July 12, 2025 • 34 mins
DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers fall to the Giants, 8-7. Mookie Betts talks to the media after the loss. DV shares what Paul Skenes said about Clayton Kershaw. He also celebrates Cody Bellinger's 3-HR game.
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One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
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This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
one on too, Let's lend it.
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just thank you, give me are.
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Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
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soft time.
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In a row two is special. I'm like, yeah, it's
not a headache. As one of them come, this ball's gone.
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And go to the show.
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And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Bassey.
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We are live until eleven thirty on Dodger Talk, taking
your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
two five seventy. The Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight
by a final score of eight to seven. They have
lost seven in a row. That's a season high. In fact,
they haven't lost seven in a row since twenty seventeen.
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And on July third, the Dodgers had a nine game
lead over the Giants, and now, all of a sudden,
after losing four in a row, the Dodgers only have
a four game lead over the Giants. So it kind
of feels like last year at this time. This kind
of feels like the Dodgers' last road trips, stumbling into
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the All Star Break last year. I know it was
a little bit different because the bullpen was giving up
a lot of leads late last year. I specifically remember
the final three games in Detroit being thoroughly frustrating in
that department. But no matter how you slice it, right now,
the Dodgers are not able to put together a complete game,
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whether the pitching's doing well, the offense isn't hitting, whether
the pitching is going okay, the offense is not hitting,
and the defense isn't going great, and the base runnings poor. Well, tonight,
the Dodger offense came to life against one of the
best pitchers in the National League in Logan Web. In fact,
logan Web hasn't given up these many runs in a
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start all season long. His season high. His previous season
high was five back in April, when he gave up
five to the Padres Back in April, so to score
six runs off of logan web should win you a
ballgame in San Francisco. But unfortunately, this game was lost
in the fifth inning, and that falls on the shoulders
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of Dustin May. I'm sorry it does. This game got
away from him. He started to throw non competitive pitches.
It just seemed like he got defeated and nothing went
that bad behind him. In the fifth inning, Taskar Hernandez
couldn't get to a triple in Triple's Alley by Young
Hu Lee and look, ta Oscar. I have said this repeatedly,
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is not at one hundred percent. He doesn't have the mobility.
I just don't see why the Dodgers wouldn't just give
him the rest of this series off and try to
see whether or not that makes a difference for post
All Star Break. But I mean, he just doesn't have
the range. And like I said before, and I hate
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to be that guy, but that's a big right field
in San Francisco to put a guy that doesn't have
full mobility, and we saw that in the fourth inning.
But nonetheless in the fifth inning, this was all on
Dustin May. Dustin me has got to find a way
to control his emotions. He's talking to himself out there.
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He's screaming, he's jumping up and down when things happen,
when guys hit home runs. I love that he cares,
I really do. But there's different ways to go about things,
and you know, in this game it was completely separate.
I know he was talking to himself and trying to
get him going, but you know, it just felt like
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he couldn't get out of his own way in that
fifth inning, I mean four walks in the game. Three
of those four walks scored, gives up a leadoff home
run to Dominic Smith. After shoe Otani hits a go
ahead two run home run, Patrick Bailey a one out single,
then he walks Yastremski. He's able to get Ramos to
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fly out, but he still was effectively wild in that
at bat, and then a four pitch walk to Devers,
and you could feel the implosion coming, you really could.
You just felt it. You felt the momentum on the
Giant side because of the pitches we were seeing being made,
and even during the sports net LA broadcast, oral Herscheizer suggested,
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depends how Bett he misses here, maybe take him out
after the second ball to Devers and Anthony Bonda was
up in the bullpen, but he wasn't ready to fa Devers.
That would have been the guy to bring Banda in. Instead,
he came in and things were a little bit already
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momentum on the Giant side, and it was tough for
Banda to kind of slow that momentum. In fact, he
gave up a two run triple to Williadomas and all
of a sudden, it was a seven to two game
and the Dodgers go on to lose eight to seven.
So you know, the Dodger record is similar to where
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it was at this time last year. They have a
four game lead after having a nine game lead. But man,
this is not ideal for the Dodgers. And like I said,
the Dodgers need the All Star break more than most
teams do, just like they needed it at this point
last year as well. So frustrating all around. It was
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good to see Mookie Betts seem to have better command
at the plate tonight. He wasn't moving his head as
much tonight and he had success. In fact, he had
a one out single in the ninth inning to give
the Dodgers the tying run on base and was pinched
ran for by Ousterio's ruis, and that just showed you
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how badly Dave Roberts wanted this game to pinch run
for Mookie Betts down a run on the road, So
that was That just showed you how badly Dave Roberts
wanted to end this losing streak. And going into this game,
quite honestly, I felt like this was gonna be a
tough game for the Dodgers to stop the losing streak
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against Logan Webb. But here they are scoring six runs
and they still lose. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow
a quick turnaround. I think the Dodgers get the win
tomorrow with Otani on the mound, and I feel like
they can win the next two games before the All
Star break. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy
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is the phone number. Let's go out to the phones
first and we'll hear from Mookie Betts in a moment.
Let's go out to Raymond, who is at Oracle Park tonight. Hi, Raymond,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's good to be on there.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
David.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
First of all, your Tuesday show that you did filling
in per Petrus's money might have been the funniest thing
I've heard on radio ever.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So that the light in the.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Mood of it, I boosted their ratings. I actually got
people talking about their show again.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I we we drove up last night and I had
some friends with me. I'm like, you guys, want to
run to kill two and a half hours as we
go through Kettleman City and everything, and we couldn't. We
couldn't stop laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, awesome. Two things.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We were at the game in the hotel. Now we're
all kind of fuddled because before the game, kind of
just what you said. We'd said, the Dodgers are either
going to win scoring six runs or they're going to
get shut out because logan web doesn't do anything but
kind of to shove, right. And of course we scored
seven and we still lose. But I'll tell you the
fans in San Francisco they're smart, right, Like they get
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a bad rap, you know, rivalry or whatever, but they're
better than San Diego fans. I'll tell you that they
were talking to us as the game and they talked
about pitch sequencing and kind of like these big innings
were giving up. And I didn't really pay too much
attention to it.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
But since like I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Tell you when every Dustin May start, I feel like
there's an inning where he gives up four or five
runs or you know, at least three or four, and
it just it just waterfalls. And then you know, you
hear the broadcast at home and we talked about all
these come from behind wins. Well, yeah, we're giving up
runs early and we're having to dig ourselves out of
one two run deficits. But by the time we got
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the first inning, so I kind of wanted to get
your opinion on it. Have you seen something different this
year where we're just not ready to start the game.
And then secondly, does Smith not go out and visit
these younger pitchers enough to go calm them down? And
you just brought that up, So I great, great points,
Take your answers out the air, and continue.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Doing work, all right, Raymond, thanks for the love. Be
safe up there in the Bay area. And look, will
Smith went out there in the fifth inning to kind
of control Dustin May's emotions. He just wasn't successful. And yeah,
Dustin May, outside of his last start where he was
really dominant because he was using his four seam fastball
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and throwing that ninety seven to ninety eight, being aggressive
consistently in that start, but early on he was doing
it and he got away from it later in the game,
and that's when things really fell apart. So, look, his
ball doesn't move a lot. I know it sounds crazy,
especially the ball down in the zone. He needs to
change eye levels and that sweeper that goes inside to lefties.
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If it's never going to appear to be a strike,
they're not going to swing at it. And he just
didn't have a feel for that pitch tonight. And you're right,
for the most part, outside of the last start, he
looks dominant for a couple of innings and then all
of a sudden, the roof comes in and that's what
happened in the fifth inning tonight, and it just felt
like he was defeated. If I'm not going to say
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he quit on the mound, but he certainly was was
exasperated by by the way he was pitching. And that's
not what you need when you're trying to snap a
six game losing streak. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
to Paul and rialto you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul, good.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Day, Thanks for taking my call, appreciate it. Yeah, man,
I'm just you know, just thinking, like you know, losing
seven to a row, Yeah, that sucks. Losing to the Giants,
that sucks. But I'm really I'm really not that bad
because I feel like we're we're a bad team right now.
Like it's no there's no if Hans or bless about it.
We're not playing that well. But I just feel like
kind of sorry for the other fans who were cheering.
(10:37):
They're just loving to beat us because that's what everybody
loves to do. Heit on LA. But I just feel like,
you know, it's like Noah Llles bragging about beating you know,
you're saying boat when he's on crutches.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Me, it's not I know what you're saying. Yeah, you
better get your lumps in now because it's not going
to be like this much longer exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So I hear you.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Man, It's July. We got plenty of all to play.
We're good, man, you know, we're good.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Dodgers just need to get healthy. They got to get
Freddy Freeman back on track, and there was good signs
from Mookie Bets tonight, I will say that they need
Mooki Bets back, and this version of Mookie Bets tonight
I will take him. Let's head back to San Francisco
inside the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Mookie Bets.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of like we played like
that every game. We just haven't gotten the bats going.
Today we were able to shrink some hits together and
put some innings together, but we just come up short.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
What are you seeing from Love and Lab at least
put you guys in a situation to potentially pull off
this comeback when I.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Mean, I think he just left a few pictures out
of over the plate, especially in that one. I don't
remember what anything it was, but we just they shrinking
some hits together, something we hadn't done in a while. Obviously,
I know it sucks, but I mean, that's trying to
take some positive out of it. At least list wud
battle back.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is it more.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Encouraging that the offense kind of got something going or
does it just make it more frustrating when you guys
do kind of come back and get close late in
the game like that, And.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
No, I think it's definitely more encouraging. We haven't I
can't speak for everyone, but I haven't done anything the
whole this whole time, so you know, for I don't
want to speak on myself, but I don't want to
speak on other people, but you know, just to kind
of get us going and getting some hits there, it's
just at least that's the positive that you can't take out.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Of it would be the pitch get you know, how
bad did.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You think it was?
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I mean just I mean just like on the inner thigh,
but I mean just went numb for a second. But
I mean to get hit by the ball, it's it's
probably gonna.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Hurt, all right, Yeah, no doubt that got I'm in
a place that you don't usually see hitters get hit
on the inner h It was the inner right thigh
his back leg that got hit by a pitch there.
But Mookie bounced back and came up with a big
single in the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a chance. Unfortunately,
the guy that has delivered more times than any other
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player in baseball with runners in scoring position, Will Smith
grounds into a game ending double play and the Dodgers
go down for the seventh straight game, eight to seven
in the first game of this three game series at
Oracle Park eight to seven to the San Francisco Giants.
When we continue on Dodger Talk, we'll take more of
your phone calls. We'll hear from Paul Skeins and Joe Kelly,
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We'll check in with Jose Mota, and we'll let you
hear which former Dodger hit three home runs today in
a game against his former team. He had two former teams,
the Dodgers and another one, and he made him pay.
Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight eight to seven on
a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
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Speaker 4 (14:02):
This is Dodger Talk with David masson line.
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Speaker 4 (14:14):
In the cove.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
The swimmers are after it has show. Hal'tani gives the
Dodgers a two to one lead with his thirty second
home run of the season, an absolute clashed over the
landing in right field and directly into the water.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Show. Heyo Tani with his thirty second home run of
the year, the first time in his career he has
hit a home run into mccovey's cove, and that's certainly
the first of many in a Dodger uniform. We'll see
if he can do it again tomorrow, as he is
also starting for the Dodgers on the mound. Unfortunately, o'tani
and the Dodgers go down to the Giants tonight eight
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own the Dream. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to
your phone calls in a moment. But I want to
share this with you because obviously the All Star Game
is just a few days away next Tuesday in Atlanta
and Clayton Kershaw has been selected by the Commissioner as
the Legends pick, and I've been seeing so many young guys,
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including Andrew Abbot of the Reds, saying how much they're
looking forward to being on the National League team and
being around Kershaw. It's one thing for Andrew Abbot to
say it, It's another thing for Paul Skeens to say it.
Paul Skeens was on MLB Network Radio and just gut
over the fact, like a little kid that he's going
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to be around Kershawn. Can't wait to just take it
all in.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean, he's one of the guys that I
grew up watching for sure. De Gram is also in there,
and a couple others that you know, I made the
All Star Game. But I'm hoping that that Kershaw isn't
fired to me by the time by the time the
All Star game's done, because I'm gonna go over there
and try to pick his brain as much as I can,
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just because of everything that he's accomplished in this game
and everything that he knows. You know, that's going to
be a pinch me moment for him. For me, just
a cool opportunity to be able to share the clubhouse
with him for a day.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I love hearing that. I love hearing that from a
young pitcher that hasn't even spent, you know, a full
season in the big leagues last year, came in in
the middle of it, and still going through his first
full season in Major League Baseball. I love a guy
that has been as dominant as Paul Skeens has been
still wanting to learn more by a future Hall of Fame.
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So it's gonna be see It's gonna be a great
scene in Atlanta, just to see how all these guys
gravitate towards Kershaw. Eight six six seven two five seventy
is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight,
eight to seven Sergio in Las Vegas. What do you
got for us tonight, Sergio?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
A d be nice to be on with you again.
Before I get to my quick points, it's nice to
see that you're affecting the Arbitron ratings and helping AM
five to seventy out there in La I'm gonna have
to go on to the iHeartRadio app and check out
that episode that the first caller was was referencing.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
About Ray not only listening live but wanted to replay
it and make his his friends and family suffer on
the drive to San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
No, I have to check it out. Hey, it's DV.
It's unfortunate that that the team loses their seventh in
a row. But if there's a good loss, I guess
today is the good loss. Really good points eleven for
thirty seven. You know six six of the six hour
hitters in the lineup get a hit, So that's that's
a really good point. Their mookie showings of life is
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also a good thing. Heysang cam three for four. But
that play at the middle that you reference in in
the postgame show that throw the first was not on
the bounce. That kid has a cannon. Very Deeter, Uh
Jeter s there yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
And lastly, Dustin May he just I think it just
lacks mental toughness. He has. He has the ability. I
mean the two home runs on the sinker. Uh, he
had very good results with the force him against the
White Sox and he had good, good results early on
in this game and it just went away from it.
And it's unfortunate. I just think that, uh, they're gonna
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have to fix them or see what's going on. With them.
And the last thing, David, they had Camilo Duvall on
the ropes. I would have liked to see Will Smith.
I know he's the best hitter average wise in the league.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
O don't even say the B word.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Worth the count. No, no, not bunch. I'm not an idiot, David.
I would have liked him to work the count. You know,
you know, I guess he wanted to amen a.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Lot of times. A lot of times. The best pitch
you see in and at bat, especially against a guy
like Duval's the first pitch. So I have no issues
with that. And you know, I just think it's a
tough at bat and he swung got a pitch that
he thought he could get through the infield. So I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna get on Will. He's been
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the best with runners in scoring position, hitting over four hundred,
and like I said, against a guy like Duval a
lot of times, that sometimes the best pitch you'll see.
Thanks for the phone call, appreciate it, and I'm glad
you brought up the fact that Hayesan Kim had a
great game. That great throw in the second inning on
Casey Schmidt ended the inning. I mean that was not
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an easy play. It was a hard hit line drive
up the middle, and he threw a strike while he
was in the air to Freddie Freeman. On top of that,
he had three base hits, he had two stolen bases,
and it kind of felt like him and Young Who
Lee of the Giants, the two former teammates from Korea
were trying to prove to each other who could top
the other. Lee tonight was three for four with an
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RBI triple and three RBIs. So I love those two
guys going toe to toe, and as Joe Davis let
us know during the Sports Net LA broadcast, they're still friendly.
They went out to dinner last night in San Francisco,
but when the bell rings, I love their competitiveness against
each other, and it's awesome that they're on teams that
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are longtime rivals, the Dodgers and Giants. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
All right, Jose Mota, Let's start with Hayesan Kim. Since
we were just talking about him, we keep saying how
much of an igniter. He is man. He had a
great game tonight. I would say if I had to
pick a player of the game for the Dodgers to night,
it would be him.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He brings a lot of energy at bottom of the order.
He could run. He has a very good idea when
to run. I mean, it's not a guy that's trying
to just accumulate numbers and stolen bases just because you
can see the leads get better. He has a very
good understanding. He picture his mind by the way in
his brain about base stealing in the big leagues and
some leads and some guy ascendencies. He does his work
and he just always has his upbeat attitude. Who was
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a guy that really just understanding what big league base
was all about. But he's got some skills that are
tough to teach, they're tough to repeat. And he is
a guy too that is going to get better by
playing a little bit more and totally right out of
the way. Things are going offensively, and without Mike Bunsey,
the time is now for hers and Kim.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
No doubt, no doubt, great game for Hayesan Kim. On
the other side of things, Dustin May what a disappointing
fifth inning, jose I said, you know, I'm not going
to go as far as to say that he quit,
but certainly there were so many non competitive pitches in
that fifth inning, and it seem like he was just
defeated on the mound.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, let me make a point about Dustin May and
what I see. Okay, dust to May is now thirty
eight innings above any other limit he's ever had in
his career. Okay, he's coming off not pitching for a
year and a half, two years, not an excuse. But
right now, what every pitcher learns a young man still
is that you got to get over the physical and
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just the mental grind is going to put you through this.
Your understanding of the game, the aptitude, how you read
the hitters and how they react to you. So, in
other words, if you see a game plan that you
implement going into a game, that plan cannot stay in
place just because so if he's telling yourself, I'm going
to go out there and use my fastball a little
bit more so, how they react they start reacting, then
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you go to something different. If they're not, you stay
with it and just be better about locating it. But
the mental aspect is right now. What he's fighting the
most stave. I'm telling you, I've seen this so many
times through the years, where you get through a threshold
of innings and starts, he's got some or stars that
you have there before, and it becomes that mental grind.
You think your body is not responding, but your mind
has to get through it. But you talk about not
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competitive pitches. If you see that as an offensive player,
you know that at some point he's going to start
walking people or he's going to give you something good
to hit, and that is exactly what happens. So when
you look at it from the offensive perspective, you want
to see a guy like that because you're like, at
some point he's gonna carve and we're gonna go out
there and get him and grind her out. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Hey, that makes a lot of sense because there was
a close up on him in that fifth inning where
he's talking to himself. That's never a great sign when
you see a picture talking to himself trying to get
himself out of a jam.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's good and it's bad. I mean it's good, but
if you're got to be telling yourself the right things,
and Dustin we know, like to compete very emotional, shows
a lot of emotions after big ouls And at what
point he was the one guy that you can count
to go five or six innings, at least five innings
and also with the one guy there for the first
I'll say eight nine stars, he was the best in
relieving himself and being the best reliever for himself out
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there on the mountain and being a guy that found
something else. But we're not seeing that right now because
I think the mental grind aspect of things. You know,
he's a little bit short and dead aspect, but I
know that stuff was. I feel like a velocity in
ninety at ninety seven. There's nothing wrong, but I'd like
to see him be a little more sharper with some
pitches and stadly not fight himself so much.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
What did you think about the ninth inning strategy? After
Mookie Beds gets a one out single, Dave Roberts shows
the urgency. They're bringing a speedster off the bench in Ruiz.
They had runners at first and second. After Ruiz stole
second base, it felt like Dave Roberts was trying to
do everything in his power to try to end this
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losing streak, right.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
They know the name, the numbers on the vault. The
ball is not very good at guarding runners. I mean
Ru's had a hugely like twenty feet. I would say, man,
I'm exaggerating, but Muki obviously got hit in the leg.
He had the triple and then he had the single.
But you got to take a chance there, and Dave
Roberts does what you got to do in that situation,
which is, hey, nothing else is working, let me try
at least get this guy a second base. Change it inning.
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I got Freddie Cohin behind and then Will Smith and
give yourself the best chance. I just didn't work out
that time. But you got to do it. You got
to go out there with that sense emergency to say
I got a chance things around and allow my team
to be a difference maker, not just by slugging, because
I slug a hole lot in that ballpark, but by
running the basis and st Rees presents that option right now.
Is a good move, all.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Right, Jose. I feel like the next two games are
ripe for the Dodgers to take. I feel like they
could end this losing streak tomorrow. And when two games
going into the all Star break.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Heating is to go out and take what you have
today on the offensive side, four four ten runs of
scoring position much better, but you got to put a
stop on the mound up on my own, all.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. Appreciate it.
There he goes, Jose Mota starting to get into some
cell hell right there as the Dodgers fall to the
Giant tonight eight to seven. Jose part of the Dodgers
Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and Inguez and Luis Cochito Cruz.
All right, before we say good night, I want to
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share with you a couple of things. Number One, in
case you miss speaking of Petro Some Money. Petro Some
Money had their second summer tour stop today out in
Rancho Cuca Manga. That's also where Joe Kelly was being
honored by the Quakes with a bubblehead night. So his
oldest son knocks throughout the first pitch and on the
way to the Quakes game, Joe Kelly stopped by Septembers
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in Rancho Cuca Manga and there was a mariachi band,
so he enjoyed that. And here's what Joe had to
share with Petro some money about the twenty thirteen sequence
of events when he was wearing a Cardinals uniform and
ended Hanley Ramirez and the Dodgers' chances of going to
the World Series in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
I get ready for my start, which is like Game
three of the NLCS, and Hanley's honotaries in like six
seventy whatever he's doing carrying the team and yacht.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He knows Handley.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
He's like, hey, he's not very tough, Like he may
look big and tough, but he's he's he's a big,
big ass baby. So right, he goes, whatever we do,
I don't care if there's Basil, load nobody out. And
he's like, we're gonna pitch him in. We're gonna pitch
him in. He goes, I set up. I'll set up
right behind him. Like if it goes right by his jersey,
who cares. You get two strikes, you're down three to zero.
We're pitching him in.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
We're pitching him pitching in, like.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
We got it, Like we got to stop this guy.
He's like, I don't care if he gets on base.
You walk a guy, He's like everyone else we could
pitch around, like I know how to pitch him with
all your stuff. He's like, no matter what, you better
not miss. He's like, if you actually hit him, oh well,
he's like, I'll rip his throat out before he even
gets too.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
So I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
So it's one two count and he calls fastball in again.
I'm like, all right, fast fall in and it got
away from me. And but there's a guy on second
and third thing of the time, and I was like
hit him, which didn't think he was gonna get hurt,
and I guess it suck him good, right, so obviously
he gets on base.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Two outs.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
I get the next guy out, but he runs back
out the short soop of the next inning, right, and
he's like hold him the side, and Handy's like in yachty.
He's like, we got it, like you took care of
like oho, our whole like game plan. Like now we're
gonna make him feeling comfortable because the game before, no
one was pitching him in. And I don't remember if
it was the first, first, second start, but nobody was
pitching him in. He'd like watched all his video. He's like,
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we're just they're doing a favor thro him. Slider away Homer, fast,
wall away Homer, you know, slider down the middle, down low,
double the right, center field. He's like, no one has
even established him. And so this is the old school
thinking of Yachty.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
And so we see.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Hanley grow away back out. Hanley like takes a ground
ball and like holding aside, and then he calls time
and the train runs out, and then he runs off
into the dugout and he's gone, and Yaddy comes up
to me.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He's like, you.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
See, you see he doesn't want to play the rest
of the game, right, But Yachty's a savage bro.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I love that guy. Molina brothers all right, all right,
we don't need to hear about Yadi or Molina and
the Cardinals, thanks Joe. But yeah, there it is. I mean,
that's what Joe Kelly was best known for before he
signed with the Dodgers in twenty nineteen, breaking hand Ramirez'
ribs in Saint Louis. And I had heard that too
from guys on the Dodgers, that Hanley was not as
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tough as he appeared. One time, Hanley challenged me to
go into the tunnel at Corsfield because he didn't like
the line of questioning after he turned down or the
Dodgers didn't offer him a contract extension the following year.
But no matter what Joe says, that's the way he's
he's been. One thing you could say about Joe Kelly,
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he's one hundred percent honest. And yes, that's how the
Dodger players felt that Joe Kelly and the rest of
the Cardinal pitchers in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen were
pitching inside with no regard about whether or not they
broke a rib, they broke a hand, they broke an arm,
they didn't care, and that's what happened. And you just
heard him tell the strategy. But look, like I said
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during the Off Day Show yesterday, I love Joe Kelly.
I thought he brought a lot of edge the Dodgers
needed edge in the bullpen when he signed in twenty nineteen.
But I just feel like it's so over the top
and surprising how much Dodger fans love this guy after
his two Dodger highlights were kind of off the field stuff.
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Number one twenty twenty, nobody in the stands in Houston.
He gives the Patty face to Carlos Korea. I got
news for you. That wasn't for the twenty seventeen Dodgers.
That was for Joe Kelly and his beef with Korea
when he was with the Red Sox. Number two. He
wore a Mariachi jacket to the White House in twenty twenty.
So to me, those are the two Joe Kelly highlights.
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There's actually a miror on the reserve level of Joe
wearing a Mariachi jacket. And he's a cult hero. He's
a cult figure for Dodger fans because it's certainly not
because he pitched like Kenley Jansen or Eric Ganie. But
everybody loves Joe. And like I mentioned, there's two things
about Joe that everybody appreciates. He's authentic, he's believable, and
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he's likable. Three things right there, and I think that's
why everybody responds to Joe Kelly. Six six, seven, two
five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the
Giants tonight, eight to seven in San Francisco. They have
lost seven in a row. Their lead over the Giants
in the NL West is down to four games after
it was inflated bloated to nine games on July third
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and things have gone a little bit sideways on the Dodgers,
not only just the way they're playing, but also injuries.
Tommy Edmond got his first start at third base. He
was back in the starting lineup tonight. He made some
nice plays at third base. Ti Oscar Hernandez back in
the Dodgers starting lineup, although wasn't moving around that well
in right field, so we'll see how he looks the
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next couple of days. So that's where things stand right now,
and it does feel like it did at this time
last year where the Dodgers were stumbling to the All
Star break without Max Munsey losing in Detroit in heartbreaking fashion.
So look, it's a long season. Still a long ways
to go between now and the end of the year,
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and the Dodgers are getting Tyler Glass now back and
Blake Snell spoke to him today. He felt great after
his start yesterday. He will start in Arizona during the
All Star break and then go out for an Oklahoma
City rehab start, and I could see him coming back
on the first road trip after the All Star break.
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So that's where things stand with the Dodgers, and they're pitching.
They just need to get their position players healthy, even
the ones that are playing through a lot of pain.
All Right, before we say good night, one more thing
for you. I gotta give love to our guy, Cody Bellinger.
No matter if he's a Cub or a Yankee, he
will always be a Dodger. He had his best years
with the Dodgers, winning the Rookie of the Year, hitting
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forty nine home runs, Silver Slugger, National League MVP in
twenty nineteen, World Series Champion, just a monster when he
was going good for the Dodgers. And today at Yankee Stadium,
Cody Bellinger hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs
and a Yankees eleven to nothing win. Here was his
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third home run, called by Michael Kay on the Yes Network.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
Right field Tucker back, he's on the track, so is
the centerfielder who leaps.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
How that ball is gone. It's a three run, a
two run home run by Donager.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
His third home run up the night.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
Oh what a knight for Bellinger in his ten nothing Yanks.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, Cody Bellinger, Congratulations Bopper with a three home run
game for the Yankees. And he should have had four
home runs, but Kyle Tucker robbed him of what would
have been his fourth home run of the game. So
happy to see Cody having success in the Bronx and
at that short porch and right field you kind of
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had a feeling he was gonna have a big year
with the Yankees. So happy for Cody. A great guy
and I always loves sharing what some of those o
Dodgers are doing these days. Thanks to calling me back
at our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald at Oracle Park,
and thanks to you for listening. Tomorrow, Otani on the
Mount for the fifth time this season, going up against
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landon Rup. He is our roup. He's six and five
with an elra at three thirty nine. Morongo Casino. Dodgers
on Deck begins at noon, first pitch at one oh five,
and Tim Kates will be with you for the last
two games before the All Star Rage once again. The
final score tonight the Dodgers fall to the Giants eight
to seven in San Francisco. Have a great rest of
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your night, Be safe. See un
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
one on too, Let's lend it.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I love writing me these guys after the shows. So
just thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a small
soft time.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
They get up people what they want to die too?
Speaker 5 (00:24):
In a row two is special. I'm like, yeah, it's
not a headache. As one of them come, this ball's gone.
Speaker 6 (00:31):
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Hell time go to the sun.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
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And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Bassey.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We are live until eleven thirty on Dodger Talk, taking
your phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven
two five seventy. The Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight
by a final score of eight to seven. They have
lost seven in a row. That's a season high. In fact,
they haven't lost seven in a row since twenty seventeen.
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And on July third, the Dodgers had a nine game
lead over the Giants, and now, all of a sudden,
after losing four in a row, the Dodgers only have
a four game lead over the Giants. So it kind
of feels like last year at this time. This kind
of feels like the Dodgers' last road trips, stumbling into
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the All Star Break last year. I know it was
a little bit different because the bullpen was giving up
a lot of leads late last year. I specifically remember
the final three games in Detroit being thoroughly frustrating in
that department. But no matter how you slice it, right now,
the Dodgers are not able to put together a complete game,
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whether the pitching's doing well, the offense isn't hitting, whether
the pitching is going okay, the offense is not hitting,
and the defense isn't going great, and the base runnings poor. Well, tonight,
the Dodger offense came to life against one of the
best pitchers in the National League in Logan Web. In fact,
logan Web hasn't given up these many runs in a
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start all season long. His season high. His previous season
high was five back in April, when he gave up
five to the Padres Back in April, so to score
six runs off of logan web should win you a
ballgame in San Francisco. But unfortunately, this game was lost
in the fifth inning, and that falls on the shoulders
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of Dustin May. I'm sorry it does. This game got
away from him. He started to throw non competitive pitches.
It just seemed like he got defeated and nothing went
that bad behind him. In the fifth inning, Taskar Hernandez
couldn't get to a triple in Triple's Alley by Young
Hu Lee and look, ta Oscar. I have said this repeatedly,
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is not at one hundred percent. He doesn't have the mobility.
I just don't see why the Dodgers wouldn't just give
him the rest of this series off and try to
see whether or not that makes a difference for post
All Star Break. But I mean, he just doesn't have
the range. And like I said before, and I hate
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to be that guy, but that's a big right field
in San Francisco to put a guy that doesn't have
full mobility, and we saw that in the fourth inning.
But nonetheless in the fifth inning, this was all on
Dustin May. Dustin me has got to find a way
to control his emotions. He's talking to himself out there.
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He's screaming, he's jumping up and down when things happen,
when guys hit home runs. I love that he cares,
I really do. But there's different ways to go about things,
and you know, in this game it was completely separate.
I know he was talking to himself and trying to
get him going, but you know, it just felt like
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he couldn't get out of his own way in that
fifth inning, I mean four walks in the game. Three
of those four walks scored, gives up a leadoff home
run to Dominic Smith. After shoe Otani hits a go
ahead two run home run, Patrick Bailey a one out single,
then he walks Yastremski. He's able to get Ramos to
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fly out, but he still was effectively wild in that
at bat, and then a four pitch walk to Devers,
and you could feel the implosion coming, you really could.
You just felt it. You felt the momentum on the
Giant side because of the pitches we were seeing being made,
and even during the sports net LA broadcast, oral Herscheizer suggested,
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depends how Bett he misses here, maybe take him out
after the second ball to Devers and Anthony Bonda was
up in the bullpen, but he wasn't ready to fa Devers.
That would have been the guy to bring Banda in. Instead,
he came in and things were a little bit already
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momentum on the Giant side, and it was tough for
Banda to kind of slow that momentum. In fact, he
gave up a two run triple to Williadomas and all
of a sudden, it was a seven to two game
and the Dodgers go on to lose eight to seven.
So you know, the Dodger record is similar to where
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it was at this time last year. They have a
four game lead after having a nine game lead. But man,
this is not ideal for the Dodgers. And like I said,
the Dodgers need the All Star break more than most
teams do, just like they needed it at this point
last year as well. So frustrating all around. It was
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good to see Mookie Betts seem to have better command
at the plate tonight. He wasn't moving his head as
much tonight and he had success. In fact, he had
a one out single in the ninth inning to give
the Dodgers the tying run on base and was pinched
ran for by Ousterio's ruis, and that just showed you
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how badly Dave Roberts wanted this game to pinch run
for Mookie Betts down a run on the road, So
that was That just showed you how badly Dave Roberts
wanted to end this losing streak. And going into this game,
quite honestly, I felt like this was gonna be a
tough game for the Dodgers to stop the losing streak
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against Logan Webb. But here they are scoring six runs
and they still lose. So I'm looking forward to tomorrow
a quick turnaround. I think the Dodgers get the win
tomorrow with Otani on the mound, and I feel like
they can win the next two games before the All
Star break. Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy
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is the phone number. Let's go out to the phones
first and we'll hear from Mookie Betts in a moment.
Let's go out to Raymond, who is at Oracle Park tonight. Hi, Raymond,
you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's good to be on there.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
David.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
First of all, your Tuesday show that you did filling
in per Petrus's money might have been the funniest thing
I've heard on radio ever.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
So that the light in the.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Mood of it, I boosted their ratings. I actually got
people talking about their show again.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I we we drove up last night and I had
some friends with me. I'm like, you guys, want to
run to kill two and a half hours as we
go through Kettleman City and everything, and we couldn't. We
couldn't stop laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, awesome. Two things.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
We were at the game in the hotel. Now we're
all kind of fuddled because before the game, kind of
just what you said. We'd said, the Dodgers are either
going to win scoring six runs or they're going to
get shut out because logan web doesn't do anything but
kind of to shove, right. And of course we scored
seven and we still lose. But I'll tell you the
fans in San Francisco they're smart, right, Like they get
(07:58):
a bad rap, you know, rivalry or whatever, but they're
better than San Diego fans. I'll tell you that they
were talking to us as the game and they talked
about pitch sequencing and kind of like these big innings
were giving up. And I didn't really pay too much
attention to it.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
But since like I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Tell you when every Dustin May start, I feel like
there's an inning where he gives up four or five
runs or you know, at least three or four, and
it just it just waterfalls. And then you know, you
hear the broadcast at home and we talked about all
these come from behind wins. Well, yeah, we're giving up
runs early and we're having to dig ourselves out of
one two run deficits. But by the time we got
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the first inning, so I kind of wanted to get
your opinion on it. Have you seen something different this
year where we're just not ready to start the game.
And then secondly, does Smith not go out and visit
these younger pitchers enough to go calm them down? And
you just brought that up, So I great, great points,
Take your answers out the air, and continue.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Doing work, all right, Raymond, thanks for the love. Be
safe up there in the Bay area. And look, will
Smith went out there in the fifth inning to kind
of control Dustin May's emotions. He just wasn't successful. And yeah,
Dustin May, outside of his last start where he was
really dominant because he was using his four seam fastball
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and throwing that ninety seven to ninety eight, being aggressive
consistently in that start, but early on he was doing
it and he got away from it later in the game,
and that's when things really fell apart. So, look, his
ball doesn't move a lot. I know it sounds crazy,
especially the ball down in the zone. He needs to
change eye levels and that sweeper that goes inside to lefties.
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If it's never going to appear to be a strike,
they're not going to swing at it. And he just
didn't have a feel for that pitch tonight. And you're right,
for the most part, outside of the last start, he
looks dominant for a couple of innings and then all
of a sudden, the roof comes in and that's what
happened in the fifth inning tonight, and it just felt
like he was defeated. If I'm not going to say
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he quit on the mound, but he certainly was was
exasperated by by the way he was pitching. And that's
not what you need when you're trying to snap a
six game losing streak. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
to Paul and rialto you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Paul, good.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Day, Thanks for taking my call, appreciate it. Yeah, man,
I'm just you know, just thinking, like you know, losing
seven to a row, Yeah, that sucks. Losing to the Giants,
that sucks. But I'm really I'm really not that bad
because I feel like we're we're a bad team right now.
Like it's no there's no if Hans or bless about it.
We're not playing that well. But I just feel like
kind of sorry for the other fans who were cheering.
(10:37):
They're just loving to beat us because that's what everybody
loves to do. Heit on LA. But I just feel like,
you know, it's like Noah Llles bragging about beating you know,
you're saying boat when he's on crutches.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Me, it's not I know what you're saying. Yeah, you
better get your lumps in now because it's not going
to be like this much longer exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So I hear you.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Man, It's July. We got plenty of all to play.
We're good, man, you know, we're good.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Dodgers just need to get healthy. They got to get
Freddy Freeman back on track, and there was good signs
from Mookie Bets tonight, I will say that they need
Mooki Bets back, and this version of Mookie Bets tonight
I will take him. Let's head back to San Francisco
inside the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Mookie Bets.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yeah, you know, it's kind of like we played like
that every game. We just haven't gotten the bats going.
Today we were able to shrink some hits together and
put some innings together, but we just come up short.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
What are you seeing from Love and Lab at least
put you guys in a situation to potentially pull off
this comeback when I.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Mean, I think he just left a few pictures out
of over the plate, especially in that one. I don't
remember what anything it was, but we just they shrinking
some hits together, something we hadn't done in a while. Obviously,
I know it sucks, but I mean, that's trying to
take some positive out of it. At least list wud
battle back.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is it more.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Encouraging that the offense kind of got something going or
does it just make it more frustrating when you guys
do kind of come back and get close late in
the game like that, And.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
No, I think it's definitely more encouraging. We haven't I
can't speak for everyone, but I haven't done anything the
whole this whole time, so you know, for I don't
want to speak on myself, but I don't want to
speak on other people, but you know, just to kind
of get us going and getting some hits there, it's
just at least that's the positive that you can't take out.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Of it would be the pitch get you know, how
bad did.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
You think it was?
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I mean just I mean just like on the inner thigh,
but I mean just went numb for a second. But
I mean to get hit by the ball, it's it's
probably gonna.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Hurt, all right, Yeah, no doubt that got I'm in
a place that you don't usually see hitters get hit
on the inner h It was the inner right thigh
his back leg that got hit by a pitch there.
But Mookie bounced back and came up with a big
single in the ninth inning to give the Dodgers a chance. Unfortunately,
the guy that has delivered more times than any other
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player in baseball with runners in scoring position, Will Smith
grounds into a game ending double play and the Dodgers
go down for the seventh straight game, eight to seven
in the first game of this three game series at
Oracle Park eight to seven to the San Francisco Giants.
When we continue on Dodger Talk, we'll take more of
your phone calls. We'll hear from Paul Skeins and Joe Kelly,
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We'll check in with Jose Mota, and we'll let you
hear which former Dodger hit three home runs today in
a game against his former team. He had two former teams,
the Dodgers and another one, and he made him pay.
Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight eight to seven on
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Speaker 4 (14:14):
In the cove.
Speaker 10 (14:16):
The swimmers are after it has show. Hal'tani gives the
Dodgers a two to one lead with his thirty second
home run of the season, an absolute clashed over the
landing in right field and directly into the water.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Show. Heyo Tani with his thirty second home run of
the year, the first time in his career he has
hit a home run into mccovey's cove, and that's certainly
the first of many in a Dodger uniform. We'll see
if he can do it again tomorrow, as he is
also starting for the Dodgers on the mound. Unfortunately, o'tani
and the Dodgers go down to the Giants tonight eight
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own the Dream. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy is the phone number. We'll get back to
your phone calls in a moment. But I want to
share this with you because obviously the All Star Game
is just a few days away next Tuesday in Atlanta
and Clayton Kershaw has been selected by the Commissioner as
the Legends pick, and I've been seeing so many young guys,
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including Andrew Abbot of the Reds, saying how much they're
looking forward to being on the National League team and
being around Kershaw. It's one thing for Andrew Abbot to
say it, It's another thing for Paul Skeens to say it.
Paul Skeens was on MLB Network Radio and just gut
over the fact, like a little kid that he's going
(16:03):
to be around Kershawn. Can't wait to just take it
all in.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean, he's one of the guys that I
grew up watching for sure. De Gram is also in there,
and a couple others that you know, I made the
All Star Game. But I'm hoping that that Kershaw isn't
fired to me by the time by the time the
All Star game's done, because I'm gonna go over there
and try to pick his brain as much as I can,
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just because of everything that he's accomplished in this game
and everything that he knows. You know, that's going to
be a pinch me moment for him. For me, just
a cool opportunity to be able to share the clubhouse
with him for a day.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I love hearing that. I love hearing that from a
young pitcher that hasn't even spent, you know, a full
season in the big leagues last year, came in in
the middle of it, and still going through his first
full season in Major League Baseball. I love a guy
that has been as dominant as Paul Skeens has been
still wanting to learn more by a future Hall of Fame.
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So it's gonna be see It's gonna be a great
scene in Atlanta, just to see how all these guys
gravitate towards Kershaw. Eight six six seven two five seventy
is the phone number Dodgers fall to the Giants tonight,
eight to seven Sergio in Las Vegas. What do you
got for us tonight, Sergio?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
A d be nice to be on with you again.
Before I get to my quick points, it's nice to
see that you're affecting the Arbitron ratings and helping AM
five to seventy out there in La I'm gonna have
to go on to the iHeartRadio app and check out
that episode that the first caller was was referencing.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
About Ray not only listening live but wanted to replay
it and make his his friends and family suffer on
the drive to San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
No, I have to check it out. Hey, it's DV.
It's unfortunate that that the team loses their seventh in
a row. But if there's a good loss, I guess
today is the good loss. Really good points eleven for
thirty seven. You know six six of the six hour
hitters in the lineup get a hit, So that's that's
a really good point. Their mookie showings of life is
(18:03):
also a good thing. Heysang cam three for four. But
that play at the middle that you reference in in
the postgame show that throw the first was not on
the bounce. That kid has a cannon. Very Deeter, Uh
Jeter s there yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
And lastly, Dustin May he just I think it just
lacks mental toughness. He has. He has the ability. I
mean the two home runs on the sinker. Uh, he
had very good results with the force him against the
White Sox and he had good, good results early on
in this game and it just went away from it.
And it's unfortunate. I just think that, uh, they're gonna
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have to fix them or see what's going on. With them.
And the last thing, David, they had Camilo Duvall on
the ropes. I would have liked to see Will Smith.
I know he's the best hitter average wise in the league.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
O don't even say the B word.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Worth the count. No, no, not bunch. I'm not an idiot, David.
I would have liked him to work the count. You know,
you know, I guess he wanted to amen a.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Lot of times. A lot of times. The best pitch
you see in and at bat, especially against a guy
like Duval's the first pitch. So I have no issues
with that. And you know, I just think it's a
tough at bat and he swung got a pitch that
he thought he could get through the infield. So I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna get on Will. He's been
(19:30):
the best with runners in scoring position, hitting over four hundred,
and like I said, against a guy like Duval a
lot of times, that sometimes the best pitch you'll see.
Thanks for the phone call, appreciate it, and I'm glad
you brought up the fact that Hayesan Kim had a
great game. That great throw in the second inning on
Casey Schmidt ended the inning. I mean that was not
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an easy play. It was a hard hit line drive
up the middle, and he threw a strike while he
was in the air to Freddie Freeman. On top of that,
he had three base hits, he had two stolen bases,
and it kind of felt like him and Young Who
Lee of the Giants, the two former teammates from Korea
were trying to prove to each other who could top
the other. Lee tonight was three for four with an
(20:12):
RBI triple and three RBIs. So I love those two
guys going toe to toe, and as Joe Davis let
us know during the Sports Net LA broadcast, they're still friendly.
They went out to dinner last night in San Francisco,
but when the bell rings, I love their competitiveness against
each other, and it's awesome that they're on teams that
(20:33):
are longtime rivals, the Dodgers and Giants. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's check in with Jose Mota.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's tough to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
All right, Jose Mota, Let's start with Hayesan Kim. Since
we were just talking about him, we keep saying how
much of an igniter. He is man. He had a
great game tonight. I would say if I had to
pick a player of the game for the Dodgers to night,
it would be him.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He brings a lot of energy at bottom of the order.
He could run. He has a very good idea when
to run. I mean, it's not a guy that's trying
to just accumulate numbers and stolen bases just because you
can see the leads get better. He has a very
good understanding. He picture his mind by the way in
his brain about base stealing in the big leagues and
some leads and some guy ascendencies. He does his work
and he just always has his upbeat attitude. Who was
(21:25):
a guy that really just understanding what big league base
was all about. But he's got some skills that are
tough to teach, they're tough to repeat. And he is
a guy too that is going to get better by
playing a little bit more and totally right out of
the way. Things are going offensively, and without Mike Bunsey,
the time is now for hers and Kim.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
No doubt, no doubt, great game for Hayesan Kim. On
the other side of things, Dustin May what a disappointing
fifth inning, jose I said, you know, I'm not going
to go as far as to say that he quit,
but certainly there were so many non competitive pitches in
that fifth inning, and it seem like he was just
defeated on the mound.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, let me make a point about Dustin May and
what I see. Okay, dust to May is now thirty
eight innings above any other limit he's ever had in
his career. Okay, he's coming off not pitching for a
year and a half, two years, not an excuse. But
right now, what every pitcher learns a young man still
is that you got to get over the physical and
(22:25):
just the mental grind is going to put you through this.
Your understanding of the game, the aptitude, how you read
the hitters and how they react to you. So, in
other words, if you see a game plan that you
implement going into a game, that plan cannot stay in
place just because so if he's telling yourself, I'm going
to go out there and use my fastball a little
bit more so, how they react they start reacting, then
(22:46):
you go to something different. If they're not, you stay
with it and just be better about locating it. But
the mental aspect is right now. What he's fighting the
most stave. I'm telling you, I've seen this so many
times through the years, where you get through a threshold
of innings and starts, he's got some or stars that
you have there before, and it becomes that mental grind.
You think your body is not responding, but your mind
has to get through it. But you talk about not
(23:08):
competitive pitches. If you see that as an offensive player,
you know that at some point he's going to start
walking people or he's going to give you something good
to hit, and that is exactly what happens. So when
you look at it from the offensive perspective, you want
to see a guy like that because you're like, at
some point he's gonna carve and we're gonna go out
there and get him and grind her out. And that's
what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Hey, that makes a lot of sense because there was
a close up on him in that fifth inning where
he's talking to himself. That's never a great sign when
you see a picture talking to himself trying to get
himself out of a jam.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's good and it's bad. I mean it's good, but
if you're got to be telling yourself the right things,
and Dustin we know, like to compete very emotional, shows
a lot of emotions after big ouls And at what
point he was the one guy that you can count
to go five or six innings, at least five innings
and also with the one guy there for the first
I'll say eight nine stars, he was the best in
relieving himself and being the best reliever for himself out
(24:03):
there on the mountain and being a guy that found
something else. But we're not seeing that right now because
I think the mental grind aspect of things. You know,
he's a little bit short and dead aspect, but I
know that stuff was. I feel like a velocity in
ninety at ninety seven. There's nothing wrong, but I'd like
to see him be a little more sharper with some
pitches and stadly not fight himself so much.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
What did you think about the ninth inning strategy? After
Mookie Beds gets a one out single, Dave Roberts shows
the urgency. They're bringing a speedster off the bench in Ruiz.
They had runners at first and second. After Ruiz stole
second base, it felt like Dave Roberts was trying to
do everything in his power to try to end this
(24:44):
losing streak, right.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
They know the name, the numbers on the vault. The
ball is not very good at guarding runners. I mean
Ru's had a hugely like twenty feet. I would say, man,
I'm exaggerating, but Muki obviously got hit in the leg.
He had the triple and then he had the single.
But you got to take a chance there, and Dave
Roberts does what you got to do in that situation,
which is, hey, nothing else is working, let me try
at least get this guy a second base. Change it inning.
(25:08):
I got Freddie Cohin behind and then Will Smith and
give yourself the best chance. I just didn't work out
that time. But you got to do it. You got
to go out there with that sense emergency to say
I got a chance things around and allow my team
to be a difference maker, not just by slugging, because
I slug a hole lot in that ballpark, but by
running the basis and st Rees presents that option right now.
Is a good move, all.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Right, Jose. I feel like the next two games are
ripe for the Dodgers to take. I feel like they
could end this losing streak tomorrow. And when two games
going into the all Star break.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Heating is to go out and take what you have
today on the offensive side, four four ten runs of
scoring position much better, but you got to put a
stop on the mound up on my own, all.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Right, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. Appreciate it.
There he goes, Jose Mota starting to get into some
cell hell right there as the Dodgers fall to the
Giant tonight eight to seven. Jose part of the Dodgers
Spanish radio broadcast with Pepe and Inguez and Luis Cochito Cruz.
All right, before we say good night, I want to
(26:10):
share with you a couple of things. Number One, in
case you miss speaking of Petro Some Money. Petro Some
Money had their second summer tour stop today out in
Rancho Cuca Manga. That's also where Joe Kelly was being
honored by the Quakes with a bubblehead night. So his
oldest son knocks throughout the first pitch and on the
way to the Quakes game, Joe Kelly stopped by Septembers
(26:34):
in Rancho Cuca Manga and there was a mariachi band,
so he enjoyed that. And here's what Joe had to
share with Petro some money about the twenty thirteen sequence
of events when he was wearing a Cardinals uniform and
ended Hanley Ramirez and the Dodgers' chances of going to
the World Series in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
I get ready for my start, which is like Game
three of the NLCS, and Hanley's honotaries in like six
seventy whatever he's doing carrying the team and yacht.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
He knows Handley.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
He's like, hey, he's not very tough, Like he may
look big and tough, but he's he's he's a big,
big ass baby. So right, he goes, whatever we do,
I don't care if there's Basil, load nobody out. And
he's like, we're gonna pitch him in. We're gonna pitch
him in. He goes, I set up. I'll set up
right behind him. Like if it goes right by his jersey,
who cares. You get two strikes, you're down three to zero.
We're pitching him in.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
We're pitching him pitching in, like.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
We got it, Like we got to stop this guy.
He's like, I don't care if he gets on base.
You walk a guy, He's like everyone else we could
pitch around, like I know how to pitch him with
all your stuff. He's like, no matter what, you better
not miss. He's like, if you actually hit him, oh well,
he's like, I'll rip his throat out before he even
gets too.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
So I'm all right.
Speaker 9 (27:38):
So it's one two count and he calls fastball in again.
I'm like, all right, fast fall in and it got
away from me. And but there's a guy on second
and third thing of the time, and I was like
hit him, which didn't think he was gonna get hurt,
and I guess it suck him good, right, so obviously
he gets on base.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Two outs.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
I get the next guy out, but he runs back
out the short soop of the next inning, right, and
he's like hold him the side, and Handy's like in yachty.
He's like, we got it, like you took care of
like oho, our whole like game plan. Like now we're
gonna make him feeling comfortable because the game before, no
one was pitching him in. And I don't remember if
it was the first, first, second start, but nobody was
pitching him in. He'd like watched all his video. He's like,
(28:14):
we're just they're doing a favor thro him. Slider away Homer, fast,
wall away Homer, you know, slider down the middle, down low,
double the right, center field. He's like, no one has
even established him. And so this is the old school
thinking of Yachty.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
And so we see.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Hanley grow away back out. Hanley like takes a ground
ball and like holding aside, and then he calls time
and the train runs out, and then he runs off
into the dugout and he's gone, and Yaddy comes up
to me.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
He's like, you.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
See, you see he doesn't want to play the rest
of the game, right, But Yachty's a savage bro.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I love that guy. Molina brothers all right, all right,
we don't need to hear about Yadi or Molina and
the Cardinals, thanks Joe. But yeah, there it is. I mean,
that's what Joe Kelly was best known for before he
signed with the Dodgers in twenty nineteen, breaking hand Ramirez'
ribs in Saint Louis. And I had heard that too
from guys on the Dodgers, that Hanley was not as
(29:06):
tough as he appeared. One time, Hanley challenged me to
go into the tunnel at Corsfield because he didn't like
the line of questioning after he turned down or the
Dodgers didn't offer him a contract extension the following year.
But no matter what Joe says, that's the way he's
he's been. One thing you could say about Joe Kelly,
(29:27):
he's one hundred percent honest. And yes, that's how the
Dodger players felt that Joe Kelly and the rest of
the Cardinal pitchers in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen were
pitching inside with no regard about whether or not they
broke a rib, they broke a hand, they broke an arm,
they didn't care, and that's what happened. And you just
heard him tell the strategy. But look, like I said
(29:48):
during the Off Day Show yesterday, I love Joe Kelly.
I thought he brought a lot of edge the Dodgers
needed edge in the bullpen when he signed in twenty nineteen.
But I just feel like it's so over the top
and surprising how much Dodger fans love this guy after
his two Dodger highlights were kind of off the field stuff.
(30:09):
Number one twenty twenty, nobody in the stands in Houston.
He gives the Patty face to Carlos Korea. I got
news for you. That wasn't for the twenty seventeen Dodgers.
That was for Joe Kelly and his beef with Korea
when he was with the Red Sox. Number two. He
wore a Mariachi jacket to the White House in twenty twenty.
So to me, those are the two Joe Kelly highlights.
(30:32):
There's actually a miror on the reserve level of Joe
wearing a Mariachi jacket. And he's a cult hero. He's
a cult figure for Dodger fans because it's certainly not
because he pitched like Kenley Jansen or Eric Ganie. But
everybody loves Joe. And like I mentioned, there's two things
about Joe that everybody appreciates. He's authentic, he's believable, and
(30:54):
he's likable. Three things right there, and I think that's
why everybody responds to Joe Kelly. Six six, seven, two
five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the
Giants tonight, eight to seven in San Francisco. They have
lost seven in a row. Their lead over the Giants
in the NL West is down to four games after
it was inflated bloated to nine games on July third
(31:18):
and things have gone a little bit sideways on the Dodgers,
not only just the way they're playing, but also injuries.
Tommy Edmond got his first start at third base. He
was back in the starting lineup tonight. He made some
nice plays at third base. Ti Oscar Hernandez back in
the Dodgers starting lineup, although wasn't moving around that well
in right field, so we'll see how he looks the
(31:40):
next couple of days. So that's where things stand right now,
and it does feel like it did at this time
last year where the Dodgers were stumbling to the All
Star break without Max Munsey losing in Detroit in heartbreaking fashion.
So look, it's a long season. Still a long ways
to go between now and the end of the year,
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and the Dodgers are getting Tyler Glass now back and
Blake Snell spoke to him today. He felt great after
his start yesterday. He will start in Arizona during the
All Star break and then go out for an Oklahoma
City rehab start, and I could see him coming back
on the first road trip after the All Star break.
(32:20):
So that's where things stand with the Dodgers, and they're pitching.
They just need to get their position players healthy, even
the ones that are playing through a lot of pain.
All Right, before we say good night, one more thing
for you. I gotta give love to our guy, Cody Bellinger.
No matter if he's a Cub or a Yankee, he
will always be a Dodger. He had his best years
with the Dodgers, winning the Rookie of the Year, hitting
(32:42):
forty nine home runs, Silver Slugger, National League MVP in
twenty nineteen, World Series Champion, just a monster when he
was going good for the Dodgers. And today at Yankee Stadium,
Cody Bellinger hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs
and a Yankees eleven to nothing win. Here was his
(33:03):
third home run, called by Michael Kay on the Yes Network.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
Right field Tucker back, he's on the track, so is
the centerfielder who leaps.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
How that ball is gone. It's a three run, a
two run home run by Donager.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
His third home run up the night.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
Oh what a knight for Bellinger in his ten nothing Yanks.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Yeah, Cody Bellinger, Congratulations Bopper with a three home run
game for the Yankees. And he should have had four
home runs, but Kyle Tucker robbed him of what would
have been his fourth home run of the game. So
happy to see Cody having success in the Bronx and
at that short porch and right field you kind of
(33:52):
had a feeling he was gonna have a big year
with the Yankees. So happy for Cody. A great guy
and I always loves sharing what some of those o
Dodgers are doing these days. Thanks to calling me back
at our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald at Oracle Park,
and thanks to you for listening. Tomorrow, Otani on the
Mount for the fifth time this season, going up against
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landon Rup. He is our roup. He's six and five
with an elra at three thirty nine. Morongo Casino. Dodgers
on Deck begins at noon, first pitch at one oh five,
and Tim Kates will be with you for the last
two games before the All Star Rage once again. The
final score tonight the Dodgers fall to the Giants eight
to seven in San Francisco. Have a great rest of
(34:34):
your night, Be safe. See un
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