Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom, Let's win this. I
Speaker 3: love listening to these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me all your attention, your fire,
Speaker 4: and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a.
Speaker 6: Small soft time they get a people what they want
Speaker 6: to die to in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 6: Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until two
Speaker 6: thirty this afternoon. Then we'll hand it over to the
Speaker 6: overworked Rogan and Rodney and then Petros the Money take
Speaker 6: over for a full four hours right here on Dodgers
Speaker 6: Radio and five to seventy LA Sports. We have three
Speaker 6: lines open at eight six six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 6: five seventy. The Dodgers Fault today in Cleveland seven to
Speaker 6: four to the Guardians. They had a golden opportunity to
Speaker 6: sweep the Guardians and come back on a winning road
Speaker 6: trip that started with them losing two out of three
Speaker 6: to the Mets. Instead, they come back five hundred, but
Speaker 6: obviously wanting more because they had this game, and unfortunately
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia cannot get them to the
Speaker 6: finish line, in particular Tanner Scott, who has now blown
Speaker 6: five saves after blowing just two all of last season.
Speaker 6: And it's funny right already. The spin is out there
Speaker 6: with some tweets where it was a seeing eye single
Speaker 6: through the left side of the infield by Nolan Jones
Speaker 6: to beat Tanner Scott to tie the game with a
Speaker 6: two run single. That's not completely true. I mean that
Speaker 6: is where the ball went. But here's my question. And
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott, we saw him last year. He was overpowering
Speaker 6: at times last year. That's the reason why the Dodgers
Speaker 6: gave him the richest contract of any reliever this past offseason.
Speaker 6: What we saw from Tanner Scott and what we have
Speaker 6: seen from Tanner Scott is not the same guy that
Speaker 6: we saw last year. Where's the guy that dominated Otani?
Speaker 6: Last year right one for ten, he owns Otani because
Speaker 6: he overpowered him with his fastball. Instead, he's thrown ninety
Speaker 6: six and he's casting his slider this year. I mean,
Speaker 6: when you look at this play, this pitch sequencing from
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott, he's got Nolan Jones, the leadoff hitter of
Speaker 6: the Guardians, down one two, He's got two strikes on
Speaker 6: him with one out and the bases loaded. You would
Speaker 6: think he would want to try to get swing and
Speaker 6: miss and not put the ball in play. Number one.
Speaker 6: Number two, if he and Will Smith have decided on
Speaker 6: a slider, is why I'm so I just can't believe this.
Speaker 6: That's the reason why. I mean, I'm it's incomprehensible to
Speaker 6: me that the Dodger defense was shaded to pull Nolan
Speaker 6: Jones when Tanner Scott and Will Smith and remember there's
Speaker 6: a pitch com right, so everybody in their hats here
Speaker 6: what pitch is coming? So number one, why is Tanner
Speaker 6: Scott and Will Smith not coming up and end to
Speaker 6: try to strike out Nolan Jones? Number two? Why are
Speaker 6: they throwing a slider away from the left handed hitting
Speaker 6: Jones with the infield shaded for Jones to pull Mookie
Speaker 6: Betts was behind the bag. Why are you throwing that pitch?
Speaker 6: Why is the defense aligned that way? The defense should
Speaker 6: be aligned with the pitch. Is not everybody on the
Speaker 6: same page here, So you know this is on Tanner Scott.
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about how this ball was
Speaker 6: seeing guy through the left side of the infield. No,
Speaker 6: it was a poor pitch call. It was bad alignment
Speaker 6: by the defense and whoever's aligning them. They were not
Speaker 6: on the same page. That's the inside of the inside
Speaker 6: of baseball that wins or loses games late and the
Speaker 6: Dodgers obviously were not on the same page. And Tanner
Speaker 6: Scott obviously has not been the same Tanner Scott from
Speaker 6: a year ago. It's utterly frustrating. And if you're Tanner
Speaker 6: Scott and you're the closer and you're making more than
Speaker 6: anybody else in that bullpen, you should be standing at
Speaker 6: your locker after the game today. You know. Kenley Jansen
Speaker 6: used to get criticized early in his closing career after
Speaker 6: he blew saves rare saves by the way with the
Speaker 6: Dodgers that he wasn't at his locker to be accountable.
Speaker 6: Where was Tanner Scott. Today he did not speak to
Speaker 6: the media. You've got to be there. It shouldn't be
Speaker 6: just Alex Vessia. Sorry, Alex Vesia had to try to
Speaker 6: clean up a mess. Alex Vessi is a two time
Speaker 6: World Series champion. He has credibility with this fan base.
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott, you don't eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 6: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go back
Speaker 6: to Cleveland to the only stand up reliever speaking to
Speaker 6: the media after he gave up the go ahead three
Speaker 6: run home run to Unhel Martinez. Alex Vesia, I.
Speaker 7: Mean tried to throw him, obviously, two change ups and
Speaker 7: they were not very good. So and then say fast
Speaker 7: balls right down the middles. Gotta be better in those situations. Obviously, Yeah, the.
Speaker 6: Little them are hard contact than usual for you. What
Speaker 6: do you think is leading to that right now?
Speaker 7: Just misses have been bad. It's pretty much it's gotta
Speaker 7: gotta keep going and uh, executing pitches a little bit better.
Speaker 7: Is it more mechanical pen that you're kind of working
Speaker 7: through or it's just like a bunch of other on sources.
Speaker 7: How it's going right now? Made mechanically? I feel fine,
Speaker 7: So it's I don't think it's anything regarding that.
Speaker 6: I think it's just.
Speaker 7: Making bad pitches.
Speaker 4: Much just with kind of the workload the bullpen's taken
Speaker 4: on lately, Like how tough has it been as a
Speaker 4: group just to kind of keep bouncing back, and I.
Speaker 7: Mean bullpens, the bullpen, man, I mean it's I feel
Speaker 7: like we go through it every year. So it's, uh,
Speaker 7: you know, we're a bunch of tough guys down there,
Speaker 7: and I'll bet on anybody, so at the end of
Speaker 7: the day, I gotta do a better job.
Speaker 6: All right. There's the stand up Alex Vesia, the two
Speaker 6: time Series champion, Alex Vesia answering the questions in front
Speaker 6: of his locker. Unlike Tanner Scott by the way, Alex Vesia,
Speaker 6: I mean, he hasn't been the same guy as far
Speaker 6: as keeping the ball in the ballpark. That's been a
Speaker 6: problem for him and the rest of the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 6: this year. They have allowed thirty three home runs this year.
Speaker 6: That's the second most in Baseball of any bullpen two
Speaker 6: the Angels, who have given up one more thirty four
Speaker 6: home runs. The Dodgers and Red Sox have blown the
Speaker 6: same amount of saves this year twelve blown saves to
Speaker 6: lead Major League Baseball. The Dodger bullpen gives up five
Speaker 6: runs today to blow what would have been Clayton Kershaw's
Speaker 6: first win of the year. He had a gutsy performance.
Speaker 6: He competed his butt off for five innings to put
Speaker 6: the Dodgers in position along with their offense to get
Speaker 6: this win. But it wasn't meant to be. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 6: eight seven, two five seventy is the phone number, David
Speaker 6: Vasse with you until two thirty today here on a
Speaker 6: five seventy LA Sports. After the Guardians score five in
Speaker 6: the eighth and beat the Dodgers seven to four, let's
Speaker 6: go out to riverside. Michael lead us off on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hi Michael, Hi Dave, how are you doing. I've been better, Michael.
Speaker 6: I'm a little frustrated with way things have gone for
Speaker 6: the Dodger bullpen and for this team, and certainly from
Speaker 6: you know, honestly a disappointing start by Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8: Well, I wouldn't just say disappointing for Tanner Scott. There's
Speaker 8: a lot of pitches on this staff that he just
Speaker 8: whipped himself in the mirror and take take Payton Kershaw's
Speaker 8: leads on not only competing, but not not just throwing,
Speaker 8: but learning how pitch against some of these Major League
Speaker 8: Baseball lineups. You know, you know, I've been a lifelong
Speaker 8: Dodgers fan. I grew up in the late seventies going
Speaker 8: to the Dodger games when they were playing Yankees in
Speaker 8: the playoffs, and I was looking up do that. I
Speaker 8: think we've been lucky enough as a fan base to
Speaker 8: have some broadcasts over the years. Not only been, of course,
Speaker 8: but Rick Monday, as you mentioned yesterday, how his baseball
Speaker 8: IQ and just his knowledge of the game is second
Speaker 8: to none. And we're not only lucky enough to have him,
Speaker 8: but Jose Mota as the second one. You know, he's
Speaker 8: got an amazing insight as well, and uh you know, uh,
Speaker 8: it's it's it's refreshing to to to get their takes
Speaker 8: on a day and a day off basis not only
Speaker 8: there but yours as well. One thing I will mention,
Speaker 8: uh in conclusion of the broadcasting, Uh, he made comments
Speaker 8: with regard to I believe it was Wayne Rendozo a
Speaker 8: few days ago on the Apple broadcast or what have you,
Speaker 8: and how much of a homer. He is for a
Speaker 8: team that he doesn't even represent anymore. But uh, you know,
Speaker 8: I I do understand broadcasts are homers to a certain
Speaker 8: extent for the teams that they actually are employed by.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not a big believer in homers. That's not
Speaker 6: what we're accustomed to in La, Michael. I mean, if
Speaker 6: you grew up in La, we had the best of
Speaker 6: the best, and we all knew they obviously wanted their
Speaker 6: teams to win, but they always called it down the middle,
Speaker 6: some more than others. Chick hern Ward on his sleeve
Speaker 6: a lot, but Vince Scully, Bob Miller, even Dick Emberg
Speaker 6: back in the day. And look, my only gripe with
Speaker 6: Wayne Randazzo that night was that he was basically calling
Speaker 6: the umpire stupid when that broadcast booth that had no
Speaker 6: idea about the rule as far as what it is
Speaker 6: to tag up when a ball is being babbled. That
Speaker 6: was my only gripe is it's fine if you don't
Speaker 6: know the rule, but you're basically calling everybody else the
Speaker 6: idiot when they had the call right, and honestly, even
Speaker 6: Brian Gorman in New York, I mean, yeah, he had
Speaker 6: it right. They went to him, and that was a
Speaker 6: good thing to have that tool at their disposal. Look,
Speaker 6: I'm not in the business of criticizing broadcasters or play
Speaker 6: by play guys. They're like in the cockpit flying a plane.
Speaker 6: It looks a lot easier than what it is. It's
Speaker 6: not that easy. So I'm not in the business of
Speaker 6: criticizing play by play guys. Let's go out to Eric
Speaker 6: in the two one three. You're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 6: you doing Eric?
Speaker 3: You doing good? Dave Man. I love your passion, man,
Speaker 3: I love the fire in you because it tells me
Speaker 3: that you care and I care too. You know a
Speaker 3: few things really quickly, Man, Why is Kim not playing? Man?
Speaker 3: He started?
Speaker 6: That's not the reason why they lost today. Kim's a
Speaker 6: role playing I know that, of course.
Speaker 3: No, No, hold on, hold on, I know that. I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm just trying to get my points out. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying, but.
Speaker 6: Why would you call about hay Song Kim when the
Speaker 6: Dodger bullpen gave up five runs in the eighth inning.
Speaker 6: It has nothing to do with today's game, because.
Speaker 3: You're not letting me finish my take, man, Okay, well
Speaker 3: finish it. I'm calling about it. I'm calling about it
Speaker 3: because he started off hot, then you benched him. It's all,
Speaker 3: you know, Roberts Freeman being cute. And it leads me
Speaker 3: to my next take, which is putting in Tanner Scott
Speaker 3: right in the seventh inning, Like, what is there like
Speaker 3: something that I don't know in terms of the splits?
Speaker 3: Is he doing something different? You know, baseball players are
Speaker 3: creatures of habits.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: I noticed because I used to be a baseball player myself.
Speaker 3: It's very routine.
Speaker 6: Orient Well, here's a memo for you, Eric. It doesn't
Speaker 6: matter if it's been the ninth inning, the eighth inning,
Speaker 6: or the seventh inning. Tanner Scott has not been the
Speaker 6: same guy. And Dave Roberts put him in to face
Speaker 6: a weak part of the lineup, maybe to help him
Speaker 6: get his confidence back, and he still couldn't get the outs.
Speaker 3: And guess what this leads me to. My next take
Speaker 3: is Freedman giving the contracts to the wrong guys. Why
Speaker 3: are you know?
Speaker 6: Look, okay, hold on, hold on, let me ask you
Speaker 6: a question. Were you celebrating in the streets when he
Speaker 6: signed Tanner Scott Because the rest of the baseball world
Speaker 6: was they couldn't believe they signed him, and everybody thought, Okay,
Speaker 6: that's it. So you know, be honest with me. When
Speaker 6: they signed Tanner Scott, were you excited?
Speaker 3: And and snell.
Speaker 6: I asked you a question, Eric, I asked you a question.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying what am I saying, David? I'm saying
Speaker 3: that I was happy because when he signed, snell I
Speaker 3: was happy to blast. Now when he signed Glass Now
Speaker 3: the year before, I was happy too. So here's here's
Speaker 3: my question. This is my question. Okay, is it are
Speaker 3: we signing the wrong guys and they're getting injured or
Speaker 3: is there something more going on in terms of the
Speaker 3: pitching staff, the workload, what we're doing with these pictures
Speaker 3: that are leading to these injuries.
Speaker 6: Man, all right, well you're going all over You're going
Speaker 6: all over the place with that question. You're talking about
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott, who's healthy, You're talking about the off season signings.
Speaker 6: You're all over the place on that, Eric. So I
Speaker 6: can only answer the questions that I can answer. The
Speaker 6: pitching injuries is one thing. Signing the wrong guys is another.
Speaker 6: The Dodger signed what everybody thought were the right guys,
Speaker 6: but they just haven't performed. Snell got hurt, Tanner Scott
Speaker 6: hasn't performed, Michael Confordo hasn't performed, Kirby Yates has been. Okay,
Speaker 6: so every off season signing hasn't panned out the way
Speaker 6: everybody thought it would, not just in the Dodger front office,
Speaker 6: but across LA and across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: Okay, but here's my question. Are you here, Dave?
Speaker 6: You have a lot of questions that are not connecting.
Speaker 6: You went from Hay Song Kim to Tanner Scott to
Speaker 6: pitch your internet. I gotta move on. Sorry, Sorry, you
Speaker 6: were bouncing all around like a Plinko board on prices right.
Speaker 6: I'm very happy to answer all these questions. But Hay
Speaker 6: Song Kim and bringing in Tanner Scott in the seventh
Speaker 6: inning have nothing to do with each other. They are
Speaker 6: mutually exclusive. And Hay Song Kim not playing today had
Speaker 6: nothing to do with Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia giving
Speaker 6: up the game in the eighth inning. Sorry, let's go
Speaker 6: to Walnut.
Speaker 9: Jay.
Speaker 6: You're on Dodger Talk. Wow, j My head have to
Speaker 6: get my head back on straight after that call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, most definitely, so as I see it, for the
Speaker 4: Dodger pitching, we are terrible and the amount of contracts
Speaker 4: they just gave out to terrible pitchers like Blake Snell,
Speaker 4: Tanner Scott for example.
Speaker 6: Were they terrible though? Isn't there a reason why other
Speaker 6: teams were trying to sign them? And you know they
Speaker 6: they were coveted as much as they were. I don't
Speaker 6: feel like they are terrible. And when Blake Snell gets back,
Speaker 6: I don't think I.
Speaker 4: Think he'll be when it comes to actually doing their
Speaker 4: part of the job.
Speaker 6: Oh, right now, they haven't done their job. You're right, Jay,
Speaker 6: it hasn't been a good start for those guys. So
Speaker 6: what's your solution?
Speaker 4: Work with somebody like that and you can't get any
Speaker 4: wins or you can't get the job done. It's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know how the team must feel having a
Speaker 4: ride with those guys on the bus, on the plane.
Speaker 4: It's it's terrible, man. It's making everybody upset.
Speaker 3: And in the.
Speaker 4: Offseason when they signed all these guys, I didn't think
Speaker 4: it was a great idea.
Speaker 6: Oh really, there's.
Speaker 4: Much better pitching out there.
Speaker 6: That Really, who did you want the Dodgers to sign?
Speaker 6: Why don't you tell me what your shopping list was
Speaker 6: and what you could have done better instead of Tanner Scott,
Speaker 6: the best closer on the market, and Blake Snell along
Speaker 6: with Max Free, the two best starters on the market.
Speaker 6: The only argument you would have, Jay, that would hold
Speaker 6: credibility at this point was the Dodgers maybe should have
Speaker 6: signed Max Freed instead of Blake Snell. And even that
Speaker 6: is a huge armchair quarterback call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but se that's that's that's a problem. Are either
Speaker 4: the pitching coaches are not.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's the pitching coach's fault that a two
Speaker 6: time Cy Young winner decided to pitch through a shoulder
Speaker 6: issue that they could have nipped in the bud if
Speaker 6: he was just honest with them. Sorry, Jay, apologize. That's
Speaker 6: not on the pitching coaches. It's not on Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 6: Blake Snell is our pregame guest two Saturdays ago and
Speaker 6: even took responsibility for that. So here's my thing. Here
Speaker 6: are guys that have signed big contracts, Michael CONFORDO even
Speaker 6: for one year, big contract, Blake Snell, Tanner Scott. At
Speaker 6: some point you have to acknowledge, especially early in the year,
Speaker 6: We've seen this time and time again. We're seeing it
Speaker 6: in New York with Wan Soa and the Mets. These
Speaker 6: guys try too hard to impress to justify their contracts,
Speaker 6: and then they settle into it. I fully expect that
Speaker 6: to happen with Blake Snell. I hope that happens with
Speaker 6: Tanner Scott. Like I said today, that was a groundball
Speaker 6: to shortstop. If Mookie Betts is positioned where he needed
Speaker 6: to be on a slider away from a left hander,
Speaker 6: it makes no sense why the Dodgers infield was positioned
Speaker 6: to pull on a left handed hitter like Nolan Jones
Speaker 6: when there's two strikes on him, and Tanner Scott and
Speaker 6: Will Smith on the pitch com are saying they're going
Speaker 6: away with a slider. Where's the strikeout pitch? By the way,
Speaker 6: as well, how about don't leave it to chance and
Speaker 6: strike them out, throw a fastball up and in tie
Speaker 6: him up and move on with the bases loaded. Eight six, six,
Speaker 6: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 6: Dodgers blow their twelfth save of the season. That's the
Speaker 6: most in baseball. With the Boston Red Sox as the
Speaker 6: Guardians a void, a three game sweep seven to four.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to see me Valley Sam you're on
Speaker 6: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: How you doing, Sam, I'm doing pretty good. This whole
Speaker 9: Tanner Scott situation brings back memories of Tom Devency or
Speaker 9: when he gave a home up. I'm not home runs
Speaker 9: up in the in a playoff game or a World
Speaker 9: series and they end up losing the series.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was the NLCS in nineteen eighty five. He
Speaker 6: gave up a home run to Ozzie Smith and Game
Speaker 6: five and then gave up a go ahead home run
Speaker 6: to Jack Clark, and it's completely different. So go ahead
Speaker 6: with your call.
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, I just and then he came back to
Speaker 9: next year and then just Temyer didn't perform at all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was old.
Speaker 9: But I do what yeh, what I do like is
Speaker 9: or your point that you said that they brought him
Speaker 9: in in the Panner Scott in the bottom of the
Speaker 9: order to try to build up his confidence. I didn't
Speaker 9: even think about that. And that was that was I
Speaker 9: really I thought that was a really good point you
Speaker 9: brought up.
Speaker 6: Hey, thank you. Do you know what the batting averages
Speaker 6: of the players he faced were. We're talking about a
Speaker 6: one fifty hitter, We're talking about a two sixteen hitter.
Speaker 6: We're talking about a two forty six hitter. We're talking
Speaker 6: about a catcher that probably is one of the worst
Speaker 6: hitting catchers in baseball the last two years. Austin Hedges
Speaker 6: batting a Buck thirteen. I mean, those are the guys
Speaker 6: we're talking about.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it should be easy out see and get the.
Speaker 6: Ball, and get the ball to Alex Vesia, who would
Speaker 6: have came in in a clean inning to face the
Speaker 6: top of the order. That was the thinking behind Dave
Speaker 6: Roberts' strategy. Appreciate the phone call, and thank you again
Speaker 6: for bringing up the most traumatizing moments of my childhood
Speaker 6: watching the Dodgers, Tom Needon Fure giving up home runs
Speaker 6: to the Cardinals in the eighty five NLCS. I don't
Speaker 6: know if you know this, but after he gave up
Speaker 6: that home run to Jack Clark in Game six, in
Speaker 6: the ninth inning of the eighty five NLCS, there was
Speaker 6: a picture, black and white picture in the Herald Examiner,
Speaker 6: the old Great Sports section, of Tommy Lasorda in his
Speaker 6: office with both hands over his head, buried in his desk.
Speaker 6: I cut that picture out and put it on my
Speaker 6: bedroom door until spring training the next year, and the
Speaker 6: reason why Tom Needon Fure was in that game. Steve
Speaker 6: Jaeger Rick Monday have explained this to me. He was
Speaker 6: overworked that year because I'm fortunately Steve House demons caught
Speaker 6: up with him in the beginning of the year. So
Speaker 6: Tom needing Fewer was the best reliever and was overworked
Speaker 6: by the time they got there in the NLCS. So
Speaker 6: thank you very much for bringing up that great memory
Speaker 6: of Tom needing Fewer and the Dodgers. All right, let's
Speaker 6: go out to Huntington Beach. Paul, enough of David vasse
Speaker 6: traumatization as a Dodger fan. How you doing, Paul.
Speaker 10: I'm good man, I loved, I loved, fired up David
Speaker 10: pass I appreciate you today, dude, and I'm with you.
Speaker 10: I don't know why we're comparing a loss in May
Speaker 10: to giving up an NLCS on an over the hill
Speaker 10: pitcher who's over worked compared to a guy that's.
Speaker 3: Six weeks into a season.
Speaker 11: But that's beside the point. Yes, book man, I'm as
Speaker 11: frustrated as anybody. The Bullton has been unwatchable. Twelve blown
Speaker 11: saves is unexcusable. But let's be honest, dude, I mean,
Speaker 11: we got at least four guys down there in the
Speaker 11: pen that aren't even on this team. If we're healthy,
Speaker 11: and if the nuts right, I mean, we're not healthy.
Speaker 11: So it is what it is. But this team is
Speaker 11: doing very well considering everything they're dealing with. And by
Speaker 11: the way, we went through something really similar last year,
Speaker 11: except it was on the physician player side. Let's we forget.
Speaker 11: We were running an infield out there of Nick Ahmed
Speaker 11: and Cavin Bizzio and Chris Taylor on the regular and
Speaker 11: we and we weathered that storm. We're gonna weather this
Speaker 11: storm and it's gonna be okay. I mean, if this
Speaker 11: team were five games under five hundred, we can hit
Speaker 11: the panic button. Otherwise, we have a road trip against
Speaker 11: two really good teams and we come out of it
Speaker 11: three and three in the midst of a dogfight of
Speaker 11: a schedule at this point in the season.
Speaker 10: So yes, it sucks.
Speaker 11: Yes we get frustrated, but let's not compare anyone to
Speaker 11: Tom mean feor let's take a deep breath. It's not
Speaker 11: even freaking June first. All right, dude, I'm fired up too.
Speaker 6: I'll talk to you later on Hey Paul and Hintim
Speaker 6: Beach the voice of re right there. I'm sure he
Speaker 6: was at HQ Gastropub making that phone call, but he's right.
Speaker 6: And I've used that comparison to last year as well.
Speaker 6: Coming out of the All Star break, the Dodgers were
Speaker 6: banged up for a variety of different reasons with their
Speaker 6: position players and had to run out those guys and
Speaker 6: it was a rough patch. But the biggest difference is
Speaker 6: there is nothing more demoralizing to a team than giving
Speaker 6: up leads in the ninth inning or in the eighth inning,
Speaker 6: when you think you have the game sewed up and
Speaker 6: you have your closer coming into the seventh inning and
Speaker 6: then into the eighth inning. There is nothing more demoralizing
Speaker 6: than a blown save. Trust me, the Three Red Sox
Speaker 6: can attest to that. The biggest difference for the Red
Speaker 6: Sox and four was not trading Nomar, it was getting
Speaker 6: a real closer in Keith Folk. The Three Red Sox
Speaker 6: blew so many leads late in the game, and the
Speaker 6: Dodgers right now are in that category. They have lost
Speaker 6: twelve demoralizing leads they lead the league and blown saves
Speaker 6: twelve and we're only what eight weeks into the season.
Speaker 6: There is nothing more demoralizing than that, and that's part
Speaker 6: of the reason why today, despite winning two out of
Speaker 6: three in Cleveland, was a gut punch to lose this
Speaker 6: game today, and even more concerning, like our guy, the
Speaker 6: Voice of Reason in Huntington Beach, Paul said, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: are banged up in their bullpen. Hopefully they get Kirby
Speaker 6: Yates back on this upcoming homestand hopefully Michael Kopek is
Speaker 6: not that far behind. But you're not gonna be able
Speaker 6: to go to those guys back to back games or
Speaker 6: three out of four. Keep that in mind as well.
Speaker 6: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 6: the phone number Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven
Speaker 6: to four. Let's go out to David in Century City.
Speaker 6: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, David?
Speaker 12: Hey, David, I'm too in fine. I called you last
Speaker 12: year and said you were my Dodgers therapist. I think
Speaker 12: you need a Dodgers therapist today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need a leather cap.
Speaker 12: But you're doing a great job. I was thinking about
Speaker 12: your idea the other day about Bobby Miller coming in
Speaker 12: in a relief position, and I actually thought about there's
Speaker 12: a comp in Dodger history for someone like that, almost
Speaker 12: the identical situation, and that was Eric Ganie. Yeah, he
Speaker 12: came in as a starter, he kind of scuffled for
Speaker 12: a couple of years, and then he was the most
Speaker 12: dominant closer for three consecutive years.
Speaker 6: Great comparison.
Speaker 12: I think maybe Bobby could could fill that kind of role.
Speaker 6: And Danye was a fastball change up guy, and Bobby
Speaker 6: Miller could be a fastball change up guy.
Speaker 12: Maybe you can arrange a meeting.
Speaker 6: I would love to. Danye is my guy. I gave
Speaker 6: him a tour of Dodger Stadium and the Speakeasy a
Speaker 6: couple of opening days ago. But hey, that's a great call, David.
Speaker 6: That's a great comparison of a success story. Obviously, I
Speaker 6: hate to say this, Pegagne. He had a little help
Speaker 6: to be the guy that he was, but nonetheless he
Speaker 6: was a better closer than he was a starter.
Speaker 12: He has a streak that I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 12: be broken.
Speaker 6: Eighty four eighty four yeah days, yeah, eighty four consecutive saves.
Speaker 6: All right, and I'm with you, Bobby Bullpen, We're all in.
Speaker 12: So just to light in the mood, where was I
Speaker 12: when Freeman hit Oh see.
Speaker 6: I love that on the eve of the World Series rematch.
Speaker 6: All right, David, I said this at the beginning of
Speaker 6: the year. I don't care the situation the blown saves.
Speaker 6: I want to hear where you were when Freddy hit
Speaker 6: his slam.
Speaker 12: So you know, I was on pins and needles with
Speaker 12: my whole family in front of the TV, just thinking,
Speaker 12: you know, the most negative thoughts about, oh my god,
Speaker 12: we're about to go down, you know, one game to
Speaker 12: nothing against the dreaded Yankees, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 12: he hits that home run and he holds that bat
Speaker 12: up like a saber, and it was just a glorious moment,
Speaker 12: and I think something that every Dodger fan will remember
Speaker 12: for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 6: Are you gonna make it to any of the three
Speaker 6: games this weekend? David, I will not.
Speaker 12: The prices are way too.
Speaker 6: High, are they. I haven't checked.
Speaker 12: Oh one more thing, one more thing. I was at
Speaker 12: the Rick Monday game when he saved the American flag.
Speaker 6: Wow, I mean you've seen a lot.
Speaker 12: Where was I moment?
Speaker 6: You sound young. I like your voice. You sound like
Speaker 6: a very spry seventy years old.
Speaker 12: We'll not quite said, I'm not quite sixty yet, but
Speaker 12: I was was actually there with you were a kid,
Speaker 12: was there with a group of friends. Yeah, we were
Speaker 12: there all together for a Sunday game, and we all
Speaker 12: saw it together and it was you know.
Speaker 6: Well, I take it back. You're right on point. You
Speaker 6: do sound like a sixty year old, no doubt.
Speaker 12: All right, Well, thank you so much, Dave. Keep doing
Speaker 12: a great job.
Speaker 6: All right, call back anytime. Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 6: Sorry about that, I said seventy. I thought maybe you
Speaker 6: were twenty or something when Rick saved that flag in
Speaker 6: seventy six. I apologize. Sixty years old. All right. We're
Speaker 6: gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
Speaker 6: we come back, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll
Speaker 6: hear from Clayton Kershaw, who pitched very well today and
Speaker 6: deserve to win. Unfortunately, the Dodgers give up five runs
Speaker 6: in the eighth inning and lose to the Guardians today
Speaker 6: seven to four on A five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 6: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassen, no highlight, no highlight,
Speaker 6: No on hell Martinez go ahead, three run, home run highlight.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers fall to the Guardians today, seven to four.
Speaker 6: They end their six game road trip five hundred three wins,
Speaker 6: three losses. They lost two out of three in New
Speaker 6: York and win two out of three in Cleveland, but
Speaker 6: obviously a downer on the flight home they thought they
Speaker 6: had a sweep. Unfortunately they did not, as they had
Speaker 6: seven four runs on seven hits, while the Guardians seven runs,
Speaker 6: fifteen hits and scored five runs in that eighth inning.
Speaker 6: David vass with you until the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 6: Well check in with Jose Mota in a moment. Also
Speaker 6: a very entertaining day in Dodger history. And we also
Speaker 6: want to send out our birthday wishes to Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday, Gibbie, and also happy birthday to mister clutch
Speaker 6: Jerry West, who he lost in the last year. Incredibly,
Speaker 6: I had a tighter relationship with Jerry West than I
Speaker 6: do with Kirk Gibson, so I missed Jerry West a lot.
Speaker 6: We would have a yearly dinner myself and Doug gricoryan
Speaker 6: with Jerry West. One of the dinners that we went
Speaker 6: to recently before he passed away was at the Dalray.
Speaker 6: We went there and that was an awesome dinner Phil
Speaker 6: trainees obviously, and the last time we had dinner together
Speaker 6: with Jerry West was a couple of years ago before
Speaker 6: the game of a Clipper game at Staples Center because
Speaker 6: they had a home game and we made a way
Speaker 6: to meet him there. He invited us there and got
Speaker 6: us tickets and obviously Duck recording and Jerry West go
Speaker 6: a long ways away. When Doug was covering him with
Speaker 6: the Herald Examiner, I got to know Jerry threw the
Speaker 6: great Duck recording and my one of my mentors, Joe McDonald.
Speaker 6: They included me and those dinners and some of the
Speaker 6: best basketball stories you would ever hear, and one of
Speaker 6: the great guys you will ever meet, Jerry West. So
Speaker 6: Karen West and Ryan and the rest of the family
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Speaker 6: Dodgers lost today, but Clayton Kershawn, making his third start
Speaker 6: of the year, pitched really well. He went five innings
Speaker 6: today and there's an argument to be made he could
Speaker 6: have gone six innings today. Let's head back to Cleveland
Speaker 6: to here from the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean the first sitting was pretty rough.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 13: You know, I think Andy making that throw, getting that
Speaker 13: guy out a second was huge for me. Limited the damage.
Speaker 13: And you know, I'm fighting some stuff mechanically and different things.
Speaker 13: I was able to make a few pitches here and
Speaker 13: there to get through five, but obviously wasn't pitching good
Speaker 13: enough to be able to stay in the game, which
Speaker 13: you know makes the Bowl been after more innings, and
Speaker 13: you know, sometimes stuff like this happens. So you know,
Speaker 13: frustrating for sure, but you know, I think at the
Speaker 13: same time, there's some there's some progress, still more reps
Speaker 13: and you know, overall, to only give up one run
Speaker 13: and pitch that bad is a good thing, so just
Speaker 13: on to the next one. So it's that kind of
Speaker 13: like what you're hitting on last start, like you just
Speaker 13: need to kind of need the reps at this point
Speaker 13: just to kind of yeah, there's just some stuff I
Speaker 13: need to just hammer down. I think I've created some
Speaker 13: bad habits and you know, and just with with not
Speaker 13: feeling my best, I think I created some bad habits
Speaker 13: last year, so and then I haven't pitched a while.
Speaker 13: You know, I haven't pitched a long time, So there's
Speaker 13: just some growing pains. I think with the first you
Speaker 13: and you know, physically feel great, just gotta keep throwing
Speaker 13: and figuring it out.
Speaker 3: Where do you see that translates or just when the
Speaker 3: command gets a little inconsistent or kind of executing.
Speaker 13: I mean, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 13: you just you know, when you're going good, you throw
Speaker 13: a bad pitch, you can make the adjustment on the
Speaker 13: next one. And right now the adjustment's just not happening
Speaker 13: fast enough. So it just comes with time and reps
Speaker 13: and I hope and we'll just keep doing that, all right.
Speaker 6: There's Clayton Kershaw. After five innings, he competed his way
Speaker 6: through that allowed just one earned run and you heard
Speaker 6: him say, yes, Andy pat has made a couple of
Speaker 6: strong throws. Ta Oscar Hernandez also some strong throws. So
Speaker 6: Andy Pa has quietly has become a guy for the Dodgers,
Speaker 6: a dude, as they say, hitting two seventy now with
Speaker 6: an ops of seven sixty seven. He drove in a
Speaker 6: run today and certainly has played really good outfield since
Speaker 6: the beginning of the season. He has put in the
Speaker 6: work and he has seen the fruits of that labor.
Speaker 6: And Kershaw corrects me, he didn't feel like he deserved
Speaker 6: to go back out there. He feels like he had
Speaker 6: a very fortunate five innings. But he's going to be
Speaker 6: harder on himself than anybody else. And he's right. He
Speaker 6: hasn't pitched an over a year. This was only really
Speaker 6: his second start of the year because of the rain
Speaker 6: in New York, where he only got to go two innings.
Speaker 6: So this will be a gradual build up and hopefully
Speaker 6: the next time out he can go six innings at
Speaker 6: the very least. I know that's what he expects. He
Speaker 6: doesn't really celebrate five innings. In case you're wondering, he
Speaker 6: did have three strikeouts today, so he's just twenty six
Speaker 6: away from three thousand in his career. Seven two, five
Speaker 6: seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to your
Speaker 6: calls in a moment, but first.
Speaker 5: It's tough to go around the horn with Hoseane Mota.
Speaker 6: All right, jose Mota, you just heard from Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 6: What did you think about his outing and do you
Speaker 6: believe that it is a work in progress?
Speaker 2: Oh, it is a work in progress. But I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what, man, he stands up like a man and
Speaker 2: faces really reality and where he is on the things
Speaker 2: that he wanted to do better. And that's his picture
Speaker 2: credibility and accountability right there to say, hey, I know
Speaker 2: that there's some things that I missed with there's a
Speaker 2: couple of pictures early that he got squeezed with. He
Speaker 2: just got the ball and right back auld work, and
Speaker 2: I think I truly admire that. And you know, even
Speaker 2: though the Dodgers starting pictures have been scuffling, getting you
Speaker 2: through six or seven innings, we've got to take it
Speaker 2: one step at a time with him, his execution got
Speaker 2: better as a game progressed. So I know he demands
Speaker 2: a lot of out of himself. But you know what,
Speaker 2: kurse last seven innings right now? He is allowed one
Speaker 2: earn run and I'll take that any single time, and
Speaker 2: his leadership should sort of well in the clubhouse in
Speaker 2: that right now, not just by what he brings, what
Speaker 2: he carries, but also the way he acts and how
Speaker 2: much he demands of himself every single time out.
Speaker 6: All right, let's fast forward to the eighth inning. Jose,
Speaker 6: I've talked about this and Tanner Scott not getting many strikeouts,
Speaker 6: and I just couldn't figure out why the Dodger defense
Speaker 6: was not on the same page, or why Tanner Scott
Speaker 6: was not on the same page with his defense. With
Speaker 6: the pitch choice with two strikes on Nolan Jones.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really comes down to execution, and he
Speaker 2: used it out execute. I went back and looked at
Speaker 2: spray charts on Nolan Jones, I went back and looked
Speaker 2: at locations on Tanner Scott, and it really comes down
Speaker 2: to Tanner Scott not making a pitch. Now, I did
Speaker 2: share with you the high view, high home view of
Speaker 2: the defense, and with a guy that throws that hard,
Speaker 2: usually you want to see an adjustment up the middle
Speaker 2: with your middle infielder. Because if you notice that chart
Speaker 2: and what I said to that graph, the outfielders are
Speaker 2: playing opposite field and I mean they're shaded way over
Speaker 2: the left field, but the middle is not. The infield
Speaker 2: is not. And in that case, it's gonna come down
Speaker 2: with Mookie Betts as he learns a position more and
Speaker 2: more to adjust on the fly. David, I'm telling you
Speaker 2: is it doesn't come overnight. But those are things that
Speaker 2: you have to do better at. Considering that the slaughter
Speaker 2: is not a put away pitch right now for Tanner
Speaker 2: Scott and the fact that if you stop the bat
Speaker 2: on contact, it was just that location. But I do
Speaker 2: want to see with two strikes on the leftild throws
Speaker 2: out hard. Two things. Number one, this guy Lola Jones
Speaker 2: says one a ten against fastballs, and I know we
Speaker 2: made that suggestions, which is a very good one one
Speaker 2: at against fastballs. Number two is the white pout pitch
Speaker 2: is not there right now and lefties are hitting three
Speaker 2: fifty seven against you know, Tanner Scotts. There are so
Speaker 2: many things to look at. But on the defensive side,
Speaker 2: I do agree with you that you have to read
Speaker 2: the swings and go out there and protect the outer
Speaker 2: half opposite field because a LEFTYBD like that, who's not
Speaker 2: considered a power guy, just gives you more of a
Speaker 2: chance to find holes, and he did.
Speaker 6: The consensus is Tanner Scott's finding too much of the plate,
Speaker 6: whether it's a slider or a fastball, no doubt. How
Speaker 6: does he get back to the Tanner Scott that the
Speaker 6: Dodgers signed.
Speaker 2: He's got to work down Dave. I also went back
Speaker 2: and looked at some of the things they did last year.
Speaker 2: Where he lived, you know, we say where he lived,
Speaker 2: the heat map. Everything's above right now, everything is you know,
Speaker 2: above the knees and at the waist and bigley. Hitters
Speaker 2: are not going to be full by ninety seven ninety
Speaker 2: eight if you're living upstairs now. To make that fast
Speaker 2: more more effective obviously is to vary the eyes of
Speaker 2: the hitters. And he's not doing it right now. The
Speaker 2: slider is not a wipeout pitch right now because he's
Speaker 2: thrown it too high. As you talked about, he's casting it,
Speaker 2: he's not ripping it as Kershow does and did so
Speaker 2: well today a couple of times, and that is constantly,
Speaker 2: and hitters can smell that righty's lefty. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: You see when he pitch down on hedges. What happened
Speaker 2: and certainly that was good execution, but he's not their
Speaker 2: consistent basis and very unpredictable to see exactly where it's
Speaker 2: going to go. But he definitely has to work down
Speaker 2: in the zone a little bit more to get more
Speaker 2: chases and even walk around with guys swinging around the
Speaker 2: edges a little bit more. But I just don't see
Speaker 2: it happening, and maybe he needs to adjust a little
Speaker 2: bit more on the way he thinking with one mile
Speaker 2: hour lesson last year that he perhaps thinks need to
Speaker 2: be adjusted for him.
Speaker 6: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers fall to
Speaker 6: the Guardians today seven of four. Jose, let's talk about
Speaker 6: something good. And the Dodger outfield has gotten a lot
Speaker 6: of bet a lot better with Taoscar Hernandez getting more
Speaker 6: reps in right field getting comfortable there, and Andy pie
Speaker 6: is putting in so much work with Dino Ebel today
Speaker 6: it kind of helped kershaw last five innings.
Speaker 2: You go back to just three weeks ago, and so
Speaker 2: let me go back to the first week of the season.
Speaker 2: You and I were talking about this and you're like,
Speaker 2: do you think this outfre is going to be challenging
Speaker 2: going first a third? And yeah, the first couple of weeks. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's changed now. Guys are attacking the ball. Now, guys
Speaker 2: are taking better routs of the ball. Andy Piez is
Speaker 2: a difference maker in the affield by the way he
Speaker 2: goes after balls with his angles and how he throws
Speaker 2: a baseball. But it really saved curse today. But these
Speaker 2: guys going out there and knowing that you got to
Speaker 2: cut down the distance to see that third base coach
Speaker 2: hold their arms up. Even if you're just charging hard,
Speaker 2: you got to just have a reaction from a coach
Speaker 2: or a player to say, I can't go right there.
Speaker 2: And the guys are making very accurate So you know,
Speaker 2: kudos Toadino and all the works he's put in. But
Speaker 2: certainly I do admy the fact that even going back
Speaker 2: to the first second week of the season, things have
Speaker 2: changed drastically in just the outfield play and how many
Speaker 2: more runs they're saving nowadays.
Speaker 6: All right, they'll need all that defense. That was the
Speaker 6: difference in the World Series last year, along with Freddie
Speaker 6: Freeman being on another planet. Can't wait to see you
Speaker 6: at Dodgers Stadium on Friday for Dodgers Yankees again.
Speaker 2: Jose, All right, my friend, keep doing a good job, thank.
Speaker 6: You, thank you. There he goes Jose mode. I can't
Speaker 6: stand too many compliments. Seated Jose eight six six nine
Speaker 6: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 6: fall to the Guardians seven to four. They are still
Speaker 6: still going to be in first place. At the end
Speaker 6: of today, they're thirty four and twenty two, tied in
Speaker 6: the lost column with the San Diego Padres. Let's go
Speaker 6: out to Jim in Torrance, who also wants to flash
Speaker 6: back to nineteen eighty five. Hi, Jim, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14: Hey Dave, let me tell you something. Today was tough
Speaker 14: to watch, but I'll tell you in eighty five that
Speaker 14: was a killer. I'm the guy that took the picture
Speaker 14: of Tommy Lesorda after the loss that you were talking
Speaker 14: about a little earlier, And I'll tell were you really were.
Speaker 6: You were the guy that night. I had your photo
Speaker 6: on my bedroom door for a whole year.
Speaker 14: You did that makes me happy and sad because it
Speaker 14: was a sad picture.
Speaker 6: Yeah it was. I was depressed. Even eleven year old
Speaker 6: kid knew not to pitch to Jack Clark.
Speaker 14: Well, I'll tell you Tommy was great when they won
Speaker 14: great for pictures, but in a case like this, when
Speaker 14: when the Dodgers lost or it was really tough, he.
Speaker 3: Was a frightening guy.
Speaker 14: I went into it to his office and I was
Speaker 14: hiding behind a guy named Alan Malamud.
Speaker 3: You might know him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was a good guy to hide behind. He
Speaker 6: was pretty big.
Speaker 14: Well, he's a good guy to be behind. Corecoryan was
Speaker 14: in there, and there was only.
Speaker 6: Why would you pitch to Jack Clark Why.
Speaker 14: They were a little more subdued, but only three reporters
Speaker 14: had the guts to go in there and talk to
Speaker 14: him because he could be tough, and knowing that, I
Speaker 14: literally snuck in behind him, had my camera ready. I
Speaker 14: was behind Malamud and I was watching and watching, and
Speaker 14: when his hands went up over his face, I shot
Speaker 14: one frame and I'm telling Dave, I ran out the
Speaker 14: door and survived.
Speaker 6: Hey, that picture said one thousand words, And uh, that's awesome, Jim,
Speaker 6: thank you for calling. That's a full circle moment for me.
Speaker 6: One of the most traumatizing sports moments in my life.
Speaker 6: That and the Lakers losing in Game seven of the
Speaker 6: eighty four Finals.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that was another one, Dave. I appreciate that and
Speaker 14: if you lit up my day when you mentioned a.
Speaker 3: Picture I shot.
Speaker 6: Hey, you lit up my day years ago. I know,
Speaker 6: I know, I wish. Oh man. Let's let's leave it
Speaker 6: right there, Jim. Okay, let's not go down any further.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you, Jim. I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 6: Those were two great columnists in Tommy's office, that's for sure,
Speaker 6: Doug Grecreyn and the great Alan Malamode. Malamud eight six
Speaker 6: six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 6: Let's stay in the OC. Well, let's go down to
Speaker 6: the OC. Sorry, I know Torrence is the South Bay.
Speaker 6: I apologize, Orange County. Steve, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 15: How you doing, Hey, I'm great, Thank you, Dave. You know,
Speaker 15: the guy from Hunting to Beach was very uplifting what
Speaker 15: he had to say. My take so far is that
Speaker 15: our starting pitchers are not giving us the innings that
Speaker 15: we need. We're almost like it's almost like every game
Speaker 15: is an opener. Kurse did a great job today. Our
Speaker 15: bullpen is just tired. Too many innings. I don't fault
Speaker 15: fetch you for his mistake today. They happened the a bullpen. Guys,
Speaker 15: They're not allowed to have a bad day. They have
Speaker 15: to be perfect every time they go out, and we
Speaker 15: all know people aren't perfect. I think Tanner Scott needs
Speaker 15: to sit down for five days. He needs to get
Speaker 15: his act together. And I'm going to be controversial here.
Speaker 15: The Dodgers have had a non group come out and
Speaker 15: be a pregame.
Speaker 6: Come on, Steve, you're gonna go that route.
Speaker 15: No, no, no, hang on, And that was a real debacle.
Speaker 15: But I'll tell you who's the starting pitcher right now,
Speaker 15: who come in and pitch for a thousand bucks, who's
Speaker 15: worth one game shot? And that's Trevor Bauer, who could
Speaker 15: come in and give us innings. I know he's not
Speaker 15: like there. I know he's controversial, but you lay it
Speaker 15: on the line for this guy, say, look, you got
Speaker 15: one game, you're gonna get a thousand bucks. Give us
Speaker 15: this six innings and we'll see.
Speaker 6: What treating it like a Sunday Beer League. They're not
Speaker 6: just bringing in a guy for one thousand dollars in
Speaker 6: a major league game. Steve, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 6: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 6: phone number. Look, that's that phone call started out really well.
Speaker 6: And then it evolved. So I'm sorry, but I thought
Speaker 6: maybe the best suggestion was our guy David in Century City.
Speaker 6: Going with what I suggested the other day, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: should consider Bobby Miller coming out of the bullpen, at
Speaker 6: least for the short term and see where it goes
Speaker 6: from there, because right now they need some help in
Speaker 6: that bullpen. And like you said, I thought it was
Speaker 6: a great pull. Eric Gangne was He's a middling starter,
Speaker 6: And actually the Dodgers gave the Blue Jays the option
Speaker 6: of either Luke Procopec or Eric Ganne in an offseason
Speaker 6: trade for Jason Worth. The Blue Jays chose Procopec, and
Speaker 6: Ganie got wind of it and obviously got a wake
Speaker 6: up call when the Dodgers told him you're going to
Speaker 6: the bullpen. And he became the most dominant closer of
Speaker 6: his generation. Eighty four consecutive saves, and he did it
Speaker 6: with ninety nine miles an hour, and he did it
Speaker 6: with a bugs Bunny changeup, and we got a glimpse
Speaker 6: of what could be for Bobby bullpen if the Dodgers
Speaker 6: decided to have Miller become a relief pitcher. Ninety nine
Speaker 6: to one, Soto eighty six change down in a way.
Speaker 6: That's all he needs as a late inning reliever. Here's
Speaker 6: another suggestion. Ben Casparius has been so valuable in so
Speaker 6: many different ways. Right He's come in, he's opened, he's
Speaker 6: pitched three innings, he's pitched one batter. I feel like
Speaker 6: at this point in time, the Dodgers can find a
Speaker 6: Lou Trevine or a Matt Sower to be a guy
Speaker 6: that can cover two or three innings. They need Ben
Speaker 6: Casparius right now to be a high leverage reliever in
Speaker 6: the seventh, eighth, or even ninth inning. Ben Casparius is
Speaker 6: a big time weapon. And I know he's a starter.
Speaker 6: He could even start if they decided to go that route.
Speaker 6: But they need him as a high leverage reliever, and
Speaker 6: he would do it. He's embraced everything the Dodgers have
Speaker 6: asked him to do. It's time to consider Ben Casparius
Speaker 6: as a high leverage reliever in the eighth inning, a
Speaker 6: four out type of guy. Whether it's a closer on
Speaker 6: certain nights or a guy that bridges from the seventh
Speaker 6: inning to the eighth inning. It's time for Ben Casparius
Speaker 6: to be a high leverage reliever. Let's take one more
Speaker 6: phone call before we share one of the most memorable
Speaker 6: entertaining situations in recent Dodger history. Let's go out to Oceanside. Paul,
Speaker 6: you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul, I'm doing well, Dave.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You've had some funny callers today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're not gonna suggest bringing back Yassi ol Puigue.
Speaker 3: Are you get to pitch? Yeah?
Speaker 16: No, But I would like to expand a little bit, Dave,
Speaker 16: if you would please on this. I'm gonna piggyback the
Speaker 16: uh Eric Guignier thing and the Bobby Miller thing. If
Speaker 16: you could maybe enlighten us on when the Dodgers have
Speaker 16: like these really good starting pitchers in triple A, do
Speaker 16: they not want to use them as short term relievers
Speaker 16: because of the development of the picture or why do
Speaker 16: you know why we wouldn't bring up a couple of
Speaker 16: these guys justice do some spot eighth, seventh, eight things
Speaker 16: like we could have used today? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Number one, it has a lot to do with development.
Speaker 6: They don't want to stunt the young man's development as
Speaker 6: a starting pitcher, and a lot of times you're kind
Speaker 6: of playing with their career, right, Paul, Because they're a
Speaker 6: starting pitcher, all of a sudden, you're going to make
Speaker 6: them a relief pitcher. I think the Dodgers want to
Speaker 6: give some of these guys more of an opportunity to
Speaker 6: prove that they can start. But for whatever reason, it
Speaker 6: hasn't clicked with Bobby Miller. The Dodgers have to consider
Speaker 6: and Bobby quite honestly, would have to embrace this role
Speaker 6: if he wants to be in the big leagues this
Speaker 6: year and help the Dodgers make a run for his
Speaker 6: second World Championship, that would be the best role for
Speaker 6: him to be a relief pitcher in some form or fashion.
Speaker 6: And who knows, you know, closers I e. Tanner Scott
Speaker 6: make a lot of money being a really good relief pitcher.
Speaker 6: So it's up to the team obviously to make that
Speaker 6: decision with the player. But the players has got to
Speaker 6: want to embrace that role.
Speaker 1: Great, Thank you, Dave. Yeah, I thought it might be
Speaker 1: development wise, could stunt them, but really appreciate your work
Speaker 1: and keep.
Speaker 6: Up the good job, all right, Paul, thanks a lot
Speaker 6: for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 6: could say Bobby Miller and the Dodgers could believe Bobby
Speaker 6: Miller could help them out of the bullpen. But unless
Speaker 6: Bobby Miller believes it and embraces it, it's not going
Speaker 6: to work. So we'll see. I don't know where his
Speaker 6: head's at, where the Dodgers head's at right now, but
Speaker 6: certainly it could work. It can work, and Ben Casparius
Speaker 6: may be needed as a high leverage reliever considering Evan
Speaker 6: Phillips has no timetable on his return, Blake Trinin not
Speaker 6: expected to come back until the final months of the season.
Speaker 6: So it's not the craziest idea of Ben Casparius becoming
Speaker 6: a high leverage reliever and using somebody else to be
Speaker 6: the bulk long man for the Dodgers. Ben has been
Speaker 6: outstanding in so many different ways. All right. I want
Speaker 6: to share this with you. And it's not an on
Speaker 6: this date in Dodger history that goes back to Brooklyn.
Speaker 6: This happened back in twenty sixteen and I lived it.
Speaker 6: We all lived it. Remember, during the twenty fifteen NLDS,
Speaker 6: Chase Utley at City Field slid into second base hard
Speaker 6: Ruben Tahada broke his leg not because of Utley's slide,
Speaker 6: but because Tahada in my opinion, was completely out of position.
Speaker 6: His back was to home play, trying to do some
Speaker 6: circus type of a play at second base, and Utley,
Speaker 6: as he has done, goes in hard and all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, Joe Tory freaked out. A lot of pressure
Speaker 6: from the New York media, New York and Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6: They changed the rule. It's kind of dumb now where
Speaker 6: guys can't go into second base like they used to.
Speaker 6: But nonetheless, fast forward to the following year, first time
Speaker 6: the Dodgers were back in city field, Noah Cindagard, yes
Speaker 6: you know where I'm going, was on the mound facing
Speaker 6: Chase Utley in the first inning of that game, the
Speaker 6: first time Chase Utley had returned to New York since
Speaker 6: the twenty fifteen NLDS and the whole Ruben Tahada brew Haha.
Speaker 6: Harry Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, Terry, get.
Speaker 12: A handle, come on, let's call, come on, let me talk.
Speaker 6: To talk to me. Then you talk to me about it.
Speaker 6: You look, you gotta give us a shot. You know what,
Speaker 6: you give us shot. Listen to me and let me
Speaker 6: hear what I'm saying.
Speaker 15: Okay, you get your son you had your son right
Speaker 15: there in the situation.
Speaker 6: Why the hell the situation? Why shut that doesn't that
Speaker 6: makes one?
Speaker 3: Terry?
Speaker 6: That makes it?
Speaker 5: I know nothing.
Speaker 12: I got nothingday that that I I told that, Harry.
Speaker 3: I can't told that.
Speaker 6: You know as well as I You know where I stand.
Speaker 6: I'm hold but that's you know that, Harry. Listen, I'm
Speaker 6: telling you our ass is in the.
Speaker 15: Jackpot now, Okay, okay, that's I'm just telling you.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 14: That's that's what you got.
Speaker 16: You got it, you don't get it, you got everything out.
Speaker 6: Hey, my ass was in the jackpot today too. That's
Speaker 6: Tom Hallie and Terry Collins. And we all know now
Speaker 6: that Noah Sindergard was on the Dodgers. He did not
Speaker 6: have the heart to hit Chase Sutley. That's the reason
Speaker 6: why he threw behind him. And Terry Collins overreacting. I mean,
Speaker 6: come on, you had your chance, tell your second basement
Speaker 6: or shortstop to play the position correctly and he wouldn't
Speaker 6: have gotten that hurt. Thank you very much. Joe Torri,
Speaker 6: who I respect very much, overreacted and caved in and
Speaker 6: made an overwhelming rules change that still lives in infamy
Speaker 6: all right, that'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk
Speaker 6: today Tomorrow off day Dodger Talk. Andre Ethier has begged
Speaker 6: me to come on the show. So I'll be a
Speaker 6: charitable guy and put Ethier on the show tomorrow night.
Speaker 6: On an off day Friday.
Speaker 17: Night, Dodgers Yankees with Ensino's own MaTx Freed returning to
Speaker 17: La as a Yankee. He is the best starter in baseball,
Speaker 17: undefeated in eleven starts this year, seven to zero with
Speaker 17: an ERA of one twenty nine, going up against Petros's
Speaker 17: favorite Tony Gonsolin, who is tune in one with an.
Speaker 6: ERA of four to sixty eight. Morongo Casino Dodgers on
Speaker 6: Deck begins at six o'clock. First pitch at seven to ten,
Speaker 6: naked a simulcast because it's on Apple on Friday Night.
Speaker 6: Thanks to Colin you for all his help, Thanks to
Speaker 6: Dwayne McDonald in Cleveland. Thanks to Petros and Money and
Speaker 6: Tim Kates for their morals support, and thanks to you
Speaker 6: for listening.
Speaker 17: Rogan and Rodney, Yes, a big half hour right around
Speaker 17: the corner, Petros and Money coming up for our big four.
Speaker 6: At three o'clock once again. The final score in Cleveland,
Speaker 6: The Guardians beat the Dodgers seven to four. We'll talk
Speaker 6: to you tomorrow. Rogan and Rodney next see them