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Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers come
Speaker 2: back and beat the Padres in Game two of this
Speaker 2: three game series four to three, the final score at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with you
Speaker 2: until eleven thirty tonight, and I would expect the mood
Speaker 2: to be a lot different than it was twenty four
Speaker 2: hours ago with the way things ended last night, a
Speaker 2: game ending triple play. This is a huge win for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to come back and lower their magic number
Speaker 2: to two. With a win tomorrow, the Dodgers are the
Speaker 2: NLS champions and can align their roster, their pitching staff
Speaker 2: in the final three games at Corsfield and have those
Speaker 2: very vital five days off to get ready for Game
Speaker 2: one of the NLDS. I know yesterday a very disappointing,
Speaker 2: frustrating way to lose a game, but the reality is
Speaker 2: the Dodgers hold off the Padres tonight and still have
Speaker 2: the best record in the National League and the best
Speaker 2: record in Major League Baseball. So as of tonight, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are the number one overall seed in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Look, great players step up and carry teams
Speaker 2: to the finish line. You're witnessing one of the great
Speaker 2: seasons in Dodger history and one of the great seasons
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball history by any player in sho
Speaker 2: he Otani. Don't let anybody try to discount what he's
Speaker 2: doing just because he's a DH The two RBIs he
Speaker 2: drove in tonight without a home run were two huge RBIs,
Speaker 2: giving the Dodgers leads in two separate innings, in the
Speaker 2: fourth inning and then in the sixth inning, both with
Speaker 2: two outs. In fact, tonight, the Dodgers only had one
Speaker 2: hit that was with less than two outs.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 2: They scored all four of their runs with two outs tonight.
Speaker 2: And I know Otani deserves a lot of the credit,
Speaker 2: but give Tommy Edmund a lot of credit as well.
Speaker 2: We haven't talked about it a lot, but Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 2: being a switch hitter, is not as good from the
Speaker 2: left side as he is from the right side, He's
Speaker 2: only hitting two to two from the left side. When
Speaker 2: he came to the plate in the fourth inning with
Speaker 2: two outs, the Dodgers were down two to one. Dylan
Speaker 2: Cees was getting into a groove. The Padres had the momentum,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were chasing a run, and Tommy Edmond sparked
Speaker 2: that two run come from behind inning in the fourth inning.
Speaker 2: That may prove to be the most pivotal hit the
Speaker 2: final week of this season. The way he was able
Speaker 2: to find a way to stay within himself, get a
Speaker 2: good swing and be able to drive the ball into
Speaker 2: the gap from the left side, his weaker side, and
Speaker 2: allow that inning to start. That was a true spark.
Speaker 2: But Shoe a Otani not only love seeing him come
Speaker 2: up in those clutch situations, love seeing him show the
Speaker 2: emotion and screaming into his own dugout to fire up
Speaker 2: his team. This guy is the ultimate competitor, make no
Speaker 2: mistake about it. Today was one of those nights where
Speaker 2: he saw what happened yesterday, He could feel the momentum
Speaker 2: of the season starting to shift the other way, and
Speaker 2: he put the Dodgs on his back tonight. And for
Speaker 2: those that say Otani cannot deliver with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 3: I got news for you.
Speaker 2: He's twelve for his last twenty with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 2: Here was show a Tani moments ago on sports at
Speaker 2: l A.
Speaker 4: If you've been energized by being in the playoff phrase
Speaker 4: and the importance.
Speaker 5: Of these games, if you even get inquiet tweet mussin,
Speaker 5: I'll find this.
Speaker 6: H you're a close.
Speaker 7: I do agree the fans and even within the team.
Speaker 7: I do feel like there's some sense of elevation when
Speaker 7: it comes to playing these meaningful games.
Speaker 8: Hey, you started talking about but with the October's curious
Speaker 8: to see obviously fou who's been trying to do too
Speaker 8: much versus later and gave to work out to your
Speaker 8: host spots like how are you sure of controlling your
Speaker 8: hosts like that?
Speaker 6: And these kind of bats and the pass where the
Speaker 6: score profession But that's a key thinking that you at
Speaker 6: the oh my night, do you know what you don't
Speaker 6: kick that came out of the moon. More so, but
Speaker 6: don't you know don't what you did in this guy?
Speaker 6: More as you can know when you Sho signed up the.
Speaker 7: Bus really focused on you know, quality at bats and
Speaker 7: just being able to do that every single at bat.
Speaker 6: Hey, we ever built this coda to play before?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 7: Also know that's like you know, Conca must be contact them,
Speaker 7: so we eat on the concat cook guy.
Speaker 6: Con cuck a Tum's come.
Speaker 7: I have felt good like this before, but I do
Speaker 7: think it's the foundation has been built on just becoming
Speaker 7: a better player over the years with more experience and
Speaker 7: just being able to play better.
Speaker 2: All right, there's show he Otani with interpreter Will Ireton.
Speaker 2: Not only did Otani drive in two go ahead runs tonight,
Speaker 2: but he also stole his fifty sixth base of the season.
Speaker 2: That's important to him because he just tied Ichiro Suzuki
Speaker 2: for the most stolen bases in a season by a
Speaker 2: Japanese born player in the Major League. So you know
Speaker 2: he wants to have one more to say that he
Speaker 2: has one more over Ichiro Suzuki. Dodgers beat the Padres
Speaker 2: tonight four to three. Their magic number is two. Very simple.
Speaker 2: A Dodger win tomorrow night. They are crowned the NL
Speaker 2: West Champions. Let's go out to the phones. We have
Speaker 2: a full board of calls. Let's go out to Marco
Speaker 2: who is at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: Tonight. Hi, Marco, you came to a good game.
Speaker 9: I did comba otho, Sony. This is Marco calling you
Speaker 9: from the freeway heading home, trying to say thank you
Speaker 9: very much to Dave say my brother from the west
Speaker 9: side of the San Fernando Valley, thank you for everything
Speaker 9: you do. I just want to say I'm looking.
Speaker 10: Forward to what comes up in the postseason and I'm
Speaker 10: curious to hear what you got to say regarding pitching
Speaker 10: in the postseason.
Speaker 3: My brother, Marco, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love that you've lost your voice screaming for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight. Look, there are not many teams that have
Speaker 2: what the Dodgers had in twenty thirteen with Kershaw, Granky you.
Speaker 2: Even with those three, they did not win the World Series.
Speaker 2: They came close. And I'm reminded about that because I
Speaker 2: saw our good friend aj Ellis tonight, who's part of
Speaker 2: the Padres front office. But the Dodgers can put it
Speaker 2: together with Yamamoto and Jack Flaherty. Just hopefully Jack can
Speaker 2: get back on track and have some consistency with his
Speaker 2: fastball velocity. And let's see what Walker Buehler provides tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I would not want any other picture on the mound
Speaker 2: in a clinching situation than Walker Buehler. I feel like
Speaker 2: the baseball gods will reward him for the work that
Speaker 2: he's put in, the blood, sweat and tears to try
Speaker 2: to figure it out and come back from a second
Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 10: Bob, I light a candle tonight for Sancudo, which is
Speaker 10: a patron sake of goodness.
Speaker 9: And I appreciate everything you do and all the Dodger
Speaker 9: people do.
Speaker 3: All right, man, all right, Marco, thank you for the love.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I also thought it was big that the Dodgers had
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmon uh number one on this roster, making that
Speaker 2: trade at the deadline three way trade Cardinals, White Sox Dodgers.
Speaker 3: That brought in Michael Kopek, who has.
Speaker 2: Been outstanding for the Dodgers, UH, and also Tommy Edman,
Speaker 2: who has been so invaluable in so many different ways,
Speaker 2: and tonight he came up big, sparking that two out
Speaker 2: fourth inning rally.
Speaker 3: And then unfortunately, when Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: Being forced to leave the game with a left groin injury,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers had the luxury of moving in a player
Speaker 2: like Tommy Edman from center field to shortstop. He made
Speaker 2: a great tag on Xander Bogarts in the fifth inning
Speaker 2: when Bogarts was trying to steal. It was an offline
Speaker 2: throw by Will Smith, but at Tommy Edmond was able
Speaker 2: to tag him out. That was in the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: and that was the third and final out. Huge play,
Speaker 2: great defensive play by Tommy Edmund. And I also feel
Speaker 2: like another big inning, Blake Trining coming in to face
Speaker 2: the heart of the Padres order the three most dangerous
Speaker 2: hitters in Fernando Tattoos, Junior Jerks and pro far and
Speaker 2: many Machado. He retired them in order. Here was Blake
Speaker 2: tryning moments ago on sports at LA.
Speaker 4: You know, I think we, uh we obviously look at
Speaker 4: the Padres as one of the best teams in baseball.
Speaker 4: They're phenomenally talented. There's been a core group of guys
Speaker 4: there that have you know, been through the ups and
Speaker 4: downs of like you know, how good they can be
Speaker 4: and how good they are, and so for us, it's
Speaker 4: it's got next to cute. They've seen us a lot,
Speaker 4: we've seen them a lot, and I think it's just
Speaker 4: trying to find ways to get ahead of guys and
Speaker 4: put them away and give ourselves a chance to roll
Speaker 4: over to the next end and get our offense back
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 11: You against the teeth of the lineup for them, What
Speaker 11: was the focus on? How are you able to navigate
Speaker 11: through them to not only be efficient, but to get
Speaker 11: them out.
Speaker 4: You know, there's there's some there's some prep going into it,
Speaker 4: but at the end of the day, it's just trust
Speaker 4: what you have and Will does a great job of
Speaker 4: you know, seeing these guys all day, and Manny's a
Speaker 4: great hitter, pro far as a great hitter. Tetsi's obviously
Speaker 4: he's really hot right now and a good hitter as well.
Speaker 4: So just trying to douce weak contact. And you know,
Speaker 4: if I get a chance for a swing and miss
Speaker 4: to finish it and at bat, then you know, I
Speaker 4: try to take it. But four times than not, those
Speaker 4: guys are good back to the ball guys, So we're
Speaker 4: trying to get just weak contact and then move on
Speaker 4: to the next one.
Speaker 11: You can see the emotions not only from yourself, but
Speaker 11: from a lot of the guys honestly throughout this entire team.
Speaker 11: Just what did it mean? To you personally, though, to
Speaker 11: be back in situation this is essentially a playoff game.
Speaker 11: There's a division on the line, but just being back
Speaker 11: in a position in which not only are you performing
Speaker 11: at the highest level, but you're putting your team in
Speaker 11: a position to win.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it's what makes this game fun. You know,
Speaker 4: It's like the it's the beauty of it and the pain.
Speaker 4: The pain of the game is is the tense moments
Speaker 4: and the success and the failure. And you know, you
Speaker 4: saw them with a just probably one of the most
Speaker 4: bizarre endings of it that I've witnessed other than maybe
Speaker 4: Game four in the World Series against Tampa Bay. And
Speaker 4: so yeah, like that's that doesn't set well. I hate losing,
Speaker 4: and you know they're being a division rival. It's not
Speaker 4: fun phenomenal players over there, But like I take it personal.
Speaker 4: I know, guys here obviously we had a sour taste
Speaker 4: in our mouth. So to come back today and win
Speaker 4: this game is great. So, yeah, division is super important.
Speaker 4: The World Series obviously the quill you know, being the
Speaker 4: last team with a W next to your name, but
Speaker 4: taking care of business and winning a division is is
Speaker 4: very important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a world champion attitude right there.
Speaker 2: Blake Trying, part of the twenty twenty Dodgers, obviously, has
Speaker 2: seen a lot of things playing for the Dodgers, including
Speaker 2: winning the World Series. I love how he said he
Speaker 2: took it personal with the Dodgers losing last night, and
Speaker 2: in that eighth inning where he retired Tatisse Profar Machado
Speaker 2: in order, he was very different. He was throwing pitches
Speaker 2: to those guys they have not seen trying and throw.
Speaker 3: He was throwing the sweeper.
Speaker 2: He threw three consecutive sweepers to Manny Machado to strike
Speaker 2: him out on three pitches. So a big night for Blake,
Speaker 2: Trining and maybe the biggest spot reliever had tonight for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to help them win four to three. Just
Speaker 2: one went away tomorrow night against the Padres to clinch
Speaker 2: the NLS Championship. Let's go out to Baldwin Park. George,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, George, I'm very well.
Speaker 12: I'm on a radio right now. It's just an I'm
Speaker 12: just a casual listener, just like everybody else. Recently, I've
Speaker 12: been listening to Dodgers, but only because I'm able to
Speaker 12: watch the Dodgers on TV. I mean, black restrictions and whatever.
Speaker 12: So I just have reluctantly had to listen to the
Speaker 12: Dodgers radio, and I have to go use an MLB
Speaker 12: app because sometimes I have trouble following the game until
Speaker 12: I hear the scores and stripe.
Speaker 2: You heard a great game tonight, George. It was an
Speaker 2: exciting game. What did you think about it?
Speaker 12: Well, I gotta give credit to the defense team more
Speaker 12: more but after the four the fourth.
Speaker 3: Run, yeah, yeah, the defense was really good. The pitching
Speaker 3: was really good.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty maybe not his best game, but certainly the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were able to deploy their relievers and hang in
Speaker 2: there and get big hits from show. Heo, Tani, we
Speaker 2: appreciate you listening tonight. Let's go out to Michael and
Speaker 2: La Puente. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: Michael, Hey, David, how are you?
Speaker 13: I just want to, you know, call in on a victory,
Speaker 13: because I'm usually calling in when we're losing, so it's
Speaker 13: nice to to talk to you when we get a
Speaker 13: w but just to echo you know some of what
Speaker 13: you're talking about, you know, the energy out there from
Speaker 13: shohay Uh being a leader on this team, and and
Speaker 13: and you know, setting the example and and like you said,
Speaker 13: you know, putting the Dodgers on his back, and and
Speaker 13: and having a little bit of changing personality.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 13: I know, a couple of months ago we talked about
Speaker 13: the the personalities on the team and how sometimes you know,
Speaker 13: there were a little bit too much of the nice guys,
Speaker 13: you know. So to kind of see that, see that
Speaker 13: changing the meaner even from uh trying and and and
Speaker 13: to see that emotion was was really good, you know,
Speaker 13: because its a big game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why can it be from Otani?
Speaker 2: I feel like we name off every other play on
Speaker 2: this roster, but we failed to acknowledge the fact that
Speaker 2: Otani this season, especially in the last month, has showed
Speaker 2: more emotion with the Dodgers in the last two or
Speaker 2: three months than he has shown in his six years
Speaker 2: in Major League baseball. He is thriving in this competitive environment,
Speaker 2: and uh, it feels like people are not acknowledging that
Speaker 2: he's playing for a winner and he's trying to get
Speaker 2: them over the finish line. And tonight was a great
Speaker 2: example of him showing the fire, showing the emotion that
Speaker 2: all of you call in begging.
Speaker 13: For Yeah, absolutely, David, it was. It was awesome to see.
Speaker 13: I mean you you see the change like you know,
Speaker 13: you saw him in the World Baseball Classic and the
Speaker 13: kind of energy that that he had uh playing those games,
Speaker 13: and to see that carry over to Dodger Baseball is
Speaker 13: nice to see. Question for you though, if I may,
Speaker 13: you know, Uh, Mookie Beck, you know, didn't perform too
Speaker 13: well tonight. Uh didn't perform too well last night. I know,
Speaker 13: it's it's been, you know, a big series. It's a
Speaker 13: series we have to win. I was kind of having
Speaker 13: some PTSD from the playoffs and the and the performance
Speaker 13: at the plate from last year. So what do you
Speaker 13: think he has to do to get it going.
Speaker 3: He's got to play better.
Speaker 2: I don't know where his head's at the first two
Speaker 2: games of this series. Obviously he's trying his best, but
Speaker 2: we just haven't seen the Mookie bets that we're used
Speaker 2: to seeing in the first two games of this series.
Speaker 2: Maybe he has psyched himself out because since the beginning
Speaker 2: of spring training he has talked about redemption, uh for
Speaker 2: the last two years of postseason failures personally and team wise.
Speaker 2: So I think Mookie Bets just needs to relax, be
Speaker 2: himself and be the guy that he's been all season long,
Speaker 2: and not try to be anybody else. Just be yourself, Mookie,
Speaker 2: and he'll be okay.
Speaker 13: Awesome If I can one last question, you are.
Speaker 3: We got a Michael.
Speaker 2: It's like you're the guy in line waiting and we're
Speaker 2: waiting and we think you're about to check out, but
Speaker 2: you look for a piece of gum at the checkout
Speaker 2: line and we're all waiting again.
Speaker 10: It's okay to share.
Speaker 13: It will be so everyone can have some. Freddy Freeman, Uh,
Speaker 13: you know his his his demeanor has been a little
Speaker 13: different lately. I know he has that finger injury, but
Speaker 13: just the way that he's been carrying himself differently, you know,
Speaker 13: seem to kind of change of personality.
Speaker 7: I know, I know.
Speaker 13: Best.
Speaker 1: What do you mean.
Speaker 9: Hit down?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 13: No, I just think I just think that the official expressions,
Speaker 13: the kind of way that he's carrying himselves is just different.
Speaker 13: But I know that he got those two opposite field
Speaker 13: hits today. He's always best.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know what puts Freddy in a better mood.
Speaker 2: You know what puts Freddy in a better mood, Michael
Speaker 2: getting hits the more hits he gets, the better body
Speaker 2: language you'll see from Freddie Freeman. Thanks for the phone call, appreciated.
Speaker 2: Gotta move on. Let's go out to Daniel who is
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium. Good call, by the way, Michael Daniel,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 14: I'm doing great?
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 14: It was great game, great energy and uh just it
Speaker 14: was electric when the whole stadium. You know, we all
Speaker 14: stood up when Otani was up. We kind of knew
Speaker 14: something magical was going to happen and he was gonna,
Speaker 14: you know, get us, get us going because we felt like, uh, hey,
Speaker 14: that ball he hit.
Speaker 2: In the fourth inning, I have never seen a player
Speaker 2: hit a ball that hard on a rope off the
Speaker 2: fence in uh in right field, off the bullpeny gate,
Speaker 2: I have never seen that.
Speaker 15: Day.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was amazing and it was just out of
Speaker 14: the atmosphere everything was. It was a much needed game,
Speaker 14: especially going into the postseason.
Speaker 2: We need that energy to pass forget about the postseason.
Speaker 2: They needed that win to win the NL West coming
Speaker 2: off a game ending triple play. If they lose tonight, Uh,
Speaker 2: the Padres are very much in control of this division.
Speaker 2: By the Dodgers winning tonight. They are very much in control.
Speaker 2: So forget about the postseason. It was about winning the
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I know you're right. And it was awesome, man,
Speaker 14: it was. It was just fun to be there, Kershaw
Speaker 14: Bobblehead night, you know what I mean. It was just
Speaker 14: all around.
Speaker 2: Nineteen sellout at Dodgers Stadium this season fifty two thousand,
Speaker 2: three hundred and ten made it feel like a playoff game,
Speaker 2: and it really was playoff like atmosphere tonight and last night.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers desperately needed this win. You could feel
Speaker 2: it in that dugout. They needed this win, and you
Speaker 2: could feel it before the game. They seemed to rise
Speaker 2: to the occasion more players than others to play with
Speaker 2: the urgency they needed to beat the Padres tonight, and
Speaker 2: they got it four to three thanks to a lot
Speaker 2: of different players. Tommy Edmund, Gavin lux Show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek, Blake Trinon. They all did a big job.
Speaker 2: Those would be my five five stars of tonight's game.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: When we come back.
Speaker 2: More of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy and we're also check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota after the Dodgers lower their magic number
Speaker 2: to two with only five games to go four to three,
Speaker 2: the final score over the Padres on a five to
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Speaker 1: Bassaying two.
Speaker 3: On two out, two balls, two strikes.
Speaker 1: The pitch from Money home, Otani rips it on the.
Speaker 3: Ground in the right center field, Smith.
Speaker 1: Hustling around third.
Speaker 2: We'll score without a play another go ahead RBR First Show,
Speaker 2: Hey Old Tani Show Hey Otani carrying the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: a four to three win over the Padres. Tonight David
Speaker 2: Bassey Live at Dodgers Stadium with you until eleven thirty
Speaker 2: Tonight show Hey Otani two for three with two RBIs
Speaker 2: RBI singles in the fourth inning and sixth inning to
Speaker 2: give the Dodgers the lead two separate times. And for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers Show, Heo Tani continues to make history. Not
Speaker 2: only did he drive in two runs tonight, but he
Speaker 2: also stole his fifty sixth base of the season. It
Speaker 2: tied in with Ichiro Suzuki for the most stolen bases
Speaker 2: by Japanese born player in a single season. I've been
Speaker 2: told getting fifty seven stolen bases would mean a lot
Speaker 2: to Otani.
Speaker 3: To have one more than one of his idols, maybe
Speaker 3: his main idol.
Speaker 2: Ichiro Suzuki, that would be special. And not only is
Speaker 2: he stealing bases, but he's not getting caught. Otani now
Speaker 2: has stolen thirty three consecutive bases without getting caught. It's
Speaker 2: the second longest streak in Dodger history, behind only Davey Lopes,
Speaker 2: who stole thirty eight straight bases from June sixth to
Speaker 2: August twenty fourth in nineteen seventy five. Also, Otani is
Speaker 2: getting closer to a record that or an accomplishment that
Speaker 2: hasn't been reached since two thousand and one, when guys
Speaker 2: named Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Todd Hilton, and Luisa Gonzalez
Speaker 2: all had four hundred or more total bases. Otani is
Speaker 2: at three hundred and ninety six. He most certainly will
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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the Horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota a much different mood here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium twenty four hours later. This was a huge
Speaker 2: win for the Dodgers. And I guess let's just start
Speaker 2: with Otani. You've seen him ever since he broke into
Speaker 2: the big leagues. It really feels like he may be
Speaker 2: the hungriest Dodger player, which sounds ridiculous considering how great
Speaker 2: he is, how much money he makes. But this guy
Speaker 2: is hungry for a championship.
Speaker 16: Well, they You've been right about it the whole time.
Speaker 16: The fans have been right about it the whole time,
Speaker 16: and obviously I've been sharing this subject in them when
Speaker 16: he signed with the Dodgers. This is going to elevator's
Speaker 16: game because he never experienced it before. But I want
Speaker 16: to go back to our series, our conversation at Atlanta
Speaker 16: when he had gone over six for eight and you
Speaker 16: and I were talking your clubhouse in the booth about
Speaker 16: where's the other club? You know he needs to bring
Speaker 16: the other club. Well, it's shown up, and it showed
Speaker 16: up in a mighty way. And that is the one
Speaker 16: where he starts seeing the ball the other way with authority.
Speaker 16: He starts singing the ball.
Speaker 14: Up the middle.
Speaker 16: But Dave, in the overall picture, what we're seeing right
Speaker 16: now is pretty much the best player in the planet
Speaker 16: showing up for the best team in baseball at the
Speaker 16: right time, and with all the bat stars that he had.
Speaker 16: Men in scoring position. You don't drive one hundred and
Speaker 16: twenty five runs because you're lucky, okay, because you know
Speaker 16: how to drive in runs. But to be twelve for
Speaker 16: twenty and in the last twenty at batsmen's corn position
Speaker 16: when it counts the most, in his playoff environment where
Speaker 16: the team needs you, that says a lot more than
Speaker 16: we can think of show.
Speaker 2: Hey, Otani certainly showed a lot of emotion tonight as well,
Speaker 2: but I really believe the key at bat and the
Speaker 2: key hit was by Tommy Edmond, who sparked that fourth
Speaker 2: inning rally I really firmly believe that Tommy Edmund may
Speaker 2: have saved the NL West Championship.
Speaker 16: With that double professional player, professional hitter, just a great
Speaker 16: sense for what the team needs and throughout the game
Speaker 16: I had talked to you and said, where are the
Speaker 16: level swings at? And it doesn't need to come from
Speaker 16: Freddy Fruitman. He didn't have it. Mukie Vinz didn't have it.
Speaker 16: You know that uppercut swing is it just tells me
Speaker 16: you're trying too hard. Well, who brought it? Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 16: followed by Gavin Lux And those are guys that play
Speaker 16: such key roles in starting rallies and keeping the ball
Speaker 16: moving forward and allowing guys behind them to be better hitters.
Speaker 16: So Tommy Edmond, I mean, what can we say? And
Speaker 16: we know why the Dodgers raft him for so many
Speaker 16: months now because what he's brought to the team is
Speaker 16: another dimension which you need with the versatility, the smarts,
Speaker 16: the speed, and the ability now to not allow any
Speaker 16: moment to get too big.
Speaker 2: He's been big and he made a great tag on
Speaker 2: Xander Bogart's to end the sixth inning on a throw
Speaker 2: that was wide, it was low, Edmund was able to die,
Speaker 2: make the catch and tag Bogarts simultaneously.
Speaker 16: Yeah, in that play, let me explain a real quick
Speaker 16: You have to have a sense on every catcher that
Speaker 16: you receive from what the tendencies are in his throats.
Speaker 16: And sometimes when the guy's tired and he throws the
Speaker 16: sinker ball at your two seamer, the ball is going
Speaker 16: to be dying out. You cannot wait for that ball
Speaker 16: behind the bag or behind the runner, because it's going
Speaker 16: to hit the runner. It's going to end up in
Speaker 16: center field. If he does a smart thing, I need
Speaker 16: to cut off the distance and then tag the guys
Speaker 16: he's coming by, But you cannot allow that ball to
Speaker 16: hit the dirt or to get a little bit deeper
Speaker 16: on me. Smartly, he allows himself to cut the distance
Speaker 16: able to allow, you know, and put that tag on.
Speaker 16: So that's just another great move for a guy that
Speaker 16: understands the game quite well.
Speaker 3: Jose Mota is joining us.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers defeat the Padres four to three in
Speaker 2: Game two of this three game series. The Dodgers lower
Speaker 2: their magic number to two to win the NLS Championship.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the two guys that are
Speaker 2: looking for redemption. This postseason. Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman,
Speaker 2: no secret about it, already has struggled in the month
Speaker 2: of September. Mookie Betts has not looked like himself the
Speaker 2: first two games of this series. We had a caller
Speaker 2: call in and say that he has noticed a different
Speaker 2: body language from Freddy Freeman. What do you see from
Speaker 2: those two guys in these first two games.
Speaker 16: I mean, Mooki swinging today was not the swing that
Speaker 16: we were accustomed to, where there was not that extra
Speaker 16: little spark there at the end. And I repeat myself,
Speaker 16: but there's too much upper cutting and weak contact. When
Speaker 16: he hit the ball in the air constantly and consistently,
Speaker 16: and the ball's not caring and it's just kind of
Speaker 16: lunging of the ball. You're not taking the right pass
Speaker 16: to the baseball, and you're not swinging at the right pitches.
Speaker 9: I don't worry too.
Speaker 16: Much about these guys. I do know that they mean
Speaker 16: a whole lot in games like today, really picked them
Speaker 16: up because it's not just on them to go out
Speaker 16: there and get it done. As Mooki has told me
Speaker 16: so many times, Look how many times Choy has picked
Speaker 16: me up. As Freddie has told you so many times.
Speaker 16: Look how many times to Oscar has picked me up.
Speaker 16: So and Freddy same thing. Freddy was able to at
Speaker 16: least we're the ball seventh inning, goal the other way
Speaker 16: and go the other way two in a third inning.
Speaker 16: But I know that there's more from them. I am
Speaker 16: just glad that they're playing for a team that has
Speaker 16: a deep lineup right now, playing on you know, high
Speaker 16: intensity games, because we need to keep the eyes on
Speaker 16: one through nine plus the bench, not just on a
Speaker 16: couple of guys. But we know for sure those guys
Speaker 16: will come through. I'm quite confident, all right.
Speaker 2: Jose, thanks for checking in tonight. We'll see you tomorrow
Speaker 2: night at Dodgers Stadium with the Dodgers on the verge
Speaker 2: of clinching another nl WES championship.
Speaker 16: You got it, my friend. Good night.
Speaker 2: There he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish
Speaker 2: radio broadcast. After the Dodgers beat the Padres tonight by
Speaker 2: a final score of four to three, it was Alex
Speaker 2: Vessia with the win. In relief Michael Kopek with his
Speaker 2: fifteenth save of the season, Copek letting out a primal
Speaker 2: scream like we saw in Atlanta. When he came up
Speaker 2: with a big strikeout. So great to see the emotion
Speaker 2: from players like Kopek from Otani, and hopefully it becomes
Speaker 2: more contagious as the Dodgers make their run through October.
Speaker 2: Just to give you a sense of the postseason picture,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers right now with the best record in baseball.
Speaker 2: After tonight's win, they're ninety four and sixty four. They
Speaker 2: have the number one overall seed in the entire postseason,
Speaker 2: meaning if they even went to the World Series and
Speaker 2: matched up against the Yankees, who are currently the number
Speaker 2: one seed, the Dodgers would have home field advantage. Long
Speaker 2: ways to go from here to then, but in the
Speaker 2: more immediate future, the Dodgers are in a great position
Speaker 2: to secure the number one overall seed. And if the
Speaker 2: postseason started tomorrow or right now tonight, the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: be playing the winner of a wildcard series between the
Speaker 2: four seed San Diego Padres and the five seed New
Speaker 2: York met In case you missed the news, there's a
Speaker 2: big storm, I believe hurricane level tropical storm that's going
Speaker 2: through the East Coast. So this weekend series between the
Speaker 2: Braves and Mets has been postponed. Until Monday in a
Speaker 2: double header, meaning those doubleheader. That double header is going
Speaker 2: to be played between the Braves and Mets, and it's
Speaker 2: going to decide more than likely who is the last
Speaker 2: wildcard team in the National League, and from there, whoever
Speaker 2: is the last wildcard team, more than likely the Mets,
Speaker 2: They are going to have to fly cross country to
Speaker 2: the West Coast to play more than likely the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres. That puts either one of those teams at
Speaker 2: a huge disadvantage. Even if they pull off a big
Speaker 2: upset and win that wildcard series, how thin and how
Speaker 2: jumbled up is the rotation going to be going into
Speaker 2: a best of five series. So I know we always
Speaker 2: just look internally on what's going on with the Dodgers pitching.
Speaker 2: But if you're one of those two teams Braves Mets,
Speaker 2: and you're in the playoffs, you're at a huge disadvantage
Speaker 2: because of Mother Nature and having to play a double
Speaker 2: aheader on Monday. Eight sixty six nine seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Santa Monica. Evan,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David Vassi.
Speaker 17: Hi Evan, Hey, David, what a win tonight?
Speaker 18: I must win for Dodger fans everywhere, and just beating
Speaker 18: the Padres after they celebrated that was huge. But what
Speaker 18: I wanted to talk to you about was Will Smith
Speaker 18: because when he threw out boguards and then comes up
Speaker 18: the next inning and draws a walk, that is what
Speaker 18: gets the team going. That is that belief that we
Speaker 18: can follow your lead. While you are a captain, you
Speaker 18: are a manager. And I just don't think he gets
Speaker 18: enough credit for these little tiny things. He ends up
Speaker 18: going around to score that clutch run for us without
Speaker 18: that walk, who knows how that inning starts off with.
Speaker 18: So I just have to say thank you to Will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was his best at bat of the game.
Speaker 2: And Will is starting to show signs to come out
Speaker 2: of a three month slump here. Coming into the game tonight,
Speaker 2: he was hitting two seventy eight in the month of September.
Speaker 2: So hopefully he continues to grind it out and have
Speaker 2: quality at bats, because, let's face it, Evan, now, the
Speaker 2: expectations are on Will Smith. The Dodgers handed him a
Speaker 2: nine year extension, and it wasn't for strictly his defense.
Speaker 3: It's for his offense.
Speaker 2: And he just hasn't been able to really get on
Speaker 2: tracks since May, so they need him.
Speaker 14: You're right, and thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Evan, I didn't think he had one more. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Placentia. Tim, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 14: Tim doing great? Dave, Thanks for the call, Thanks for
Speaker 14: taking my call. Welcome one.
Speaker 19: The bullpens.
Speaker 9: Lights out the last couple of nights.
Speaker 7: Said they've been really going back to the last three weeks,
Speaker 7: especially given some of the situations.
Speaker 9: They've been put in.
Speaker 19: I mean, and then when you play that training clips
Speaker 19: and I I mean, those are like you you.
Speaker 9: Always have about the Dodgers having to have an edge
Speaker 9: and maybe having some dogs.
Speaker 19: Those are like real dogs out there right now.
Speaker 2: I love that trying and said he took it personal
Speaker 2: with the way the Dodgers lost last night and the
Speaker 2: way they and who they lost to. I love hearing that,
Speaker 2: and I love seeing the emotion from Otani. That's what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers need. They need some of that, and they
Speaker 2: need they need to have some dog in them if
Speaker 2: they're going to compete with the Padres or some of
Speaker 2: these more desperate teams out there. The Phillies very talented
Speaker 2: they show a lot of emotion, they leave it all
Speaker 2: out on the field, and the Dodgers have got to
Speaker 2: have more of that from their their pivotal players for sure.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Tim, appreciate it. Love seeing
Speaker 2: that from Otani. I mean, not only is he one
Speaker 2: of the top two players in baseball, but he really
Speaker 2: showed a lot going up the first base line. Once
Speaker 2: he got the first base and second base tonight, he
Speaker 2: was screaming into the dugout to rally his team. You
Speaker 2: gotta love that. And he's not just doing the raw
Speaker 2: ross stuff. He's doing it in the moment organically after
Speaker 2: he drives in go ahead runs. Let's go out to Maury,
Speaker 2: who is here at Dodger Stadium for the show. What's up, Maury,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 17: Hey, how you doing. Man, Good to be able to
Speaker 17: be on and be able to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Hey, great to talk to you morey.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it was a great game tonight. It was good
Speaker 17: to see all the guys come together. Sure, it was
Speaker 17: a little a bit of a nail bier towards the
Speaker 17: end there, but I mean, hey, Otani came through and
Speaker 17: he's been just awesome lately. Man, like just seeing him
Speaker 17: come alive like.
Speaker 13: This, especially so close to the postseason.
Speaker 17: It's an amazing thing to see. And it's good to
Speaker 17: see a lot of the guys continue with a lot
Speaker 17: of continuity and to have a lot of life, a
Speaker 17: lot of good connection towards the launcher for the postseason,
Speaker 17: no doubt.
Speaker 3: It's good to see.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, Maury. Wow, these phone calls
Speaker 2: are a lot different than twenty four hours ago. It
Speaker 2: seemed like everybody thought the Dodgers were done dead in
Speaker 2: the water, going home with.
Speaker 3: Their tails between their legs.
Speaker 2: These guys have a little bit more professional pride than
Speaker 2: what you seem to give credit for. These guys obviously
Speaker 2: want to win. They go about it a little bit
Speaker 2: differently than the Padres do. The Padres are the hottest team,
Speaker 2: the team that's playing the best right now in all
Speaker 2: a Major League Baseball and have been since the All
Speaker 2: Star break. They're healthy now, they're starting. Pitching is in
Speaker 2: a good place. They acquired Tanner Scott, who helped shorten
Speaker 2: their bullpen or and made it much deeper to shortened games,
Speaker 2: i should say. And they got Fernando Tatis junior back
Speaker 2: who hit a mammoth home run. I mean, Fernando Tattists
Speaker 2: Junior is one of those visiting players that feels really
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 3: At Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: In the fifth inning tonight, he hit a game tying
Speaker 2: home run that went four hundred and forty eight feet
Speaker 2: in that standing room only cut out there in the
Speaker 2: left field pavilion. If you remember a few years back,
Speaker 2: Fernando Tattis Junior holds the distinction of only a handful
Speaker 2: of players to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: off of Tony Gonsolin eight six six ninety seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Dodgers beat the Padres four to three, and
Speaker 2: it feels like everybody here at Dodgers Stadium tonight is
Speaker 2: a little relieved that.
Speaker 3: They got this win.
Speaker 2: It takes a lot of pressure off the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: win tomorrow night. Even if they don't win, they've done
Speaker 2: their job. They've won two out of three. Going up
Speaker 2: against the Rockies, the Dodgers should be able to win
Speaker 2: at least two games there and not even have to
Speaker 2: worry about getting help from the die. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Culver City, Kevin, you're on Dodger Talk, Hi Kevin.
Speaker 19: God is good. David w to win.
Speaker 9: You're the man.
Speaker 19: You know you never wavered. I never wavered. And this
Speaker 19: is why it was so important to get this man
Speaker 19: show Hind Showtime Otani. In the off season.
Speaker 15: It wasn't about just getting the superstar, the number one
Speaker 15: free agent player.
Speaker 19: It was a guy who's gonna change our culture. Two seasons, playoffs, postseasons.
Speaker 19: You're talking about the guys look lethargic. They don't look
Speaker 19: they were show any emotion. What you saw tonight was
Speaker 19: the player. He said, I'm the best player on this team.
Speaker 19: I'm the face of baseball and I care about it,
Speaker 19: and I'm showing emotion, and I'm part of this rivalry.
Speaker 19: And we don't like the Padres Dey shirt, and now
Speaker 19: we're gonna give it back to him. I love what
Speaker 19: I saw the show.
Speaker 9: He led us.
Speaker 19: This is why he's the MVP, not the National League
Speaker 19: of Baseball.
Speaker 15: That game in Miami was the best game I've ever
Speaker 15: seen that Major League Baseball player play.
Speaker 19: And this is a true leader. This is a key
Speaker 19: of LA.
Speaker 15: This is what Shaquille O'Neal does, Kobe Bryant, this is
Speaker 15: why Magic Johnson's magic. What I saw was why soho?
Speaker 15: Hey Otani is the new king of LA. He's leading
Speaker 15: this city. He's the number one star in this city
Speaker 15: because of.
Speaker 19: What you saw tonight. He wills this team to play.
Speaker 15: He's the most exciting not baseball player, sports player in
Speaker 15: this town in sports right now, and I'm so happy
Speaker 15: loving it watching it for the Dodgers. And he's gonna
Speaker 15: get ready to lead us to a World Series championship. David,
Speaker 15: get these stands up, Let's go, and let's turn out.
Speaker 15: I went to the game of my mom a couple
Speaker 15: weeks ago. Watch this guy play. I've never seen a
Speaker 15: guy hit the baseball like that. It's a true, true pleasure.
Speaker 15: Washington play, Go Dodgers and go show Hey Otani the MBP.
Speaker 19: Let's go. Let's do this. David, turn up, lovely.
Speaker 3: Kevin, thank you for the phone call. A great way
Speaker 3: to end the show.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, the Dodgers will have Walker Bueller on the mound
Speaker 2: looking to hand the Dodgers the NL West crown. He
Speaker 2: has won and six this year with an five sixty three.
Speaker 2: The numbers don't tell the story. His last start, he
Speaker 2: started to look more like Walker Buehler, and who could
Speaker 2: draw up a better script than to have Bueller on
Speaker 2: the mound the night the Dodgers have the opportunity to
Speaker 2: clinch the NLS Championship. He's going up against Joe Musgrove,
Speaker 2: who the Dodgers handled earlier this season. Overall this year,
Speaker 2: Musgrove is six and five, with an el at three
Speaker 2: to ninety five Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at
Speaker 2: six o'clock with first pitch at seven to ten from
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and Tim or Steven Nelson.
Speaker 3: I should say.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbanks Studios, thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne MacDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
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Speaker 3: Once again. The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers defeat the Padres four to three, and if
Speaker 2: they win tomorrow night, they are You're twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: NL West champions Coming up next, it's Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 2: Ben Mallor going until three or four in the morning, however,
Speaker 2: long as he goes, so stay tuned for that. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow night with an NL West Championship
Speaker 2: on the verge of being clinched.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night, see U.