Speaker 1: And now your voice for Dodger Talk like back, David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Phillies defeat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight by a final score of six to two.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with you until eleven
Speaker 2: thirty tonight. We have two phone lines open right now
Speaker 2: at eight six, six nine, eight seven, two, five seventy.
Speaker 2: We will check in with Jose Mota coming up at
Speaker 2: eleven fifteen. We will hear from Clayton Kershaw in a moment,
Speaker 2: and we also will lay out the plan that Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts laid out before the game for Mookie Betts when
Speaker 2: he returns to the Dodgers starting lineup, which is expected
Speaker 2: to be the first or second game on the upcoming
Speaker 2: road trip on Monday or Tuesday next week. So we'll
Speaker 2: get to all that, but first and foremost, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lose tonight. The Padres win tonight, so the Dodgers' lead
Speaker 2: in the NL West is four games over the Padres,
Speaker 2: and with the Phillies beating the Dodgers tonight, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are now one in four against Philadelphia after being swept
Speaker 2: in the second week of July, so Philadelphia now wins
Speaker 2: the season series. The only reason why I bring that
Speaker 2: up is the Dodgers, all of a sudden, are only
Speaker 2: two games back of Philadelphia for the best record and
Speaker 2: the number one seed in the National League. So that's
Speaker 2: something to keep in mind. And I mean two games
Speaker 2: behind in the lost column, which means they're basically three
Speaker 2: games behind now because if it's a tie, the Phillies
Speaker 2: will get the number one seed. So that's something to consider.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers need to keep winning games because the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and Padres are fighting for their wild card lives
Speaker 2: and they're not going anywhere. They're right on the Dodgers heels.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking forward to the Dodgers getting Mookie Bets back.
Speaker 2: That means, for the first time in what six weeks,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers will have their three MVPs in the lineup
Speaker 2: at the same time. Having Mookie Betts, Sho he Otani,
Speaker 2: and Freddie Freeman back will certainly give them a boost offensively.
Speaker 2: But tonight, let's get to Kershaw. I mentioned last night,
Speaker 2: don't give up on this guy. Give this guy a chance,
Speaker 2: and tonight I feel like he proved a lot of
Speaker 2: doubters wrong because there was a lot of buzz in
Speaker 2: the press box. How long is Kershaw going to go?
Speaker 2: Is he only going to go four innings? Four and
Speaker 2: a third? Well, tonight he probably could have gone five.
Speaker 2: And here's the case for both arguments we heard from
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts earlier. I totally understand what he was saying.
Speaker 2: But Clayton Kershaw is a three time cy Young Award winner,
Speaker 2: He's an MVP, he's a future Hall of Famer. It's
Speaker 2: only at eighty one pitches, and I know he was
Speaker 2: in a little bit of trouble there in the fifth inning,
Speaker 2: but he already had two outs. He was going to
Speaker 2: face Trey Turner for a third time. Wouldn't you want
Speaker 2: to see what you have with Kershaw? And maybe there's
Speaker 2: more time for that, but I still feel like maybe
Speaker 2: you wanted to see what you had with Kershaw. But
Speaker 2: I also see Dave's point of view as well. It
Speaker 2: was the third time around the order. He wanted Kershaw
Speaker 2: out of there after eighty one pitches. He's coming off
Speaker 2: shoulder surgery, it's only his third start, first time in
Speaker 2: the fifth inning. I understand all of that, but there
Speaker 2: was a Japanese reporter that's been following the Dodgers since
Speaker 2: Otani has joined the team, and obviously they study the
Speaker 2: game of baseball just like us, if not more. And
Speaker 2: he told us that he felt like it was a
Speaker 2: sign of disrespect to take Kershaw out in that situation.
Speaker 2: And who are we to argue with a Japanese reporter
Speaker 2: and a former Japanese pitcher in this case, since they
Speaker 2: are the world's baseball champions, right World Baseball Classic? Japan
Speaker 2: won the World Baseball Classic, so they are the champions.
Speaker 2: Who am I to disagree with that? Who are you
Speaker 2: to disagree with that? So it's an interesting perspective as
Speaker 2: far as what went down in the fifth inning, but
Speaker 2: certainly a good sign that Clayton Kershaw proved a lot
Speaker 2: of doubters wrong and maybe even calmed down some fears
Speaker 2: in that Dodger dugout about what he can and can't do.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot more time between now and the
Speaker 2: end of the regular season to evaluate whether or not,
Speaker 2: or I should say, how long of a leash you
Speaker 2: would give Clayton Kershaw in a postseason game. Crazy to
Speaker 2: even say that, but it's the case right now, all right,
Speaker 2: let's head downstairs right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to
Speaker 2: hear from Clayton Kershaw on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3: This one tonight, I felt felt pretty good overall. You know,
Speaker 3: I just made some dumb mistakes, and I you know,
Speaker 3: a couple couple guys got on basso too, which which
Speaker 3: shouldn't happen, So those were frustrating. But you know, overall,
Speaker 3: I think it's another good step in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And I just got to figure out how to maintain
Speaker 3: my pitch count, you know, and obviously my pitchcount will
Speaker 3: keep getting higher, but you know, you got to find
Speaker 3: a way to get through at least five, hopefully six
Speaker 3: or seven at some point, so, you know, just kind
Speaker 3: of fine tuning everything. But tonight there were some good,
Speaker 3: good parts of it.
Speaker 4: For sure. You have said going into the start you
Speaker 4: had made some changes with your delivery. Do you think
Speaker 4: that that was shown just in the results you were getting,
Speaker 4: especially early in the game.
Speaker 3: I think just overall my stuff was a little bit
Speaker 3: better tonight, you know, just a little crisper. I really
Speaker 3: could just kind of had better fastball location is probably
Speaker 3: the biggest thing. Able to kind of put it. I
Speaker 3: needed to for the most part, still with some mistakes
Speaker 3: and some ones that I want back, but overall it
Speaker 3: was it was a good, good building.
Speaker 5: Block going into this pitch account was like kind of
Speaker 5: eighty ish the.
Speaker 3: Idea or I don't really talk about it. I mean
Speaker 3: I think it's you know, if I had a quick
Speaker 3: fifth there, I probably could have gone back out. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but obviously the fourth or the fifth there
Speaker 3: through a lot of pitches. So yeah, Doc, I don't
Speaker 3: really talk about pitch count for the game or anything.
Speaker 2: You mentioned going deeper in games, But what building blocks
Speaker 2: are you trying to stack at this point? Or boxes
Speaker 2: if you're trying to check as you're coming.
Speaker 3: Back, I mean, nothing is just trying to pitch try
Speaker 3: to one games that Yeah, they obviously took you out
Speaker 3: after the shore at bad, but we're kind of okay
Speaker 3: with that. Trying to do you kind of understand the
Speaker 3: I mean, you never you never want to come out
Speaker 3: of the game, obviously, but you know, like I yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I don't. Yeah, I guess, so, I mean
Speaker 3: I do what Doc tells me to do.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 4: I mean at this point, are you kind of able
Speaker 4: to you know, I know, like in that Boone but
Speaker 4: I'm sure you want to stay in everything kind of
Speaker 4: keeping the long goal in mind.
Speaker 3: You know, like when click right now at this point,
Speaker 3: when you.
Speaker 1: Kind of look back at the night, can you kind of.
Speaker 2: Keep the long goal in mind?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I mean you want to win the game,
Speaker 3: you know, I think you know, health wise, I'm fine.
Speaker 3: So I don't think there's any when we're worried about
Speaker 3: Stan healthy. It's just a matter of trying to pitch
Speaker 3: a hit and be a part of the contributing factor
Speaker 3: to helping his team win games.
Speaker 2: All right, That speaks volumes right there. Health is not
Speaker 2: a concern with that shoulders. So in Kershaw's mind, he
Speaker 2: could have kept going even past eighty one pitches. And
Speaker 2: when you look at the way Dave Roberts used his
Speaker 2: bullpen tonight, he only used Joe Kelly to get Trey
Speaker 2: Turner out. If his bullpen was that then in low leverage,
Speaker 2: being behind like they were four to two, wouldn't you
Speaker 2: want to maybe bring Joe Kelly back out for another inning.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if Joe Kelly is able to do that. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Bruce star Grattarol going down in the sixth inning sent
Speaker 2: things sideways nobody would expect him to go down after
Speaker 2: facing a couple of hitters and only throwing eight pitches
Speaker 2: in his season debut Game one fourteen, Grattarol, who had
Speaker 2: a right shoulder issue all season long, was finally able
Speaker 2: to make his season debut. And how unfortunate is it
Speaker 2: that on his eighth pitch of that sixth inning he
Speaker 2: goes down with a Grade three right hamstring strain. And
Speaker 2: from there Dave Roberts went to a very valuable mid
Speaker 2: season pickup and Brent Honeywell, you need a guy like
Speaker 2: that to do what he did tonight. But the game
Speaker 2: was four to two, He had thrown fifty pitches through
Speaker 2: two and two thirds innings, and they sent him back
Speaker 2: out there for the ninth inning. And all in all,
Speaker 2: Honeywell was asked to throw sixty eight pitches. And tomorrow
Speaker 2: you would expect the bullpen to be very fresh and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts to be able to go to his high
Speaker 2: leverage relievers to try to win this series. Tonight, the
Speaker 2: Phillies beat the Dodgers six to two eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Manny and downtown. How you doing, Manny,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Dave?
Speaker 1: Good evening.
Speaker 7: Oh, what a tough loss tonight. I think this is
Speaker 7: tougher than some of the losses I've seen. I felt
Speaker 7: like Kershaw was on his own tonight.
Speaker 2: This was a tough one for you to swallow.
Speaker 7: This one was because I felt like Kershaw really had
Speaker 7: a lot of stuff out there tonight and was hanging
Speaker 7: in there tough, and it was tough to see him
Speaker 7: go down, you know, getting pulled in that fifth inning.
Speaker 7: That led to Gradarole coming in and you know, theoretically
Speaker 7: him blowing his leg out, his hansterring on. So you know,
Speaker 7: thoughts and prayers, you know, Graderole, hopefully he hopefully he
Speaker 7: bounces back.
Speaker 6: Dave.
Speaker 7: My question is tonight, I want to know when guys
Speaker 7: like Walker Bueller, Bobby Miller, when they're gonna come up
Speaker 7: and just help out this team, because I feel like
Speaker 7: we're carrying a lot of dead weight right now. How
Speaker 7: do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Well, Walker Buehler is supposed to come back here in
Speaker 2: the next ten days. Bobby Miller has an adductor issue. Now,
Speaker 2: so let's see what Walker Buehler has. Let's see what
Speaker 2: he has and from there we can determine whether or
Speaker 2: not he will even make up more than three starts,
Speaker 2: because if it looks the way it looked before he
Speaker 2: went on the IL, that's not going to help the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, man, he appreciate it. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Justin and Santa Monica. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Justin, Hey, hey day, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 9: So I wanted to just talk for a minute about the
Speaker 9: training staff for the team, and specifically Thomas Albert, the
Speaker 9: head trainer.
Speaker 2: I mean with wow, not many fans know who the
Speaker 2: head trainer's name is. That's that's good headwork by you.
Speaker 8: Justin appreciate that.
Speaker 9: I really wish I didn't know his name, but the
Speaker 9: fact that we've been dealt and listen, some of this
Speaker 9: is lost, but some of this someone's got to be
Speaker 9: responsible with the monthly injury with an oblique and it
Speaker 9: took them what three months to realize maybe.
Speaker 8: We should go have him visit a chiropractice.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa, Justin, Justin, let's pump the breaks right there.
Speaker 2: That's not all on the training staff. They did as
Speaker 2: much as they could the player. It's up to the
Speaker 2: player to be honest with the training staff and figure
Speaker 2: things out as well. Because the scans were showing no
Speaker 2: issues with munseiz Obleague going back two or three weeks,
Speaker 2: So let's pump the brakes right there.
Speaker 9: Okay, So you're still telling me that three months time,
Speaker 9: even with scans. I mean, he's at the top of
Speaker 9: the best of the best. You think the Dodgers will
Speaker 9: want to have him in their employee and they still
Speaker 9: could it took a chiropractor or figure it out.
Speaker 8: Let me just move on with greater roll.
Speaker 9: Again, he's off for this many months rehabbing, Okay, you
Speaker 9: know he's gonna be amped up.
Speaker 8: Coming back on to the field.
Speaker 9: I don't know if they had him doing any sort
Speaker 9: of legwork, some some or something that just doesn't go
Speaker 9: after the thing.
Speaker 2: It's easy to go after eight pitches justin it's easy
Speaker 2: to blame somebody. But those things just seem to happen
Speaker 2: when and your injury plagued in your career. And that's
Speaker 2: Bruce star graderol to a certain extent. I have no
Speaker 2: idea why his hamstring gave out. But I am not
Speaker 2: pointing the finger at anybody on the training staff. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm not. I think that's like it's like blaming a
Speaker 2: coach or when the team loses, blaming the umpire or
Speaker 2: a referee and that's the reason why your team lost.
Speaker 2: I put that in the same bucket.
Speaker 9: I think there's got to be some accountability, Dave, I disagree.
Speaker 9: I think you've got to put a little bit on them.
Speaker 2: He's just if I felt that way. If I felt
Speaker 2: that way, I would tell you. But I really do
Speaker 2: believe in this training staff. They're the best, and they
Speaker 2: got a lot of them. They give a lot of
Speaker 2: attention and care to these guys, and if you ask
Speaker 2: any of these players, they all tell you nobody rushes
Speaker 2: them back and nobody gets them ready to come back
Speaker 2: to play better than this training staff. And that's coming
Speaker 2: from guys that have been on other teams.
Speaker 9: But it's not the rushing back, it's the fact that
Speaker 9: they land on the aisle that hasn't a concerned about him.
Speaker 8: En, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it all right, justin thanks for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, Look, it's unfortunate you wonder like, what the
Speaker 2: heck this guy's been rehabbing all this time, It's game one,
Speaker 2: fourteen and he blows out his hamstring. How does that happen? Well,
Speaker 2: he's a big guy, number one, and number two, you've
Speaker 2: got to be serious about wanting to stretch and be
Speaker 2: prepared to come into a game. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Bruce Starr wasn't, But you can't put that on the trainer.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that the trainer's just ignored stretching his
Speaker 2: hamstrings before the game. At some point, there's got to
Speaker 2: be accountability for the players too, to prepare their bodies
Speaker 2: to play. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. And look, bottom line, injuries happen,
Speaker 2: Freak injuries happen, and that was one of the more
Speaker 2: unfortunate ones we've seen this year. And hopefully, somehow, some
Speaker 2: way Graderol can regroup by the time the end of
Speaker 2: September comes around. But a Grade three hamstring strain, I
Speaker 2: just don't see it. I feel like maybe his twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four is over, unless, you know, the Dodgers make
Speaker 2: a run to the World Series and he comes back somehow,
Speaker 2: some way. Let's go out to Eli, who was at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Eli, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 10: Hey Dave, what's up?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 2: How you doing? Eli? Do you know the Dodgers head
Speaker 2: trainer's name too? Do you have that type of knowledge?
Speaker 10: I did. Yeah, I knew it was Thomas Salvert. WHOA
Speaker 10: I'm I'm I'm big into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, what do you got?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was just I mean, yeah, we're facing the Phillies,
Speaker 10: so it's one of the toughest teams in all baseball.
Speaker 10: You gotta tip your captain, Christopher Sanchez, he's an All
Speaker 10: Star for a reason. Was great. You know, you don't
Speaker 10: expect him to go like six in.
Speaker 4: Or like a yeah pitches.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, he's still coming back. And you know,
Speaker 10: obviously you don't expect who's our gradal blow his hamstring.
Speaker 10: But Brent Honeywell did his job and he went in.
Speaker 10: He he did a great job.
Speaker 2: He did a great job.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just like he kept it close. But the
Speaker 10: ninth inning, you know, he he's mainly been used for
Speaker 10: like one any the past couple couple.
Speaker 2: He's been used in a lot of different ways. He's
Speaker 2: a great long reliever, and uh, I was happy you
Speaker 2: were able to be here for another Kurushaw day for sure.
Speaker 2: And look, it would have been nice for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to give Kershaw an early lead. This is not the
Speaker 2: first time the Dodgers have seen Christopher Sanchez. You would
Speaker 2: like to have seen some adjustments made against Sanchez. It's
Speaker 2: not the first time they've seen him. So I would
Speaker 2: love to see more adjustments made by Dodger hitters and
Speaker 2: you know, in game adjustments that we don't see and
Speaker 2: haven't seen quite frankly in the last five or six years.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Long Beach, Damien, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Damien? All right?
Speaker 11: How you doing? David? I got a couple of things.
Speaker 11: I think you're right on those injuries. You know, who
Speaker 11: knows what's going on? And uh, you know, I agree
Speaker 11: with you. And it just happened, you know, and I
Speaker 11: think the players do have to take responsibility for it.
Speaker 2: And uh, ask that's say it is what it is.
Speaker 11: It is what it is, right, And I think if
Speaker 11: the Dodgers hired a trainer, I think he'd be a
Speaker 11: pretty good trainer. You know, he's not gonna slack off
Speaker 11: and let these guys run around. So and then the
Speaker 11: second thing on Kershaw, you know, he got out of
Speaker 11: the fourth inning out of a jam. He got first
Speaker 11: and third and then struck out bomb to the second half.
Speaker 11: So that kind of showed me he was. He was,
Speaker 11: you know, kind of ready to pitch. And I think
Speaker 11: he had a good outing, and I think you didn't
Speaker 11: want to ruin it by going out there in the
Speaker 11: fifth and just get hammered and just ruined and everything
Speaker 11: that he picked.
Speaker 2: He went out in the fifth inning, he got the
Speaker 2: first two outs of the fifth inning, even though he
Speaker 2: had some traffic. Right, just because a picture has traffic
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that he's stinking to join up. He's Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 2: for God's sake.
Speaker 8: I know he was.
Speaker 11: I know he wasn't. I'm just saying he got out
Speaker 11: of a jam in the forest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what pictures do. They get out of jams, right,
Speaker 2: great pictures get out of jams.
Speaker 11: I understand that. And I just think if he left
Speaker 11: him in and then something would happen where he gave
Speaker 11: him a home run the turner.
Speaker 2: Didn't you find something out? You understand, you find things out.
Speaker 2: You got to find things out before it's too late.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Damian, You got to find
Speaker 2: things out about this Kershaw. And the one thing that
Speaker 2: I know that is the same from the previous version
Speaker 2: is that he competes his ass off and I'm going
Speaker 2: to take that any day of the week. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call, appreciate it. Eight six six nine seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Look, we're not
Speaker 2: talking about some guy the Dodgers picked up off the
Speaker 2: waiver wires. Not talking about a guy that is making
Speaker 2: his season or excuse me, major league debut. He's not
Speaker 2: a rookie. This guy can find ways out of things.
Speaker 2: And the one thing about Kershaw tonight and moving forward
Speaker 2: with the fastball where it's at the margin for error,
Speaker 2: the biggest thing nobody's talking about when it comes to
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw post surgery and with the fastball being eighty
Speaker 2: nine to ninety miles an hour, the biggest thing for
Speaker 2: Kershaw is the margin for error is a lot smaller
Speaker 2: because if he cannot command his fastball and it gets
Speaker 2: the big part of the plate, there is going to
Speaker 2: be damage done and he is well aware of that.
Speaker 2: And tonight I love seeing his curveball, and partly I
Speaker 2: feel like the reason why he was so good tonight
Speaker 2: was because he stayed true to himself. He didn't try
Speaker 2: to mess with the split change up as much tonight.
Speaker 2: I know he's been trying to get a feel for that.
Speaker 2: He did not have one between his last start and
Speaker 2: this one, so he kind of scrapped it and he
Speaker 2: went to his curveball. With two strikes, that was a
Speaker 2: swing and miss pitch for him, and tonight he got
Speaker 2: more swings and misses than he had in his previous
Speaker 2: two starts. He got ten swings and misses tonight, And
Speaker 2: a big reason why was because he went back to
Speaker 2: who he is. He's a slider, fastball, curveball pitcher that
Speaker 2: tunnels the pitches really well. I think that was the
Speaker 2: biggest key when I was watching him tonight. He went
Speaker 2: back to his true self. Eight six six ninety seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to Polo and San Diego. We haven't heard from Pollo
Speaker 2: in a long time.
Speaker 5: Are you doing I welcome?
Speaker 8: Come?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I talked to team last week when you were out.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, we're cheating on me.
Speaker 5: With two Kates, Huh, I'm sorry, and let's not forget
Speaker 5: about this slider.
Speaker 4: So I have a question.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the Milwaukee slider? Are you talking
Speaker 2: about her shot slider?
Speaker 5: Which one?
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't forget about his slider.
Speaker 5: Listen. I have a question about a rule. In the
Speaker 5: third Kysh schwarb but is on at the plate. I
Speaker 5: think the country was three, three and one, and then
Speaker 5: Austin As tried to steal and then where's me throws
Speaker 5: about a second? Right, so the inning is over. Why
Speaker 5: is Kysh Swarber was allowed to come back the next
Speaker 5: inning if the inning is over? Maybe I don't know
Speaker 5: about about this rule.
Speaker 2: But what happened was was number one, It was uh,
Speaker 2: it was a pitch in the dirt. It wasn't really
Speaker 2: a cat stealing. They ruled it just a put out
Speaker 2: from the catcher to uh the shortstop at that point
Speaker 2: in time. So that was inning over, and Schwarber was
Speaker 2: the batter that was still at the plate, so he
Speaker 2: didn't strike out. That was the reason why.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I've been in Belger for three years and
Speaker 5: there you go, there's over something to learn and then
Speaker 5: you say something about that. So because the Phillies beat
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, you know, three games to none in Phillies
Speaker 5: and then by by them winning the series. Does that
Speaker 5: mean that that if we go to the to the playoffs,
Speaker 5: they will have the old field advantage.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, yeah, they would.
Speaker 5: Because they win the series, righte.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 2: No, if the Dodgers have a better record than Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: they will be the number one seed in the National League.
Speaker 2: But if the Dodgers and Phillies finish with the exact
Speaker 2: same record fighting for the number one seed, the Phillies
Speaker 2: would get it because they owned the tiebreaker in the
Speaker 2: season series and they would have home field advantage if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Phillies played each other in the NLCS.
Speaker 5: You're well of information, Dave. Good to talk to you,
Speaker 5: my friend.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, Paulo, appreciate it. Hope my slider was
Speaker 2: good too. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
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Speaker 2: David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium. Yesterday, we shared our
Speaker 2: conversation with Mookie Betts about his preference on where he
Speaker 2: wants to play, if anywhere, and he obviously wants to
Speaker 2: play shortstop. He feels like he still has something to
Speaker 2: prove there. And Dave Roberts today announced before the game
Speaker 2: that when Moki does return to the starting lineup that
Speaker 2: he will be playing shortstop. He will be the Dodgers
Speaker 2: shortstop next week in Milwaukee and he will not be
Speaker 2: leading off for the Dodgers. Dave said he wants to
Speaker 2: break up the two lefties Otani and Freeman, and that's
Speaker 2: a departure from what we saw the majority of the
Speaker 2: year that was working with Mooki leading off, Otani hitting second,
Speaker 2: and Freddie hitting third. So now it will be Otani
Speaker 2: leading off, Mookie Bets hitting second, and Freddie Freeman hitting third.
Speaker 12: He'll hit in the second in the two hole.
Speaker 2: Conversation.
Speaker 12: I talked to him, Yeah, I talked to him. I
Speaker 12: think that, you know, it's hard to argue show Hey,
Speaker 12: uh starting the game off in the one it breaks
Speaker 12: up Freddy and Mooki, And I like the idea that
Speaker 12: those two guys are going to potentially get the most
Speaker 12: at bats that the left hand I think so, I
Speaker 12: think for me that's and I didn't want Freddy to
Speaker 12: hit forth, So I think that that's part of it.
Speaker 12: The other part of it is I just feel that,
Speaker 12: you know, as great as Mooky is, you know, show
Speaker 12: Hey really has a chance to change a game from
Speaker 12: the first pitch on.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Dave Roberts's decision. Mookie Betts goes on
Speaker 2: the I l and is no longer the Dodgers leadoff hitter.
Speaker 2: I was not expecting that. I never thought that was
Speaker 2: in question. I thought more where he was going to
Speaker 2: play was a bigger question. And like I said last night,
Speaker 2: this is where things are starting I'm not sure that's
Speaker 2: where things will end up as we go into the postseason,
Speaker 2: especially Mookie playing shortstop. I feel like when you look
Speaker 2: at tonight's outfield alignment with Kevin Kiermeier and center and
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward and Andy Pae hasn't right. The Dodgers pieces
Speaker 2: to the puzzle in the postseason would fit a lot
Speaker 2: better if Mooki Betts was playing right field and Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas was the shortstop. And I feel like the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to evaluate Mooki and the way he throws
Speaker 2: and the way he handles that position between now and
Speaker 2: mid September before they make a decision. All right, let's
Speaker 2: hit out to Jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Moto will let you add to that
Speaker 2: conversation where you taking off guard when you heard Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts say that Mooki Bets would a be playing shortstop
Speaker 2: and he would not be the Dodgers' leadoff hitter when
Speaker 2: he returns.
Speaker 4: Yes and no, no, because I know that the subject
Speaker 4: has been brought up before, even during spring training, and
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts said, well, I'm going to keep my mind open,
Speaker 4: brought and right now, this is the best way for
Speaker 4: us to line up. Mooki is a lead off hitter. Obviously,
Speaker 4: there's very few like him looking at him out of
Speaker 4: Home Mercy's hit leading off game. And on top of that,
Speaker 4: you know, Dave didn't seem that concerned about the matchups
Speaker 4: with the consecutive lefties with Otani and Freeman because of
Speaker 4: who they are. But now you got the options to say, hey,
Speaker 4: show Toni is now our best bass dealer. Showho Tani
Speaker 4: can go there and break things up with Mookie and
Speaker 4: Freddy and then will Smith and then Monsely hopefully in
Speaker 4: the oscar to really have a little bit more defth
Speaker 4: and more challenging scenario for the opposing pictures and the
Speaker 4: bullpens on the front of playing shortstop, I can only
Speaker 4: say Dave that I've only seen mooki best work out
Speaker 4: at shortstop, and to me that was the biggest indication
Speaker 4: that is part number one. Is he the best shortstop? No,
Speaker 4: he's not. Okay, dolliers have eyes that are more than
Speaker 4: capable fulfilling the position. But he is so determined to
Speaker 4: get this done and do it right and right now,
Speaker 4: they consider that to be the best option, but perhaps,
Speaker 4: as you mentioned, the best scenario is the one where
Speaker 4: he is in right field for the Dollars actually now
Speaker 4: the way that gavit Lux has been playing, and there's
Speaker 4: not a knock against Molky, but they have options now
Speaker 4: at shortstop, including one that was there before, Miguel Loss
Speaker 4: that can go out there and play the higher caliber Jose.
Speaker 2: How can it be a knock when we're talking about
Speaker 2: maybe the greatest defensive right fielder we've seen in the
Speaker 2: last twenty thirty years. I mean, some would even say
Speaker 2: that saw Willy Mace play that Mookie Betts as an
Speaker 2: outfielder is on par with Willie Mays.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say a knock. I'm not knocking him
Speaker 4: down to the shortstop because of who he is and
Speaker 4: how the Dolliers play with him there now he knows
Speaker 4: and understands that things need to get better as a shortstop.
Speaker 4: My point is, or Mookie Bets a couple of things
Speaker 4: worried about coming back from a wrist injury. There's gonna
Speaker 4: be more contact in the infield, and it could be
Speaker 4: that you are tagging somebody, it could be that you're
Speaker 4: diving for a play, it could be that you go
Speaker 4: over your risk, and those things do concern me. There's
Speaker 4: more contact, it's going to be in the infield than
Speaker 4: the outfield. As I said, the best option is right field.
Speaker 4: But I can see why they're going to stick with
Speaker 4: this since he's only been working out at shortstop, and
Speaker 4: that's just the biggest indication to me that he's going
Speaker 4: to come back at short step and hopefully, you know,
Speaker 4: play better than he did before.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota is joining us. After the Phillies beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight six to two, what were your thoughts on
Speaker 2: what you saw from Kershaw. Obviously everybody was a lot
Speaker 2: happier after his start tonight compared to what we saw
Speaker 2: in San Diego.
Speaker 4: I like what I saw from Kersher and Curse is
Speaker 4: a guy that the morning question the morning shows you
Speaker 4: that they're still a little bit left. I think I
Speaker 4: have to give him a bed and throw that out.
Speaker 4: You know, even if Trade Turner, you know at the
Speaker 4: wall heart against some my previous at back. This is
Speaker 4: not just anybody. This is Clayton Kershaw. And if there's
Speaker 4: a limit of the pitches, I can understand, But in
Speaker 4: a situation like that, I am betting on handle that
Speaker 4: that anybody can bring out of that bullpen to go
Speaker 4: out there and get the job done. It at least
Speaker 4: I know baseball managers and front officers are big on
Speaker 4: having positive outcomes for a player to sleep on and
Speaker 4: bring back again. And for Kersh in his voice, you
Speaker 4: can hear that, hey, it's step in the right direction. Beautiful, great.
Speaker 4: But also I love the fact that he's thinking, well,
Speaker 4: maybe next time five six or seven innings. So his
Speaker 4: mentality is not just I'm getting by through five innings.
Speaker 4: His mentellia is I'm thinking every single step tonight was
Speaker 4: one that we're getting to propel them to get out
Speaker 4: there to get you six or seven innings.
Speaker 2: What was the biggest pitch for him tonight to get
Speaker 2: those swings and misses? Was it the sequencing or was
Speaker 2: it vintage Kershaw using the curveball when he had hitters
Speaker 2: on two strikes with two being cursed.
Speaker 4: Dave, you know that that curble comes at an angle
Speaker 4: on the plane sometimes where makes your fastble more effective.
Speaker 4: At eighty eight to ninety one, you can go out
Speaker 4: there and use the same plane and make it run
Speaker 4: a little bit more when it gets on hitters, because
Speaker 4: when guys are timing breaking balls, I'll say, when they're
Speaker 4: coming curveballs, their eyes are trained to go up and down,
Speaker 4: all right, so they're going to try to get that
Speaker 4: barrel under the baseball when it comes down to hitting
Speaker 4: a curble. That's that's true launch angle there is. It
Speaker 4: was explained to me clearly one day by Trey by
Speaker 4: Justin Fernersay, that angle as a curble, it's not the
Speaker 4: same as as a fastball, you try to get under
Speaker 4: the baseball. Now, going back to the explaining this, so
Speaker 4: you throw a fastball letter high and you're under the ball, thinking,
Speaker 4: there's that curble again, my eye still a curble because
Speaker 4: velostear's that ninety five and before you know it, as
Speaker 4: you did today, did very well taking something off of
Speaker 4: it and using the fastball in the waves you need
Speaker 4: it without as you mentioned also earlier, Dave, having to
Speaker 4: go to that change up.
Speaker 2: All right, Hose, thanks a lot for the inside. Appreciate
Speaker 2: it as allays. We'll see you out here tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: and all Dodger relievers, high leverage relievers should be available.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow win the series. I guess of what Dave said
Speaker 4: today about feeling good about feeling it out of this one.
Speaker 4: So everybody available, go up to and take care. But
Speaker 4: hopefully we'll see De Gavin Stone show up again.
Speaker 2: That's right, no doubt about it. Thanks Jose, AliOS, there
Speaker 2: he goes Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Great Spanish
Speaker 2: Radio broadcast with Pepe and Ingez and Fernando Valenzuela. Let's
Speaker 2: take one more phone call since Mohammed in Azusa has
Speaker 2: been so patient. Mohammed, you're on Dodger Talk. Thanks for waiting,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Thank you day for being the call. I've been actually
Speaker 8: waiting since last Saturday.
Speaker 2: Saturday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll tell you why if you don't mind. So
Speaker 8: I felt like that was one of the worst losses
Speaker 8: when we were off five zero and there was a
Speaker 8: rookie who was on and Dave Roberts took out, uh
Speaker 8: took him out with same thing five and two thirds,
Speaker 8: you know, with two outs, he had already gone. And today,
Speaker 8: if I'm like the thame.
Speaker 2: Like hold on, I have to. I have to. It's
Speaker 2: a lot has happened since last Friday. Mohammad, You've been
Speaker 2: on hold for a long time, all right. Last Friday
Speaker 2: in Houston, justin Robleski sixth inning. You're still upset that
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts took.
Speaker 8: Him out, and exactly, My it's you know, the one
Speaker 8: the reason I'm upset and the reason I actually called twice,
Speaker 8: but unfortunately you couldn't take my call like the time.
Speaker 8: Right now, My thing is that it's he's a manager.
Speaker 8: He doesn't manage correctly. It's about time. I'm a diehard
Speaker 8: Lakers and the Dodgers fan. It's like it's enough is enough?
Speaker 8: Like today what he did? I agree with your first
Speaker 8: opening statement. I would have loved Kershaw and absolutely it's
Speaker 8: one zero, like, let the guy see. We still want
Speaker 8: the game. The end result is the same thing, right,
Speaker 8: so why not see where Kershaw is? And my problem
Speaker 8: with David is he just keeps doing this when in
Speaker 8: that same game Phillips comes on, You give him a
Speaker 8: short release, you know, give two runs, maybe three. He
Speaker 8: lets him Day four and then it's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, like then now you're taking him out when
Speaker 8: there's like no like the game.
Speaker 2: In that situation. We're going back to last Friday. It
Speaker 2: was a five to nothing game and in that sixth
Speaker 2: inning there were two outs. Are you telling me it's
Speaker 2: out of the question for Evan Phillips to get just
Speaker 2: one out, just one out, and that's a low leverage situation,
Speaker 2: and you need Evan Phillips. So Dave Roberts explanation after
Speaker 2: the game was trying to pump up Phillip's confidence for
Speaker 2: the long term, not just looking at that one game.
Speaker 2: Did that register at any point in time with you?
Speaker 2: Did that seem valid as far as not just worried
Speaker 2: about the here and now, but also trying to keep
Speaker 2: one of the more crucial relievers confidence back up. It
Speaker 2: did not work, obviously, but he tried.
Speaker 8: Of course, Yeah, does that register with you? Did register?
Speaker 8: My only point is I think it broke his confidence
Speaker 8: when you given you give him a rope of four
Speaker 8: runs and guess what it became five to four And
Speaker 8: that was all on Phillips, right, So my point is
Speaker 8: keep it to two maybe three, and it's not his day.
Speaker 8: It's okay, let the other guy come. It took one
Speaker 8: pitch and bomp. You know, I get what you're saying,
Speaker 8: but like three runs or four runs might be an
Speaker 8: argued of you know, like it's easy to argue like, hey,
Speaker 8: this is why they did it. My only point is,
Speaker 8: like today's situation, how are you taking out Kershaw when
Speaker 8: he just had a back.
Speaker 2: There? And uh and a Japanese media members said it
Speaker 2: was disrespectful to take Kershaw out. Who am I to
Speaker 2: argue with a Japanese former pitcher and reporter since they
Speaker 2: are the champions of baseball and they obviously know a
Speaker 2: lot about baseball? Who am I to argue with that?
Speaker 2: So I think we agree to disagree on that Friday
Speaker 2: Houston game. Obviously frustrating, but I understand where Dan was
Speaker 2: coming from on that one. But obviously I understand the
Speaker 2: fans were upset, and jeez, Mohammed, you were still upset
Speaker 2: since last Friday. I mean, have you, uh, what have
Speaker 2: you been thinking about between last Friday and tonight? Have
Speaker 2: you been able to go to the supermarket? Have you
Speaker 2: been able to do your daily routine? I mean that
Speaker 2: must be rough. Thinking about Robleski coming out day to
Speaker 2: day is good.
Speaker 8: My only thing is I just want Dave to like play,
Speaker 8: you know, like go off of his gut instead of
Speaker 8: analytics every time. And that's I just personally feel like
Speaker 8: that's hurting the Dodgers a little bit. It's like, oh,
Speaker 8: Analytics says, take him out here.
Speaker 2: But that wasn't analytics. He was just uh. I guess
Speaker 2: the part of it was. I mean it all analytics
Speaker 2: are part of the uh as. He likes to say,
Speaker 2: you got to bake the cake, and that's part of
Speaker 2: the ingredients. But I hear you, Mohammed. I hope now
Speaker 2: you know, I feel like you can move on with
Speaker 2: your life out there in AZUSA. You know, you never
Speaker 2: know where you might find yourself and Azusa out there,
Speaker 2: so hopefully this released some of that pressure I have.
Speaker 8: I appreciate you thinking my call.
Speaker 9: Thank you too.
Speaker 8: I we'll call again.
Speaker 2: Okay, Mohammed, thanks for the phone call. Wow, poor guy
Speaker 2: was winning since last Friday. I'm glad we got him on.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about just wrapping it up and announcing
Speaker 2: that the Chicago White Sox finally won a game. How
Speaker 2: about that They are cheering in the streets on the
Speaker 2: South side of Chicago. The White sox twenty one game
Speaker 2: losing streak is over. As the A's fall to the
Speaker 2: White Sox tonight in Oakland five to one. The White
Speaker 2: Sox now improved their record two twenty eight and eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to the White Sox. And then shortly after the
Speaker 2: White Sox won their first game in twenty two, there
Speaker 2: was an earthquake in the Central Valley, So don't know
Speaker 2: if that was you know, the big guy upstairs celebrating
Speaker 2: as well. That'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: tonight tomorrow, Gavin Stone will be on the mound. He's
Speaker 2: nine and five with an ERA three sixty three, trying
Speaker 2: to right the ship because the ERA is over seven
Speaker 2: in his last five starts. He's going up against Tyler Phillips,
Speaker 2: who is three and one with an ERA of four
Speaker 2: thirty nine. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at six
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Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. Dwayne, where did Dwayne go?
Speaker 2: Dwayne's gone? Once again. The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers fall to the Phillies six to two. Have
Speaker 2: a great rest of your night. Try to get through
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