September 6, 2025 • 51 mins
DV takes your calls after Samuel Basallo hits a walk-off HR off Tanner Scott in Baltimore. Dave Roberts, Freddie Freeman, and Tanner Scott talk to the media. Dave Roberts addresses Will Smith's bone bruise.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
One thing about this gem 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 two.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's I love writing to these guys out to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Just thank you me are your attention, your fire, and piss.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger world championing.
Speaker 6 (00:21):
For a small song. Time they get a people what
they want to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
One of the con This ball's gone.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
You ready to go.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To the South?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Grab your phone to get in on the show called
eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
I'll go to the show.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse, what should.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
We talk about tonight? I'm kidding. Dodgers fall to the
Orioles two to one. They are walked off by a
rookie by the name of Saying Well Besio. Scott gives
up his tenth home run of the year and certainly
has not lived up to the expectations everybody had for
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him when the Dodgers signed him, not only in Los
Angeles but across Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers find
another way to lose on this road trip. They have
lost four in a row and they go down tonight
two to one. With twenty one more games left, they
are two games ahead of the San Diego Padres in
the NL West. The Rockies helped the Dodgers out. The
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Padres also have lost four in a row. They were
swept by these Orioles in San Diego, and they lost
tonight and were shut out at Coursefield three to nothing.
So I don't know who's more frustrated, because the Dodgers
could have blown this race wide open over the course
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of the last five days, and instead they are still
just two games ahead of the Padres. And meanwhile, now
San Diego has got to be thoroughly frustrated that the
Dodgers have lost four in a row and so have
they to lesser opponents. So, you know, the one thing
I know, everybody keeps talking about chasing the Phillies. Now
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the Brewers. Come on, who thinks the Dodgers are catching
the Brewers for the number one seed At this point,
it's not happening. And the Phillies won again, So I
believe the Dodgers are now three or four games back
of that number two seed. At this point, it's not
about that. It's about winning a game. Dodgers have got
to string together winning games, and they did that on
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the homestand they won four in a row and then
all of a sudden it started goes. It start a
spiral again, and they've got to pick themselves up again,
and they got a great guy to do it in Yamamoto.
We will hear from Dave Roberts, We will hear from
Freddie Freeman. We have two lines open, so we will
take your phone calls at eight sixty six, nine to
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eight to seven, two five seventy. A lot to get
to tonight, so we may stay on the full hour
because there's a lot to digest, including Dave Roberts given
us an update on Will Smith, and that brings up
Dalton Rushing, who has not had a good road trip either.
Having opportunities to be the starting catcher for the Dodgers,
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he has been an admirer of not home runs that
turn into doubles. He has not blocked balls well, including
tonight before he got hurt. In the bottom of the
fifth inning. Ben Casparius throws a ball that's not spiked
in the dirt but should have been blocked by Dalton rushing. Instead,
Jackson holiday off with the pitch scores all the way
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from second base and then Dalton rushing in the sixth
inning fouls a ball off his right leg, his shin area,
and he was helped off the field by one of
the Dodger trainers and Dave Roberts, and Dave said that
they're going to have CT scans on Dalton rushing. Let's
head back to Baltimore to hear more from manager Dave Roberts.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Yeah, it was. It got him really pretty good. We
had X rays, X rays. Fortunately we're negative. He's going
to get a CT scan tomorrow morning, just to kind
of dig a little deeper on it. Yeah, he's pretty
banged up right now, so I think until we know more,
it's it's obviously he's not going to be in there tomorrow,
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so I guess it's adding him to the day to
day list, and you know, then we'll catch tomorrow. We're
going to bring another casher just to see if there's
a potential.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I l for Dalton.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Look at things, are the frustrations building up, the emotions
are building up. With a loss like this, it's a
tough one. I know we've talked about with Tanner Scott,
just that predictability. What do you see from this game?
Because pitching was excellent, It just really was that one
pitch to end the game.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, no, that was I mean I thought tonight he
threw the ball. Well, it was one of those things
that you got count leverage on a guy and you've
got to expand and go for the swing and miss.
And I just thought, right there, he just didn't make
a good pitch and you know the guy put a
good swing on it. But you know, I think in totality,
I thought the stuff was good. But yeah, the one
pitch when you get one two and you make a
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bad pitch, he made us pay.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, just two last twenty nine etings.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
You has to play like how does that sort of happen?
Special good names that you have in that planet.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
You know, it's sort of on a repeat right now.
I don't know the answer. I know each day guys
come in fresh prepared and you know, expecting a different result.
But you know, we just haven't been able to string
hits together and put up a crooked number and you know,
get a lead. So again, it's not from lack of effort.
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They're trying, but yeah, we're just not getting it done.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
I'm going to do some of these close losses, especially
when they stack them on each other, kind of take
out of the team. How tough is it to kind
of bounce back from them, especially with kind of the
kind of rut you guys are in right now.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
It's it's certainly tough, but you have to bounce back.
You got to keep fighting and you know, believing that
it's going to turn. And so I've said it. You know,
the last two weeks, no one's gonna feel sorry for you.
So you've got to be a proactive, expect different results,
and keep competing. I mean, we've got to be a
pro and make it happen. And that's all you can do.
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You know, this is our team. We've got guys coming back,
but you know, for the next few days, this is
what we got. And so we've been right off the
guys and you know, expect to score some runs and
win a baseball game.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Okay, there's Dave Roberts and yeah, I love all of that.
I mean that sounds great. That sounds like Tommy Lesorda.
You got to believe when you show up at the ballpark.
But you can't just keep on doing the same thing.
If you're the Dodger offense, you got to your approach.
You got to stop trying to guess at what the
pitcher is going to throw in certain counts. It obviously
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is not working. You've got to look at the game.
You've got to see the spin of the baseball. That's
the way it's been relayed to me by guys that
have done it at a very high level, a Hall
of Fame level, and right now we're not seeing that
from the Dodgers. So that's all well and fine. Competing, yes,
a yes, believing, yes, of course. But if you keep
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doing the same thing that is not providing results, isn't
that the definition of insanity continuing to do the same
thing without the results changing. At some point, the Dodger offense,
the players, the hitting coaches, don't they have to look
in the mirror like pitchers and pitching coaches do and
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figure out, maybe we should change some things, maybe we
should change our approach. And right now it doesn't seem
like they are nine eight seven, two five seventy is
the phone number before we go out to the phone calls,
and we will hear from Freddie Freeman and Tanner Scott
in just a moment. But I want to make a
point about this because we had a guy that said
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he was calling from Van Eyes. He might have been
one of those Midwest transplant trying to chase the La
dream because he had no idea about Bill's Burgers. So
that made me a little suspicious. But nonetheless, neither here
or there about that caller. I want to make the
point about this show. Hey, Otani, My understanding is he
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got a phone call around two thirty Eastern time asking
him if he'd be willing to start the game because
Tyler Glass now reported backstiffness, tightness, whatever you want to
call it. What did Otawni do? Did not hesitate and said, yes,
I'll take the baseball. I am not going to shy
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away from that. That's what the team needs. I'll take
the baseball tonight. Even though he was not scheduled to start,
even though he's a very routine oriented guy, he pitched
three and two third scoreless innings with five strikeouts tonight.
He did his job. Now, I also want to make
the point that last year the Dodgers, when Mooki Betts
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went down asked Otani to lead off. He did and
hit fifty four home runs and stole fifty bases an
incredibly dynamic and once in a lifetime season. This year
he already established he's one of the best leadoff hitters.
Dave Roberts wanted to get Mooki Bets some confidence. Hey,
show Hey, can we have you hit second? So Mokin
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can lead off and see if that jump starts him?
No problem? Will do go ahead? Give him a chance,
and then the Dodgers and Mookie it's not working, Show Hey,
can you go back to leading off? No problem? So
I just want to make the point that it's easy
to say show hey is about show Hey, but the
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results and the facts. He's more about the team than anybody.
And he's the best player on the team. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers get walked off by the Orioles tonight by Samuel Bissio,
who only has fifty Major league at bats. Let's go
out to Don and San Dimas. You're on Dodger Talk
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with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don, Hey, Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Listen? You literally stole my thunder, I mean, first off
Shohey is a unicorn. The dude is one of a
kind and anybody who doesn't think that's true is full
of it. But you know the reason I called you is,
you know, Dave Roberts is literally the definition of insanity.
And like I said, you stole it from me. I
was sitting here thinking about it. But he keeps saying
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the same garbage over and over and over. And you've
got people out there telling him they need to take
a different approach. You've got Jose Mota who's talking about it.
You got Oral Herscheizer who's talking about what the pitchers
are doing. You've got Adrian Gonzalez who saying they're not
taking the right approach. And what do we do the
same thing over and over and then we trot Can
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or Scott out there again expecting a different result. What
do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
If I'm Dave Roberts don I'm sitting in the hitters
meeting tomorrow, I want to hear exactly what is being
talked about. I know he does a great job of
delegating to his coaches and trusting his coaches, but he
talks about urgency. Uh, there would be a lot of
urgency if the manager was in the hitters meetings and
listening to exactly what they were saying. Trust me, there
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would be a different sense of urgency if he did that.
But yeah, it's not on Dave Roberts. But like I said, uh,
they've got to change something. And it's one thing to
talk about players being held accountable, but the approach has
got to be different as well. Thanks for the phone
called don appreciated eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy. Look, I'm not going as far as to
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say what Tommy Lesorda used to do thirty five years ago,
where when a team was playing like this, he would
go out and coach third base to be the raw
raw kind of somewhat comic relief, but also let them
know that, Okay, you're gonna play like this, I'm going
to embarrass you and coach third base and fire you up.
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I'm not saying Dave Roberts needs to go that far,
because that's not what baseball is or the manager's job
these days. But if I'm Dave Roberts, I want to
hear what's been said in these hitters meetings. I want
to know exactly what the coaches are telling his players
because right now it's not working. Let's go out to
Passo Robliss. Gabriel, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
Gabriel, Hey, David, how are you doing.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I'm getting tired of seeing the Dodgers find different ways
of not reaching their potential.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
I am too. It's frustrating. My main question point I
wanted to bring up is I know David in the
past have said he doesn't really like to mess with
the hitters or kind of tell him what to do.
But don't you think at some point he needs to
just step in or fire them up or do something
about that.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
And just well, I just gave you a suggestion, but
that's realistic. Yeah, I just said, go into those hitter meetings.
Let's hear what they're saying tomorrow. If I'm Dave Roberts,
take control of the team and I know the players,
Miguil Rojas, you heard him yesterday, Gabriel after the game
last night talking about a team meeting. Well, if tonight
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doesn't really force the issue, I don't know what will.
I hope they had a meeting after tonight's game. I
hope if they didn't. They have it when they show
up tomorrow, because everybody needs to be woken up and
realize that they have the chance to do something really special,
do something that nobody since the Jeter Pisada Bernie Williams
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Yankees have ever done, and that's repeated his champions. They
still have those players don't squander the opportunity. So those
are my thoughts on how to just kind of rock
the boat and make people feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
I agree with you, David. It's frustrating. It would be
nice to see win one of these days, but you
never know you will.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Gabriel, how about this, I predict a win tomorrow, Gabriel,
We'll have a very celebratory or sire relief Dodger talk tomorrow, Gabriel,
Yamamoto will deliver and the Dodgers will snap. They will
not lose five in a row. I guarantee it, as
Charles Barkley would say, I guarun tee it.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
I agree, I'll stamp it. Thank you, David.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right, Gabriel, thank you for the phone call. Eight
sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number Dodgers fall to the Oriels tonight two to one.
Speaking of hitters, the only guy that drove in a
run tonight, he drove in himself. Freddie Freeman, with his
nineteenth home run of the year, tied the game in
the sixth inning. Let's head back to Baltimore to hear
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from Freddy Freeman on Sports Net LA.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Going into every game, we feel confident and good. And
then I mean, I figured you I was gonna get
talked to after this game, and I was trying to
come up with some answers, and sometimes you just don't
have the right answers. I really, I'm just not going
to sit here and give some cliches. We were just
not playing very good. Our pitching was great tonight. Offensively
we were not good. So, uh, there's no sugar cutting this.
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We need to figure this out and figure this out
with like the offensive struggles have been compound in a
sense where like you kind of feel the pressure to
make up for the previous games. Like that about pressure,
I think it's hidding is contagious if like, when you're
going well, things can just go and then when things
aren't going well, things aren't going well. It's I mean,
we didn't really have that many opportunities tonight that would
have been had massive two out hits against ninety on
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our sinker bawlers and.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
All that stuff.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
So just we couldn't really get anything going today and
we haven't for a while. So I truly have no
answers tomorrow. We just kinda come in here and game
playing against River and Rogers and give our best effort
out for imagine.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Losing this team, losing four straight to the last place team.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Uh, it's just the weight we're losion, you know, It's
it doesn't matter who we're playing. It's I mean, I
mean that's for you guys right last place and stuff.
It's it's just not how we view it. We're just
not scoring runs. It's it's just not who we are.
We're not getting anything going, We're not getting the hits.
It's just you get to the point where it's it's
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glaring and what we need to do. So I mean,
we can sit here after every game and talk about
what we.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Need to do.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
It's just we got to do it. So there's not
like I said there, I mean, we all know what
we have to do in here, and we're better start
doing it quick.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Or do you have a new appreciation for what Chervintani
can do.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
When he's five hours before.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
The game, well, I mean yeah, and you can see him.
He's he's exhausted after an ending or two.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
It's muggy.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
He's still not healthy, he's still sick and gave it
as all. I mean, it's amazing what he's doing. It's
around one hundred hundred and one. I mean, we can
we'll be We'll be saying this every year. I'll show
Tali until he retires. So he's a unicorn.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
He fished Gray. You gave it all everything you had
in that fourthning to get out of it, and Anthony
got us out of that tube and nothing, nothing to
show for it.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
You guys have talked about, you know, when you look
at the talent in this room expecting at some point
something to turn. Is it getting harder to kind of
keep that faith with the.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Way that That is one thing I don't think any
of us have like a worry about, is the people
in this room. We all are confident in who we
are and who we are as baseball players. We're just
not doing it right now in the field.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
And that's all.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
That's all I can really say.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's just.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Like I said what two days ago, the game of
baseball is extremely hard. The concepts easy, and we're making
the concept really hard right now.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
All right, there's Freddy Freeman, like, I love the way
he approached that, no cliches. I'm just gonna tell you
how I feel. I don't have a lot of answers,
but we got to figure it out. And yeah, hitting
is contagious when you're going good. It's contagious when you're
going bad. It's like a disease in some ways. It
just eats through your lineup. And right now, that's the
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way it is for the Dodgers, unfortunately, as they go
down only with five hits tonight and only score one run.
One of those hits drove in that run, and that
was Freddie's home run leading off the sixth innings. So
frustrated Freddie Freeman, frustrated Dodgers. But they've got to find
a way to change things. You just can't keep doing
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the same thing. There's one thing to stick to your
process as far as preparation. But when it comes to hitting,
if your approach is not working and the guessing game
is not working, don't you have to go to a
point where you're looking for your own strike zone and
you're watching the game and not looking at well, you know,
the sample size shows that this guy's gonna throw like tomorrow,
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Trevor Rodgers on a two to two pitch, he's gonna
throw a fastball. Well, how do you know what he's
gonna do to you? The Dodgers Freddie Freeman is constantly
looking at the pitcher, and Otani and Freeman are pitched
a lot differently. You can't watch and expect Trevor Rodgers
to pitch those two guys the way they would pitch
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Michael Conforto. Sorry, that's just not the way it is.
And I just feel like the Dodgers need to need
to change their approach, and hopefully they do and turn
this around. Like I said, I can't envision the Dodgers
losing another game to a last place team. I know
the Orioles are talented offensively, but I just don't see
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them losing five in a row and being one game
away from being swept by the Pirates. And Orioles on
this road trip eight six, six, nine, seven, two five
seventy is the phone number One more thing that I
agreed with what Freddy said, it's one thing to lose games,
it's the way the Dodgers are losing games that is
not to their standard. Let's go out to the rat
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one eight. Carlos, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi Carlos.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
As a going David, So, I you kind of answered
my question that I see just a little while ago
about you know, the things that the team is doing wrong,
because you know, I do wanted to get you know,
your opinion. I think that, you know, like maybe the
coaching staff or Dave, you know, not not taking charge.
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And I and I also think that one of the
reasons maybe there's a lack of urgency on the part
of Dave Roberts is because we got a winning record
and were first place and and you know, just pointing
out that, to me, it seems like that the team
that made that possible in the first third of the season,
it feels like that team is long gone. And I,
you know, as the fast fans, you know, we're we're
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hoping that they can get back to that team they were.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
You know, you hope they get back to that team
they were at the right time, and they have the
players to do that and when they get and Tommy
Edmund back, especially Muncie, it's gonna make a huge difference
for the offense. But right now they've got to grind
through it. I mean, other teams don't have the talent
the Dodgers have as they are right now. You can't
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have an all star at every position, and the Dodgers,
when they're healthy, they almost do. So you got to
find a way to win games with what you have.
You don't have to have an All Star at every
position to win games. I mean, the Orioles just beat
the Dodgers tonight, and the Pirates just swept the Dodgers
in Pittsburgh. So in baseball, it's not always about how
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much talent you have. It's about execution and focus and
you know, finding ways to win games other than you know,
with a slugging percentage.
Speaker 13 (21:48):
Indeed, we'll keep our fingers crossed out here and when
they we're the faithful out here.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I love it, Carlos, thank you for the phone call.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's
go out to Pacoima. Eddie, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (22:01):
Hi, Eddie, what's up?
Speaker 15 (22:04):
DV.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, you're the best for the beginning to end.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I just want to say, like I want to reiterate
what Jerry said at the other day.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
On the Post Steve Show on TV was I just
feel that Dodgers are playing uninspired baseball.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
It's something that I know it's kind.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Of cliche, but it's a thing.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
I mean, like you said, he keeps saying to everybody
they have too much talent, and all it takes is.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Maybe one hit, maybe one touch hit.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
And they'll be back on track.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What do you think, DV Yeah, clutch hit would be nice.
They would get some good feelings in that dugout. They
need some good feelings in that dugout. Eddie, thank you
for the phone call, thank you for the love. And
this is so hard to believe, but it's reality. Since
July third, the Dodgers record is twenty two and thirty
The Angels record they're not making in the postseason is
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twenty three and thirty one. The Dodgers are just one
game better record wise than the Angels, and the Dodgers
have not won a game in September yet, so you know, obviously,
whatever has been happening, there's a lot of different moving
parts on why the Dodgers record is twenty two and
thirty since July third. Injuries to their starting staff a
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big reason for you know, all of July. But right
now they're pretty much healthy outside of two players. That's
not an excuse anymore. Sorry, it's not. Health is not
an excuse. You got three of the best players in baseball,
Your starting staff is healthy. You're just not playing well.
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You're thinking you could show up and win. That's how
it feels like. And you know, honestly, some of the
key players the Dodgers signed during the offseason have not
played to what everybody's expectations were for them. Kirby Yates
certainly has shown his age this year. I think we
can all agree on that. Tanner Scott has been a
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shell of himself from a year ago. He only allowed
one home run last year. Tonight it was his tenth
home run, and they're coming late in the game, costing games.
Michael Confordo sitting a buck ninety with ten home runs.
These were guys the Dodgers signed during the off season
that they were counting on for major contributions to fill
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in the roles that they signed them for, and they
haven't panned out. Blake Snell was also hurt for the
first half of the season. That was an ideal. So
all the things the Dodgers were celebrated for during the
off season have not really panned out the way everybody
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thought it would, and that's been a big reason why
they have not been able to continue to play at
a high li level. When guys go down or things
are not going Otani or Mookie Bets or Freddie Freeman's way,
and you know, Mookie Bet says not he's having his
worst offensive season of his career. Nobody saw that coming
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this year. Nobody. So those are some of the reasons
why the Dodgers have struggled for consistency all season long.
But Mooki has turned a season around since the beginning
of August. He's sitting well over three hundred since then,
and hopefully that continues into October. There's only twenty one
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more games left to go in the regular season, and
the Dodgers have a two game lead over the Padres
in the NL. Last in case you missed it, the
Padres were shut out tonight at Corsefield by the Rockies
three to nothing. The Padres also have lost four in
a row to last place teams the Orioles and the
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Rockies tonight, the Dodgers losing to the Pirates, and the
first game in Baltimore tonight, Let's head back to Camden
Yards and the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Tanner Scott
on sports and at LA.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, I definitely made the wrong pitch election all night
and it costs us again. I'm tired of it happening,
as it's kind of Baseball hates me right now.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I know it's frustrating, but can you at least look
at kind of how things can happening. Do you feel
like you're at least for moving in the right direction
and regard to how this stuff is playing and not
kind of being in the same spot in the zones?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, I mean, just keep making terrible pitch elections right
when it matters, and it's it's costing us every time.
So it's it's not fun.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
These kind of close losses just as a team. How
frustrating are these?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
They suck.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
For everyone that threw tonight was great and then for
that to happen, it just sucks.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
It feels terrible, and I have to figure it out
because baseball hates me right now?
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Is there anything we've been trying to work on at
least to kind of get away from this feeling?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Get outs?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And it hasn't worked, So gota keep running.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
All right, there's Tanner Scott. Baseball hates you. Well, you
got to find a way to make baseball love you again.
And that starts with you, Tanner Scott, doesn't start with
anybody else. Make changes as well. We're seeing the same
fastballs in the same area. Oral Herscheizer was saying that
when Tanner Scott came out for the beginning of the
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ninth inning, he is too predictable with where he's throwing
his fastball, and that's been an issue for Tanner Scott
this year. He's not walking as many people. But as
Jose Motis said, maybe what made him effective last year
was his lack of command in some respects because he's
been very much in the strike zone and that's not
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exactly where you always want to be. And he made
a huge mistake with a fastball right down the middle.
Just want to clarify what I said. Since July third,
when the Dodgers had their largest lead in the NL
West of nine games over the Padres they're twenty two
to thirty, not since the beginning of July. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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We're going to take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
We got thirty more minutes to go. We have two
lines open at eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy. You'll also hear from Dave Roberts as he
gave a reluctant update on Will Smith before the game.
We'll let you know where the Dodger catching situation stands
after Dalton Rushing went out of the game and the
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sixth inning after fouling a ball off his right shin.
Will Smith not going to play this series in Baltimore,
so the Dodgers are definitely in a diced predicament when
it comes to their backstop. Orioles walk it off in
the ninth inning against the Dodgers and Tanner Scott two
to one. The final score on a five to seven.
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Speaker 5 (29:07):
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Speaker 16 (29:18):
Orioles won Dodger's nothing. Then's still in the game. Freddie
Freeman swings. It's a high drive center field. Going back
is Cowser to the wall, and it's got.
Speaker 17 (29:30):
On the first pitch of the top of the sixth
that in Freddie Freeman hits a home run the dead
center field, his nineteenth of the year, and that ties
the game at one.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Freddie Freeman with his nineteenth home run of the year,
first home run for Freddy since he went deep twice
in San Diego on August twenty fourth. That was the
only run the Dodgers scored. They only had five hits
in the game, and they go down tonight two to
one in the first of a three game series in Baltimore.
They have lost four in a row to start this
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the Dream. Not only have the Dodgers lost four games
on this road trip, they've also lost two catchers on
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this road trip. Will Smith left his right hand exposed
a couple of nights ago in Pittsburgh and took a
foul ball and it severely bruised his right hand. He
is not going to play this weekend in Baltimore. So
the Dodgers called up a catcher they acquired at the
trade deadline from the Rays, Ben Yortvitt, and he was
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the backup catcher tonight. Even though will Smith was technically
still active. Dave Roberts said before the game, will Smith
wasn't even available to pinch it, so the Dodgers technically
tonight were carrying three catchers, but only two were available.
Dalton Rushing made the start again, and in the top
of the sixth inning, Dalton Rushing filed a ball off
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his right shin and had to be helped off the
field by Dave Roberts and one of the Dodgers trainers.
Dave Roberts said after the game to reporters that Rushing
had X rays. They came back negative, but just like Smith,
Rushing will have to have CT scans tomorrow because, in
Dave's words, he was pretty banged up. So you're going
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to see Ben Rourtvitt make his first start as a
Dodger catcher, catching Yamamoto. And remember in spring training I
was singing the praises of having Chris Oki in the
Dodger organization because he played so well for Mike's Sooshia
and Team USA catching Rich Hill and others in Tokyo
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for the Premiere sixteen. The Dodgers signed him at the
referral of Ron Rennicky dino Ebol and Patrick O'shay, who
was part of the coaching staff for Mikesosha and Chris
Okie would have been an ideal guy to call up
right now, But unfortunately Oki is injured at Triple A
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Oklahoma City. So if Rushing's not available, if Rushing has
to go on the IL, if Will Smith is not
going to be able to play until next weekend in
San Francisco, I mean, there's no guarantees that all of
a sudden the Dodgers are going to say, yeah, Will
Smith is ready to go on Monday. Who do the
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Dodgers turn to to have a second catcher. I know
one guy who's hanging out in Riverside. He was released
by the Dodgers at the beginning of the year. He's
a two time World Series champion. His name's Austin Barnes.
If the Dodgers were put into a corner, would they
call Barnes back? I don't know, but you would hope
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that Will Smith would be able to come back, hopefully
Monday at Dodger Stadium when the Dodgers open up a
three game series against the Rockies. And look the backup
catcher if Will Smith is doing what Will Smith does
is a guy that catches twice a week. He's really
not a huge factor. But here's what Dave Roberts had
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to say about the extent of how Will Smith was
feeling today and the extent of Will Smith's right hand
the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Yeah, I don't know that answer.
Speaker 18 (33:38):
I think that there's a bone bruise like that is
probably going to be there for the remainder of the season.
How much it impedes his swing or throwing, don't know
that answer. But the swelling is just not going to
completely be gone by the season, so I think it'll
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be manageable and I hope it's not too kind of,
you know, affecting.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
All Right, there's a reluctant answer from Dave Roberts before
the game and before Dalton Rushing was helped off the
field in the sixth inning. And also a deep bone
bruise at the very least for Dalton Rushing and his
right leg, his right shin area. And this happened to
Andre Ethier back in twenty sixteen in spring training, first
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at Batist spring training at Salt Rivers Field, felled a
ball off his shin and they took X rays and
they said, oh, he's fine, he's fine. Showed up at
Camelback Ranch the next day on crutches. They finally took
CT scans of Ethier's right leg, right shin area, like
Dalton Rushing, and it revealed, you know, minor fractures in
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that right shin and that whatever bone that is, the tibby,
fibby whatever it is down there. And he was out
for a big part of the season. So there's a
very good chance when they take a CT scan of
Rushing's right leg there may be some microfractures in there
and that would probably put him on the shelf for
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the season. And as far as Will Smith's right hand goes,
will he be able to grip the ball and throw
runners out at the clip that he's been doing, and
will he be able to grip the bat and be
able to catch up the fastballs the way we're used
to seeing Will Smith catch up to fastballs. I mean,
bad speed is a big part of grip's strength. Grip
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strength is a big part of bad speed. And if
Will Smith doesn't have it, is he the same Will Smith?
That I don't know. We'll have to find out. Eight
six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone
number Dodgers fall to the Orioles tonight, two to one.
Let's go out to Sherman Oaks. Greg, you're on Dodger Talk.
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How you doing? Greg?
Speaker 19 (36:00):
Hey, David, I'm doing good man. I'm here to switch
up the tone a little bit because in years past,
you know, the Dodgers are the team going into the playoffs.
They're the guys that everyone's looking to be and then
you've got that hot team that catches us in October
and knocks us out. But it's nice to kind of
be the team that, although we won last year, we
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may not be running away with it like we have
in years past. And who knows, maybe we have a
guy like Keik get hot again, or Tommy come back
to get hot again, and then we kind of run
away within in October. So it's really just a matter
of getting there, which we know we're gonna get there
barring some crazy turnarounds, and as long as we get there,
I think we can do it. So I'd love to
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hear your thoughts on just in October into hopefully November run.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yeah, I mean I said that pretty emphatically last night, Greg.
I believe in these veterans. I believe in the guys
that had the experience of winning the World Series that
they know what it takes to a get there and
be how to navigate it. So yeah, I'm a firm believer,
even with the entry to will Smith, that they will
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find a way to at least give themselves the opportunity
to win an NLCS. I can't guarantee anything other than that,
but I believe they'll be in the NLCS. All right,
thank you for the phone call. Let's go out to
the OC. Lou, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing,
Lou David?
Speaker 14 (37:30):
Thanks for checking my call. All right, I think it's
time we realize that maybe on paper we're really good,
but maybe we're just not that good.
Speaker 11 (37:39):
This year.
Speaker 14 (37:40):
And I say that because if you look at our
lineup this year, and maybe you can enlighten us since
you're part of the team.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I am not part of the team.
Speaker 14 (37:50):
Well you know more, you're more on the inside than
we the fans are, because we get all our information
from you. But my point is, I can't remember a
time when we had two or three hitters in the
bottom of the order hitting less than two hundred. And
that's what's been going on for the last two three months.
And how do you expect to get any momentum when
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the bottom of the order isn't even hitting their own way.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Okay, we're looking at tonight's starting lineup. Kim hitting two
ninety two, rushing one ninety obviously, write what you're saying.
But Rojas hitting two fifty eight, and uh, you know,
Rojas to me has been phenomenal since probably around June
when the Dodgers started leaning on him more. He's sitting
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about two eighty and playing really good defense. So I
know what you're saying. There have been guys at the
bottom third of the order that just haven't been as
good as the bottom third of the order that the
Dodgers had last year, including Gavin Lucks. I feel like
everybody forgets about the contributions of Gavin Lucks. He was
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so good at being the nine hitter for the Dodgers.
He wasn't spectacular. He never reached the potential or the
hype we heard about coming up through the miners, but
he really came into his own in that role last year.
And the Dodgers miss having that type of hitter hitting ninth.
They just haven't had it. And let's not forget Gavin
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Luz had a couple of big walks in the World Series.
If it wasn't for his walks, the line doesn't keep moving.
In Game five, and certainly it took six batters to
get to Freddie Freeman hitting that walk off Grand Slam,
it was Gavin lux that got a walk, a key
walk to start that inning. Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven,
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two five seventy is the phone number. And look, when
Tommy Edmond comes back and Max Munsey comes back, the
Dodger lineup is going to be much deeper. And I'm
expecting the Tom Edmand we saw the second half of
last year. He's another guy the Dodgers extended with a
big contract that really has a and played the way
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we saw him play the second half of last year.
Was it just his right ankle or is there more?
But they're expecting Tommy Edman to be that guy when
he comes back, and that's why they're taking so much.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
I don't want to say precaution, but they are putting
him through a lot to make sure that right ankle
is one hundred percent sound when he comes back because
they don't want to look back and they want Tommy
Edman to be Tommy Edman. So the lineup's gonna look
a lot better. And at that point I wouldn't expect
to see Michael Conforto in left field anymore. I mean,
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it's still a little surprising with twenty one games to
go in September, he's still out there as much as
he is. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Shane.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Shane.
Speaker 12 (40:55):
I'm doing good. I love Dave's Dave Roberts. So I'm
just letting you know. So let's just start there. I
like that, Okay, all right. The other thing is is
I I mean when I used to coach. And I
know I'm not a professional. I get it. But one
of the one of the one things I always told
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my pitcher, you no, ever, I don't care what the
what's going on, you don't ever throw it right down
the middle. Ever. So these guys are professionals, the coaches
are professionals.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
And you're talking about Scott.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
Excuse me, you're.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Talking about Tanner Scott's fastball right down the middle tonight.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (41:38):
That that's just, that's just that's ridiculous right in my
in my mind, I'm trying to be nice, right, but
it's really ridiculous. You you can't do nothing like that whenever. Ever,
I don't care if it's the first game in roll
series or the first game of the season. You can't
throw it down the middle. That's just it.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
That's just And that's what Dave Roberts said after the game.
You've got to expand the strike zone, and for whatever reason,
he didn't. And when you have a catcher that you're
not familiar with and Ben Rourtvett, you've got to take control.
And you're the veteran, you're the guy that the Dodgers paid.
You've got to take control and own your own game
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when you're on the mound. Those are the circumstances you've
got to realize. If you're Tanner Scott, be that guy.
Make baseball love you by doing the right things, and
baseball will love you back.
Speaker 12 (42:30):
I agree with that, and I'm just wondering, you know,
I know this is kind of.
Speaker 6 (42:35):
That was a pathetic answer, by the way. I did
not like that answer. Baseball hates me right now. I mean,
come on, what kind of answer is that?
Speaker 12 (42:44):
Who said that?
Speaker 6 (42:46):
Tanner Scott did?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, I know.
Speaker 19 (42:50):
Can you believe he said that?
Speaker 12 (42:51):
Okay, So I'm just thinking, you know, why is that
hard to maybe call the pitches instead of living It.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Wasn't the wrong pitch. It wasn't the wrong pitch, it
was the wrong location, Shane, I got it wrung. We
got a full board. Eight six six nine eighty seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
to Bob and Malibu. Bob, you're on Dodger Talk with
David vasse Hi. Bob.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Hey, yeah, good to hear for you, you man. Thanks
for letting me on the night. I'm not even gonna
mince words. I'm literally calling the light in the mood.
I've been laughing for twenty four hours straight with my
son Lennon about Aaron's call last night. First of all,
you called him out on Bildsberg.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Was priceless.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
How can you be from Van Eyes and not be
in the mood to say, yeah, I know, Bill's Berger's
and gas lighting. I'm doing a talk show. I'm giving
you my opinion, and it was an opinion that I
firmly believe in. I believe in these veteran players that
actually have World Series rings on their hand.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Well, and you got validated tonight, of course by show Hayes.
He stepped up, as you said earlier, and took the ball.
If that's not the ideal teammate you want to have
the ideal player a coach wants to have it, I
don't know what is. And this guy's trying to rest
all this on shoe Hayes. Shoes can be a great listen.
Try a chili dog or a bacon double cheeseburger a
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Bill buddy, until you call the show next time.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
I love it, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
And yeah, I mean Otani was the epitome of a
team player today. Last minute start for a guy that
is so routine oriented, emergency starter show, Hey Otani, and
then he goes out there and empties the tank. I mean,
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come on, how can anybody question how much this guy
is invested in winning. Let's go out to Irwindale. Mike,
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Good Dave, thanks for taking my call. Much respect for
you and what you do. So yeah, I can think
about earlier this year. Remember when we had like twenty
seven straight games against winning teams and we held our own,
we were able to stand first in the division. So
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and then going forward, does Copeck become our saved person?
And what's the Dodgers record against winning teams versus losing teams?
It's just tough.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yeah, it's just been different since July third, when they
had that nine game lead. It obviously has not looked
the same since then for a variety of different reasons.
But there was some silver lining of hope when they
got their pitching back and they won four in a row.
But they've gone back to their old ways. So look,
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my point is the offense is too good to sputter
the way it has for this long and at some point,
you've got to change some thing. I mean, I know
the hitting coaches put in a lot of hours. I
want to acknowledge that. But at some point, if you're
doing the same thing for hours and hours and it's
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not netting results, don't you have to change a little bit.
You talk about hitters adjusting, maybe the approach needs to adjust.
I gotta run, Mike, thank you for the phone call.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Ken in Newport Beach has been very patient.
He loves, he lives for these type of shows. So Ken,
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go ahead, you'll be our final caller tonight.
Speaker 15 (46:35):
Okay, Well, a couple of things. You brought up some
of the information before the All Star Game and what
the Dodgers' numbers are after from the All Star Game.
The Dodgers are twenty and twenty four. That's twenty sixth
in the major leagues and wins. At that point. You
got to remember they were first in the major leagues
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and the first part of it. So they're now twenty
sticks going twenty and twenty four. There's a lot of
things going on. They're hitting two thirty seven since their
All Star Game, Otani's not been hitting and they desperately
need him. Is hitting like two ten the last fifteen games.
They need somebody to go off and start smacking the ball.
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The problem is you mentioned something about the players can't
continue to make the same mistakes. Does not apply it
to David Roberts. Why would he bring in Taylor? Why
would he bring in this guy who's if that would
have been a tie game?
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Man, I'm confused. Taylor? Who's Taylor? Chris Taylor was not playing.
Speaker 15 (47:41):
No, I'm not talking to say, I don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (47:45):
You're talking about Taylor, Then this guy, I have no
idea who you're talking.
Speaker 15 (47:49):
About, the guy that blew the game.
Speaker 6 (47:52):
The guy that they paid seventy four million dollars to
to be their closer. Come on, Ken, Yes, that's not
on Dave Roberts. That's the players he's been given.
Speaker 15 (48:02):
He's had eight blown saves. If this was a tie game,
he would have said the all time.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
He already had used Blake Trinan. He's going with the matchups,
with the information and the player that is supposed to
be the guy you're telling me Tanner Scott can't get
three outs against the Orioles. Ken, that's gonna be if
he can't. If he can't close out the Orioles, it's
gonna be tough to close out a playoff game. And look,
he made a mistake. He had struck out the first
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two batters. If he strikes out the third one, you're
not calling in second guessing Dave Roberts. Now, by the way, Ken,
I have to say, you've never called in and complimented
Dave Roberts for the way he managed last year or
the playoffs, especially Game five. You never have once done that.
Speaker 15 (48:48):
After it was over, I called up and apologized.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
Oh, okay, that was big of you. Ken. Come on, Ken,
you gotta be fair. For whatever reason you have. You
have disdain for Dave Roberts, which is fine. We don't
always have to love our managers. But be a little
bit more fair. You're a reasonable guy. Be a little
more fair, all right.
Speaker 15 (49:10):
Just one other thing, you know, the Giants have won
ten of eleven.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
I don't care. I don't care, Ken, They're not going
to the playoffs and.
Speaker 15 (49:18):
Getting getting back in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (49:23):
If the Giants. If the Giants get into the postseason,
I'll rent a kayak and be out there in McCovey cove.
Thanks for the phone call, Ken, call back after a
win tomorrow. Like I said, I guarantee a win tomorrow.
Speaker 15 (49:40):
Ken, I hope.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
So all right, thank you for the phone call. I
guarantee you win tomorrow. The Dodger losing streak will come
to an end and we will have Dodger Talk for
you after that. Yamamoto on the mound. He's eleven and
eight with an ERA of two to eighty two, going
up against left hander Trevor Rodgers. He's been pretty good
this year, eight and two with an ERA of one
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thirty nine. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at three o'clock,
first pitch at four oh five, and our special pregame
guest tomorrow will be Steve Garvey, who is the Dodgers
and National League iron Man. That's right, Steve Garvey still
owns the National League record of playing twelve hundred and
seven consecutive games. It started fifty years ago yesterday, So
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Steve Garvey will join us as the Orioles will be
celebrating Cal Ripkin's Major League record of breaking Lou Garriggs
all time consecutive games played streak two thousand, one hundred
and thirty one thirty years ago tomorrow, So I thought
it was appropriate to have the garv on the show
before Tomorrow's game, and we will play the entire conversation
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with you after tomorrow night's game as well. So a
big day in Baltimore. Cal Ripkin and the rest of
the ninety five Oriols are going to be sad when
the Dodgers win that game, but it should be a
great pregame ceremony and our pregame show with Steve Garvey
will be even better. Thanks to calling me back at
our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out in Baltimore.
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Thanks to you for listening, love taking the phone calls,
love the passion, and like I said, I guarantee you
win tomorrow. We'll talk to you then. Kevin Figures and
Adam Ouslin will be on Fox Sports Radio tonight, so
you don't want to miss that once again. The final
score at Camden Yards, the Orioles, thanks to a walk
off home run by Samuel Basaio, beat the Dodgers two
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to one. See them Owayne
One thing about this gem 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 two.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Let's I love writing to these guys out to the show.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Just thank you me are your attention, your fire, and piss.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger world championing.
Speaker 6 (00:21):
For a small song. Time they get a people what
they want to die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 6 (00:28):
One of the con This ball's gone.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
You ready to go.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To the South?
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Grab your phone to get in on the show called
eight six six nine eighty seven two five seven.
Speaker 6 (00:40):
I'll go to the show.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
And now your host of Dodger Talk, David Vasse, what should.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
We talk about tonight? I'm kidding. Dodgers fall to the
Orioles two to one. They are walked off by a
rookie by the name of Saying Well Besio. Scott gives
up his tenth home run of the year and certainly
has not lived up to the expectations everybody had for
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him when the Dodgers signed him, not only in Los
Angeles but across Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers find
another way to lose on this road trip. They have
lost four in a row and they go down tonight
two to one. With twenty one more games left, they
are two games ahead of the San Diego Padres in
the NL West. The Rockies helped the Dodgers out. The
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Padres also have lost four in a row. They were
swept by these Orioles in San Diego, and they lost
tonight and were shut out at Coursefield three to nothing.
So I don't know who's more frustrated, because the Dodgers
could have blown this race wide open over the course
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of the last five days, and instead they are still
just two games ahead of the Padres. And meanwhile, now
San Diego has got to be thoroughly frustrated that the
Dodgers have lost four in a row and so have
they to lesser opponents. So, you know, the one thing
I know, everybody keeps talking about chasing the Phillies. Now
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the Brewers. Come on, who thinks the Dodgers are catching
the Brewers for the number one seed At this point,
it's not happening. And the Phillies won again, So I
believe the Dodgers are now three or four games back
of that number two seed. At this point, it's not
about that. It's about winning a game. Dodgers have got
to string together winning games, and they did that on
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the homestand they won four in a row and then
all of a sudden it started goes. It start a
spiral again, and they've got to pick themselves up again,
and they got a great guy to do it in Yamamoto.
We will hear from Dave Roberts, We will hear from
Freddie Freeman. We have two lines open, so we will
take your phone calls at eight sixty six, nine to
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eight to seven, two five seventy. A lot to get
to tonight, so we may stay on the full hour
because there's a lot to digest, including Dave Roberts given
us an update on Will Smith, and that brings up
Dalton Rushing, who has not had a good road trip either.
Having opportunities to be the starting catcher for the Dodgers,
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he has been an admirer of not home runs that
turn into doubles. He has not blocked balls well, including
tonight before he got hurt. In the bottom of the
fifth inning. Ben Casparius throws a ball that's not spiked
in the dirt but should have been blocked by Dalton rushing. Instead,
Jackson holiday off with the pitch scores all the way
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from second base and then Dalton rushing in the sixth
inning fouls a ball off his right leg, his shin area,
and he was helped off the field by one of
the Dodger trainers and Dave Roberts, and Dave said that
they're going to have CT scans on Dalton rushing. Let's
head back to Baltimore to hear more from manager Dave Roberts.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Yeah, it was. It got him really pretty good. We
had X rays, X rays. Fortunately we're negative. He's going
to get a CT scan tomorrow morning, just to kind
of dig a little deeper on it. Yeah, he's pretty
banged up right now, so I think until we know more,
it's it's obviously he's not going to be in there tomorrow,
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so I guess it's adding him to the day to
day list, and you know, then we'll catch tomorrow. We're
going to bring another casher just to see if there's
a potential.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
I l for Dalton.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
Look at things, are the frustrations building up, the emotions
are building up. With a loss like this, it's a
tough one. I know we've talked about with Tanner Scott,
just that predictability. What do you see from this game?
Because pitching was excellent, It just really was that one
pitch to end the game.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, no, that was I mean I thought tonight he
threw the ball. Well, it was one of those things
that you got count leverage on a guy and you've
got to expand and go for the swing and miss.
And I just thought, right there, he just didn't make
a good pitch and you know the guy put a
good swing on it. But you know, I think in totality,
I thought the stuff was good. But yeah, the one
pitch when you get one two and you make a
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bad pitch, he made us pay.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yes, just two last twenty nine etings.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
You has to play like how does that sort of happen?
Special good names that you have in that planet.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
You know, it's sort of on a repeat right now.
I don't know the answer. I know each day guys
come in fresh prepared and you know, expecting a different result.
But you know, we just haven't been able to string
hits together and put up a crooked number and you know,
get a lead. So again, it's not from lack of effort.
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They're trying, but yeah, we're just not getting it done.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
I'm going to do some of these close losses, especially
when they stack them on each other, kind of take
out of the team. How tough is it to kind
of bounce back from them, especially with kind of the
kind of rut you guys are in right now.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
It's it's certainly tough, but you have to bounce back.
You got to keep fighting and you know, believing that
it's going to turn. And so I've said it. You know,
the last two weeks, no one's gonna feel sorry for you.
So you've got to be a proactive, expect different results,
and keep competing. I mean, we've got to be a
pro and make it happen. And that's all you can do.
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You know, this is our team. We've got guys coming back,
but you know, for the next few days, this is
what we got. And so we've been right off the
guys and you know, expect to score some runs and
win a baseball game.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Okay, there's Dave Roberts and yeah, I love all of that.
I mean that sounds great. That sounds like Tommy Lesorda.
You got to believe when you show up at the ballpark.
But you can't just keep on doing the same thing.
If you're the Dodger offense, you got to your approach.
You got to stop trying to guess at what the
pitcher is going to throw in certain counts. It obviously
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is not working. You've got to look at the game.
You've got to see the spin of the baseball. That's
the way it's been relayed to me by guys that
have done it at a very high level, a Hall
of Fame level, and right now we're not seeing that
from the Dodgers. So that's all well and fine. Competing, yes,
a yes, believing, yes, of course. But if you keep
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doing the same thing that is not providing results, isn't
that the definition of insanity continuing to do the same
thing without the results changing. At some point, the Dodger offense,
the players, the hitting coaches, don't they have to look
in the mirror like pitchers and pitching coaches do and
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figure out, maybe we should change some things, maybe we
should change our approach. And right now it doesn't seem
like they are nine eight seven, two five seventy is
the phone number before we go out to the phone calls,
and we will hear from Freddie Freeman and Tanner Scott
in just a moment. But I want to make a
point about this because we had a guy that said
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he was calling from Van Eyes. He might have been
one of those Midwest transplant trying to chase the La
dream because he had no idea about Bill's Burgers. So
that made me a little suspicious. But nonetheless, neither here
or there about that caller. I want to make the
point about this show. Hey, Otani, My understanding is he
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got a phone call around two thirty Eastern time asking
him if he'd be willing to start the game because
Tyler Glass now reported backstiffness, tightness, whatever you want to
call it. What did Otawni do? Did not hesitate and said, yes,
I'll take the baseball. I am not going to shy
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away from that. That's what the team needs. I'll take
the baseball tonight. Even though he was not scheduled to start,
even though he's a very routine oriented guy, he pitched
three and two third scoreless innings with five strikeouts tonight.
He did his job. Now, I also want to make
the point that last year the Dodgers, when Mooki Betts
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went down asked Otani to lead off. He did and
hit fifty four home runs and stole fifty bases an
incredibly dynamic and once in a lifetime season. This year
he already established he's one of the best leadoff hitters.
Dave Roberts wanted to get Mooki Bets some confidence. Hey,
show Hey, can we have you hit second? So Mokin
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can lead off and see if that jump starts him?
No problem? Will do go ahead? Give him a chance,
and then the Dodgers and Mookie it's not working, Show Hey,
can you go back to leading off? No problem? So
I just want to make the point that it's easy
to say show hey is about show Hey, but the
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results and the facts. He's more about the team than anybody.
And he's the best player on the team. Eight six
six nine seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers get walked off by the Orioles tonight by Samuel Bissio,
who only has fifty Major league at bats. Let's go
out to Don and San Dimas. You're on Dodger Talk
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with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don, Hey, Dave, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Listen? You literally stole my thunder, I mean, first off
Shohey is a unicorn. The dude is one of a
kind and anybody who doesn't think that's true is full
of it. But you know the reason I called you is,
you know, Dave Roberts is literally the definition of insanity.
And like I said, you stole it from me. I
was sitting here thinking about it. But he keeps saying
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the same garbage over and over and over. And you've
got people out there telling him they need to take
a different approach. You've got Jose Mota who's talking about it.
You got Oral Herscheizer who's talking about what the pitchers
are doing. You've got Adrian Gonzalez who saying they're not
taking the right approach. And what do we do the
same thing over and over and then we trot Can
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or Scott out there again expecting a different result. What
do you think is gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
If I'm Dave Roberts don I'm sitting in the hitters
meeting tomorrow, I want to hear exactly what is being
talked about. I know he does a great job of
delegating to his coaches and trusting his coaches, but he
talks about urgency. Uh, there would be a lot of
urgency if the manager was in the hitters meetings and
listening to exactly what they were saying. Trust me, there
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would be a different sense of urgency if he did that.
But yeah, it's not on Dave Roberts. But like I said, uh,
they've got to change something. And it's one thing to
talk about players being held accountable, but the approach has
got to be different as well. Thanks for the phone
called don appreciated eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy. Look, I'm not going as far as to
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say what Tommy Lesorda used to do thirty five years ago,
where when a team was playing like this, he would
go out and coach third base to be the raw
raw kind of somewhat comic relief, but also let them
know that, Okay, you're gonna play like this, I'm going
to embarrass you and coach third base and fire you up.
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I'm not saying Dave Roberts needs to go that far,
because that's not what baseball is or the manager's job
these days. But if I'm Dave Roberts, I want to
hear what's been said in these hitters meetings. I want
to know exactly what the coaches are telling his players
because right now it's not working. Let's go out to
Passo Robliss. Gabriel, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
Gabriel, Hey, David, how are you doing.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I'm getting tired of seeing the Dodgers find different ways
of not reaching their potential.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
I am too. It's frustrating. My main question point I
wanted to bring up is I know David in the
past have said he doesn't really like to mess with
the hitters or kind of tell him what to do.
But don't you think at some point he needs to
just step in or fire them up or do something
about that.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
And just well, I just gave you a suggestion, but
that's realistic. Yeah, I just said, go into those hitter meetings.
Let's hear what they're saying tomorrow. If I'm Dave Roberts,
take control of the team and I know the players,
Miguil Rojas, you heard him yesterday, Gabriel after the game
last night talking about a team meeting. Well, if tonight
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doesn't really force the issue, I don't know what will.
I hope they had a meeting after tonight's game. I
hope if they didn't. They have it when they show
up tomorrow, because everybody needs to be woken up and
realize that they have the chance to do something really special,
do something that nobody since the Jeter Pisada Bernie Williams
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Yankees have ever done, and that's repeated his champions. They
still have those players don't squander the opportunity. So those
are my thoughts on how to just kind of rock
the boat and make people feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 11 (14:08):
I agree with you, David. It's frustrating. It would be
nice to see win one of these days, but you
never know you will.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Gabriel, how about this, I predict a win tomorrow, Gabriel,
We'll have a very celebratory or sire relief Dodger talk tomorrow, Gabriel,
Yamamoto will deliver and the Dodgers will snap. They will
not lose five in a row. I guarantee it, as
Charles Barkley would say, I guarun tee it.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
I agree, I'll stamp it. Thank you, David.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
All right, Gabriel, thank you for the phone call. Eight
sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
phone number Dodgers fall to the Oriels tonight two to one.
Speaking of hitters, the only guy that drove in a
run tonight, he drove in himself. Freddie Freeman, with his
nineteenth home run of the year, tied the game in
the sixth inning. Let's head back to Baltimore to hear
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from Freddy Freeman on Sports Net LA.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Going into every game, we feel confident and good. And
then I mean, I figured you I was gonna get
talked to after this game, and I was trying to
come up with some answers, and sometimes you just don't
have the right answers. I really, I'm just not going
to sit here and give some cliches. We were just
not playing very good. Our pitching was great tonight. Offensively
we were not good. So, uh, there's no sugar cutting this.
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We need to figure this out and figure this out
with like the offensive struggles have been compound in a
sense where like you kind of feel the pressure to
make up for the previous games. Like that about pressure,
I think it's hidding is contagious if like, when you're
going well, things can just go and then when things
aren't going well, things aren't going well. It's I mean,
we didn't really have that many opportunities tonight that would
have been had massive two out hits against ninety on
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our sinker bawlers and.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
All that stuff.
Speaker 9 (15:44):
So just we couldn't really get anything going today and
we haven't for a while. So I truly have no
answers tomorrow. We just kinda come in here and game
playing against River and Rogers and give our best effort
out for imagine.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
Losing this team, losing four straight to the last place team.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Uh, it's just the weight we're losion, you know, It's
it doesn't matter who we're playing. It's I mean, I
mean that's for you guys right last place and stuff.
It's it's just not how we view it. We're just
not scoring runs. It's it's just not who we are.
We're not getting anything going, We're not getting the hits.
It's just you get to the point where it's it's
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glaring and what we need to do. So I mean,
we can sit here after every game and talk about
what we.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Need to do.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
It's just we got to do it. So there's not
like I said there, I mean, we all know what
we have to do in here, and we're better start
doing it quick.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
Or do you have a new appreciation for what Chervintani
can do.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
When he's five hours before.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
The game, well, I mean yeah, and you can see him.
He's he's exhausted after an ending or two.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
It's muggy.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
He's still not healthy, he's still sick and gave it
as all. I mean, it's amazing what he's doing. It's
around one hundred hundred and one. I mean, we can
we'll be We'll be saying this every year. I'll show
Tali until he retires. So he's a unicorn.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
He fished Gray. You gave it all everything you had
in that fourthning to get out of it, and Anthony
got us out of that tube and nothing, nothing to
show for it.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
You guys have talked about, you know, when you look
at the talent in this room expecting at some point
something to turn. Is it getting harder to kind of
keep that faith with the.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Way that That is one thing I don't think any
of us have like a worry about, is the people
in this room. We all are confident in who we
are and who we are as baseball players. We're just
not doing it right now in the field.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
And that's all.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
That's all I can really say.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's just.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Like I said what two days ago, the game of
baseball is extremely hard. The concepts easy, and we're making
the concept really hard right now.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
All right, there's Freddy Freeman, like, I love the way
he approached that, no cliches. I'm just gonna tell you
how I feel. I don't have a lot of answers,
but we got to figure it out. And yeah, hitting
is contagious when you're going good. It's contagious when you're
going bad. It's like a disease in some ways. It
just eats through your lineup. And right now, that's the
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way it is for the Dodgers, unfortunately, as they go
down only with five hits tonight and only score one run.
One of those hits drove in that run, and that
was Freddie's home run leading off the sixth innings. So
frustrated Freddie Freeman, frustrated Dodgers. But they've got to find
a way to change things. You just can't keep doing
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the same thing. There's one thing to stick to your
process as far as preparation. But when it comes to hitting,
if your approach is not working and the guessing game
is not working, don't you have to go to a
point where you're looking for your own strike zone and
you're watching the game and not looking at well, you know,
the sample size shows that this guy's gonna throw like tomorrow,
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Trevor Rodgers on a two to two pitch, he's gonna
throw a fastball. Well, how do you know what he's
gonna do to you? The Dodgers Freddie Freeman is constantly
looking at the pitcher, and Otani and Freeman are pitched
a lot differently. You can't watch and expect Trevor Rodgers
to pitch those two guys the way they would pitch
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Michael Conforto. Sorry, that's just not the way it is.
And I just feel like the Dodgers need to need
to change their approach, and hopefully they do and turn
this around. Like I said, I can't envision the Dodgers
losing another game to a last place team. I know
the Orioles are talented offensively, but I just don't see
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them losing five in a row and being one game
away from being swept by the Pirates. And Orioles on
this road trip eight six, six, nine, seven, two five
seventy is the phone number One more thing that I
agreed with what Freddy said, it's one thing to lose games,
it's the way the Dodgers are losing games that is
not to their standard. Let's go out to the rat
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one eight. Carlos, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Hi Carlos.
Speaker 13 (20:06):
As a going David, So, I you kind of answered
my question that I see just a little while ago
about you know, the things that the team is doing wrong,
because you know, I do wanted to get you know,
your opinion. I think that, you know, like maybe the
coaching staff or Dave, you know, not not taking charge.
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And I and I also think that one of the
reasons maybe there's a lack of urgency on the part
of Dave Roberts is because we got a winning record
and were first place and and you know, just pointing
out that, to me, it seems like that the team
that made that possible in the first third of the season,
it feels like that team is long gone. And I,
you know, as the fast fans, you know, we're we're
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hoping that they can get back to that team they were.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
You know, you hope they get back to that team
they were at the right time, and they have the
players to do that and when they get and Tommy
Edmund back, especially Muncie, it's gonna make a huge difference
for the offense. But right now they've got to grind
through it. I mean, other teams don't have the talent
the Dodgers have as they are right now. You can't
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have an all star at every position, and the Dodgers,
when they're healthy, they almost do. So you got to
find a way to win games with what you have.
You don't have to have an All Star at every
position to win games. I mean, the Orioles just beat
the Dodgers tonight, and the Pirates just swept the Dodgers
in Pittsburgh. So in baseball, it's not always about how
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much talent you have. It's about execution and focus and
you know, finding ways to win games other than you know,
with a slugging percentage.
Speaker 13 (21:48):
Indeed, we'll keep our fingers crossed out here and when
they we're the faithful out here.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
I love it, Carlos, thank you for the phone call.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's
go out to Pacoima. Eddie, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 14 (22:01):
Hi, Eddie, what's up?
Speaker 15 (22:04):
DV.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Hey, you're the best for the beginning to end.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
I just want to say, like I want to reiterate
what Jerry said at the other day.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
On the Post Steve Show on TV was I just
feel that Dodgers are playing uninspired baseball.
Speaker 13 (22:22):
It's something that I know it's kind.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Of cliche, but it's a thing.
Speaker 13 (22:28):
I mean, like you said, he keeps saying to everybody
they have too much talent, and all it takes is.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Maybe one hit, maybe one touch hit.
Speaker 13 (22:37):
And they'll be back on track.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What do you think, DV Yeah, clutch hit would be nice.
They would get some good feelings in that dugout. They
need some good feelings in that dugout. Eddie, thank you
for the phone call, thank you for the love. And
this is so hard to believe, but it's reality. Since
July third, the Dodgers record is twenty two and thirty
The Angels record they're not making in the postseason is
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twenty three and thirty one. The Dodgers are just one
game better record wise than the Angels, and the Dodgers
have not won a game in September yet, so you know, obviously,
whatever has been happening, there's a lot of different moving
parts on why the Dodgers record is twenty two and
thirty since July third. Injuries to their starting staff a
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big reason for you know, all of July. But right
now they're pretty much healthy outside of two players. That's
not an excuse anymore. Sorry, it's not. Health is not
an excuse. You got three of the best players in baseball,
Your starting staff is healthy. You're just not playing well.
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You're thinking you could show up and win. That's how
it feels like. And you know, honestly, some of the
key players the Dodgers signed during the offseason have not
played to what everybody's expectations were for them. Kirby Yates
certainly has shown his age this year. I think we
can all agree on that. Tanner Scott has been a
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shell of himself from a year ago. He only allowed
one home run last year. Tonight it was his tenth
home run, and they're coming late in the game, costing games.
Michael Confordo sitting a buck ninety with ten home runs.
These were guys the Dodgers signed during the off season
that they were counting on for major contributions to fill
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in the roles that they signed them for, and they
haven't panned out. Blake Snell was also hurt for the
first half of the season. That was an ideal. So
all the things the Dodgers were celebrated for during the
off season have not really panned out the way everybody
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thought it would, and that's been a big reason why
they have not been able to continue to play at
a high li level. When guys go down or things
are not going Otani or Mookie Bets or Freddie Freeman's way,
and you know, Mookie Bet says not he's having his
worst offensive season of his career. Nobody saw that coming
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this year. Nobody. So those are some of the reasons
why the Dodgers have struggled for consistency all season long.
But Mooki has turned a season around since the beginning
of August. He's sitting well over three hundred since then,
and hopefully that continues into October. There's only twenty one
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more games left to go in the regular season, and
the Dodgers have a two game lead over the Padres
in the NL. Last in case you missed it, the
Padres were shut out tonight at Corsefield by the Rockies
three to nothing. The Padres also have lost four in
a row to last place teams the Orioles and the
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Rockies tonight, the Dodgers losing to the Pirates, and the
first game in Baltimore tonight, Let's head back to Camden
Yards and the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from Tanner Scott
on sports and at LA.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, I definitely made the wrong pitch election all night
and it costs us again. I'm tired of it happening,
as it's kind of Baseball hates me right now.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I know it's frustrating, but can you at least look
at kind of how things can happening. Do you feel
like you're at least for moving in the right direction
and regard to how this stuff is playing and not
kind of being in the same spot in the zones?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, I mean, just keep making terrible pitch elections right
when it matters, and it's it's costing us every time.
So it's it's not fun.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
These kind of close losses just as a team. How
frustrating are these?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
They suck.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
For everyone that threw tonight was great and then for
that to happen, it just sucks.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
It sucks.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
It feels terrible, and I have to figure it out
because baseball hates me right now?
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Is there anything we've been trying to work on at
least to kind of get away from this feeling?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Get outs?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
And it hasn't worked, So gota keep running.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
All right, there's Tanner Scott. Baseball hates you. Well, you
got to find a way to make baseball love you again.
And that starts with you, Tanner Scott, doesn't start with
anybody else. Make changes as well. We're seeing the same
fastballs in the same area. Oral Herscheizer was saying that
when Tanner Scott came out for the beginning of the
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ninth inning, he is too predictable with where he's throwing
his fastball, and that's been an issue for Tanner Scott
this year. He's not walking as many people. But as
Jose Motis said, maybe what made him effective last year
was his lack of command in some respects because he's
been very much in the strike zone and that's not
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exactly where you always want to be. And he made
a huge mistake with a fastball right down the middle.
Just want to clarify what I said. Since July third,
when the Dodgers had their largest lead in the NL
West of nine games over the Padres they're twenty two
to thirty, not since the beginning of July. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
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We're going to take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
We got thirty more minutes to go. We have two
lines open at eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy. You'll also hear from Dave Roberts as he
gave a reluctant update on Will Smith before the game.
We'll let you know where the Dodger catching situation stands
after Dalton Rushing went out of the game and the
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sixth inning after fouling a ball off his right shin.
Will Smith not going to play this series in Baltimore,
so the Dodgers are definitely in a diced predicament when
it comes to their backstop. Orioles walk it off in
the ninth inning against the Dodgers and Tanner Scott two
to one. The final score on a five to seven.
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Speaker 5 (29:07):
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Speaker 16 (29:18):
Orioles won Dodger's nothing. Then's still in the game. Freddie
Freeman swings. It's a high drive center field. Going back
is Cowser to the wall, and it's got.
Speaker 17 (29:30):
On the first pitch of the top of the sixth
that in Freddie Freeman hits a home run the dead
center field, his nineteenth of the year, and that ties
the game at one.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Freddie Freeman with his nineteenth home run of the year,
first home run for Freddy since he went deep twice
in San Diego on August twenty fourth. That was the
only run the Dodgers scored. They only had five hits
in the game, and they go down tonight two to
one in the first of a three game series in Baltimore.
They have lost four in a row to start this
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the Dream. Not only have the Dodgers lost four games
on this road trip, they've also lost two catchers on
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this road trip. Will Smith left his right hand exposed
a couple of nights ago in Pittsburgh and took a
foul ball and it severely bruised his right hand. He
is not going to play this weekend in Baltimore. So
the Dodgers called up a catcher they acquired at the
trade deadline from the Rays, Ben Yortvitt, and he was
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the backup catcher tonight. Even though will Smith was technically
still active. Dave Roberts said before the game, will Smith
wasn't even available to pinch it, so the Dodgers technically
tonight were carrying three catchers, but only two were available.
Dalton Rushing made the start again, and in the top
of the sixth inning, Dalton Rushing filed a ball off
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his right shin and had to be helped off the
field by Dave Roberts and one of the Dodgers trainers.
Dave Roberts said after the game to reporters that Rushing
had X rays. They came back negative, but just like Smith,
Rushing will have to have CT scans tomorrow because, in
Dave's words, he was pretty banged up. So you're going
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to see Ben Rourtvitt make his first start as a
Dodger catcher, catching Yamamoto. And remember in spring training I
was singing the praises of having Chris Oki in the
Dodger organization because he played so well for Mike's Sooshia
and Team USA catching Rich Hill and others in Tokyo
(31:58):
for the Premiere sixteen. The Dodgers signed him at the
referral of Ron Rennicky dino Ebol and Patrick O'shay, who
was part of the coaching staff for Mikesosha and Chris
Okie would have been an ideal guy to call up
right now, But unfortunately Oki is injured at Triple A
(32:19):
Oklahoma City. So if Rushing's not available, if Rushing has
to go on the IL, if Will Smith is not
going to be able to play until next weekend in
San Francisco, I mean, there's no guarantees that all of
a sudden the Dodgers are going to say, yeah, Will
Smith is ready to go on Monday. Who do the
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Dodgers turn to to have a second catcher. I know
one guy who's hanging out in Riverside. He was released
by the Dodgers at the beginning of the year. He's
a two time World Series champion. His name's Austin Barnes.
If the Dodgers were put into a corner, would they
call Barnes back? I don't know, but you would hope
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that Will Smith would be able to come back, hopefully
Monday at Dodger Stadium when the Dodgers open up a
three game series against the Rockies. And look the backup
catcher if Will Smith is doing what Will Smith does
is a guy that catches twice a week. He's really
not a huge factor. But here's what Dave Roberts had
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to say about the extent of how Will Smith was
feeling today and the extent of Will Smith's right hand
the rest of the season.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Yeah, I don't know that answer.
Speaker 18 (33:38):
I think that there's a bone bruise like that is
probably going to be there for the remainder of the season.
How much it impedes his swing or throwing, don't know
that answer. But the swelling is just not going to
completely be gone by the season, so I think it'll
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be manageable and I hope it's not too kind of,
you know, affecting.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
All Right, there's a reluctant answer from Dave Roberts before
the game and before Dalton Rushing was helped off the
field in the sixth inning. And also a deep bone
bruise at the very least for Dalton Rushing and his
right leg, his right shin area. And this happened to
Andre Ethier back in twenty sixteen in spring training, first
(34:31):
at Batist spring training at Salt Rivers Field, felled a
ball off his shin and they took X rays and
they said, oh, he's fine, he's fine. Showed up at
Camelback Ranch the next day on crutches. They finally took
CT scans of Ethier's right leg, right shin area, like
Dalton Rushing, and it revealed, you know, minor fractures in
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that right shin and that whatever bone that is, the tibby,
fibby whatever it is down there. And he was out
for a big part of the season. So there's a
very good chance when they take a CT scan of
Rushing's right leg there may be some microfractures in there
and that would probably put him on the shelf for
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the season. And as far as Will Smith's right hand goes,
will he be able to grip the ball and throw
runners out at the clip that he's been doing, and
will he be able to grip the bat and be
able to catch up the fastballs the way we're used
to seeing Will Smith catch up to fastballs. I mean,
bad speed is a big part of grip's strength. Grip
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strength is a big part of bad speed. And if
Will Smith doesn't have it, is he the same Will Smith?
That I don't know. We'll have to find out. Eight
six six nine seven two five seventy is the phone
number Dodgers fall to the Orioles tonight, two to one.
Let's go out to Sherman Oaks. Greg, you're on Dodger Talk.
(35:58):
How you doing? Greg?
Speaker 19 (36:00):
Hey, David, I'm doing good man. I'm here to switch
up the tone a little bit because in years past,
you know, the Dodgers are the team going into the playoffs.
They're the guys that everyone's looking to be and then
you've got that hot team that catches us in October
and knocks us out. But it's nice to kind of
be the team that, although we won last year, we
(36:22):
may not be running away with it like we have
in years past. And who knows, maybe we have a
guy like Keik get hot again, or Tommy come back
to get hot again, and then we kind of run
away within in October. So it's really just a matter
of getting there, which we know we're gonna get there
barring some crazy turnarounds, and as long as we get there,
I think we can do it. So I'd love to
(36:43):
hear your thoughts on just in October into hopefully November run.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yeah, I mean I said that pretty emphatically last night, Greg.
I believe in these veterans. I believe in the guys
that had the experience of winning the World Series that
they know what it takes to a get there and
be how to navigate it. So yeah, I'm a firm believer,
even with the entry to will Smith, that they will
(37:09):
find a way to at least give themselves the opportunity
to win an NLCS. I can't guarantee anything other than that,
but I believe they'll be in the NLCS. All right,
thank you for the phone call. Let's go out to
the OC. Lou, you're on Dodger Talk. How you doing,
Lou David?
Speaker 14 (37:30):
Thanks for checking my call. All right, I think it's
time we realize that maybe on paper we're really good,
but maybe we're just not that good.
Speaker 11 (37:39):
This year.
Speaker 14 (37:40):
And I say that because if you look at our
lineup this year, and maybe you can enlighten us since
you're part of the team.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I am not part of the team.
Speaker 14 (37:50):
Well you know more, you're more on the inside than
we the fans are, because we get all our information
from you. But my point is, I can't remember a
time when we had two or three hitters in the
bottom of the order hitting less than two hundred. And
that's what's been going on for the last two three months.
And how do you expect to get any momentum when
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the bottom of the order isn't even hitting their own way.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Okay, we're looking at tonight's starting lineup. Kim hitting two
ninety two, rushing one ninety obviously, write what you're saying.
But Rojas hitting two fifty eight, and uh, you know,
Rojas to me has been phenomenal since probably around June
when the Dodgers started leaning on him more. He's sitting
(38:36):
about two eighty and playing really good defense. So I
know what you're saying. There have been guys at the
bottom third of the order that just haven't been as
good as the bottom third of the order that the
Dodgers had last year, including Gavin Lucks. I feel like
everybody forgets about the contributions of Gavin Lucks. He was
(38:58):
so good at being the nine hitter for the Dodgers.
He wasn't spectacular. He never reached the potential or the
hype we heard about coming up through the miners, but
he really came into his own in that role last year.
And the Dodgers miss having that type of hitter hitting ninth.
They just haven't had it. And let's not forget Gavin
(39:21):
Luz had a couple of big walks in the World Series.
If it wasn't for his walks, the line doesn't keep moving.
In Game five, and certainly it took six batters to
get to Freddie Freeman hitting that walk off Grand Slam,
it was Gavin lux that got a walk, a key
walk to start that inning. Eight six, six, nine, eight, seven,
(39:41):
two five seventy is the phone number. And look, when
Tommy Edmond comes back and Max Munsey comes back, the
Dodger lineup is going to be much deeper. And I'm
expecting the Tom Edmand we saw the second half of
last year. He's another guy the Dodgers extended with a
big contract that really has a and played the way
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we saw him play the second half of last year.
Was it just his right ankle or is there more?
But they're expecting Tommy Edman to be that guy when
he comes back, and that's why they're taking so much.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:16):
I don't want to say precaution, but they are putting
him through a lot to make sure that right ankle
is one hundred percent sound when he comes back because
they don't want to look back and they want Tommy
Edman to be Tommy Edman. So the lineup's gonna look
a lot better. And at that point I wouldn't expect
to see Michael Conforto in left field anymore. I mean,
(40:39):
it's still a little surprising with twenty one games to
go in September, he's still out there as much as
he is. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Shane.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Shane.
Speaker 12 (40:55):
I'm doing good. I love Dave's Dave Roberts. So I'm
just letting you know. So let's just start there. I
like that, Okay, all right. The other thing is is
I I mean when I used to coach. And I
know I'm not a professional. I get it. But one
of the one of the one things I always told
(41:16):
my pitcher, you no, ever, I don't care what the
what's going on, you don't ever throw it right down
the middle. Ever. So these guys are professionals, the coaches
are professionals.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
And you're talking about Scott.
Speaker 12 (41:32):
Excuse me, you're.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
Talking about Tanner Scott's fastball right down the middle tonight.
Speaker 14 (41:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (41:38):
That that's just, that's just that's ridiculous right in my
in my mind, I'm trying to be nice, right, but
it's really ridiculous. You you can't do nothing like that whenever. Ever,
I don't care if it's the first game in roll
series or the first game of the season. You can't
throw it down the middle. That's just it.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
That's just And that's what Dave Roberts said after the game.
You've got to expand the strike zone, and for whatever reason,
he didn't. And when you have a catcher that you're
not familiar with and Ben Rourtvett, you've got to take control.
And you're the veteran, you're the guy that the Dodgers paid.
You've got to take control and own your own game
(42:17):
when you're on the mound. Those are the circumstances you've
got to realize. If you're Tanner Scott, be that guy.
Make baseball love you by doing the right things, and
baseball will love you back.
Speaker 12 (42:30):
I agree with that, and I'm just wondering, you know,
I know this is kind of.
Speaker 6 (42:35):
That was a pathetic answer, by the way. I did
not like that answer. Baseball hates me right now. I mean,
come on, what kind of answer is that?
Speaker 12 (42:44):
Who said that?
Speaker 6 (42:46):
Tanner Scott did?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, I know.
Speaker 19 (42:50):
Can you believe he said that?
Speaker 12 (42:51):
Okay, So I'm just thinking, you know, why is that
hard to maybe call the pitches instead of living It.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Wasn't the wrong pitch. It wasn't the wrong pitch, it
was the wrong location, Shane, I got it wrung. We
got a full board. Eight six six nine eighty seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
to Bob and Malibu. Bob, you're on Dodger Talk with
David vasse Hi. Bob.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Hey, yeah, good to hear for you, you man. Thanks
for letting me on the night. I'm not even gonna
mince words. I'm literally calling the light in the mood.
I've been laughing for twenty four hours straight with my
son Lennon about Aaron's call last night. First of all,
you called him out on Bildsberg.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Was priceless.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
How can you be from Van Eyes and not be
in the mood to say, yeah, I know, Bill's Berger's
and gas lighting. I'm doing a talk show. I'm giving
you my opinion, and it was an opinion that I
firmly believe in. I believe in these veteran players that
actually have World Series rings on their hand.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Well, and you got validated tonight, of course by show Hayes.
He stepped up, as you said earlier, and took the ball.
If that's not the ideal teammate you want to have
the ideal player a coach wants to have it, I
don't know what is. And this guy's trying to rest
all this on shoe Hayes. Shoes can be a great listen.
Try a chili dog or a bacon double cheeseburger a
(44:21):
Bill buddy, until you call the show next time.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
I love it, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
And yeah, I mean Otani was the epitome of a
team player today. Last minute start for a guy that
is so routine oriented, emergency starter show, Hey Otani, and
then he goes out there and empties the tank. I mean,
(44:44):
come on, how can anybody question how much this guy
is invested in winning. Let's go out to Irwindale. Mike,
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Mike?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Good Dave, thanks for taking my call. Much respect for
you and what you do. So yeah, I can think
about earlier this year. Remember when we had like twenty
seven straight games against winning teams and we held our own,
we were able to stand first in the division. So
(45:15):
and then going forward, does Copeck become our saved person?
And what's the Dodgers record against winning teams versus losing teams?
It's just tough.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yeah, it's just been different since July third, when they
had that nine game lead. It obviously has not looked
the same since then for a variety of different reasons.
But there was some silver lining of hope when they
got their pitching back and they won four in a row.
But they've gone back to their old ways. So look,
(45:50):
my point is the offense is too good to sputter
the way it has for this long and at some point,
you've got to change some thing. I mean, I know
the hitting coaches put in a lot of hours. I
want to acknowledge that. But at some point, if you're
doing the same thing for hours and hours and it's
(46:10):
not netting results, don't you have to change a little bit.
You talk about hitters adjusting, maybe the approach needs to adjust.
I gotta run, Mike, thank you for the phone call.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. Ken in Newport Beach has been very patient.
He loves, he lives for these type of shows. So Ken,
(46:32):
go ahead, you'll be our final caller tonight.
Speaker 15 (46:35):
Okay, Well, a couple of things. You brought up some
of the information before the All Star Game and what
the Dodgers' numbers are after from the All Star Game.
The Dodgers are twenty and twenty four. That's twenty sixth
in the major leagues and wins. At that point. You
got to remember they were first in the major leagues
(46:58):
and the first part of it. So they're now twenty
sticks going twenty and twenty four. There's a lot of
things going on. They're hitting two thirty seven since their
All Star Game, Otani's not been hitting and they desperately
need him. Is hitting like two ten the last fifteen games.
They need somebody to go off and start smacking the ball.
(47:19):
The problem is you mentioned something about the players can't
continue to make the same mistakes. Does not apply it
to David Roberts. Why would he bring in Taylor? Why
would he bring in this guy who's if that would
have been a tie game?
Speaker 6 (47:36):
Man, I'm confused. Taylor? Who's Taylor? Chris Taylor was not playing.
Speaker 15 (47:41):
No, I'm not talking to say, I don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (47:45):
You're talking about Taylor, Then this guy, I have no
idea who you're talking.
Speaker 15 (47:49):
About, the guy that blew the game.
Speaker 6 (47:52):
The guy that they paid seventy four million dollars to
to be their closer. Come on, Ken, Yes, that's not
on Dave Roberts. That's the players he's been given.
Speaker 15 (48:02):
He's had eight blown saves. If this was a tie game,
he would have said the all time.
Speaker 6 (48:07):
He already had used Blake Trinan. He's going with the matchups,
with the information and the player that is supposed to
be the guy you're telling me Tanner Scott can't get
three outs against the Orioles. Ken, that's gonna be if
he can't. If he can't close out the Orioles, it's
gonna be tough to close out a playoff game. And look,
he made a mistake. He had struck out the first
(48:28):
two batters. If he strikes out the third one, you're
not calling in second guessing Dave Roberts. Now, by the way, Ken,
I have to say, you've never called in and complimented
Dave Roberts for the way he managed last year or
the playoffs, especially Game five. You never have once done that.
Speaker 15 (48:48):
After it was over, I called up and apologized.
Speaker 6 (48:51):
Oh, okay, that was big of you. Ken. Come on, Ken,
you gotta be fair. For whatever reason you have. You
have disdain for Dave Roberts, which is fine. We don't
always have to love our managers. But be a little
bit more fair. You're a reasonable guy. Be a little
more fair, all right.
Speaker 15 (49:10):
Just one other thing, you know, the Giants have won
ten of eleven.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
I don't care. I don't care, Ken, They're not going
to the playoffs and.
Speaker 15 (49:18):
Getting getting back in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (49:23):
If the Giants. If the Giants get into the postseason,
I'll rent a kayak and be out there in McCovey cove.
Thanks for the phone call, Ken, call back after a
win tomorrow. Like I said, I guarantee a win tomorrow.
Speaker 15 (49:40):
Ken, I hope.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
So all right, thank you for the phone call. I
guarantee you win tomorrow. The Dodger losing streak will come
to an end and we will have Dodger Talk for
you after that. Yamamoto on the mound. He's eleven and
eight with an ERA of two to eighty two, going
up against left hander Trevor Rodgers. He's been pretty good
this year, eight and two with an ERA of one
(50:02):
thirty nine. Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at three o'clock,
first pitch at four oh five, and our special pregame
guest tomorrow will be Steve Garvey, who is the Dodgers
and National League iron Man. That's right, Steve Garvey still
owns the National League record of playing twelve hundred and
seven consecutive games. It started fifty years ago yesterday, So
(50:27):
Steve Garvey will join us as the Orioles will be
celebrating Cal Ripkin's Major League record of breaking Lou Garriggs
all time consecutive games played streak two thousand, one hundred
and thirty one thirty years ago tomorrow, So I thought
it was appropriate to have the garv on the show
before Tomorrow's game, and we will play the entire conversation
(50:51):
with you after tomorrow night's game as well. So a
big day in Baltimore. Cal Ripkin and the rest of
the ninety five Oriols are going to be sad when
the Dodgers win that game, but it should be a
great pregame ceremony and our pregame show with Steve Garvey
will be even better. Thanks to calling me back at
our Burbank studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out in Baltimore.
(51:15):
Thanks to you for listening, love taking the phone calls,
love the passion, and like I said, I guarantee you
win tomorrow. We'll talk to you then. Kevin Figures and
Adam Ouslin will be on Fox Sports Radio tonight, so
you don't want to miss that once again. The final
score at Camden Yards, the Orioles, thanks to a walk
off home run by Samuel Basaio, beat the Dodgers two
(51:39):
to one. See them Owayne
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