty good job of managing
Speaker 2: this series. There's nothing that he has done or hasn't
Speaker 2: done that has cost the Dodgers. He had to, you know,
Speaker 2: manage a game tonight where he knows he has to
Speaker 2: use relievers tomorrow, and Walker Bueller was able to get
Speaker 2: out of that second inning and pitch through five, which
Speaker 2: really helped out what the Dodgers plan is for tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But I also do understand the flip side.
Speaker 2: You have to win today before you even think about tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And we did not see anybody warming up behind Walker Buehler,
Speaker 2: which told us Dave was going to hang him out
Speaker 2: there to find a way to get out of it.
Speaker 2: It's not like he was pitching horribly, but he just
Speaker 2: couldn't put hitters away. And it is tough in the
Speaker 2: playoffs to allow a pitcher to stay in a game
Speaker 2: when you're giving up not just two or three runs,
Speaker 2: but six runs and one inning. That is rough in
Speaker 2: a playoff game to watch that. And obviously he gave
Speaker 2: his explanation because he wants to go to the bullpen game.
Speaker 2: I should say that's the team's decision. You know, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts doesn't make those decisions on his own or in
Speaker 2: a vacuum. It's Brendan Gomes, it's Andrew Friedman, it's their
Speaker 2: staff that is collaborating with Dave Roberts and saying, you
Speaker 2: know what, this is the way we're going to go,
Speaker 2: and we're.
Speaker 3: Going to manage it this way.
Speaker 2: And that's the cards that they have been dealt, or
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts has been dealt, going into an elimination game,
Speaker 2: a bullpen game tomorrow night here at Peco Park, while
Speaker 2: the Padres are going with Dylan Cees on three days
Speaker 2: rest Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock
Speaker 2: first pitch from Peco Park with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Speaker 2: A little bit after six h five, then I'll do
Speaker 2: it for us tonight on Dodger Talk. Thanks for all
Speaker 2: the phone calls. Appreciate. Hopefully the Dodgers can extend the
Speaker 2: season and force a game five.
Speaker 3: If not, they are going home.
Speaker 2: That's what's at stake tomorrow night here at Pego Park.
Speaker 2: It will be electric as it was tonight here in
Speaker 2: San Diego, thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank Studios.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Petco Park. In
Speaker 2: case you missed any of the show, you can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app once again. The final score
Speaker 2: in Game three of the NLBS, the Padres defeat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers six to five.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night. We'll talk to
Speaker 3: you tomorrow. See you
Speaker 14: Away.