WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:06.480 One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:06.919 that they have. 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:09.400 This team is really becoming a family. 4 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:10.720 Let's not play one on Tom. 5 00:00:10.919 --> 00:00:11.720 Let's wind it. 6 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.679 I love writing me these guys after the show. 7 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:15.199 So just thank you, give me are. 8 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:17.480 Your attention, your fire and not a pisson. 9 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:21.440 This is world champion, Dodger, world champion thing. 10 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:23.359 It put a small soft time they get up people. 11 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.280 What they want to die to in a row two 12 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:28.800 is special. I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache one 13 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.359 of a con. This ball's gone. 14 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:32.479 You ready to go. 15 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.719 To the grab your phone to get in on the 16 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.960 show called eight six six nine eighty seven two five 17 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:42.799 seven and go to the show. And now your host 18 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:45.119 of Dodger Talk, David Vasse. 19 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:51.200 We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers score 20 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:56.799 resounding victory over the Athletics nineteen to two, the final 21 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:01.799 score as the Dodgers score the season nineteen runs tonight 22 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:06.560 and drove in, you know, drove home the point that 23 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:08.920 they're not going to be pushed around by the A's 24 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:12.959 After losing the first game of this series eleven to one, 25 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:18.480 The Dodgers' nineteen runs on eighteen hits including five home runs, 26 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.359 which is a season high. Last night was the season 27 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:24.519 high hitting four home runs. They got home runs from 28 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:28.640 four different players last night. Tonight they got home runs 29 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.359 from four different players as well. Show Aotani who seems 30 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.959 to play up to the crowd. I think we've noticed 31 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:38.760 that in his first year and a half with the Dodgers, 32 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:43.760 homers twice on his Babblehead Night and going back to 33 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:47.200 last year when he hit a walk off Grand Slam 34 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:51.280 against the Rockies that was his Bobblehead Night and he 35 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.799 homered in his first Bobblehead Night as MVP Bobblehead Night 36 00:01:55.879 --> 00:01:59.480 this year, and tonight he goes deep twice and after 37 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.120 his first home run in the third inning, first time 38 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:05.400 I've ever seen O'tani seek out his family. They have 39 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:10.280 a suite just above the Dodgers dugout. He pointed towards there. 40 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.599 I couldn't see whether or not Decoy or his baby 41 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:17.360 girls up there with his wife, but he certainly had 42 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.000 them on his mind as he was pointing up towards them. 43 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:24.840 Also a big game for Hayes Sung Kim, who did 44 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:29.000 not homer, but was on base five times and scored 45 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:34.159 four times. Also a special night for Dalton Rushing as 46 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:37.639 he made his major league debut, made his first major 47 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.840 league start, and also collected his first major league hit 48 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:45.159 in the third inning. One hundred and ten miles an 49 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.840 hour up the middle, Rushing scored three times and certainly 50 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.840 did a nice job. He was in command behind the plate, 51 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:58.159 catching Matt Sower, Anthony Banda, and Justin Robleski tonight to 52 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:01.919 help the Dodgers beat the A nineteen to two and 53 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.599 take the series two out of three. Let's head downstairs 54 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.000 right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from young 55 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:10.080 Dalton Rushing. 56 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.680 It's pretty special. It was pretty special. Obviously, first and 57 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:19.120 foremost to win, it's a series win, it's the most 58 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.919 important part. But I was able to accomplish a few 59 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.879 lifelong goals, and yeah, obviously that was pretty special for me. 60 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.960 He's walked us to that at that in the third 61 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.599 hitting with the single kind of what we're going through 62 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:32.159 your mind there? 63 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:35.520 Yeah, I don't think he wanted to walk me and 64 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.159 walk me twice start my debut. I was tuady, hit 65 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:42.159 a fastball and got a good one to hit, put 66 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.159 a good swing on it. Things went my way. 67 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.520 How long have you been thinking about this moment. What 68 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:52.199 was it like the bolt of reality? Yeah, my whole life. 69 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.199 It's been something that obviously I wanted to do at 70 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:58.719 a very young age. Never in a million years did 71 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:02.080 I imagine it would come with a team like this, So yeah, 72 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.319 that just that makes it that much more special. And yeah, 73 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:06.879 I'm looking forward to a lot more wins and a 74 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:09.879 lot more big opportunities and big things that happen this year. 75 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.159 And the only kind of your family A couple. 76 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.240 Of times sharing just how special was then just kind. 77 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.960 Of where they travel here to see your debut. 78 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.759 Yeah, it was obviously pretty special. A group of people 79 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.879 that in this world that I want to see things 80 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.920 like this, they were here and that means the world 81 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.480 for me or to me. Sorry, And yeah, I couldn't 82 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:30.759 imagine a better group there to be able to see it. 83 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.800 Yeah, you have the hardest hit ball tonight and go 84 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:33.920 two for four at the walk. 85 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.759 I got a snapshot of how you kind of want 86 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:36.279 to help this team. 87 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:38.519 Daves's some slugging there, but just kind of your approach 88 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:39.160 to the play tonight. 89 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.160 Yeah, it was kind of simple tonight. Let's take your 90 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.800 bise hads, I guess. Yeah, I like to control the 91 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.000 strike zone and just hit the ball hard and whatever 92 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.040 happens after that kind of happens. 93 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.240 So what's it like being in this lineup? Just look 94 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.560 all the talent there is. Being a part of like 95 00:04:57.560 --> 00:04:59.920 an offensive performance like that, Like those are just like 96 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.519 kind of being a government and watching the whole team 97 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:03.600 performing that way to play. 98 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:08.040 Yeahs special. Obviously you getta win like that on your debut. 99 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.560 It's it kind of sends a message obviously not only 100 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:16.319 to myself but other teams around like how how powerful 101 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.439 and how dangerous this club is. And I'm glad I 102 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:20.920 could be another piece to it. 103 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:26.120 All Right, there's Dalton Rushing after making his major league debuts, 104 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:29.839 starting at catcher for the Dodgers and collecting his first 105 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:34.600 major league hit. Rushing scored three times tonight. Scored three 106 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.959 of the Dodgers nineteen runs eight six, six ninety seven 107 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.240 two five seventy is the phone number. Like I said 108 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.600 last night, it's bittersweet for a lot of the veterans 109 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.600 in that Dodger clubhouse that I've been with Austin Barnes 110 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.879 for as long as they have. I mean, he meant 111 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.360 a lot to those guys, and he meant a lot 112 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.040 to the Dodgers. If you look back to the seventeen, eighteen, 113 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.839 and twenty World Series, he caught more games in the postseason. 114 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.800 Then he has money Grandahal and Will Smith. So he 115 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.839 mean he meant a lot. He meant a lot. But obviously, 116 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.920 you know, careers don't last forever. Austin's thirty five years old. 117 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.279 Had issues with his right arm throwing, and that's a 118 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.759 big part of the game. And the time is now 119 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:23.879 for Dalton Rushing. And like I said, bittersweet in a 120 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.759 couple of different ways, it was cool to see Dalton 121 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.800 rushing and taking photos with his family and friends just 122 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:36.000 about a half hour ago. It was even more epic 123 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:40.680 watching Dalton Rushing take batting practice before the game today 124 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:45.360 and launching home runs halfway up the right field pavilions. 125 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.720 So you're gonna see a lot of that. And he's 126 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.720 a competitor. He's not here to be a backup catcher. 127 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.480 He's here to force the issue, to try to get 128 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.600 as many at bats as possible to help the Dodgers 129 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.120 win eight six, six, seven two. He is the phone number. 130 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:03.519 We'll get to a few other things that I want 131 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.439 to talk about in a moment. Also, you'll hear our 132 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:11.560 conversation with Clayton Kershaw ahead of his season debut on 133 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:13.959 Saturday against the Angels. 134 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:15.240 Let's go out to Whittier. 135 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.720 Deborah, You're on Dodger Talk Live from Dodger Stadium. 136 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.120 Hi Deborah, Hi David. 137 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:22.199 How are you? Love you? 138 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:23.800 Oh? 139 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:24.720 Thank you, Debrah. 140 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.279 I like when you're on Tim Conway Show. I listen 141 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.360 to you all the time. 142 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:32.279 Ding dong, Thank you. 143 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:35.560 I just want to say, you put your heart on 144 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.079 usually when it comes to the Dodgers, and I just 145 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:41.839 want to give a shout out to next Monday tonight. 146 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.120 Yeah. And Max Monsey yep, yep. 147 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.720 So I thank you very very much. 148 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.319 All right, Deborah, thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it. 149 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:52.600 Yeah. 150 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.000 Max Monsey had a big night three for four tonight 151 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.759 with another home running homeward last night to nighty Homer's 152 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.560 in the first inning. So you know, like I always say, 153 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.959 everybody was calling for the Dodgers to cut next monthly 154 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.480 after two weeks a lot of you and I don't 155 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:13.160 really see anybody and did not hear from anybody last. 156 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.199 Night or the night before or the night before. 157 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:20.839 That, celebrating Andy Paz who has come alive after so 158 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.519 many of you, after such a slow start and a 159 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.839 couple of misplays in the outfield, wanted to get rid 160 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:29.000 of Andy pah haz and say, you know what this 161 00:08:29.079 --> 00:08:32.639 guy stinks. Get rid of this guy Andy Pa has? 162 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.039 Where are all my Andy Pa has? Haters? 163 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:35.320 Now? 164 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.000 He homered again tonight. He had three RBIs. He's sitting 165 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.639 two ninety one on the season with no ps of 166 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:45.200 eight fifty one. It's still a long season, but you're 167 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.960 starting to see the signs of growth, and you're starting 168 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:50.000 to see the signs of a guy that's put in 169 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.159 a lot of work even as the season is going on. 170 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.840 He's put in a lot of work with Dino Ebel 171 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.360 in center field. He's put in a lot of work 172 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:02.120 on the basis, and he looks really comfortable filling in 173 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:06.799 for Taoscar Hernandez obviously in right field. So where are 174 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.159 all my Andy Pa has haters? Because you were filling 175 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:13.360 up these phone lines the first two weeks of the 176 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:16.840 year when I said pump the brakes, it's only been 177 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:17.440 two weeks. 178 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:18.559 Give this guy a chance. 179 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.320 I don't hear too many people eating crow and calling in. 180 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.759 If you want to call in and start ripping players 181 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.840 after two weeks, you better call in when they succeed 182 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.799 and prove you wrong. Let's go out to John, who 183 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:33.960 was at the game tonight. I hope you stayed for 184 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.120 all nineteen runs tonight, John. 185 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.320 Oh, I stayed for every run. I gotta tell you. 186 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.320 I was talking with my friend Erica, who came in 187 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:46.360 from New York specifically for the game tonight, and I 188 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.639 turned her and I said, why would the Dodgers send 189 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:55.320 down or you know, designate for assignment Austin Barnes when 190 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.799 they could, when they could have a designated outman for 191 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:05.039 a assignment because his batting average was point zero sixty seven. 192 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.559 And she turned to me and said, no, it's actually 193 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:12.039 point zero five to six. And then a moment later 194 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.360 he blasts the home run. And of course that's why 195 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:19.080 I'm not in the front office of the Dodgers, because 196 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:23.120 you know, they make the right decisions. But you know, Saturday, 197 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.039 well I understand that, but Saturday curse. I was pitching, 198 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.679 and it would be really nice if his buddy, Austin 199 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.879 Barnes was behind the plate. So I think that's a 200 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.080 you know, that's a shame, but you know, we move on. 201 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.679 It was an incredible night. My question to you, David, 202 00:10:40.799 --> 00:10:44.519 is has Shoe a Otani hit a home run on 203 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.320 every bobblehead night that he's had in his career, Because 204 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.440 I mean, you call it a rivalry. I loved what 205 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.399 you said about the so called rivalry because there is 206 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.080 no rivalry with the Angels and the Dodgers. The Angels 207 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:02.639 are the worst franchise, one of the worst franchises you 208 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.799 know in the you know, in baseball. 209 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:06.759 Ever since they said go about it, Mike Soosha, they are. 210 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:11.000 Oh, of course, you know they're lucky World Series against 211 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.440 the Giants years ago. Aside from that, we call it anyway. 212 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.320 Anyway, that's what Major League Baseball is touting this weekend 213 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.279 to try to bring attention to the different series. It's 214 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:26.919 not just Dodgers Angels, it's Giants, a's up in the 215 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.240 Bay Area, Mets Yankees Subway series. So they lined up 216 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:34.559 the schedule for this weekend to tout it as a 217 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:38.240 rivalry weekend. John, Since you're a big Dodger fan, why 218 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.919 don't you tell me which Dodger has the most hits 219 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.039 against the Angels since inter league play started? 220 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:44.919 Who do you think it is? 221 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:47.200 Wait? 222 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:48.960 Since inter league play started? 223 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:50.039 You know in history. 224 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.840 Yeah, back in ninety eight or whatever. Who has the 225 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:58.559 most hits the Dodgers against the Angels. Which Dodger player 226 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:01.919 has the most hits against the Angels? 227 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:02.159 Oh? 228 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:05.639 Well, I have to give a shout out, simple quesh Jay, 229 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.600 Eric Carros. Well, Eric Carros had the greatest you had 230 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:12.399 They had to buy time on Spectrum tonight, and he 231 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:16.080 had the greatest story about Tommy Lasorda. That needs to 232 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.080 be shared with Petros. Well, when you're a guest host 233 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.759 on that show with the Petros Money Show, it is 234 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.799 the greatest story in the history of Tommy Lasorda stories. 235 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:30.559 It is Eric Carros's first up at that all his 236 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:31.600 major league career. 237 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.440 That's a great story. That is a great story. 238 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:39.600 I'd rather hear I'd rather hear Eric Carros tell the 239 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.759 story instead of John coming from the game. 240 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:43.080 So thank you for the phone call. 241 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.200 John, not surprising, he's a Petros and Money listener. 242 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.159 Yeah says a lot anyway. 243 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.279 The Dodger that has the most hits against the Angels 244 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:57.080 since inter league play started is the one and only 245 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:02.080 Andre Ethier with fifty five hits against the Angels since 246 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:05.440 inter league play started. Let's go out to Johnny in La. 247 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.360 You're on Dodger Talk live from Dodger Stadium. How are 248 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:09.080 you doing, Johnny? 249 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.159 That was exhausting that last phone call. 250 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:14.840 Thanks for taking my call, Dave. 251 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.600 I was at the game tonight. I just want to 252 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.000 talk about. 253 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:19.720 This Kim situation. 254 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:21.600 I think he deserves a. 255 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.759 Spot on this team. 256 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:25.799 I was at the game last night. I was at 257 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:26.519 the game tonight. 258 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:29.919 He was two for two before he can pulled it yesterday. 259 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:32.919 Three for three today with four runs, on base for 260 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:34.000 five times. 261 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:35.840 I just think he deserves a spot. 262 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.919 I think he can start there at second base when 263 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.080 Tommy and Tail come back. 264 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.840 What do you think about that, Johnny? 265 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:48.159 You're one hundred percent right. I was trying to, you know, 266 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.159 be rational. I know a lot of times I get emotional, 267 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.840 So I was trying to air on being rational last night. 268 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.759 But after seeing Kim play again tonight and get on 269 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:01.200 base five times, score four times. I score from first 270 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.080 base on a base hit by Mookie Betts to left field, 271 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.879 the Dodgers have got to keep this guy somehow, some way. 272 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.120 James Outman is going to be sent down. 273 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:15.000 Whenever the first player comes off the il, whether it's 274 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.759 Ti Oscar Hernandez, or Tommy Edmund. Sorry, that's the reality 275 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:25.039 of the thing. Also, the only other player that may 276 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:30.840 or may not be you know, dfade is Chris Taylor, right, 277 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.279 I mean he doesn't play a lot, but I don't 278 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.159 believe the Dodgers are going to do that. I notice 279 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.279 Chris Taylor has a heavy knee brace on his left leg. 280 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:44.919 That must be bothering him to have something like that. 281 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:48.440 There's a possibility the Dodgers put Chris Taylor on the 282 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.000 injured list with that left knee leg whatever is going 283 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:55.559 on with him, and keep Hayesan Kim. But either way, 284 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.480 Johnny Hayesan Kim's on this roster for good for the 285 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:03.000 rest of the and there will be opportunities because when 286 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.879 ta Oscar Hernandez and Tommy Edmond come back. We all 287 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.279 know the Dodgers slow play these guys. They play him 288 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.399 two games on one game off, So they'll be opportunities 289 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:16.519 for Kim in a lot of different ways to give 290 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.679 players breathers. So I'm all in on Haysan Kim staying 291 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:21.639 part of this roster. 292 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.759 YEP, especially bad and for twenty nine with about twenty 293 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:27.399 eight at bats, it's sham. 294 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:30.840 I mean, his speed changes everything and he's an elite 295 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:35.759 defender at second base, so he's got to stay and look, 296 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.360 father time catches up with everybody, and it appears that 297 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.440 it caught up with Austin Barnes, and it appears that 298 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:46.480 it's catching up with Chris Taylor. Now, Barnes and Taylor 299 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.240 are two separate cases in a lot of ways, but 300 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.639 there's still mainstay since twenty seventeen, Barnes even before that. 301 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:57.919 These guys have a championship resume. But the reality is 302 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:02.519 Dave Roberts isn't playing Chris Taylor barely, and when they're 303 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:06.159 at full strength, all Chris Taylor was doing was pinch running. 304 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.080 If I need a pinch runner, I'm picking Hay Sun 305 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:13.639 Kim these days. So yeah, it's tough when you're at 306 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.039 a crossroads with certain players that have been part of 307 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:17.399 the team for a long time. 308 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:18.639 It's really tough. 309 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:22.240 And it's a testament to the Dodgers having so much 310 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.759 success and keeping a group of players together for a 311 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:26.399 long time. 312 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:27.360 It wasn't easy. 313 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:31.639 When the Dodgers traded aj Ellis back in twenty sixteen. 314 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:34.279 Remember that you want to talk about a gut punch 315 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:38.799 to the clubhouse that was tougher for Kershaw and others 316 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:43.320 to swallow back in twenty sixteen, but they got through it. 317 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:45.799 It was tough when the Dodgers said goodbye to Justin 318 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:48.799 Turner and decided to go in a different direction. So 319 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.840 these things are not easy and it never ends well. 320 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:57.799 It rarely ends well in sports. So it's tough. And 321 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.879 I'm sensitive to Austin Barnes, sensitive with Chris Taylor. Both 322 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.680 great guys, both great champions and teammates. But you know, 323 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:10.200 the Dodgers want to keep winning, and you got to 324 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:13.400 do if you're in Andrew Friedman's position, he is in 325 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.400 such a tough spot because he traded for Austin Barnes. 326 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.279 He kept Austin Barnes on the team for eleven years 327 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.559 as a backup catcher. Austin earned it, of course, but nonetheless, 328 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:29.160 very rarely do you see backup catchers stay with the 329 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:34.079 same team for eleven years. The Dodgers picked up Chris 330 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.640 Taylor for Zach Lee from the Mariners in a trade 331 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.279 in twenty sixteen, and Chris Taylor turned into Chris Taylor, 332 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.279 and the Dodgers rewarded him with a very lucrative contract 333 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:49.079 four years, sixty million dollars. So Andrew Freeman is taken 334 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.759 care of these guys in more ways than one. Eight 335 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.240 six six seven two five seventy is the phone number. 336 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:58.319 Let's head back downstairs to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear 337 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:02.799 from another two time World Series champion, Max Muncy, who's 338 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:04.880 proving a lot of doubters wrong recently. 339 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:07.519 I'm still working on it, but you know, the last 340 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:10.680 you know, really last week felt you know, closer, and 341 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.200 you know, you try to take a day by day, 342 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.759 you try to build on the good things, and right 343 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:15.680 now that's what I'm focusing on. 344 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.559 Does it feel like as a team as a whole 345 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:18.799 there's something there as well? 346 00:18:18.839 --> 00:18:20.400 I mean, especially when look at these last few games, 347 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:24.799 just whether it's the runs or really just the offensive performance. 348 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:26.640 The probably that pats you've been seeing. 349 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:28.640 Yeah, guys is just you know, not trying to do 350 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.279 too much up there. You know, it was a long 351 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.079 road trip. The guys are really tired and get back 352 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.960 home finally, and uh, you know, it sounds crazy to say, 353 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.359 but I think the off day through of one for 354 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.519 a little bit of a wrench. Sometimes that can happen 355 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.519 when you start getting into the groove and you know, 356 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:44.880 so the first game was a little bit a dub, 357 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.960 but then the boys bounce back and it's a I 358 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:49.599 just think as a group, everyone's just trying to stay 359 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:51.599 with them themselves and just trying to move the ball 360 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.519 and move the stick. And it's been pretty successful for us. 361 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.039 Nineteen runs in a big nig game. 362 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:59.640 You don't see that. It all kinds of what's you like, 363 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:01.759 it's kind of almost like a little leage weird here. 364 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:03.400 You have to pile up runs like that. 365 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.200 It's fun, it's fun. It's you know, it's always good 366 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.880 to put up those numbers. You know, you get the 367 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:11.440 position player coming into the game. I don't know that 368 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:14.720 anyone wants those abats, but you know it's that's a 369 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:17.240 sign that you're doing good things. And you know, if 370 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.200 that was a fun game, you get to watch a 371 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:20.440 lot of people have a lot of really good at 372 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.799 bats and you know, just fun all around. 373 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:25.519 Back to back games and homers for you. You feel 374 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:29.279 like something's clicking now with the play possibly. 375 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:30.599 You know, still just trying to take a day by 376 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.319 day and uh, you know, still working through some things, 377 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.440 still trying to understand some things, and it's uh, you know, 378 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.960 definitely getting closer, but you try to build on positives. 379 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:39.519 That's what I'm gonna do. 380 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:42.200 All right, there's Max Mounsey. 381 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.440 Thanks to sports in at LA for bringing that funky 382 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.400 monthy to us after he went three for four tonight 383 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:51.480 and homered in the first inning. Two home runs in 384 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.640 the last two games for the Dodger third basement. Certainly 385 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:57.920 a good sign. And look, I feel like Freddie Freeman 386 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:01.160 said it the best after he was asked about Munsey 387 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:03.359 hitting his first home run of the year on the 388 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.559 last homestand he said, look, he's a power hitter. It's 389 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:08.920 always good to see a guy that's a power hitter 390 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.160 hit a home run. That was a big weight off 391 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.160 of Monsey's shoulders. And he went to the same eye 392 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:21.359 doctor h to get Doctor Lou that key Y Hernandez 393 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:22.440 went to see last year. 394 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:24.319 And he's wearing these prescription. 395 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:27.680 Goggles now, so hopefully that helps him see the baseball 396 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:30.960 better like it helped Key k A last year. And look, 397 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:34.400 there's a resume and Max Munsey isn't going anywhere. He 398 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:38.119 serves a purpose to this lineup. But look, you got 399 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:40.880 to produce. We're getting closer to June. If you don't 400 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.599 start picking it up. The Dodgers are going to start 401 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:47.519