Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3: Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 2: Let's wind it.
Speaker 1: I love writing me these guys after the show.
Speaker 4: So just thank you, give me are your attention, your fire,
Speaker 4: not a pisson. This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion.
Speaker 5: Put a small soft time they get up people what
Speaker 5: they want to die in a row two is special.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache. One of a con.
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Speaker 5: And go to the show.
Speaker 4: And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 5: We are alive at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 5: the Pirates tonight by a final score of eight to four.
Speaker 5: David vass with you until ten thirty tonight. We have
Speaker 5: phone line. It's open at eight six six nine eight
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy. And No, the tarp is not
Speaker 5: on the infield tonight. Obviously it rained in Los Angeles
Speaker 5: during the morning time in early afternoon, but there was
Speaker 5: no hitch to Dave Roberts, baballhead night and first pitch
Speaker 5: between the Dodgers and Pirates, which saw the Pirates trying
Speaker 5: to hand this game to the Dodgers a few different times,
Speaker 5: and until the eighth inning, the Dodgers were not taking it.
Speaker 5: In fact, it felt like the Pirates were saying, here,
Speaker 5: you take it, and the Dodgers were saying to them, no, no,
Speaker 5: you take it, you take it. Get We got enough wins.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get wins. But it was good to see
Speaker 5: the Dodgers win this game. It would not have been
Speaker 5: pretty if the Dodgers had lost four in a row
Speaker 5: in a game like tonight, But looks that's what the
Speaker 5: Dodgers have against teams like the Pirates. They just got more.
Speaker 5: They got too much for teams like the Pirates when
Speaker 5: it's a close game going into the seventh, eighth, and
Speaker 5: ninth innings of games. And that was evident tonight. Too
Speaker 5: much Tani, too much Taoscar Hernandez. And then you add
Speaker 5: in Andy Paz, who is starting to heat up and
Speaker 5: play better defense in center field. It's just too much
Speaker 5: for a team like that. Andy pa has three for
Speaker 5: four tonight, including robbing Brian Reynolds of what would have
Speaker 5: been extra bases at the very least in the fifth inning.
Speaker 5: So all the Andy pa has haters are quiet for
Speaker 5: the last week or so, Taoscar Hernandez. Everybody loves Tao
Speaker 5: and thank goodness the Dodgers resigned him because him and
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmond and Will Smith had basically been carrying this
Speaker 5: offense for the first three weeks of the season. Taoscar
Speaker 5: Hernandez drove in the tying run in the first inning
Speaker 5: with two outs, and Taoscar Hernandez, just to put this
Speaker 5: in context, you know he's clutch and was clutched last
Speaker 5: year with runners in scoring position, But how about this season,
Speaker 5: Taoscar Hernandez, when he comes to the plate with two outs,
Speaker 5: he's sitting three to twenty three with fourteen RBIs. There's
Speaker 5: not too many players that can say that on the
Speaker 5: Dodgers or in Major League Baseball. And then, of course
Speaker 5: his go ahead home run in the eighth inning, which
Speaker 5: opened up the floodgates for a four run eighth for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers to beat the Pirates tonight eight to four.
Speaker 5: So ta Oscar Hernandez did everything tonight. He drove in runs.
Speaker 5: He gave the Dodgers the lead in the eighth inning,
Speaker 5: and then he threw out Joey Bart, who made an
Speaker 5: awful base running play in the second inning, trying to
Speaker 5: tag up when Taoscar caught Tommy FAM's fly ball as
Speaker 5: he was running in in shallow right field, the former
Speaker 5: Giant catcher not five Beta Kappa, trying to tag up
Speaker 5: on Taoscar Hernandez. And then you look at Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 5: He had a really good night tonight. He drove in
Speaker 5: a run and he also made a great defensive play
Speaker 5: that is going to go overlooked in the scheme of things,
Speaker 5: but because Jack Dryer was a little wild again, the
Speaker 5: Pirates had opportunities to score not only just one run,
Speaker 5: but multiple runs. And Freddie Freeman made a great play
Speaker 5: in the seventh inning off of the cleanup hitter Emmanuel Valdez.
Speaker 5: If Freddy Freeman doesn't make that play, the Pirates are
Speaker 5: scoring more than one run, and who knows where the
Speaker 5: momentum goes after that. So there was some really good
Speaker 5: defensive plays by the Dodgers tonight and certainly that helped
Speaker 5: them win. And that's something we've been talking about the
Speaker 5: Dodger defense has not been very good so far to
Speaker 5: start the year, at least consistently good, and their base
Speaker 5: running hasn't been that great either consistently to start the year. Tonight,
Speaker 5: both things were really good, and both things helped the
Speaker 5: Dodgers win tonight. Yeah you might look at the three
Speaker 5: run pinch hit home run by Key k Yeah, you're
Speaker 5: gonna look at ta oscars go ahead home run. But
Speaker 5: it was these other things, the base running in defense
Speaker 5: that helped them win this game tonight and pick up
Speaker 5: their pitchers. Whether it was or Jack Dryer, it was
Speaker 5: the defense that helped the Dodgers win this game tonight
Speaker 5: and show, Hey, Otani came to life tonight for the
Speaker 5: first time in a while. He's human. But you know,
Speaker 5: every baseball player goes through slumps. It's the ones that
Speaker 5: don't let it extend into one for twenty one for
Speaker 5: twenty fives. Otani coming into the game tonight was one
Speaker 5: for his last fifteen. That's over with because he was
Speaker 5: three for five tonight with two doubles, a triple, a
Speaker 5: stolen base, and he drove in a run and scored twice.
Speaker 5: So I would say it was the ta Oscar and
Speaker 5: Otani show offensively for the Dodgers tonight. And Otani I
Speaker 5: thought once he got on base, he was trying to
Speaker 5: change the game with his base running. He was intent
Speaker 5: on forcing the issue and making the Pirates make mistakes.
Speaker 5: So a great job by him, A great job by
Speaker 5: Dino Ebel, who was waving Andy Paez around from first base.
Speaker 5: A great read on the outfielders. Dino's job doesn't start
Speaker 5: it's seven to ten either. He's doing a lot of
Speaker 5: extensive scanner reports on what the outfielders can do when
Speaker 5: they move side to side, laterally, arm strength, all those
Speaker 5: things to be able to uh make great judgments in
Speaker 5: the third base coaching box. Eight sixty six nine eight
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
Speaker 5: out to the phones for the first time tonight.
Speaker 1: Ed.
Speaker 5: Who is at Dodger Stadium tonight? Hi, Ed, You're on
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hey Dave, thanks for taking my call. Just leaving Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium right now. What a great night, Dave Roberts boblehead,
Speaker 3: Such a fun time, Dodgers got the w Hey, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to talk about something really fast. I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know, Smith's something that was overlooked Will Smith's catching.
Speaker 3: Roki Esaki did a great job. We need that more
Speaker 3: consistent offense from the catcher position when Rokie's pitching, So
Speaker 3: I just really we got to stick with him. Thanks
Speaker 3: so much, Dave. Do you have a great time all right? Ed?
Speaker 5: Thanks for the phone call. Hey, if you're trying to
Speaker 5: take a backhanded shot at Austin Barnes. The last time
Speaker 5: Barnes caught, he had two hits, including a double. But
Speaker 5: I mean, nobody's on Will Smith's offensive level. He's the
Speaker 5: best hitting catcher in baseball. And yeah, he did a
Speaker 5: great job with Sasaki tonight. You know one thing about Sasaki,
Speaker 5: it's still a work in progress. He pitches once a week.
Speaker 5: In case you haven't noticed, he's like a college pitcher.
Speaker 5: He pitches every Saturday night, and Yamamoto pitches every Friday night.
Speaker 5: It's like UCLA Baseball here at Dodger Stadium. But I
Speaker 5: mean it's basically for Sasaki. Yamamoto would be able to
Speaker 5: pitch on regular rest, which is four or five days.
Speaker 5: But this is to try to keep those guys fresh
Speaker 5: and healthy for October. And I would love to see
Speaker 5: Sasaki have more mound presence. He still seems to be
Speaker 5: unsure of himself, and you know, he's starting to throw
Speaker 5: more strikes, which is helping him. But I would just
Speaker 5: say he was fine tonight. I'm not going to gush
Speaker 5: over him tonight. It's a work in progress, and the
Speaker 5: Dodgers were fully aware of that when they signed him
Speaker 5: and brought him in under this type of contract. It's
Speaker 5: not a three hundred million dollar contract, it's a normal
Speaker 5: minimum salary, and they understood he was not a finished product.
Speaker 5: But are hoping that by the time August rolls around,
Speaker 5: he'll be a better picture than what we saw tonight,
Speaker 5: and a better picture than what we saw two starts ago.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Ken in Newport Beach, a rare
Speaker 5: phone call from Ken on a winning night.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Ken, Hey, David, thank you? Good come
Speaker 1: Buck and Goodwin. Even though they are all last place
Speaker 1: team Pittsburgh, they're actually pretty good. But I think it's
Speaker 1: time to take a look at keyk one of your
Speaker 1: best infielders who now has five home runs, and I
Speaker 1: think it's time for him to play or third base,
Speaker 1: because I don't see Muncey coming out of this slumpy
Speaker 1: as no home runs and strikes out way too much.
Speaker 1: Key K, We'll take your five home runs and multiplayers feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm not a post to that, Ken,
Speaker 5: And tomorrow is probably a day Max Munsey is going
Speaker 5: to sit. I could see Dave Roberts doing that with
Speaker 5: a lefty on the mound and Kik Or Rojas getting
Speaker 5: the start at third base, and I'm not opposed to that.
Speaker 5: I don't believe Max Munsey has earned just the blind
Speaker 5: getting into the starting lineup. But I don't believe the
Speaker 5: Dodgers are giving up on Max Munsey yet either. We've
Speaker 5: seen starts like this, We've seen stretches like this, so
Speaker 5: hopefully this is similar to the other years where he
Speaker 5: gets out of it some way, somehow. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: not opposed to having more Rojas and more key K
Speaker 5: at third base until Munsey comes out of this.
Speaker 1: All right, great, thank you?
Speaker 5: Hey, we agree, And you called on a winning night. Wow,
Speaker 5: this is a big Saturday.
Speaker 1: I was getting a little frustrated, so I had to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 5: I bet you were. I bet you were. Thanks Ken,
Speaker 5: Thanks for the phone call. Everybody was getting frustrated, no
Speaker 5: more than those players in that clubhouse and in that dugout.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of professional pride by those guys who are,
Speaker 5: by the way, just five months removed from winning the
Speaker 5: World Series. I feel like a lot of times in
Speaker 5: the moment, you forget the fact that these are the
Speaker 5: defending World Series champions. They did deliver a World Series
Speaker 5: to you last year for the second time in what
Speaker 5: five years. I mean, they did give you a parade
Speaker 5: for the first time since nineteen eighty eight. So let's
Speaker 5: give these guys a little wiggle room here. But the
Speaker 5: last year was last year, and they talked about trying
Speaker 5: to win the World Series again. The front office spent
Speaker 5: a lot of money to try to make that happen.
Speaker 5: I will just say this, A lot of times players
Speaker 5: come into the season because they put in a lot
Speaker 5: of work during the off season. And you're looking at
Speaker 5: probably two out of the three at the top of
Speaker 5: the Dodger lineup that didn't have the opportunity to do
Speaker 5: that because of surgeries Shoe Aotani with the left labrum
Speaker 5: shoulder surgery, Freddie Freeman with the right ankle surgery. How
Speaker 5: much time did they have to get baseball ready? Were
Speaker 5: they just trying to get their bodies put back together
Speaker 5: after having significant surgeries. I think we all forget that,
Speaker 5: and maybe there's some guys in this starting lineup that
Speaker 5: maybe celebrated too much during the offseason and did not
Speaker 5: really get prepared for this upcoming year. I'll say this
Speaker 5: about Mookie Bets. I saw him at Justin Turner's golf
Speaker 5: tournament in mid November, and he told me he started
Speaker 5: working a couple of weeks after the World Series was over.
Speaker 5: No matter what you want to say about Mookie Bets,
Speaker 5: I would venture to say, no, nobody worked harder during
Speaker 5: the off season to get ready for this year than
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts. Eight six six, nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers beat the Pirates
Speaker 5: tonight by a final score of eight to four. It
Speaker 5: was a big night by Taioscar Hernandez and show hey Otani,
Speaker 5: but also Andy PA has not too many phone calls
Speaker 5: coming into praise Pa Haz these days. Everybody was calling
Speaker 5: in ready to pull the plug on Pa Haz. And
Speaker 5: that's why you know, it's a long season, and I
Speaker 5: know we're emotional, and that's what feeds this show emotions,
Speaker 5: and even the host can get emotional at times, and
Speaker 5: I would say, I'm an emotional person, no doubt about it,
Speaker 5: But it's early in the season, you know. Quite honestly,
Speaker 5: I couldn't even tell you who is where in the
Speaker 5: standings because I don't even look at the standings until
Speaker 5: the beginning of May. And I would advise you, for
Speaker 5: your own sanity not to look at the standard until May.
Speaker 5: And the Dodgers won their seventeenth game this year, how
Speaker 5: do you think Braves fans are feeling? You know, that
Speaker 5: would be the only time I would look at the
Speaker 5: standings as if a team is off to a really
Speaker 5: red hot start, or if a team is off to
Speaker 5: a horrible start like the Braves were. And by the way,
Speaker 5: the Braves, with their win tonight in Arizona in ten innings,
Speaker 5: have climbed back to five hundred. They're not done. Trust me.
Speaker 5: They got a lot of talent. But Alexanthopolis did a
Speaker 5: little bit too much over the last couple of years
Speaker 5: after winning the World Series in twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 5: the Braves are kind of paying the price for that.
Speaker 5: But nonetheless, I'm just saying, it's what twenty one games
Speaker 5: into the season, twenty seven games into the season are
Speaker 5: we really going to overreact to one game in April.
Speaker 5: I mean, the Dodgers are seventeen and ten. It's not
Speaker 5: like they're ten and seventeen. If they were ten and seventeen,
Speaker 5: I would welcome all the calls and the sky is falling.
Speaker 5: But just because a couple of players are off to
Speaker 5: a slow start, I don't feel like it's time to overreact.
Speaker 5: Just think about this. The Dodgers are seventeen and ten.
Speaker 5: They haven't got any offensive production from two main starters
Speaker 5: in Michael Confordo and Max Muncy. Their defense has been marginal,
Speaker 5: Their base running has been marginal. In fact, I would
Speaker 5: venture to say both have been subpar to the Dodgers standards.
Speaker 5: They haven't had Otani, Betts, and Freeman in the lineup
Speaker 5: more than half of their games, and those three guys
Speaker 5: have not really caught fire yet. You haven't had Blake
Speaker 5: Snell for more than two starts. You don't have Blake
Speaker 5: Trinan now for the next probably two or three months.
Speaker 5: You don't have Michael Kopak. You just got Evan Phillips back.
Speaker 5: Do I need to keep going? And the Dodgers are
Speaker 5: seventeen and ten, They're seventeen and ten, second pl place
Speaker 5: in the NL West. I think we all should take
Speaker 5: a step back and re examine all of that and say, oh, wow,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are seventeen and ten and all that is happening.
Speaker 5: That's pretty scary for the rest of the league. Eight six, six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 5: Let's go out to Malibu, Bob, Malibu's most wanted. You're
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk, Dave.
Speaker 6: Always great to hear your voice. Thanks for having me on, Man,
Speaker 6: and you know what, big thanks to you to call
Speaker 6: in to Dwayne. I know the travel you guys do
Speaker 6: at your time in Chicago, it means a lot to
Speaker 6: of all us Dodger fans. You guys are on the
Speaker 6: field with that team and you keep us up to date. Man,
Speaker 6: So thank you guys, first and foremost appreciated day.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you, Bob. I know it's a tough life
Speaker 5: going to Chicago, horrible city.
Speaker 6: Whoa Hey, I'm calling to cash in my andy Pojez
Speaker 6: praised shit. I called about a week ago on a
Speaker 6: rough night where PA has looked to improve at the plate,
Speaker 6: but still at an air in the field. I see
Speaker 6: improvement that guy. And my only hope is that he
Speaker 6: continues on this path man and keeps putting in the work.
Speaker 6: I feel like it's paying off, and it seems like
Speaker 6: it's firing up the other guys a little bit to
Speaker 6: see him succeeding. So I hope he continues with that.
Speaker 5: He's putting in the work every day and that work
Speaker 5: is starting to pay off in games. He's out here
Speaker 5: early every day working with Dino Ebol, who is now
Speaker 5: the outfield coach, and it's it's working. You heard Rick
Speaker 5: Monday talk about how his foot his feet are grounded
Speaker 5: when the pitch is being delivered and he is in
Speaker 5: better positioned defensive athletic position to make plays like he
Speaker 5: did tonight against Brian Reynolds in the fifth inning and
Speaker 5: he shortened his swing. I mean, Rick Monday's talked about
Speaker 5: that as well. So he's put in a lot of
Speaker 5: work and I'm happy to see a payoff and the
Speaker 5: Dodgers need him to get on base hitting ninth. Thanks
Speaker 5: for the phone call, Bob, appreciate it. We're gonna take
Speaker 5: a time out here on Dodger Talk when we come back.
Speaker 5: More of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine
Speaker 5: eight seven two five seventy. We're going to check in
Speaker 5: with Jose Mota as we take you to the bottom
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Speaker 7: Left tender, Ryan Barrookie is warming up or Pittsburgh and
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Speaker 4: It's time to go around the Horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5: A man that's not emotional at all, always steady, our guy,
Speaker 5: Jose Mota, and everybody's emotions are on the happy side tonight, Jose.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I just learned something about this show today, David.
Speaker 2: I did not realize it was about emotions.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Some nights you're so revealing.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, it is an emotional game. It
Speaker 2: could drive you crazy so quickly. He could be so
Speaker 2: good and score ten uns and lose a game in Chicago,
Speaker 2: then scores six runs and lose a game.
Speaker 1: In Chicago, and then we think the offense is terrible.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, the pitching was not good, but that's just
Speaker 2: the way it goes. I'm glad you covered so many things, Dave,
Speaker 2: including you know it really cut my ear was Among
Speaker 2: many things is the fact that you know the rookie
Speaker 2: Sasaki steps are getting better. He is throwing the ball
Speaker 2: a little more confidence. He is not there yet, but
Speaker 2: gradually we see that the confidence being given to him
Speaker 2: is getting better. And again I think, oh Westing, this
Speaker 2: guy right now is to keep the team in the
Speaker 2: game and get the team a chance. And he did
Speaker 2: it again today. Just a couple of little mistakes here
Speaker 2: and there. But he can't blame it Forneil Cruz in
Speaker 2: the first any of My goodness, how do you have
Speaker 2: that kind of length and wing span?
Speaker 5: My goodness, Yeah, he's he's really physically imposing, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about ta Oscar Hernandez. He has been great
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers since he arrived last year. What makes
Speaker 5: him so special in how better of a hitter is
Speaker 5: he now than what he was in Toronto even just
Speaker 5: three years ago.
Speaker 2: Well, Mookie Bets describe j Oscar to me as a
Speaker 2: guy that comes into the clubhouse and you don't know
Speaker 2: what happened the day before, good or terrible, you don't know.
Speaker 2: That's number one, That's where his life is. That's where
Speaker 2: he lives, and that's where he plays. And he's understood that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a bigger responsibility now with a bigger life magic
Speaker 2: thing used to be the same player among that also,
Speaker 2: you know, a big part of the Jostus has told
Speaker 2: me that there's some resources here with the Dodgers available
Speaker 2: to him when he came from as a free agent
Speaker 2: that he did not know where available to make him
Speaker 2: a better hitter. And he's been made aware of those
Speaker 2: and he's taking advantage of it. You mentioned about the
Speaker 2: two strike and two out approach and things like that.
Speaker 2: The important that he plays and he's not a guy
Speaker 2: who's gonna go out there in final walk. He's going
Speaker 2: to find a way to square a ball, make adjustments
Speaker 2: and be productive. So it's been fun to watch his
Speaker 2: production and where would they be without him today? And
Speaker 2: for an offense that's still a little sputtery. I think
Speaker 2: he has been a key clock of the whole.
Speaker 5: Thing, no doubt about it. And what was Joey Bart
Speaker 5: doing in the second inning? I think Tae Oscar was
Speaker 5: even taken off guard by a catcher trying to tag
Speaker 5: up on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the main thing, though. You got to be
Speaker 2: aware of those situations and never never play, you know,
Speaker 2: don't be the umpire. In other words, don't think the
Speaker 2: guy's not going to go on. You just player be aware.
Speaker 2: And I also saw a lot of communications with the
Speaker 2: guys in front of him, just alerting him to be
Speaker 2: on a gult because the guy was tagging up and
Speaker 2: he pretty much threw the ball into the home played area.
Speaker 2: Lock and infielder very much adjustable the feat too.
Speaker 5: Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers beat the
Speaker 5: Pirates tonight eight to four, all right, talking about two
Speaker 5: strike approach, Rick Monday pointed this out and highlighted Otani's
Speaker 5: at bat which tied the game against former Dodger Caleb
Speaker 5: Ferguson in the seventh inning. He was down two. He
Speaker 5: had filed off a couple of pitches, but Rick pointed
Speaker 5: out that he felt like Otani stayed inside the ball
Speaker 5: well even though it was middle middle against Ferguson. And
Speaker 5: that's not something we've seen of late from Otani.
Speaker 1: We saw today.
Speaker 2: And Rick has a very good point himself a left
Speaker 2: handed hitter and understanding what left handed hitters go through.
Speaker 2: We have so many people trying to bust you in
Speaker 2: and get you off the plate to eventually throw your sliders,
Speaker 2: to get your you know, to swing and miss Shohe
Speaker 2: did a better job today staying a little bit tolerant
Speaker 2: and also be inflexible with a swing and not being
Speaker 2: as sloopy with that swing. And we saw him there
Speaker 2: first inning. But to get to the bat, as you
Speaker 2: mentioned against Caleb Ferguson, he had to fight out some
Speaker 2: good pitches, get off the edges to make sure that
Speaker 2: at least data or bring him up. And when you
Speaker 2: do that a couple of times, believe me, big leagues
Speaker 2: are not you're prone to find a mistake. And he
Speaker 2: did and put a nice swing on it. But overall
Speaker 2: today posher position and pitch selection where ki for showy
Speaker 2: and hopefully he'll continue on with extra based barogity out
Speaker 2: here tonight.
Speaker 5: Another player I want wanted to highlight with you. Jose
Speaker 5: Is somebody we talked about and he deserves it because
Speaker 5: fans were calling in about Andy pa Has and he's
Speaker 5: put in a lot of work and tonight another big
Speaker 5: night offensively and another great night defensively for pi Has.
Speaker 2: He needed to be challenged than he has been. There's
Speaker 2: one thing about Pies that you understand is he needed
Speaker 2: to do something right. Either you're going to play defense,
Speaker 2: they're going to be a hitter. You cannot do both run.
Speaker 2: You know, you're around the big leagues very long. So
Speaker 2: he improved his defense first and started getting better and
Speaker 2: putting the work in, you know, diligently putting the work
Speaker 2: in to know that there's some things that he needs
Speaker 2: still to be better. Once you do that, you get
Speaker 2: your manager in front off is a chance and more
Speaker 2: thoughts about leaving you in for a reason beyond that.
Speaker 2: Then he said, okay, I got to score up my game.
Speaker 2: Rowdy Banyez has been influential with him when he comes
Speaker 2: in here. Rowley banya is a key piece in that
Speaker 2: organization as an advisor, just talks at the same level.
Speaker 2: They're both gobanos. They understand exactly what to be done.
Speaker 2: And Pious is finally bringing Dave his batting practice swing
Speaker 2: into the game, which is the squirt up shoulders, swinging
Speaker 2: the better pitches and be an investor they play is
Speaker 2: so important fitting the top that is quite noticeable when
Speaker 2: he's doing well. This is a pie that when the
Speaker 2: Dogets were phrasing the Rocky if Year was hitting one
Speaker 2: thirty seven, and then little by little he found the power.
Speaker 2: He found the other way, He found the other line
Speaker 2: than right field. He's a much better player and hopefully
Speaker 2: he can build off with this.
Speaker 5: And you know, the base running has been questionable as well,
Speaker 5: and that seems to be coming around a little bit
Speaker 5: as well. Den know Ebel certainly helped him in the
Speaker 5: seventh inning scoring from first base. So it's starting to
Speaker 5: come together for a young player, right.
Speaker 2: Jose, little by, little man. The mistakes are there. They hurt,
Speaker 2: especially when you are facing you know, you're you're together
Speaker 2: and presented with a very good big league team, inspective
Speaker 2: to win, and those mistakes have been a part of
Speaker 2: the history for many times. That Hey for you, Dave
Speaker 2: A Sabogente with the Hernandez com powders today, what a night.
Speaker 5: Oh, big knight, big night for the Hernandez Hermanos for sure.
Speaker 5: Jose can't wait to keep it going tomorrow. Kike should
Speaker 5: be in there against the lefty tomorrow.
Speaker 2: He needs to be in there tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Oh I love it. What's Coachito Cruz bringing for breakfast tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Maybe some burritos?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they got some connections warm.
Speaker 5: I don't want freeo burritos.
Speaker 2: I wants I know what you're talking about, so I will.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jose Le's We'll see You Maniana Jose Mota, part
Speaker 5: of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast with Luis Cruz and
Speaker 5: the one and only Pepe in Ingez. I don't know
Speaker 5: how anybody else talks with Pepe. I mean Pepe everywhere
Speaker 5: you see him. He's always yapping. You don't know, you
Speaker 5: don't know when he takes a breath. But he's a
Speaker 5: great guy and has one of the best voices out there.
Speaker 5: Great set of pipes on Pepe and Ingaz. All right,
Speaker 5: before we say you can, there are a few things
Speaker 5: around Major League Baseball that you have to highlight and
Speaker 5: tip your cap to. And something occurred tonight in the
Speaker 5: desert with the Diamondbacks third baseman Hujuenio Suarez, who hit
Speaker 5: four home runs tonight. Yeah, he hit four home runs tonight.
Speaker 5: The Diamondbacks lost, though, so that's why we could celebrate
Speaker 5: this a little bit more. But Suarez's fourth home run
Speaker 5: was the game tying home run in the bottom of
Speaker 5: the ninth inning.
Speaker 7: Who hie ball, there's four headwre ties.
Speaker 5: There have been nineteen four homer games in Major League history,
Speaker 5: the last two.
Speaker 4: By the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5: JD. Martinez in twenty seventeen at Dodger.
Speaker 4: Stadium and today at Chase Field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was Diamondbacks television, no doubt about it. America's
Speaker 5: DH JD. Martinez was indeed the last major league player
Speaker 5: to hit four home runs in a game. He did
Speaker 5: it right here at Dodger Stadium on September fourth, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: Jujuenio Suarez now joins JD. Martinez and eighteen other players
Speaker 5: or seventeen other players to hit four home runs in
Speaker 5: a game. And the Diamondbacks lose that game in ten
Speaker 5: to the Atlanta Braves eight to seven. And the reason
Speaker 5: why we bring up hitting four home runs in the game,
Speaker 5: you might believe that's happened a lot. Like they mentioned,
Speaker 5: only nineteen times, only nineteen players have ever hit four
Speaker 5: home runs in a game. Just to put that in context,
Speaker 5: that's less than how many perfect games have been thrown
Speaker 5: in Major league history. There have been twenty four perfect
Speaker 5: games thrown in major league history, and only nineteen times
Speaker 5: has there been a four homer game in baseball history.
Speaker 5: Sean Green of the Dogs did it in that famous
Speaker 5: game in two thousand and two in Milwaukee, and also
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers in Brooklyn. Gil Hodges hit four home
Speaker 5: runs on August thirty first, nineteen fifty against the Braves.
Speaker 5: So two Dodgers are part of that list of nineteen
Speaker 5: that have had a four homer game. The first to
Speaker 5: do it Bobby Lowe of the Braves in eighteen ninety
Speaker 5: four against the Cincinnati Reds. So Huenio Suarez joins JD.
Speaker 5: Martinez and another group of select players that can say
Speaker 5: they hit four home runs in one major league game. Again,
Speaker 5: twenty four perfect games have been thrown in major league history.
Speaker 5: Only nineteen times has there been a four homer game
Speaker 5: in baseball history, one of them tonight in Arizona with
Speaker 5: Uenio Suarez a four homer game for the Diamondbacks. Tomorrow,
Speaker 5: maybe we'll see another four homer game by Shoe Aotani
Speaker 5: or Mookie betsor te Oscar Hernandez. Highly unlikely considering how
Speaker 5: rare it is, but nonetheless you could be hopeful. In
Speaker 5: a day game. Tyler glassnow is on the mound for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. He has only thrown seventeen innings in four
Speaker 5: starts this year. He's looking to bounce back and give
Speaker 5: the Dodgers some length because their bullpen has been taxed
Speaker 5: to the max. He's going up against left hander Bailey Fulter,
Speaker 5: who is one and two with an ERA of five
Speaker 5: nineteen Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at noon tomorrow
Speaker 5: with first pitch at one ten. Thanks to Colin Ye
Speaker 5: battling Larry Jidis at our Burbank studio. Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 5: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. He does a lot
Speaker 5: more than just keeping us on the air. He gave
Speaker 5: us the great note that you just heard about as
Speaker 5: far as four homer games and perfect games in baseball history.
Speaker 5: And thanks to you for listening. In case you missed
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Speaker 5: Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers defeat the Pirates eight to four.
Speaker 5: Have a great rest of your Saturday, Be safe, Seal