March 25, 2025 • 24 mins
DV talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers fall to the Angels, 5-4. Freddie Freeman gives an update on his rib injury. Tyler Glasnow talks to the media after striking out nine.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We are live at Angels Stadium after the Halos walk
it off on a Taylor Ward base head to beat
the Dodgers five to four in the middle game of
the Practice Freeways series. We have phone lines open at
eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. I
actually met a caller that ambushed me in the radio
booth earlier today before the game, Wayne ran Dazzo brought
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an over zealous Angel fan into the press box that
just wanted to call scoreboard on me and dunk on
my face. And that was Angels fan Breezy. A Breezy
apparently called Durango Tani's final year with the Angels to
tell me that he was sunning with the Dodgers because
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he usually doesn't take batting practice on the field, and
I guess he did that day at Dodgers Stadium. And
she said I blew her off when when she told
me that, but she turned out to be right. I'm
not sure it's because he took betting practice on the
field or not that day at Dodgers Stadium. There are
some reports out there that Otani came back to the
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Angels and asked if they would match the sweetheart deal
he gave the Dodgers, and they passed on it. So
the Angels, in a lot of different ways, missed on
the six years that Otani was here, because what the
Dodgers are doing maximizing Otani globally is something you never
saw six years in Anaheim. But Breezy, it was great
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meeting you, and you can call any time. Any friend
of Wayne is a friend of mine. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
We're with you until ten o'clock. You will hear from
Tyler Glass now. But we want to get to the
Dodgers Big two of Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman. These
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two guys at the top of the Dodger lineup supporting
Otani are huge for the Dodgers. I know the Dodgers
won both games in Tokyo without them, but that's not
something that you want to test out for a long
period of time. Freddie Freeman in the Dodgers starting lineup
for the second straight night is a sight for sore eyes.
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You don't have to hold your breath, or at least
I don't anymore. Now that Freddie has basically passed the
test of Fringan's swinging freely and not holding anything back
two nights in a row, and we caught up with
Freddie before tonight's game just to talk to him after
not really speaking to him in Tokyo, And this is
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the first time Freddie has spoken on the record about
what was going on, what he was feeling, and how
he's able to move forward.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, So came in today filming pretty good and didn't
feel anything on swings or anything like that. So it
seems like to be a scar tissue. So that's a
good thing, not with how much progress I made and
that they could. I tried to fight play game two
because I was feeling pretty good, but it was ultimately
a smart decision. But feel good today playing back to
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back and I'll play again tomorrow, so hopefully be a
afterthought by Thursday.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
In that situation, you don't know if one swing is
going to reaggrevate.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It exactly exactly. That's why we kind of played on
the cautionary side of it, just because I was able
to hit on the in the cage and do whatever
I wanted to on games. On the day of game two,
but I just didn't know of game speed, if it
would make it come up again. So I thought we
ultimately did the right decision. Unfortunately I caved, but I
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feel good. So missing two games over the course and
could have missed six weeks probably the best decision. It's amazing.
That club was amazing. Yeah, it was like a little
teaz yesterday. I wanted. I was hoping we could just
play all the games there, play all on you know,
it's amazing. It's fun that they did an amazing job.
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Just starting to think they can do those renovations in
four months. It took my wine cellar at about eight
months to do. I'm kind of confused about it. Yeah,
I know, twenty four hours a day. No, but the
clothous was incredible. It's it's I still haven't really seen
it all. I don't think there's because I heard their
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sleep rooms. I didn't even seen those yet. So really,
gonna take a couple of days. Yeah, there's a couple
of days it's gonna take to really take it all in.
But it's amazing than you care about the most of
the bat the two cages. Yeah, it's I liked I
like that. That's yeah. No, the I mean we made
it work with one cage, but having two cages obviously
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you can get so much more that guys can work
at the same same time. And uh they went in
the same area as the weight room, so it is
a long walk. It's there's a lot of room now
down there, so uh no, it's good. Now we'll be
able to change schedules because like I always said after
MOOKI on certain game days, so now we can kind
of mix and match. So uh no, more more space,
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more resources means hopefully better things.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I know it was only an exhibition game last night,
but you know obviously the way the crowd reacted in
Tokyo to Otani, I had my own vass a crowd
meter last night. You got the loudest ovation in your
first at bat last night.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It feels good.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm really looking for more to Thursday and getting the
packed house again. But come out on an exhibition game
like they did yesterday on a Sunday, that was pretty
cool to see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hey, Otani is a tremendous player, the best player in
the game. But Freddie Freeman hit a walk off grand
Slam in game one of the world series that is
going to give you the loudest ovation at Dodger Stadium,
and he got it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Last night, no joke.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Otani got loud ovations, but I would say on the
vast say crowd meter noise meter, Freddie's was a couple
of des bowls higher than Ota. So it's gonna be
tremendous on Thursday, the ovations. Not only Freddy Freeman's going
to get and Otani's going to get, but the entire
twenty twenty four World champions when they received their rings
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on Friday, and the twenty twenty five Dodgers when they're
announced on opening day on Thursday afternoon. So great news
that Freddy Freeman's on track for Thursday, and also even
better news because Mookie Betts has turned the corner miraculously
after sounding so defeated last night. When we shared that
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with you, Dave Roberts said, Mookie Betts went to Dodgers
Stadium today to work out. He actually ate solid food
and did not vomit. That's a big win for Mookie
Bets since he hasn't been able to do that for
two weeks.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So he's expected to be.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Here in Anaheim tomorrow and Dave Roberts said he's expected
to have Mookie Betts in the starting lineup in the
final game of the Free series, But when I asked
Dave whether or not he would go as far as
to say that Moki would be in the starting lineup
on Thursday, he would have to wait to see how
Mooky comes out of it tomorrow. And let's not forget
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Mookie Betts was in the starting lineup yesterday but was
a late scratch. So let's see where things end up
tomorrow for Mooki Bets.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But it would be nice to see.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Him play one game and hopefully Thursday be ready for
the home opener. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number Dodger talked from Angel
Stadium tonight as the Dodgers fall five to four, But
more importantly, got a really good start for Tyler Glass
now who went five innings, had nine strikeouts and now
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on the spring has nineteen strikeouts. Yeah, Tyler Glass now
this spring has been dominant, And it's not so much
about the start for Tyler Glass now, it's about the finish.
Can he make it through a full season? He continues
to trend in that direction. After last year making a
career high twenty two starts, but obviously not available the
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second half of the season. But for Tyler Glass now
nineteen strikeouts in eleven innings this spring, and he told
us after his first start his mindset was to be
more athletic and not try to focus on the perfect
mechanics every single pitch. Here's what he said after he
came out of the game tonight. As far as that goes, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
This spring offecially like the last couple. I've been feeling
pretty good. I think just working on the stuff in
practice and then kind of forgetting about it and trying
to just go be athletic has been good for me
the spring.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Do you feel like that's.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Also going to help you just stay healthy and whatever
plagued you the second half.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Of last year?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Is that all connected?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I think anytime you can kind of repeat your mechanics
and not have that like conscious thought where everything's changing
each pitch, I think it'll put me in a much
better place, more like external focus. I guess it's like
if I'm trying to bury a slider, I'm like, all right,
I need to go bury as opposed to being like,
how did.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
That last one?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I felt a little rotational and like it's like I'm
trying to align everything correctly, and I think if it
doesn't line up well in practice, it kind of leaks
into the game. And I think if I can get
good reps and like think about what I need to
in practice and then get my body in a good spot,
it's easier to not think about it. So it's not
like it's every time it's going to happen. I think
every starting pitcher has times where they have to kind
of grind and figure it out on the mound. But yeah,
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I think it's just as long as I can have
like an external focus on the zone as opposed to
me thinking about all my body parts, that usually goes
a lot better for me.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Tyler, you could probably be the opening day starter for
twenty eight, twenty nine other teams. That is it not
lost upon you that the Dodgers don't need you until
the third series of the season.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I think it's great. Like if I'm a number five
or four or whatever, like that means there's a lot
of really good pictures on our team. So however lines up,
it lines up. But I'm I'm I'm happy where I am.
It's all good.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Do you feel like you guys will feed off each
other in a team competition competitive way?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I thought maybe. I think we all just want each
other to do well, and like everyone's so competitive individually,
Like you just want to go on pitch well. Like
I don't know if everyone's worried about what everyone else
is doing. I think it's just go out, win a
ton of games as a team, pitch well, and then
everything kind of takes care of itself.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There's Tyler Glass now, who had his final tune up
of spring training and is getting set for his first
start of the regular season this year a week from
tonight at Dodgers Stadium against the Atlanta Braves. The way
the Dodgers' rotation stacks up to begin the season, Blake Snell,
Yamamoto Sazaki will be the first three against the Tigers,
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and then you'll have Tyler Glass now Dustin May starting
the first two games of the series against Atlanta, and
then you'll have Blake Snell come back and finish out
the first home stand of the year. Not to mention
Kershaw and Otani and Tony Gonsolin waiting in the wings
if need be, I mean Kershaw is coming back, I
would venture to say Kershaw's in this rotation by June.
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Otani feels like he's not going to be back until
the second half of the year pitching. And you know,
if all things are equal as they stand right now,
the Dodgers don't need Otani in the first half of
the season the pitch.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
They need Otani to.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Be a weapon in the postseason, and the way he
can do that is ramping up for eight or ten
starts the second half of the year.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't feel like the Dodgers really need Otani the
first half of the year to pitch. They need that bat,
that fifty to fifty MVP bat in the lineup. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk
Live from the Big A and we'll check in with
Jose Mota when we continue. As the Dodgers and Angels
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will close out the Freeway Series tomorrow night Tonight, the
Halos win it walk off fashion thanks to a tailor
Ward base it in the ninth five to four on
the World Chain champion Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
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Speaker 5 (12:15):
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Speaker 2 (12:17):
With David masson two two pitch swang on hit well
the left, going back to his Taylor Ward.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
He's at the track to the wall. It has gone
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Speaker 2 (12:28):
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the game at one. As Jerry Harrison likes to say
on sports net LA, Teo Teo, teo, why don't you
hypnotize me?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Ta Oscar Hernandez with a home run. Getting ready to.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Resume the regular season as the Dodgers faull tonight to
the Angels in a practice practice game.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Five to four the final score.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
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All right, let's get to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Jose Mota back at the Big A and Jose before
we get to Tyler Glass. Now before the game, a
few of the Dodger trainers that have known Luis Cruz
for a while, we're trying to tell me that he
never stops talking.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You're with him a lot. Does he ever stop talking?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
You know what the best part is about lous Cruz
That he's getting paid to talk.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's what I say. I talked to him, right, That's
what we do.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
How are you getting that report from from the Dodgers
athletic trainers. That's quite interesting to me.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Hey, they were around number forty seven for a few years.
They know what Louis.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Louis welcome to the show. I remember that when I
first got my first broadcast gig back in nineteen ninety
seven one the Fox, my wife is like, what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You don't talk.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I'm like, well, now I'm gonna get paid to talk.
It's much different. It's going to work.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, you came out of your shell, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Jose Mota is joining us on Dodgery Talk as we're
getting set to end the practice games tomorrow night. And
for me, Jose, the story of the game was not
only Freddie playing again, but also the way Tyler Glass
now closed out spring training.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He looked dominant tonight, no matter what.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
And you asked me this question in the interview we
did over at Salt Ripper and Arizona. Cheto the Dodgers,
this season is going to you starting pitching, and they
have tremendous offense. You know, the bullpen is stacked, but man,
the tradition that we want to see is get back
to those guys on the mound carrying the load for
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you as starting pitchers. And it's so encouraging to see
the way that Tyler kind of reassess himself and reevaluated
some things he was, you know, having issues with why.
You know, there's a lot of whys in the off
season from him. As I was talking to him, and
obviously he want to stay healthy. He found some things
that are not very complicated at all, but it's being
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athletic as he mentioned, and that's important. Now he's a
strike at all, he's a power pitcher. They can go
out there and dominate and get your fourteen punch outs
with under one hundred pitches. He did it last year
in Minnesota. But also at the same time, I love
the mentality of practice as much as he want, but
didn't when the game starts. Just let it be natural.
And that is what we're seeing right now, and hopefully
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he'll carry this into the regular season. At one point
I want to make to that I'm glad you brought
up David him congratulates Austin Barnes and saying thank you.
Let me tell you that that relationship between pitches and
catchers goes beyond balls and strikes and catching and calling
a pitch, and it goes understanding that what a guy
that glassed out from six to eight goes out there,
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and barriers that you break involved, that your body is
aligned well enough to block it, and that you're not
gonna be blocking his brick ball the way you would
say it couldn't curse ow curveball, and all those things
just go in live with being a smart catcher, being
in tune with your guy, knowing who he is. All
those things play a part in him being out there
and dominating and being comfortable whoever's behind the plate.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You know, it feels like you always talk about hitters
not thinking too much at the plate. It feels like
for Tyler Glass now he can't overthink things on the
mound or he's going to get in trouble and start
to feel like he's out of sync.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
That when comes on to pitch sequences and what to
throw and how to set up a hitter. But more
than anything is let it fly and just trust that
you're well enough, you're prepared enough, you're strong enough, you're
you're well trained enough to go out there and just
allow the ball to do what it's gonna do because
you are naturally a guy that's gonna field his own.
One pitch that I think is going to be key
for him. He implemented it last years, that two seamer.
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We saw a lot of it here tonight at ninety seven,
ninety sixth movement for Tyler. You know, at times it
comes down to not trying to just power by guys.
But he's got enough for that two seamer too. With
two strikes, surprise the right ended hitters in the outer half,
and number two is when the situation calls were being economical.
Go out there and he's a two seamer, gonna ground
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ball and keep your defense looking for you. So he
has so many weapons, and I think he's kind of
discovering himself a little bit more as a pitcher because
he's surrounded by that. It's only, you know, an upswing
that I see in his career, and of course as
a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All right, Jose Moto, what's your guess if Mookie Betts
does show up in Anaheim tomorrow and does play three
or four innings, do you expect him to be in
the starting lineup on Thursday against the Tigers.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Oh my gosh, I would say if Dave Roberts have
to see, what will he have to see to say, yes,
you're in the lineup on Thursday. That first of all,
he's not too weak. That there's stamina, but you know how,
I'm going to measure stamina in three or four innings,
So you can't do that because now you're going to
be playing against Trek's scoobl and the Tigers A you're
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gonna have to play nine anything. So I hope the
dogers is they know very well can go out there
and just be on the safe side because it takes
a lot. And we mentioned it today, we talk about Betts,
the igression soft tissue that that causes problems with Maybe
tomorrow just a little Twitter to see where he is,
but do not force the issue. There's no need to.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Hey, if you're facing trek scooble, maybe the stomach problems
are going to come back, right, scooble itis.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
No me, come on, no, But I really do hope
they that the safe.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh see, Jose got schooble itis. I just mentioned schooble
and Jose's phone gave out. All right, Jose, we'll see
you out here tomorrow night. Thanks a lot for checking in.
And yes, come on, Mookie. Betts is not backing down
from anybody. But I'll say this, Goooble's the best pitcher
in baseball. And what I was trying to say is
that he will make anybody's stomach feel upset because he's
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that good. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Hey, it's a rare Sunday
day off for the Dodgers because of this weird schedule
since they came back from Tokyo, Japan. The Dodgers are
opening up on Thursday, so it's a three game series
against the Tigers Thursday, Friday, Saturday. The Dodgers have Sunday off.
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But it's a great opportunity to meet our beloved ta
Oscar Hernandez on this Sunday at the Citadel specifically the
Polo Ralph Lawrence store at the State Outlets for the
Polo Ralph Lawrence Family Baseball Fan Experience. I will be
there with ta Oscar from one to three. It's not
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an autograph session at casual. Ta Oscar is not signing autographs.
He will meet you, he will greet you, he'll even
take photos with you with that great smile, but it
is not an autograph session. But we want to see
you out there, test your fast pitch, win prizes, and
we'll have a lot of fun together with ta Oscar
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Hernandez one to three o'clock this Sunday at the Citadel Outlets,
specifically the Rouph Polo Ralph Laurence Stores. So we'll look
forward to seeing you this Sunday with ta Oscar Hernandez.
And speaking of ta Oscar, he went deep tonight and
sports Net LA got a boost in ratings. Dino Ebol,
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the Dodgers third base coach, was miked up for the
seventh straight Freeway Series.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
They always do it for one of these games.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And Dino was miked up tonight, and he knew that
sound of the bat. He had heard it many times
from a lot of great players in this ballpark. Here's
how it sounded with Dino on the field on sports
net LA when Tao went deep, that ball's gone.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They Oscar Hernandez high flat ball le field toward the
bullpen and under the bullpen, so Tayo, it ties things up.
Dino knew it right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Good like Carol.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'd wait to get him.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
He's got some kind of pop.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Hey, I heard Dino carried Eric Carros and Steven Nelson
tonight on sports net LA. Those two guys should give
their paychecks over to Dino for carrying their broadcast tonight,
especially Caros. I mean, come on, a great job by
Dino Ebl. As always, he went viral on that on
that home run, calling it as soon as he heard it.
So it's always great to get that inside feel to
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the game. And Dino was gracious enough again to be
miked up for Sports Net LA, even in a setting
like this Freeway Series exhibition game. Awesome stuff, great idea
to have him. So hopefully the Dodgers continue to keep
things rolling and Dino Ebel has those kind of feelings
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a lot this season. I have no doubt that's going
to happen. The Dodger offense is the best in baseball.
I mean, there is nowhere to come up for air.
We talk about Tyler Glass now being a guy that
could start on opening Day for twenty eight other teams
out there. How about Michael Conforto hitting seventh for the Dodgers?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Michael Conforto could probably hit higher in the lineup of
at least twenty five teams out there.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
So the Dodgers are stacked.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
They've been very judicious with who they've traded for who
they've signed, and it's worked out the right way for
them as they are in position to at least go
back to the World Series, let alone try to win
it for a back to back situation. The first time
in twenty five years a major League team would have
won back to back World Series, the Yankees, the Gita
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Yankees did it twenty five years ago. That'll do it
for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at the Big A, thanks to Colin Ee
back at our Burbank studios, and thanks to you for listening.
In case you missed any of the show or our
pregame conversation with two time world champion Chris Taylor, you
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can find.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Tomorrow night, Dustin May will close out the exhibition Freeway
series for the Dodgers Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
at five o'clock with first pitch at six oh seven
from the Big A with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett
once again.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
The final score.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Tonight from Anaheim, the Angels defeat the Dodgers five to four.
Have a great rest of your night. We'll see you
tomorrow or we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
See it on the second self. They just te
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We are live at Angels Stadium after the Halos walk
it off on a Taylor Ward base head to beat
the Dodgers five to four in the middle game of
the Practice Freeways series. We have phone lines open at
eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. I
actually met a caller that ambushed me in the radio
booth earlier today before the game, Wayne ran Dazzo brought
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an over zealous Angel fan into the press box that
just wanted to call scoreboard on me and dunk on
my face. And that was Angels fan Breezy. A Breezy
apparently called Durango Tani's final year with the Angels to
tell me that he was sunning with the Dodgers because
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he usually doesn't take batting practice on the field, and
I guess he did that day at Dodgers Stadium. And
she said I blew her off when when she told
me that, but she turned out to be right. I'm
not sure it's because he took betting practice on the
field or not that day at Dodgers Stadium. There are
some reports out there that Otani came back to the
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Angels and asked if they would match the sweetheart deal
he gave the Dodgers, and they passed on it. So
the Angels, in a lot of different ways, missed on
the six years that Otani was here, because what the
Dodgers are doing maximizing Otani globally is something you never
saw six years in Anaheim. But Breezy, it was great
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meeting you, and you can call any time. Any friend
of Wayne is a friend of mine. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
We're with you until ten o'clock. You will hear from
Tyler Glass now. But we want to get to the
Dodgers Big two of Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman. These
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two guys at the top of the Dodger lineup supporting
Otani are huge for the Dodgers. I know the Dodgers
won both games in Tokyo without them, but that's not
something that you want to test out for a long
period of time. Freddie Freeman in the Dodgers starting lineup
for the second straight night is a sight for sore eyes.
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You don't have to hold your breath, or at least
I don't anymore. Now that Freddie has basically passed the
test of Fringan's swinging freely and not holding anything back
two nights in a row, and we caught up with
Freddie before tonight's game just to talk to him after
not really speaking to him in Tokyo, And this is
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the first time Freddie has spoken on the record about
what was going on, what he was feeling, and how
he's able to move forward.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, So came in today filming pretty good and didn't
feel anything on swings or anything like that. So it
seems like to be a scar tissue. So that's a
good thing, not with how much progress I made and
that they could. I tried to fight play game two
because I was feeling pretty good, but it was ultimately
a smart decision. But feel good today playing back to
(03:08):
back and I'll play again tomorrow, so hopefully be a
afterthought by Thursday.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
In that situation, you don't know if one swing is
going to reaggrevate.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It exactly exactly. That's why we kind of played on
the cautionary side of it, just because I was able
to hit on the in the cage and do whatever
I wanted to on games. On the day of game two,
but I just didn't know of game speed, if it
would make it come up again. So I thought we
ultimately did the right decision. Unfortunately I caved, but I
(03:38):
feel good. So missing two games over the course and
could have missed six weeks probably the best decision. It's amazing.
That club was amazing. Yeah, it was like a little
teaz yesterday. I wanted. I was hoping we could just
play all the games there, play all on you know,
it's amazing. It's fun that they did an amazing job.
(04:01):
Just starting to think they can do those renovations in
four months. It took my wine cellar at about eight
months to do. I'm kind of confused about it. Yeah,
I know, twenty four hours a day. No, but the
clothous was incredible. It's it's I still haven't really seen
it all. I don't think there's because I heard their
(04:23):
sleep rooms. I didn't even seen those yet. So really,
gonna take a couple of days. Yeah, there's a couple
of days it's gonna take to really take it all in.
But it's amazing than you care about the most of
the bat the two cages. Yeah, it's I liked I
like that. That's yeah. No, the I mean we made
it work with one cage, but having two cages obviously
(04:45):
you can get so much more that guys can work
at the same same time. And uh they went in
the same area as the weight room, so it is
a long walk. It's there's a lot of room now
down there, so uh no, it's good. Now we'll be
able to change schedules because like I always said after
MOOKI on certain game days, so now we can kind
of mix and match. So uh no, more more space,
(05:08):
more resources means hopefully better things.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I know it was only an exhibition game last night,
but you know obviously the way the crowd reacted in
Tokyo to Otani, I had my own vass a crowd
meter last night. You got the loudest ovation in your
first at bat last night.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
How did that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It feels good.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm really looking for more to Thursday and getting the
packed house again. But come out on an exhibition game
like they did yesterday on a Sunday, that was pretty
cool to see.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Hey, Otani is a tremendous player, the best player in
the game. But Freddie Freeman hit a walk off grand
Slam in game one of the world series that is
going to give you the loudest ovation at Dodger Stadium,
and he got it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Last night, no joke.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Otani got loud ovations, but I would say on the
vast say crowd meter noise meter, Freddie's was a couple
of des bowls higher than Ota. So it's gonna be
tremendous on Thursday, the ovations. Not only Freddy Freeman's going
to get and Otani's going to get, but the entire
twenty twenty four World champions when they received their rings
(06:13):
on Friday, and the twenty twenty five Dodgers when they're
announced on opening day on Thursday afternoon. So great news
that Freddy Freeman's on track for Thursday, and also even
better news because Mookie Betts has turned the corner miraculously
after sounding so defeated last night. When we shared that
(06:34):
with you, Dave Roberts said, Mookie Betts went to Dodgers
Stadium today to work out. He actually ate solid food
and did not vomit. That's a big win for Mookie
Bets since he hasn't been able to do that for
two weeks.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So he's expected to be.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Here in Anaheim tomorrow and Dave Roberts said he's expected
to have Mookie Betts in the starting lineup in the
final game of the Free series, But when I asked
Dave whether or not he would go as far as
to say that Moki would be in the starting lineup
on Thursday, he would have to wait to see how
Mooky comes out of it tomorrow. And let's not forget
(07:13):
Mookie Betts was in the starting lineup yesterday but was
a late scratch. So let's see where things end up
tomorrow for Mooki Bets.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But it would be nice to see.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Him play one game and hopefully Thursday be ready for
the home opener. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number Dodger talked from Angel
Stadium tonight as the Dodgers fall five to four, But
more importantly, got a really good start for Tyler Glass
now who went five innings, had nine strikeouts and now
(07:45):
on the spring has nineteen strikeouts. Yeah, Tyler Glass now
this spring has been dominant, And it's not so much
about the start for Tyler Glass now, it's about the finish.
Can he make it through a full season? He continues
to trend in that direction. After last year making a
career high twenty two starts, but obviously not available the
(08:08):
second half of the season. But for Tyler Glass now
nineteen strikeouts in eleven innings this spring, and he told
us after his first start his mindset was to be
more athletic and not try to focus on the perfect
mechanics every single pitch. Here's what he said after he
came out of the game tonight. As far as that goes, yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
This spring offecially like the last couple. I've been feeling
pretty good. I think just working on the stuff in
practice and then kind of forgetting about it and trying
to just go be athletic has been good for me
the spring.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Do you feel like that's.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Also going to help you just stay healthy and whatever
plagued you the second half.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Of last year?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Is that all connected?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I think anytime you can kind of repeat your mechanics
and not have that like conscious thought where everything's changing
each pitch, I think it'll put me in a much
better place, more like external focus. I guess it's like
if I'm trying to bury a slider, I'm like, all right,
I need to go bury as opposed to being like,
how did.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
That last one?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I felt a little rotational and like it's like I'm
trying to align everything correctly, and I think if it
doesn't line up well in practice, it kind of leaks
into the game. And I think if I can get
good reps and like think about what I need to
in practice and then get my body in a good spot,
it's easier to not think about it. So it's not
like it's every time it's going to happen. I think
every starting pitcher has times where they have to kind
of grind and figure it out on the mound. But yeah,
(09:24):
I think it's just as long as I can have
like an external focus on the zone as opposed to
me thinking about all my body parts, that usually goes
a lot better for me.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Tyler, you could probably be the opening day starter for
twenty eight, twenty nine other teams. That is it not
lost upon you that the Dodgers don't need you until
the third series of the season.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I think it's great. Like if I'm a number five
or four or whatever, like that means there's a lot
of really good pictures on our team. So however lines up,
it lines up. But I'm I'm I'm happy where I am.
It's all good.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Do you feel like you guys will feed off each
other in a team competition competitive way?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I thought maybe. I think we all just want each
other to do well, and like everyone's so competitive individually,
Like you just want to go on pitch well. Like
I don't know if everyone's worried about what everyone else
is doing. I think it's just go out, win a
ton of games as a team, pitch well, and then
everything kind of takes care of itself.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
There's Tyler Glass now, who had his final tune up
of spring training and is getting set for his first
start of the regular season this year a week from
tonight at Dodgers Stadium against the Atlanta Braves. The way
the Dodgers' rotation stacks up to begin the season, Blake Snell,
Yamamoto Sazaki will be the first three against the Tigers,
(10:39):
and then you'll have Tyler Glass now Dustin May starting
the first two games of the series against Atlanta, and
then you'll have Blake Snell come back and finish out
the first home stand of the year. Not to mention
Kershaw and Otani and Tony Gonsolin waiting in the wings
if need be, I mean Kershaw is coming back, I
would venture to say Kershaw's in this rotation by June.
(11:03):
Otani feels like he's not going to be back until
the second half of the year pitching. And you know,
if all things are equal as they stand right now,
the Dodgers don't need Otani in the first half of
the season the pitch.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
They need Otani to.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Be a weapon in the postseason, and the way he
can do that is ramping up for eight or ten
starts the second half of the year.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I don't feel like the Dodgers really need Otani the
first half of the year to pitch. They need that bat,
that fifty to fifty MVP bat in the lineup. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk
Live from the Big A and we'll check in with
Jose Mota when we continue. As the Dodgers and Angels
(11:49):
will close out the Freeway Series tomorrow night Tonight, the
Halos win it walk off fashion thanks to a tailor
Ward base it in the ninth five to four on
the World Chain champion Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
On air at AM five seventy, online at AM five
seventy LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
This is Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
With David masson two two pitch swang on hit well
the left, going back to his Taylor Ward.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
He's at the track to the wall. It has gone
an taskar.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Hernanders bucks it under the Dodger both Ben and times
the game at one. As Jerry Harrison likes to say
on sports net LA, Teo Teo, teo, why don't you
hypnotize me?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Ta Oscar Hernandez with a home run. Getting ready to.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Resume the regular season as the Dodgers faull tonight to
the Angels in a practice practice game.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Five to four the final score.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
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season on Thursday against the Tigers in Always a Beautiful
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(13:19):
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Speaker 5 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (13:25):
All right, let's get to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Jose Mota back at the Big A and Jose before
we get to Tyler Glass. Now before the game, a
few of the Dodger trainers that have known Luis Cruz
for a while, we're trying to tell me that he
never stops talking.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You're with him a lot. Does he ever stop talking?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
You know what the best part is about lous Cruz
That he's getting paid to talk.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
That's what I say. I talked to him, right, That's
what we do.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
How are you getting that report from from the Dodgers
athletic trainers. That's quite interesting to me.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Hey, they were around number forty seven for a few years.
They know what Louis.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Louis welcome to the show. I remember that when I
first got my first broadcast gig back in nineteen ninety
seven one the Fox, my wife is like, what you're
gonna get.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
You don't talk.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
I'm like, well, now I'm gonna get paid to talk.
It's much different. It's going to work.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Yeah, you came out of your shell, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Jose Mota is joining us on Dodgery Talk as we're
getting set to end the practice games tomorrow night. And
for me, Jose, the story of the game was not
only Freddie playing again, but also the way Tyler Glass
now closed out spring training.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
He looked dominant tonight, no matter what.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
And you asked me this question in the interview we
did over at Salt Ripper and Arizona. Cheto the Dodgers,
this season is going to you starting pitching, and they
have tremendous offense. You know, the bullpen is stacked, but man,
the tradition that we want to see is get back
to those guys on the mound carrying the load for
(15:10):
you as starting pitchers. And it's so encouraging to see
the way that Tyler kind of reassess himself and reevaluated
some things he was, you know, having issues with why.
You know, there's a lot of whys in the off
season from him. As I was talking to him, and
obviously he want to stay healthy. He found some things
that are not very complicated at all, but it's being
(15:32):
athletic as he mentioned, and that's important. Now he's a
strike at all, he's a power pitcher. They can go
out there and dominate and get your fourteen punch outs
with under one hundred pitches. He did it last year
in Minnesota. But also at the same time, I love
the mentality of practice as much as he want, but
didn't when the game starts. Just let it be natural.
And that is what we're seeing right now, and hopefully
(15:54):
he'll carry this into the regular season. At one point
I want to make to that I'm glad you brought
up David him congratulates Austin Barnes and saying thank you.
Let me tell you that that relationship between pitches and
catchers goes beyond balls and strikes and catching and calling
a pitch, and it goes understanding that what a guy
that glassed out from six to eight goes out there,
(16:15):
and barriers that you break involved, that your body is
aligned well enough to block it, and that you're not
gonna be blocking his brick ball the way you would
say it couldn't curse ow curveball, and all those things
just go in live with being a smart catcher, being
in tune with your guy, knowing who he is. All
those things play a part in him being out there
and dominating and being comfortable whoever's behind the plate.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You know, it feels like you always talk about hitters
not thinking too much at the plate. It feels like
for Tyler Glass now he can't overthink things on the
mound or he's going to get in trouble and start
to feel like he's out of sync.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
That when comes on to pitch sequences and what to
throw and how to set up a hitter. But more
than anything is let it fly and just trust that
you're well enough, you're prepared enough, you're strong enough, you're
you're well trained enough to go out there and just
allow the ball to do what it's gonna do because
you are naturally a guy that's gonna field his own.
One pitch that I think is going to be key
for him. He implemented it last years, that two seamer.
(17:14):
We saw a lot of it here tonight at ninety seven,
ninety sixth movement for Tyler. You know, at times it
comes down to not trying to just power by guys.
But he's got enough for that two seamer too. With
two strikes, surprise the right ended hitters in the outer half,
and number two is when the situation calls were being economical.
Go out there and he's a two seamer, gonna ground
(17:35):
ball and keep your defense looking for you. So he
has so many weapons, and I think he's kind of
discovering himself a little bit more as a pitcher because
he's surrounded by that. It's only, you know, an upswing
that I see in his career, and of course as
a Dodger.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
All right, Jose Moto, what's your guess if Mookie Betts
does show up in Anaheim tomorrow and does play three
or four innings, do you expect him to be in
the starting lineup on Thursday against the Tigers.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Oh my gosh, I would say if Dave Roberts have
to see, what will he have to see to say, yes,
you're in the lineup on Thursday. That first of all,
he's not too weak. That there's stamina, but you know how,
I'm going to measure stamina in three or four innings,
So you can't do that because now you're going to
be playing against Trek's scoobl and the Tigers A you're
(18:22):
gonna have to play nine anything. So I hope the
dogers is they know very well can go out there
and just be on the safe side because it takes
a lot. And we mentioned it today, we talk about Betts,
the igression soft tissue that that causes problems with Maybe
tomorrow just a little Twitter to see where he is,
but do not force the issue. There's no need to.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Hey, if you're facing trek scooble, maybe the stomach problems
are going to come back, right, scooble itis.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
No me, come on, no, But I really do hope
they that the safe.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh see, Jose got schooble itis. I just mentioned schooble
and Jose's phone gave out. All right, Jose, we'll see
you out here tomorrow night. Thanks a lot for checking in.
And yes, come on, Mookie. Betts is not backing down
from anybody. But I'll say this, Goooble's the best pitcher
in baseball. And what I was trying to say is
that he will make anybody's stomach feel upset because he's
(19:25):
that good. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Hey, it's a rare Sunday
day off for the Dodgers because of this weird schedule
since they came back from Tokyo, Japan. The Dodgers are
opening up on Thursday, so it's a three game series
against the Tigers Thursday, Friday, Saturday. The Dodgers have Sunday off.
(19:47):
But it's a great opportunity to meet our beloved ta
Oscar Hernandez on this Sunday at the Citadel specifically the
Polo Ralph Lawrence store at the State Outlets for the
Polo Ralph Lawrence Family Baseball Fan Experience. I will be
there with ta Oscar from one to three. It's not
(20:09):
an autograph session at casual. Ta Oscar is not signing autographs.
He will meet you, he will greet you, he'll even
take photos with you with that great smile, but it
is not an autograph session. But we want to see
you out there, test your fast pitch, win prizes, and
we'll have a lot of fun together with ta Oscar
(20:30):
Hernandez one to three o'clock this Sunday at the Citadel Outlets,
specifically the Rouph Polo Ralph Laurence Stores. So we'll look
forward to seeing you this Sunday with ta Oscar Hernandez.
And speaking of ta Oscar, he went deep tonight and
sports Net LA got a boost in ratings. Dino Ebol,
(20:50):
the Dodgers third base coach, was miked up for the
seventh straight Freeway Series.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
They always do it for one of these games.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And Dino was miked up tonight, and he knew that
sound of the bat. He had heard it many times
from a lot of great players in this ballpark. Here's
how it sounded with Dino on the field on sports
net LA when Tao went deep, that ball's gone.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They Oscar Hernandez high flat ball le field toward the
bullpen and under the bullpen, so Tayo, it ties things up.
Dino knew it right off the bat.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Good like Carol.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'd wait to get him.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
He's got some kind of pop.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Hey, I heard Dino carried Eric Carros and Steven Nelson
tonight on sports net LA. Those two guys should give
their paychecks over to Dino for carrying their broadcast tonight,
especially Caros. I mean, come on, a great job by
Dino Ebl. As always, he went viral on that on
that home run, calling it as soon as he heard it.
So it's always great to get that inside feel to
(22:04):
the game. And Dino was gracious enough again to be
miked up for Sports Net LA, even in a setting
like this Freeway Series exhibition game. Awesome stuff, great idea
to have him. So hopefully the Dodgers continue to keep
things rolling and Dino Ebel has those kind of feelings
(22:24):
a lot this season. I have no doubt that's going
to happen. The Dodger offense is the best in baseball.
I mean, there is nowhere to come up for air.
We talk about Tyler Glass now being a guy that
could start on opening Day for twenty eight other teams
out there. How about Michael Conforto hitting seventh for the Dodgers?
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Michael Conforto could probably hit higher in the lineup of
at least twenty five teams out there.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
So the Dodgers are stacked.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
They've been very judicious with who they've traded for who
they've signed, and it's worked out the right way for
them as they are in position to at least go
back to the World Series, let alone try to win
it for a back to back situation. The first time
in twenty five years a major League team would have
won back to back World Series, the Yankees, the Gita
(23:15):
Yankees did it twenty five years ago. That'll do it
for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at the Big A, thanks to Colin Ee
back at our Burbank studios, and thanks to you for listening.
In case you missed any of the show or our
pregame conversation with two time world champion Chris Taylor, you
(23:35):
can find.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Tomorrow night, Dustin May will close out the exhibition Freeway
series for the Dodgers Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
at five o'clock with first pitch at six oh seven
from the Big A with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett
once again.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
The final score.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Tonight from Anaheim, the Angels defeat the Dodgers five to four.
Have a great rest of your night. We'll see you
tomorrow or we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
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