Speaker 1: It's always our pleasure to celebrate one of the greatest
Speaker 1: Dodgers in franchise history. World Series MVP Cy Young Award,
Speaker 1: a man that certainly left his shoulder on the mound
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, and today we are celebrating the Bulldog
Speaker 1: for his sixty sixth birthday. Oral, Happy birthday from all
Speaker 1: of us. You know how much La and Dodger fans
Speaker 1: love you, so I hope you're having a great day.
Speaker 2: You know. You know the reason they love me is
Speaker 2: we got to go back to eighty eight, right, and
Speaker 2: that was the year that changed everybody's life and the
Speaker 2: memory of the Dodgers and everything that happened all the
Speaker 2: way from being drafted in the seventeenth round in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine to here. I am still talking to Dodger
Speaker 2: fans and loving the fact that they love me. So
Speaker 2: thank you for the birthday wishes.
Speaker 1: Speaking of nineteen eighty eight, obviously you were in the
Speaker 1: middle of your record setting consecutive scoreless inning streak on
Speaker 1: September sixteenth, nineteen eighty eight. Do you remember that birthday
Speaker 1: more than others?
Speaker 3: I guess so.
Speaker 2: I guess I remember it more, not because of the streak.
Speaker 3: Of course, the streak is there.
Speaker 2: Baseball fans in my mind. But September fifteenth was my
Speaker 2: second son was born, Jordan, So Jordan Douglas Herscheizer was
Speaker 2: born September fifteenth, and then my birthday September sixteenth. So
Speaker 2: it's always a special time of year. And here we
Speaker 2: are on the road in Atlanta on when Jordan's birthday
Speaker 2: was yesterday and mine is today. We will celebrate when
Speaker 2: we get home to La So we're already playning a
Speaker 2: special dinner and every year it's a special celebration where
Speaker 2: he gets presents and I get cards.
Speaker 3: At this stage, right, oh for sure.
Speaker 2: You know he might even get a check in his card,
Speaker 2: and I just get a nice card and maybe a
Speaker 2: new tie for broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess now that you're a broadcaster, you find
Speaker 1: yourself in these weird cities like Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Were you able to celebrate last night?
Speaker 2: I really just stayed in my room, cocooning, watching football,
Speaker 2: watching the Dodgers, hanging out. So it's one of those
Speaker 2: days that you know, when you have a busy life,
Speaker 2: sometimes that hotel room gets to be a nice oasis
Speaker 2: you get away. You get to sleep in you don't
Speaker 2: have to do anything, and with an off day. It
Speaker 2: has been an odd road trip for me because we
Speaker 2: had Apple TV do the first game. We had ESPN
Speaker 2: do the game last night, so of the four days,
Speaker 2: we're only broadcasting too. But we're back at it tonight.
Speaker 1: Orl Herscheiser, the birthday Boy, is our guest here in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you watched the game last night. I know
Speaker 1: you're extremely close to Walker Buehler. How optimistic are the
Speaker 1: Dodgers after that type of start?
Speaker 2: Well, I think we continue to see him grow and
Speaker 2: this is a different guy coming back from rehab because
Speaker 2: he's coming back with different tools and the fastballs back
Speaker 2: down maybe you know, three mile an hour or so.
Speaker 2: The stuff is not as quite as sharp and as
Speaker 2: much break, but he's learning to pitch with it, and
Speaker 2: I think that's the good thing. And once he learns
Speaker 2: to pitch with it, I think then the stuff is
Speaker 2: going to go up. And I think we saw that
Speaker 2: last night. It's you know, it's about counts, it's about
Speaker 2: learning to pitch, it's about learning who you are again.
Speaker 2: And for Walker, I think it's a bigger step because
Speaker 2: he had such amazing stuff before, and he had such
Speaker 2: a big ego when he was out there, and sometimes
Speaker 2: now with enough embarrassment and failure, his ego has kind
Speaker 2: of checked at the door, and now he's using his intelligence.
Speaker 2: We're talking about a kid who went to Vanderbilt, right,
Speaker 2: and he could argue with you about almost any subject
Speaker 2: and be right probably about any subject. So he's learning
Speaker 2: through this process and it was really nice for him
Speaker 2: to get results because I think those results are going
Speaker 2: to not only be analyzed and he's going to see
Speaker 2: what he did well and what he did poorly, but
Speaker 2: I think it's going to all of a sudden create
Speaker 2: a better path for him to know where success is.
Speaker 2: And that's important for the Dodgers right now. There is
Speaker 2: no silver lining to these injuries. I know, maybe some
Speaker 2: of the silver that we're finding, like with Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: or Flaherty or Yamamoto tonight, maybe that silver can turn
Speaker 2: into gold in a World Series championship. But boy, we're
Speaker 2: getting we're walking on thin ice now. As far as injuries.
Speaker 1: Going back to Walker Buehler, ooral, does it all of
Speaker 1: a sudden click for him, because last night we did
Speaker 1: see what you were describing more of a pitcher. He
Speaker 1: used seven different pitches and was able to not just
Speaker 1: try to bully with the fastball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you're going to see him bully
Speaker 2: with the fastball. I think he needs to locate and
Speaker 2: get ahead. It's about counts, it's about fundamentals of baseball
Speaker 2: and using the stuff that he has. And I think
Speaker 2: the stuff will get better once he gets the rhythm,
Speaker 2: once he gets that, this is who I am and
Speaker 2: not over trying. You can see sometimes when the effort,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden takes him away from some rhythm,
Speaker 2: which then takes you away from location, which then takes
Speaker 2: you into bad counts, which then leads to walks and
Speaker 2: leads to crooked numbers and bad innings. And so you know,
Speaker 2: you give up two runs in the third inning last
Speaker 2: night without having the ball leave the infield. Gavin Lux
Speaker 2: gets the ball out of his glove. Maybe it's a
Speaker 2: different inning. And I don't understand why that's called an
Speaker 2: infield hit and on an error, because when you drop
Speaker 2: a ball as an infielder or an outfielder, that's an error.
Speaker 2: If you can't get it out of your glove, that's
Speaker 2: an error. Also, it's kind of like hesitating on a
Speaker 2: throw or bobbling. So I'm not against Gavin and the
Speaker 2: play as much as thinking about Walker and what that
Speaker 2: out could have been for his confidence.
Speaker 3: Oral Herscheizer is our guest.
Speaker 1: He's back in the saddle tonight with Joe Davis on Sportsnet,
Speaker 1: La Yamamoto might be the most important pitcher to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in October. Like you said, with all these injuries,
Speaker 1: what was the biggest takeaway you saw from him at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium the last time?
Speaker 2: You know, the swing and miss is just there. It's immaculate.
Speaker 2: And for him to come back, there are guys that
Speaker 2: can hit falling out of bed and not have to
Speaker 2: go on rehab. He looked like the kind of pitcher
Speaker 2: that didn't need rehab, even though the two rehab starts
Speaker 2: were really just exercise, not good stats at all, you know,
Speaker 2: and he dominated in that outing, and I just think
Speaker 2: that he's a tremendous talent. We've got to keep him healthy.
Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting on the usage as we
Speaker 2: go forward. I mean, you get him up to seventy
Speaker 2: five pitches, maybe you get him up to one hundred
Speaker 2: or just ninety in the next outing. But the key
Speaker 2: is Otani is the headline.
Speaker 3: With the fifty to fifty Chase.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are a secondary headline with the National League
Speaker 2: West Chase. Each time, each day, those headlines can shift.
Speaker 2: But every time Flaherty takes the mount, takes the mound,
Speaker 2: Yamamoto takes the mount, and even knack Now takes the mound,
Speaker 2: it becomes the headline.
Speaker 3: For this team.
Speaker 2: So this is a different year for the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: a different year as a broadcaster for us because there's
Speaker 2: storylines right now. Before it was like fifteen games up,
Speaker 2: they've already clinched. What do we talk about Now We've
Speaker 2: got headlines and stories and everything that we can talk about,
Speaker 2: and it's an exciting time of year.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it the last two years, where the
Speaker 1: five days of rest may have worked against the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: How vital is it for them to get five days
Speaker 1: of rest considering where their pitching staff is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got to stay in front of a Milwaukee.
Speaker 2: They've got the tiebreaker with Milwaukee, so that gives them
Speaker 2: a little bit of cushion. Every game that we win
Speaker 2: or every game that they lose makes it even better.
Speaker 2: It's got to stay in front of San Diego you've
Speaker 2: got two races there, three and a half.
Speaker 3: Games with San Diego.
Speaker 2: If you get to only three or two and a
Speaker 2: half with them, they own the tiebreaker there, and you've
Speaker 2: got three games head to head. Could be very, very exciting.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of baseball, a lot of stories left.
Speaker 3: Or thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 1: Today's story is Yamamoto and also the bulldog Oral Hersheiser's birthday.
Speaker 1: Hope you celebrate it with a Dodger win on the
Speaker 1: way to Miami. I'll take you out once we land
Speaker 1: in South Beach tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for you. I think at
Speaker 2: one o'clock in the morning we'll go to bed O.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can get the senior discount when you take
Speaker 2: me out at five o'clock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, let's do it.