September 7, 2025 • 46 mins
DV takes your calls after the Dodgers lose in stunning fashion to the Orioles, 4-3. Blake Treinen talks about his disastrous 9th inning. Ben Rodverdt talks about Yoshinobu Yamamoto's incredible start.
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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.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Let's not play one on too. Let's I love writing
these guys out the shows. Thank you, give me, are.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Your attention, your fires?
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger, world championing for a.
Speaker 6 (00:21):
Small soft time to get a people what they want to.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 7 (00:28):
One of the come this ball's gone. You ready to
show to the south, grab your phone.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
To get in on the show called eight six six,
nine eighty seven two five seven. I'll go to the show,
and now your host of Dodger Talk, David Basse.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
I don't know if this is rock bottom or not,
but it's one of the most disappointing, frustrating, unimaginable endings
to a Dodger game since I've been hosting Dodger. The Orioles,
who were one out away from being no hit by
Yamamoto tonight, come back to score four runs in the
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ninth inning to beat the Dodgers and hand them their
fifth straight loss. The Dodgers have lost seven of their
last eight, and Yamamoto certainly deserved a better faith than
what took place tonight. After he walked off that mound
to a standing ovation at Camden Yards. We will go
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back to Baltimore to hear from Blake Trining and also
the catcher tonight, Ben Rourtvitt, who caught a really good
game and did a great job of being a presence
behind the plate for Yamamoto. You know that picture catcher
relationship is big and tonight Han short notice. I mean,
these two guys don't know each other really well. Yortvit
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and Yamamoto were definitely in sync. A lot had to
do with Yamamoto himself, who went eight and two thirds
innings tonight, allowed just one home run at Jackson Holiday
in the ninth inning with two outs to break up
the shutout and the no hitter. Yamamoto threw a major
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league high one hundred and twelve pitches for him and
he was on the verge of throwing his third professional
no hitter. He had thrown two in Japan in twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three, and he was one
out away from doing it in Major League baseball. Just
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a disappointing night for him and the Dodgers. And look,
I'm not going to make any overstatements tonight because there
are twenty games left in the season, but this is
one of the most disappointing and frustrating losses I can
remember in the regular season for the Dodgers. And I
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was a little surprised that Dave Roberts did not have
Tanner Scott or maybe even Jack Dryer, who has pitched
the last two nights and threw eighteen pitches last night,
not ready when he saw Blake Trinon did not have
it and he talked about the least she gave Trinan.
It's not Blake Trinon's game. It's the team's game. The
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Dodgers needed that game. And you talk about urgency, it
starts with the manager. Manager's got to manage with urgency.
Can't be taking Dalton rushing out of a game where
you're down only five to nothing in the seventh inning.
You gotta have the left he ready, one of your
lefties ready for Cowser because things are not going Blake
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Trinon's way. And this is not on Dave Roberts. By
no means am I saying this loss is on Dave Roberts.
But that ninth inning, it could have been managed differently.
It could have been played differently, Andy Paez, are you
kidding me? You're playing a ball off the short wall
and right field at Camden Yards in a no hitter.
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I can remember in Miami, Rich Hill had a no
hitter going in the seventh inning in Miami and Yasio
Puiga all is laying out to try to preserve a
no hitter. Andy Piez is playing that ball that Jackson
Holiday hit barely to the top of the wall as
a double with a no hitter. I don't care if
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it's ten feet over. You better get to the wall
and make an effort. The double means nothing. That was disappointing.
And Andy Piez as well, And you may talk about
you know, field presence, field awareness, Well, all you have
to do is take a look back and understand where
you're standing, where you're positioned, and where is the tall
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wall starting, and where you're at when you're going back
to the wall. All you have to do is take
a quick look back. It's not that hard. You're a
major league outfielder. That was poor, poor effort by Andy Piez.
Poor effort. Take a look at Major League Baseball's Instagram
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Blaze Alexander of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Arizona Diamondbacks are
going nowhere, and this guy has his glove three rows
into the left field stands, robbing a home run. Where
is Andy Pajz. Eight six six nine eight seven two
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five seventy is the phone number. By the way, the
Dodger offense, they could have been able to blow this
game open and really given Yamamoto a lot more breathing room.
They left eight men on base and we're three for
fourteen with runners in scoring position. So let's not act
like the Dodger offense was all of a sudden cured
tonight and the bullpen just blew it. That's not what
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took place tonight. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back to
Baltimore right now to hear from an ineffective blake trining tonight.
He threw twenty two pitches, nine of them were strikes.
He hit a batter, he walked to, gave up a double,
and just completely let things unravel and gave the Oriole
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hitters too much credit.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Obviously, command there's really no words you know, you're paid
to be a professional and at least throw strikes, and
I didn't do that. And because one of the better
outings I've ever seen in my career with him on
the he deserves better than that. Offense deserves better than that,
and it just really sucks to be on that end
of it. Put Danner in a tough position to come in,
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you know, where he's keyhold to have throw strikes, great pitches,
and iigley hitters are gonna find a way to move
move runners. So that's a pretty pretty low point for
me coming off the hills of you know, kind of
a tough stretch right here, but I gotta I gotta
be better.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
So how different it was just the when you're warming
up and the no hitters going on?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Like how different is it kind of preparing for an
outing like that?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
And does that kind of change things when you get
on the mound And.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've oddly enough, I've had to do it once before,
back at eighteen sean and I so I kind of
understand to like pace myself. There's really that's not an
excuse for hover perform. It's just I just gotta be better.
Throw the threst strikes what are judgments are you're trying
to make there when you realize that the command is off,
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find a big part of the plate and tell them
to hit it. I mean, if the first guy get
up ahead, it's like, you know, just forcing to put
the ball in play and look them get themselves out.
But doesn't work when you walk a guy and then
you hit someone, and then you walk another guy, and
all of a sudden, when he runs on second and
we put somebody else in a position that they shouldn't
have to be in. I have to get one flipping out.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
I didn't do it all right. There's Blake training. Always
stand up and look. You have to ask the question,
is Blake trying still feeling the residual effects of being
pushed to the limits in last year's postseason. It has
happened countless times to other pitchers. We have seen it
happen to Evan Phillips. We have seen it happened to
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Blake Trinan even earlier this year as he went on
the IL with an arm injury. It happens, it happens.
There are certain pictures that are never the same after
being pushed to the limits in October, and that's a
question that the Dodgers need to answer themselves. But you
know everybody's you know, pulling the ripcord on Tanner Scott
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Tanner Scott. I thought he was a dominant elite reliever.
If he is, he should have been able to get
a strikeout of a guy by the name of Emmanuel Rivera.
I don't know why he's being left off the hook here.
He's given up two walk off hits in the last
two nights. I'm not saying Blake Trinon did him any favors,
but come on eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
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five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Rick and Woodland Hills. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Rick?
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Hey, I just wanted to talk about Dave Roberts. He
should have left Yamoto in.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
At one hundred and twelve pitches after giving up the
no hitter, Rick, that's a.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
For a guy, but you know, you know, he should
have were got Moto in it.
Speaker 12 (09:24):
He did it.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
You know, he was doing really good. He could have left.
He was at a home run.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
He was, and obviously I'm not you know, that would
have been an aggressive move by Dave Roberts, but considering
how shaky his bullpen has been this year, you know,
that's an argument to be made, Rick, So I'm not
gonna shoot that down. Thank you for the phone call.
Let's go out to Elijah, who was at Camden Yards tonight. Elijah,
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were you in Baltimore tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yes, I was, DV DV. We spoke two years ago.
I don't know if you're but you were there and
you had like the little cheering crowd and we were
rooting your name.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I do remember that. I forgot about that, but you
just reminded me. I do remember that. That was after
the Dodgers clinched in twenty nineteen. I believe in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was yeah, yeah, So it was uh yeah. I
was there, pins and needles the whole night through. My
family was there. It was uh yeah. I don't know what.
I'm not going to get into all the you know,
wee can out of our fresh time.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I want to get a first hand account of what
the feeling was like in the stands, Elijah, as that
ninth Inning was starting and unraveling. Describe the section around you,
how they were feeling when Holiday hit that home run
and after it all unraveled on the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I'm going to tell you this because you've pointed this
out through I listen. You know, I live in DC now,
so I count on you. I appreciate you tremendously. So
it's every other team's World Series, right, talked about that,
And tonight the stadium was so flat, good amount of
Dodger fans, but a lot more Oriol fans were there
because why the Dodgers were there? Nothing all But then
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all of a sudden after that home run. Now every
Oriol fan screaming, you know, gos go. So yeah, it was.
It was an interesting I don't know, I don't know.
It's heartbreaking. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. It was heartbreaking. It's
heartbreaking for Yamamoto. He deserved a lot better fate. Elijah,
thanks a lot for calling in and thanks for the love.
Appreciated certainly, Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Dv all Right, Elijah was at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
I do remember that better times at Camden Yards in
twenty nineteen when Cody Bellinger and the rest of the
crew clinched the NL West at the beginning of September
that year. But yeah, it's just the reason why there
were so many Orioles fans there tonight. It wasn't partly
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because of the Dodgers. For sure, Saturday night in Baltimore,
Dodgers are in town, but also they were honoring the
thirtieth anniversary of Cal Ripken Junior twenty one thirty one
breaking Lou Garrick streak, So that was part of it too.
Let's go out to Santa Monica. Ross, You're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing? Ross?
Speaker 13 (12:18):
Hey, I just want to talk to you about the
Dodgers tonight with just another example of how the Dodgers
show no heart, no focus, and no leadership. And I'm
fourteen and I know not to go to Canna Scott
in any leverage situation anymore.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
So when would you pitch Tanner Scott fifth inning, sixth inning? Never,
never again, never again. He's got three more years on
his contract, Ross, Not for a while. Okay, thank you
for the phone call, Ross, love the passion, and I
know you're upset, but look, twenty more games to go,
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and the Dodgers hopefully can use this to catapult themselves
back to where they expect them to be and where
you expect them to be.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Have one more question, Where was Beckie on the bullpen tonight?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
What's that he available?
Speaker 13 (13:08):
Where was Becky? What's he available for tonight?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He was not available. He's on the IL. He's coming
back on Monday. So no, he was not available. And look,
I was thinking Jack Dryer, but if you look at
his usage, he had pitched each of the last two
nights through eighteen pitches last night. So are you gonna
pitch Dryer three straight games? I would have. I mean,
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you're expecting him to be able to have a clean
inning at this point. My level of trust is a
lot higher in Jack Dryer than it is and Tanner Scott.
I'm sorry, that's the reality of it. Forget about contract,
forget about salary. Jack Dryer, to me is the best
active reliever the Dodgers have right now. Eight six six
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eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to West Covina. Rico, you're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, Rico?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Good?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Good?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Good?
Speaker 12 (14:04):
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I've been better? Rico?
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah, I know. I was watching the game and I
felt I was hit by a truck. To be honest
with you. I'm sixty two and I've been I lived
my whole life just looking at Dodger games. Was a
you know, big time season ticket holder. And this is
the worst loss I think I've ever experienced with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And in the regular season, y oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
Yeah, in the regular season, of course, I mean, aside
from the from from our World Series loss, but this
one here, it's it's really hard to kind of absorb,
you know, after Yamamoto is pitching such a great, great game,
and you know, I want to start off with accountability,
if you don't mind. And I know you guys have
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been bringing this up, but I've been playing it back.
You know that home run that the from the oreo said,
and and I think that Pagaz could have caught it.
I really think he could have. Yeah. And I think
the effort.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Close, even if it hits the glove and bounces out,
it's better than the way he played it.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
And then and then the other thing too, is that,
you know, I think the accountability from management, I think
they got to start looking at uh, you know, uh
Mark Pryor and the pitching coach and the and the
hitting coach. So that they could start, you know, analyzing
what are they doing? You know, I know that, you know,
the players are practicing their their butts off, but they're
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not getting any better. I mean, right now we're we're
we're like the last place teams that we're playing against.
And then and then, well, I do.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Agree with you Rico about the hitting coaches and Dave
Roberts mentioned this before the game. The approach has got
to change. I mean, this Dodger offense is reeling right now.
They need some direction. But for Mark Pryor, I mean,
what's he gonna do with a veteran like Blake Trining.
Blake Trnon knows himself better than anything Mark Prior could
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tell him. Tanner Scott, he needs to be better. I
mean that's plain and simple. He needs to be better.
Mark Pryor can't be on the mound for those guys.
Thanks for the phone call. Rico appreciated Dodgers fault tonight
four to three. After Yamamoto had a no hitter with
two outs in the ninth inning, he gave up a
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home run that just barely scraped the wall in right field.
The short wall in right field by Jackson Holiday and
Dave Roberts decided to take Yamamoto out after that one
hundred and twelve pitches. He thought Blake trining could get
the final out. He could not, could not get an
out that in that ninth inning, and just a disappointing
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night as Blake Trinan had had traffic from the very
moment that he came to the mound. He came to
the mound, gave up, double locked, a couple of batters
hit a batter, and that's when Dave Roberts brought in
Tanner Scott, and Tanner Scott was warming up too late
to be able to be ready to face the left
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handed hitting Colton Towser. Instead, he was brought in to
face the right hander and Manuel Rivera. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers lose a
disappointing game tonight four to three in Baltimore. Let's go
out to North Hollywood. Sergio, you believe as well that
Yamamoto should have been left in at one hundred and
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twelve pitches.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yeah, he's got to finish it, and he just has
to finish the mission on that one. You know, the
Japanese fans are just fantastic. This was more than just
Los Angeles Dodger fans and Japanese fans, and what a
great way to have a complete game, which you don't
see often and I rarely do.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And for him to be able to do.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
This as a as a fantastic Japanese pitcher and for
the fans in jip hand, it would have been fantastic.
And one hitter would have been fantastic. One hundred and
twelve pitches is a lot. He had five more pitches
in him. His movement was incredible, as velocity was there.
I mean, that's just a shame. And then to have
Blake try to come in and try to close it down.
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He's just a little bit shaky.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
So I didn't like he hasn't been himself all year.
He hasn't been himself all year.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I agree with you, and I was.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
And then one more point and I'll let you go
for these other colors that are so knowledgeable. This is
my first time calling. Oh think, Okay, I'm in my
recliner watching the game and just all pumped up.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
With what's the better half?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
And I'm on my recliner just like Andy Piez was
watching that ball that he could have caught that he
could have caught, and David's very frustrating to watch it.
I was like, what is he doing? He needs to
go after that ball and save.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
This no hitter or give it every effort, give it
every effort to save the no hitter. He did not,
He had no idea what he was doing. He obviously
didn't care about the situation, and just a really disappointing Sergio.
A lack of hunger, that's for sure. Eight six six
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nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers fall to the Orioles four to three. We have
a full board of calls, as you can imagine. I
will get to all of you, and we also will
head back down to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from
tonight's catcher Ben Rortvitt, who certainly did a very good
job of not getting in the way of Yamamoto tonight
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as he was one out a way from a no hitter.
It did not happen, and neither did a Dodger win,
as they fall four to three in Baltimore tonight on
a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
On air at AM five seventy online at am five
seventy LA sports dot com and available by podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
One and one.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
The stretch, the kick, the pitch, swing on basehead, center field,
time run scores. Here comes Mateo. The Orioles have locked
off the Dodgers for the second straight night and spoiled
and otherwise tremendous night for Yamamoto. The Dodgers have now
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lost five.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
And Manuel Rivera the hero for the Orioles as they
score four runs in the ninth inning after not having
a hit for eight and two thirds of this game tonight,
and the Dodgers fall four to three to the Orioles.
That was Tanner Scott giving up the walkoff base hit
for the second straight night. Last night gave up a
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walkoff home run, and the Dodgers have lost seven of
their last eight. They are going to lose a game
in the standings to the Padres because they are going
to snap their losing streak if they already haven't against
the Rockies at corps Field. David Vasse Dodger Talk with
you until nine o'clock tonight at eight six six nine
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I was feeling so good about myself, not only a win,
but a no hitter. I mean, I was going to
have a lot of street cred with you. But the
Dodgers ruined my street cred with the way they gave
that game up in the ninth inning. And here's something
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also that's funny. I just started reading David Cohnees's autobiography
and it starts out with him in the Yankees dugout
bathroom during the final inning of his perfect game in
nineteen ninety nine against the Expos and he said that
he looked in the mirror in the bathroom right around
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the corner from the Yankees dugout and was talking to
himself in the mirror and saying, don't you blow this,
don't you blow this? And I thought it was somewhat ironic.
I started reading the book and it starts with him
talking about the perfect game and Yamamoto is one out
away from a no hitter. All those things were going
through my mind, and then I was thinking about a
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few other things. By the time the game ended tonight,
let's head back to Baltimore and here from tonight's catcher,
Ben Rourtvitt, the new Dodger that was called up just
the other day.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Yeah, tonight was awesome. Fantastic effort by him, fantastic effort
all around by everybody, coaching, staff, players in the field.
Everyone played a part in that. Doing a homework, doing
a homework. I faced these guys over the past three
years a lot, so I kind of have a feel
for some guys their lineup, So obviously pitching off his strengths,
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trying to do my best just to stay in tune
with him and kind of just try to wave so okay, So.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like just trying to get used to catching out motive
for the first time, and especially when you kind of
realized that what he's kind of doing out there of
the course of the outing.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Yeah, I think, uh, first time kind of helped with
kind of this game and how it went. I think
I was just so focused on trying to be on
the same page with them, I kind of loss in it,
but yeah, I just wanted to do the best effort
to put some position to win, and obviously you today
it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
All right. That was tonight's starting catcher for the Dodgers,
newcomer Ben Rourtfitt, who the Dodgers acquired at the trade deadline.
They traded Hunter Fiducca to the Rays and a separate trade,
so Roortfitt was the starting catcher with Dalton Rushing. By
the way, going on the il before today's game, he
did have CT scans and they came back clean, but
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obviously not well enough to play tonight, and the Dodgers
needed a backup catcher. And I found out what was
going on with Chris Okie, our friend Alex Friedman down
in Oklahoma City. Let me know, Okie was hit by
a pitch in the face and just is recovering from
no surgery a couple of days ago, or he would
have been the guy that was called up instead of
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Charlie Robinson from Oklahoma City. Eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers lose
a heartbreaker tonight four to three after Yamamoto pitched his
heart out and had a no hitter with two outs
in the ninth inning, but not only does not complete,
it does not even get the win. Can you believe that.
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Let's go out to Manny in downtown. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Manny, Hey, what's going on DV? This has to be
one of the most demoralizing losses for me personally as
a fan during the regular season, from the highest of
the highest being one out away from you know, a
no hitter blowing the game at the end of the
game to a walkoff home runs for the other team
with two outs, mind you, So that was tough.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
To swallow on tough to watch.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
But I gotta give credit to Yoshiobu. I thought he
was amazing. And this is the reason why you pay
a guy from Japan with his type of resume the
type of money he got in the offseason, because this
guy knows how to deliver and he's a definition of
a dog. And he will bounce back. He will bounce
back from this, that's for sure. But the team meets
a rally a little bit stronger for you know, bullpen
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wise and whatnot, because you just can't go out there
after that kind of performance and throw those kind of
pitches to those guys. You have to close the game down.
So a part of me is happy that Yoshinobugado as
far as he did, but my heart was ripped out
at the same time. So tough loss as a fan. Yeah,
this one seems a little bit dbe I'm gonna be
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tossing a little bit tonight, no.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Doubt, Manny, no doubt. I think you speak for the
rest of the fans in Los Angeles and around the
world that we're rooting for Yamamoto and the Dodgers to
win this game for him. And you know, the guy
that I was thinking about and they showed him during
the sports Net LA telecast was Sho hey O Tani.
He was right there top step waiting to run out
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there to embrace Yamamoto if he was able to complete
the no hitter. And as that Camden Yards crowd was
giving Yamamoto a standing ovation as he was coming off
the map. Tonight forty two thousand, six hundred and twelve,
Otani was leading those cheers. I mean, I've interviewed Otani
after he's had a great game, and Yamamoto pitched a
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great game, and no matter what I ask about him,
he always started off the answer praising Yamamoto. So he
really was pulling for Yamamoto tonight. And I think the
guy that is the second most disappointed for Yamamoto is
show hey Otani tonight. Let's go out to Redondo Beach. Steve,
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you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 15 (27:34):
Steve, Hi, Dave, thanks for having me. You can't lose
your street cred, man because you always tell it like
it is, and you did tonight when you talked about
field awareness and situational awareness and what happened in right field.
But that even goes deeper than just tonight. That's what's
been happening in base running. It's it's been happening in
the batter's box with swinging it non competitive pitches and
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getting behind the count and then just getting struck out
on good pitches, and when things start skidding like they
have been, it's got to go back to the basics,
and that means things like hustle, and that's just such
a you know, like a bush league word and such
a kee wee league word. But I see guys all
season long in the outfield, pulling up short, not making
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plays on the ball, not diving, not giving their all.
Tonight again, maybe with the exception of Pahas, who's come
a long way in center field, but our right field
and left field plays been disastrous. And those are the
intangibles that make a big difference to one hundred and
sixty games. And then finally, I want to reiterate what
jose Mota said is we're almost to the second week
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in September. It's not time for blind emotions and banking
on guys to start coming through. And I won't name names,
but it's a little past that.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And it can't be on last.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
Year's emotions either. If the players are not performing.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
As they do, I understand that, but this is their bullpen.
The Dodgers bet on these guys. There's nobody else to acquire.
They had their opportunity at the trade deadline and they
felt like they were set with these guys. So whether
or not you think it's emotional or whatever. These are
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their guys, Tanner, Scott Blake, Tryning, Kirbyate's Michael Kopek. Those
are the guys they bet on, and they're going to
have to sink or swim with them.
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Now, I didn't mean so much the bullpen as I
actually meant the guys who got to come up on
the offensive side of things.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Well, those are their guys too. Those are their guys too,
That's who they bet on. They gave Taoscar Hernandez. We
all wanted ta Oscar Hernandez back. They brought him back,
and he just hasn't been the same player for whatever reason.
I don't know what it is, but he certainly is
not the same guy that we saw last year.
Speaker 15 (29:54):
And I know we're hurting with injuries and that makes
it tough to fill in the blanks.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
But no injuries are over with Steve. Injuries are over
with Max Munsey and Tommy Edmond are the only two
guys that are still key on the IL. Uh. That's
not an excuse anymore. Thank you for the phone call.
Appreciate a good call. Eight sixty six nine seven two
five seventy is the phone number I don't know if
this is fair or unfair, but I'll be candid with
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you about you know, watching Paz not go after that
home run ball by Jackson Holiday, I was thinking, you know,
who would have caught that ball. A guy that has
a lot of experience at Camden Yards, Mookie Bets. Mookie
Bets would have caught that ball. But I mean, obviously
that's unfair. He's their shortstop, But that crossed my mind
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as well. Let's go out to Los Felis. Calvin, you're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Calvin, Hi, David, So I just wanna I'm gonna throw
out three statements and I want to hear whether or
not you agree with them. So number one, y'a Momoto
should have stayed for one more batter after that home
given him the chance to finish out the game.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
So send it to one hundred and twenty pitches, possibly
an a pitch at bat. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I mean, I feel more confident that with him out
there in that situation than kind of anyone in the pen.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Right, what about the big picture, Calvin, I mean, Dave
Roberts has taken Ross Strippling out, He's taken Rich Hill out.
He took Clayton Kershaw out of a perfect game for
the spirit of the big picture of winning in October.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Well, I appreciate that, but those are different situations, and
I think in that situation I would have liked to
see Yamamoto face one more batter and have that opportunity.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
I wouldn't I mist agree with that considering how shaky
the Dodger bullpen has been. So I'm not going to
completely rule that out, but I understand where he was
coming from. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Second state one, Tanner Scott is a double agent for
the Padres and he's on a mission to sabotage the season.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Okay, that's a good joke, but it's not true. Good joke, Okay,
go ahead, what else?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And then the third one is everyone on the Dodgers'
roster should give Yamamoto like a tenth of their salary
for this year to make up for all the times
at least he's been let down by that.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Okay, all right, Calvin, thank you for the phone call.
By the way, Ben Roortfitt, the catcher that caught eight
and two thirds of no hit ball from Yamamoto, was
also the first Dodger to lay down two sacrifice bunts tonight.
He was the first Dodger this year to lay down
two sacrifice bunts, so he got some small ball, but
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three runs is not going to get it done. The
Dodgers offense still still lost, and in some ways, I
think a better way to describe it reeling three for
fourteen with runners in scoring position Freddie Freeman and Mookie
Bets triple tonight they were both or Freddy was stranded
at third base with less than two outs. I mean,
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that just can't happen. Let's go out to Costa Mesa. Sonny,
you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Sonny, Hey, DV I wish I can talk to you
under better circumstances, but you know, I've that's probably like
I've lost a lot of baseball in my life, and
that might have been one of the worst losses I've
ever seen.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
I was.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
And the worst. I will say this. I'll just say this,
This ranks with Rich Hill losing his no hitter in
extra innings or in the bottom of the ninth inning
in Pittsburgh. It ranks right up there, bottom of the
ninth inning and Josh Harrison hitting a walk off home
run in a scoreless tie. At that point, this rank's
right up there with rich Hill losing his no hitter.
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That's where this ranks.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Like I mean I was at in seventeen,
I was that game two and seven, and those are
just painful losses. But this was just embarrassing, pathetic. And
I think I saw a tweet that this is the
first time a team has lost when a starter has
gone eight and two thirds without allowing a hit in
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the history of baseball.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Well, it happened in twenty seventeen. It happened in twenty seventeen.
Rich Hill had a no hitter broken up and they
lost the game on a walkoff. So I'm not buying that.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Okay, might've been a bad tweet, but whatever. Essentially it
was like, yeah, fake news. You know. It's just like
the offense needs to just execute. Like I talked to
you last week and like the same thing. It's the
same constant thing, like we need to execute, manufacture runs
and just do the little things and keep the line moving,
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stack ennings and just you don't need the big one
every time, you know, like look at the Brewers, like
they're just winning games and just being chippy and just
playing gritty baseball, and like, I mean, that's.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
What everybody's doing again. They're making everybody, the Dodgers are
making everybody looking gritty and more aggressive than they are
these days. So it's not just the Orioles. I think
that's a little overstatement, but yeah, not a great night
for the Dodgers. And look, I know we're always caught
up in the moment, and all these tweeters and bloggers
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are just caught up in the moment. But I've lived it.
I've lived bad losses, and I could tell you I
was sick to my stomach in Pittsburgh in twenty seventeen
when Josh Harrison hit that walk off home run in
the tenth inning off of Rich Hill, and that team
went to the World Series. That twenty seventeen Dodger team,
who we all love so much, couldn't score a run
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in Pittsburgh that night for Rich Hill. That's where this ranks.
So it does happen even to some of the best
of Dodger teams. Just keep that in mind before you
start going overboard with trashing this team. I've felt this
way before. I have felt this way before in Pittsburgh
in twenty seventeen for Rich Hill. That's the same feeling
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I have right now. Let's go out to Fontana Loope.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, loupe Hi?
Speaker 11 (36:19):
David Can I that good first time caller. I'm very
frustrated with today's lass. You know, if the Dodgers continue
going this way, they're gonna hand over the division to
the Padres and get out of the on the first
round in the wildcar in the wildcard, I don't see
this team with any hunger like ass here. That's year
you had a lot of injured pitchers and players and
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they found a way to win. This team. I'm having
my doubts.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Well, I'll tell you this, even if the Dodgers win
the division, they're looking like they're going to be playing
in that first round wildcard series because the Phillies won
again tonight. So the Dodgers are five games back of
that number two seed Loopes. So either way, it looks
like the Dodgers will be hosting a best of three
series at Dodgers Stadium to open up the postseason. So
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that's the way it looks right now. If the playoffs
started right now, that's what would be happening. So they're
gonna have to find a way. Thanks for the phone call,
and maybe that's a good thing for this team to
not have a first round. By all we talk about
is complacency, not the hunger. Well, if you have to
play a best of three series in the wildcard round
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before the NLDS, I would imagine that would heighten the
level of urgency. Let's go out to Mission vah Rico.
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse hi Rico.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, sup, David Man, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Your car, front of your closet.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Hey, oh no, no, because I'm having a little you know,
I got people here, you know, on my house and
it kind of love.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
We're watching the USC again. I'm telling everybody, hey, we
have to switch.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
It's a no hitter coming up.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
So I'm gonna say all right, all right, but they're
supporting me. I was nervous, and you know what, podcast,
he should have done better, man, for really, he should
have done better. I'm like, I don't know what he
was thinking about.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
But Mike was what's the problem. He wasn't thinking going
to have some preparation, pre pitch preparation.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
What he was thinking about. Man, No, I mean I
would rather have him try and not succeed, but at
least try and make an effort. That's what we're trying to,
you know, what we want us Dodger fans. But anyways,
what I'm calling for is I'm kind of upset at
how Dave Roberts, how he approaches postgame interviews. It's like
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he's postgame today is like, that's not on Tanner's call,
you know at all? Oh, that's not on Blake.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
And he's saying, and we how many U battery runners
in scoring position that we have today and we weren't
able to to.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Get the fourteen with runners in scoring position. And I
know what you're getting, at Rico, But Dave Roberts can't
trash the entire team, and he can't trash his players
after a loss. But to for Blake Trinan and Dave
Roberts to, you know, just absolve Tanner Scott. I understand
what they're doing, but the reality is I could say
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what they can't, and he shouldn't be absolved. He gave
up two walk off hits, a home run last night
and a base it and it's not like he's a
guy that they just picked up off the scrap heap.
He's not a project or a reclamation project. He's a
guy that was one of the best relievers in baseball
last year. The Dodgers rewarded him with a contract, and
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he hasn't pitched like it. I expect a strikeout. That's
what you need in that situation. That's what I expect.
And look, Blake Trinan, he has a lot of credit
with you and other Dodger fans after what he has
done in his Dodger career. But he did not have it,
and that was apparent early in that outing, and he
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needed to get somebody warmed up quickly. When you start
to see that that ninth inning unfold, I gotta run. Rico,
thank you for the phone call. Fight on eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers lose a heartbreaker for Yamamoto tonight, four to three
after a no hitter with two outs in the ninth inning,
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a home run by Jackson Holiday and then Blake, Trenton
and Tanner Scott gave up three more runs and the
Orioles hand the Dodgers their fifth straight loss. The Dodgers
have lost seven of their last eight. Let's go out
to Shane. Shane, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Shane.
Speaker 12 (40:39):
Worse Dodger game ever.
Speaker 7 (40:44):
No, that's not true. I just told you one of
the worst is in Pittsburgh. Yeah, this is right up there.
Speaker 12 (40:51):
For me personally, how many Daughter games I've been to,
this has been the worst I've ever ever seen them
play ever.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
For me, they haven't played very well. We're not used
to the level of plates the way they're losing. I'm
with you, Shane. I understand that, and look, I gotta
be honest with you. August of twenty seventeen, September twenty seventeen,
that team wasn't playing that great either, but they were
still finding themselves. These guys are established world champions. Those
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guys were not. So I agree with you. Thank you
for the phone call, Shane. I promised to get to
everybody that was on hold. I'm gonna make that happen.
Let's go out to Hollywood. Ronnie. You're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, Ronnie?
Speaker 16 (41:33):
Yeah, David, I'm calling because I'm saying something that's endemic
in all the major leagues, and it's the change in
philosophy of this pitching. You know, Cy Young pitch seven
hundred and fifty five complete games, and I know that's
a dead ball era, but even Sandy Kofax pitched one
hundred and thirty five complete games. I saw Bob Gibson
pitch at eleven any complete game. We've got to give
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these pitchers a chance or they maybe they need better
can do. But when they're in the zone, you leave
them in. You don't just pull them out and then
start rolling the dice on pitcher after pittures, because that's
what we're saying with the Dodgers. They roll the dice
each picture that comes out, each succeeding pitcher. So let's
try to change this back to seeing more complete games.
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I don't understand how it's gotten to what it is.
Do you have any comment on that why this this happened.
Speaker 7 (42:24):
Yeah, it's a philosophical difference of opinion with front offices
in Major League Baseball the last twenty five years. They
just don't believe that allowing pitchers to go deeper into
games is good for their health. But I mean, they
don't really have a lot to stand on these days
with so many picture injuries. So whatever they're trying to
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do to protect pictures, it's not really working because more
pitchers around baseball are getting hurt at a higher rate
than ever before. And I remember what Sandy Kofax always preach, Ronnie,
you don't train for a marathon by running sprints, and
he likened that to pitching. You throw more, you throw more,
and you get ready for a nine inning game. But look,
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I can understand the frustration. Yamamoto was at a point
that he has never been at with the Dodgers in
a year plus almost two years. So look, I'm not
going to crucify Dave Roberts overtaking him out at one
hundred and twelve pitches after giving up a home run.
It should have been the game should have been taken
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care by Blake Trinin. This is not on Dave Roberts
and Yamamoto, But I understand what you're saying. Thanks for
the phone call. Let's take one more phone call before
we say goodnight. Harry in North Hollywood. You're on Dodger Talk.
Walk us off tonight.
Speaker 15 (43:49):
Hey, David, Actually a good place to be.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I want to talk about the silver lining in.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
This litil was gut wrenching. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 15 (43:57):
It was a tough, tough loss.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
And they're listening to the game.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I turned off the radio and something hit me.
Speaker 8 (44:05):
You need a team needs a gut punch sometimes to
just you know.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I was all like ten fifteen minutes after the game,
I was like, you know what, these guys we feel bad.
Speaker 10 (44:14):
Imagine how they feel.
Speaker 15 (44:15):
We're We're going all the way this year, World Series,
back to back.
Speaker 7 (44:18):
David, all right, I like that, Harry, good job walking
us off. You understand what to do there. That'll do
it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk, and certainly I
was here for you and my guarantee did not come through.
But I'm done with the guarantees for this road trip.
But you gotta feel good with Clayton Kershaw on the mound.
He demands the highest level of focus and attention, not
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only from himself but the guy's playing behind him. He's
the right guy to have on the mound to close
out this six game road trip and end this five
game losing streak. Kershaw this season is nine to two
with an ERA three twenty eight. He is pitching for
the second time on this road trip. Remember, he gave
up four runs in the first game in Pittsburgh in
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the first inning and then was able to buckle down
and pitch through the fifth inning. So that's the type
of guy you have on the mound tomorrow. I don't
have to tell you that Tomo Yuki Sugano is on
the mound for the Orioles. He is ten and seven
with an ERA of four to forty one. Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck begins at nine to thirty. First pitch
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at ten thirty five with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett.
Hopefully they don't have to take a water taxi to
the stadium tomorrow. Thanks to Colin Yee at our Burbank Studios.
Thanks to Dwayne McDonald at Camden Yards in Baltimore. Thanks
to you for listening. Obviously, not the ending we all expected,
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but that's why we have these shows for you to
voice your displeasure and frustration, hopefully your happiness again like
we did last year. Once again, the final score tonight
in Baltimore the Dodgers fall to the Orioles four to three.
We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Have a great rest
of your Saturday, see you some time. And Jeane
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Just done it.
One thing about this gem is the invisible and tangibles
that they have.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Let's not play one on too. Let's I love writing
these guys out the shows. Thank you, give me, are.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Your attention, your fires?
Speaker 5 (00:17):
This is world champion, Dodger, world championing for a.
Speaker 6 (00:21):
Small soft time to get a people what they want to.
Speaker 7 (00:24):
Die to in a row two is special.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 7 (00:28):
One of the come this ball's gone. You ready to
show to the south, grab your phone.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
To get in on the show called eight six six,
nine eighty seven two five seven. I'll go to the show,
and now your host of Dodger Talk, David Basse.
Speaker 7 (00:47):
I don't know if this is rock bottom or not,
but it's one of the most disappointing, frustrating, unimaginable endings
to a Dodger game since I've been hosting Dodger. The Orioles,
who were one out away from being no hit by
Yamamoto tonight, come back to score four runs in the
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ninth inning to beat the Dodgers and hand them their
fifth straight loss. The Dodgers have lost seven of their
last eight, and Yamamoto certainly deserved a better faith than
what took place tonight. After he walked off that mound
to a standing ovation at Camden Yards. We will go
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back to Baltimore to hear from Blake Trining and also
the catcher tonight, Ben Rourtvitt, who caught a really good
game and did a great job of being a presence
behind the plate for Yamamoto. You know that picture catcher
relationship is big and tonight Han short notice. I mean,
these two guys don't know each other really well. Yortvit
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and Yamamoto were definitely in sync. A lot had to
do with Yamamoto himself, who went eight and two thirds
innings tonight, allowed just one home run at Jackson Holiday
in the ninth inning with two outs to break up
the shutout and the no hitter. Yamamoto threw a major
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league high one hundred and twelve pitches for him and
he was on the verge of throwing his third professional
no hitter. He had thrown two in Japan in twenty
twenty two and twenty twenty three, and he was one
out away from doing it in Major League baseball. Just
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a disappointing night for him and the Dodgers. And look,
I'm not going to make any overstatements tonight because there
are twenty games left in the season, but this is
one of the most disappointing and frustrating losses I can
remember in the regular season for the Dodgers. And I
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was a little surprised that Dave Roberts did not have
Tanner Scott or maybe even Jack Dryer, who has pitched
the last two nights and threw eighteen pitches last night,
not ready when he saw Blake Trinon did not have
it and he talked about the least she gave Trinan.
It's not Blake Trinon's game. It's the team's game. The
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Dodgers needed that game. And you talk about urgency, it
starts with the manager. Manager's got to manage with urgency.
Can't be taking Dalton rushing out of a game where
you're down only five to nothing in the seventh inning.
You gotta have the left he ready, one of your
lefties ready for Cowser because things are not going Blake
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Trinon's way. And this is not on Dave Roberts. By
no means am I saying this loss is on Dave Roberts.
But that ninth inning, it could have been managed differently.
It could have been played differently, Andy Paez, are you
kidding me? You're playing a ball off the short wall
and right field at Camden Yards in a no hitter.
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I can remember in Miami, Rich Hill had a no
hitter going in the seventh inning in Miami and Yasio
Puiga all is laying out to try to preserve a
no hitter. Andy Piez is playing that ball that Jackson
Holiday hit barely to the top of the wall as
a double with a no hitter. I don't care if
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it's ten feet over. You better get to the wall
and make an effort. The double means nothing. That was disappointing.
And Andy Piez as well, And you may talk about
you know, field presence, field awareness, Well, all you have
to do is take a look back and understand where
you're standing, where you're positioned, and where is the tall
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wall starting, and where you're at when you're going back
to the wall. All you have to do is take
a quick look back. It's not that hard. You're a
major league outfielder. That was poor, poor effort by Andy Piez.
Poor effort. Take a look at Major League Baseball's Instagram
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Blaze Alexander of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Arizona Diamondbacks are
going nowhere, and this guy has his glove three rows
into the left field stands, robbing a home run. Where
is Andy Pajz. Eight six six nine eight seven two
(05:25):
five seventy is the phone number. By the way, the
Dodger offense, they could have been able to blow this
game open and really given Yamamoto a lot more breathing room.
They left eight men on base and we're three for
fourteen with runners in scoring position. So let's not act
like the Dodger offense was all of a sudden cured
tonight and the bullpen just blew it. That's not what
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took place tonight. Eight six six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. Let's head back to
Baltimore right now to hear from an ineffective blake trining tonight.
He threw twenty two pitches, nine of them were strikes.
He hit a batter, he walked to, gave up a double,
and just completely let things unravel and gave the Oriole
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hitters too much credit.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Obviously, command there's really no words you know, you're paid
to be a professional and at least throw strikes, and
I didn't do that. And because one of the better
outings I've ever seen in my career with him on
the he deserves better than that. Offense deserves better than that,
and it just really sucks to be on that end
of it. Put Danner in a tough position to come in,
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you know, where he's keyhold to have throw strikes, great pitches,
and iigley hitters are gonna find a way to move
move runners. So that's a pretty pretty low point for
me coming off the hills of you know, kind of
a tough stretch right here, but I gotta I gotta
be better.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
So how different it was just the when you're warming
up and the no hitters going on?
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Like how different is it kind of preparing for an
outing like that?
Speaker 10 (07:02):
And does that kind of change things when you get
on the mound And.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I've oddly enough, I've had to do it once before,
back at eighteen sean and I so I kind of
understand to like pace myself. There's really that's not an
excuse for hover perform. It's just I just gotta be better.
Throw the threst strikes what are judgments are you're trying
to make there when you realize that the command is off,
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find a big part of the plate and tell them
to hit it. I mean, if the first guy get
up ahead, it's like, you know, just forcing to put
the ball in play and look them get themselves out.
But doesn't work when you walk a guy and then
you hit someone, and then you walk another guy, and
all of a sudden, when he runs on second and
we put somebody else in a position that they shouldn't
have to be in. I have to get one flipping out.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
I didn't do it all right. There's Blake training. Always
stand up and look. You have to ask the question,
is Blake trying still feeling the residual effects of being
pushed to the limits in last year's postseason. It has
happened countless times to other pitchers. We have seen it
happen to Evan Phillips. We have seen it happened to
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Blake Trinan even earlier this year as he went on
the IL with an arm injury. It happens, it happens.
There are certain pictures that are never the same after
being pushed to the limits in October, and that's a
question that the Dodgers need to answer themselves. But you
know everybody's you know, pulling the ripcord on Tanner Scott
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Tanner Scott. I thought he was a dominant elite reliever.
If he is, he should have been able to get
a strikeout of a guy by the name of Emmanuel Rivera.
I don't know why he's being left off the hook here.
He's given up two walk off hits in the last
two nights. I'm not saying Blake Trinon did him any favors,
but come on eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
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five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Rick and Woodland Hills. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Rick?
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Hey, I just wanted to talk about Dave Roberts. He
should have left Yamoto in.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
At one hundred and twelve pitches after giving up the
no hitter, Rick, that's a.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
For a guy, but you know, you know, he should
have were got Moto in it.
Speaker 12 (09:24):
He did it.
Speaker 11 (09:25):
You know, he was doing really good. He could have left.
He was at a home run.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
He was, and obviously I'm not you know, that would
have been an aggressive move by Dave Roberts, but considering
how shaky his bullpen has been this year, you know,
that's an argument to be made, Rick, So I'm not
gonna shoot that down. Thank you for the phone call.
Let's go out to Elijah, who was at Camden Yards tonight. Elijah,
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were you in Baltimore tonight?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yes, I was, DV DV. We spoke two years ago.
I don't know if you're but you were there and
you had like the little cheering crowd and we were
rooting your name.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I do remember that. I forgot about that, but you
just reminded me. I do remember that. That was after
the Dodgers clinched in twenty nineteen. I believe in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It was yeah, yeah, So it was uh yeah. I
was there, pins and needles the whole night through. My
family was there. It was uh yeah. I don't know what.
I'm not going to get into all the you know,
wee can out of our fresh time.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I want to get a first hand account of what
the feeling was like in the stands, Elijah, as that
ninth Inning was starting and unraveling. Describe the section around you,
how they were feeling when Holiday hit that home run
and after it all unraveled on the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I'm going to tell you this because you've pointed this
out through I listen. You know, I live in DC now,
so I count on you. I appreciate you tremendously. So
it's every other team's World Series, right, talked about that,
And tonight the stadium was so flat, good amount of
Dodger fans, but a lot more Oriol fans were there
because why the Dodgers were there? Nothing all But then
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all of a sudden after that home run. Now every
Oriol fan screaming, you know, gos go. So yeah, it was.
It was an interesting I don't know, I don't know.
It's heartbreaking. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. It was heartbreaking. It's
heartbreaking for Yamamoto. He deserved a lot better fate. Elijah,
thanks a lot for calling in and thanks for the love.
Appreciated certainly, Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Dv all Right, Elijah was at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
I do remember that better times at Camden Yards in
twenty nineteen when Cody Bellinger and the rest of the
crew clinched the NL West at the beginning of September
that year. But yeah, it's just the reason why there
were so many Orioles fans there tonight. It wasn't partly
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because of the Dodgers. For sure, Saturday night in Baltimore,
Dodgers are in town, but also they were honoring the
thirtieth anniversary of Cal Ripken Junior twenty one thirty one
breaking Lou Garrick streak, So that was part of it too.
Let's go out to Santa Monica. Ross, You're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing? Ross?
Speaker 13 (12:18):
Hey, I just want to talk to you about the
Dodgers tonight with just another example of how the Dodgers
show no heart, no focus, and no leadership. And I'm
fourteen and I know not to go to Canna Scott
in any leverage situation anymore.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
So when would you pitch Tanner Scott fifth inning, sixth inning? Never,
never again, never again. He's got three more years on
his contract, Ross, Not for a while. Okay, thank you
for the phone call, Ross, love the passion, and I
know you're upset, but look, twenty more games to go,
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and the Dodgers hopefully can use this to catapult themselves
back to where they expect them to be and where
you expect them to be.
Speaker 13 (13:02):
Have one more question, Where was Beckie on the bullpen tonight?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
What's that he available?
Speaker 13 (13:08):
Where was Becky? What's he available for tonight?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
He was not available. He's on the IL. He's coming
back on Monday. So no, he was not available. And look,
I was thinking Jack Dryer, but if you look at
his usage, he had pitched each of the last two
nights through eighteen pitches last night. So are you gonna
pitch Dryer three straight games? I would have. I mean,
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you're expecting him to be able to have a clean
inning at this point. My level of trust is a
lot higher in Jack Dryer than it is and Tanner Scott.
I'm sorry, that's the reality of it. Forget about contract,
forget about salary. Jack Dryer, to me is the best
active reliever the Dodgers have right now. Eight six six
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eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to West Covina. Rico, you're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, Rico?
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Good?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Good?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Good?
Speaker 12 (14:04):
How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I've been better? Rico?
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah, I know. I was watching the game and I
felt I was hit by a truck. To be honest
with you. I'm sixty two and I've been I lived
my whole life just looking at Dodger games. Was a
you know, big time season ticket holder. And this is
the worst loss I think I've ever experienced with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And in the regular season, y oh yeah.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
Yeah, in the regular season, of course, I mean, aside
from the from from our World Series loss, but this
one here, it's it's really hard to kind of absorb,
you know, after Yamamoto is pitching such a great, great game,
and you know, I want to start off with accountability,
if you don't mind. And I know you guys have
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been bringing this up, but I've been playing it back.
You know that home run that the from the oreo said,
and and I think that Pagaz could have caught it.
I really think he could have. Yeah. And I think
the effort.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Close, even if it hits the glove and bounces out,
it's better than the way he played it.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
And then and then the other thing too, is that,
you know, I think the accountability from management, I think
they got to start looking at uh, you know, uh
Mark Pryor and the pitching coach and the and the
hitting coach. So that they could start, you know, analyzing
what are they doing? You know, I know that, you know,
the players are practicing their their butts off, but they're
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not getting any better. I mean, right now we're we're
we're like the last place teams that we're playing against.
And then and then, well, I do.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Agree with you Rico about the hitting coaches and Dave
Roberts mentioned this before the game. The approach has got
to change. I mean, this Dodger offense is reeling right now.
They need some direction. But for Mark Pryor, I mean,
what's he gonna do with a veteran like Blake Trining.
Blake Trnon knows himself better than anything Mark Prior could
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tell him. Tanner Scott, he needs to be better. I
mean that's plain and simple. He needs to be better.
Mark Pryor can't be on the mound for those guys.
Thanks for the phone call. Rico appreciated Dodgers fault tonight
four to three. After Yamamoto had a no hitter with
two outs in the ninth inning, he gave up a
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home run that just barely scraped the wall in right field.
The short wall in right field by Jackson Holiday and
Dave Roberts decided to take Yamamoto out after that one
hundred and twelve pitches. He thought Blake trining could get
the final out. He could not, could not get an
out that in that ninth inning, and just a disappointing
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night as Blake Trinan had had traffic from the very
moment that he came to the mound. He came to
the mound, gave up, double locked, a couple of batters
hit a batter, and that's when Dave Roberts brought in
Tanner Scott, and Tanner Scott was warming up too late
to be able to be ready to face the left
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handed hitting Colton Towser. Instead, he was brought in to
face the right hander and Manuel Rivera. Eight six, six, nine, seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers lose a
disappointing game tonight four to three in Baltimore. Let's go
out to North Hollywood. Sergio, you believe as well that
Yamamoto should have been left in at one hundred and
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twelve pitches.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Yeah, he's got to finish it, and he just has
to finish the mission on that one. You know, the
Japanese fans are just fantastic. This was more than just
Los Angeles Dodger fans and Japanese fans, and what a
great way to have a complete game, which you don't
see often and I rarely do.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And for him to be able to do.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
This as a as a fantastic Japanese pitcher and for
the fans in jip hand, it would have been fantastic.
And one hitter would have been fantastic. One hundred and
twelve pitches is a lot. He had five more pitches
in him. His movement was incredible, as velocity was there.
I mean, that's just a shame. And then to have
Blake try to come in and try to close it down.
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He's just a little bit shaky.
Speaker 7 (18:20):
So I didn't like he hasn't been himself all year.
He hasn't been himself all year.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I agree with you, and I was.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
And then one more point and I'll let you go
for these other colors that are so knowledgeable. This is
my first time calling. Oh think, Okay, I'm in my
recliner watching the game and just all pumped up.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
With what's the better half?
Speaker 10 (18:43):
And I'm on my recliner just like Andy Piez was
watching that ball that he could have caught that he
could have caught, and David's very frustrating to watch it.
I was like, what is he doing? He needs to
go after that ball and save.
Speaker 7 (18:59):
This no hitter or give it every effort, give it
every effort to save the no hitter. He did not,
He had no idea what he was doing. He obviously
didn't care about the situation, and just a really disappointing Sergio.
A lack of hunger, that's for sure. Eight six six
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nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers fall to the Orioles four to three. We have
a full board of calls, as you can imagine. I
will get to all of you, and we also will
head back down to the Dodger clubhouse to hear from
tonight's catcher Ben Rortvitt, who certainly did a very good
job of not getting in the way of Yamamoto tonight
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as he was one out a way from a no hitter.
It did not happen, and neither did a Dodger win,
as they fall four to three in Baltimore tonight on
a five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
On air at AM five seventy online at am five
seventy LA sports dot com and available by podcast on
the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
One and one.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
The stretch, the kick, the pitch, swing on basehead, center field,
time run scores. Here comes Mateo. The Orioles have locked
off the Dodgers for the second straight night and spoiled
and otherwise tremendous night for Yamamoto. The Dodgers have now
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lost five.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
And Manuel Rivera the hero for the Orioles as they
score four runs in the ninth inning after not having
a hit for eight and two thirds of this game tonight,
and the Dodgers fall four to three to the Orioles.
That was Tanner Scott giving up the walkoff base hit
for the second straight night. Last night gave up a
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walkoff home run, and the Dodgers have lost seven of
their last eight. They are going to lose a game
in the standings to the Padres because they are going
to snap their losing streak if they already haven't against
the Rockies at corps Field. David Vasse Dodger Talk with
you until nine o'clock tonight at eight six six nine
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I was feeling so good about myself, not only a win,
but a no hitter. I mean, I was going to
have a lot of street cred with you. But the
Dodgers ruined my street cred with the way they gave
that game up in the ninth inning. And here's something
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also that's funny. I just started reading David Cohnees's autobiography
and it starts out with him in the Yankees dugout
bathroom during the final inning of his perfect game in
nineteen ninety nine against the Expos and he said that
he looked in the mirror in the bathroom right around
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the corner from the Yankees dugout and was talking to
himself in the mirror and saying, don't you blow this,
don't you blow this? And I thought it was somewhat ironic.
I started reading the book and it starts with him
talking about the perfect game and Yamamoto is one out
away from a no hitter. All those things were going
through my mind, and then I was thinking about a
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few other things. By the time the game ended tonight,
let's head back to Baltimore and here from tonight's catcher,
Ben Rourtvitt, the new Dodger that was called up just
the other day.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Yeah, tonight was awesome. Fantastic effort by him, fantastic effort
all around by everybody, coaching, staff, players in the field.
Everyone played a part in that. Doing a homework, doing
a homework. I faced these guys over the past three
years a lot, so I kind of have a feel
for some guys their lineup, So obviously pitching off his strengths,
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trying to do my best just to stay in tune
with him and kind of just try to wave so okay, So.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Like just trying to get used to catching out motive
for the first time, and especially when you kind of
realized that what he's kind of doing out there of
the course of the outing.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
Yeah, I think, uh, first time kind of helped with
kind of this game and how it went. I think
I was just so focused on trying to be on
the same page with them, I kind of loss in it,
but yeah, I just wanted to do the best effort
to put some position to win, and obviously you today
it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
All right. That was tonight's starting catcher for the Dodgers,
newcomer Ben Rourtfitt, who the Dodgers acquired at the trade deadline.
They traded Hunter Fiducca to the Rays and a separate trade,
so Roortfitt was the starting catcher with Dalton Rushing. By
the way, going on the il before today's game, he
did have CT scans and they came back clean, but
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obviously not well enough to play tonight, and the Dodgers
needed a backup catcher. And I found out what was
going on with Chris Okie, our friend Alex Friedman down
in Oklahoma City. Let me know, Okie was hit by
a pitch in the face and just is recovering from
no surgery a couple of days ago, or he would
have been the guy that was called up instead of
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Charlie Robinson from Oklahoma City. Eight six six nine eight
seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers lose
a heartbreaker tonight four to three after Yamamoto pitched his
heart out and had a no hitter with two outs
in the ninth inning, but not only does not complete,
it does not even get the win. Can you believe that.
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Let's go out to Manny in downtown. You're on Dodger
Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Manny, Hey, what's going on DV? This has to be
one of the most demoralizing losses for me personally as
a fan during the regular season, from the highest of
the highest being one out away from you know, a
no hitter blowing the game at the end of the
game to a walkoff home runs for the other team
with two outs, mind you, So that was tough.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
To swallow on tough to watch.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
But I gotta give credit to Yoshiobu. I thought he
was amazing. And this is the reason why you pay
a guy from Japan with his type of resume the
type of money he got in the offseason, because this
guy knows how to deliver and he's a definition of
a dog. And he will bounce back. He will bounce
back from this, that's for sure. But the team meets
a rally a little bit stronger for you know, bullpen
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wise and whatnot, because you just can't go out there
after that kind of performance and throw those kind of
pitches to those guys. You have to close the game down.
So a part of me is happy that Yoshinobugado as
far as he did, but my heart was ripped out
at the same time. So tough loss as a fan. Yeah,
this one seems a little bit dbe I'm gonna be
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tossing a little bit tonight, no.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Doubt, Manny, no doubt. I think you speak for the
rest of the fans in Los Angeles and around the
world that we're rooting for Yamamoto and the Dodgers to
win this game for him. And you know, the guy
that I was thinking about and they showed him during
the sports Net LA telecast was Sho hey O Tani.
He was right there top step waiting to run out
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there to embrace Yamamoto if he was able to complete
the no hitter. And as that Camden Yards crowd was
giving Yamamoto a standing ovation as he was coming off
the map. Tonight forty two thousand, six hundred and twelve,
Otani was leading those cheers. I mean, I've interviewed Otani
after he's had a great game, and Yamamoto pitched a
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great game, and no matter what I ask about him,
he always started off the answer praising Yamamoto. So he
really was pulling for Yamamoto tonight. And I think the
guy that is the second most disappointed for Yamamoto is
show hey Otani tonight. Let's go out to Redondo Beach. Steve,
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you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 15 (27:34):
Steve, Hi, Dave, thanks for having me. You can't lose
your street cred, man because you always tell it like
it is, and you did tonight when you talked about
field awareness and situational awareness and what happened in right field.
But that even goes deeper than just tonight. That's what's
been happening in base running. It's it's been happening in
the batter's box with swinging it non competitive pitches and
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getting behind the count and then just getting struck out
on good pitches, and when things start skidding like they
have been, it's got to go back to the basics,
and that means things like hustle, and that's just such
a you know, like a bush league word and such
a kee wee league word. But I see guys all
season long in the outfield, pulling up short, not making
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plays on the ball, not diving, not giving their all.
Tonight again, maybe with the exception of Pahas, who's come
a long way in center field, but our right field
and left field plays been disastrous. And those are the
intangibles that make a big difference to one hundred and
sixty games. And then finally, I want to reiterate what
jose Mota said is we're almost to the second week
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in September. It's not time for blind emotions and banking
on guys to start coming through. And I won't name names,
but it's a little past that.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
And it can't be on last.
Speaker 15 (28:51):
Year's emotions either. If the players are not performing.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
As they do, I understand that, but this is their bullpen.
The Dodgers bet on these guys. There's nobody else to acquire.
They had their opportunity at the trade deadline and they
felt like they were set with these guys. So whether
or not you think it's emotional or whatever. These are
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their guys, Tanner, Scott Blake, Tryning, Kirbyate's Michael Kopek. Those
are the guys they bet on, and they're going to
have to sink or swim with them.
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Now, I didn't mean so much the bullpen as I
actually meant the guys who got to come up on
the offensive side of things.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Well, those are their guys too. Those are their guys too,
That's who they bet on. They gave Taoscar Hernandez. We
all wanted ta Oscar Hernandez back. They brought him back,
and he just hasn't been the same player for whatever reason.
I don't know what it is, but he certainly is
not the same guy that we saw last year.
Speaker 15 (29:54):
And I know we're hurting with injuries and that makes
it tough to fill in the blanks.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
But no injuries are over with Steve. Injuries are over
with Max Munsey and Tommy Edmond are the only two
guys that are still key on the IL. Uh. That's
not an excuse anymore. Thank you for the phone call.
Appreciate a good call. Eight sixty six nine seven two
five seventy is the phone number I don't know if
this is fair or unfair, but I'll be candid with
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you about you know, watching Paz not go after that
home run ball by Jackson Holiday, I was thinking, you know,
who would have caught that ball. A guy that has
a lot of experience at Camden Yards, Mookie Bets. Mookie
Bets would have caught that ball. But I mean, obviously
that's unfair. He's their shortstop, But that crossed my mind
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as well. Let's go out to Los Felis. Calvin, you're
on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Calvin, Hi, David, So I just wanna I'm gonna throw
out three statements and I want to hear whether or
not you agree with them. So number one, y'a Momoto
should have stayed for one more batter after that home
given him the chance to finish out the game.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
So send it to one hundred and twenty pitches, possibly
an a pitch at bat. Maybe.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I mean, I feel more confident that with him out
there in that situation than kind of anyone in the pen.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Right, what about the big picture, Calvin, I mean, Dave
Roberts has taken Ross Strippling out, He's taken Rich Hill out.
He took Clayton Kershaw out of a perfect game for
the spirit of the big picture of winning in October.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Well, I appreciate that, but those are different situations, and
I think in that situation I would have liked to
see Yamamoto face one more batter and have that opportunity.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
I wouldn't I mist agree with that considering how shaky
the Dodger bullpen has been. So I'm not going to
completely rule that out, but I understand where he was
coming from. Right.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Second state one, Tanner Scott is a double agent for
the Padres and he's on a mission to sabotage the season.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Okay, that's a good joke, but it's not true. Good joke, Okay,
go ahead, what else?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
And then the third one is everyone on the Dodgers'
roster should give Yamamoto like a tenth of their salary
for this year to make up for all the times
at least he's been let down by that.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Okay, all right, Calvin, thank you for the phone call.
By the way, Ben Roortfitt, the catcher that caught eight
and two thirds of no hit ball from Yamamoto, was
also the first Dodger to lay down two sacrifice bunts tonight.
He was the first Dodger this year to lay down
two sacrifice bunts, so he got some small ball, but
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three runs is not going to get it done. The
Dodgers offense still still lost, and in some ways, I
think a better way to describe it reeling three for
fourteen with runners in scoring position Freddie Freeman and Mookie
Bets triple tonight they were both or Freddy was stranded
at third base with less than two outs. I mean,
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that just can't happen. Let's go out to Costa Mesa. Sonny,
you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
Sonny, Hey, DV I wish I can talk to you
under better circumstances, but you know, I've that's probably like
I've lost a lot of baseball in my life, and
that might have been one of the worst losses I've
ever seen.
Speaker 16 (33:29):
I was.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
And the worst. I will say this. I'll just say this,
This ranks with Rich Hill losing his no hitter in
extra innings or in the bottom of the ninth inning
in Pittsburgh. It ranks right up there, bottom of the
ninth inning and Josh Harrison hitting a walk off home
run in a scoreless tie. At that point, this rank's
right up there with rich Hill losing his no hitter.
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That's where this ranks.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Like I mean I was at in seventeen,
I was that game two and seven, and those are
just painful losses. But this was just embarrassing, pathetic. And
I think I saw a tweet that this is the
first time a team has lost when a starter has
gone eight and two thirds without allowing a hit in
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the history of baseball.
Speaker 7 (34:19):
Well, it happened in twenty seventeen. It happened in twenty seventeen.
Rich Hill had a no hitter broken up and they
lost the game on a walkoff. So I'm not buying that.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Okay, might've been a bad tweet, but whatever. Essentially it
was like, yeah, fake news. You know. It's just like
the offense needs to just execute. Like I talked to
you last week and like the same thing. It's the
same constant thing, like we need to execute, manufacture runs
and just do the little things and keep the line moving,
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stack ennings and just you don't need the big one
every time, you know, like look at the Brewers, like
they're just winning games and just being chippy and just
playing gritty baseball, and like, I mean, that's.
Speaker 7 (35:07):
What everybody's doing again. They're making everybody, the Dodgers are
making everybody looking gritty and more aggressive than they are
these days. So it's not just the Orioles. I think
that's a little overstatement, but yeah, not a great night
for the Dodgers. And look, I know we're always caught
up in the moment, and all these tweeters and bloggers
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are just caught up in the moment. But I've lived it.
I've lived bad losses, and I could tell you I
was sick to my stomach in Pittsburgh in twenty seventeen
when Josh Harrison hit that walk off home run in
the tenth inning off of Rich Hill, and that team
went to the World Series. That twenty seventeen Dodger team,
who we all love so much, couldn't score a run
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in Pittsburgh that night for Rich Hill. That's where this ranks.
So it does happen even to some of the best
of Dodger teams. Just keep that in mind before you
start going overboard with trashing this team. I've felt this
way before. I have felt this way before in Pittsburgh
in twenty seventeen for Rich Hill. That's the same feeling
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I have right now. Let's go out to Fontana Loope.
You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, loupe Hi?
Speaker 11 (36:19):
David Can I that good first time caller. I'm very
frustrated with today's lass. You know, if the Dodgers continue
going this way, they're gonna hand over the division to
the Padres and get out of the on the first
round in the wildcar in the wildcard, I don't see
this team with any hunger like ass here. That's year
you had a lot of injured pitchers and players and
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they found a way to win. This team. I'm having
my doubts.
Speaker 7 (36:46):
Well, I'll tell you this, even if the Dodgers win
the division, they're looking like they're going to be playing
in that first round wildcard series because the Phillies won
again tonight. So the Dodgers are five games back of
that number two seed Loopes. So either way, it looks
like the Dodgers will be hosting a best of three
series at Dodgers Stadium to open up the postseason. So
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that's the way it looks right now. If the playoffs
started right now, that's what would be happening. So they're
gonna have to find a way. Thanks for the phone call,
and maybe that's a good thing for this team to
not have a first round. By all we talk about
is complacency, not the hunger. Well, if you have to
play a best of three series in the wildcard round
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before the NLDS, I would imagine that would heighten the
level of urgency. Let's go out to Mission vah Rico.
You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse hi Rico.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well, sup, David Man, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Your car, front of your closet.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Hey, oh no, no, because I'm having a little you know,
I got people here, you know, on my house and
it kind of love.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
We're watching the USC again. I'm telling everybody, hey, we
have to switch.
Speaker 13 (37:55):
It's a no hitter coming up.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
So I'm gonna say all right, all right, but they're
supporting me. I was nervous, and you know what, podcast,
he should have done better, man, for really, he should
have done better. I'm like, I don't know what he
was thinking about.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
But Mike was what's the problem. He wasn't thinking going
to have some preparation, pre pitch preparation.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
What he was thinking about. Man, No, I mean I
would rather have him try and not succeed, but at
least try and make an effort. That's what we're trying to,
you know, what we want us Dodger fans. But anyways,
what I'm calling for is I'm kind of upset at
how Dave Roberts, how he approaches postgame interviews. It's like
(38:39):
he's postgame today is like, that's not on Tanner's call,
you know at all? Oh, that's not on Blake.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Uh, you know.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
And he's saying, and we how many U battery runners
in scoring position that we have today and we weren't
able to to.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Get the fourteen with runners in scoring position. And I
know what you're getting, at Rico, But Dave Roberts can't
trash the entire team, and he can't trash his players
after a loss. But to for Blake Trinan and Dave
Roberts to, you know, just absolve Tanner Scott. I understand
what they're doing, but the reality is I could say
(39:17):
what they can't, and he shouldn't be absolved. He gave
up two walk off hits, a home run last night
and a base it and it's not like he's a
guy that they just picked up off the scrap heap.
He's not a project or a reclamation project. He's a
guy that was one of the best relievers in baseball
last year. The Dodgers rewarded him with a contract, and
(39:39):
he hasn't pitched like it. I expect a strikeout. That's
what you need in that situation. That's what I expect.
And look, Blake Trinan, he has a lot of credit
with you and other Dodger fans after what he has
done in his Dodger career. But he did not have it,
and that was apparent early in that outing, and he
(39:59):
needed to get somebody warmed up quickly. When you start
to see that that ninth inning unfold, I gotta run. Rico,
thank you for the phone call. Fight on eight six
six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers lose a heartbreaker for Yamamoto tonight, four to three
after a no hitter with two outs in the ninth inning,
(40:20):
a home run by Jackson Holiday and then Blake, Trenton
and Tanner Scott gave up three more runs and the
Orioles hand the Dodgers their fifth straight loss. The Dodgers
have lost seven of their last eight. Let's go out
to Shane. Shane, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Shane.
Speaker 12 (40:39):
Worse Dodger game ever.
Speaker 7 (40:44):
No, that's not true. I just told you one of
the worst is in Pittsburgh. Yeah, this is right up there.
Speaker 12 (40:51):
For me personally, how many Daughter games I've been to,
this has been the worst I've ever ever seen them
play ever.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
For me, they haven't played very well. We're not used
to the level of plates the way they're losing. I'm
with you, Shane. I understand that, and look, I gotta
be honest with you. August of twenty seventeen, September twenty seventeen,
that team wasn't playing that great either, but they were
still finding themselves. These guys are established world champions. Those
(41:20):
guys were not. So I agree with you. Thank you
for the phone call, Shane. I promised to get to
everybody that was on hold. I'm gonna make that happen.
Let's go out to Hollywood. Ronnie. You're on Dodger Talk.
How you doing, Ronnie?
Speaker 16 (41:33):
Yeah, David, I'm calling because I'm saying something that's endemic
in all the major leagues, and it's the change in
philosophy of this pitching. You know, Cy Young pitch seven
hundred and fifty five complete games, and I know that's
a dead ball era, but even Sandy Kofax pitched one
hundred and thirty five complete games. I saw Bob Gibson
pitch at eleven any complete game. We've got to give
(41:57):
these pitchers a chance or they maybe they need better
can do. But when they're in the zone, you leave
them in. You don't just pull them out and then
start rolling the dice on pitcher after pittures, because that's
what we're saying with the Dodgers. They roll the dice
each picture that comes out, each succeeding pitcher. So let's
try to change this back to seeing more complete games.
(42:19):
I don't understand how it's gotten to what it is.
Do you have any comment on that why this this happened.
Speaker 7 (42:24):
Yeah, it's a philosophical difference of opinion with front offices
in Major League Baseball the last twenty five years. They
just don't believe that allowing pitchers to go deeper into
games is good for their health. But I mean, they
don't really have a lot to stand on these days
with so many picture injuries. So whatever they're trying to
(42:47):
do to protect pictures, it's not really working because more
pitchers around baseball are getting hurt at a higher rate
than ever before. And I remember what Sandy Kofax always preach, Ronnie,
you don't train for a marathon by running sprints, and
he likened that to pitching. You throw more, you throw more,
and you get ready for a nine inning game. But look,
(43:11):
I can understand the frustration. Yamamoto was at a point
that he has never been at with the Dodgers in
a year plus almost two years. So look, I'm not
going to crucify Dave Roberts overtaking him out at one
hundred and twelve pitches after giving up a home run.
It should have been the game should have been taken
(43:32):
care by Blake Trinin. This is not on Dave Roberts
and Yamamoto, But I understand what you're saying. Thanks for
the phone call. Let's take one more phone call before
we say goodnight. Harry in North Hollywood. You're on Dodger Talk.
Walk us off tonight.
Speaker 15 (43:49):
Hey, David, Actually a good place to be.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
I want to talk about the silver lining in.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
This litil was gut wrenching. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 15 (43:57):
It was a tough, tough loss.
Speaker 8 (44:00):
And they're listening to the game.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I turned off the radio and something hit me.
Speaker 8 (44:05):
You need a team needs a gut punch sometimes to
just you know.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I was all like ten fifteen minutes after the game,
I was like, you know what, these guys we feel bad.
Speaker 10 (44:14):
Imagine how they feel.
Speaker 15 (44:15):
We're We're going all the way this year, World Series,
back to back.
Speaker 7 (44:18):
David, all right, I like that, Harry, good job walking
us off. You understand what to do there. That'll do
it for us. Tonight on Dodger Talk, and certainly I
was here for you and my guarantee did not come through.
But I'm done with the guarantees for this road trip.
But you gotta feel good with Clayton Kershaw on the mound.
He demands the highest level of focus and attention, not
(44:43):
only from himself but the guy's playing behind him. He's
the right guy to have on the mound to close
out this six game road trip and end this five
game losing streak. Kershaw this season is nine to two
with an ERA three twenty eight. He is pitching for
the second time on this road trip. Remember, he gave
up four runs in the first game in Pittsburgh in
(45:05):
the first inning and then was able to buckle down
and pitch through the fifth inning. So that's the type
of guy you have on the mound tomorrow. I don't
have to tell you that Tomo Yuki Sugano is on
the mound for the Orioles. He is ten and seven
with an ERA of four to forty one. Morongo Casino.
Dodgers on Deck begins at nine to thirty. First pitch
(45:28):
at ten thirty five with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett.
Hopefully they don't have to take a water taxi to
the stadium tomorrow. Thanks to Colin Yee at our Burbank Studios.
Thanks to Dwayne McDonald at Camden Yards in Baltimore. Thanks
to you for listening. Obviously, not the ending we all expected,
(45:48):
but that's why we have these shows for you to
voice your displeasure and frustration, hopefully your happiness again like
we did last year. Once again, the final score tonight
in Baltimore the Dodgers fall to the Orioles four to three.
We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Have a great rest
of your Saturday, see you some time. And Jeane
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Just done it.
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