April 26, 2025 • 30 mins
DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Paul Skenes and the Pirates shutout the Dodgers, 3-0. Paul talks to the media after his dominant outing. DV gives injury updates on Tony Gonsolin and Blake Snell.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
that they have. This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's wind it.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I love letting you guys after the show.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Just thank you, give me all your attention, your fires.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
This this is world champion, Dodgers, world champion thing for
the small song time they get at people what they
want to die to.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
In a row two is special.
Speaker 6 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache's one of a con.
Speaker 7 (00:30):
This ball's gone. You ready to go? He go to
the South.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Grab your phone to get in on the show called
eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. I'll
come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk,
David Basse.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
We are live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
After the Pirates and in particular Paul Schemes shut out
the Dodgers tonight by a final score of three to nothing.
We are with you until eleven fifteen tonight at eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Jose Mota
will check in before eleven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
We'll hear from Paul Skins.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
In a moment, and we do have phone lines open
at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy.
I mentioned this during the Club Out show, but I'll
mention it again. Jordan Lorenz, the head ground screwkeeper here
at Dodger Stadium and his crew have rolled out the tarp.
They have covered the infield at Dodger Stadium, towing in
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the tarp from the seventy six gas station and have
the infield covered because rain is in the forecast overnight
and possibly into the early afternoon tomorrow, so hopefully there
are no rain delays tomorrow night, a rare rain delay
at Dodger Stadium, but they are doing the responsible thing,
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unlike the Orioles ground screw a couple of years ago,
where on the East Coast in August, with the humidity
at nearly one hundred percent, neglected to cover the infield
and the Dodgers and Orioles were standing around for an
extra forty minutes while they try to fix the infield
after not covering it overnight. But here in La Jordan
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Lorenz and his crew have a lot of due diligence
and even though it may be a light rain, they
have the tarp covered or the infield covered with the tarp,
so a rare side of here at Dodgers Stadium in
the wee hours of the evening on a Friday night
that La is sad. Not only did the Dodgers get
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shut out by Paul Skeins, the Lakers lost in Minnesota,
and the Kings lost to the Edmonton Oilers in their
playoffs series. So a sad night in LA. But really,
I know fans are frustrated with the Dodger offense. And yes,
it's frustrating when you haven't scored in your last twelve
innings and you have guys like Otani, Betts and freemen
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four to zero month see Tommy Edmund Tascar, Hernandez. But
Paul Skeens had a lot to say about tonight. You know,
it wasn't Colin Ray. I mean, you're talking about Paul Skeens,
one of the top three pitchers in Major League Baseball,
and he rose to the occasion tonight. He knew this
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was a big stage for him, and he came and
was you know, I saw some photos of him walking in.
He was locked in from the moment he got off
the team bus tonight to be ready to do what
he did. Six and a third scoreless sinnings throws a
career high one hundred and eight pitches, has nine strikeouts,
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and the Dodgers just were overwhelmed tonight. They had no
answers for Paul Skeens tonight. And you know, it reminds
me of when guys like Dwight Gooden used to come
to Dodgers Stadium and shut out the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
He was good.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Paul Skeens is that good. He's like Dwight Gooden in
nineteen eighty five. That's how good he is. And you
at times have to might be tough, and you always
want to look at your own team and say, we
could have done this better, or they we could have
you know, got to base it or bunt it.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yeah, maybe, but Paul Skeens was really good tonight.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I guess the only glaring offensive shortcoming tonight against Skeens
was in the fourth inning when Freddie Freeman doubled and
got to third on a poor defensive play by Brian
Reynolds in right field, who, by the way, I can't
believe how bad of a right fielder Brian Reynolds is.
He was having a real issues out there tonight. But nonetheless,
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Freddie at third when nobody out and the Dodgers can't
get him in. That has a lot to do with
Paul Skeen's no doubt about it, But it also has
to do a lot with the Dodgers trying to do
too much, and that was to me the only glaring
thing that you could say the Dodgers failed at show. Hey, Otani,
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he is human, He is proving that he is just
one for his last fifteen the Dodgers are zerover fifteen
with men on base now, So just a really frustrating
night for the Dodger offense. All in all, eleven strikeouts
and we're seeing way too many nights where the Dodgers
have double digit strikeouts and not really taking their walks.
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They had eleven strikeouts tonight and only walked once. Again,
a lot of that had to do with Paul Skans,
who really showed a lot tonight going out in the
seventh inning with one hundred and three pitch count at
that point in time and try to finish the seventh
but was taken out after getting one out and finishes
six and a third scoreless tonight. So really a great
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performance from the kid from Eltora High School. Let's go
downstairs right now, to the Pirates Clubhouse to hear from
Paul Skeens.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It was cool.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I mean just really just about executing. And you know,
sometimes there's a you know, two or three in the
in the run column when you execute, but today was zero,
So it felt good.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I glad would pulled it out.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
You've faced this lineup before, but it is elite. What
did you buy comparison? Feel you did better tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Executed better? I mean they.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
I mean you saw it today with a lot of
the hits that they got. Like, even when you execute
your pitches, they're still gonna they're still gonna find ways
to get on.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And uh, that's not.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Exactly like I definitely executed better today than I did
the other two times that I've faced them, But that's
just kind of the nature of it. They're they're they're,
you know, really good hitters and just you know, find
ways to to get you know, through innings.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
I know you threw sixteen curve balls. I believe it
was tonight. How pleased you with how that pitch worked?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah? Felt good? Definitely, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Did you know, good job kind of resetting their eyes
and a couple of things of misses in there at times.
But yeah, I mean, you kind of got to do
different things when when you face guys like that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So I was pleased with.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It wasn't one of those games where it just felt
like everything was working.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
For you at times.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Early my heater command was pretty pretty poor, I thought.
I actually, to an extent, I thought it was pretty
poor throughout the game, but kind of had it when
I needed it. We knew what pitches we could go to,
you know, to get outs, to get weak contact, and
we went to them and we needed to. So the
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bullpen before the game was good. But that's a little
misleading sometimes. So it felt good, it wasn't it wasn't
you know, there were there were some big misses in
there too, So it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Like everything was, you know, firing.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
And also and there's just kind of when I needed
to execute, I executed.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
All right, There's Paul Schemes And thanks to Sportsnet Pittsburgh
for bringing us tonight's winning pitcher and one of the
best pitchers in baseball, young Paul Skeens, who by the way,
had thirty five friends and families at Friends and Family
at Dodgers Stadium tonight. In a suite he had his
parents here, his aunts, his uncles, a lot of friends.
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So the Orange County native out at El Toro High
School had a lot of people supporting him here tonight
at Dodger Stadium. It was the third time, by the way,
and just a little over a year that Paul Skeeness
has faced the Dodgers. He first faced them last year
at PNC Park where he dominated them there. The Dodgers
got him for four runs at Dodgers Stadium last last August,
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and then tonight. Obviously it goes to Skiens. So Skeens
has won two out of the three against the Dodgers
in his young career. Eight six six nine, eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. I guess the bigger,
big picture issue for the Dodgers is they're not getting
a lot of production from key guys that are not
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named betts O'tani Freeman, Taoscar Edmund will Smith, and I'm
talking about two guys in particular, that's Michael Conforto and
Max Munsey. Confordo going into that road trip that took
the Dodgers to Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
And Philly.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Going into that road trip, he led the Dodgers with
the highest ops. His OPS was at eleven hundred going
into that road trip, and all of a sudden, now
it's taken a huge downturn. Michael Conforto, oh for for
tonight with three strikeouts, he's sitting a buck eighty seven
with an OPS of six point fifty. In spring training,
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Dave Roberts was trying to reinforce to him think opposite field,
and right now not a lot of Dodgers are thinking
opposite field and having a shorter swing. But Conforto looks
really lost out there after being locked in to begin
the year, and Max, he looks like a player that's
just not playing with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It feels like his confidence is at an all time low.
It feels like he's looking at the scoreboard and he's
seen zero home runs and he's chasing that. It feels
like his swing is more violent than it needs to be.
His UH batting average is that one seventy one, is
on base is that two seventy three, and his OPS
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is that five ten. You know, I this doesn't look
like the Maximunsey that we have known over the course
of his Dodger career. And I know it's easy to
use him as a punching bag. And yeah, I saw
that video that was circulating on social media that was
that was uncalled for two and you know it's it's
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it's one thing to come to a ballpark and boo
a guy in the stadium, but then to wait for
a guy outside of Wrigley Field and start yelling profanities
at him. I mean, that's overstepping a little bit in
my opinion. But nonetheless, uh Unsei's thirteen for seventy six
to start the year, that's just uncharacteristic of Max Muncy.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
And you know it's he's just a guy.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Right now that doesn't have a lot of confidence, and
I'm not sure how he gets that confidence back. He
had a throwing error tonight, so you know that confidence
I'm not just talking about at the plate. It's kind
of bleeding over into his defense. So he's got to
figure it out point blank, or you know, Dave Roberts
has got to consider using a combination of Miguel Rojas
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and Keyky Hernandez until Munsey gets his confidence back. Eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check in with
Jose Mota. Also, i'll get you an update on Blake
Snell and Tony Gonsolin. Gonsolin maybe starting here sooner than
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you realize, so we'll get to that news as we
continue live from Dodgers Stadium. After Paul Skeen's and the
Pirates shut out the Dodgers tonight three to nothing on
a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
On air at AM five to seventy, online at amfive
seventy LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Best said.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It was all Paul Skeens tonight, as Skiing's in the
Pirates shut out the Dodgers by a final score of
three to nothing.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Skeens with his third win of the year. He's now
three and two.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yamamoto three and two, David Bednar with his second save
of the year. Yama Moto just his worst start of
the season, and it wasn't even that bad.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
That's how good he's been all year long.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It just wasn't enough when the offense was shut out
by Paul Skeens Yamamoto in the first three innings of
tonight's game gave up a leadoff walk, and all three
of those first innings, so three of the five of
the innings he he surrendered a walk a free pass,
and that's not a way to live and that's not
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Yamamoto esque. Five innings tonight, five hits, four walks, one
earned run, eight six six seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Let's go out to Long Beach. Will
you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Will, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Hey, check us out.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I've been on hold so longer for Governor.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I was gonna ask you, but Hey, you took kind
of touches on it.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The eras was like monsty pages.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And all these guys, you know, they're not really.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They're not getting it yet.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But you know what, if this would have been last
year and they hadn't won the championship, we'll be having
a different conversation.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I think they get a pass.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What do you think? Hey?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Will, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Yes, Andy, PAHs, yes, and their batting averages and not
their e R yes or not where you would want
it to be.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Pa has Tonight three for three with two.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Doubles and his home run on Wednesday's game at Wrigley
Field in the sixth inning was the last time the
Dodger offense scored a run. So he's starting to come
around and we'll see where it goes. The Dodgers are
not going to pull the plug on Andy Poz after
just one month and twenty five games or so. Let's
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go out to alta Dina, Greg, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hey, that's say I don't know how I follow up
that call. I don't know where that was going.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I don't know either. Sounded like the guy that was
streaming at months at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and if you play it back later and you
don't have any time for that, I think he calls
you Max and what's up Mad?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So I was like, oh no, this is this is
going to go off the rails fast.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But on that subject, two things, right. I think this
is the first year I can say every like, I
don't know. The first three innings were always playing from behind,
and I don't know if that's eating into these guys
taking these hacks. I think Otani missed one of the
splinkers today, and I'm like, I don't know how he
doesn't flip at this with how hard he swings and
he missed and he whipped, and it's one of those
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things like that's going to be on schemes, is like
highlight reel. So there's that. Maybe they're pressing because of that.
But with Munsey, you hit it on the head and
I called in to talk about this, but you kind
of already did it that his defense, Like Freddie Freeman
deserves a Gold Glove every year or at least consideration
for having to put up with that left side of
the infield and it's bleeding into the plate, and if
the plate's bleeding to the field, he doesn't have options. Right,
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He's thirty four?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
How long?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And I know I love him, right, so I can't
believe I'm saying this. How long does this go before
there's an il stint? He can't move to first, right,
Freddie's not going to learn a new position. He's not
fleet of foot to play the outfield. How long do
you think long?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Remember we saw this two years ago, I believe, where
the Dodgers sent him to the minor leagues on kind
of an Iel stint. But he wasn't really that hur
Aaron Bates, one of the Dodger hitting coaches, went to
the minor leagues with him. That's when they came up
with that backfoot step back and Tony Larusa walked the
bases loaded ahead of month. See, and he hit a
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home run when he first came back. So we've seen
months he go through struggles like this, and the Dodgers
have found a way to give him a reset. Maybe
that's coming soon if he can't find his way out
of it, but right now, he's a player with no confidence.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
And if you don't have confidence.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Whether it's little league, college, high school, or the major leagues,
it's tough to perform.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right Yeah, and I'll end on this, Dave. You coined
this two years ago and they were doing it, and
then Game five when they quinched the World Series pass
in the baton. I haven't seen any of that since
the Ji Japan series. Right, these guys are all three
true outcome. It feels like one through nine it's either
a home runner or bust or Today Freddie hits an
extra base, he gets an extra base. The third, we
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can't even move a runner home right now, So hopefully
they get back to playing with one another, not playing
home run derby. It'd be nice to see the old
Dodgers back.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Okay, Greg, thanks a lot for the phone call. And
when I interviewed Andrew Friedman in Washington, d C. He
said the same thing. Even at that time two weeks ago,
he was concerned the Dodgers were scoring too many of
their runs with home runs. And home runs are great.
He's constructed a slugging team, but he's the guy that
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coined that phrase. And the players actually coined that phrase
back when Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Turner were on the team.
They talked about passing the baton and that's when the
Dodgers are at their best, taking walks, taking getting base hits,
and really breaking that picture. They were at that best
passing the baton in twenty seventeen, and that's when they
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started to coin that phrase, and that became the identity
of every Dodger team. And we saw that a lot
last year. We just haven't seen it consistently this year.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Paul Skens pitches six and a third
scoreless innings tonight and the Pirates shut the Dodgers out.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Three to nothing.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Now, I told you I'd give you a Blake Snell
and Tony Gonsolin update. Tony Gonsolin pitched his last rehab
start for the Oklahoma City Comets last week, which puts
them online to make his first major league start in
a couple of years this Tuesday against the Marlins, and
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the Dodgers need Tony Gonsolin, and it feels like he
is itching and ready to go. He's still got a
shaved bald head courtesy of Miguel Rojas and Anthony Banda,
So there's a very good chance you see Tony Gonsolin
make the start Tuesday against the Marlins. Now, as far
as Blake Snell goes, Dave Roberts said today they are
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shutting him down for the time being. They plan on
in acting giving him a quarterzone injection, and that's to
basically get the inflammation out of his left shoulder that
has been tight and not cooperating since the last couple
of weeks of spring training. He tried to pitch through
it the first start two starts of the regular season,
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and when I spoke to Snell, he's in a good headspace.
And the Dodgers don't want to rush him when he
comes back, and when he's activated off the IL, the
Dodgers want him to not look back with his shoulders.
So that's the reason why they're not rushing him. And
he's in a good spot with it. And I would
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imagine that he will be back sometime before the All
Star break, but he's basically going to have to restart
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Speaker 6 (20:10):
It's tough to go around the horn with Hosean Mota.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
All right, jose Mota.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I know everybody wants to freak out over the Dodger offense,
and yeah, it hasn't been good, But Paul Skens was
on the mound tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He was on the mountain on and he was on
a mission. This kid really is is pitching like he's
a ten year veteran who understands what modern based on
what modern hitters are all about. When you talk about
a guy that implemented his curveball today more frequently than
the past. And also his word just expressed stay so
much respect for that lineup. He did not take one
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pitch for granted. But also at the same time, every
pitch has a purpose. He's okay, well, he's not a thrower.
This guy's a complete pitcher and he how your hands full.
So that's what with a minimum opportunities, you have to
take advantage of it, like you did against the ground recently.
And the Dodgers, I mean, they've digging up a big
hole because now against a guy like Skien s Dave,
you cannot be chasing basis and it seems like collectively
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they're chasing basis and con forgetting about the process.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Yeah, no doubt about it. What was up? I mean,
Paul Skeens is amazing, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Jose he kind of he doesn't pitch the same way
that Dwight Gooden did or some of these young guys
like de Grom when he first came up. But man,
he really he's only twenty two years old, and you
feel like he's been in the league for seven years
the way he has such great mound presence.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And then you know the ability to go out there
and go for one hundred miles an hour he averages
ninety eight coming into tonight to down to eighty three
with that curve ball. I mean for a hitter who
has respect first of all, his angle, which is even
lower than last year, okay, at twenty degrees, and his
vertical moving along with horizontal, it's just hard to square
something up. And if you're not disciplined enough and quite enough,
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and in fact, talking to hitting coaches, the pass guys
like this, if you don't take a two strike approach, Ertie,
you're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble,
which is what Fred did today. Hit a nice two
strike approach, even early in counts, to go out there
to maximize those whatever mistakes he made, which were not
a whole lot of them.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Have you seen Otani in this type of slump. It's
not one for thirty, but certainly one for his last fifteen,
and just his swings and the way that he's not
really seen pitches.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
How does he get out of this.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yes, I've seen it. The worst I saw Tony was
in the twenty twenty season and when, as we said,
he was hitting on skates. But show Hey right now
needs to go back to watch the first week of
spring training where has happened to show Hey and those
balls he hits the other way so well, that's what
gets him back on track. His sona is too big.
He's trying to weigh too much for a guy as
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strong as he is. And he understands his game. When
he's going well, he's going to really minimize everything for
movement to the way he takes pitches. In fact, the
way he takes pitches and a lot of Dodger players
today I saw it's pretty much dictating the way they're
swinging the bat. And it's not ideal on your approach
if your hands are moving forward, if you're not staying back,
if you're not cutting down on your swing and seeing
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the ball. But for show Hey, he's got to go
out there and not try to beat the zone in
through different zones. He's got to beat one spot, sit out.
It doesn't matter for fall behind on one. But you've
got to be more selective in the way you approach
your swing and what you're trying to cover, because you
cannot cover those seventeen inches against a guy that throws
the way he does and not like this.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers are shut
out by the Pirates three to nothing. We've been talking
about Max Muncy, and look, the Dodgers' offensive woes don't
lay at his doorstep alone. But it's hard to ignore
the fact that he's homerless to start the year. And
it just seems to me, Jose, he seems like he's
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playing with no confidence right now.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, and I know that talk about conference being a
high for a player when things are going well, but
with Max, he is very emotional. And Max is a
guy that wants to do so well so badly that
you know, he puts all that weight on his shoulders
and it is noticeable. You're absolutely right, it will not
be a bad idea to go out there and get
a key in there. And you brought us some opportunities
and you're not sitting down or benching. Max might as
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well just say hey. And Dave Roberts obys is very
good about this. The Dollons organization communicates solo with players.
When you have a plan about weight trying to implement
and get the most out of them, just sit them
down and say, listen, let's watch a game from the
bench for two or three games. It's still your spot,
but just allow yourself to think through it. Get more
luck hopefully when he hits. Guys don't get out of
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suns by sitting, but it does help to just bring
the game back a little bit, slow it down, study
a little bit more. Don't have the pressure of going, Okay,
here we go again. I'm going to be hitting in
six batters. I'm going to be hitting in seven batters,
and then big opportunities find you. So doggiars do have options,
have death to at least for now absorbed just not
having money in there for now every single day. But
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just allow him a chance to watch again from afar
and know that Tom he's going to come around. I mean,
if you look at the chase rates or high eggs
of Veloski is not all that far from us from
what we did last year, but it's certainly the approach
right now is just one where he's almost in between Dave.
And when you're in between and your thoughts. You ended
up missing your pitch and you end up chasing more
because you're just undecided on what's the swing at and
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not able to know what has worked for you in
the past or recently.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And sometimes you take that out to the field right
you're thinking so much about offense.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It does and guys say no, but it does happen
a lot. Will you find yourself And Mookie talked about
this last year. He's like, I'm taking my approach and
to in right field. Nobody could see it, but I
can't do it a short stop when I'm like working
on my stands and things like that. But yeah, and
the ball's gonna find you. That's the other thing too.
So you want to keep that balance and know that
it is big league baseball. It is tough, and you
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have to be mentally tough to understand and separate those things.
But man, when when it's just on you constantly and
you're not getting hits and hitting the ball you know
on one O three, one oh five and is not falling,
it gets a little bit tough to even be out
there in constary defensive signs.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
All right, Jose, the good news is there's a game tomorrow.
Hopefully it doesn't rain too much.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
The tarp.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I'm staring out at Dodgers Stadium right now, and the
tarp is on the infield right now.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Jose.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
They were more than ready, man. I saw it come in,
and I think they were on their game day. If
they listened to you, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
They're more on their game than the ground screw in Baltimore.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh that's for another show, all with Cleveland. Remember Cleveland
two years ago?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Oh yeah, Cleveland. Always quick with the trigger, always.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Quick with the tri Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But uh hey, no game tomorrow. Got to pick up,
got to pick it up.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Love it, Jose, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
You got it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
There, he goes.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. As
the Dodgers fall to the Pirates tonight, three to nothing.
Let's take one more phone call before we say goodnight.
Brian calling all the way from Florida tonight. Hi, Brian,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Hey, what's up guys? Hello?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
How you doing? Yep? Good?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I'm doing great? Calling all the way from Florida.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Good Man, calling all the way from South Florida one
time Brooken Dodgers saying back in the day, but schemes
work us tonight. Yeah, you know, yeah, of course I
love baseball.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Thank you, Brian, appreciate it. Late night there in Florida.
I know I shouldn't have taken that one last call.
You shouldn't have taken that one last call. Sometimes you
gotta let the game come to you before we say goodnight.
Just want to echo everything that we started with with
the pregame show. During the game Dodger Stadium celebrated it.
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Just want to recognize our guy Rick Monday once again
for doing what not a lot of people could say
they would do, react as quickly as he did in
center field on this date in nineteen seventy six, forty
nine years ago. No, not for a fly ball, but
for saving the American flag out there from being burned
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from as Vin Scully described, two animals out there in
centerfield trying to set fire to the American flag. Rick Monday,
playing center field for the Chicago Cubs back on April
twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six, reacted quickly enough where those
guys could not burn the American flag, and certainly will
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always be remembered in baseball history and even American history.
Rick told the story that George W. Bush invited he
and his wife Barbara Lee to the White House and
asked if they could bring the flag that he saved.
So it'll go down in baseball history and American history
for what he did. How much this country means to
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him as well. But yeah, Rick Monday was playing center
field for the Cubs that day April twenty fifth, nineteen
seventy six, and the very next season he was or
during the offseason was traded to the Dodgers and was
in the Dodgers Opening Days starting lineup in nineteen seventy seven.
Hit one of the biggest home runs in Dodger postseason
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history in Game five of the NLCS in nineteen eighty one,
part of the eighty one World champion Dodgers who got
redemption against the New York Yankees. So a big day
in American history today, forty nine years ago, Rick Monday,
as they wrote on the scoreboard that day in analog,
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he made a great play and it'll go down in
history forever. All right, tomorrow, Rookie Sazaki will be on
the mound for the Dodgers looking for his first major
League win, going up against Mitch Keller, who was one
and two with an ERA of four to eighteen. Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock tomorrow, with first
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pitch at six'. Ten thanks To Calling ye back at
Our burbank, studios thanks To dwayne McDonald out here At Dodgers,
stadium and thanks to you for. Listening in case you
missed any of the show or our pregame conversation With Tyler.
Glass now you can find it on The iHeartRadio app once.
Again the final score tonight From Dodgers. Stadium The pirates
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shut out The dodgers three to. Nothing have a great
rest of Your. Friday see y
One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
that they have. This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Let's not play one on Tom.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's wind it.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
I love letting you guys after the show.
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Just thank you, give me all your attention, your fires.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
This this is world champion, Dodgers, world champion thing for
the small song time they get at people what they
want to die to.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
In a row two is special.
Speaker 6 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache's one of a con.
Speaker 7 (00:30):
This ball's gone. You ready to go? He go to
the South.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Grab your phone to get in on the show called
eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven. I'll
come to the show and now your host of Dodger Talk,
David Basse.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
We are live at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
After the Pirates and in particular Paul Schemes shut out
the Dodgers tonight by a final score of three to nothing.
We are with you until eleven fifteen tonight at eight
sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. Jose Mota
will check in before eleven o'clock.
Speaker 7 (01:09):
We'll hear from Paul Skins.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
In a moment, and we do have phone lines open
at eight six, six, nine, eight, seven, two five seventy.
I mentioned this during the Club Out show, but I'll
mention it again. Jordan Lorenz, the head ground screwkeeper here
at Dodger Stadium and his crew have rolled out the tarp.
They have covered the infield at Dodger Stadium, towing in
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the tarp from the seventy six gas station and have
the infield covered because rain is in the forecast overnight
and possibly into the early afternoon tomorrow, so hopefully there
are no rain delays tomorrow night, a rare rain delay
at Dodger Stadium, but they are doing the responsible thing,
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unlike the Orioles ground screw a couple of years ago,
where on the East Coast in August, with the humidity
at nearly one hundred percent, neglected to cover the infield
and the Dodgers and Orioles were standing around for an
extra forty minutes while they try to fix the infield
after not covering it overnight. But here in La Jordan
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Lorenz and his crew have a lot of due diligence
and even though it may be a light rain, they
have the tarp covered or the infield covered with the tarp,
so a rare side of here at Dodgers Stadium in
the wee hours of the evening on a Friday night
that La is sad. Not only did the Dodgers get
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shut out by Paul Skeins, the Lakers lost in Minnesota,
and the Kings lost to the Edmonton Oilers in their
playoffs series. So a sad night in LA. But really,
I know fans are frustrated with the Dodger offense. And yes,
it's frustrating when you haven't scored in your last twelve
innings and you have guys like Otani, Betts and freemen
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four to zero month see Tommy Edmund Tascar, Hernandez. But
Paul Skeens had a lot to say about tonight. You know,
it wasn't Colin Ray. I mean, you're talking about Paul Skeens,
one of the top three pitchers in Major League Baseball,
and he rose to the occasion tonight. He knew this
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was a big stage for him, and he came and
was you know, I saw some photos of him walking in.
He was locked in from the moment he got off
the team bus tonight to be ready to do what
he did. Six and a third scoreless sinnings throws a
career high one hundred and eight pitches, has nine strikeouts,
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and the Dodgers just were overwhelmed tonight. They had no
answers for Paul Skeens tonight. And you know, it reminds
me of when guys like Dwight Gooden used to come
to Dodgers Stadium and shut out the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
He was good.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Paul Skeens is that good. He's like Dwight Gooden in
nineteen eighty five. That's how good he is. And you
at times have to might be tough, and you always
want to look at your own team and say, we
could have done this better, or they we could have
you know, got to base it or bunt it.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yeah, maybe, but Paul Skeens was really good tonight.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I guess the only glaring offensive shortcoming tonight against Skeens
was in the fourth inning when Freddie Freeman doubled and
got to third on a poor defensive play by Brian
Reynolds in right field, who, by the way, I can't
believe how bad of a right fielder Brian Reynolds is.
He was having a real issues out there tonight. But nonetheless,
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Freddie at third when nobody out and the Dodgers can't
get him in. That has a lot to do with
Paul Skeen's no doubt about it, But it also has
to do a lot with the Dodgers trying to do
too much, and that was to me the only glaring
thing that you could say the Dodgers failed at show. Hey, Otani,
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he is human, He is proving that he is just
one for his last fifteen the Dodgers are zerover fifteen
with men on base now, So just a really frustrating
night for the Dodger offense. All in all, eleven strikeouts
and we're seeing way too many nights where the Dodgers
have double digit strikeouts and not really taking their walks.
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They had eleven strikeouts tonight and only walked once. Again,
a lot of that had to do with Paul Skans,
who really showed a lot tonight going out in the
seventh inning with one hundred and three pitch count at
that point in time and try to finish the seventh
but was taken out after getting one out and finishes
six and a third scoreless tonight. So really a great
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performance from the kid from Eltora High School. Let's go
downstairs right now, to the Pirates Clubhouse to hear from
Paul Skeens.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
It was cool.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
I mean just really just about executing. And you know,
sometimes there's a you know, two or three in the
in the run column when you execute, but today was zero,
So it felt good.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I glad would pulled it out.
Speaker 9 (06:13):
You've faced this lineup before, but it is elite. What
did you buy comparison? Feel you did better tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Executed better? I mean they.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
I mean you saw it today with a lot of
the hits that they got. Like, even when you execute
your pitches, they're still gonna they're still gonna find ways
to get on.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And uh, that's not.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Exactly like I definitely executed better today than I did
the other two times that I've faced them, But that's
just kind of the nature of it. They're they're they're,
you know, really good hitters and just you know, find
ways to to get you know, through innings.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
I know you threw sixteen curve balls. I believe it
was tonight. How pleased you with how that pitch worked?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah? Felt good? Definitely, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Did you know, good job kind of resetting their eyes
and a couple of things of misses in there at times.
But yeah, I mean, you kind of got to do
different things when when you face guys like that.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
So I was pleased with.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It wasn't one of those games where it just felt
like everything was working.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
For you at times.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Early my heater command was pretty pretty poor, I thought.
I actually, to an extent, I thought it was pretty
poor throughout the game, but kind of had it when
I needed it. We knew what pitches we could go to,
you know, to get outs, to get weak contact, and
we went to them and we needed to. So the
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bullpen before the game was good. But that's a little
misleading sometimes. So it felt good, it wasn't it wasn't
you know, there were there were some big misses in
there too, So it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Like everything was, you know, firing.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
And also and there's just kind of when I needed
to execute, I executed.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
All right, There's Paul Schemes And thanks to Sportsnet Pittsburgh
for bringing us tonight's winning pitcher and one of the
best pitchers in baseball, young Paul Skeens, who by the way,
had thirty five friends and families at Friends and Family
at Dodgers Stadium tonight. In a suite he had his
parents here, his aunts, his uncles, a lot of friends.
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So the Orange County native out at El Toro High
School had a lot of people supporting him here tonight
at Dodger Stadium. It was the third time, by the way,
and just a little over a year that Paul Skeeness
has faced the Dodgers. He first faced them last year
at PNC Park where he dominated them there. The Dodgers
got him for four runs at Dodgers Stadium last last August,
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and then tonight. Obviously it goes to Skiens. So Skeens
has won two out of the three against the Dodgers
in his young career. Eight six six nine, eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. I guess the bigger,
big picture issue for the Dodgers is they're not getting
a lot of production from key guys that are not
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named betts O'tani Freeman, Taoscar Edmund will Smith, and I'm
talking about two guys in particular, that's Michael Conforto and
Max Munsey. Confordo going into that road trip that took
the Dodgers to Washington, d C.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
And Philly.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Going into that road trip, he led the Dodgers with
the highest ops. His OPS was at eleven hundred going
into that road trip, and all of a sudden, now
it's taken a huge downturn. Michael Conforto, oh for for
tonight with three strikeouts, he's sitting a buck eighty seven
with an OPS of six point fifty. In spring training,
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Dave Roberts was trying to reinforce to him think opposite field,
and right now not a lot of Dodgers are thinking
opposite field and having a shorter swing. But Conforto looks
really lost out there after being locked in to begin
the year, and Max, he looks like a player that's
just not playing with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Right now.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
It feels like his confidence is at an all time low.
It feels like he's looking at the scoreboard and he's
seen zero home runs and he's chasing that. It feels
like his swing is more violent than it needs to be.
His UH batting average is that one seventy one, is
on base is that two seventy three, and his OPS
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is that five ten. You know, I this doesn't look
like the Maximunsey that we have known over the course
of his Dodger career. And I know it's easy to
use him as a punching bag. And yeah, I saw
that video that was circulating on social media that was
that was uncalled for two and you know it's it's
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it's one thing to come to a ballpark and boo
a guy in the stadium, but then to wait for
a guy outside of Wrigley Field and start yelling profanities
at him. I mean, that's overstepping a little bit in
my opinion. But nonetheless, uh Unsei's thirteen for seventy six
to start the year, that's just uncharacteristic of Max Muncy.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
And you know it's he's just a guy.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Right now that doesn't have a lot of confidence, and
I'm not sure how he gets that confidence back. He
had a throwing error tonight, so you know that confidence
I'm not just talking about at the plate. It's kind
of bleeding over into his defense. So he's got to
figure it out point blank, or you know, Dave Roberts
has got to consider using a combination of Miguel Rojas
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and Keyky Hernandez until Munsey gets his confidence back. Eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number. We're gonna take a time out here on
Dodger Talk. When we come back, we'll check in with
Jose Mota. Also, i'll get you an update on Blake
Snell and Tony Gonsolin. Gonsolin maybe starting here sooner than
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you realize, so we'll get to that news as we
continue live from Dodgers Stadium. After Paul Skeen's and the
Pirates shut out the Dodgers tonight three to nothing on
a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
On air at AM five to seventy, online at amfive
seventy LA sports dot com, and available by podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Best said.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
It was all Paul Skeens tonight, as Skiing's in the
Pirates shut out the Dodgers by a final score of
three to nothing.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Skeens with his third win of the year. He's now
three and two.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Yamamoto three and two, David Bednar with his second save
of the year. Yama Moto just his worst start of
the season, and it wasn't even that bad.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
That's how good he's been all year long.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It just wasn't enough when the offense was shut out
by Paul Skeens Yamamoto in the first three innings of
tonight's game gave up a leadoff walk, and all three
of those first innings, so three of the five of
the innings he he surrendered a walk a free pass,
and that's not a way to live and that's not
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Yamamoto esque. Five innings tonight, five hits, four walks, one
earned run, eight six six seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Let's go out to Long Beach. Will
you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Will, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Hey, check us out.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I've been on hold so longer for Governor.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I was gonna ask you, but Hey, you took kind
of touches on it.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The eras was like monsty pages.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And all these guys, you know, they're not really.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
They're not getting it yet.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
But you know what, if this would have been last
year and they hadn't won the championship, we'll be having
a different conversation.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
But I think they get a pass.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What do you think? Hey?
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Will, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Yes, Andy, PAHs, yes, and their batting averages and not
their e R yes or not where you would want
it to be.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Pa has Tonight three for three with two.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Doubles and his home run on Wednesday's game at Wrigley
Field in the sixth inning was the last time the
Dodger offense scored a run. So he's starting to come
around and we'll see where it goes. The Dodgers are
not going to pull the plug on Andy Poz after
just one month and twenty five games or so. Let's
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go out to alta Dina, Greg, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hey, that's say I don't know how I follow up
that call. I don't know where that was going.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I don't know either. Sounded like the guy that was
streaming at months at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and if you play it back later and you
don't have any time for that, I think he calls
you Max and what's up Mad?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So I was like, oh no, this is this is
going to go off the rails fast.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But on that subject, two things, right. I think this
is the first year I can say every like, I
don't know. The first three innings were always playing from behind,
and I don't know if that's eating into these guys
taking these hacks. I think Otani missed one of the
splinkers today, and I'm like, I don't know how he
doesn't flip at this with how hard he swings and
he missed and he whipped, and it's one of those
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things like that's going to be on schemes, is like
highlight reel. So there's that. Maybe they're pressing because of that.
But with Munsey, you hit it on the head and
I called in to talk about this, but you kind
of already did it that his defense, Like Freddie Freeman
deserves a Gold Glove every year or at least consideration
for having to put up with that left side of
the infield and it's bleeding into the plate, and if
the plate's bleeding to the field, he doesn't have options. Right,
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He's thirty four?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
How long?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And I know I love him, right, so I can't
believe I'm saying this. How long does this go before
there's an il stint? He can't move to first, right,
Freddie's not going to learn a new position. He's not
fleet of foot to play the outfield. How long do
you think long?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Remember we saw this two years ago, I believe, where
the Dodgers sent him to the minor leagues on kind
of an Iel stint. But he wasn't really that hur
Aaron Bates, one of the Dodger hitting coaches, went to
the minor leagues with him. That's when they came up
with that backfoot step back and Tony Larusa walked the
bases loaded ahead of month. See, and he hit a
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home run when he first came back. So we've seen
months he go through struggles like this, and the Dodgers
have found a way to give him a reset. Maybe
that's coming soon if he can't find his way out
of it, but right now, he's a player with no confidence.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
And if you don't have confidence.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Whether it's little league, college, high school, or the major leagues,
it's tough to perform.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Right Yeah, and I'll end on this, Dave. You coined
this two years ago and they were doing it, and
then Game five when they quinched the World Series pass
in the baton. I haven't seen any of that since
the Ji Japan series. Right, these guys are all three
true outcome. It feels like one through nine it's either
a home runner or bust or Today Freddie hits an
extra base, he gets an extra base. The third, we
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can't even move a runner home right now, So hopefully
they get back to playing with one another, not playing
home run derby. It'd be nice to see the old
Dodgers back.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Okay, Greg, thanks a lot for the phone call. And
when I interviewed Andrew Friedman in Washington, d C. He
said the same thing. Even at that time two weeks ago,
he was concerned the Dodgers were scoring too many of
their runs with home runs. And home runs are great.
He's constructed a slugging team, but he's the guy that
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coined that phrase. And the players actually coined that phrase
back when Adrian Gonzalez and Justin Turner were on the team.
They talked about passing the baton and that's when the
Dodgers are at their best, taking walks, taking getting base hits,
and really breaking that picture. They were at that best
passing the baton in twenty seventeen, and that's when they
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started to coin that phrase, and that became the identity
of every Dodger team. And we saw that a lot
last year. We just haven't seen it consistently this year.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Paul Skens pitches six and a third
scoreless innings tonight and the Pirates shut the Dodgers out.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Three to nothing.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Now, I told you I'd give you a Blake Snell
and Tony Gonsolin update. Tony Gonsolin pitched his last rehab
start for the Oklahoma City Comets last week, which puts
them online to make his first major league start in
a couple of years this Tuesday against the Marlins, and
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the Dodgers need Tony Gonsolin, and it feels like he
is itching and ready to go. He's still got a
shaved bald head courtesy of Miguel Rojas and Anthony Banda,
So there's a very good chance you see Tony Gonsolin
make the start Tuesday against the Marlins. Now, as far
as Blake Snell goes, Dave Roberts said today they are
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shutting him down for the time being. They plan on
in acting giving him a quarterzone injection, and that's to
basically get the inflammation out of his left shoulder that
has been tight and not cooperating since the last couple
of weeks of spring training. He tried to pitch through
it the first start two starts of the regular season,
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and when I spoke to Snell, he's in a good headspace.
And the Dodgers don't want to rush him when he
comes back, and when he's activated off the IL, the
Dodgers want him to not look back with his shoulders.
So that's the reason why they're not rushing him. And
he's in a good spot with it. And I would
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imagine that he will be back sometime before the All
Star break, but he's basically going to have to restart
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Speaker 6 (20:10):
It's tough to go around the horn with Hosean Mota.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
All right, jose Mota.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I know everybody wants to freak out over the Dodger offense,
and yeah, it hasn't been good, But Paul Skens was
on the mound tonight.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He was on the mountain on and he was on
a mission. This kid really is is pitching like he's
a ten year veteran who understands what modern based on
what modern hitters are all about. When you talk about
a guy that implemented his curveball today more frequently than
the past. And also his word just expressed stay so
much respect for that lineup. He did not take one
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pitch for granted. But also at the same time, every
pitch has a purpose. He's okay, well, he's not a thrower.
This guy's a complete pitcher and he how your hands full.
So that's what with a minimum opportunities, you have to
take advantage of it, like you did against the ground recently.
And the Dodgers, I mean, they've digging up a big
hole because now against a guy like Skien s Dave,
you cannot be chasing basis and it seems like collectively
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they're chasing basis and con forgetting about the process.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Yeah, no doubt about it. What was up? I mean,
Paul Skeens is amazing, isn't he?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Jose he kind of he doesn't pitch the same way
that Dwight Gooden did or some of these young guys
like de Grom when he first came up. But man,
he really he's only twenty two years old, and you
feel like he's been in the league for seven years
the way he has such great mound presence.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
And then you know the ability to go out there
and go for one hundred miles an hour he averages
ninety eight coming into tonight to down to eighty three
with that curve ball. I mean for a hitter who
has respect first of all, his angle, which is even
lower than last year, okay, at twenty degrees, and his
vertical moving along with horizontal, it's just hard to square
something up. And if you're not disciplined enough and quite enough,
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and in fact, talking to hitting coaches, the pass guys
like this, if you don't take a two strike approach, Ertie,
you're going to find yourself in a lot of trouble,
which is what Fred did today. Hit a nice two
strike approach, even early in counts, to go out there
to maximize those whatever mistakes he made, which were not
a whole lot of them.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Have you seen Otani in this type of slump. It's
not one for thirty, but certainly one for his last fifteen,
and just his swings and the way that he's not
really seen pitches.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
How does he get out of this.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yes, I've seen it. The worst I saw Tony was
in the twenty twenty season and when, as we said,
he was hitting on skates. But show Hey right now
needs to go back to watch the first week of
spring training where has happened to show Hey and those
balls he hits the other way so well, that's what
gets him back on track. His sona is too big.
He's trying to weigh too much for a guy as
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strong as he is. And he understands his game. When
he's going well, he's going to really minimize everything for
movement to the way he takes pitches. In fact, the
way he takes pitches and a lot of Dodger players
today I saw it's pretty much dictating the way they're
swinging the bat. And it's not ideal on your approach
if your hands are moving forward, if you're not staying back,
if you're not cutting down on your swing and seeing
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the ball. But for show Hey, he's got to go
out there and not try to beat the zone in
through different zones. He's got to beat one spot, sit out.
It doesn't matter for fall behind on one. But you've
got to be more selective in the way you approach
your swing and what you're trying to cover, because you
cannot cover those seventeen inches against a guy that throws
the way he does and not like this.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Jose Mota is joining us after the Dodgers are shut
out by the Pirates three to nothing. We've been talking
about Max Muncy, and look, the Dodgers' offensive woes don't
lay at his doorstep alone. But it's hard to ignore
the fact that he's homerless to start the year. And
it just seems to me, Jose, he seems like he's
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playing with no confidence right now.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, and I know that talk about conference being a
high for a player when things are going well, but
with Max, he is very emotional. And Max is a
guy that wants to do so well so badly that
you know, he puts all that weight on his shoulders
and it is noticeable. You're absolutely right, it will not
be a bad idea to go out there and get
a key in there. And you brought us some opportunities
and you're not sitting down or benching. Max might as
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well just say hey. And Dave Roberts obys is very
good about this. The Dollons organization communicates solo with players.
When you have a plan about weight trying to implement
and get the most out of them, just sit them
down and say, listen, let's watch a game from the
bench for two or three games. It's still your spot,
but just allow yourself to think through it. Get more
luck hopefully when he hits. Guys don't get out of
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suns by sitting, but it does help to just bring
the game back a little bit, slow it down, study
a little bit more. Don't have the pressure of going, Okay,
here we go again. I'm going to be hitting in
six batters. I'm going to be hitting in seven batters,
and then big opportunities find you. So doggiars do have options,
have death to at least for now absorbed just not
having money in there for now every single day. But
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just allow him a chance to watch again from afar
and know that Tom he's going to come around. I mean,
if you look at the chase rates or high eggs
of Veloski is not all that far from us from
what we did last year, but it's certainly the approach
right now is just one where he's almost in between Dave.
And when you're in between and your thoughts. You ended
up missing your pitch and you end up chasing more
because you're just undecided on what's the swing at and
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not able to know what has worked for you in
the past or recently.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And sometimes you take that out to the field right
you're thinking so much about offense.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
It does and guys say no, but it does happen
a lot. Will you find yourself And Mookie talked about
this last year. He's like, I'm taking my approach and
to in right field. Nobody could see it, but I
can't do it a short stop when I'm like working
on my stands and things like that. But yeah, and
the ball's gonna find you. That's the other thing too.
So you want to keep that balance and know that
it is big league baseball. It is tough, and you
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have to be mentally tough to understand and separate those things.
But man, when when it's just on you constantly and
you're not getting hits and hitting the ball you know
on one O three, one oh five and is not falling,
it gets a little bit tough to even be out
there in constary defensive signs.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
All right, Jose, the good news is there's a game tomorrow.
Hopefully it doesn't rain too much.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
The tarp.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
I'm staring out at Dodgers Stadium right now, and the
tarp is on the infield right now.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
Jose.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
They were more than ready, man. I saw it come in,
and I think they were on their game day. If
they listened to you, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
They're more on their game than the ground screw in Baltimore.
I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh that's for another show, all with Cleveland. Remember Cleveland
two years ago?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Oh yeah, Cleveland. Always quick with the trigger, always.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Quick with the tri Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
But uh hey, no game tomorrow. Got to pick up,
got to pick it up.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Love it, Jose, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
You got it.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
There, he goes.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. As
the Dodgers fall to the Pirates tonight, three to nothing.
Let's take one more phone call before we say goodnight.
Brian calling all the way from Florida tonight. Hi, Brian,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Hey, what's up guys? Hello?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
How you doing? Yep? Good?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 7 (27:17):
I'm doing great? Calling all the way from Florida.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Good Man, calling all the way from South Florida one
time Brooken Dodgers saying back in the day, but schemes
work us tonight. Yeah, you know, yeah, of course I
love baseball.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Thank you, Brian, appreciate it. Late night there in Florida.
I know I shouldn't have taken that one last call.
You shouldn't have taken that one last call. Sometimes you
gotta let the game come to you before we say goodnight.
Just want to echo everything that we started with with
the pregame show. During the game Dodger Stadium celebrated it.
(27:58):
Just want to recognize our guy Rick Monday once again
for doing what not a lot of people could say
they would do, react as quickly as he did in
center field on this date in nineteen seventy six, forty
nine years ago. No, not for a fly ball, but
for saving the American flag out there from being burned
(28:20):
from as Vin Scully described, two animals out there in
centerfield trying to set fire to the American flag. Rick Monday,
playing center field for the Chicago Cubs back on April
twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six, reacted quickly enough where those
guys could not burn the American flag, and certainly will
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always be remembered in baseball history and even American history.
Rick told the story that George W. Bush invited he
and his wife Barbara Lee to the White House and
asked if they could bring the flag that he saved.
So it'll go down in baseball history and American history
for what he did. How much this country means to
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him as well. But yeah, Rick Monday was playing center
field for the Cubs that day April twenty fifth, nineteen
seventy six, and the very next season he was or
during the offseason was traded to the Dodgers and was
in the Dodgers Opening Days starting lineup in nineteen seventy seven.
Hit one of the biggest home runs in Dodger postseason
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history in Game five of the NLCS in nineteen eighty one,
part of the eighty one World champion Dodgers who got
redemption against the New York Yankees. So a big day
in American history today, forty nine years ago, Rick Monday,
as they wrote on the scoreboard that day in analog,
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he made a great play and it'll go down in
history forever. All right, tomorrow, Rookie Sazaki will be on
the mound for the Dodgers looking for his first major
League win, going up against Mitch Keller, who was one
and two with an ERA of four to eighteen. Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck begins at five o'clock tomorrow, with first
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pitch at six'. Ten thanks To Calling ye back at
Our burbank, studios thanks To dwayne McDonald out here At Dodgers,
stadium and thanks to you for. Listening in case you
missed any of the show or our pregame conversation With Tyler.
Glass now you can find it on The iHeartRadio app once.
Again the final score tonight From Dodgers. Stadium The pirates
(30:27):
shut out The dodgers three to. Nothing have a great
rest of Your. Friday see y
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