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Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: until ten thirty tonight on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We have three phone lines open at eight, six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy. The Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Rockies tonight by a final score of six to three.
Speaker 2: The Padres beat the White Sox tonight in San Diego
Speaker 2: six to two, So the Dodgers' lead in the NL
Speaker 2: West is now three games. Look, there's no way around this.
Speaker 2: Even if the Dodgers win tomorrow, the chances are the
Speaker 2: Padres are going to sweep the White Sox.
Speaker 3: The NL West at this.
Speaker 2: Point in time is going to come down to the
Speaker 2: three game series that begins on Tuesday night between the
Speaker 2: Dodgers and Podres.
Speaker 3: And that's the way it should be. It's been a
Speaker 3: great season.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have overcome a lot of pitching injuries. They
Speaker 2: overcame Mookie Bets being out for six weeks. Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers overcame him being out for a period
Speaker 2: of time to deal with his son Max's illness, and
Speaker 2: he's back and Freddy's dealing with a broken right middle finger.
Speaker 2: So the Dodgers have gotten through a lot of adversity
Speaker 2: and here they are in control of their destiny. Even
Speaker 2: with the loss tonight, even if they win tomorrow, their
Speaker 2: lead is three games going into Tuesday night here at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium against the Padres, and that three game series
Speaker 2: is going to settle everything. The Dodgers look, they are
Speaker 2: the better team. They are going to find a way
Speaker 2: to be able to beat the Padres. But it's going
Speaker 2: to come down to pitching for the Dodgers. I'm confident
Speaker 2: they're going to win that series. I'm confident they're going
Speaker 2: to win the NL West, but it's coming down to pitching.
Speaker 2: And tonight was encouraging from Walker Buehler, but I'm tired
Speaker 2: of saying encouraging. The Dodgers need a win. He's given
Speaker 2: up four earned runs tonight. He went five and a
Speaker 2: third innings. He did have nine strikeouts, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: He pitched well, but the offense needed to score more
Speaker 2: tonight against cal Quantrill. And once they got cal Quantrell
Speaker 2: out of this game at one hundred pitches with two
Speaker 2: outs in the fifth inning, they really couldn't do much
Speaker 2: of anything against the Rockies bullpen. I know there's a
Speaker 2: pitchers coming out of even the worst team's bullpen that
Speaker 2: are throwing upwards of ninety five ninety six miles an hour,
Speaker 2: But this was the type of game the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: damage in getting a mediocre starter out of the game early.
Speaker 3: They did that, but they really couldn't score much.
Speaker 2: And honestly, I didn't feel like the Dodgers played that
Speaker 2: great of a game from start to finish. They hit
Speaker 2: into two double plays, they left twelve men on base.
Speaker 2: You had Mookie Betts jogging to first base in the
Speaker 2: sixth inning instead of trying to hustle up the line
Speaker 2: to break up a double play or make it close.
Speaker 2: And then you had that first inning. That was an
Speaker 2: ugly first inning by the Dodgers. They did not help
Speaker 2: out Walker Bueller. There was a fly ball leadoff double
Speaker 2: by Charlie Blackman to start the game. Tommy Edmund probably
Speaker 2: should have caught that ball instead. It's a leadoff double.
Speaker 2: Then you have Walker Buehler throwing a ball wide of
Speaker 2: Hunter Fiduccia, which allowed the first run to score in
Speaker 2: the game tonight. A better throw gets the runner at home.
Speaker 2: And you're not talking about being down early in this
Speaker 2: game one to nothing and having Walker Buehler throwing twenty
Speaker 2: seven pitches in the first inning, not to mention having
Speaker 2: lux dropped a foul ball later in that first inning
Speaker 2: that could have limited the the uh the the pitches
Speaker 2: for Bueler as well. So the throw to Hunter Fiducca
Speaker 2: allowed Charlie Blackman to uh get in safely. There's one
Speaker 2: of two things Walker Buehler could have done, made a
Speaker 2: better throw to Fiducca or b how about throw to
Speaker 2: first base and get the sure out at that point
Speaker 2: in time. So the first inning was ugly and the
Speaker 2: Dodger offense just wasn't there tonight unfortunately. Eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: head downstairs right now to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear
Speaker 2: from Walker Buehler on sports Net LA.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I feel like I could kind of
Speaker 4: do something if I could get through the first two
Speaker 4: clean and yeah, something frustrating. Obviously, come out of the bullpen,
Speaker 4: you feel good and warmed up good today and just
Speaker 4: didn't kind of carry it over obviously, put you know,
Speaker 4: the bat on some decent pitches and and kind of
Speaker 4: not manufacturing them. But you know, I don't think it
Speaker 4: was I don't feel like they were hitting you know,
Speaker 4: six straight balls off the wall. So some encouraging things
Speaker 4: about it, but obviously not good enough at kind of
Speaker 4: at this point of the year, trying to.
Speaker 3: Keep the living indivision.
Speaker 5: It is one of the encouraging things for you just
Speaker 5: the swinging message we're able to get tonight and kind
Speaker 5: of executing those pitches.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that's always kind of encouraging.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, none of that
Speaker 4: really matters if they keep putting up numbers, so, you know,
Speaker 4: really kind of deflating. We tie the game up and
Speaker 4: then I give up a homer, and you know, it
Speaker 4: just sucks that I don't think. Yeah, I think I've
Speaker 4: had some rough patches and really questioned if if I
Speaker 4: have this stuff for the you kind of have it
Speaker 4: to compete, and tonight I felt like I could could
Speaker 4: you know, I could compete and just just didn't make
Speaker 4: the you know, the big pitches in the in the
Speaker 4: big spots, or kind of made little mistakes and in
Speaker 4: the big spots.
Speaker 5: And that's for sure, considering just one more start in
Speaker 5: the regular season, is there I guess obviously we'll kind
Speaker 5: of take these days to look at some stuff, But
Speaker 5: is there something that you really want to guess achieve
Speaker 5: in that final regular season?
Speaker 4: Adding Yeah, I mean, you know, I think pitching on
Speaker 4: both sides of the plate at and command the fastball
Speaker 4: to the armside quite the way I wanted to today,
Speaker 4: and I think in Atlanta that was a big thing
Speaker 4: for me, being able to kind of throw strikes on
Speaker 4: the inner half arrities, and you know, the slider wasn't
Speaker 4: quite where I wanted to be in terms of getting
Speaker 4: it over the plate. So definitely some stuff to kind
Speaker 4: of look through and work on, but you know, some
Speaker 4: stuff to kind of build on as well.
Speaker 2: There's Walker Buehler on sports and at LA and yes,
Speaker 2: honestly I could understand why he and the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: encouraged by what they saw tonight. I still love that
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller is pitching. He threw more cutters than any
Speaker 2: other pitch tonight. He threw twenty nine of those. He
Speaker 2: threw seventeen curveballs. He hung two, and those two mistake
Speaker 2: pitches really hurt him. Ezekiel Tovar, who is one of
Speaker 2: the best young shortstops in all of baseball. Tonight, his
Speaker 2: two out, two run double in the second inning gave
Speaker 2: him forty on the season. I thought I saw something
Speaker 2: to thanks to our guy, Rick Krajuski. He's the first
Speaker 2: Rocky since Matt Holiday back in the early two thousands
Speaker 2: to have that many doubles for the Rockies. Forty four
Speaker 2: doubles for Ezekiel Tovar, and that was on a hanging curveball.
Speaker 2: The home run that Ryan McMahon hit to put the
Speaker 2: Rockies ahead in the top of the fifth inning first pitch,
Speaker 2: hanging curveball. So two mistake pitches hurt Walker Bueller, But overall,
Speaker 2: he pitched really well, and I don't have any qualms
Speaker 2: with him starting a playoff game with what I've seen
Speaker 2: in the last two starts. The bigger issue here is
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, who has been such a pillar of strength
Speaker 2: for the Dodger bullpen on the mound and also as
Speaker 2: a mentor in that bullpen for the rest of the
Speaker 2: relief crew. The first half of the season, he was great.
Speaker 2: His ERA was under two, but all of a sudden
Speaker 2: now since the All Star Break, Daniel Hudson, including tonight,
Speaker 2: twenty four games with an ERA of five sixty four
Speaker 2: and the home run he gave up to Charlie Blackman
Speaker 2: tonight was the fifth home run Daniel Hudson has given
Speaker 2: up this second half, and that was a big home run.
Speaker 2: If it's if this was a one run game going
Speaker 2: into the bottom of the ninth inning with Otani Betson Freeman,
Speaker 2: I have no doubts the Dodgers win this game tonight
Speaker 2: eight six, six, seven, two, five seventy and they had
Speaker 2: the look at it. Max Mounsey struck out to end
Speaker 2: the game with the bases loaded. The Dodgers were very
Speaker 2: close to getting to set Halverson. He got a little
Speaker 2: bit of an assist tonight by the home plate umpire
Speaker 2: Jeremy Reehack, who did not have a great night behind
Speaker 2: the plate start to finish either. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: John who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, John, You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the umpire was horrific. I mean, but I have
Speaker 6: to say Max Monthly is way too impatient for the moment.
Speaker 6: He has to be a bit more patient. Even with
Speaker 6: the horrible call at the plate, it was I mean,
Speaker 6: it wasn't the homeplate umpire's fault that the Dodgers lost
Speaker 6: to Night. I mean, there were way too many mistakes
Speaker 6: made at the plate.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying anybody is blaming the homeplate umpire for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers losing this game.
Speaker 3: But he did kill it couple of rallies.
Speaker 2: I mean, that second strike to Muncie was very high,
Speaker 2: and then he called out Tommy Edmund looking in the
Speaker 2: fourth inning. That was a ball, that was a way
Speaker 2: that he called for strike three, So I thought, excuse me,
Speaker 2: that was the strikeout looking in the seventh for the
Speaker 2: second out after ta Oscar got on board with a
Speaker 2: one out air. I just didn't think the homeplate umpire
Speaker 2: was good. But I'm not saying that's the reason why
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lost the game.
Speaker 6: David, Can I tell you my theory on why umpires
Speaker 6: make the calls that they make, how horrible they are,
Speaker 6: okay with you, Marry the calls. They make the horrible
Speaker 6: calls because they have to go to the bathroom. They
Speaker 6: literally are.
Speaker 3: In need of a thank you, John, appreciate it. I
Speaker 3: could feel it was going a little bit too long there.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your theory.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
Speaker 2: that could be a possibility, but honestly, no, sorry, let's
Speaker 2: go out to Ryan. It sounds like a Petros and
Speaker 2: money theory right there. Ryan, Are you buying that theory
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 7: I'm not buying that theory. But I had to go
Speaker 7: to the bathroom between the fourth and fifth in English course,
Speaker 7: because you know, I was in between my third and
Speaker 7: fourth modello. But hey, thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 7: appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you for all of that. Appreciate that. What do
Speaker 2: you have for us when it comes to baseball?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 7: So when it comes to baseball, well, first off, I
Speaker 7: think that this was actually a promising loss. We had
Speaker 7: trapping on the bases all night, just didn't get the
Speaker 7: big hit. But I guys, stop.
Speaker 2: You really quick, because I know you've had a few Modellos.
Speaker 2: At this point in time in the season, there are
Speaker 2: no promising losses.
Speaker 7: Okay, absolutely, I okay, let's talk about Daniel Hotsone like
Speaker 7: Houston struggling a little bit. But what I noticed, he's
Speaker 7: not like he's like on a set pause. I thought
Speaker 7: that he bocked about four times and they didn't call it.
Speaker 7: And I thought that Charlie Blackman was just in a
Speaker 7: rhythm so where it was like hey, set pod bang,
Speaker 7: And I think that it's something that that the staff
Speaker 7: needs to take a look at that Daniel Hudson might
Speaker 7: be bocking one. I don't want that to come back
Speaker 7: and bite us in like the playoffs or two. Something
Speaker 7: that he needs to set pause and where like the hitters,
Speaker 7: you know, have a different look at. And that's just
Speaker 7: something that I noticed from the top deck and maybe
Speaker 7: we can look at the video on but it was
Speaker 7: very very close multiple times. And then Charlie Blackman, he
Speaker 7: was just on time and then he yanked one down
Speaker 7: the line and there's a three run yambo, you know, so.
Speaker 2: Anyway a two run yambo, and I just felt like
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson was living dangerously. His ninety five US ball
Speaker 2: was getting too much of the plate. And look, the
Speaker 2: facts are the Dodgers have leaned on this bullpen a
Speaker 2: little bit too often for a lot of people's likings.
Speaker 2: Since the beginning of the year, and Daniel Hudson especially.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy hasn't pitched these many innings or
Speaker 2: been in these many games in like three four years,
Speaker 2: so he's a veteran.
Speaker 3: He's thirty six.
Speaker 2: You got to imagine maybe the tank is a little
Speaker 2: bit empty. The Dodgers, I believe, at the beginning of
Speaker 2: September towards the end of August, tried to stay away
Speaker 2: from him as much as possible to try to allow
Speaker 2: him to regroup and maybe get a second wind. But
Speaker 2: obviously it hasn't worked out consistently. So hopefully he gets
Speaker 2: back on track, because it would be great to have
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson effective going into the postseason as a veteran. Remember,
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson was the last pitcher standing when the Nationals
Speaker 2: won the World Series all the way back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: Eight six two five seventy is the phone number. Wanted
Speaker 2: to give you an update on Tony Gonsolin, who made
Speaker 2: his third rehab start tonight for Oklahoma City, and it
Speaker 2: was a good one. Gonsolin only threw forty five pitches,
Speaker 2: He threw three scoreless innings, did not give up a hit,
Speaker 2: only did not walk anybody. And had six strikeouts. So
Speaker 2: Tony Gonsolin's name. I know there was a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of buzz about show Hey Otani possibly pitching
Speaker 2: in the postseason. I know Otani is a sexier name,
Speaker 2: but the realistic name that may appear in the postseason
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers or maybe by the end of the
Speaker 2: regular season is Tony Gonsolin. The Dodgers are not having
Speaker 2: him go through these rehab starts for next year. They
Speaker 2: could be, but it kind of feels like they are
Speaker 2: strongly considering Tony Gonsolin. We'll see what happens after another
Speaker 2: strong outing by the Catman and his third rehab start
Speaker 2: for Oklahoma City. Let's go out to James in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3: James.
Speaker 8: Hey, David, I agree on your take with Daniel Hudson,
Speaker 8: and I'm really happy to hear the news on Tony
Speaker 8: Gonsolin because Lord knows we need it. You know, if
Speaker 8: I'm the Dodgers, I'm putting Hudson out there no more
Speaker 8: than two more times before the postseason. Yeah, you got
Speaker 8: to get him back on track. But he's a veteran,
Speaker 8: he knows how to pitch, and he looks a little
Speaker 8: tired of me, and I think I mean he the
Speaker 8: number of outings, appearances. He is no spring chicken, and
Speaker 8: you got to get him rested, and I think that's
Speaker 8: what gets him on track. To be honest with you,
Speaker 8: they did rest up.
Speaker 2: They didn't pitch him for ten to eleven games in
Speaker 2: a row when they had opportunities, just because he didn't
Speaker 2: go on the il, they did not pitch him.
Speaker 8: That was a little while ago, though he's been in
Speaker 8: a lot long ago, three weeks ago, well, but this
Speaker 8: last week, last couple of weeks, Well, you're not.
Speaker 3: Going to pitch him. You just don't want to pitch
Speaker 3: for two months.
Speaker 8: No, I'm not saying that, David. Come on now, well,
Speaker 8: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 2: They just gave him a rest where he hadn't pitched
Speaker 2: for a long time, just to let him regroup. He's
Speaker 2: got to pitch at some point, and you know, at
Speaker 2: that point the snowball already happened. You can't take back
Speaker 2: the innings that he threw the first half of the
Speaker 2: year or coming out of the All Star break. At
Speaker 2: this point in time, he's got to keep pitching to
Speaker 2: keep some stamina, or he's going to be stale by
Speaker 2: the time October rolls around. So you can't you can't
Speaker 2: put the genie back in the bottle when you've pitched
Speaker 2: your bullpen these many innings.
Speaker 8: I do agree with that, but as opposed to eleven
Speaker 8: days off and then running him out there every other day,
Speaker 8: I mean, I think having him out there every third
Speaker 8: or fourth day, just knowing that he's an older guy,
Speaker 8: he you know, dealt with He's dealt with injuries with
Speaker 8: that knee in the past, and I look at all
Speaker 8: that and.
Speaker 3: Do you have the bullpen usages?
Speaker 2: Are you keeping track of Dave Roberts' bullpen usage because
Speaker 2: he doesn't put Daniel Hudson out there the way you
Speaker 2: just described it, he threw seventeen pitches in the last
Speaker 2: three games. He's only thrown a total of sixteen pitches.
Speaker 2: And he pitched Friday, he pitched on Tuesday, so he
Speaker 2: had two days off in between appearances, and he hadn't
Speaker 2: pitched back to back since the beginning of last week,
Speaker 2: and he threw minimal pitches there. So you want to
Speaker 2: talk about Walker Buehler, James, you're losing a battle here
Speaker 2: that you're not going to win.
Speaker 3: So what do you have to say about Walker Jeweler
Speaker 3: just a minute?
Speaker 8: I okay, I think we're looking at Buehler and hopefully Kershaw.
Speaker 8: He's looking good like you might likely come back. You
Speaker 8: got Yamamoto and Flaherty as number one number two guys
Speaker 8: to head the rotation going into the postseason. You need
Speaker 8: to guys like that. Preferably you got a third. I
Speaker 8: look at Kershaw and Bueller as like number four stars
Speaker 8: that we're hoping our offense can pick us up with.
Speaker 8: So I did see some promising things tonight. For sure.
Speaker 8: I'd like him to lean on that cutter more like
Speaker 8: he did tonight. Oral said that his curveball, you know,
Speaker 8: was his best pitch at the start of the game.
Speaker 8: I think the curve and the cutter, because you know
Speaker 8: that fastball doesn't have the same life and run. It's
Speaker 8: been raided and all that. I want to pivot to
Speaker 8: Gonsolin for a second and say that I think he
Speaker 8: could be a incredibly effective long man piggyback option out
Speaker 8: of the bullpen when you need If Kershn Bueler have
Speaker 8: to be taken out early because in the postseason you
Speaker 8: don't have the luxury of letting guys figure it out,
Speaker 8: you know, in the third or fourth inning.
Speaker 3: We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 2: I would love to see Tony Gonsolin pitch in a
Speaker 2: regular season game instead of having his first major league
Speaker 2: appearance being in a playoff game. So we'll see where
Speaker 2: it goes between now and the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the phone call, James appreciated. Eight six six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
Speaker 2: when it comes to Daniel Hudson, there's no way getting
Speaker 2: around that. He is thirty seven years old. He hasn't
Speaker 2: had this type of workload or innings because of two
Speaker 2: knee injuries and close to three or four years. So
Speaker 2: hopefully he can get back on track because he was
Speaker 2: a big part and still is a big part of
Speaker 2: this Dodger bullpen. And to have a veteran presence at
Speaker 2: the back end of your bullpen like Daniel Hudson, it's
Speaker 2: invaluable in the postseason. He's been there, like I said,
Speaker 2: last Man Standing, but that was all the way back
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 2: I have no doubts that Daniel Hudson is going to
Speaker 2: be on this Dodger playoff roster. You just got to
Speaker 2: get on track and have better command, and he understands that.
Speaker 2: And maybe he's pressing a little bit too much as well.
Speaker 2: Happens for pictures no matter how many years you've been
Speaker 2: in the league. Eight six, six nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a
Speaker 2: time out here on Dodger Talk. When we continue, we'll
Speaker 2: check in with Jose Mota. Also speaking of relief pictures,
Speaker 2: Anthony Banda, who had a fracture in his left pitching
Speaker 2: hand after he got frustrated on the last homestand may
Speaker 2: not be done for the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: We'll fill you in next.
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Speaker 9: this eighteenth.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of Daniel Hudson, that was the conversation we were
Speaker 2: having before we went to break and I mentioned twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen where he was the last man standing on the
Speaker 2: mound when the Nationals won the World Series in twenty nineteen. Well,
Speaker 2: this season, Daniel Hudson now has pitched sixty one innings.
Speaker 2: That's the most innings Daniel Hudson has thrown in a
Speaker 2: season since that twenty nineteen year where he threw seventy
Speaker 2: three innings between Toronto and Washington. So this is the
Speaker 2: most thirty seven year old Daniel Hudson has thrown in
Speaker 2: quite some time. And tonight was his sixty third appearance
Speaker 2: of the year. He hasn't made that many appearances in
Speaker 2: a season since also twenty nineteen, when he made sixty
Speaker 2: nine appearances. So the reality is he's a thirty seven
Speaker 2: year old pitcher. Even though he has missed the last
Speaker 2: two years with knee injuries on both knees. You got
Speaker 2: to imagine that the workload the Dodgers have put on
Speaker 2: him as starting to show it's wear and tear. But
Speaker 2: he is one of the toughest guys you will meet.
Speaker 2: I have said this before. He reminds me of Chase
Speaker 2: Suttley in the relief pitcher form, and tonight he just
Speaker 2: got two outs and made a bad pitch to Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 2: And as I mentioned, the Dodgers have given Hudson some
Speaker 2: pretty long rest gaps during this season. They gave him
Speaker 2: a six day rest period from July twenty seventh to
Speaker 2: August second, then a nine day gap from August twentieth
Speaker 2: to August twenty ninth, and then recently it was five
Speaker 2: days between appearances September sixth to eleven. So he's not hurt.
Speaker 2: He just may be a little overused at this point
Speaker 2: in time. So the Dodgers have done everything they possibly
Speaker 2: can to try to compensate for this heavy workload that
Speaker 2: thirty seven year old Daniel Hudson has had this year.
Speaker 2: And the reason why he's been used this much is
Speaker 2: because a earlier in the year and basically the entire season,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have not been getting a lot of quality
Speaker 2: innings from their starters, and b he was really good
Speaker 2: the first half of the year, so they kept using him.
Speaker 2: And kudos to Daniel Hudson, he's been healthy all season long. Now,
Speaker 2: speaking of the Dodgers relief corps, remember on the last
Speaker 2: homestand Anthony Banda did not have a good outing and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said that in frustration he banged his left
Speaker 2: hand and broke his left hand. Well, I found out
Speaker 2: today number one, I witnessed Anthony Banda throw a bullpen session.
Speaker 2: I found out it was his second bullpen session since
Speaker 2: going on the il. He is going to throw to
Speaker 2: hitters in the next few days and after that he
Speaker 2: will be activated before the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: So Anthony Banda season is not over. My understanding is
Speaker 2: he broke his is left pinky bone, a bone in
Speaker 2: his left pinky in the perfect spot where he kind
Speaker 2: of just backhanded something and it broke. So it wasn't
Speaker 2: like him punching a wall, which we were led to believe.
Speaker 2: Nobody has really spoken to Banda. I did today and
Speaker 2: that's what Dave Roberts and Banda let me in on.
Speaker 3: So there you have it.
Speaker 2: Anthony Bunda will return before the end of the regular season.
Speaker 2: According to Dave Roberts. All right, let's get out to
Speaker 2: Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota, I'll bring you into this conversation.
Speaker 2: What is the balance for the Dodgers at this stage
Speaker 2: of the season, with what seven games to go and
Speaker 2: that type of workload already for Daniel Hudson.
Speaker 10: The balance is that if he becomes one of your
Speaker 10: best options to go out there and get some house,
Speaker 10: you got to use him. And then the other option
Speaker 10: is how much longer can I give him to rest
Speaker 10: when you mentioned he got some time off the rest
Speaker 10: because obviously you know h it's on him. And there's
Speaker 10: no doubt about this guy is a fighter man. He
Speaker 10: wants to pitch, he wants to be successful, but the
Speaker 10: results have not been there. Go back to the Jake
Speaker 10: Berger home run and that eleven to nine loss, and
Speaker 10: then the last couple of outings with the home runs
Speaker 10: and then e RA dating back to August. By the way,
Speaker 10: you know, this goes back to August when the ERA
Speaker 10: was over five and here we go and in September.
Speaker 10: But it's a guy that you pull for because he's
Speaker 10: done it before, because he doesn't back away from the talents.
Speaker 10: Now reality is when do you bring him in? And
Speaker 10: hollis sharp, can you keep him now between now and
Speaker 10: seven games left where you don't getting get rusty? And
Speaker 10: because of that, he is not affected when you need him.
Speaker 10: So he would say that, yeah, a couple of days
Speaker 10: off right now would be great, and you got to
Speaker 10: find a way to do that. But you got to
Speaker 10: keep this guy in his game and bring him back
Speaker 10: to what he is because he's done it before. Without
Speaker 10: a couple of miles an hour, they're licking, lacking right now.
Speaker 10: He is able to pitch well enough. Now it's just
Speaker 10: a matter maybe even not trying its hard enough, because
Speaker 10: he made a couple of good pitches on Blacklan and
Speaker 10: before you know it, he just hung on maybe Chroy
Speaker 10: Tiller too fast or too hard and this stutt Flind
Speaker 10: his own got hurt.
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson, in twenty four games in the second half
Speaker 2: of the season, has an ERA of five sixty four.
Speaker 2: He gave up his fifth home run since the All
Speaker 2: Star Break tonight, a big one, a two run home
Speaker 2: run to Charlie Blackman. Let's go back to Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: because big picture wise, whether the Dodgers are the division
Speaker 2: winner or a wildcard team, they're going to need Walker Buehler.
Speaker 2: How encouraging was tonight considering he did give up four runs,
Speaker 2: the defense wasn't great, the first inning wasn't great, but
Speaker 2: he did have nine strikeouts.
Speaker 10: Encouraging because we have to see that a lot of
Speaker 10: the you know, the tunnel wish that you know that
Speaker 10: first inning had been a little bit cleaner. He talked
Speaker 10: about the first thing in the outings and his ERA
Speaker 10: and also the average coming into today three sixty seven.
Speaker 10: So he says it feels great coming out and coming
Speaker 10: out of the bullpen. Execution has not barn been their
Speaker 10: shar But also one thing today, but I mentioned this
Speaker 10: two paper to my left to Igo. The weirdest things
Speaker 10: happen when this guy's on the mount. He's got a
Speaker 10: broken bat. Okay, the bat flies out like a sword,
Speaker 10: ends up being located well between the short something in
Speaker 10: the third basement that's a base it. Then the players
Speaker 10: that are not then made. Then the wild pitch on
Speaker 10: the ball that he bounce and produce actually blocked well.
Speaker 10: And you know, he's been tested so many times with
Speaker 10: the things that he cannot control that I would say,
Speaker 10: because he was able to get to the sixth inning,
Speaker 10: we have to say it was success. The line to
Speaker 10: me doesn't tell the whole story, but overall, I'll take
Speaker 10: the punch out, and we know he likes punch outs.
Speaker 10: But I think the life and even the way he
Speaker 10: pitched after the first stinning and just being able to
Speaker 10: locate better with the fastball, throw the cutter and then
Speaker 10: have the curve will be effective down in the zone.
Speaker 10: It's encouraging too, but I mean the big league man,
Speaker 10: you get away with it, you throw a couple of
Speaker 10: mistakes and Dave, he just cannot get away with it.
Speaker 10: And as a team, overall, you got a plot him
Speaker 10: and say have we scared a couple more runs? He
Speaker 10: would be probably all, you know, getting hiself a doubly.
Speaker 10: So it goes on the offense too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the offense was kind of flat tonight. I know
Speaker 2: it always looks flat. But they did their job getting
Speaker 2: Cal Quantrill out of this game in the fifth inning
Speaker 2: with one hundred pitches, and you would assume that at
Speaker 2: that point in time they would have been able to
Speaker 2: score some runs against this poor Rockies bullpen.
Speaker 10: Well, this Rockies bullpen the last three weeks has been
Speaker 10: one of the best in the game. And they showed
Speaker 10: why some new arms, some young arms, guys would throw strikes.
Speaker 10: And Buddy Black has been telling me about these guys.
Speaker 10: This kid Parata, who's a cousin of Freddy Parata with Milwaukee.
Speaker 10: You say, wait till you see this guy pitch. He's
Speaker 10: like five ten ninety seven on the fastball, ninety five
Speaker 10: painting in eighty two on that breakab But overall, there's
Speaker 10: a couple of balls hit hard that you know could
Speaker 10: have changed things to one by Mookie Bits to a
Speaker 10: third base of place as deep as Matt Chapman. The
Speaker 10: only guy is McMahon, who did a fine job covering
Speaker 10: and getting that double play started. But then even some
Speaker 10: pitch selection, they could have been a little bit better.
Speaker 10: But you know, the Rockies when they needed to they
Speaker 10: there's nothing missing over the plate today, Dave, where you
Speaker 10: can say, wow, they missed that picture. That picture did
Speaker 10: not have a chance to get somebody out of that game.
Speaker 10: As you mentioned with Quanto, their very fine job, but
Speaker 10: just that one contact was not made. And I think
Speaker 10: you know as a general comment here, Dave, the Dodgers
Speaker 10: playoffs starts tomorrow, and I'm gonna say why tomorrow is
Speaker 10: a game in which you want to take momentum coming
Speaker 10: into the Padre series. Okay, the Potter series is a
Speaker 10: playoff game for the off series for you already, so
Speaker 10: you cannot wait to turn it on and off. It's
Speaker 10: about urgency, it's about how you plan things out. It's
Speaker 10: about after an off date, everybody gets a little rest
Speaker 10: and go out there and play better basebally because overall
Speaker 10: the picture today was not one with the dollars played
Speaker 10: good baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point Jose, Yet tomorrow begins the
Speaker 2: postseason for the Dodgers because the Padres are not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: They haven't gone anywhere, and those three games are going
Speaker 2: to decide whether or not you got five days off
Speaker 2: or you're going to be tested with your pitching in
Speaker 2: the best of three series. We'll see out here tomorrow
Speaker 2: for game one of this start of playoff.
Speaker 10: Like baseball, it is Samurai baseball with yoshinog with tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Be ready.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Jose, We'll see you tomorrow, Yoshi Yamamoto.
Speaker 3: Yes, we'll be on the mound tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And look, this will be his first taste of, as
Speaker 2: Jose described it, playoff intensity baseball. The Dodgers have to
Speaker 2: approach it that way beginning tomorrow, and I know they're
Speaker 2: looking forward to that Monday day off, but they need
Speaker 2: that win tomorrow. And you're only as good as the
Speaker 2: tone you're starting pitcher sets, and Yamamoto has been pretty
Speaker 2: good in his first two starts off the il for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and each of his first two starts he
Speaker 2: has pitched four scoreless innings. And for the Dodgers, with
Speaker 2: the loss tonight, it will be their first full season
Speaker 2: without winning one hundred games since twenty eighteen. Right, first
Speaker 2: class problems right there for the Dodgers first full season
Speaker 2: without winning one hundred games in a season. But they're
Speaker 2: going to the playoffs for the twelfth consecutive year. That'll
Speaker 2: do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight, thanks to
Speaker 2: calling you back at our Burbank studios. Thanks to Dwayne
Speaker 2: McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium. Like I mentioned, Yamamoto
Speaker 2: will be on the mound for the Dodgers tomorrow, going
Speaker 2: up against Antonio Senzateela, making his second start of the season.
Speaker 3: Morongo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at noon with first pitch at
Speaker 2: one ten from Dodgers Stadium, and before the game, one
Speaker 2: of the great Dodger catchers in their history, Steve Jaeger,
Speaker 2: is going to be presented with the Tommy Lesorda Bleed
Speaker 2: Dodger Blue Awards.
Speaker 3: So we look forward to seeing Steve.
Speaker 2: Jaeger back at Dodger Stadium tomorrow once again. The final
Speaker 2: score tonight from Dodger Stadium. The Rockies defeat the Dodgers
Speaker 2: six to three. Have a great rest of your night.
Speaker 3: See us time