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Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: After the Dodgers return.
Speaker 2: Home with a six to four win over the Rockies
Speaker 2: and lower their magic number to clinch the NL West
Speaker 2: to five, we are going to be with you until
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock tonight, taking your phone calls at eight six
Speaker 2: six nine, eight seven, two five seventy. You will hear
Speaker 2: from Tyler Glass now who spoke for the first time
Speaker 2: since shutting down his season. And also we'll give you
Speaker 2: an update on Clayton Kershaw. But really this is all
Speaker 2: about Shoeotani and the Dodgers coming off an incredible game
Speaker 2: yesterday six for six, three home runs ten are a
Speaker 2: triple shy of the cycle. And then after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: land at about twelve fifteen twelve thirty this morning, he
Speaker 2: is able to turn around and the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to turn around and pick themselves up and understand they
Speaker 2: still have to get wins and still have to clinch
Speaker 2: this division, and it was a nice way for them
Speaker 2: to come back and score six runs after scoring twenty
Speaker 2: yesterday in Miami, and Otani is just remarkable. I think
Speaker 2: at this point in time, everybody is just in awe
Speaker 2: of what this man is able to do. If you
Speaker 2: saw the game, or the highlights or social media. In
Speaker 2: the bottom of the first inning, as Rick Monday anticipated yesterday,
Speaker 2: Otani did get a standing ovation from the crowd here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. And also what was really awesome to
Speaker 2: see was his teammates that entire Dodger dugout not only
Speaker 2: stood up and applauded him, but they came out of
Speaker 2: the dugout and stood in front of it to give
Speaker 2: Otani a standing ovation. That was something that you don't
Speaker 2: see too often forty nine thousand and seventy three at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. Obviously, you expect the fans to give him
Speaker 2: a standing ovation. He reciprocated and acknowledged the fans by
Speaker 2: stepping out and tipping his helmet and also respecting his teammates.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing about Otani that we have learned
Speaker 2: being around him every day is that he respects the
Speaker 2: game and really respects the opponents, the umpires, maybe sometimes
Speaker 2: too much for my liking, but he respects the game
Speaker 2: and that's something he expressed yesterday and his postgame press
Speaker 2: conference where he said that he respects the players that
Speaker 2: came before him, and he is honored and humbled to
Speaker 2: be able to be the first player in baseball history
Speaker 2: to steal fifty bases and hit fifty home runs.
Speaker 3: This guy just loves the big stage, and.
Speaker 2: Yesterday he could sense it, and he not only got
Speaker 2: through the door to open up the fifty to fifty club,
Speaker 2: but burst through it by becoming the first fifty one
Speaker 2: fifty one player. And tonight, fourteenth time this year, O'tani
Speaker 2: has hit a home run and stolen a base.
Speaker 3: So now he's ad fifty two and fifty two.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was one of those moments.
Speaker 2: That you will always remember where you were when that
Speaker 2: game happened.
Speaker 3: I think we all felt that way.
Speaker 2: Most of us were not in Milwaukee when Sean Green
Speaker 2: had that incredible record setting game of nineteen total bases
Speaker 2: when he hit four home runs against the Brewers, but
Speaker 2: we all remember that day or where we were list
Speaker 2: or watching, or when we found out. So where were
Speaker 2: you yesterday? Were you listening to the game in your
Speaker 2: car or trying to sneak it in on the iHeartRadio app?
Speaker 2: Were you watching it somewhere? I mean Dodgers Marlins at
Speaker 2: one forty.
Speaker 3: On a weekday.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's a headline grabber, but after Otani
Speaker 2: hits the fiftieth home run of the year, it feels
Speaker 2: like more eyes and ears started to come that to
Speaker 2: that game's way eight six, six, nine, seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy And yesterday, after Otani's incredible game, he stopped for
Speaker 2: us on Dodgers Radio show, Hey, what was your emotions
Speaker 2: when this crowd in Miami gave you a curtain call
Speaker 2: after your fiftieth home run?
Speaker 4: Min Guja bummit.
Speaker 5: Stuffing his skin almost entice Oka.
Speaker 6: Come, Kitle.
Speaker 3: Hight.
Speaker 5: You know, as a player, I'm just very grateful and
Speaker 5: thankful that the fans have received me in the in
Speaker 5: this kind of fashion, and it's really about having quality
Speaker 5: at bats and winning games. I'm glad that we were
Speaker 5: able to do that today show, Hey.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had a game like you had today?
Speaker 2: Going back to high school, little League in Japans.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's first time ever. I don't I don't recall
Speaker 5: ever hitting him more than today.
Speaker 2: Thank you for stopping and congratulations on the postseason. Thank
Speaker 2: you all right, there is show hey o Tani yesterday
Speaker 2: in Miami after becoming the first play with fifty home
Speaker 2: runs and fifty stolen bases, and that doesn't even do
Speaker 2: him justice. If you go back to yesterday's game, he
Speaker 2: tied Paula Duka for the most hits in a single
Speaker 2: Dodger game, and he also broke Gil Hodges and James
Speaker 2: Loney's RBI record for the most driven in in a game.
Speaker 2: We had those two guys to first basemen drove in
Speaker 2: nine runs in a game, and yesterday Otani blew by
Speaker 2: that with ten RBIs. And you got to tip your
Speaker 2: cap to Skip Schumacher. That's what the Dodgers were doing
Speaker 2: after the game for not intentionally walking Otani when he
Speaker 2: had the opportunity during his at bat where he hit
Speaker 2: his fiftieth home run. So kudos to Skip Schumacher and
Speaker 2: Dino Ebol has been part of the Dodger coaching staff
Speaker 2: this season obviously, and Clayton McCullough at the first base
Speaker 2: coaching box. They've been big assets to not only Otani
Speaker 2: but everybody else on this team. And they've been there
Speaker 2: for all fifty two home runs and all fifty two
Speaker 2: stolen bases. And here's what the Dodger third base coach
Speaker 2: Dino Ebel described to us when Otani came around third
Speaker 2: base yesterday after he hit his fiftieth home run.
Speaker 4: It was I had the goosebumps when he hit it.
Speaker 7: I knew instantly the ball was out of the park
Speaker 7: and just to witness history there. And I was just
Speaker 7: watching him and watching his face expressions as he was
Speaker 7: getting closer to me at third base. I saw the
Speaker 7: smile and we did our natural the high five there
Speaker 7: and I was happy. And I know the team's happy,
Speaker 7: that the organization's happy, the fans are happy. But what
Speaker 7: a feeling for him, What a feeling for us and
Speaker 7: for myself seeing him come around.
Speaker 4: Third and get to slap high five on History night.
Speaker 2: How about all three of those yesterday? Was there a
Speaker 2: little something extra behind all three?
Speaker 7: Absolutely? You could tell he was zoned in. I felt
Speaker 7: in the beginning of the game it was his day.
Speaker 7: I don't know if he would tell you that, but
Speaker 7: he had a good look on his face. And after
Speaker 7: the first st at bat when he smoked the ball
Speaker 7: off the wall for a double, and then he tried
Speaker 7: to go for triple, and then I felt like that
Speaker 7: was the moment where maybe he thought in the back
Speaker 7: of his mind, maybe in mind and everyone else is
Speaker 7: he was going for the cycle.
Speaker 4: And you know he got thrown out at third.
Speaker 7: But what a night to have three homers, history making
Speaker 7: homer and have ten marviies to help the team win.
Speaker 2: That was Deno Ebol, the best third base coach in
Speaker 2: all a Major League baseball, describing what it was like
Speaker 2: to be there in the third base coaches box yesterday
Speaker 2: in Miami. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Look, we can all talk
Speaker 2: about how some players have hit three home runs. Even
Speaker 2: Nomar hit three home runs and drove in ten in Boston,
Speaker 2: But how many of them hit three home runs, had
Speaker 2: six hits, drove in ten, stole two bases, and oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, all of the baseball world is pressuring
Speaker 2: you or you're you're you're in the pressure cooker of
Speaker 2: the season playing for the Dodgers, trying to go for
Speaker 2: fifty to fifty. Nobody can say that it was a
Speaker 2: really special day, not only in Dodger history, but in
Speaker 2: baseball history. Eight six six nine, eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Jennifer,
Speaker 2: who is at the game tonight. Hi, Jennifer, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi did Hey? So it's Jennifer plus plus.
Speaker 6: One plus one. It's my dad. We were at the game.
Speaker 2: That's great. Where were you sitting tonight? Were you anywhere
Speaker 2: close to catching Otani's home run?
Speaker 8: I wish you were, Sadly, he hits twur towards right.
Speaker 1: We were more less field, but yeah, I almost got
Speaker 1: a couple.
Speaker 2: Fly balls outstanding. I heard it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Jennifer.
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming to the game tonight.
Speaker 9: Of course I want to be anywhere else in.
Speaker 3: The Dodger game.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Awesome? Enjoy the ride home and be safe up there.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to.
Speaker 2: Jonathan in Norwalk, who I'm told was in Miami yesterday. Jonathan,
Speaker 2: are you still on South Beach right now? Where are
Speaker 2: you the Cleveland or where we're not at right now?
Speaker 3: Brickle?
Speaker 10: How I thank you for having me? Actually I landed
Speaker 10: back in late today about four o'clock. So, but I
Speaker 10: was there yesterday. Man, I got to give it to.
Speaker 11: It was just magical, magical being there those three home
Speaker 11: runners at the end the game.
Speaker 10: It was it was just awesome. It was awesome.
Speaker 3: What what made you want to go to Miami?
Speaker 2: Was it spur of the moment to try to witness
Speaker 2: history or was this plan before?
Speaker 10: It was planned before? And I just got lucky enough
Speaker 10: to you know, I was there also on Wednesday. I
Speaker 10: was there Wednesday and Thursday, and yeah, we just got
Speaker 10: lucky enough to see history, you know, and it was amazing.
Speaker 10: I want to give a shout out to the Mornings organization.
Speaker 10: They actually put it off physical tickets for us to
Speaker 10: take home from memory.
Speaker 3: I actually heard that.
Speaker 2: I heard that if you were at the game yesterday
Speaker 2: you could go to the North box office and get
Speaker 2: a physical ticket for twenty five dollars or you got
Speaker 2: it for free.
Speaker 10: No, there's correct. It was twenty five dollars. And they
Speaker 10: said the proceeds up everything went to charity, all the
Speaker 10: money they sold the ticket for.
Speaker 2: Okay, one fine question set the scene for us. Where
Speaker 2: were you? Because I was just watching the replay of
Speaker 2: the video fans were taking of these two other people
Speaker 2: fighting for the baseball under a table out.
Speaker 3: There in right field. So where were you as far
Speaker 3: as your seats.
Speaker 10: I was by the by the left field pompo, So
Speaker 10: my seats were there, So I was in by the
Speaker 10: home run section, but I was by the pomple. I
Speaker 10: was pretty close, so pretty close by, right by the
Speaker 10: right kind of right by the by all right, all right,
Speaker 10: it was. There was a buzz in there, that's for sure,
Speaker 10: no doubt.
Speaker 2: That's the most buzz they've had at a Marlins game
Speaker 2: in a very long time.
Speaker 10: Definitely, definitely, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jonathan, thanks for the phone call. You know, I
Speaker 2: was thinking about this. Traveling with the Dodgers my thirteenth season,
Speaker 2: I have seen three big time Dodger performances in Miami,
Speaker 2: starting with Cody Bellinger in twenty seventeen hitting for the cycle.
Speaker 2: And I believe it was either twenty sixteen or it
Speaker 2: might have been twenty sixteen when Rich Hill had a
Speaker 2: no hitter and he was taken out because his so
Speaker 2: called finger was hot. But he was pitching great and
Speaker 2: should have had a no hitter that night. Yasiel Puig
Speaker 2: made an incredible catch in right field, and now Showho
Speaker 2: Tani with a record setting day in Miami as well.
Speaker 2: So that would be my top three Dodger performances in
Speaker 2: Miami the last thirteen years. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Mission Viejo. Brad, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Brad?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 12: Pretty good? The Dodgers did very well with the bullpen.
Speaker 12: A question, who's the lefty that's going to be key
Speaker 12: in the playoffs, like you know, where you get down
Speaker 12: to the strategies and the eighth and ninth innings where
Speaker 12: you you know, face the batter going on, who do
Speaker 12: you think is going to be that's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be Well, there's two guys right now that stand out
Speaker 2: to me. Alex Vesia, who has obviously been pretty good
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers this year, and also Ryan Brazier going
Speaker 2: back to last year, Brad, it's been pretty effective against lefties.
Speaker 2: But you never know which starters may go to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: But right now, those two guys stand out to me
Speaker 2: the most.
Speaker 12: So Brazier is a lefty, then right he's a righty.
Speaker 2: But when the Dodgers acquired him from the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: They helped him refine his cut fastball that has been
Speaker 2: super effective against lefties. That's why if the Dodgers see
Speaker 2: a couple of lefties and they don't want to bring
Speaker 2: in Vessia, they have no hesitation to use Brazier. And
Speaker 2: that's why they used him to be the opener tonight
Speaker 2: because the Rockies had two lefties in their in the
Speaker 2: top of their lineup in black Men and McMahon tonight.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and in fact that Vessi gave it the home run.
Speaker 12: But he's been pretty good about that. Usually he's not
Speaker 12: giving up a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough, he's been really good. Thanks for the
Speaker 2: phone call, Brad Hope, I answered your questions. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rockies six to four to lower their
Speaker 2: magic number to five. The Padres were one out a
Speaker 2: way from beating the White Sox in nine innings, but
Speaker 2: they gave up a game time two run home run
Speaker 2: and in the tenth inning, Fernando Tattis Junior walked it
Speaker 2: off for San Diego. So time is starting to run
Speaker 2: out on the Padres. Time is on the Dodgers. Side,
Speaker 2: and the magic number is at five with eight more
Speaker 2: games to go, including three against the Padres starting Tuesday
Speaker 2: night here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Speaking of questions.
Speaker 2: While we were on the road in Atlanta, specif there
Speaker 2: seem to be a lot of buzz that Shohi Otani
Speaker 2: may pitch in the postseason, And as I reported during
Speaker 2: those Dodger talk shows and drought throughout the week last
Speaker 2: week on the road, I was told the chances of
Speaker 2: Otani pitching were one to ten percent. My understanding was
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were going to come back to LA and
Speaker 2: have a meeting about whether or not they will allow
Speaker 2: Otani to continue his throwing program. But all season long,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have maintained they did not envision Otani pitching
Speaker 2: in the postseason. Now, talking to some Japanese media members
Speaker 2: that have followed Otani going back to Japan, they believe
Speaker 2: Otani would love the stage of the World Series to
Speaker 2: pitch in. Not the NLDS, not the NLCS, the World Series.
Speaker 2: I had a chance to catch up with Dodgers GM
Speaker 2: Brandon Gomes earlier today and he gave us the definitive
Speaker 2: on the record answer on this date September twentieth about
Speaker 2: whether or not the Dodgers are considering allowing Otani to
Speaker 2: pitch in October.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, obviously shows going through his progression right now,
Speaker 13: but you know, him pitching in the postseason isn't really
Speaker 13: in the plans right now, and we're just gonna focus
Speaker 13: on setting a good foundation for twenty five and go
Speaker 13: from there.
Speaker 2: I know you guys have talked about him shutting down
Speaker 2: his throwing program as you get closer to the postseason.
Speaker 2: Is that a discussion that is still on the table.
Speaker 13: Yeah, We're gonna have a conversation here this weekend about
Speaker 13: it and get some more details on how, you know,
Speaker 13: the rest of the progression looks. But as far as
Speaker 13: you know, like I said, as far as pitching in
Speaker 13: the postseason, that's you know, not really an option right now.
Speaker 3: All right, there you have it on the record, the authority,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes, and after we were done
Speaker 3: talking right there, Andrew Friedman walked over.
Speaker 2: And he echoed those sentiments. It's not something the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are slamming the door on. But right now, like I
Speaker 2: told you last week, it's a long shot. There there
Speaker 2: is a very big, high risk for the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: try to force Otani to pitch in the postseason after
Speaker 2: he really hasn't done much of anything as far as
Speaker 2: throwing the hitters. So look, if he does pitch, it
Speaker 2: would be out of the bullpen for inning or two
Speaker 2: in the World Series. That's the only scenario I could
Speaker 2: see that happening. But like I told you, it is
Speaker 2: a big long shot. And forget about what I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: You just heard it right there from one of the
Speaker 2: decision makers, Brandon Gomes the Dodgers GM.
Speaker 3: You had it right there.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Danny, who is
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi Danny, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 11: Hey Dan, thanks for giving me on man. That would
Speaker 11: be a heck of a secret weapon to bring a show.
Speaker 11: Hey Otani in you know, Game five or six or
Speaker 11: seven of the World Series.
Speaker 2: Hey, Like I said, when I read Bill Plashke's column,
Speaker 2: that was a great column. But it's like I was
Speaker 2: down a Disneyland ride and at the end of the
Speaker 2: ride you see Otani the last man standing on the
Speaker 2: mount for the Dodgers in the World Series. It just
Speaker 2: seems like such a fairy tale. But it would be
Speaker 2: special if that were to happen. But who knows, Danny,
Speaker 2: Maybe you see that happen next year.
Speaker 11: Hey, maybe you see it happen the next five years, Dave,
Speaker 11: that'd be that'd be something nice.
Speaker 3: You want five in a row?
Speaker 11: I mean, why not, Dave? If you get the one
Speaker 11: this year?
Speaker 6: Who knows something happened?
Speaker 3: You're right?
Speaker 11: We wait along.
Speaker 9: We waited long enough.
Speaker 11: I think five in a row wouldn't.
Speaker 9: Be too much to ask.
Speaker 3: That's a lot to ask, Danny, But I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm being real with you.
Speaker 2: That's a lot to ask. Where were you yesterday when
Speaker 2: Otani hit his home runs?
Speaker 11: Well, I was in the shop, man the same, just
Speaker 11: about the same place I was when Sean Green did
Speaker 11: it against Milwaukee all that all those years ago. I
Speaker 11: was a much younger man back then, but I was
Speaker 11: working in the back room of a bookstore, listening on
Speaker 11: the radio, and that was another day game. And if
Speaker 11: I remember, Sean Green was having a really rough year
Speaker 11: and then he had that amazing game. All right, that
Speaker 11: wasn't the whole thing on the radio and same thing yesterday.
Speaker 11: I didn't have to go in, but I decided to
Speaker 11: go in instead of going in today because I thought
Speaker 11: he was going to do it today at the stadium.
Speaker 11: But I went in and sure enough, my phone starts
Speaker 11: blowing up, and you know I tuned into was five
Speaker 11: for five and six for six. Amazing, amazing day.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 2: You want to know a funny thing behind that Sean
Speaker 2: Green game in Milwaukee back in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: You said he was having a rough year. You make
Speaker 2: it sound like it was August. It was early, it
Speaker 2: was in May, and yes he was in the early
Speaker 2: season slump.
Speaker 3: And how about this.
Speaker 2: When he got to Milwaukee, he spoke to then Brewer's
Speaker 2: hitting coach Gary Matthews, who he knew back in Toronto.
Speaker 3: And Gary Matthews, this is the way Sean.
Speaker 2: Green told me, helped him, not in a mechanical way,
Speaker 2: but more as a friend who coached him and was
Speaker 2: being supportive. And he also helped him evolve in Toronto.
Speaker 2: So the Brewers hitting coach, Gary Matthews helped Sean Green
Speaker 2: get his head straight to be able to have that
Speaker 2: type of game. And you know who was there, Danny
Speaker 2: Rick Monday. Rick Monday is the only Dodger broadcaster currently
Speaker 2: that was there when Sean Green hit his four home
Speaker 2: runs and had nineteen total bases, and was on the
Speaker 2: call yesterday when O'tani had his extraordinary performance.
Speaker 11: Man, the great Rick Monday. And you know what, I
Speaker 11: got a chance today before the game to see Tim
Speaker 11: Neverett walking around the club level and I took off
Speaker 11: to you to go up to him and tell him
Speaker 11: what a great call he made on the radio all
Speaker 11: his home runs. And I asked him. I was like, hey,
Speaker 11: do you plan what are you going to say or
Speaker 11: does it just come out? And he said, you know what,
Speaker 11: I just let her rip. And I was like, man,
Speaker 11: that's awesome, what a great answer. All right, We're so
Speaker 11: lucky to have that kind of broadcast team. Rick Monday's amazing.
Speaker 2: Man, Thanks Danny, thanks for calling love the passion. You
Speaker 2: have a lot of loyalty right there. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I said this yesterday that performance Byotani was the single
Speaker 2: greatest regular season game I've seen by a player. And
Speaker 2: speaking of Rick Monday, I asked him on the bus
Speaker 2: on the way to the airport whether or not that
Speaker 2: performance by Otani was the best he had ever seen.
Speaker 3: And he thought about it.
Speaker 2: For a second and he said, without a doubt, that
Speaker 2: was the best game he has ever seen played by
Speaker 2: a hitter in one regular season game. And he played
Speaker 2: over two thousand games in his major league career. He
Speaker 2: has broadcast over five thousand games. So forget about what
Speaker 2: my opinion is. But when you hear a guy like
Speaker 2: Rick Monday say that, that's high praise. And Mark McGuire
Speaker 2: actually called me today and told me to wish congratulations
Speaker 2: to show heyo Tani as well.
Speaker 3: I did not get close to Atani today, so maybe
Speaker 3: I'll try again tomorrow. Yesterday was as close as I'll
Speaker 3: get to him for a week or so. Now. Otani's great.
Speaker 2: He has so much around him, and it's just really
Speaker 2: special to see him compartmentalize everything and be able to
Speaker 2: have the focus that he has. Eight six six seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number, Rob, You're at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium tonight?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 3: Rob?
Speaker 2: Did you catch the Otani fifty second home run ball tonight?
Speaker 13: Hi?
Speaker 3: Dave, I sure did.
Speaker 6: I'm with my daughter. We drove out from Beaumont eighty
Speaker 6: six eighty seven miles east from here and I got
Speaker 6: here about the second inning. Now what, wait a minute, Wait.
Speaker 2: A minute, did you just say you caught the ball
Speaker 2: or you're just saying yes, you were here at the game.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I was here at the game. No today.
Speaker 6: I was here at the game yesterday. I saw it
Speaker 6: on TV and Beaumont, where I live. But I came
Speaker 6: for another purpose. We were invited by Drew Rumm was
Speaker 6: family to attend his a game here at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6: I accepted, I went ahead, We went with it. I
Speaker 6: asked her for a Colorado Rocky shirt and I put
Speaker 6: it on being a Dodger fan. I did it for
Speaker 6: the family. I did it for acceptance. I did it
Speaker 6: for appreciation that the imitation was sent. I love the
Speaker 6: fact that history is being made and here at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 6: a fifty four year fan seen it all, being able
Speaker 6: to intermingle within different teams in the organization and just
Speaker 6: seeing them come ahead as great.
Speaker 3: All right, Rob love it.
Speaker 2: Can hear the emotion in your voice, and thanks for
Speaker 2: coming out tonight. You gotta do what you gotta do
Speaker 2: when you get a free ticket. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Had
Speaker 2: a chance to speak to Tyler glass Now today. He
Speaker 2: was in the interview room, and his season obviously ended
Speaker 2: on the last road trip, as he was preparing for
Speaker 2: a simulated game, he felt something in his right elbow,
Speaker 2: and that's where the Dodgers and glass Now decided that
Speaker 2: it wasn't going to work to push him forward any.
Speaker 3: Further this season.
Speaker 2: Here's what Tyler glass Now had to say earlier today
Speaker 2: about how things went down and how he's going to
Speaker 2: try to regroup and find a way to stay healthy
Speaker 2: for a full season years So kind of address a
Speaker 2: lot of LSU from yeah, part of the body.
Speaker 14: Yeah, for sure. I still think there's things I can
Speaker 14: do to try to prevent it in the future. But
Speaker 14: I think just because it is like the same thing
Speaker 14: over and over again, it's extremely frustrating. So I'm just
Speaker 14: trying to like at this point like kind of searching
Speaker 14: for answers and like a long term plan and we'll
Speaker 14: sit down and figure some stuff out. But I think
Speaker 14: the ultimate goal is is to always be able to
Speaker 14: pitch in the postseason, and that's like my my goal
Speaker 14: going forward. Just try to figure it out.
Speaker 9: This over your head how to take the justice or
Speaker 9: as part of that eighty less text siancros bull sessions
Speaker 9: and start.
Speaker 3: Sitting a lot theories on why there's so many interest in.
Speaker 9: Getting these things. I don't know.
Speaker 14: I think like I've changed it over the years. I
Speaker 14: got my workload throughout the week, throwing wise is really
Speaker 14: is like not. It used to be a lot when
Speaker 14: I was younger and then would do a lot and
Speaker 14: throw a lot of bullpens, and like as I've gotten
Speaker 14: older and like kind of had like measurable data from
Speaker 14: my weeks, like I've done I do a lot, Like
Speaker 14: I'll do a lot of stuff to keep my body
Speaker 14: in good shape, but like throwing wise, like I'm not
Speaker 14: doing that much stuff, Like I'll throw a bullpen throughout
Speaker 14: the week, but I'm not throwing a ton of pitches
Speaker 14: on my stresses during the week. Like my throws aren't
Speaker 14: high stress.
Speaker 9: It's not.
Speaker 14: I don't know if like anyone has really figured out
Speaker 14: exactly why. But I don't really do a ton of
Speaker 14: high stress things throughout the week. It's just I guess
Speaker 14: the starts in between and having a long extension and
Speaker 14: throwing hard and even this year, the conscious decision of
Speaker 14: like I'm not out there throwing everything as hard as
Speaker 14: I can, like my forcing Bilo's lower on purpose, like
Speaker 14: my I'm trying to go about it differently. I just
Speaker 14: think just that I guess how my body works and
Speaker 14: how long and tall I am.
Speaker 9: It's just tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been tough for glass Now's entire career to
Speaker 2: stay healthy for a full season. Last year career highs
Speaker 2: and starts and innings before this season, and it felt
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers were doing everything possible to keep glass
Speaker 2: Now as healthy as possible coming down the stretch, including
Speaker 2: you know, shutting him down before the All Star break.
Speaker 2: He was an All Star, he did not pitch in
Speaker 2: that game, and then all of a sudden, just things
Speaker 2: started to decline as the season got into the second half.
Speaker 2: So a disappointing finish to his first year with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: But hopefully glass Now and the Dodgers can find a
Speaker 2: way to figure out a plan to try to keep
Speaker 2: him fresh down the stretch next season. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number speaking of pitchers.
Speaker 2: Clayton kershot through a thirty pitch bullpen session today.
Speaker 3: But my understanding is.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is on the rubber without that artificial platform,
Speaker 2: but he's still not able to leverage the rubber, meaning
Speaker 2: he's not able to really push off that rubber, and
Speaker 2: he is still a ways away from facing hitters. Until
Speaker 2: he can really leverage that pitching rubber, it's going to
Speaker 2: be tough for him to uh come back and pitch
Speaker 2: in a game. So that's where things are with Kershaw
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a time out.
Speaker 2: When we return, we will check in with Jose Mota
Speaker 2: get his thoughts on Otani tonight, Otani season, and tae
Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez with his thirtieth home run of the year
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers defeat the Rockies six to four on
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi thread two pitch,
Speaker 2: He's wings hips to drive the center, his bows back.
Speaker 1: Hell, Tony I going head home run Henna.
Speaker 3: Dodgers lead at three to two, A three two pitch
Speaker 3: and he hit a bullet out the center field. This
Speaker 3: man is unstoppable. Yeah right now, I would say that.
Speaker 2: Show hey Otani with a go ahead, two run home
Speaker 2: run with two outs in the fifth inning off of
Speaker 2: Kyle Freeland. That was an amazing home run because of
Speaker 2: where that pitch was. I know it was only ninety two,
Speaker 2: but it was at the top of the zone for
Speaker 2: him to be able to get the bat where it
Speaker 2: needed to be to hit that home run.
Speaker 3: Only Otani could do it.
Speaker 2: Very special player, and we are all witnesses to show
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Speaker 2: fifty second home run of the year, he's only one
Speaker 2: home run behind Aaron Judge for the major league lead.
Speaker 1: How about that it's tough to go around the horn
Speaker 1: with Hosean Moda.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, you have seen every single Otani
Speaker 2: game going back to his first major league game, where
Speaker 2: does yesterday rank?
Speaker 3: Where do the last two days rank?
Speaker 5: For you?
Speaker 9: Oh my god, that is number one, and I mean
Speaker 9: put it all together to be nine for ten, that
Speaker 9: is one and one.
Speaker 12: A right there.
Speaker 9: I mean, this guy's just unreal. And when he gets
Speaker 9: in one of these roles and funny that you and
Speaker 9: I were talking in Atlanta about Otani needed to bring
Speaker 9: the other club. And that's what happens. He brought the
Speaker 9: other club. When he starts going the other way up Meddle,
Speaker 9: it just brings a game to another level. But there's
Speaker 9: so many things that, you know, I've been able to
Speaker 9: share with him. And yesterday when we got back to
Speaker 9: LA when I went to congratulate him, the first thing
Speaker 9: he says his playoffs. I playoffs. You know, there's so
Speaker 9: many things in his mind that he could think of.
Speaker 9: He says thank you, but he had a big smile,
Speaker 9: almost a cyber relief, saying I'm finally going to be
Speaker 9: able to play in October, which is obviously he's never
Speaker 9: experienced before, playing me full games September.
Speaker 2: That's what's so special about this season, Jose. With the Angels,
Speaker 2: he had a lot of individual accomplishments that were not
Speaker 2: really materializing into winning seasons with them. Baseball it can't
Speaker 2: just be a one man show. But in this context,
Speaker 2: with the injuries the Dodgers have had to the pitching staff,
Speaker 2: missing Freddie Freeman for a couple of weeks because of
Speaker 2: you know, personal issues, and losing Mookie Bets to a
Speaker 2: broken hand. His MVP caliber season has come in the
Speaker 2: process of helping the Dodgers to be in this position
Speaker 2: to get back to the playoffs.
Speaker 9: Well, he considered, you know, a guy that was not
Speaker 9: leading off to begin with, and Mookie Best was doing
Speaker 9: a fantastic job doing so. Then comes a Mookie injury.
Speaker 9: He has to move in there to propel you and
Speaker 9: to give you instant thunder off the bat. He's done that,
Speaker 9: He's scored over one hundred and twenty runs, I mean,
Speaker 9: driving one hundred and twenty runs. And with all that
Speaker 9: being said, Dave is the fact that he's never satisfied man.
Speaker 9: I mean and then I always say, and I've learned
Speaker 9: from big time players in the past, when they're striving
Speaker 9: for something individually milestones, it's a lot easier and more
Speaker 9: fun for them to be involved in the team atmosphere
Speaker 9: and not think about every eye is on me and think,
Speaker 9: if I contribute to my game, things are going to
Speaker 9: be happen organically, and I'm not going to have this
Speaker 9: pressure on me every single time. Every eye I mean
Speaker 9: including my teammates asking me, and and people when I
Speaker 9: arrived at the ballpark, when I leave the ballpark, anytime
Speaker 9: they see me. So he's been really he's benefited from
Speaker 9: the whole Dodger environment with guys that have been there
Speaker 9: before in terms of winning and play meaningful games. But
Speaker 9: because he's so special, he's reaching all these milestones and thresholds,
Speaker 9: is making it a little bit easier because focus has
Speaker 9: to be right on queue and he has to be
Speaker 9: able to make mechanical adjustments and keep his mind on
Speaker 9: one thing, which is always to think about if the
Speaker 9: stolen base make it meaningful that means he can score
Speaker 9: a run. He's made every single one of those things count,
Speaker 9: including having better best and being able to just turn
Speaker 9: back sometimes o'clock when he needs to to lightlight down
Speaker 9: to make sure that he goes back and says I'm
Speaker 9: going to go for contact, and contact is good enough
Speaker 9: for him.
Speaker 2: The one thing that I love tonight when you talk
Speaker 2: about team and in the team context. My favorite image
Speaker 2: of tonight was after he hit that fifty second home
Speaker 2: run coming back to the dugout, Oscar Hernandez was there
Speaker 2: with the sunflower seeds. And then when Taoscar Hernandez hit
Speaker 2: his thirtieth home run of the year, who was at
Speaker 2: the top step waiting to shower ta Oscar with those
Speaker 2: sunflower seeds.
Speaker 3: It was Otani.
Speaker 2: Those two guys have had a very special bond since
Speaker 2: media day back in spring training.
Speaker 9: Oh they have I think speaking Spanish and teaching, showing
Speaker 9: some Spanish, and you know the show asking him some
Speaker 9: questions and people knowing how endearing he has been with
Speaker 9: everybody in that club housing. But you know what happened
Speaker 9: today was that was number thirty and show He's like,
Speaker 9: I am waiting for that special moment. Which is another
Speaker 9: sign too, Dave, how Lucy is right now, like he's relieved.
Speaker 9: This whole thing is kind of just gone by the
Speaker 9: way side in terms of just for him to go, hey,
Speaker 9: I got to fifty, but there's more to do. But
Speaker 9: you know he knows some point that was a Taska man,
Speaker 9: a nice round number number thirty and more to go.
Speaker 9: It almost about to reach oud Urbistro I'm very happy
Speaker 9: that you know he gets all why that. But Taska
Speaker 9: is a guy, as you mentioned earner of the show too.
Speaker 9: Mister smiles plays every day post every day and he
Speaker 9: goes out there and just understand his role. And it's
Speaker 9: big to see that. You know, throughout the year, when
Speaker 9: there's many questions about when they sound ta oskar, how
Speaker 9: about about against riotings, how's he gonna do well, He's
Speaker 9: answered pretty much everything you need to answer, especially the
Speaker 9: fact that he's been one of my consistent hitters pretty
Speaker 9: much oh season long. We've been in scowl polition. So
Speaker 9: happy for him.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Rockies tonight six to four. Tiascar, Hernandez,
Speaker 2: sho Hey, Otani, and Andy Paez all homer tonight. Before
Speaker 2: I let you go, Jose Mota, I was able to
Speaker 2: do some digging and I wanted to share with you
Speaker 2: your call of Otani's fiftieth home run of the season
Speaker 2: yesterday in.
Speaker 15: Miami Oldanias bet up, Lonzamento, Batasa, Prondo Anni, squerdo sa
Speaker 15: yo Nada.
Speaker 8: Estoria and Lol de papar fors seen Quentas and Guenta
Speaker 8: show hen Oani.
Speaker 2: History at Lone Park fifty fifty show. Hey o Tani, sayonara.
Speaker 9: Thanks for sharing that. You know what went through my
Speaker 9: mind there, Vince Kelly, I'm telling you that I when
Speaker 9: obviously you don't plant anything, you don't want anybody that happens.
Speaker 9: Just let it ride and enjoy the moment and let
Speaker 9: the fans talk. And I'm tell you, Dave his voice
Speaker 9: was in my head the entire time that is happening,
Speaker 9: like just little by little, tell everybody what's happening. But
Speaker 9: let the fans talk and let the environment just take
Speaker 9: care of the business. So thank Gottrol came out the
Speaker 9: way it did because that was, you know, quite a
Speaker 9: special moment.
Speaker 3: Let those eight thousand fans tell the story in Miami, right,
Speaker 3: fifteen thousands come on, thanks Oza, great call, and we'll
Speaker 3: see you tomorrow night. We'll see what Otani does to
Speaker 3: wow us.
Speaker 9: By the way, just clarify something real. I did ask
Speaker 9: Otani when he was with the Angels, and a lot
Speaker 9: of the Japanese meet it if it was okay for
Speaker 9: me to say that after home run, They're like absolutely, Sayonado,
Speaker 9: get out of here, bye.
Speaker 3: Get out of here. Yes, I have no issues with that.
Speaker 3: Thanks Jose. We'll see you tomorrow. There he goes Jose Mota,
Speaker 3: part of the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast on the call for Otani's historical
Speaker 2: home run and historical game yesterday in Miami.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow it will be Walker Buehler on the mound for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He's one and five with an ERA of five point
Speaker 2: fifty four, going up against cal Quantrell, who is eight
Speaker 2: and ten with an ERA of four to sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 2: first pitch from Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and Tim
Speaker 2: Neverett at six ' ten on show Hey Otani t
Speaker 2: Shirt night.
Speaker 3: Could not have planned that any better.
Speaker 2: By the way, with the win tonight and the Padres
Speaker 2: winning and the magic number going down by one to five,
Speaker 2: the earliest the Dodgers could clinch the NLST would be
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, the first game of that Padre series. That'll
Speaker 2: do it for us tonight from Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to
Speaker 2: coling Ye back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening in case you miss any of the show.
Speaker 2: You can find it on the iHeartRadio app. Once again,
Speaker 2: the final score from Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers win their
Speaker 2: ninety second game of the year by defeating the Rockies
Speaker 2: six to four.
Speaker 3: We'll talk you tomorrow. Have a great rest of your night,
Speaker 3: be saved. See you