Dodger Talk (7-20-25)

DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Brewers sweep the Dodgers. Clayton Kerhsaw and Mookie Betts address the media. DV shares part of his pregame with Tim Belcher.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Let's not play one on Tom. Let's lend it. I
love writing me these guys after the show.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
So just thank you, give me all.

Speaker 5 (00:15):
Your attention, your fire, and not a piss.

Speaker 6 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger world championing for a small.

Speaker 7 (00:22):
Soft time they get a people what they want to
die to A row two is special.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.

Speaker 7 (00:28):
One of a con.

Speaker 8 (00:30):
This ball's gone. You ready to go?

Speaker 9 (00:32):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Hell old time, go.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
To the sound, grab your phone to get in on
the show called eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seven and go to the show. And now your
host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse.

Speaker 7 (00:47):
Welcome to Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until five
thirty tonight, live from Dodger Stadium. After the Brewers complete
the sweep again over the Dodgers six to five, the
fine will score this Sunday afternoon at Dodgers Stadium. A
disappointing day for the Dodgers, and really a disappointing last
two games. They were in prime position to win both

(01:10):
of these games. Pitching in defense hurt the Dodgers in
the last two games of this series. And today, you know,
Andy pie Has did not have a great day. I know,
he made a nice catch crashing into the wall on
a fly ball by Jackson Cheerio in the fifth inning,
but in the fourth inning, he opened the door for
runs to score in the fourth inning, and Usterio's Ruiz,

(01:34):
who got a rare start in the left field, also
did not help matters with the outfield defense thrown to
the wrong base, not really fielding balls cleanly out there,
and that opened the door for the Brewers to score
three runs in the fourth inning. And you can completely
understand the frustration by Clayton Kershaw, who deserved a better fate,

(01:58):
I mean fit to be tied right there. Andy pi
Has has got to make that catch with two outs
to end the fourth inning, and he was.

Speaker 8 (02:07):
It wasn't him not hustling.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
It was him being too nonchalant at the end of
that play, especially in center field on a day game,
not a cloud in the sky at Dodger Stadium. You
can't take anything for granted out there, and on the
bases in the ninth inning, you know, looking at the
replay from the above camera. Look, they call it the
High and nine because you can see all nine positions.

(02:31):
He didn't give Dino Ebel anything to work with on
that ground ball by Dalton rushing deep in the hole,
Joey Ortiz trying to make a spectacular play, he makes
a bad throw. You saw that happening and unfolding in
slow emotion. I'm sure if you're Pat Murphy you should
have been seeing it too. If you're Andy pie Has,
and you know, I understand why deno Ebel held up

(02:53):
the stop sign. Piz wasn't giving him much of anything
between second and third base, so he had no their
choice but to hold him. Andy Potter has has got
to go hard from second and rounding third base to
at least give him a chance to see the play
in front of him and make a decision right there

(03:14):
whether or not he should break home as the tying
run with two outs in the ninth inning.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
If the play is made, the game is over.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
So I Understandino kind of giving him the stop sign.
But you know, in that position, Andy pot has has
got to have some base running instincts as well, and
he just had a bad day defensively and on the
basis today and has Andy Pott has been the same
since he got word that he wasn't part of the

(03:45):
National League All Star Team. I mean, he's got to
snap himself out of it. That's coming gone make them
pay for not putting you on the All Star Game
instead of not playing the way that you were before
they made the selection of the team. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.

(04:05):
I know the Dodgers have a really good team and
they are very likely to win this division again and
make a run through October, but you can't you can't
allow this to be acceptable. The way you're playing and
being five to ten in the month of July cannot
be acceptable to anybody. Losing ten of your last twelve

(04:28):
cannot be acceptable.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
And it's one thing to go toe to toe and
play good.

Speaker 7 (04:32):
Baseball and lose, but the Dodgers are not playing good
baseball and they're losing. You could get away with that
against the White Sox, the Royals, the Rockies. You're not
gonna get away with that against teams that are five
hundred or better, like the Brewers, who are the best
team record wise in Major League Baseball since the end

(04:56):
of May. And this is the first time the Dodgers
have been sweat in a season series of more than
four games since two thousand and six, when the Cardinals
won the season series seven to nothing that year, seven
to zero against the six Dodgers. So it's fine to

(05:16):
believe you're that good, and you are the Dodger pitching's
getting healthy, but your minus Max Muncie, your minus Keik Hernandez,
you got to play clean baseball, and Usterio Ruiz is
not going to be starting playoff games for the Dodgers.
I completely understand that. But that's why I believe the
Dodgers have got to move or I don't know. The

(05:39):
outfield just doesn't look right right now. The defense just
doesn't look right. It's given that extra outs, extra runs.
It just doesn't look right at this moment in time.
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number.

Speaker 8 (05:56):
We have a full border calls. We'll get to you.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
We'll hear from Hosea Mota, and also we have a
pair of tickets to give away to Tuesday night's games.
So a lot to get to including hearing from Max
Muncy and giving you a blake snail update. But let's
head downstairs right now to hear from Clayton Kershaw on
Sports Net.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
La.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
Oh No, I was just frustrated myself. Yeah, we score
three runs and I give a walk. It's just frustrating.

Speaker 11 (06:21):
What was what kind of led to that for you?
I know you were relying on the splitter a lot.
Was that game planning comup was working for you or
what wasn't working for you?

Speaker 10 (06:30):
I thought it pitch okay, just made some mistakes and
just I was just frustrated. It happens we're not playing
well as a.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Team and.

Speaker 10 (06:37):
I wanted to help win the game today and didn't
do enough to do it. So that's frustrated.

Speaker 12 (06:41):
On splitter something that pitch was like just pipe might
to face the second straight stright or what listener wouldn't
led behind that?

Speaker 10 (06:48):
Guys, I don't know. I don't know. I threw it
at what I thought I needed to do. I didn't really, Yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (06:57):
Frustrating is this fresh obviously, just considering so especially having
said party.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
Getting hurt at the end of the day, unt having
a sour note start at FILS.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm frustrated. We're all frustrated. Yeah,
I don't know how else to say.

Speaker 9 (07:12):
We didn't win a game.

Speaker 10 (07:13):
No excuses, just play better.

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Milwau seasons.

Speaker 10 (07:21):
I don't make anything of it. If you just we
need to play better tomorrow, I don't. I don't know
how much you say. I'm gonna get into myself in trouble.
So let's just let's just call it.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Thanks.

Speaker 8 (07:31):
Yeah, you could tell how frustrated he is.

Speaker 7 (07:33):
I mean, is anybody going to ask him about the
plays in the outfield that cost him pitches and forced
him out of this game prematurely? I mean, it wasn't him.
It wasn't him throwing split fingered fastballs. It wasn't what
the Brewers did. It's what the Dodgers didn't do. The

(07:53):
Dodgers beat themselves just as much as the Brewers beat them. Today,
Clayton Kershaw pitched far. He doesn't have ninety five ninety
six to strike guys out. He needs his defense to
make plays behind him. Does anybody realize that it's not
that hard? Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five

(08:14):
seventy is the phone number. I mean, I can understand
why he was frustrated, and I can understand why. He
was frustrated with those questions, so he made the right
choice to call that postgame interview session off right there.
I mean, not only was he fighting poor outfield defense,
but he also was trying to drag along a rookie

(08:35):
catcher on that catch that Andy Pie has made in
center field. He was screaming at Dalton Rushing because they
got he got the signs mixed up or there was
some miscommunication on Rushing's part, and rushings patting his chest
protector saying, my bad, my bad.

Speaker 8 (08:54):
Let's move on. Let's move on.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
And I love that from Dalton Rushing, and I loved
how Rushing went out there few different times to try
to calm him down after those poor defensive plays in
the outfield by Pajaz and Ruiz. This was not on
Clayton Kershaw. His pitch execution may not have been perfect,
but it's not the reason why the Brewers scored three

(09:18):
runs in the fourth inning.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (09:23):
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Dodgers get swept by the Brewers six
to five, and Mookie Betts was in the leadoff spot
for the first time since last Father's Day.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Remember after he was out for six weeks, the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
Made the change and decided to stick with Otani as
the leadoff hitter and Dave Roberts not wanting to lose
Mookie Bets for the rest of the season, even with
his struggles ops under seven hundred batting average in the
two forties.

Speaker 8 (09:56):
If you drop Mooki Bets to six or seven, you
lose him.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
So I love what Dave Roberts did and put him
back in the leadoff spot, because if you remember at
the beginning of twenty twenty, when the Dodgers tried to
get cute and had Mookie Bets not hitting leadoff after
him being in the prime of his career winning MVPs,
he said, I want to be back in the leadoff spot.

(10:20):
That's where I feel like I'm in control of the game.
I'm like a point guard on a basketball court. So
Dave Roberts making the right move right there. But in
the bottom of the ninth inning, the game finds you,
and after Dalton Rushing's infield single, Mookie Bets came to
the plate with the game on the line, the tying

(10:41):
run ninety feet away and show hey Otani was on deck.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
Instead of being at the plate.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Now, Mookie Bets put a good swing on that pitch
by your rebay, it just hung up in the air
a little too long. So I'm not gonna say all
see you hit him lead off. Now Otani's on deck
with the game over. No, Muki had a good day.
If it wasn't for Mookie's two out single in the
third inning, Otani doesn't have the chance to hit a

(11:08):
two run home run. So I like this, And it
also benefits Otani on days like tomorrow when he pitches.
It's not gonna have to come off the mound and
immediately get a drink of water like a boxer coming
back to the corner and having Bob garn like just
drowned him with a water bottle and have somebody put
on his elbow pad and all that. So it serves

(11:31):
two purposes. Indirectly. It's a good thing for the Dodgers
to have Mooki lead off and either Freeman or Tani
hitting second. And we saw that today. Let's head downstairs
to hear what Muki had to say after the game today.

Speaker 13 (11:46):
As you say, no day at the park, nothing really changes,
show doesn't matter.

Speaker 11 (11:52):
We're looking how these last now a few weeks have
gone for this group, It's clear the frustrating, the frustration
is building. Is there a conversation that you all have
amongst each other. What has got to be the key
for you all to kind of get back on track.

Speaker 13 (12:06):
Just got to play better, I mean in off assets.
I can can't speak for everyone. I just know for me,
I gotta play better, gotta figure it out.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
Okay, No, we never got to that at bat in
the ninth inning, but nonetheless had a chance to talk
to Mookie Betts today as we stopped him as he
was coming off the infield before the game today, to
get his thoughts on the season slump and also the
fact that he's gonna be leading off now for at

(12:39):
least the foreseeable future. Here's what Mookie Bets had to
tell me about just about the season long slump. There's
no way around it. It's not a two week slump.
It's not a week slump. It's a season long slump.
Here's what MOOKI had to say about what are some
of the factors.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
I think that probably plays a little piece into it.
But you know, I've had a good first homestand so
that kind of kills that theory. So you know, I don't,
like I said, I don't think there's any real reasons outside.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Of me just.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Not figuring out who I am now and not applying.

Speaker 8 (13:19):
What works for me now.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
I mean, it's kind of hard to apply to something
when you don't really know. But I mean, this is
a process I've never been through, so I don't have
any answers. I don't know how to get through this.

Speaker 9 (13:32):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
I don't, I don't, I don't know, you know what
I'm saying. So, like I said, I'm working every day
and hopefully, you know that, hopefully it turns.

Speaker 7 (13:44):
Is that falling into the same category that Kurusha has
talked about during the course.

Speaker 8 (13:48):
Of his career is like adapt or diet?

Speaker 5 (13:51):
Yeah, pretty much pretty much. I'm trying to adapt. You know,
I'm doing my best to adapt. It's not really a
going that great for me. But I mean, all thing
I can do is just keep keep working and hopefully,
like I said, hopefully it does.

Speaker 7 (14:09):
Term Mookie Bets is thirty two years old. This happens
with every player. You've got to evolve, you've got to adapt,
you got to make adjustments to go along with father time,
and that's what Kershaw has referenced the last four or
five years of his career. And that's the reason why
I paraphrase what Kershaw said to Muki. But I like
what we saw for Mooki bets today. I think this

(14:31):
is gonna work out really well to have Mooki lead
off in front of Otani and Freeman. And speaking of
Freddie Freeman, he had to leave the game today because
he got hit by a pitch eighty eight miles an
hour by jose Kntana in the sixth inning, and something
that all of us hadn't seen before. He walks towards
the dugout, very stoic, doesn't try to milk the moment
and go down to his knees like other players would.

(14:53):
He just walked towards the dugout and basically knew he
couldn't keep going. And good news, the X rays were
negative on Freddy's left wrist. But you got to hold
your breath because there are a lot of little bones
in the wrist. Speaking from experience, Holy crap, going down
the slide, you know, not getting hit by a pitch,

(15:14):
of course, just being dumb and going down a slide
and getting hurt in Milwaukee, but there are a lot
of little bones there and maybe the Dodgers will take
an MRI if it doesn't feel better in a couple
of days. But you heard Dave Roberts say that if
Freddie's not able to go tomorrow, Dalton Rushing will be
the first baseman. Eight six six nine eighty seven two

(15:34):
five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers are sweat by
the Brewers, six to five the final score. We have
a full border calls. Let's get to it. Ernie and
El Serino, you've been holding the longest wy don't you
lead us off today?

Speaker 14 (15:48):
Hey Vese, thanks for taking my call. Man, You know
it's awful squandering a cursehell performance and we only have
a handful of them left. And seeing how lacks of
days ago Piez was in centerfield day really was off putting.
And I gotta wonder why Altman wasn't out there after
it happened, and why Dave didn't sit him down immediately.
And then also the base running gas was just it's

(16:11):
almost impossible to filom a professional who doesn't run the base,
even if he's been untiled to hold up third at
least take a couple of steps. You caught that in
little league. It just feels like if it's not being
done in a video game, Pies doesn't know how to
do it.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah, well today we saw two things that really was
plaguing pie Hez in the first couple of weeks of
the season, poor defense and bad base running.

Speaker 8 (16:34):
And we saw that again today.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
But he's got a I don't know what it is,
but ever since he hasn't been selected to the All
Star Game, it doesn't feel like he's hitting on all cylinders.
But nonetheless, you got to refocus and really, Ernie, let's
not forget this is the first time pie Haz is
going to play a full major league season. There's a
reason why a lot of rookies hit the wall in

(16:57):
July and August. There's a reason why they call it
the dog days of August. And let's see whether or
not he can recalibrate. But it was a bad day
for him, no doubt. But the good news about baseball
is there is always tomorrow. So Paz, let's see how
I think we all forget he's not a five year vet.
It's his first full, everyday major league season. Let's see

(17:20):
whether or not. He can break through the wall as
we get closer through the dog days of August. And
that's why I'm not opposed to the Dodgers acquiring an
outfielder or getting some outfield depth where they can give
him a breather, or have Tommy Edmond or keyk Hernandez
out there as well. Let's go out to Ryan, who
is at Dodgers Stadium today. Hi, Ryan, you're on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 15 (17:45):
Today.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I just got to say, I think you called it
all right in the last Hour're listening to you, but
disappointing three game lost year.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Grateful to be able to go to all the.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
Games, but just know you went to all three games, Ryan.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Lost them all.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Maybe I shouldn't go.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, I won't be there tomorrow, so maybe we'll win.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, Okay, anyways, no urgency. We're not stilling bases, we're
not playing small ball. We're just flat and it's you
can say it's just July, but whatever we lost because
we have well are You're gonna say day late and
a dollar shot, but I'd say a couple errors late
and earned run short every game. So that's where we're at,

(18:26):
no doubt, we could turn this thing around still early.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
We'll play better later.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
No doubt, Ryan, no doubt.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
I mean, the defense opened the gate, opened the door
for a lot of guys, and that certainly was an issue.
That certainly was an issue today. They put up five runs.
That should be enough. But you know what the Brewers do.
They pitch really well, and they have team offense. They're
having team at bats, and we see that from time
to time, lately in the month of July, but we

(18:54):
don't see consistently from the Dodgers. You would think the
team that has one of the top five offense in
Major League Baseball would be able to outdule a team
with Andrew Vaughan, Isaac Collins, Caleb Durbin, Blake Perkins. I
thought yesterday was a perfect example of team offense. Christian
Yelich attempting to bunt with the bases loaded, the left

(19:17):
side open for him because he obviously wasn't feeling great
against that lefty and wanted to try to do something
to score a run for the team. The Dodgers need
to consistently have more team at bats. Eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Dodgers fall to the Brewers six to five. Let's go

(19:37):
out to Sergio in Azusa. You're on Dodger Talk, Sergio,
how you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Ooh good?

Speaker 14 (19:43):
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (19:43):
Gee putting me on? Uh wanted to say, it's thew
all over again. I mean, didn't we go through this
last year when months he went down and I'm wondering
what the stats are with him not in the lineup,
And then I just don't see the fire. You see it,
Kurge Shaw, And I'm curious as to when you get

(20:04):
your star guy hit like that. I'm back to the
Don Sutton drys till days where you answer back, Am
I wrong feeling that way? Or is it a gentleman's game?

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Now?

Speaker 8 (20:16):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Buddy?

Speaker 8 (20:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (20:18):
I mean you've heard guys from Barry Bonds to Freddie
Freeman even say the game's not the same.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
It's not pitched the same.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
You don't see guys come inside on purpose, or to
hit a guy on purpose, or to send a message.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
You just don't see that right or wrong.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
I would you know, I don't call that old school baseball.
I call that baseball that should be part of the game.
But a Major League baseball has kind of taken away.
Players policing themselves with how quickly they issue warnings, and
teams don't want to lose starting pitchers after two or
three innings, so the players understand the constraints of the

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new rules.

Speaker 16 (20:58):
Yeah, it's just it's it reminds me of the Cardinals,
and you know how they could just eliminate our team
with just one pitch, and I don't like to see that.
And my son's here asking about the Dodger tickets.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
Yeah, all right, okay, he could keep asking. We're not
giving them away right now. Thanks for the phone call.
Eight six six nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
the phone number. Jim Rome always used to have an
old rule, don't ask for the tickets. Eight six six
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Dodgers fall to the
Brewers today, six to five. And look the Dodgers as

(21:36):
we get closer to the July thirty first trade deadline,
they have some decisions to be made. I feel like
it's a you know, an easy Andrew Friedman's on the
record is saying he's going to be looking for a
right handed reliever, so there's no scoops or breaking news.
Andrew Friedman said this the day that Evan Phillips was

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lost for the season, that he would be looking for
a high leverage, right handed reliever. He said that to
Petro some money that very same day. So for all
those that are all in on Emmanuel class a in
Stephen Kwan and I'm wondering when other talk show hosts
say they heard whispers if they listened to the show
with the volume very low, because maybe those are the

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whispers they're hearing. But the Guardians, as I have told
you and been told by others in the game, the
Guardians are very difficult front office to make trades with.
And Emmanuel Classe has not been a lockdown closer, high
leverage reliever this year, and he wasn't for the Guardians
in the postseason last year. To me, the guy that

(22:40):
is more of a prime target for the Dodgers would
be Johan Duran of the Minnesota Twins, who happened to
be coming to town tomorrow night for a three game series.
The Twins are going nowhere. Duran is under team control
until after until through the twenty eighth season. He's more dominant,
he's more of a sure thing. If the Twins are

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listening on the Dodgers, and I'm knocking on their door
more than I'm knocking on the Guardian's door. And you know,
everybody seems to forget about the Saint Louis Cardinals. The
Cubs and Brewers are far and above better than the
Cardinals in the NL Central. The Cardinals are fading. They
are just two games above five hundred. They have to

(23:24):
leap frog four teams to be in the conversation for
the National League Wildcard.

Speaker 8 (23:30):
Ryan Helsley is still a name that's on the table.
He's a free agent at the end of the year.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
The Cardinals have got to be realistic about their rebuild,
even though they won't say it. Another guy that would
be a lot easier to make a trade for is
David Bednar of the Pirates, who is having a really
good June. In July was an All Star even though
he got off to a slow start. He's back to
being David Bednar, and he's a free agent after the
twenty seventh season. So those are more realistic targets for

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the Dodgers to be able not only to have discussions,
but also to pull off a trade for a David Bednar.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
A Ryan Helsley or a Joan Duran.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
And I don't know if you've kept up with brock Stewart,
the former Dodger, he's now a really good reliever for
the Twins. That also could be part of a Dodger
Twins trade Duran and brock Stewart. That would solve your
bullpen issue with one trade. The Dodgers are going to
make a trade or trades before the deadline, mark my words.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
They are going to make an impact trade or two.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
And if you're thinking about the outfield, I know Byron
Buxton has said he's a twin. He's not waving his
no trade clause. But if it's the Dodgers, as he
really saying no, that would say a lot about him.
If he said no, I'd rather stay with the Twins.
And what about Jared Duran? The Red Sox said been
reportedly shopping him since the month of May. If you

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need an outfielder, if you need a left fielder, how
about Jaron Duran. He'll bring some edge to this team.
Eight sixty six two five seventy is the phone number.
Let's go out to Edgar and Anaheim. You're on Dodger
Talk with David Vasse.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
How you doing, Hey, David.

Speaker 17 (25:19):
I think this lose thing right now, it's gonna help
the team in the long run. I think this fire
is gonna help and get through it and eventually they're
gonna they're gonna be on top when it's crunch time.
I really think this is the perfect time to go
through this. We're gonna get everybody back when it when
it mattered, and base was gonna be shocked.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
All right, Edgar, thanks for the phone call.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
I don't think anybody's gonna be shocked if the Dodgers
make another run.

Speaker 8 (25:47):
Let's go out to Ken in Newport Beach. You're on
Dodger Talk, Hi, Ken.

Speaker 9 (25:53):
Okay, First, I we'll talk about Waukee. Is a bunt
two or three time times a game they steal faces
out of control. It's like at least three or four times.
The Dodgers aren't doing any of those because Lakhani was stealing.
But he's not. Their manager seems to really know what's

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going on. He makes a lot of the moves at
the right time, and left against the leftier, right against
the righty, and the team is not trying to hit
home runs. They're trying to hit the ball now I
look at the Dodgers. Dodgers are one and nine in
their last ten, and I think they're.

Speaker 8 (26:31):
I don't even lost ten of their last twelve. Ken.
I'll just make it easy for you. We don't have
to go through all that. What I mean, how does
it get better?

Speaker 7 (26:39):
I mean instead of just complaining about it, I mean
we do this every time the Dodgers lose.

Speaker 9 (26:44):
Can Well, some of the ways it's.

Speaker 14 (26:46):
Going to get better is I don't know what is
going on.

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Alex Freeman last fifteen games, He's struck out twenty three times.
It's just not like him. We know he's injured. If
he's injured, let's give him a rest.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
And the outfield, well, he's going to get one now
because he got hit by a pain So he's getting arrest,
whether or not he likes it now.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, but that outfield is terrible.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
I mean, what the Oscar is not hitting and is
feeling It looks like he's ninety years old when he
goes after a ball. Now, Paseas doesn't usually make those
kind of errors. But I don't know if they're not
paying attention or they're you know, I don't know if
it's Roberts sitting in the dugout, not making many sounds,

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but they look really bad. And when you see teams
like Milwaukee and some of these others, I think it's
a blessing in disguise.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
Ken, it's a blessing in disguise. The Dodgers saw the
Brewers before the trade deadline. It just it's hard to
ignore some of the outfield defensive deficiencies that they have
right now. And it's a and thank you for the
phone calling. Look, it's a fix. You can fix it.
You could fix it internally. When key Key Hernandez comes back,

(27:59):
you can put him in send like he played during
the postseason run to the World Series. Max Munsey will
be back. You can have Tommy Edmond as an option
in center and have Pajez in the corners. Michael Confordo
has been playing solid left field. I know the bat
hasn't been great, but you have to give Confordo a
lot of credit against a really tough pitcher in Abner Uribe,

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who is throwing things up and in, down and away.
He didn't chase, he understood the situation and drew a
two out walk to extend the game. So I know
all the shots people want to take at Michael Conforto.
In the last couple of weeks, he's been he's been good.
So you know, even if the Dodgers make a trade

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for an outfielder, I could still see Confordo being part
of this team. Eight six six nine seven two five
seventy is the phone number. We're gonna take a time
out here on Dodger Talk. When we continue, we'll give
you an update on Max Munsey and Blake Snell, and
we'll check in with Jose Mota. Plus I had a
chance to catch up with part of the ninth Team
eighty eight Dream Team or Magical Team, Tim Belcher. He

(29:04):
was out here for Alumni weekend, so a lot to
get to, including giving away tickets to Tuesday Night's game
without you asking, No asking. Eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy David Vasse Dodger Talk live from
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Two Balls, No Strikes, keep Tana out of the stretch,
and Otani places it to left field, pushes Collins back towards.

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The wall an an opposite field laser bringing from the show,
Hey Old Tani, who is going deepen?

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Speaker 8 (30:00):
Show.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
He Otani ready to go after the All Star Break
games with home runs yesterday and today. That was a
two run home run with two outs off a Jose
Cantana into the Dodger bullpen. The Dodgers fall to the
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Daniels Jewelers own the Dream. Eight six, six, nine, eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers
are just five and ten. In the month of July.
The Brewers have won ten games in a row. Six

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of those ten wins have come against the Dodgers, the
Brewers sweeping the season series from the Dodgers. The last
time the Dodgers were swept in a season series four
games or more was when the Cardinals swept the Dodge
in two thousand and six, going seven to zero against
James Loney, Luis Gonzales and company back in two thousand

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and six. Dodgers fall to the Brewers today six to
five and are swept in this three game series after
being swept in a three game series in Milwaukee right
before the All Star break.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
The Dodgers have lost ten of their last twelve and.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
In this season series sweep to the Brewers, they were
outscored thirty one to sixteen. And in the last two
games it wasn't so much about offense. It was more
about poor defense, outfield defense, just not getting it done
in the last six to seven games quite honestly, even

(31:45):
on that last road trip. But today it was Oustereos
Ruiz and Indy Paez that made critical mistakes that cost
Kershaw pitches and runs and that turned out to be
the difference in the game today and kersh On not
going at least five innings, and you know that gets
under his skin, and watching him go back to the dugout,

(32:06):
throwing his hat, throwing his glove, he was upset, and
that's good for this team. You can't just feel like
everything's okay and you it's good for players on their
own team to make other players uncomfortable. And that's a
good thing because the Dodgers are not playing well, and
it was a good thing to make Clayton Kershaw or

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Kershaw to make others feel uncomfortable. Eight six six nine
seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go
out to Leo in Pasadena. You're on Dodger Talk live
from Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 19 (32:40):
Hi Leo, Hi David, how are you thank you for
having me in your put in the show again?

Speaker 4 (32:46):
My pleasure?

Speaker 19 (32:46):
Do you want to make a case for us thing?
And let me try to laborate really quick. I really
hope the Dawyers don't go and make big moves of
the tread deadline, because at some point it just becomes
like this spoiled rich kid that keeps making mistakes and
the parents keep keep buying him expensive toys. Something's gotta give.
I mean, we cannot be the team that only wins

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because we have the biggest pocket. There needs to be
better discipline. There needs to be better pace running, There
needs to be better basics. We need to have our
younger players come and play for us. Let's give him
some a shot to the players and minors, something's gotta give.
I mean I almost feel that thinking that we're going
to get again more players.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 19 (33:25):
Like we have a look at our lineup.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
We really need more players to.

Speaker 19 (33:29):
Be able to not look ridiculous on the field. And
my blast point is Doyer Stadium is the most expensive
ballpark in the nation. I really really hope that the
players go home thinking about that. There's a parent that
spent maybe a thousand bucks today and went and got disappointed,
and the same thing happened yesterday, and it's been happening
for a few months. So when you spend so much money,

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you only get to get more disappointed every time you lose.
So I think we need to get our ship together, sorry,
without having to spend.

Speaker 8 (33:59):
All No, that's it, you lost your rights. Sorry right there.

Speaker 7 (34:02):
You can't go that far and look, just because you
come to a baseball game to see your home team
doesn't mean that they're guaranteed to win. And the Dodgers
just won you a World Series last year last October,
so you're coming out to see the best players in
the world in Otani, Freeman and Betts. And look, I

(34:23):
get it, coming to any sporting event, going to Disneyland
is not as affordable as it was back in nineteen
eighty five. Trust me, I get it. But the Dodgers
are putting out a really good team.

Speaker 9 (34:37):
And I mean.

Speaker 7 (34:41):
That call it sounded like you just were trying to
get to the point where you didn't like how much
you're paying to come to the game. I mean, you're
gonna be upset if the Dodgers try to bring in
more good players to try to win the World Series. Again,
I don't know any fan that would be upset about that.
And I understand your point. They spent a lot of

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money during the offseason, a half a billion dollars, and
they have had the best record at different points in time.
They have had the best record in the National League
different points in time. They've mixed in homegrown players like
Will Smith and Andy pot Has to name a couple.
So yeah, I just didn't understand the point of that

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phone call other than you want when you pay for
a ticket, you want to guaranteed win, and that's just
not what happens in sports.

Speaker 8 (35:30):
But I'm with you.

Speaker 7 (35:31):
I I sports are getting very expensive to come visit
bring a family of four, but the Dodgers have affordable
seating to come to a game. To bring a family
of four doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna sit front row.
I spent the majority of my fandom at Dodger Stadium
in the reserve and the pavilion in the top deck,

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so uh.

Speaker 8 (35:52):
If you want to come to the game there.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
And by the way, when I used to come to
Dodger Stadium, you were stuck in your own section. If
you're in the top deck, you could not come down
to see what it felt like to be on the
field level. If you were in the reserve level, you
were not allowed to come down to the loage level
or field level. Now, and I love this, the Dodgers
have made it accessible that if you do have a

(36:16):
ticket in the pavilion or you do have a ticket
in the top deck, you can roam around the stadium
and enjoy the food on the field level or the
food in centerfield Plaza. You're not just restricted to your
own section. So that's an improvement that has changed from
when I was coming to Dodger games.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
Just to make a point, and.

Speaker 7 (36:36):
My favorite seats actually now at Dodger Stadium are the
home run seats that they have put out there in
front of the pavilion. So I completely disagreed with eighty
percent of that phone call. Let's go out to Downey, Nick.
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.

Speaker 20 (36:54):
Nick.

Speaker 15 (36:56):
Hey, Hey, how's it going good.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
You know, when you lose, people are very unhappy. Everybody's
unhappy with everything, and I understand that. But luckily the
Dodgers have won a lot more than they have lost
since twenty twelve.

Speaker 15 (37:13):
Yes, rope weekend, but hey, like you said, us spoiled fans.
You know, we're so used to winning and we just
got to take these losses.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
And just you know, so I should get a refund
under that caller's parameters, I should get a refund, or
my mom should get a refund for the ninety nine
loss season in ninety two.

Speaker 15 (37:32):
Right, Just wanted to get your take on I know
that i'llfield defenses recently has been I mean tailing right,
he's been shaky.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
What do you think about moving Mookie back to right?
There's no talk about that.

Speaker 15 (37:47):
He's our full time short stop.

Speaker 8 (37:49):
Going to Dave Roberts, was asked about it before the game.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yeah, Dave Roberts was asked about it before the game,
and he said, he's their shortstop right now. Now that
it can always change, but I mean, right now, he's
the shortstop. I don't know a better option right now.
They could go back to the Tommy Edmund Miguel Rojas
kind of mix and match at shortstop if they decide

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to do that in the postseason. I mean, they have
a lot They have a lot of options even if
they don't trade for an outfielder. They can move Mookie
back to right field, they can move Edmund and have
a rotation of Pie Haz Edmund and keik Ay and center.
So they have a lot of options going into the postseason,
that's for sure. When it comes to making their outfield

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defense better.

Speaker 15 (38:36):
I feel like our best defense is with Mookie and
right and Edmund and came up the middle.

Speaker 8 (38:43):
I don't know what to say about that, Nick. I
can't disagree with that, Nick, but I don't know what
to tell you on that. Frat.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
He's a He is considered the best right fielder in
the last at least thirty years. So when people call
in and tell me this It's hard for me to disagree,
but right now he's the shortstop and he's playing it
pretty well.

Speaker 15 (39:06):
Another question, what's any status on Freddy? I've been away
from the social media's and stuff. Any status on Freddy?

Speaker 7 (39:12):
Yeah, I'll say it again. X rays came back negative
on his left wrist, which is a good thing. But
I would imagine he doesn't start tomorrow and Dalton Rushing
gets the start at first base tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Nice.

Speaker 15 (39:25):
Appreciate it, Dave. You have a good weekend and better
times are coming for us Dodger fans.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
All right, Nick, thank you for the phone call. Eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number. Dodgers fall to the Brewers six to five.
Before the game today, we had a chance to catch
up with Max Munsey, who is taking grounders at third
base swinging the bat in the cage. Things are coming
along really well for Max Munci. Here's what Max had

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to say about when he may return to the Dodgers' lineup.

Speaker 21 (39:54):
I don't think we still fully know what the timetable
is just yet, but the progression's going well. Things are
moving quick, maybe quicker than what we were expecting. But
you know, part of that is just understanding.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
You know where your.

Speaker 21 (40:07):
Body's at, where the injury is at, you know what
the context of the injury is, and you know, are
you gonna hurt it worse or are you not gonna
hurt it worse? And so you know, when you understand
those things, you're able to kind of set a mindset,
at least for me.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
You know, you kind of know how I am.

Speaker 21 (40:23):
And so when I get that mindset, I'm gonna get going.

Speaker 7 (40:26):
What's the information you've gotten on that? Is it a
pain tolerance situation? Is it about you just trying to
feel comfortable playing with this type of pain?

Speaker 8 (40:35):
Yeah, it's a little bit of all the above.

Speaker 21 (40:38):
You know, Uh, I don't think I can make it
any worse unless you recreate what happened, and obviously I
don't plan on doing that. Uh So from there, it's
kind of just a tolerance thing. And you know that's
where I'm just trying to put I'm trying to push things,
trying to be smart about it, but uh you know,
if if things feel good, I'm gonn I'm gonna keep

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progressing forward. And you know it's the biggest thing right now.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
All right, there's Max Munsey, and that's great news.

Speaker 7 (41:05):
And it is a pain tolerance issue, and this seems
like he's been able to handle the pain and he's
gonna be headed out on a rehab assignment when the
Dodgers go out on the road this upcoming week. So
Dave Roberts also added after we spoke to Muncie that
it may be give or take two weeks for Max

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Mounsey to be back in the Dodger lineup, which is
great news considering how bad it looked when it took place.
On the night Clayton Kershaw recorded his three thousandth career
strikeout Michael A. Taylor sliding right into the knee left
knee of Max Munsey.

Speaker 8 (41:41):
So that's great news. Also good news up.

Speaker 7 (41:43):
In Sacramento, Blake Snell made another rehab start pitching for
Oklahoma City. He went four innings today through fifty eight pitches,
allowed just one earned run, had six strikeouts, and scattered
four hits. One of the four hits was from the
Giants minor League team catcher, a guy by the name
of Austin Barnes. That's right, Barnes is still Snall's daddy,

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even in the minor leagues.

Speaker 8 (42:08):
Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventies.

Speaker 7 (42:11):
So all joking aside, what does that mean for when
Blake Snell's gonna come back? I would venture to say
there's a very good chance he makes a start on
the upcoming road trip. That is a long road trip, Boston, Cincinnati, Tampa.
I could see him coming back by the end of
July and pitching in a game in one of those
last two cities, either Cincinnati or Tampa.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Just after these results today eight six six, eight seven
two five seventies, the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Brewers today, six to five.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
Let's go out to Camarillo, Dan, You're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, Dan?

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Hey, Dave, love your show.

Speaker 18 (42:50):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
The the toughest job a professional manager has is to
get these multi gazillion dollar players to play at their
highest level. Well, I'm sorry, Dave Roberts is not able
to do that anymore. He's lost to Alley. They need
to move.

Speaker 8 (43:10):
When did he lose it? Did Dan?

Speaker 7 (43:18):
I'll put you on hold since nobody's potting you down
back at the station, I'll ask the questions. So when
did Dave Roberts lose? It was it after Game five
of the World Series. When exactly did he lose it?
Go ahead, Dan, answer that question. When did Dave Roberts
lose it?

Speaker 17 (43:39):
Well?

Speaker 4 (43:40):
This year and there's a time you have to move.

Speaker 8 (43:43):
All of a sudden, he just lost it.

Speaker 7 (43:46):
After winning the World Series, after going to Blake Trining
in Game five and then going to Walker Bueller when
he had no other pitching, the way he managed the
NLCS with only two starters.

Speaker 8 (43:58):
Uh, he just lost it all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Light of them. They won in spite of him. Look
at what he's doing now, Yeah, look at what he's
doing now.

Speaker 8 (44:09):
Last time, check the Dodgers record. I don't think he is.

Speaker 7 (44:13):
Tommy Losorda also won two World Series championships. Dave Roberts
has won two. The Dodgers are fifty eight and forty
two that last time I checked. That's a pretty good record, Dan.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Sara record, the last twelve games?

Speaker 14 (44:27):
How many games do they had? How many?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
How many games?

Speaker 7 (44:30):
So if you were the GM or owner of a
baseball team after a twelve game stretch, you would fire
your manager.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
This much talent on a team, no doubt, with this much.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Talent on this Goodbye, Dan, Thank you for the phone
call eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy.
That's just ridiculous. I understand the frustration, but that's just
a ridiculous phone call. I mean, James Loney and Stephen
Nelson and myself were actually talking about the fact that
Dave Roberts just managed his best season of his last
year with all the big personalities Dave Roberts has and

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to win the World Series with everybody expecting you to
win it, and this year not having Tyler Glass now,
not having Blake Snell, not having Roki Sazaki, not having
Evan Phillips, not having Blake Trinan, not having Mookie Betts.
Performance Wise, He's done a pretty good job of navigating

(45:27):
all this. I'm sorry that person just obviously doesn't like
Dave Roberts. Let's go out to another Dave, David in
rialto You're on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 8 (45:36):
How you doing, David?

Speaker 7 (45:37):
And look, I've been when it's warranted, and I have
questioned things, but I mean that was just that wasn't
a very aggressive phone call for no reason.

Speaker 8 (45:48):
But I'm here for them.

Speaker 14 (45:49):
I'm doing David.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
I don't get it. I think Dave Roberts is doing
a great job. He's playing with the pieces that he has,
and well, the injury is going on. We're in first
place of the second or third best record in Major
League Baseball and we have all these injuries and we're
doing pretty well despite you know, everything going on. And
I love the idea that Dave Roberts put Mookie Betts

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batting first. I always can want it that. I always
thought that that was probably a good move. Put show
hey second, or even bet them third, get some more
people on there. You know, I'm based for him to
drive in. So I understand the frustration with the people
out there. But you know what, we just got weather
this storm. You know, it's barely it's in the middle
of July right now, and we still got to go

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to August, and well, we'll be okay, we'll be okay.
We got pieces coming back up back and yeah, so
we're gonna be getting back.

Speaker 8 (46:42):
You know, we're zilla back. You're gonna have your rotation intact.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
It's just they got to get their defense cleaned up
off on in the outfield. There's no ways around that.
And you we talked about this in the beginning of
the year. Who's going to beat the Dodgers, the Dodgers.
The Dodgers have beat themselves in the last two games
in a lot of ways, and you can't beat yourself
and give extra outs and extra bases and extra runs

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to teams like the Brewers. It's just not going to happen.
And the Dodgers are going to be welcoming in the
Minnesota Twins. Uh, they're gonna play every team this year,
and uh, you know, they're happy to say goodbye to
the Brewers, and they're going to be facing the Twins
who are forty eight and fifty one. They've got to
take care of business against teams like that because this

(47:30):
upcoming road trip, one of, if not the longest of
the season, Boston, Cincinnati, Tampa, is not going to be easy.
You're playing three really good teams, and you've got to
start playing better to close out this homestand and have
that momentum going out on this East Coast road trip.
It's not just going to happen by saying it's gonna happen.

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You've got to have the focus and the accountability to
each other to make it happen. Eight six six nine
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number let's
go out to Howard and Porterville.

Speaker 8 (48:03):
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Howard.

Speaker 18 (48:07):
Hey, David, thanks for taking the call. I just wanted
to say, you know, we've seen this movie before. The
Dodgers hit a scared like every team does. I think
these guys are professionals.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
They don't want to lose.

Speaker 18 (48:24):
They don't want to lose two series to the same team.
They will figure it out. And I think it's incumbent
on the fan to show. While it's all right to
have your opinion, it should be founded in something, and
I prefer people with experience to speak, but they should
give the team a chance, back them and help pick

(48:46):
them up rather than just kicking and spitting on them.
And I had just one personal comment I wanted to
make just for the sake because it was a big
thing for me and my son last year. We got
to see the Dodgers and Yankees at Yankee Stadium last
year and it was a black to see Teoscar clear
Yankee Stadium with that Grand Slam home run. That's all

(49:08):
I got.

Speaker 8 (49:10):
I love it, Howard, Thank you for the phone call.

Speaker 7 (49:12):
Look all these people that are calling to fire Dave
Roberts that are very upset. I understand it. Losing ten
out of twelve is not something you're used to. Being
five and ten in the month of July is not
something the Dodgers are used to. But with all that
being said, their pitching staff is getting healthier. Hopefully Mookie

(49:33):
Betts being in the leadoff spot will trigger something and
put more men on men on base for show Aotani
as well, So things are going in the right direction.

Speaker 8 (49:43):
All right, We have our trivia question right now.

Speaker 7 (49:45):
You're gonna hear from Tim Belcher, who we caught up
with on the pregame show today. He was part of
Alumni Weekend, a great weekend. The Dodgers did an outstanding job.
Carrie Osbourne, Lon Rose and bringing back members of the
dodg World Series teams from eighty eight, eighty one, twenty twenty,
twenty twenty four were here and you'll hear from Tim

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Belcher in a moment.

Speaker 8 (50:08):
But here's the trivia question.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
Which game of the eighty eight World Series did Tim
Belcher start for the Dodgers that year. If you know
the answer, you'll be eligible. We'll put you in line
to answer to win a pair of tickets. To Tuesday's
game between the Dodgers and Twins. But let's get to
Jose Mota.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Now it's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.

Speaker 7 (50:32):
All right, Jose Moda, I know you know the answer
to that trivia question. You are not eligible. But for
the Dodgers today, I mean disappointing third inning, fourth inning
for the Dodgers as outfield defense again hurt them.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Yeah, so it is frustrating, and I I'm glad you
went back to the conversations we're having back in April
about you know, guys challenging to Oscer and company in
the outfield, when Corforda was questionable, when Pies was just
cutting his legs right and getting some reason the outfield,
which was not pretty. But yeah, it's the first rating
thing is that you know that Clinton Kersher has to
fight for every elt, he has to fight for every strike.

(51:10):
I mean, if there's on this little tide, he's got
to go out there and expound a little bit more,
which he can't. But it's those things that when the
team's not playing right, it seems like you catch one
thing and it starts going well and then the other
part starts going south too. So twelve runs the last
couple of games, you figure, well they're going to windows
two games. That has not happened. And on top of
all of this with the outfield, there's two is the

(51:31):
anticipation tell us is an issue, but certainly that part
has to be squared up more because there's very few
times Dave in which we talk about poor defense that
includes the outfield, which was a case here today.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
And it's not just about not making a catch like
Pie has made. It's about throwing to the wrong base. Ruis,
a poor throw home allows the runner at first base
to advance to second base, and that's something that Kruse
Shaw got upset with James Outman about in Milwaukee as well.
And those are just things that you can't allow to happen.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
You have to be better anticipation and there's not much
that Dino Evil can do in terms of the game
type of situations and conditions. You guys have to be
reactive to what they see and anticipation and communication too.
You know, a you know, a team like the Brewers,
you cannot defend them in the outfare the way you
defend the Yankees. And the reason is you have to

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start with a baseball number one, they're going to try
to take the extra base. And that being said is
you got to start and anticipate who might run, who
might not run. Sometimes even on an instant, just follow
the foul balls to see how much better you can be.
But they know that with repetitions, with positioning, the values

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have been really good through the years and allowing guys
to become better outfielders. And the cases is right now
you got to cover more ground and those balls in
the gaps need also to be taken care of, especially
when it could leave from a double into a triple.

Speaker 18 (52:58):
Two.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
Jose Mota is joining us after the Brewers sweep the
Dodgers today, the final score six to five. Speaking of Piez,
as I mentioned earlier in the show, Jose, we saw
today what plague Piez the first two weeks of the season,
not only poor defense but also poor base running. I
looked at that high nine cam in the ninth inning,
I was down by the dugout and it just seemed

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like pie Haz didn't give dinu Ebel a lot to
work with when he was coming from second to third
base on that on that little infield single by Dalton
rushing does he what's going through his mind right there?
I know it's hard to get into his head, but
what should he be doing?

Speaker 2 (53:39):
He should be thinking, I'm going to be aggressive knowing
that Ortiz has to go to his right and Ortiz
is a guy that has a lot on his arm,
and you got to be aggressive just you're the one
that decif for the third base coach what should be
done there. And if you are aggressive dying, you make
a lot easier on your instinct to round the base hard.
You see the ball get away and you got to
go home in stinct without the coach telling you that.

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But when you play conservatively, then the coach is the
reason to go. You know what, just stay here. I
don't want to take a chance right now here comes
MOOKI bed And that's exactly what Dino did, which is
the right thing. But there's a case again they will
you have to, as a base runner, dictate the actions
of the coach. And everybody will tell you a good
base runner does not need a coach, and good coaches

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also tell you, hey, a guy that like that just
makes my job so much easier. Where guys followed the instinct,
they follow the reactions and they also know and understand
that there's all Also, again the word anticipation involved this
whole thing. So Pie has dictated what Dino did, which
is the right thing. But certainly he's got to be
way more aggressive. If you round there aggressively andrew ball,

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you know, if he misplays that ball and says even
close to him, he's not going to be able to
tell you out at our base.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
Do you believe that Pie has knew that there were
two outs? Do you believe he forgot how many outs
there were?

Speaker 2 (54:55):
I sure hope not. I mean, at this level, you
cannot be thinking about this stuff like that or nothing
of stuff like that. But Dave, it does happen. I
do believe he knew how many outs there were. Perhaps
he was playing more con several leaves, going well, here's
out number three. You're not gonna go over and stop.
But no, you've got to be aggressive all the way
to make sure that any type of mass up that
could happen, that you're able to make a decision, smart decision. Also,

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no one who's gonna come up to hit to say
yes or no. But don't give in so already because
he just made it very easy. Odinal Evil to say,
I gotta stop this guy, Jose.

Speaker 8 (55:27):
The Dodgers made the decision.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
Dave Roberts made the decision to move Mookie Bets to
the leadoff spot to try to jumpstart him. He comes
up in the ninth inning, puts a good swing on
a pitch by Yuribay, just was caught. What do you
make about this decision to have Mooki in the leadoff
spot for the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Well, the way things are going on the offensive side,
especially the top three or four guys, you got to
do something. And I'm both Mooki and show Her are
flexible to knowing and doing what's best for the team.
We know how good and leaf of the combination was
before Mookie's injury last season. And for Muki, I think
it's also an advantage too, as he says he wants
to be that point guard. Well, you go go out
there and jump start your offense. He hit the ball

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hard a couple of times today, but things should get
better for him. Also on pitch a selection, consider that
now teams are going to look at Beyon deck for
go and go, Well, there's show Hey, and let's go
there and tack Muki a little bit more, even though
the numbers tell you clearly Muki against fastballs and Mooki
against everything else is night and day. Is not that
they're going to be popping more fastballs in there, but

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they're gonna have to make a decision making sure that
bricking balls are falling for a strike a little bit
more often because they know what happens if they walk him.
But I hope that this works out for Muki. He
needs a wheel boost. I mean, he's a big boost
in this whole thing. At least hitting the ball through
the infield today and the thirteen was important and big,
and that swing that we want to see more of,
but not elevating and hitting the leadsat fly balls. That's

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not going to help. And the last out, I mean,
he is that ball anywhere else and it's a Bay
fit and we'll be talking about something else. So at
least we'll say better lead up or not. Today was
a better day for Muki.

Speaker 7 (56:59):
Bays at home plate completely agree, and that's a good thing.
Hopefully the Dodgers get some wins, three of them against
the Twins. Jose Otani day tomorrow, looking forward to seeing
what he's got and what Dustin May's got in this
role tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
It should be a nice combination. And can I look back.
It's over against the Brewers. Go out there and take
care of business against the Twins and no letdowns.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
All right, enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Jose, thanks
a lot for calling in you.

Speaker 7 (57:26):
Too, Ma, There he goes Jose Mota, part of the
Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. Eight six six nine eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number. It is family
Day here at Dodgers Stadium. The Dodgers had this planned
at the beginning of the year. Dodger players and their
families are out here and enjoining carnival type of games.

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And I see Freddie Freeman out there with his kids
playing cornhole, and he has a blue type of brace
on his left wrist. He has mobility, and I've seen
him pick up a couple of sacks, whole sacks with
his left hand. But he doesn't seem to be in
any discomfort. So that's good news in case you're joining
us late. Freddie Freeman was forced to leave this game

(58:09):
in the sixth inning after being hit by a pitch
in on his lef back of the left wrist eighty
eight miles an hour from Jose Cantana. The X rays
were negative, and he's out here. You know, he's out
here playing with his kids and being very protective of
the left wrist. Cornhole's not gonna do anything to injure it.
So that's a great sign that Freddy's out here with

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his family. But if I'm the Dodgers, you're telling Freddy no,
thank you. Dalton Rushing starts tomorrow against the Twins. Part
of this weekend was Alumni Weekend. A lot of great
members of the Dodgers past were here to celebrate Ron
Say and him being inducted into the Legends of Dodger Baseball.

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Dusty Baker joined us before the game yesterday. Also, the
Dodgers had members of the eighty one and eighty eight
World Series teams here. Among them was Tim Belcher, who
was a very big part of the rotation for the
Dodgers in nineteen eighty eight. It was great to meet
Tim Belcher. It was great to interview Tim Belcher for
the first time on the pregame show.

Speaker 20 (59:14):
Yeah, they handled us. I mean we didn't have a
prayer against them during the regular year.

Speaker 8 (59:18):
And you know, they were.

Speaker 20 (59:19):
They were coming off of a championship in what eighty six,
and they still had the nucleus of that team. I mean,
they had a great roster, they really did.

Speaker 14 (59:28):
But you know, there was just.

Speaker 20 (59:30):
Something about the magic of our of our roster and
the makeup of our our guys that you know, yeah,
when when he got a guy late in his career
like a Rick Dempsey that played such an integral role
and catching it, actually caught the lost last out, the
last pitch from Oral in Game five, and then somebody
like Mickey Hatcher at the stage of his career doing

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what he did in the postseason. I mean, after a while,
guys just rally around that and just kind of, you know,
kind of raised ray this all up to do better things.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
That's the voice of Tim Belcher, part of the great
magical season of nineteen eighty eight for the Dodgers. How
about Mike Soshia's home run in Game four in the NLCS.
That has got to be one of the top home runs,
more improbable home runs. I mean that must have signaled
something special.

Speaker 20 (01:00:19):
Improbable, a little bit improbable because of the stage, you know,
twelfth inning of a playoff game and so forth. Away
from home. We were in Shase Stadium. But and off
of Doc Goodon. Doc Gooden was an incredible pitcher. But
those of us that play, those of us have played
with Mike new He hit Doc Gooden pretty good. Soosha

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could really hit Guyza through unbelievable fastballs. You know, he
did pretty well against Nolan Ryan as well, So that
part of it wasn't that big a surprise. But you know,
without that home run, we may not win that series.
We don't win that series. The Gibson home run never happens.
You know, the whole magic of what transpired after that

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never happens. And I think about that, I kind of
get chills when I think about every time I think
about the eighty eight team, I get I literally get
goosebumps on my arms to this day when I think
about it, because it was so magical to be a
part of. But moments like that, you know, I don't know,
two or three times during the year, Gibson scored from
second base on a wild pitch in Dodger Stadium, which

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if you could run a little bit, wasn't all that
hard to do because it was so far back then.
But the fearlessness and the guts that it took to
do that like he did, and things that he did.
It just, you know, like I said, it just it
permeated our locker room and made us all better.

Speaker 8 (01:01:40):
So awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:01:41):
The little kid in me comes out every time I
meet or talk to one of these guys from the
nineteen eighty eight World champion Dodgers.

Speaker 8 (01:01:48):
They were just so special.

Speaker 7 (01:01:50):
Nobody gave them a chance to win the World Series,
let alone win the nl West. Let alone beat the
Mighty Mets in the NLCS in nineteen eighty eight. And
Tim Belcher in eighty eight was twelve and six in
twenty seven starts for the Dodgers. He threw one hundred
and eighty innings and started a game maybe two in

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the World Series. If you know you win a pair
of tickets to Tuesday Night's game between the Dodgers and Twins,
and to hear the full conversation with Tim Belcher, you
can find it on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 8 (01:02:26):
Let's go out to Glendale, Billy. You're on Dodger Talk.

Speaker 7 (01:02:29):
Which game or games did Tim Belcher start in the
eighty eight World Series.

Speaker 11 (01:02:37):
David, I still get goosebumps after thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
About the eighty eight team. I remember that vividly. That
was Game one where Kinsinko hit the home run to
hit the camera.

Speaker 7 (01:02:45):
Well, that was game one where he hit the Grand Slam.
Do you have another game that you believe Tim Belcher started, Billy?

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
I belave he started Game four.

Speaker 7 (01:02:58):
That's exactly correct. Billy was on hold the longest. And
you are a true Dodger fan, Billy for knowing that.
Be honest, did you google or did you know it?

Speaker 15 (01:03:09):
I knew it because I was in my early teens
and I normally bleed Dodger blue.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
But right now I'm hemorrhaging because of obviously what's going on.
But we'll pick up the pace again.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
I love it, Billy.

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
And yes, I was a little younger than you, a
twelve year old David Vasse sitting in the reserve level
for most of the six games that I came to
in nineteen eighty eight, and I never got to go
to a postseason game. Just wasn't in my mom's budget.
Would pinch himself knowing that I'm hosting Dodger Talk now,

(01:03:40):
I had a chance to interview Tim Belcher. I see
oral Herscheizer every day. That eighty eight Dodger team obviously
not as talented as any other Dodger World Series team, Billy,
but certainly one of the more special teams in baseball history.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Yeah, that was special for me. Remember we got no
hit by Tom Browning at Riverfront Stadium that year.

Speaker 8 (01:04:04):
That's right. It was a perfect game.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Yeah, ash, yeah, I should say perfect game.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
But I remember Tom Brownie, Tom Browning, the lefty just
bowing right.

Speaker 7 (01:04:13):
Alrighty goody, Sorry, you're right.

Speaker 8 (01:04:17):
He was a lefty. He was a lefty.

Speaker 14 (01:04:18):
You're right.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
And uh yeah, it was a special, magical season, and
Mickey Hatcher, part of the leader of the Stuntman was unbelievable.
Billy Love talking about the eighty eight Dodgers. Thanks a
lot for calling in. We'll see you out at Dodgers
Stadium on Tuesday night.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Congratulations, Thank you, David, Go Dodgers, Go Dodgers. Thanks for
the phone call, Billy, And that'll do it for us.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
On Dodger Talk tonight, Dwayne McDonald already's got the car
warmed up. I guess he doesn't love the eighty eight
Dodgers as much.

Speaker 9 (01:04:49):
As we do.

Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
Sheesh. I could do a whole nother hour on the
eighty eight Dodgers. Two hours.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
I could go to midnight talking about the eighty eight Dodgers.
Trust me, that's no lie, that's the truth.

Speaker 8 (01:05:02):
All right.

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
Tomorrow, show Heotani on the mound for the Dodgers against
Dustin or show Aotani's on the mound for the sixth
time this year. Dustin May is going to follow Otani.
Whether it's the third inning, the fourth inning, we'll have
to wait and see. The Dodgers are opening up a
three game series against the Twins. Right handed David Festa
on the mound for Minnesota. We'll see old friend Brock

(01:05:23):
Stewart here, possible future closer Joan Duran here in these
three games for the Twins. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck
begins at six o'clock, first pitch at seven to ten.
Thanks to Colin Yee back at our Burbank studios. Thanks
to Dwayn McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
to you for listening. In case you missed any of

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the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Once again, the final score from Dodgers Stadium. Yep, the
Brewers did it again. They beat the Dodgers six to five.
Have a great rest of your Sunday, see you.

Speaker 8 (01:06:00):
Past all the fans and Blable the same, all the
team