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.
Speaker 2: Let's wind it.
Speaker 4: I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 2: So just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 6: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion thing.
Speaker 7: It put a small soft time they get up people.
Speaker 5: What they want to die to in a row two
Speaker 5: is special. I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one
Speaker 5: of a con. This ball's gone.
Speaker 7: You ready to go.
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Speaker 6: of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 8: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers score
Speaker 8: resounding victory over the Athletics nineteen to two, the final
Speaker 8: score as the Dodgers score the season nineteen runs tonight
Speaker 8: and drove in, you know, drove home the point that
Speaker 8: they're not going to be pushed around by the A's
Speaker 8: After losing the first game of this series eleven to one,
Speaker 8: The Dodgers' nineteen runs on eighteen hits including five home runs,
Speaker 8: which is a season high. Last night was the season
Speaker 8: high hitting four home runs. They got home runs from
Speaker 8: four different players last night. Tonight they got home runs
Speaker 8: from four different players as well. Show Aotani who seems
Speaker 8: to play up to the crowd. I think we've noticed
Speaker 8: that in his first year and a half with the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: homers twice on his Babblehead Night and going back to
Speaker 8: last year when he hit a walk off Grand Slam
Speaker 8: against the Rockies that was his Bobblehead Night and he
Speaker 8: homered in his first Bobblehead Night as MVP Bobblehead Night
Speaker 8: this year, and tonight he goes deep twice and after
Speaker 8: his first home run in the third inning, first time
Speaker 8: I've ever seen O'tani seek out his family. They have
Speaker 8: a suite just above the Dodgers dugout. He pointed towards there.
Speaker 8: I couldn't see whether or not Decoy or his baby
Speaker 8: girls up there with his wife, but he certainly had
Speaker 8: them on his mind as he was pointing up towards them.
Speaker 8: Also a big game for Hayes Sung Kim, who did
Speaker 8: not homer, but was on base five times and scored
Speaker 8: four times. Also a special night for Dalton Rushing as
Speaker 8: he made his major league debut, made his first major
Speaker 8: league start, and also collected his first major league hit
Speaker 8: in the third inning. One hundred and ten miles an
Speaker 8: hour up the middle, Rushing scored three times and certainly
Speaker 8: did a nice job. He was in command behind the plate,
Speaker 8: catching Matt Sower, Anthony Banda, and Justin Robleski tonight to
Speaker 8: help the Dodgers beat the A nineteen to two and
Speaker 8: take the series two out of three. Let's head downstairs
Speaker 8: right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from young
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 9: It's pretty special. It was pretty special. Obviously, first and
Speaker 9: foremost to win, it's a series win, it's the most
Speaker 9: important part. But I was able to accomplish a few
Speaker 9: lifelong goals, and yeah, obviously that was pretty special for me.
Speaker 10: He's walked us to that at that in the third
Speaker 10: hitting with the single kind of what we're going through
Speaker 10: your mind there?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't think he wanted to walk me and
Speaker 9: walk me twice start my debut. I was tuady, hit
Speaker 9: a fastball and got a good one to hit, put
Speaker 9: a good swing on it. Things went my way.
Speaker 5: How long have you been thinking about this moment. What
Speaker 5: was it like the bolt of reality? Yeah, my whole life.
Speaker 9: It's been something that obviously I wanted to do at
Speaker 9: a very young age. Never in a million years did
Speaker 9: I imagine it would come with a team like this, So yeah,
Speaker 9: that just that makes it that much more special. And yeah,
Speaker 9: I'm looking forward to a lot more wins and a
Speaker 9: lot more big opportunities and big things that happen this year.
Speaker 5: And the only kind of your family A couple.
Speaker 9: Of times sharing just how special was then just kind.
Speaker 1: Of where they travel here to see your debut.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was obviously pretty special. A group of people
Speaker 9: that in this world that I want to see things
Speaker 9: like this, they were here and that means the world
Speaker 9: for me or to me. Sorry, And yeah, I couldn't
Speaker 9: imagine a better group there to be able to see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have the hardest hit ball tonight and go
Speaker 3: two for four at the walk.
Speaker 2: I got a snapshot of how you kind of want
Speaker 2: to help this team.
Speaker 1: Daves's some slugging there, but just kind of your approach
Speaker 1: to the play tonight.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was kind of simple tonight. Let's take your
Speaker 9: bise hads, I guess. Yeah, I like to control the
Speaker 9: strike zone and just hit the ball hard and whatever
Speaker 9: happens after that kind of happens.
Speaker 10: So what's it like being in this lineup? Just look
Speaker 10: all the talent there is. Being a part of like
Speaker 10: an offensive performance like that, Like those are just like
Speaker 10: kind of being a government and watching the whole team
Speaker 10: performing that way to play.
Speaker 9: Yeahs special. Obviously you getta win like that on your debut.
Speaker 9: It's it kind of sends a message obviously not only
Speaker 9: to myself but other teams around like how how powerful
Speaker 9: and how dangerous this club is. And I'm glad I
Speaker 9: could be another piece to it.
Speaker 8: All Right, there's Dalton Rushing after making his major league debuts,
Speaker 8: starting at catcher for the Dodgers and collecting his first
Speaker 8: major league hit. Rushing scored three times tonight. Scored three
Speaker 8: of the Dodgers nineteen runs eight six, six ninety seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the phone number. Like I said
Speaker 8: last night, it's bittersweet for a lot of the veterans
Speaker 8: in that Dodger clubhouse that I've been with Austin Barnes
Speaker 8: for as long as they have. I mean, he meant
Speaker 8: a lot to those guys, and he meant a lot
Speaker 8: to the Dodgers. If you look back to the seventeen, eighteen,
Speaker 8: and twenty World Series, he caught more games in the postseason.
Speaker 8: Then he has money Grandahal and Will Smith. So he
Speaker 8: mean he meant a lot. He meant a lot. But obviously,
Speaker 8: you know, careers don't last forever. Austin's thirty five years old.
Speaker 8: Had issues with his right arm throwing, and that's a
Speaker 8: big part of the game. And the time is now
Speaker 8: for Dalton Rushing. And like I said, bittersweet in a
Speaker 8: couple of different ways, it was cool to see Dalton
Speaker 8: rushing and taking photos with his family and friends just
Speaker 8: about a half hour ago. It was even more epic
Speaker 8: watching Dalton Rushing take batting practice before the game today
Speaker 8: and launching home runs halfway up the right field pavilions.
Speaker 8: So you're gonna see a lot of that. And he's
Speaker 8: a competitor. He's not here to be a backup catcher.
Speaker 8: He's here to force the issue, to try to get
Speaker 8: as many at bats as possible to help the Dodgers
Speaker 8: win eight six, six, seven two. He is the phone number.
Speaker 8: We'll get to a few other things that I want
Speaker 8: to talk about in a moment. Also, you'll hear our
Speaker 8: conversation with Clayton Kershaw ahead of his season debut on
Speaker 8: Saturday against the Angels.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Whittier.
Speaker 8: Deborah, You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 5: Hi Deborah, Hi David.
Speaker 11: How are you? Love you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: Thank you, Debrah.
Speaker 11: I like when you're on Tim Conway Show. I listen
Speaker 11: to you all the time.
Speaker 5: Ding dong, Thank you.
Speaker 11: I just want to say, you put your heart on
Speaker 11: usually when it comes to the Dodgers, and I just
Speaker 11: want to give a shout out to next Monday tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And Max Monsey yep, yep.
Speaker 11: So I thank you very very much.
Speaker 5: All right, Deborah, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Max Monsey had a big night three for four tonight
Speaker 8: with another home running homeward last night to nighty Homer's
Speaker 8: in the first inning. So you know, like I always say,
Speaker 8: everybody was calling for the Dodgers to cut next monthly
Speaker 8: after two weeks a lot of you and I don't
Speaker 8: really see anybody and did not hear from anybody last.
Speaker 5: Night or the night before or the night before.
Speaker 8: That, celebrating Andy Paz who has come alive after so
Speaker 8: many of you, after such a slow start and a
Speaker 8: couple of misplays in the outfield, wanted to get rid
Speaker 8: of Andy pah haz and say, you know what this
Speaker 8: guy stinks. Get rid of this guy Andy Pa has?
Speaker 8: Where are all my Andy Pa has? Haters?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 8: He homered again tonight. He had three RBIs. He's sitting
Speaker 8: two ninety one on the season with no ps of
Speaker 8: eight fifty one. It's still a long season, but you're
Speaker 8: starting to see the signs of growth, and you're starting
Speaker 8: to see the signs of a guy that's put in
Speaker 8: a lot of work even as the season is going on.
Speaker 8: He's put in a lot of work with Dino Ebel
Speaker 8: in center field. He's put in a lot of work
Speaker 8: on the basis, and he looks really comfortable filling in
Speaker 8: for Taoscar Hernandez obviously in right field. So where are
Speaker 8: all my Andy Pa has haters? Because you were filling
Speaker 8: up these phone lines the first two weeks of the
Speaker 8: year when I said pump the brakes, it's only been
Speaker 8: two weeks.
Speaker 5: Give this guy a chance.
Speaker 8: I don't hear too many people eating crow and calling in.
Speaker 8: If you want to call in and start ripping players
Speaker 8: after two weeks, you better call in when they succeed
Speaker 8: and prove you wrong. Let's go out to John, who
Speaker 8: was at the game tonight. I hope you stayed for
Speaker 8: all nineteen runs tonight, John.
Speaker 1: Oh, I stayed for every run. I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1: I was talking with my friend Erica, who came in
Speaker 1: from New York specifically for the game tonight, and I
Speaker 1: turned her and I said, why would the Dodgers send
Speaker 1: down or you know, designate for assignment Austin Barnes when
Speaker 1: they could, when they could have a designated outman for
Speaker 1: a assignment because his batting average was point zero sixty seven.
Speaker 1: And she turned to me and said, no, it's actually
Speaker 1: point zero five to six. And then a moment later
Speaker 1: he blasts the home run. And of course that's why
Speaker 1: I'm not in the front office of the Dodgers, because
Speaker 1: you know, they make the right decisions. But you know, Saturday,
Speaker 1: well I understand that, but Saturday curse. I was pitching,
Speaker 1: and it would be really nice if his buddy, Austin
Speaker 1: Barnes was behind the plate. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: you know, that's a shame, but you know, we move on.
Speaker 1: It was an incredible night. My question to you, David,
Speaker 1: is has Shoe a Otani hit a home run on
Speaker 1: every bobblehead night that he's had in his career, Because
Speaker 1: I mean, you call it a rivalry. I loved what
Speaker 1: you said about the so called rivalry because there is
Speaker 1: no rivalry with the Angels and the Dodgers. The Angels
Speaker 1: are the worst franchise, one of the worst franchises you
Speaker 1: know in the you know, in baseball.
Speaker 5: Ever since they said go about it, Mike Soosha, they are.
Speaker 1: Oh, of course, you know they're lucky World Series against
Speaker 1: the Giants years ago. Aside from that, we call it anyway.
Speaker 8: Anyway, that's what Major League Baseball is touting this weekend
Speaker 8: to try to bring attention to the different series. It's
Speaker 8: not just Dodgers Angels, it's Giants, a's up in the
Speaker 8: Bay Area, Mets Yankees Subway series. So they lined up
Speaker 8: the schedule for this weekend to tout it as a
Speaker 8: rivalry weekend. John, Since you're a big Dodger fan, why
Speaker 8: don't you tell me which Dodger has the most hits
Speaker 8: against the Angels since inter league play started?
Speaker 5: Who do you think it is?
Speaker 12: Wait?
Speaker 1: Since inter league play started?
Speaker 2: You know in history.
Speaker 8: Yeah, back in ninety eight or whatever. Who has the
Speaker 8: most hits the Dodgers against the Angels. Which Dodger player
Speaker 8: has the most hits against the Angels?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Well, I have to give a shout out, simple quesh Jay,
Speaker 1: Eric Carros. Well, Eric Carros had the greatest you had
Speaker 1: They had to buy time on Spectrum tonight, and he
Speaker 1: had the greatest story about Tommy Lasorda. That needs to
Speaker 1: be shared with Petros. Well, when you're a guest host
Speaker 1: on that show with the Petros Money Show, it is
Speaker 1: the greatest story in the history of Tommy Lasorda stories.
Speaker 1: It is Eric Carros's first up at that all his
Speaker 1: major league career.
Speaker 5: That's a great story. That is a great story.
Speaker 8: I'd rather hear I'd rather hear Eric Carros tell the
Speaker 8: story instead of John coming from the game.
Speaker 5: So thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 8: John, not surprising, he's a Petros and Money listener.
Speaker 5: Yeah says a lot anyway.
Speaker 8: The Dodger that has the most hits against the Angels
Speaker 8: since inter league play started is the one and only
Speaker 8: Andre Ethier with fifty five hits against the Angels since
Speaker 8: inter league play started. Let's go out to Johnny in La.
Speaker 8: You're on Dodger Talk live from Dodger Stadium. How are
Speaker 8: you doing, Johnny?
Speaker 5: That was exhausting that last phone call.
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call, Dave.
Speaker 2: I was at the game tonight. I just want to
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 7: This Kim situation.
Speaker 11: I think he deserves a.
Speaker 3: Spot on this team.
Speaker 1: I was at the game last night. I was at
Speaker 1: the game tonight.
Speaker 11: He was two for two before he can pulled it yesterday.
Speaker 3: Three for three today with four runs, on base for
Speaker 3: five times.
Speaker 2: I just think he deserves a spot.
Speaker 13: I think he can start there at second base when
Speaker 13: Tommy and Tail come back.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that, Johnny?
Speaker 8: You're one hundred percent right. I was trying to, you know,
Speaker 8: be rational. I know a lot of times I get emotional,
Speaker 8: So I was trying to air on being rational last night.
Speaker 8: But after seeing Kim play again tonight and get on
Speaker 8: base five times, score four times. I score from first
Speaker 8: base on a base hit by Mookie Betts to left field,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers have got to keep this guy somehow, some way.
Speaker 5: James Outman is going to be sent down.
Speaker 8: Whenever the first player comes off the il, whether it's
Speaker 8: Ti Oscar Hernandez, or Tommy Edmund. Sorry, that's the reality
Speaker 8: of the thing. Also, the only other player that may
Speaker 8: or may not be you know, dfade is Chris Taylor, right,
Speaker 8: I mean he doesn't play a lot, but I don't
Speaker 8: believe the Dodgers are going to do that. I notice
Speaker 8: Chris Taylor has a heavy knee brace on his left leg.
Speaker 8: That must be bothering him to have something like that.
Speaker 8: There's a possibility the Dodgers put Chris Taylor on the
Speaker 8: injured list with that left knee leg whatever is going
Speaker 8: on with him, and keep Hayesan Kim. But either way,
Speaker 8: Johnny Hayesan Kim's on this roster for good for the
Speaker 8: rest of the and there will be opportunities because when
Speaker 8: ta Oscar Hernandez and Tommy Edmond come back. We all
Speaker 8: know the Dodgers slow play these guys. They play him
Speaker 8: two games on one game off, So they'll be opportunities
Speaker 8: for Kim in a lot of different ways to give
Speaker 8: players breathers. So I'm all in on Haysan Kim staying
Speaker 8: part of this roster.
Speaker 3: YEP, especially bad and for twenty nine with about twenty
Speaker 3: eight at bats, it's sham.
Speaker 8: I mean, his speed changes everything and he's an elite
Speaker 8: defender at second base, so he's got to stay and look,
Speaker 8: father time catches up with everybody, and it appears that
Speaker 8: it caught up with Austin Barnes, and it appears that
Speaker 8: it's catching up with Chris Taylor. Now, Barnes and Taylor
Speaker 8: are two separate cases in a lot of ways, but
Speaker 8: there's still mainstay since twenty seventeen, Barnes even before that.
Speaker 8: These guys have a championship resume. But the reality is
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts isn't playing Chris Taylor barely, and when they're
Speaker 8: at full strength, all Chris Taylor was doing was pinch running.
Speaker 8: If I need a pinch runner, I'm picking Hay Sun
Speaker 8: Kim these days. So yeah, it's tough when you're at
Speaker 8: a crossroads with certain players that have been part of
Speaker 8: the team for a long time.
Speaker 5: It's really tough.
Speaker 8: And it's a testament to the Dodgers having so much
Speaker 8: success and keeping a group of players together for a
Speaker 8: long time.
Speaker 5: It wasn't easy.
Speaker 8: When the Dodgers traded aj Ellis back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 8: Remember that you want to talk about a gut punch
Speaker 8: to the clubhouse that was tougher for Kershaw and others
Speaker 8: to swallow back in twenty sixteen, but they got through it.
Speaker 8: It was tough when the Dodgers said goodbye to Justin
Speaker 8: Turner and decided to go in a different direction. So
Speaker 8: these things are not easy and it never ends well.
Speaker 8: It rarely ends well in sports. So it's tough. And
Speaker 8: I'm sensitive to Austin Barnes, sensitive with Chris Taylor. Both
Speaker 8: great guys, both great champions and teammates. But you know,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers want to keep winning, and you got to
Speaker 8: do if you're in Andrew Friedman's position, he is in
Speaker 8: such a tough spot because he traded for Austin Barnes.
Speaker 8: He kept Austin Barnes on the team for eleven years
Speaker 8: as a backup catcher. Austin earned it, of course, but nonetheless,
Speaker 8: very rarely do you see backup catchers stay with the
Speaker 8: same team for eleven years. The Dodgers picked up Chris
Speaker 8: Taylor for Zach Lee from the Mariners in a trade
Speaker 8: in twenty sixteen, and Chris Taylor turned into Chris Taylor,
Speaker 8: and the Dodgers rewarded him with a very lucrative contract
Speaker 8: four years, sixty million dollars. So Andrew Freeman is taken
Speaker 8: care of these guys in more ways than one. Eight
Speaker 8: six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 8: Let's head back downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear
Speaker 8: from another two time World Series champion, Max Muncy, who's
Speaker 8: proving a lot of doubters wrong recently.
Speaker 13: I'm still working on it, but you know, the last
Speaker 13: you know, really last week felt you know, closer, and
Speaker 13: you know, you try to take a day by day,
Speaker 13: you try to build on the good things, and right
Speaker 13: now that's what I'm focusing on.
Speaker 1: Does it feel like as a team as a whole
Speaker 1: there's something there as well?
Speaker 3: I mean, especially when look at these last few games,
Speaker 3: just whether it's the runs or really just the offensive performance.
Speaker 1: The probably that pats you've been seeing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, guys is just you know, not trying to do
Speaker 13: too much up there. You know, it was a long
Speaker 13: road trip. The guys are really tired and get back
Speaker 13: home finally, and uh, you know, it sounds crazy to say,
Speaker 13: but I think the off day through of one for
Speaker 13: a little bit of a wrench. Sometimes that can happen
Speaker 13: when you start getting into the groove and you know,
Speaker 13: so the first game was a little bit a dub,
Speaker 13: but then the boys bounce back and it's a I
Speaker 13: just think as a group, everyone's just trying to stay
Speaker 13: with them themselves and just trying to move the ball
Speaker 13: and move the stick. And it's been pretty successful for us.
Speaker 5: Nineteen runs in a big nig game.
Speaker 3: You don't see that. It all kinds of what's you like,
Speaker 3: it's kind of almost like a little leage weird here.
Speaker 5: You have to pile up runs like that.
Speaker 13: It's fun, it's fun. It's you know, it's always good
Speaker 13: to put up those numbers. You know, you get the
Speaker 13: position player coming into the game. I don't know that
Speaker 13: anyone wants those abats, but you know it's that's a
Speaker 13: sign that you're doing good things. And you know, if
Speaker 13: that was a fun game, you get to watch a
Speaker 13: lot of people have a lot of really good at
Speaker 13: bats and you know, just fun all around.
Speaker 5: Back to back games and homers for you. You feel
Speaker 5: like something's clicking now with the play possibly.
Speaker 13: You know, still just trying to take a day by
Speaker 13: day and uh, you know, still working through some things,
Speaker 13: still trying to understand some things, and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 13: definitely getting closer, but you try to build on positives.
Speaker 13: That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: All right, there's Max Mounsey.
Speaker 8: Thanks to sports in at LA for bringing that funky
Speaker 8: monthy to us after he went three for four tonight
Speaker 8: and homered in the first inning. Two home runs in
Speaker 8: the last two games for the Dodger third basement. Certainly
Speaker 8: a good sign. And look, I feel like Freddie Freeman
Speaker 8: said it the best after he was asked about Munsey
Speaker 8: hitting his first home run of the year on the
Speaker 8: last homestand he said, look, he's a power hitter. It's
Speaker 8: always good to see a guy that's a power hitter
Speaker 8: hit a home run. That was a big weight off
Speaker 8: of Monsey's shoulders. And he went to the same eye
Speaker 8: doctor h to get Doctor Lou that key Y Hernandez
Speaker 8: went to see last year.
Speaker 5: And he's wearing these prescription.
Speaker 8: Goggles now, so hopefully that helps him see the baseball
Speaker 8: better like it helped Key k A last year. And look,
Speaker 8: there's a resume and Max Munsey isn't going anywhere. He
Speaker 8: serves a purpose to this lineup. But look, you got
Speaker 8: to produce. We're getting closer to June. If you don't
Speaker 8: start picking it up. The Dodgers are going to start
Speaker 8: looking for alternatives, and we've already seen Dave Roberts go
Speaker 8: to Key Hernandez when there's a lefty on the mound.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Hacienda Heights. Gee, you're on Dodger
Speaker 8: Talk with David vasse Hi g.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 12: I the game today and I was sitting in loads,
Speaker 12: sitting in front of someone who was talking smack about
Speaker 12: Max Monthy saying that we should send him down, which
Speaker 12: they clearly don't know what they're talking about, because that's
Speaker 12: not how that works.
Speaker 5: No, it's great when the tourists tided Dodgers Stadium, isn't it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, tourist is a.
Speaker 12: Nice way to put it. But you know, as soon
Speaker 12: as he hit the home run, I really wanted to
Speaker 12: stare that person down and give him the Mookie scream
Speaker 12: from last night.
Speaker 5: That was great last night. I love seeing that from Mookie.
Speaker 12: Yeah, But real quick on where I was when Freddy
Speaker 12: Freeman hit that Grand Slam last year?
Speaker 8: Oh, you've been listening, guess I want to hear that
Speaker 8: from anybody anytime. Where you were when Freddy Freeman hit
Speaker 8: his walk off Grand Slam last season?
Speaker 12: So what do you got g Yeah, I wasn't not
Speaker 12: the game, unfortunately, but was at a friend's house.
Speaker 2: I thought he popped it up.
Speaker 12: But then oh, really, hearing the.
Speaker 8: Screaming with the bat, with him holding that bat up,
Speaker 8: you thought he popped it up.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing I blocked out.
Speaker 2: Well, so I.
Speaker 12: Blocked out for a second, and next thing you know,
Speaker 12: he's like flexing at the bullpen. And yeah, so I
Speaker 12: guess somehow I knew, but I guess at first I
Speaker 12: thought you pop it up.
Speaker 8: But anyway, isn't it cool? There are so many parallels
Speaker 8: to Kirk Gibson's home run in eighty eight to Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman's walk off Grand Slam last year. You just mentioned
Speaker 8: him flexing too the bullpen. That basically was his Gibson's
Speaker 8: pumping the fist rounding second base. So they're not the
Speaker 8: same guy, they don't have the same personality, but there
Speaker 8: are certain parallels. Freddie hit it in the same section
Speaker 8: that Kirk Gibson hit his home run, Joe Davis had
Speaker 8: a great call like Vince Scully had on national television,
Speaker 8: and look, I mean both guys were hobbled by serious
Speaker 8: injuries and still delivered. So there are so many parallels
Speaker 8: between those two historic home runs Grand Slams in Game
Speaker 8: one of the World Series for the Dodgers. All right, gee,
Speaker 8: thank you for the phone call. Hey, I just went
Speaker 8: back to last year. I mean, I'm a nostalgic guy.
Speaker 8: The players know that I'm nostalgic. And when I talked
Speaker 8: to Chris Taylor, I get nostalgic. When I talked to
Speaker 8: Austin Barnes and Kershaw and Muncie, I'm nostalgic. I have
Speaker 8: a long memory. Those guys did a lot for the
Speaker 8: Dodgers and are still doing it. So, uh, don't forget that.
Speaker 8: Let's go out to Tucker and Santa Anna. You're on
Speaker 8: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 14: Tucker, Howdy, David, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: My question is.
Speaker 14: Do you think that freedmen and the Dodgers are still
Speaker 14: planning not to buy it the deadline. I know that
Speaker 14: was kind of his goal. Obviously, pitching staff's been hit
Speaker 14: with a lot of injuries. I clearly we're still in
Speaker 14: first I don't think we really need to, But what
Speaker 14: are your thoughts on that sentiment from the beginning?
Speaker 5: Number one?
Speaker 8: Tucker that he never said they they don't want to
Speaker 8: buy it the dead line. He'd prefer not to have
Speaker 8: to dive into the high price bidding for starting pitchers
Speaker 8: at the deadline. Number two, it's May fifteenth. A lot
Speaker 8: can happen between now and July thirty first, So that's
Speaker 8: a hard question for me to answer. What I will
Speaker 8: say is I kind of feel like if there was
Speaker 8: one guy that I thought could help the Dodgers if
Speaker 8: they sell, because the Cardinals are actually doing surprisingly well
Speaker 8: at this point in time in the season. No, not
Speaker 8: Nolan Arenado, but their closer who is on his final
Speaker 8: year of his deal, Ryan Helsley. He could help the
Speaker 8: Dodger bullpen with the injuries to Blake Trining and Evan Phillips.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they've got a good start, right. I guess the
Speaker 14: hard part is everybody's in the everybody's in the race
Speaker 14: until the end with the new wildcard format, so makes sense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, especially in a mediocre and NOL Central and a
Speaker 8: mediocre American league this year so far.
Speaker 5: Nice for the phone call, Tucker, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Speaking of the Dodger bullpen, they have not had Michael
Speaker 8: Kopek all year long. I believe Kopek made his third
Speaker 8: rehab appearance yesterday. He still probably got three more before
Speaker 8: he joins the Dodgers, but that's a great sign that
Speaker 8: he's actually in rehab games and he probably has to
Speaker 8: pitch back to back games before the Dodgers clear him
Speaker 8: to come back to the major league. So that's a
Speaker 8: big deal to get Michael Kopek back, especially with the
Speaker 8: injuries to Evan Phillips and Blake Trinen. Another bullpen piece
Speaker 8: that could help the Dodgers that hasn't made his major
Speaker 8: league debut yet is Linguini. That's his nickname, Nick Frosso
Speaker 8: at a Rancho Pallas Verdez who is unbelievable in spring training.
Speaker 8: He's really coming into his own. I feel like you're
Speaker 8: gonna see Nick frosso at some point come out of
Speaker 8: the bullpen to either be a multi.
Speaker 5: Inning reliever or whatever the.
Speaker 8: Dodgers need from him, because he's starting games at Oklahoma
Speaker 8: City and he's a he's a he's a guy. He
Speaker 8: was really impressive in spring training, so is Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 8: And in case you didn't catch this, because he's got
Speaker 8: the mask on, but when he came to the plate,
Speaker 8: he had that uh that I don't want to say,
Speaker 8: creepy looking mustache, but he had a mustache and we
Speaker 8: hadn't seen that mustache a lot. And he filled me
Speaker 8: in on why he has that neatly groom mustache. A
Speaker 8: lot of great guys at Triple A, great teammates, right Gotier,
Speaker 8: Alex Freeland, Hunter Fiduccia. I guess they have something going
Speaker 8: on at Triple A, and uh, Dalton Rushing filled me
Speaker 8: in on it because that's the first thing I noticed
Speaker 8: when I saw him yesterday. He told me that they
Speaker 8: have something going at Oklahoma City amongst the comets down there,
Speaker 8: that if you don't go over and back to back games,
Speaker 8: you grow out this mustache. So Dalton and Rushing hasn't
Speaker 8: had back to back games without a hit in quite
Speaker 8: some time.
Speaker 5: So that's why he has that mustache.
Speaker 8: So that's the behind the story on the Dalton Rushing
Speaker 8: neatly groom stash tonight in his major league debut. Let's
Speaker 8: go out to San Diego. Gustavo, you're on Dodger Talk
Speaker 8: with David basse Hi.
Speaker 5: Gustavo, Hey, how you doing, David?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wanted to reiterate some points. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to reiterate some points made about Chris Taylor
Speaker 3: and Barnesy. Yeah, I just wanted to say, I think
Speaker 3: it's I think it's somewhat rare and rather unique for
Speaker 3: a GM president of Baseball offs like Andrew Friedman to
Speaker 3: have the resources he has but also be so plugged
Speaker 3: into the clubhouse. You know, Taylor and Barnes are two
Speaker 3: guys that you know, like Roberts was mentioning our two professionals,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of fans can kind of
Speaker 3: look at Barnes and the lack of offense and say, hey, well,
Speaker 3: we have a guy, you know in Triple A Dalton
Speaker 3: who's really proven himself. Why don't we just make the change.
Speaker 3: But you know, having some patience, letting Dalton figure out
Speaker 3: some stuff and really come up at the appropriate time,
Speaker 3: I think is the right move to keep.
Speaker 2: The ship steady.
Speaker 3: So I just wanted to, you know, reiterate that point
Speaker 3: and say, I think it's it's wise the way they've
Speaker 3: gone about it. I think for the long term, probably
Speaker 3: a smart a smart move, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Gustavo.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's tough when you're in Andrew Friedman's position. It's
Speaker 8: hard to ignore the struggles. Austin Barnes was having throwing
Speaker 8: out base runners, which is a big part of the
Speaker 8: game now.
Speaker 5: And you know I said this last night. I'll say
Speaker 5: it again.
Speaker 8: Austin Barnes has never told me that he needed some
Speaker 8: sort of surgical procedure to fix his shoulder his arm,
Speaker 8: but you have to imagine that that was the issue.
Speaker 8: He he doesn't just stop throwing. He's a ballplayer, major
Speaker 8: league player.
Speaker 5: He can throw.
Speaker 8: But I feel like there was something going on that
Speaker 8: he was trying to avoid structurally in his elbow, his shoulder,
Speaker 8: something like that to prevent him from being able to
Speaker 8: throw the way we know he can throw the last
Speaker 8: three years. So whatever it was, it it cost him unfortunately.
Speaker 5: All Right, thanks for the phone call, Gustavo.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 8: the phone number you're gonna hear my full conversation with
Speaker 8: Clayton Kershaw coming up at the at eleven twenty.
Speaker 5: But here's what Clayton said today.
Speaker 8: Uh, because we spoke to Clayton before the Dodgers decided
Speaker 8: to dfa Austin Barnes after the first game of this series.
Speaker 8: Here's what Clayton Kershaw had to say today about the
Speaker 8: catcher that caught the second most games from the future
Speaker 8: Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think everybody was surprised then. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm it's sad. You know, Barnesy's one of
Speaker 4: my best friends on or off the field, and you
Speaker 4: won't find a guy that competes better than Austin Barnes.
Speaker 4: He wants to win more than anybody, and he always
Speaker 4: found a way and he came up with some big
Speaker 4: moments for us throughout the years. I think a lot
Speaker 4: of people forget he was starting a lot of playoff
Speaker 4: games and winning a lot of games for us, getting
Speaker 4: big knocks, and so yeah, it's it's sad to see
Speaker 4: someone like that go, who's been here that long, and
Speaker 4: I think we all kind of feel it, and so
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's no disrespect to Dalton, you know,
Speaker 4: I know he deserves it and he's he's going to
Speaker 4: be a great player. It's just, you know, for me personally,
Speaker 4: I think for a lot of guys on the team,
Speaker 4: it was it was disappointing to see him go.
Speaker 8: No doubt, That's what I got from a few players
Speaker 8: that I spoke to. They were shocked when they heard
Speaker 8: the news. The Dodgers called Barnes into the office after
Speaker 8: the first game of the series and told him they
Speaker 8: were going in a different direction. But nonetheless, they got
Speaker 8: great chemistry guys still on this team in taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 8: Hayesan Kim's a great teammate, Blake Snell even though he's
Speaker 8: not pitching, good teammate, Dalton Rushing's a great teammate, Will
Speaker 8: Smith solid. I mean, they got enough guys that can
Speaker 8: keep this going. It's a machine at this point, let's
Speaker 8: be honest, and it just keeps moving forward towards trying
Speaker 8: to win another World Series championship. Eight six six nine
Speaker 8: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. We're
Speaker 8: gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. When
Speaker 8: we continue, we'll check in with Jose Mota and you'll
Speaker 8: hear my full conversation with Clayton Kershaw about his season
Speaker 8: debut Right around the corner on Saturday against the Angels.
Speaker 5: Far from over. That's the theme.
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Speaker 8: Here's a three one bitch and Otani Justin Hammers won
Speaker 8: the center failed hit his back.
Speaker 2: It is gone his second home run of the night.
Speaker 8: Show Hey Otani getting it done with the home run
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Speaker 5: It is fifteen to.
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Speaker 15: home runs for Show Tani tonight as he's able to
Speaker 15: uh lead the way. Six RBIs for show Heo Tani
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Speaker 5: But first it's time to go around the Horn with
Speaker 5: Jose Mota Mucha Moda.
Speaker 8: Tonight again on Dodger Talk, after Jose Moda completed his
Speaker 8: first series filling in for Rick Monday this season, Jose
Speaker 8: nineteen runs, how you feeling? Did you need an IV
Speaker 8: after a game like tonight?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 2: You know the best thing is that games like tonight
Speaker 2: a lot of people say, well, we're gonna you know,
Speaker 2: what else can you talk about? Well, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of stories to tell, and Tim and I were obviously
Speaker 2: talking about things that are relevant to the game, but
Speaker 2: still things that really tie you up to the game.
Speaker 2: So in that case, it's great to see your team
Speaker 2: on the winning side with these because the story is
Speaker 2: at a lot easier. But man, it was pretty much
Speaker 2: an exhibit of what a powerful team and a powerful lineup.
Speaker 8: This is no doubt, and it starts with the MVP Show.
Speaker 8: Hey Otani, his two home runs tonight against the A's
Speaker 8: gives him twenty two career home runs against the A's,
Speaker 8: no matter where what city they're playing. Again, that's the
Speaker 8: most home runs, he said, against any other team since
Speaker 8: coming to Major League Baseball. What is it about the
Speaker 8: A's that brings out the best in Otani?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It might be the fact that that's
Speaker 2: the first team he ever faced as a hitter, first
Speaker 2: team he ever faced a a pitcher, and the many
Speaker 2: many times he has to face him as an angel.
Speaker 2: But it's good to see show him make adjustments. And
Speaker 2: the biggest adjuncts was when Beadole got him by the
Speaker 2: way against Beadle, zero for five career now with Reestrackhouse,
Speaker 2: but then he got himself back into Okay, I gotta
Speaker 2: go out there and cut it down and just get
Speaker 2: the zone down a little bit more, and from there
Speaker 2: on it was a different story when shoy is on.
Speaker 2: And I've always told you today, when you see home
Speaker 2: run's going to center field like you have seen the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. Something's happening and we're seeing it
Speaker 2: right now in full display.
Speaker 8: I was on the field earlier today and someone made
Speaker 8: the case to me on why Hay Sun Kim belongs
Speaker 8: in the major leagues and not to be sent down
Speaker 8: to Oklahoma City to get playing time. After your what
Speaker 8: you saw tonight, Jose, are you convinced that Hay Sung
Speaker 8: Kim is here to stay?
Speaker 2: Yes, and I was convinced. I'll say this the way
Speaker 2: I actually talked to a Dodger executive in spring training
Speaker 2: about had it been a normal spring training he would
Speaker 2: have been a starting second basement for the Dodgers. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt in my mind. There's no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 2: He needed a little bit more time obviously than came.
Speaker 2: The trip to Japan and all those things that we
Speaker 2: know went on. So the time down there he spent
Speaker 2: doing things that he needed to do to become a
Speaker 2: better player. But the weaponcy brings are so valuable. They
Speaker 2: change a game, They change your defense, they change an inning,
Speaker 2: they change how the lineup turns around to give guys
Speaker 2: Michael Tani and Muki Betz and Fredie Freeman a chance
Speaker 2: to hit again. And that is something you just cannot
Speaker 2: put a price on it. There's no analytics side to this.
Speaker 2: But he is a pure baseball guy that understands what
Speaker 2: to do, is going to get better and more experienced.
Speaker 2: That's very successful in the KBO for many years for
Speaker 2: a reason. He knows how to play the game, and
Speaker 2: he understands the game. He understands his role, and there's
Speaker 2: no doubt in my mind he brings a lot. So
Speaker 2: you know what, let it be one of those kids. Well,
Speaker 2: you have so much talent that it becomes a great problem.
Speaker 2: But boy, what a great problem to have.
Speaker 8: Huh, Well, that's the biggest thing, right Jose. How many
Speaker 8: times did we talk about it through the first six
Speaker 8: weeks of the season, where the bottom two hitters, we're
Speaker 8: not flipping the lineup over for Otani, Betts and Freeman.
Speaker 8: And now you have this guy Hay Sun Kim that
Speaker 8: not only is doing that, but creating havoc and distracting
Speaker 8: the pictures for guys like Otani.
Speaker 2: You know, and talking to Dave Roberts about that, think
Speaker 2: about this. The decision might come down to that, what
Speaker 2: is the best option to keep your lineup? You know,
Speaker 2: lithened the longest lineup you can have, and it might
Speaker 2: be that you need that presence of speed or in contact,
Speaker 2: a guid that so far in a short stint, you know,
Speaker 2: in your short sample size, has shown the ability to
Speaker 2: also not get not let the woman get too big
Speaker 2: with men's scoring position by playing his game. So the
Speaker 2: value that he brings, it's obviously much more feasible and
Speaker 2: much more noticeable on the field when he's playing. But
Speaker 2: if it happens from the bench limited time, then for
Speaker 2: sure there's going to be a role for him.
Speaker 8: Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers put thumping
Speaker 8: on the A's tonight nineteen to two. The Dodgers hid
Speaker 8: five home runs tonight, including two from show Heyo Tani
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing also made his major league debuts starting a
Speaker 8: catcher for the Dodgers tonight. What stood out to you
Speaker 8: about Rushing tonight in his first major league game.
Speaker 2: How calm he was. He was not in a hurry,
Speaker 2: he was not searching for bassage. He was searching for
Speaker 2: good at bats. He had very productive at bats. And
Speaker 2: then beyond that, I'm watching batting practice and as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: he's sitting balls that are you know, carrying halfway up
Speaker 2: that pavilion and then behind the plate, he caught guys
Speaker 2: that he's caught before, and the way he posises his
Speaker 2: body by an home player, it's quite interesting, a little
Speaker 2: bit of a throwback. He wuled a knee down and
Speaker 2: the fact that it seems like he did his homework
Speaker 2: on these A's and paid a lot of attention to
Speaker 2: what they've a were talked about before the game today
Speaker 2: on that lineup, because it seems like obviously not putting
Speaker 2: fingers down anymore. But whatever he was calling vocation wise
Speaker 2: or pitch sequencing was appropriate to go out to neutralized.
Speaker 2: The A's were very aggressive on first pitch. They hit
Speaker 2: the ball the other way very hard, and they, as
Speaker 2: Mark Tosse told me, we don't want to get on
Speaker 2: base by walking one to swing the bats. So what
Speaker 2: do you do with teams like that? You counteract up
Speaker 2: by making quality pitches and mixing it, especially on the
Speaker 2: first pitch. So he was in tune with everybody on
Speaker 2: the own and was able to really present the ball
Speaker 2: quite well and really animated behind the play. So you
Speaker 2: have two leaders behind the plate and you have a
Speaker 2: catcher that's gonna be aware of what pitches need to do.
Speaker 2: And Will Smith for sure as a guy that's done
Speaker 2: it before, but he brings a little energy behind the
Speaker 2: play that I think it's quite good.
Speaker 5: No doubt.
Speaker 8: He brings a lot of edge and that's a pretty
Speaker 8: good catching combo. The Dodgers have moving forward with Will
Speaker 8: Smith and Dalton Rushing right left, and certainly Rushing is
Speaker 8: not satisfied being Will Smith's backup, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Jose.
Speaker 2: You got you got to always admra guy that's so
Speaker 2: intune what's going on. And he knew exactly what was
Speaker 2: going on last year when he was as a play
Speaker 2: left field and why, and he was in tunis to
Speaker 2: what was going on this year too. So I admire
Speaker 2: guys like this one are hungry, pay attention, to do
Speaker 2: the homework, and they're never satisfied.
Speaker 5: That's you, Jose Moda.
Speaker 8: We'll see you tomorrow, hungry and humble tomorrow night in
Speaker 8: the broadcast booth as the Dodgers and Angels hook up
Speaker 8: for the Freeway Series.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the clock today, nineteen or two, David, two
Speaker 2: thirty seven? Game time?
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful. Huh ah.
Speaker 5: There's no clock in baseball, Jose.
Speaker 2: You need it, actually, there is right.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jose, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 8: There he goes Jose Moda, who was filling in for
Speaker 8: Rick Monday again. And Rick will rejoin us next week
Speaker 8: after returns from being with family for a family wedding
Speaker 8: out there in Florida. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the phone number. I just a
Speaker 8: couple of things watching Dalton Rushing and spring training and
Speaker 8: watching what he did tonight.
Speaker 5: He just has a presence about him.
Speaker 8: And the biggest thing that stood out to me and
Speaker 8: our conversations and spring training is that picture catcher relationship
Speaker 8: that Mike Soosha always talked about when he was catching
Speaker 8: more games than any other catcher in Dodger history. Steve Yeager,
Speaker 8: another legendary Dodger catcher, always talked about that as well,
Speaker 8: that picture catcher relationship. You can't just be there behind
Speaker 8: the plate and not know who he got on the mound.
Speaker 8: Dalton Rushing just offered this to me about how every
Speaker 8: picture is different, every guy's different, what makes every guy
Speaker 8: tick is different, what happens in the middle of the
Speaker 8: game is different, and you've got to adapt. So those
Speaker 8: are the things that really stood out to me about
Speaker 8: a young man that at the time had not even
Speaker 8: played one game in Major League Baseball, but tonight he
Speaker 8: had a presence about himself and certainly not only had
Speaker 8: it behind the plate as a catcher, but when he
Speaker 8: stepped in the batter's box, a lot of confidence. And
Speaker 8: that's what everybody tells me about Dalton Rushing, and you
Speaker 8: could feel it when you talk to him. He's not
Speaker 8: short on self confidence. He's that is number one, which
Speaker 8: is a big key to feel like you belong and
Speaker 8: that's gonna take him a long way. A guy that
Speaker 8: is humble and hungry even after three Cy Young Awards
Speaker 8: and an MVP and two World Series Championships. His future
Speaker 8: Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw, had a chance to catch
Speaker 8: up with him a couple of days ago and wanted
Speaker 8: to share with you our full conversation about him coming
Speaker 8: back and pitching for his eighteenth season. He made his
Speaker 8: major league debut in two thousand and eight, and he
Speaker 8: will be on the mound Saturday against the Angels.
Speaker 5: Wow, what an intro.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave.
Speaker 4: Good to be back.
Speaker 5: It's been a long road. It hasn't been easy.
Speaker 8: How gratifying is it that that moment is coming up
Speaker 8: here Saturday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, it's been a hard one for sure,
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm super excited to get back out here.
Speaker 4: More than anything, just tired of taking up space, you know,
Speaker 4: I want to I want to contribute. I want to
Speaker 4: help the team out, and so I'm I'm excited to
Speaker 4: get out there and start getting some people out and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, making a positive contribution.
Speaker 8: Even though it was rehab assignments in the minor leagues.
Speaker 8: How good did it feel to be out there and
Speaker 8: actually pitching again.
Speaker 4: Well, it feel good to be focused on pitching, you know.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, the last few times I pitched
Speaker 4: last year just focused on how much my foot was hurting,
Speaker 4: you know, And so I think now kind of shifting
Speaker 4: the gears towards just how do I get people out
Speaker 4: and you know, just focusing more on the next pitch
Speaker 4: as opposed to what hurts as nice you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: physically I feel good and it's been a it's been
Speaker 4: a hard road, but now that we're kind of on
Speaker 4: the tail end of that and starting the new chapter
Speaker 4: of actually getting the pitch has been Uh, it is exciting.
Speaker 5: When you set out on this rehab assignment.
Speaker 8: You talked about the toe cooperating, the foot cooperating.
Speaker 5: How long did you have to kick it before it cooperated?
Speaker 4: I still kick it. I still kick it is cooperating,
Speaker 4: you know. I think, Yeah, the last two weeks especially,
Speaker 4: I would say that I can feel the strength coming
Speaker 4: back a little bit and I feel like I can
Speaker 4: use it a little bit better. So I think it'll
Speaker 4: just continue to get better with time, and the more
Speaker 4: reps I get, the better. So no time like the
Speaker 4: president to start start getting some reps.
Speaker 8: Even though you've had the career that you've had, you're
Speaker 8: coming back from a couple of surgeries on the same
Speaker 8: leg to get the results you got. Did that mean
Speaker 8: something to you? Did it validate anything that maybe you
Speaker 8: had doubts about?
Speaker 4: Well, I think anytime you can get people out, you know,
Speaker 4: I think that's important. And so that's why I enjoy
Speaker 4: going to Triple A because it's like, you know, these
Speaker 4: these guys are all good hitters, they're all, you know,
Speaker 4: right on the cusp with being big leaguers. So it
Speaker 4: kind of gives some feedback right away. And obviously it's
Speaker 4: not the big leagues, but it's important to get that feedback.
Speaker 4: And I'll get some more feedback on Saturday for sure.
Speaker 8: Hey, the feedback that I saw, I mean, I was
Speaker 8: happy to see it.
Speaker 5: That was an old school kershaw coming off the.
Speaker 8: Mound like you did, and turning and throwing to make
Speaker 8: a play off the mound.
Speaker 5: I mean, and that's who you are. I mean, did
Speaker 5: you know you still had that?
Speaker 4: I just it's only in there if I need it.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't practice that too much. But no,
Speaker 4: that was that was a fun play. And yeah, I
Speaker 4: guess it's a good sign that the foot feels good,
Speaker 4: So it's great.
Speaker 8: I'm going to ask you a question that people keep
Speaker 8: asking me. What motivates you at this stage of your
Speaker 8: career to go through all this to come back?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think I think not letting an
Speaker 4: injury be the reason I stopped. I think that's probably
Speaker 4: the main thing. Look, if I get out there and
Speaker 4: get sheld and I'm not any good anymore and just
Speaker 4: the time is to the time, then that's one thing.
Speaker 4: But I don't want it to be because I didn't
Speaker 4: rehab an injury well or I let something get the
Speaker 4: best of me, you know, so if another hitter gets
Speaker 4: the best of me, that's one thing. But I'm not
Speaker 4: going to let myself do it to myself, if that
Speaker 4: makes sense, And so that's I think that's the biggest
Speaker 4: motivating factor. Another one is my family. You know, I
Speaker 4: think Ellen and my kids, they're both they all they
Speaker 4: all want me to keep going. And Allen's super supportive
Speaker 4: of wanting me to do it as long as I can,
Speaker 4: as long as I want to, And so I mean
Speaker 4: if she wasn't as supportive as she was, it'd be
Speaker 4: a lot harder. So I think that's a huge motivating
Speaker 4: factor too.
Speaker 8: Before I let you go, when you look at this
Speaker 8: team and where it's at when you come back on Saturday,
Speaker 8: do you look at it from from a ninety degree angle,
Speaker 8: looking down and seeing how it all comes together?
Speaker 5: How do you look at this team right now?
Speaker 4: I look at it. You know, I've been watching the
Speaker 4: games on TV just like everybody else, and it's a
Speaker 4: great team, you know. I think, you know, forty games
Speaker 4: in you can see a lot of things that are
Speaker 4: going really well. And for me personally, I just want
Speaker 4: to be a part of it. So I'm excited to
Speaker 4: start contributing and hopefully for a long time all the
Speaker 4: way through October, No doubt.
Speaker 5: Far from over, Kershaw. Don't forget it.
Speaker 4: I hear you. I like it. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 8: All right, there's Clayton Kershaw. You got his thoughts on
Speaker 8: a lot of different things right there. What is the
Speaker 8: motivating factor? That was the biggest takeaway for me? And
Speaker 8: I think we can all understand that a guy like
Speaker 8: him that is headed to Cooperstown and has been so
Speaker 8: competitive and in some way stubborn in his career does
Speaker 8: not want to let injuries set him into retirements. So
Speaker 8: good for Clayton Kershaw. Far from over in his major
Speaker 8: league career as he continues to push forward. It all
Speaker 8: begins Saturday against the Angels. That'll do it for us
Speaker 8: Tonight on Dodger Talk. Coming up tomorrow, Dustin May will
Speaker 8: be on the mound in the opener of the series
Speaker 8: against the Halos, going up against right hander Jack Kohanowitz,
Speaker 8: who is two and five with an ERA of five
Speaker 8: twenty three. In case you haven't been keeping up with
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Speaker 8: for hanging out with us late night after the Dodgers
Speaker 8: score a season high nineteen runs tonight and beat the
Speaker 8: Athletics nineteen to two. Coming up next, Ben Mallor on
Speaker 8: Fox Sports Radio. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: See ya, Send it away