August 27, 2025 • 32 mins
DV takes your calls and talks to Jose Mota after the Dodgers defeat the Reds, 6-3. Clayton Kershaw addresses the media after his dominant start. Alex Vesia talks about his oblique injury. Gavin Lux shares his memories of the 2024 World Series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
one on Tom.
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just thank.
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go to the grab your phone to get.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
In on the show called eight six six, nine eighty
seven two five seven.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And go to the show.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Vasse, Let's see if that truck still works. That's right,
Clayton Kershaw, that truck still works for him. As the Dodgers,
behind their future Hall of Famer beat the Reds tonight
six to three, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasay with
you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM five to
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seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers maintain a one game lead
over the Padres as they edged out the Mariners tonight
by a final score of seven to six. And don't
forget going down the stretch here, twenty nine games to go,
essentially add another game to the Dodgers' lead because they
hold the tiebreaker over the Padres winning the regular season series.
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It was a great atmosphere here at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
It's always a great vibe at Dodgers Stadium when Clayton
Kershaw's on the mound and he continues to prove all
the doubters wrong. A lot of you thought that he
could not come back and be this guy. Well, he's
doing it a different way and he's still being effective,
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retiring the last fourteen reds he saw. After completing five
innings tonight, throwing seventy two pain and having six strikeouts,
he could have gone back out for the sixth inning.
I can understand where Dave Roberts was coming from because
Kershaw is only the second Dodger pitcher this year to
pitch on four days rest. Tyler glassnow did it twice
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coming out of the All Star breaks. So you have
the oldest pitcher in your rotation, the guy that has
pitched eighteen years now in the major leagues, asking him
to pitch on regular rest, so O'tani can have that
once a week start and have the day off on Thursday,
which is understandable. But Clayton Kershaw takes the ball after
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all these years, after the wear and tear on his body,
and goes out there and dominates the Reds and gives
the Dodgers the chance to win this game. And the
Dodgers took advantage of bad Reds outfield defense again. Austin
Hayes made a horrible playing left field they're center fielder
tonight on a routine flow ball by Miguel Rojas. Noelvi
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Marte in the sixth inning, you know, butchered that one too,
and the Dodgers, instead of having basically a three to
one lead going into the seventh inning, had a six
to six to one lead until Austin Hayes hit a
two run home run. So the Dodgers are not going
to make any apologies here, but certainly good for them
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to be opportunistic with some bad defense by the Reds,
and the Dodgers are looking to become the first team
this season to sweep the Reds in a series. The
Reds are the only team in Major League Baseball this
year that have not been swept in a series, and
the Dodgers have Otani on the mound tomorrow. But going
back to Kershaw, what a phenomenal month of August. Five
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starts and he's undefeated five to zero including tonight. Including
tonight a one eighty eight el in twenty eight and
two thirds innings, he held hitters to a two's sixteen
batting average. He had nineteen strikeouts and three walks. He
is a future Hall of Famer. You don't count out
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the great ones. I don't care how many years they've
been in the league. You don't count him out. And
you don't count out a guy with the work ethic
and determination and stubbornness in a good way that Clayton
Kershaw has. Let's head downstairs right now to hear from
Kershaw on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, it was. It wasn't a great night stuff wise.
I didn't have a lot of stuff, didn't have a
lot of life on the fastball or really anything. So
you know, Will did a good job. We kind of
flipped the script and just started kind of throwing a
lot of different stuff, trying to be creative, keep him
off balance because it wasn't it wasn't coming out tonight.
So good, so fortunate to make it through five and
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it's obviously not as deep as you want to get,
but thankfully I wish you last night. Our bullpen was
fresh and we had the off day on Thursdays, so
it kind of worked out for us, and bullpen did
a great job and got the win.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Was sort of shift in the middle of an auty
like that's wort, shipped off the game plan and sort
of understand red react what your stuff's able to do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it was. It was pretty obvious to
me after the first batter. You know, my slider wasn't great,
so I just didn't feel like I had the arm
speed to throw it well. So I just tried to
go to the arm side a little bit more and
try to throw some more change ups, curve balls, you know,
and and well did a good job. Well kind of
God guide me through that and picked the right spots
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to throw different pitches, mixing as many fastballs as we
needed to, and it worked out through five. I don't
know how much longer it would it have worked out,
but it worked out through five.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
But one this month and five starts because it feel
like you're getting better month a month and just kind
of what's been.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The key to your success as well?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, it was. It was a good August.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I don't know, you know, physically everything feels good. I think,
you know, everything changes from start to start sometimes, but
you know, overall it was. It was and team got
a lot of wins, which was great and you know,
fun to be a part of it at this time
of year.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
All right, there's Clayton Kershaw on Sports and at LA
echoing what Dave Roberts had to say. His stuff was
not as good as it as the results were presenting itself,
considering he did retire the last fourteen reds he faced
without what he said, not his best slider, that is
the pitch he threw the most thirty two times out
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of his seventy two pitches. He mixed in sixteen curveballs
that looked pretty good tonight, and he did start to
throw that change split change five different times tonight. So yeah,
they got through five innings I guess without his best stuff,
but it looked pretty good from here. Timber Tech decking
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Dodgers beat the Reds tonight six to three. And look,
that's what separates the great ones from the guys that
tap after three or four innings when things don't feel great.
Guys like Kershaw, Guys like Blake Snell. Keep going. Now,
I'm not putting Blake Snell in Kershaw's category. What makes
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Kershaw so great? You can't tell me in these five
starts where he's been undefeated and has a one eighty
eight ERA, even when the ball's coming out of his
hand better than it was tonight. According to him, you
can't tell me that he feels great. He can't feel great.
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He's been through a lot. He's coming off a left
knee surgery, a left foot surgery two years ago, shoulder surgery.
I mean, you can't tell me this guy feels great
when he goes out there. But what he has is
a love for the game. He is very strict in
his preparation. He has a competitive desire, and he's one
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of the greats. That's what separates him from even a
guy like Blake Snell. That's what separates him, and hopefully
the rest of this pitching staff is taking notes about
what it takes to be an elite pitcher. And not
just do it for two years or do it every
other year, but to do it for eighteen consecutive years.
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Tonight was a great example of that. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers beat the Reds tonight six to three. I thought
Keikey Hernandez looked good in his first start since coming
off the il. He was activated yesterday, got the start
at third base, had a sacrifice fly, had an RBI
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single going the other way. That was good. Also, how
about EGARDA. Enriquez coming in in the sixth inning, got
in a little bit of trouble in that sixth inning,
gave up a couple of back to back singles to
Matt McClain and Spencer Steer, and then made a great
play fielding his position, darting a double play on a
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line drive by Noel v Marte and having the presence
of mind to be able to fire a strike to
second base to double off Matt McClain. So he got
himself out of trouble. And at that time it was
a three to one game, so it was a close
game at that point in time for Enriquez to make
that play and it was two to one at that
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point in time for Enriquez to make that play, so
certainly a good job by him, and Tanner Scott starting
to round into shape. I would say it's still not
the best version of Tanner Scott, but he's getting there,
that's for sure. Speaking of the Dodgers off, Dodgers' bullpen
Alex Vesia before the game tonight, was placed on the
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injured list with a strained right oblique. That was not
something that we expected, although it was starting to become
noticeable that Vessia had not pitched in a game since
last Thursday. Now, Vessia has pitched in fifty nine games
this year for the Dodgers. For him to go that
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long without pitching in a game is a red flag,
and we found out finally today what it was. Let's
head downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from Alex Vesia,
who's speaking to Sports at LA. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, for.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'd felt it a couple days ago and it was
in catch play, so it just like it just felt tight.
There was no pull or grab or anything that like like.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Made me concerned.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I think, as you know, Doc, and then all of
our training and stuff. Were on the same page of
just making sure that we're just gonna knock it out now,
make sure it doesn't get worse. There's no need to
push it. I'm very confident that I can resume throwing
in my normal routine. So yeah, we'll just take it,
you know, one day at a time, and I believe
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that the fifteen days would be going to go.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
This is playoffs last year.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's the same side, different area, So it's not like
the exact same like muscle, the exact same one. But
we're gonna go about it pretty much the exact same
way that we did it like last year, except this
time like it's it's much less. You know, it just
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feels like a tight muscle. So it's kind of hard
to explain, but I wanted to speak up now rather
than try to, you know, overdo it and then jeopardize
later down the line.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
What as you guys were talking about this, like, do
you look at it at all?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Is just also a way to get a little bit
of a breather before you get down the stretch here,
which is how much you can make pitch this year.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean you can look at it like that
as well.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I mean I think the rest is a good thing,
but at the same time, like there is you know,
I am, I am. It's not like I'm trying to
get more rest, right, you know I was. I was
fighting them back and forth. I'm staying. But overall, I
do believe it's the decision.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
They did it today.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Would you have been available in San Diego if called upon?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I mean, yeah, I told him that I felt good
to pitch, so that was, you know, their their decision
and whatnot. So yeah, we were all on the same page.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
All right. There's Alex Vesia on sports Net LA and yes,
in case you don't remember, last year, Alex Vesia was
left off the Dodgers NLCS roster because of an intercostal
rib injury suffered during the NLDS. So he's saying it's
similar to that or same side, but not as severe,
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which is a good thing. But you gotta be careful
with these things. You gotta be careful with obliques like
Max Munsey's coming back from these things can pop up
with one throw, with one swing, just when you think
you're one hundred percent healthy. Meet World Champion manager Dave Roberts,
speaking of the World Series this Thursday, at the Verizon
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store in Pasadena located at three six eight South Lake
Avenue from five to six o'clock. Now, the event starts
at four o'clock, so you got to show up early
for your chance to win tickets and merchandise. That's Thursday
with Dave Roberts in Pasadena, all brought to you by Verizon.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
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the phone number. Let's go out to Chino. Jason, You're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Jason, how's it going.
It's going great, Dodgers win and nobody has anything to
complain about.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Before I get
into my curse, I'll take I want to agree with
you on your Piazza take from yesterday. I thought that
was brilliantly said.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Thank you, Jason. Don't get caught up in the big
dumpster whatever his nickname is. Hype. This year guys struck
out almost one hundred and sixty times.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
YEP, I totally get that. But I want to talk
about Clayton Kershaw, who was my MVP. For what it's
worth eight and two already, such a tremendous job that
he's doing. I remember back in I want to say May,
when I think we were hoping to get a few
quality starts and hoping to get at least some help
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with the picking staff. He has exceeded expectations. And I've
got nothing but great praise for Clayton Kershaw, which leads
my quotes for you, and I'll take us off the air.
Where do you have him in your playoff rotation?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I knew you were going to ask that, Jason. I
knew you were going to ask that. I'll tell you this, Jason,
I would trust Clayton Kershaw more than a few other
guys to start a playoff game. And you know he
has a track record. So I don't know if it's
game one, two, three, four, five, or six. He's starting
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a playoff game for me, Jason, some game. I'm not
sure how they want to map it out. But he's
starting a playoff game for me in a best of seven.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Absolutely, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, all right, Jason, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I'll be back for another game soon.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Sounds good. Can't wait to have you back out here.
I will say this, Kershaw is probably outside of Otani
best suited to be able to be called upon out
of the bullpen if necessary. I remember Joe Tory doing
this with David Cohne, who was starting to get a
little long in the tooth, maybe didn't have his best
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stuff like Clayton Kershaw at times doesn't doesn't have that
strikeout pitch like David Cone used to consistently. Joe Torre
added David Cone to the World Series roster in the
Subway Series to face one specific right handed hitter, I'll
bring a full circle, Jason. His name was Mike Piazza.
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David Cohne faced only one batter in the Subways Series
in two thousand. It was Mike Piazza. He struck him out.
That's how the Dodgers possibly could use Clayton Kershaw in
a playoff series outside of starting a game. Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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Want to give some love to Freddie Freeman, who continues
to climb the doubles charts. You talk about Hall of
Famers every time you come out to a Dodger game,
especially on a night that Clayton Kershaw starting. He got
a Hall of Famer on the mound, You got a
Hall of Famer at first base, he got a Hall
of Famer at shortstop, you got a Hall of Famer
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as a DH But it's special when Kershaw's on the
mound because Freddie Freeman and Clayton Kershaw are the epitome
of consistency. And Freddie Freeman tonight hit his thirty fourth
double of the year in the first inning. That was
career number five forty two, which puts him just one
double behind the great Tony Gwynn for thirty eighth all
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time in Major League Baseball history. Excuse me, thirty sixth
all time in baseball history for the most doubles. And
he's not stopping there. He's only seven doubles away from
passing his old buddy in Atlanta, Chipper Jones. He's passing
guys like Jeter soon, Manny Ramirez soon. This guy's no
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doubt headed to Cooperstown and is going to come very
close to three thousand hits if he doesn't get it
by the end of his career. But Freddy Freeman, do
not take him for granted either. And here's something Freddy
Freeman has never done in his illustrious career, and that's
when the batting title right now he is the only
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hitter in the National League with a batting average over
three hundred. Freddy won for four tonight with that double
in the first inning, is hitting three to zero two.
He leads the National League in hitting second place, Trey
Turner of the Phillies hitting two ninety eight. Twenty nine
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more games to go. Freddie Freeman is that close from
winning his first batting title of his career, and the
Dodgers are twenty nine games away from winning the NL West.
They have a one game lead over the Padres plus
the tiebreaker. They're in a great spot and looking to
add to it on this homestand after they beat the
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Reds tonight six to three, when we continue live from
Dodgers Stadium, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll get
you an update on Max Munsey. You'll hear from Gavin Lucks.
So a lot to get to between now and eleven
o'clock right here on five seventy LA Sports David Vasse
live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers defeat the Reds
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six to three on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
On air at a online at amfive seventy LA Sports
dot Com and available by podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To two swung on well Hip toward right center field
and date this ball back to the wall. It was God,
It's a home run.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well Smith into the home run seats and the Dodgers
lead it three to one.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Smith with home run number sixteen. Can you believe that
was the first time Will Smith is homered at Dodgers
Stadium since July twenty first, he has been in his
first slump of the season. He started off hot and
has not looked back until the last twenty games or so.
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But every player goes through it, and Will seems to
be coming out of it with that two strike home
run against Nick Martinez in the sixth inning tonight. Daniel
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next game. Daniels Jewelers own the dream. Daniels Jewelers handing
out a lot of gift cards. The Dodgers hit a
lot of home runs, second most in all of Major
League Baseball. They add to that tonight as they beat
the Red six to three. Now, Gavin Lux was not
in the Red starting lineup tonight. Last night, he had
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his championship celebration as he was given a championship ring
by the Dodgers and his teammates after a great video montage.
We had a chance to catch up with Lux about
his playoff memories from a year ago. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You know, those are those are some of the best
fans and any sport in the world. And you know, whatever,
how small or how big your role is it, you know,
I think they appreciate winning baseball and you know, they
want to win just as bad as we did. So uh,
you know, I don't think they got that full feel
and during the COVID season just with the parade and
everything in the full season. So I think it was
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pretty cool to be able to give that to them
and see how you know, happy the city was and
and the parade and all that stuff is something you know,
I'll definitely cherish forever.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
What stands out to you the most about the World
Series Game five? Where is there other moments that you
flashed through.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Oh man. I mean, I think just kind of the
whole all all the games. I think you obviously think
about Freddy's home run Game one, where if he doesn't
do that, you know, the series might feel totally different.
And but yeah, I think just Game five being down
five or six runs early, and then to come back
like that obviously against a good a good starter, a
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good bullpen, and just kind of that's what we were
preaching about going into the playoffs was let's let's have
a dog fight that we get down early, let's fight
our ass off every bat, every pitch and try to
win it. And I think that just kind of showed,
you know, what we were trying to do, and we
accomplished that, and I'm then to do it and win
the World Series. Obviously that Game two is cool. So
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I mean there's a lot of moments, but I think
just overall, the daily, every pitch, everyone's in it with
each other, that kind of fight, you know, that's what
sticks out for me.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Hey, that was special catching up with Gavin Lux. It
was special to see him get that World Series ring
on the field at Dodger Stadium last night, and I
told him today, you know, just seeing his teammates come
out and hug him and mob him and give him
his ring and throw that Dodger hat back on his head.
They still were treating him like the little brother. And
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he said, you know what, in thirty years, when we
have a reunion, I'll still be that little brother. So
that's the way Gavin Lux was treated with the team affectionately.
And it was great to see him get celebrated at
Dodger Stadium last night. And Gavin Lux was a part
of that big Game one when Freddy Freeman hit that
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walk off Grand Slam, it was Gavin Lux who started
that ninth inning or bottom of the tenth inning with
a leadoff walk. People forget that it took six batters
to get to Freddie Freeman facing Nestor Cortes. Gavin Luck
started it. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five
seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Red six
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to three.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
All right, Jose Mota. The Reds outfield defense not so
great tonight and the Dodgers took advantage. But let's start
with Kershaw. He and Dave Roberts both said he did
not have his best slider tonight. How did he retire
fourteen in a row not having his best stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I have no idea. I have no idea, but I
only see four balls that wild hit hard against Clayton Kersher.
So I bring whatever you had today and apply it
against a team that is quite hungry do some damage,
some wild swings, but he is pretty much. He prepared
every pitch that was swung and miss two days. He
prepared every pitch that was fouled up. There's a lot
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of foul balls being pulled, which is to be an
indication or headed batters that his ladder was just good
because the guys were swinging around it. Perhaps it didn't
have that sharp list that was significant to go out
there and have the result of astracta. But that was
good enough to go out there and just understand that
you have to reinvent yourself sometimes on the mound. You
got to go out there and see how they react
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to certain pitches. And the fact that he implemented some things.
And the number one thing to me is he mentioned
Will Smith twice, and sometimes we're not giving Will Smith
enough credit on the things that he does, and just
allowing these guys to take a breather convince him of
teaming the game plan. Because when Clayton Curger says Will
Smith is a big factor, believe me, I'm going to
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believe that.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah. And at this point they've been together for seven
seasons now, so at this point Will Smith knows Curse
Shaw better than most guys.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, and it's important to you know, know where to
push guys a little bit and when to go. Hey, listen,
whatever we discussed before the game, I'm not seeing it
right now or whatever we discuss it may not be
there today, but right now, but we cannot get away
from that pitch. And sometimes you use a slider for
example today, you know what buried a couple of times.
Find that release point which Will gets is going to
take you to a better release point with your fastball
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and everything else. But man, the curveball today was biting.
It was good enough to offset some hitters. And you know,
I mentioned Kersh and he said a couple of times
the on side situation where it is one where he
knows he doesn't live all the time, but when he
work as hard he does. When you get to the
ballpark as early as he does. When you do your
dry particular, they're in that bullpen and you visualize there's
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nothing you can do on the mount when things are
not going, when you think your stuff is not there.
But certainly he's finding his stuff when it's not there
to make sure that the other guys make your stuff
look even better.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Big picture, Jose after Kurveshaw came out out of the
game and Garda and Riquez relieved him, and and Gardo
ed Riquez looks like he is starting to mature and
maybe getting more trust from Dave Roberts. Are we seeing
a reliever turning into a guy that we may see
pitch big innings in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You gotta believe that Dodgers are doing the right things
with these young pitchers and the one thing that they
really were able to get through to Enriquez. And I
had a conversation with Mark Prior about this back in
Boston and Zach Kissen the strikeouts are going to come,
but you need to become just a better pitcher. How
do you do that? Now he's working on a slider.
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Now he's had in the back pocket. He's had a
splitter since last season, but it's more about, you know
what with one O one, one O two, throw strikes.
Throw strikes, move the ball around in the zone. Don't
try to get to purty and trying to get to
strike out counts, because these guys want to jump on
you quickly, as he found out a couple of times too.
And Dave, you know what's best thing about today is
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the fact that he already threw a ball into right
field the other time, and he threw a both second
base of that double play, and I remember when that happened.
He's feeling so bad, and I'm going, you know what
the best thing is, you got to have the way
that's one for your career next time. You know what
to do. Take care of your PfP, just expring training.
But I'm glad that he's he's being considered a factor,
not getting very like you know some teams do that
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are contending with the young players that are not proven
or that somebody puts in his head. You're not strucking
out enough. People allow the kids to develop, as Mark
Pryor told me, is a picture by strip throwing strikes,
and eventually he'll become a guy that understands how to
go out there and put people away with that slider,
with that fastball.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
How about Tanner Scott in the ninth inning? Are you
starting to see the Tanner Scott from a year ago?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He's getting there. What I like the most are the
misses with that slider today. Had a little bit of
trouble getting some swings and misses, but that's where he
wants to miss, you know, when he was missing flat
down and end. He's getting hurt. But I like the
fact that he actually pushed it today to make sure
he emphasized and he's ripping it, as Curs like to say.
And fastball. We saw ninety nine today, which is also
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a good sign. And certain he's been around this zone
a lot of the less you know, a couple of
times we've seen him, and that's always a good sign.
Filled with confidence, get away from some barrels and jump ahead.
All in one for him is a very important count.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers beat the
Reds tonight six to three, they maintain a one game
lead over the Padres in the NL West. Tomorrow, the
Dodgers will be looking to be the first team to
sweep the Reds in a series. This season with Otani
on the mound, Jose, It's been a bumpy road the
last two starts for Otani. There's been a lot of
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dissection about what he's throwing this year, how he stayed
away from the split fingered fastball a lot this year,
what does he need to do tomorrow to be able
to get his first win as a Dodger, and kind
of right the ship.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I will say that he needs to go out there
and go with a plant as to what he's throwing
and how guys are reacting, and more than anything is
to emitters. You know, beat the at bat, you win
the at bat. As we talk about offensively, you win
be at bad because guys are going to be jumping
on your fastball. He needs better command, no doubt about it.
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I'd like to see the two seamer implemented a little
bit more because we see more guys know that he's
not throwing that splitter, diving a little bit more and
looking for that sweeper. Sweeper has not been a great
pitch for him. I don't know what the numbers say.
I really don't care what the numbers say. He needs
to locate that pitch a little bit better, and I
always say I need to see that sladder sharper a
little bit faster to get guys offsetting with that fastball.
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The two seamer is going to get guys work from
the plate. It's going to get the left that hited
the ones to cheat on your fastball to hit up
the end of the bat and turns get you more shritcouts.
But if he implements the splitter tomorrow, I'll like to
see it early incounts and not necessarily a pitch is
going to bury to find strikeouts. But he's got to
go out there and have better command because guys have
been jumping on his fastball and the right head of
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batters have been absolutely touching him.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, right right handers have been no doubt. What's the
pitch for him? The fastball to neutralize the right handers.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
You go fastball lane and then use the fast fall
away or the other lane for seemer and then eventually
use that slider. But the one pitch that he is
not commanded as much or as well, I'm gonna says
that sweeper, which is the pitcher get him some trouble
back in twenty twenty three when he's last pissed so
two seamer, four seamer fill his own, but Slider needs
a play tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Down to the own sounds like a good plan. Send
him the text.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Thanks for cute it. I don't think you want to
be so let's just let show it be.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Shoy okay, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. That
was great stuff. We'll see tomorrow at the ballpark. Always there,
he goes, Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio
broadcast for with Louis Cruz. So a good night for
the Dodgers. They beat the Red six to three. The
Padres beat the Mariners tonight seven to six, and they
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will try to expand that lead tomorrow if they get
some help from the Mariners and take care of their
business here at Dodgers Stadium. An early start for the
Dodgers here as it's getaway for the Red, so they
pushed the time as far as they could. Morongo Casino
Dodgers on Deck begins at four point thirty tomorrow with
first pitch at five forty Otani versus Nick Lodolo And
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don't forget it is Otani hitting the hitting version of
the fifty to fifty bobblehead. So get here early. You
don't want to be stuck in those traffic and those lines.
Give yourself enough time, don't rush. There'll be plenty of
bobbleheads for everybody tomorrow at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to Colin
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Ye back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.
In case you missed any of the show, you can
find it on the iHeartRadio app. Also, you can follow
me on social media on ex at the Real Underscore
DV and on Instagram at a vast Say. We're gonna
head out tonight with our guy, Brad Paisley, a loyal
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Dodger fan, no good buddy of Clayton Kershaw, and I
think we can all agree that truck still works once again.
The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers defeat
the Red six to three. Have a great rest of
your night, see him and if I can get that
thing to crank, how bad? A little test drive down
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by the ledge.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Let's see if that trust it works. Let's see if
that song still says, Let's see if they're miles of course,
still got that seat let's see it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
We find that place
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 Tom.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's I love writing me these guys after the show,
just thank.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
You, give me are your attention, your fire?
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Not a piss.
Speaker 6 (00:17):
This is world champion Dodgers, world champion thing.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Put a small soft time they get up people what
they want to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 6 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
One of a con. This ball's gone. You ready to
go to the grab your phone to get.
Speaker 6 (00:36):
In on the show called eight six six, nine eighty
seven two five seven.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And go to the show.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Vasse, Let's see if that truck still works. That's right,
Clayton Kershaw, that truck still works for him. As the Dodgers,
behind their future Hall of Famer beat the Reds tonight
six to three, Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasay with
you until eleven o'clock tonight here on AM five to
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seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers maintain a one game lead
over the Padres as they edged out the Mariners tonight
by a final score of seven to six. And don't
forget going down the stretch here, twenty nine games to go,
essentially add another game to the Dodgers' lead because they
hold the tiebreaker over the Padres winning the regular season series.
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It was a great atmosphere here at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
It's always a great vibe at Dodgers Stadium when Clayton
Kershaw's on the mound and he continues to prove all
the doubters wrong. A lot of you thought that he
could not come back and be this guy. Well, he's
doing it a different way and he's still being effective,
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retiring the last fourteen reds he saw. After completing five
innings tonight, throwing seventy two pain and having six strikeouts,
he could have gone back out for the sixth inning.
I can understand where Dave Roberts was coming from because
Kershaw is only the second Dodger pitcher this year to
pitch on four days rest. Tyler glassnow did it twice
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coming out of the All Star breaks. So you have
the oldest pitcher in your rotation, the guy that has
pitched eighteen years now in the major leagues, asking him
to pitch on regular rest, so O'tani can have that
once a week start and have the day off on Thursday,
which is understandable. But Clayton Kershaw takes the ball after
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all these years, after the wear and tear on his body,
and goes out there and dominates the Reds and gives
the Dodgers the chance to win this game. And the
Dodgers took advantage of bad Reds outfield defense again. Austin
Hayes made a horrible playing left field they're center fielder
tonight on a routine flow ball by Miguel Rojas. Noelvi
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Marte in the sixth inning, you know, butchered that one too,
and the Dodgers, instead of having basically a three to
one lead going into the seventh inning, had a six
to six to one lead until Austin Hayes hit a
two run home run. So the Dodgers are not going
to make any apologies here, but certainly good for them
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to be opportunistic with some bad defense by the Reds,
and the Dodgers are looking to become the first team
this season to sweep the Reds in a series. The
Reds are the only team in Major League Baseball this
year that have not been swept in a series, and
the Dodgers have Otani on the mound tomorrow. But going
back to Kershaw, what a phenomenal month of August. Five
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starts and he's undefeated five to zero including tonight. Including
tonight a one eighty eight el in twenty eight and
two thirds innings, he held hitters to a two's sixteen
batting average. He had nineteen strikeouts and three walks. He
is a future Hall of Famer. You don't count out
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the great ones. I don't care how many years they've
been in the league. You don't count him out. And
you don't count out a guy with the work ethic
and determination and stubbornness in a good way that Clayton
Kershaw has. Let's head downstairs right now to hear from
Kershaw on Sports at LA.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, it was. It wasn't a great night stuff wise.
I didn't have a lot of stuff, didn't have a
lot of life on the fastball or really anything. So
you know, Will did a good job. We kind of
flipped the script and just started kind of throwing a
lot of different stuff, trying to be creative, keep him
off balance because it wasn't it wasn't coming out tonight.
So good, so fortunate to make it through five and
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it's obviously not as deep as you want to get,
but thankfully I wish you last night. Our bullpen was
fresh and we had the off day on Thursdays, so
it kind of worked out for us, and bullpen did
a great job and got the win.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Was sort of shift in the middle of an auty
like that's wort, shipped off the game plan and sort
of understand red react what your stuff's able to do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I mean it was. It was pretty obvious to
me after the first batter. You know, my slider wasn't great,
so I just didn't feel like I had the arm
speed to throw it well. So I just tried to
go to the arm side a little bit more and
try to throw some more change ups, curve balls, you know,
and and well did a good job. Well kind of
God guide me through that and picked the right spots
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to throw different pitches, mixing as many fastballs as we
needed to, and it worked out through five. I don't
know how much longer it would it have worked out,
but it worked out through five.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
But one this month and five starts because it feel
like you're getting better month a month and just kind
of what's been.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
The key to your success as well?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, it was. It was a good August.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I don't know, you know, physically everything feels good. I think,
you know, everything changes from start to start sometimes, but
you know, overall it was. It was and team got
a lot of wins, which was great and you know,
fun to be a part of it at this time
of year.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
All right, there's Clayton Kershaw on Sports and at LA
echoing what Dave Roberts had to say. His stuff was
not as good as it as the results were presenting itself,
considering he did retire the last fourteen reds he faced
without what he said, not his best slider, that is
the pitch he threw the most thirty two times out
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of his seventy two pitches. He mixed in sixteen curveballs
that looked pretty good tonight, and he did start to
throw that change split change five different times tonight. So yeah,
they got through five innings I guess without his best stuff,
but it looked pretty good from here. Timber Tech decking
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Dodgers beat the Reds tonight six to three. And look,
that's what separates the great ones from the guys that
tap after three or four innings when things don't feel great.
Guys like Kershaw, Guys like Blake Snell. Keep going. Now,
I'm not putting Blake Snell in Kershaw's category. What makes
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Kershaw so great? You can't tell me in these five
starts where he's been undefeated and has a one eighty
eight ERA, even when the ball's coming out of his
hand better than it was tonight. According to him, you
can't tell me that he feels great. He can't feel great.
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He's been through a lot. He's coming off a left
knee surgery, a left foot surgery two years ago, shoulder surgery.
I mean, you can't tell me this guy feels great
when he goes out there. But what he has is
a love for the game. He is very strict in
his preparation. He has a competitive desire, and he's one
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of the greats. That's what separates him from even a
guy like Blake Snell. That's what separates him, and hopefully
the rest of this pitching staff is taking notes about
what it takes to be an elite pitcher. And not
just do it for two years or do it every
other year, but to do it for eighteen consecutive years.
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Tonight was a great example of that. Eight six, six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers beat the Reds tonight six to three. I thought
Keikey Hernandez looked good in his first start since coming
off the il. He was activated yesterday, got the start
at third base, had a sacrifice fly, had an RBI
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single going the other way. That was good. Also, how
about EGARDA. Enriquez coming in in the sixth inning, got
in a little bit of trouble in that sixth inning,
gave up a couple of back to back singles to
Matt McClain and Spencer Steer, and then made a great
play fielding his position, darting a double play on a
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line drive by Noel v Marte and having the presence
of mind to be able to fire a strike to
second base to double off Matt McClain. So he got
himself out of trouble. And at that time it was
a three to one game, so it was a close
game at that point in time for Enriquez to make
that play and it was two to one at that
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point in time for Enriquez to make that play, so
certainly a good job by him, and Tanner Scott starting
to round into shape. I would say it's still not
the best version of Tanner Scott, but he's getting there,
that's for sure. Speaking of the Dodgers off, Dodgers' bullpen
Alex Vesia before the game tonight, was placed on the
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injured list with a strained right oblique. That was not
something that we expected, although it was starting to become
noticeable that Vessia had not pitched in a game since
last Thursday. Now, Vessia has pitched in fifty nine games
this year for the Dodgers. For him to go that
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long without pitching in a game is a red flag,
and we found out finally today what it was. Let's
head downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from Alex Vesia,
who's speaking to Sports at LA. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I mean, for.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I'd felt it a couple days ago and it was
in catch play, so it just like it just felt tight.
There was no pull or grab or anything that like like.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Made me concerned.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I think, as you know, Doc, and then all of
our training and stuff. Were on the same page of
just making sure that we're just gonna knock it out now,
make sure it doesn't get worse. There's no need to
push it. I'm very confident that I can resume throwing
in my normal routine. So yeah, we'll just take it,
you know, one day at a time, and I believe
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that the fifteen days would be going to go.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
This is playoffs last year.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's the same side, different area, So it's not like
the exact same like muscle, the exact same one. But
we're gonna go about it pretty much the exact same
way that we did it like last year, except this
time like it's it's much less. You know, it just
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feels like a tight muscle. So it's kind of hard
to explain, but I wanted to speak up now rather
than try to, you know, overdo it and then jeopardize
later down the line.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
What as you guys were talking about this, like, do
you look at it at all?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Is just also a way to get a little bit
of a breather before you get down the stretch here,
which is how much you can make pitch this year.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean you can look at it like that
as well.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I mean I think the rest is a good thing,
but at the same time, like there is you know,
I am, I am. It's not like I'm trying to
get more rest, right, you know I was. I was
fighting them back and forth. I'm staying. But overall, I
do believe it's the decision.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
They did it today.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Would you have been available in San Diego if called upon?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I mean, yeah, I told him that I felt good
to pitch, so that was, you know, their their decision
and whatnot. So yeah, we were all on the same page.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
All right. There's Alex Vesia on sports Net LA and yes,
in case you don't remember, last year, Alex Vesia was
left off the Dodgers NLCS roster because of an intercostal
rib injury suffered during the NLDS. So he's saying it's
similar to that or same side, but not as severe,
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which is a good thing. But you gotta be careful
with these things. You gotta be careful with obliques like
Max Munsey's coming back from these things can pop up
with one throw, with one swing, just when you think
you're one hundred percent healthy. Meet World Champion manager Dave Roberts,
speaking of the World Series this Thursday, at the Verizon
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store in Pasadena located at three six eight South Lake
Avenue from five to six o'clock. Now, the event starts
at four o'clock, so you got to show up early
for your chance to win tickets and merchandise. That's Thursday
with Dave Roberts in Pasadena, all brought to you by Verizon.
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
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the phone number. Let's go out to Chino. Jason, You're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Jason, how's it going.
It's going great, Dodgers win and nobody has anything to
complain about.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Before I get
into my curse, I'll take I want to agree with
you on your Piazza take from yesterday. I thought that
was brilliantly said.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Thank you, Jason. Don't get caught up in the big
dumpster whatever his nickname is. Hype. This year guys struck
out almost one hundred and sixty times.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
YEP, I totally get that. But I want to talk
about Clayton Kershaw, who was my MVP. For what it's
worth eight and two already, such a tremendous job that
he's doing. I remember back in I want to say May,
when I think we were hoping to get a few
quality starts and hoping to get at least some help
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with the picking staff. He has exceeded expectations. And I've
got nothing but great praise for Clayton Kershaw, which leads
my quotes for you, and I'll take us off the air.
Where do you have him in your playoff rotation?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I knew you were going to ask that, Jason. I
knew you were going to ask that. I'll tell you this, Jason,
I would trust Clayton Kershaw more than a few other
guys to start a playoff game. And you know he
has a track record. So I don't know if it's
game one, two, three, four, five, or six. He's starting
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a playoff game for me, Jason, some game. I'm not
sure how they want to map it out. But he's
starting a playoff game for me in a best of seven.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Absolutely, and I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right, all right, Jason, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
I'll be back for another game soon.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Sounds good. Can't wait to have you back out here.
I will say this, Kershaw is probably outside of Otani
best suited to be able to be called upon out
of the bullpen if necessary. I remember Joe Tory doing
this with David Cohne, who was starting to get a
little long in the tooth, maybe didn't have his best
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stuff like Clayton Kershaw at times doesn't doesn't have that
strikeout pitch like David Cone used to consistently. Joe Torre
added David Cone to the World Series roster in the
Subway Series to face one specific right handed hitter, I'll
bring a full circle, Jason. His name was Mike Piazza.
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David Cohne faced only one batter in the Subways Series
in two thousand. It was Mike Piazza. He struck him out.
That's how the Dodgers possibly could use Clayton Kershaw in
a playoff series outside of starting a game. Eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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Want to give some love to Freddie Freeman, who continues
to climb the doubles charts. You talk about Hall of
Famers every time you come out to a Dodger game,
especially on a night that Clayton Kershaw starting. He got
a Hall of Famer on the mound, You got a
Hall of Famer at first base, he got a Hall
of Famer at shortstop, you got a Hall of Famer
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as a DH But it's special when Kershaw's on the
mound because Freddie Freeman and Clayton Kershaw are the epitome
of consistency. And Freddie Freeman tonight hit his thirty fourth
double of the year in the first inning. That was
career number five forty two, which puts him just one
double behind the great Tony Gwynn for thirty eighth all
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time in Major League Baseball history. Excuse me, thirty sixth
all time in baseball history for the most doubles. And
he's not stopping there. He's only seven doubles away from
passing his old buddy in Atlanta, Chipper Jones. He's passing
guys like Jeter soon, Manny Ramirez soon. This guy's no
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doubt headed to Cooperstown and is going to come very
close to three thousand hits if he doesn't get it
by the end of his career. But Freddy Freeman, do
not take him for granted either. And here's something Freddy
Freeman has never done in his illustrious career, and that's
when the batting title right now he is the only
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hitter in the National League with a batting average over
three hundred. Freddy won for four tonight with that double
in the first inning, is hitting three to zero two.
He leads the National League in hitting second place, Trey
Turner of the Phillies hitting two ninety eight. Twenty nine
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more games to go. Freddie Freeman is that close from
winning his first batting title of his career, and the
Dodgers are twenty nine games away from winning the NL West.
They have a one game lead over the Padres plus
the tiebreaker. They're in a great spot and looking to
add to it on this homestand after they beat the
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Reds tonight six to three, when we continue live from
Dodgers Stadium, we'll check in with Jose Mota. We'll get
you an update on Max Munsey. You'll hear from Gavin Lucks.
So a lot to get to between now and eleven
o'clock right here on five seventy LA Sports David Vasse
live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers defeat the Reds
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six to three on a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
On air at a online at amfive seventy LA Sports
dot Com and available by podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
To two swung on well Hip toward right center field
and date this ball back to the wall. It was God,
It's a home run.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well Smith into the home run seats and the Dodgers
lead it three to one.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Smith with home run number sixteen. Can you believe that
was the first time Will Smith is homered at Dodgers
Stadium since July twenty first, he has been in his
first slump of the season. He started off hot and
has not looked back until the last twenty games or so.
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But every player goes through it, and Will seems to
be coming out of it with that two strike home
run against Nick Martinez in the sixth inning tonight. Daniel
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next game. Daniels Jewelers own the dream. Daniels Jewelers handing
out a lot of gift cards. The Dodgers hit a
lot of home runs, second most in all of Major
League Baseball. They add to that tonight as they beat
the Red six to three. Now, Gavin Lux was not
in the Red starting lineup tonight. Last night, he had
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his championship celebration as he was given a championship ring
by the Dodgers and his teammates after a great video montage.
We had a chance to catch up with Lux about
his playoff memories from a year ago. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
You know, those are those are some of the best
fans and any sport in the world. And you know, whatever,
how small or how big your role is it, you know,
I think they appreciate winning baseball and you know, they
want to win just as bad as we did. So uh,
you know, I don't think they got that full feel
and during the COVID season just with the parade and
everything in the full season. So I think it was
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pretty cool to be able to give that to them
and see how you know, happy the city was and
and the parade and all that stuff is something you know,
I'll definitely cherish forever.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
What stands out to you the most about the World
Series Game five? Where is there other moments that you
flashed through.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Oh man. I mean, I think just kind of the
whole all all the games. I think you obviously think
about Freddy's home run Game one, where if he doesn't
do that, you know, the series might feel totally different.
And but yeah, I think just Game five being down
five or six runs early, and then to come back
like that obviously against a good a good starter, a
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good bullpen, and just kind of that's what we were
preaching about going into the playoffs was let's let's have
a dog fight that we get down early, let's fight
our ass off every bat, every pitch and try to
win it. And I think that just kind of showed,
you know, what we were trying to do, and we
accomplished that, and I'm then to do it and win
the World Series. Obviously that Game two is cool. So
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I mean there's a lot of moments, but I think
just overall, the daily, every pitch, everyone's in it with
each other, that kind of fight, you know, that's what
sticks out for me.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Hey, that was special catching up with Gavin Lux. It
was special to see him get that World Series ring
on the field at Dodger Stadium last night, and I
told him today, you know, just seeing his teammates come
out and hug him and mob him and give him
his ring and throw that Dodger hat back on his head.
They still were treating him like the little brother. And
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he said, you know what, in thirty years, when we
have a reunion, I'll still be that little brother. So
that's the way Gavin Lux was treated with the team affectionately.
And it was great to see him get celebrated at
Dodger Stadium last night. And Gavin Lux was a part
of that big Game one when Freddy Freeman hit that
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walk off Grand Slam, it was Gavin Lux who started
that ninth inning or bottom of the tenth inning with
a leadoff walk. People forget that it took six batters
to get to Freddie Freeman facing Nestor Cortes. Gavin Luck
started it. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five
seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat the Red six
(23:23):
to three.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Mota.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
All right, Jose Mota. The Reds outfield defense not so
great tonight and the Dodgers took advantage. But let's start
with Kershaw. He and Dave Roberts both said he did
not have his best slider tonight. How did he retire
fourteen in a row not having his best stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I have no idea. I have no idea, but I
only see four balls that wild hit hard against Clayton Kersher.
So I bring whatever you had today and apply it
against a team that is quite hungry do some damage,
some wild swings, but he is pretty much. He prepared
every pitch that was swung and miss two days. He
prepared every pitch that was fouled up. There's a lot
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of foul balls being pulled, which is to be an
indication or headed batters that his ladder was just good
because the guys were swinging around it. Perhaps it didn't
have that sharp list that was significant to go out
there and have the result of astracta. But that was
good enough to go out there and just understand that
you have to reinvent yourself sometimes on the mound. You
got to go out there and see how they react
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to certain pitches. And the fact that he implemented some things.
And the number one thing to me is he mentioned
Will Smith twice, and sometimes we're not giving Will Smith
enough credit on the things that he does, and just
allowing these guys to take a breather convince him of
teaming the game plan. Because when Clayton Curger says Will
Smith is a big factor, believe me, I'm going to
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believe that.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Yeah. And at this point they've been together for seven
seasons now, so at this point Will Smith knows Curse
Shaw better than most guys.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, and it's important to you know, know where to
push guys a little bit and when to go. Hey, listen,
whatever we discussed before the game, I'm not seeing it
right now or whatever we discuss it may not be
there today, but right now, but we cannot get away
from that pitch. And sometimes you use a slider for
example today, you know what buried a couple of times.
Find that release point which Will gets is going to
take you to a better release point with your fastball
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and everything else. But man, the curveball today was biting.
It was good enough to offset some hitters. And you know,
I mentioned Kersh and he said a couple of times
the on side situation where it is one where he
knows he doesn't live all the time, but when he
work as hard he does. When you get to the
ballpark as early as he does. When you do your
dry particular, they're in that bullpen and you visualize there's
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nothing you can do on the mount when things are
not going, when you think your stuff is not there.
But certainly he's finding his stuff when it's not there
to make sure that the other guys make your stuff
look even better.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Big picture, Jose after Kurveshaw came out out of the
game and Garda and Riquez relieved him, and and Gardo
ed Riquez looks like he is starting to mature and
maybe getting more trust from Dave Roberts. Are we seeing
a reliever turning into a guy that we may see
pitch big innings in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You gotta believe that Dodgers are doing the right things
with these young pitchers and the one thing that they
really were able to get through to Enriquez. And I
had a conversation with Mark Prior about this back in
Boston and Zach Kissen the strikeouts are going to come,
but you need to become just a better pitcher. How
do you do that? Now he's working on a slider.
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Now he's had in the back pocket. He's had a
splitter since last season, but it's more about, you know
what with one O one, one O two, throw strikes.
Throw strikes, move the ball around in the zone. Don't
try to get to purty and trying to get to
strike out counts, because these guys want to jump on
you quickly, as he found out a couple of times too.
And Dave, you know what's best thing about today is
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the fact that he already threw a ball into right
field the other time, and he threw a both second
base of that double play, and I remember when that happened.
He's feeling so bad, and I'm going, you know what
the best thing is, you got to have the way
that's one for your career next time. You know what
to do. Take care of your PfP, just expring training.
But I'm glad that he's he's being considered a factor,
not getting very like you know some teams do that
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are contending with the young players that are not proven
or that somebody puts in his head. You're not strucking
out enough. People allow the kids to develop, as Mark
Pryor told me, is a picture by strip throwing strikes,
and eventually he'll become a guy that understands how to
go out there and put people away with that slider,
with that fastball.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
How about Tanner Scott in the ninth inning? Are you
starting to see the Tanner Scott from a year ago?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He's getting there. What I like the most are the
misses with that slider today. Had a little bit of
trouble getting some swings and misses, but that's where he
wants to miss, you know, when he was missing flat
down and end. He's getting hurt. But I like the
fact that he actually pushed it today to make sure
he emphasized and he's ripping it, as Curs like to say.
And fastball. We saw ninety nine today, which is also
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a good sign. And certain he's been around this zone
a lot of the less you know, a couple of
times we've seen him, and that's always a good sign.
Filled with confidence, get away from some barrels and jump ahead.
All in one for him is a very important count.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Jose Mota is joining us. After the Dodgers beat the
Reds tonight six to three, they maintain a one game
lead over the Padres in the NL West. Tomorrow, the
Dodgers will be looking to be the first team to
sweep the Reds in a series. This season with Otani
on the mound, Jose, It's been a bumpy road the
last two starts for Otani. There's been a lot of
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dissection about what he's throwing this year, how he stayed
away from the split fingered fastball a lot this year,
what does he need to do tomorrow to be able
to get his first win as a Dodger, and kind
of right the ship.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I will say that he needs to go out there
and go with a plant as to what he's throwing
and how guys are reacting, and more than anything is
to emitters. You know, beat the at bat, you win
the at bat. As we talk about offensively, you win
be at bad because guys are going to be jumping
on your fastball. He needs better command, no doubt about it.
(29:14):
I'd like to see the two seamer implemented a little
bit more because we see more guys know that he's
not throwing that splitter, diving a little bit more and
looking for that sweeper. Sweeper has not been a great
pitch for him. I don't know what the numbers say.
I really don't care what the numbers say. He needs
to locate that pitch a little bit better, and I
always say I need to see that sladder sharper a
little bit faster to get guys offsetting with that fastball.
(29:35):
The two seamer is going to get guys work from
the plate. It's going to get the left that hited
the ones to cheat on your fastball to hit up
the end of the bat and turns get you more shritcouts.
But if he implements the splitter tomorrow, I'll like to
see it early incounts and not necessarily a pitch is
going to bury to find strikeouts. But he's got to
go out there and have better command because guys have
been jumping on his fastball and the right head of
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batters have been absolutely touching him.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, right right handers have been no doubt. What's the
pitch for him? The fastball to neutralize the right handers.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
You go fastball lane and then use the fast fall
away or the other lane for seemer and then eventually
use that slider. But the one pitch that he is
not commanded as much or as well, I'm gonna says
that sweeper, which is the pitcher get him some trouble
back in twenty twenty three when he's last pissed so
two seamer, four seamer fill his own, but Slider needs
a play tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Down to the own sounds like a good plan. Send
him the text.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Thanks for cute it. I don't think you want to
be so let's just let show it be.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Shoy okay, Jose, thanks a lot for checking in. That
was great stuff. We'll see tomorrow at the ballpark. Always there,
he goes, Jose Mota, part of the Dodgers Spanish radio
broadcast for with Louis Cruz. So a good night for
the Dodgers. They beat the Red six to three. The
Padres beat the Mariners tonight seven to six, and they
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will try to expand that lead tomorrow if they get
some help from the Mariners and take care of their
business here at Dodgers Stadium. An early start for the
Dodgers here as it's getaway for the Red, so they
pushed the time as far as they could. Morongo Casino
Dodgers on Deck begins at four point thirty tomorrow with
first pitch at five forty Otani versus Nick Lodolo And
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don't forget it is Otani hitting the hitting version of
the fifty to fifty bobblehead. So get here early. You
don't want to be stuck in those traffic and those lines.
Give yourself enough time, don't rush. There'll be plenty of
bobbleheads for everybody tomorrow at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks to Colin
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Ye back at our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks to you for listening.
In case you missed any of the show, you can
find it on the iHeartRadio app. Also, you can follow
me on social media on ex at the Real Underscore
DV and on Instagram at a vast Say. We're gonna
head out tonight with our guy, Brad Paisley, a loyal
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Dodger fan, no good buddy of Clayton Kershaw, and I
think we can all agree that truck still works once again.
The final score tonight from Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers defeat
the Red six to three. Have a great rest of
your night, see him and if I can get that
thing to crank, how bad? A little test drive down
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by the ledge.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Let's see if that trust it works. Let's see if
that song still says, Let's see if they're miles of course,
still got that seat let's see it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
We find that place
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