May 23, 2025 • 24 mins
Dodger Talk continues during a lengthy rain delay at Citi Field. DV chats with Jose Mota.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Even if you're listening to LA Dodgers Baseball on top
of the Mountain on the World Chimney in LA Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Audio, what.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
David Bassey with you until at least seven o'clock right
here on AM five to seventy LA Sports you tuned
in to hear Dodgers mets. Well, Mother Nature had something
to say about it. There's a rain delay in the
top of the third inning, runners at second and third
with one out in a scoreless tie. The Dodgers have
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Freddy Freeman at the plate when play resumes in the
top of the third inning, threatening to put the first
run of the game on the board. But the reality is,
even if the Dodgers win this game, it's not ideal
because we all know how taxed their bullpen has been
so far to begin this season. They have thrown more
innings than any other bullpen in baseball, two hundred and
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fourteen innings. And the Dodgers lose their starting pitch, or
Clayton Kershaw, after just two innings and twenty six pitches,
not because of injury, but because this delay is extended,
so both starters out of the game after two innings.
And in this day and age in baseball. Going back
to that road trip in Atlanta where the Dodgers and
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Braves waited three hours to throw a first pitch, the
reason why they waited three hours was because neither team
and this goes across the board and baseball. These days,
teams would rather wait to start the game even if
there's a slim chance of rain, because neither team wants
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what's happening tonight to happen, and that is play the
first two or three innings and lose your starter and
go to your bullpen in a game that goes to
the bullpen. More than ever, teams don't want to have
to do it on nights they don't have to because
of rain. So this shouldn't be a surprise that rain
was going to be here. It's surprising they didn't push
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back the start time of this game. And now Griffin
Canning and Clayton Kershaw are Nolan void after two innings
and I don't know where the Mets bullpen is. I
know they just came out of Fenway Park, but I
could tell you where the Dodger bullpen is. And it's
not ideal to have to cover six more innings tonight,
even if you get four or five innings from Matt Soer.
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Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. We have two lines open at eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy. We will
get back to your phone calls in a moment, but
first we want to check in with our guy, Jose Moda.
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
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All right, Jose Moda. I just laid it out. The
Dodgers could win this game, but in some ways not
ideal to start this road trip and the stretch of
twenty five games against very good teams by having to
cover six innings with your bullpen.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Always the impredictability of having the weather in the East
and the things that obviously, as you talked about, they
face in Atlanta, you know come through right away, and
this tough stretch that they're going to come you know,
go through. Well, this is where you have to really
go back and look, David. The options that you have
on guys can go long relief, and that's one of
them is sour obviously, but the valuable casparrios and a dryer.
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It really comes into view, and you know what, before
this trip they're already thinking about if we run into
this situation, what are we going to be scrambling with.
So this is not something that's you know, just caught
them by surprise. Obviously, they're looking at the options as
to who can come in if there's a delay, if
there's a postponement or anything like that. But it's not
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the way you want to start it. But guess what,
nobody's gonna wait for you or feel bad for you.
Gotta go out there and pick it up where it
is and hopefully they'll be able to stop the Mets
and win a ball game somehow. Patching things up on
the mountains, no.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Doubt, Jose, But were you surprised, like in Atlanta when
we were sitting there for three hours until ten pm
Eastern time, they didn't do the same thing here.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I am surprised by that, because, as you mentioned, that
is the nightmare for any manager, general manager, anybody in
the office, is if we cannot have our starter go
out there, get wund up, go through the routine, throw
fifteen pitches, twenty pitches, thirty pitches, and then lose them.
That is ultimately what you want to avoid. And I
was surprised that in fact, you know, the wave's been
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running there through that throughout the area. You know, for
the last few days. Shot there was not presented that
way because there's a couple of bands coming and obviously
they got hit and might be getting hit again here soon.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Jose. Motive is with us. Jose, what about that play
in the third inning? Michael confordo tagging.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Up, Yeah, Dave, here's one thing about that play. I
learned that play in college. I learned that play in
college to how to run on the basis when that happens,
and it's very easy. It's first contact, the ball finds
the glove, you go out there and tag up. And
obviously we learned that in college because there's some tricks
being put out sometimes by some of these teams who
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played in the fall, the junior colleges that wanted to
be a cal state full listen, So coach HOGI clearly say, hey,
this juggling thing that somebody tried on you just de minuted.
The ball hits the glove, you go. So it is
unfortunately the rule is not interpreted correctly on the booths.
It's one of those things you've got to really be
prepared to have your book with you, as we always do.
But there's no doubt in my mind that when Dino
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Evil saw Comfordo get there, Comfordo did the right thing.
He knew that he doesn't have to wait for that
ball to go down. There's so many guys that will
try any trick to fool you into not tagging, or
to make you think that they're going to drop the baseball,
and then even suspend the ball a little bit higher
if they need to, and catch it lower just to
throw you off. So I'm glad that the rule is
so clear in size to the point, and Michael Comfortia
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knew exactly what the rule was.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's because they don't want to have an outfielder juggle
the ball all the way into the infield.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, some frech employed sometimes you juggle
it to the other outfield there just to say, let's
confuse his base run as much as you can. But
that's where you know guys that pay attention obviously with
a base running instincts of players and the fact that
details are covered so often from spring training. I mean, Dave,
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this is colored by Dino and Chris what it was
covered also by Clay McCollough on things that can happen
as you cover also ground rules, so many things that
you are told do not play umpire just continue to
run on other plays. Ay, you go out there and
play the game correctly and know exactly what needs to
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happen for you not to be fooled by anybody. Just
like the infield rule. I mean things like that that
you've got to be very aware of when not two
and one two. But you got to clear your head
sometimes and actually you get a refreshing spring running here
and there to make sure that nothing has changed, because
we know there's some change and rules implemented every single season.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Mozay, we're going to put you on hold. We're going
to continue this conversation on the other side. Jose mode
is with us during raindo laid Dodger time. We're gonna
take another time out when we come back more Jose Mota,
more of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine,
eight seven, two five seventy. David Vass with you on
m five to seventy. LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Scrip said, what fir, listen, you're listening to LA Dodgers Baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
On the World Champion LA Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We continue on on raindo lay Dodger Talk. David Vassay
with you in a raindelay. Top of the third inning,
runners at second and third for the Dodgers, one out
and Freddie Freeman at the plate. We have great news.
They have announced at City Field that first pitch will
resume at six thirty five. That's right, So in about
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twenty minutes baseball will be played and we'll see what
the Meds and Dodgers do with their pitching. I personally
believe a specially on the Dodgers side, second start for Kershaw,
this long of a delay, especially now the Dodgers are
hitting threatening, they're not going to bring Kershaw back. So
I would say fifty to fifty with Griffin Canning as well.
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Jose motives sticking with us on the other side, Jose,
what do you think about what the Mets and Dodgers
do with their starters. Do you agree it's a little
too long for Kershaw to come back?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's too long, it's too risky for both of them.
In Griffin Canning is still on the wall well, and
I got my clock running here at one twelve right now,
our thirteen minutes right now since the LA started. So
one thing you were talking about that was very important
usage of the bullpen for the Mets, They're in very
good shape of their bullpen. They used two relievers two
days ago, then one reliever, and then through relievers and
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they have not repeated relievers. They'll figure that out. The
best staff in basebaow and they have so many options
right now because their pitchers are giving them length. That's
what happens. So obviously we'll see how the Dodgers map
it up. But certainly what you hoping you were talking
about Bobby Miller before that one of these guys that's
going to challenge somebody is able to go out there
and say I'm here to stay when he gets a
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call up. Because they're patching up with a bullpen and
the bullpen games, it's not the appropriate stretch. I have
those things happening right now, so I hope somebody really
sticks their head out and says, hey, I'm here to stay,
and hopefully, you know, one of the guys from the minors,
we'll be able to do that unless he goes, hey,
cuse parents the starter now, and I have no reason
to believe that he can't be.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I know the Dodgers believe he can be too,
but with the state of their pitching staff, it feels
like they get more out of Caspirius in the role
that he's in right now than just having to use
them once every five days.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, and it is a valuable piece with him when
you consider that his stuff plays so good. His stuff
is one that he doesn't try from the strike zone.
He can go out there and fill the zone. This
guy wants the baseball, very in tune with what's happening
in the game. One thing that really catches my ear
when I talk to him is how much he knows
about what happened, Like in the first thing, the batter, well,
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the guy was chasing two later in the game when
he comes in to know exactly what it needs to
go to. That's why he His misses are a lot
of times on purpose to see how much a guy
was going to xmund the zone. And there's very knowledgeable
young man to a nail that number one a manager's
dream because he wants the baseball. He's not going to
go out there and try to go, you know, thirty
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five to forty pitches and get out of there. He
wants the baseball for five or six innings, if it's
a middle relief, known that the state of the picture
rotation is the way it is. But crly a guy
that you can trust in any type of situation, in fact,
even to close a game where he came to do
with that here very close, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Jose Mode is joining us during rain delay Dodger talk.
The game will be resuming here in fifteen minutes at
City Field, top of the third inning, runners at second
and third, with Freddie Freeman at the plate in a
scoreless tie, and Jose we talk about the Dodgers state
of pitching, and we go back to last year's postseason run.
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I still don't feel like this offense gets enough credit,
because if the Dodgers are going to get through this
tough stretch, the way to take the burden off their
staff is by scoring runs. And the Dodger offense has
scored the second most runs in baseball, so they're doing
their job. And I still don't feel as a unit
they're getting enough credit.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And I don't think as a unit they have really
hit stride. I mean there's some nice stretches, you know,
win five to six in a row. One of the
discrepancies I've had is that home they average a full
run over the road in terms of runs per game.
But to average five point six per game, it's pretty awesome.
But davidt some point also the pitching has to pick
up the offense. We know that, you know, it's great
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to hit. It's not fun to be in a differencet
every night and play from behind. It's very exciting to win,
you know, combat games and come from behind games. But
I just hope that there's more stability in allowing the
offense to play their game a little bit more on
the smother side without having the press into these certain
situations of windows that happened during the game. It that's
gonna happen about the guys throwing some most early because
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they're gonna still some runs. But you can say, you
can always say when these these there's a little more
distress in scoring runs when the opportunities are not there,
when the windows are closing in the offensive side, when
you just can't get it done. But uh, I just
hope that we can flip things around. And going back
to the postseason last year, no doubt, no doubt, it
was about the offense scoring a lot of runs and
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torching other teams and at the same time capitalizing on
every single mistake made. And it started with the Pottery
series where the ball was outstanding, give them the ball
to Yabamolta and things like that. But they pretty much
made it on two and a half starters, considering that
the state of injuries and all the you know, things
that were lacking there. But glad to see the offense clicking.
Hopefully they'll continue to do that, but I just want
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to see kind of things even out a little bit
more and having the pitching pick up the offense sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, Jose Mota. Before I'll let you go, a
little known fact about the mysterious Jose Mota is that
he is the true foodie on this show and the
pizza talk earlier on. I did hear that what you
got for us in New York? Jose, If somebody wants
to go get a slice a pie, where would you
recommend in New York to get a good pizza.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'm gonna go to John's, There's no doubt about it. Okay,
John's Yes on Bleaker Street. Yes. And now for a
good Italian I like the old Tom Italian. So I'm
going to go to Primona. Okaymola's on the east Side.
Just an old throwback boning, uh Vill Palmer, John Clovers
your entire place. So things like that are good. But
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I can't beat going New York because it's Dominican town.
Washington Hikes, Vince Kelley's the area Dominican so he could
go find anything you want from the dr.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How could want Soto be sad he's still in New
York with all that great Dominican food.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
How can he have this body language? One, Toto? Come
on now, all the people supporting you there. But I
mean that's another topic and we can get into a
little bit more about.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hey, we'll do that during the next ring delay.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Talk.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I mean, the whole documentary thing. I got to follow
that too. That's a good stuff you got today. The
guy waking up and hitting his phone bit. I mean,
come on now, that blue light, Dave. You got to
give some advice here too.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, hey, blue light, get the blue light before you
call into.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The show about the kmart one right.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Jose, and great to hear your voice.
And before we let you go, this is the best
time than any. Can you give us an update on
how your dad, the legendary Mani Mota is doing.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Pops was actually riding a tricycle today in his rehab
where I get to take him two or three times
a week, and he was quite happy. So I keep asking, like, Okay,
when can he do this because he is dying to
write that trike at down your stadium in the hallway.
So they're like, little by little he's getting there. Maybe
another week or so he'll be able to go to
the stadium and ride his trike. Somebody next to him though,
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make sure he's you know, they'll lose his vout. But
Dad is doing quite well, and thankfully, as always, I
appreciate all the prayers and thoughts from so many people
all over the world that have shunt up the talks
to all of us, So thank you so much. Pops
is uh what in fact? Pops is like, where's the
game tonight? I can't find the game?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, it's on a five seventy, that's where the game is.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, he's all believed that he was turning right away
between between A five seventy and Pepe, and you know,
he's he's quite happy.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All right, Jose, thanks a lot, and we're so happy
your dad is on the way back and can't wait
to see number eleven back at Dodgers Stadium. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. You take care there, he goes Jose Mota,
part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, and the Dodgers
and Mets in rain delay here top of the third inning.
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But first pitch is coming up at six thirty five.
Let's go out to our guy, Ira Craig in Long Beach.
Can't have a rain delay Dodger talk without Iray Craig.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What they I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I am doing my mighty fine. My friend. Listen, how
old is Many Mota.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't know how old he is, but he's in
great shape. And that's the reason why he survived.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Gollie Man, I mean that guy was old when he
was still pinch hitting back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
That he will tell you. Whenever he pinch hit for
guys like Dusty Baker or Willie starg Old, they did
not like it. He was not a popular guy when
he was sent to the on deck.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Circle, but he was affected.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yes, he was a great teammate, and everybody loves many
Mota and we're all really happy that he's on his
way back. Hey, II, Ray Craig, you could appreciate that
since the Dodgers are playing the Mets. Not only was
Many Mota one of the greatest pinch hitters in baseball history,
he also was one of the great hitting coaches and
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first base coaches in Dodger history. He was the first
base coach in eighty eight when a Mike Soosha hit
his big home run off of Dwight Gooden in Game
four to tie the game, and he was the first
base coach slapping Kirk Gibson when he hit his walk
off home run against Dennis Eckersley.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
There you go, there's some key information right there. I
can remember that night, man. I remember what I was
doing where I was. I was a go and see
Judas Priest that night when he away at Homer at
Irvine Meadows, and I.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Am not surprised.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I was sitting right by, right by Irvine Medos watching
the TV, and I was like, hold on, man, because
if they get if they get, somebody on Gibson's coming up,
I'm telling you. And sure enough you did and you
hit that home run and we ran all the way
through the strawberry fields. That Judus priest walked in, bought
a beard, Knights went out, concert started. Rob Halford comes
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out and says, oh, here, you dogs just won a
big game.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That's correct, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Listen, you want some good pizza, dude, I got great
pizza for you in Long Beach, Belmont Shore on Second Street.
The oldest business on Second Street is Dominico's Italian Food.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Have you to Dominico's.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh yeah, I've been to Dominico's. I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
It's solid. It's solid, Creg.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Well, their Italian food is good, but their ground sausage
pizza is awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That sounds like a man of the people type of pizza.
So we'll try that out. Thank you for the contribution.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You also use the dipping the salad dressing to dip
it ind.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh come on, if you got to dip the pizza,
it's not at the top, Craig, I'm sorry, dude.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The salad dressing there is just.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Why don't we just get a side of ranch, Craig.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No ranch, bail on that same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's what I'm saying. If I have to dip my
pizza and ranch or sauce, then I'm talking about Papa
John's or Domino's. That ain't for me. Hey, that's the
first thing we've ever disagreed upon. That's the first thing
we've ever disagreed on. All Right, Greg, you're the man.
Thanks a lot for the phone call. We got to
run eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
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I think we can all agree. If somebody says this
is the greatest pizza and you dip it into something,
it's not the greatest pizza. Eight six six nine eighty seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers and Mets.
We're gonna get things going here shortly. The Mets are
going to bring out their reliever, Max Kranick in place
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of Griffin Canning, who was the starter for the Mets
when the rain came down. And I would venture to say,
in some form or fashion at some point here, you're
going to have You're gonna have Matt Sower in some
form or fashion in this game, because he's a starter
in TRIPAA. He's been extended as a reliever out of
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the bullpen so so he's essentially your long reliever and
in games like this you need Matt soer Hey, by
the way, speaking of pizzas and all that, a quick
good pizza, I gotta say, if you're from the valley,
Baron's pizza is a pretty good one. On Ventura Boulevard.
Let's go out to north Ridge. Carlos, Hey, you know
the great one A Carlos You're on Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I appreciate the opportunity, Thank you very much. So I
was not gonna, you know, talk about any specific player
per se or anything like that. What I was gonna
comment about was how, you know, the fan base for
our team has grown over the year, especially last year
after the World Series win, and how many players, how
many fans who are new to baseball, you know, panic
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in May, we had a four game losing street recently,
you know, and then it was just panic online, you know,
all the Dodger groups like on Facebook, you know, negative comments,
fire Roberts. There was fans that were happy that Barnsey
left and the seat three left, you know, bashing you know,
kersh because he got touched up a little bit. I
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think that we shouldn't do that. You know, as fans,
we got to be more supportive of our team, good
times and bad times. Unfortunately, some of these new fans,
you know, kind of bums me out. And I know
that there's a lot of fans out there who feel
the same way. You know as well.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
If you become a fan the last ten or twelve years, Carlos,
you've been spoiled because we all know it wasn't like that,
even as recently as twenty eleven. I think we all
need to have that perspective that this is the golden
age of Dodger baseball, and it's hard to acknowledge that
when you're in it, because twenty thirty years people will
look back in sports history and they'll say that was
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the greatest time to be a Dodger fan right there,
and we're living it right now absolutely all right, Carlos,
thanks for the phone call you made sense. I like that.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the phone number I wanted to share with you. Player
A and player B that are playing in tonight's game.
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Player A is Juan Sota, who signed the richest contract
in North American sports history. Player b is Taoscar Hernandez,
who re signed with the Dodgers for three years and
sixty six something million dollars. And we all know how
great of a teammate Taoscar Hernandez is, and that should
factor into all this. Look, I've confirmed the Dodgers had
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real talks with Scott Boris and they were a real
player for Juan Soto. If they signed Juan Soto, they
probably don't re sign ti Oscar Hernandez. And I may
be in the minority, And I know how good of
a hitter Juan Soto is, but that's all he is.
He's a good player. He's a good hitter. Not even
a good player. He's a good hitter. He doesn't play
the outfield that well. We have seen him have lapses
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of hustle, not only this year but in years past.
He's a great hitter, but just in this season. Small
sample size of the first fifty games to Oscar Hernandez
has one less hit than Juan Soto. He has two
more home runs than Juan Soto. He has way more
RBIs than Juan Soto. Taascar Hernandez has ten home runs
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and thirty eight RBIs, while Juan Soto has eight home
runs and twenty one RBIs Taascar Hernandez coming into the
game tonight hitting three oh seven Juan Soto two forty three.
Taoscar Hernandez has a better slug in percentage ops ops
plus And if you're into that silly stat of war,
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Taascar Hernandez beats Juan Soto in that category as well.
Not to mention the great teammate and inclusive teammate, and
the great fielder and the heart and soul of the Dodgers,
ta Oscar Hernandez is. Give me eight other ta Oscar
Hernandez is, and I'll beat your eight other Juan Sotos
without a doubt. Don't ever forget that eight six six nine,
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eight seven two five seventy is the phone number that'll
do it for us on rain delay Dodger Talk. Hopefully
no other rain delays, and after the game we'll have
the postgame show, all the highlights and postgame reaction as well,
But for now we're sending it back to Rick Monday
and Steven Nelson at City Field, top of the third
inning in a scoreless tie with Freddie Freeman at the
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plate and runners in scoring position, Rick and Steven right
around the corner on a five to seventy LA Sports
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Even if you're listening to LA Dodgers Baseball on top
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Audio, what.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
David Bassey with you until at least seven o'clock right
here on AM five to seventy LA Sports you tuned
in to hear Dodgers mets. Well, Mother Nature had something
to say about it. There's a rain delay in the
top of the third inning, runners at second and third
with one out in a scoreless tie. The Dodgers have
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Freddy Freeman at the plate when play resumes in the
top of the third inning, threatening to put the first
run of the game on the board. But the reality is,
even if the Dodgers win this game, it's not ideal
because we all know how taxed their bullpen has been
so far to begin this season. They have thrown more
innings than any other bullpen in baseball, two hundred and
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fourteen innings. And the Dodgers lose their starting pitch, or
Clayton Kershaw, after just two innings and twenty six pitches,
not because of injury, but because this delay is extended,
so both starters out of the game after two innings.
And in this day and age in baseball. Going back
to that road trip in Atlanta where the Dodgers and
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Braves waited three hours to throw a first pitch, the
reason why they waited three hours was because neither team
and this goes across the board and baseball. These days,
teams would rather wait to start the game even if
there's a slim chance of rain, because neither team wants
(01:38):
what's happening tonight to happen, and that is play the
first two or three innings and lose your starter and
go to your bullpen in a game that goes to
the bullpen. More than ever, teams don't want to have
to do it on nights they don't have to because
of rain. So this shouldn't be a surprise that rain
was going to be here. It's surprising they didn't push
(02:00):
back the start time of this game. And now Griffin
Canning and Clayton Kershaw are Nolan void after two innings
and I don't know where the Mets bullpen is. I
know they just came out of Fenway Park, but I
could tell you where the Dodger bullpen is. And it's
not ideal to have to cover six more innings tonight,
even if you get four or five innings from Matt Soer.
(02:22):
Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
the phone number. We have two lines open at eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy. We will
get back to your phone calls in a moment, but
first we want to check in with our guy, Jose Moda.
It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
(02:43):
All right, Jose Moda. I just laid it out. The
Dodgers could win this game, but in some ways not
ideal to start this road trip and the stretch of
twenty five games against very good teams by having to
cover six innings with your bullpen.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Always the impredictability of having the weather in the East
and the things that obviously, as you talked about, they
face in Atlanta, you know come through right away, and
this tough stretch that they're going to come you know,
go through. Well, this is where you have to really
go back and look, David. The options that you have
on guys can go long relief, and that's one of
them is sour obviously, but the valuable casparrios and a dryer.
(03:22):
It really comes into view, and you know what, before
this trip they're already thinking about if we run into
this situation, what are we going to be scrambling with.
So this is not something that's you know, just caught
them by surprise. Obviously, they're looking at the options as
to who can come in if there's a delay, if
there's a postponement or anything like that. But it's not
(03:43):
the way you want to start it. But guess what,
nobody's gonna wait for you or feel bad for you.
Gotta go out there and pick it up where it
is and hopefully they'll be able to stop the Mets
and win a ball game somehow. Patching things up on
the mountains, no.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Doubt, Jose, But were you surprised, like in Atlanta when
we were sitting there for three hours until ten pm
Eastern time, they didn't do the same thing here.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I am surprised by that, because, as you mentioned, that
is the nightmare for any manager, general manager, anybody in
the office, is if we cannot have our starter go
out there, get wund up, go through the routine, throw
fifteen pitches, twenty pitches, thirty pitches, and then lose them.
That is ultimately what you want to avoid. And I
was surprised that in fact, you know, the wave's been
(04:24):
running there through that throughout the area. You know, for
the last few days. Shot there was not presented that
way because there's a couple of bands coming and obviously
they got hit and might be getting hit again here soon.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Jose. Motive is with us. Jose, what about that play
in the third inning? Michael confordo tagging.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Up, Yeah, Dave, here's one thing about that play. I
learned that play in college. I learned that play in
college to how to run on the basis when that happens,
and it's very easy. It's first contact, the ball finds
the glove, you go out there and tag up. And
obviously we learned that in college because there's some tricks
being put out sometimes by some of these teams who
(05:04):
played in the fall, the junior colleges that wanted to
be a cal state full listen, So coach HOGI clearly say, hey,
this juggling thing that somebody tried on you just de minuted.
The ball hits the glove, you go. So it is
unfortunately the rule is not interpreted correctly on the booths.
It's one of those things you've got to really be
prepared to have your book with you, as we always do.
But there's no doubt in my mind that when Dino
(05:25):
Evil saw Comfordo get there, Comfordo did the right thing.
He knew that he doesn't have to wait for that
ball to go down. There's so many guys that will
try any trick to fool you into not tagging, or
to make you think that they're going to drop the baseball,
and then even suspend the ball a little bit higher
if they need to, and catch it lower just to
throw you off. So I'm glad that the rule is
so clear in size to the point, and Michael Comfortia
(05:46):
knew exactly what the rule was.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It's because they don't want to have an outfielder juggle
the ball all the way into the infield.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, some frech employed sometimes you juggle
it to the other outfield there just to say, let's
confuse his base run as much as you can. But
that's where you know guys that pay attention obviously with
a base running instincts of players and the fact that
details are covered so often from spring training. I mean, Dave,
(06:15):
this is colored by Dino and Chris what it was
covered also by Clay McCollough on things that can happen
as you cover also ground rules, so many things that
you are told do not play umpire just continue to
run on other plays. Ay, you go out there and
play the game correctly and know exactly what needs to
(06:35):
happen for you not to be fooled by anybody. Just
like the infield rule. I mean things like that that
you've got to be very aware of when not two
and one two. But you got to clear your head
sometimes and actually you get a refreshing spring running here
and there to make sure that nothing has changed, because
we know there's some change and rules implemented every single season.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Mozay, we're going to put you on hold. We're going
to continue this conversation on the other side. Jose mode
is with us during raindo laid Dodger time. We're gonna
take another time out when we come back more Jose Mota,
more of your phone calls at eight sixty six nine,
eight seven, two five seventy. David Vass with you on
m five to seventy. LA Sports.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Scrip said, what fir, listen, you're listening to LA Dodgers Baseball.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
On the World Champion LA Dodgers Audio Network.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We continue on on raindo lay Dodger Talk. David Vassay
with you in a raindelay. Top of the third inning,
runners at second and third for the Dodgers, one out
and Freddie Freeman at the plate. We have great news.
They have announced at City Field that first pitch will
resume at six thirty five. That's right, So in about
(07:52):
twenty minutes baseball will be played and we'll see what
the Meds and Dodgers do with their pitching. I personally
believe a specially on the Dodgers side, second start for Kershaw,
this long of a delay, especially now the Dodgers are
hitting threatening, they're not going to bring Kershaw back. So
I would say fifty to fifty with Griffin Canning as well.
(08:13):
Jose motives sticking with us on the other side, Jose,
what do you think about what the Mets and Dodgers
do with their starters. Do you agree it's a little
too long for Kershaw to come back?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's too long, it's too risky for both of them.
In Griffin Canning is still on the wall well, and
I got my clock running here at one twelve right now,
our thirteen minutes right now since the LA started. So
one thing you were talking about that was very important
usage of the bullpen for the Mets, They're in very
good shape of their bullpen. They used two relievers two
days ago, then one reliever, and then through relievers and
(08:47):
they have not repeated relievers. They'll figure that out. The
best staff in basebaow and they have so many options
right now because their pitchers are giving them length. That's
what happens. So obviously we'll see how the Dodgers map
it up. But certainly what you hoping you were talking
about Bobby Miller before that one of these guys that's
going to challenge somebody is able to go out there
and say I'm here to stay when he gets a
(09:08):
call up. Because they're patching up with a bullpen and
the bullpen games, it's not the appropriate stretch. I have
those things happening right now, so I hope somebody really
sticks their head out and says, hey, I'm here to stay,
and hopefully, you know, one of the guys from the minors,
we'll be able to do that unless he goes, hey,
cuse parents the starter now, and I have no reason
to believe that he can't be.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, I know the Dodgers believe he can be too,
but with the state of their pitching staff, it feels
like they get more out of Caspirius in the role
that he's in right now than just having to use
them once every five days.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yeah, and it is a valuable piece with him when
you consider that his stuff plays so good. His stuff
is one that he doesn't try from the strike zone.
He can go out there and fill the zone. This
guy wants the baseball, very in tune with what's happening
in the game. One thing that really catches my ear
when I talk to him is how much he knows
about what happened, Like in the first thing, the batter, well,
(10:01):
the guy was chasing two later in the game when
he comes in to know exactly what it needs to
go to. That's why he His misses are a lot
of times on purpose to see how much a guy
was going to xmund the zone. And there's very knowledgeable
young man to a nail that number one a manager's
dream because he wants the baseball. He's not going to
go out there and try to go, you know, thirty
(10:21):
five to forty pitches and get out of there. He
wants the baseball for five or six innings, if it's
a middle relief, known that the state of the picture
rotation is the way it is. But crly a guy
that you can trust in any type of situation, in fact,
even to close a game where he came to do
with that here very close, just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Jose Mode is joining us during rain delay Dodger talk.
The game will be resuming here in fifteen minutes at
City Field, top of the third inning, runners at second
and third, with Freddie Freeman at the plate in a
scoreless tie, and Jose we talk about the Dodgers state
of pitching, and we go back to last year's postseason run.
(11:01):
I still don't feel like this offense gets enough credit,
because if the Dodgers are going to get through this
tough stretch, the way to take the burden off their
staff is by scoring runs. And the Dodger offense has
scored the second most runs in baseball, so they're doing
their job. And I still don't feel as a unit
they're getting enough credit.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
And I don't think as a unit they have really
hit stride. I mean there's some nice stretches, you know,
win five to six in a row. One of the
discrepancies I've had is that home they average a full
run over the road in terms of runs per game.
But to average five point six per game, it's pretty awesome.
But davidt some point also the pitching has to pick
up the offense. We know that, you know, it's great
(11:44):
to hit. It's not fun to be in a differencet
every night and play from behind. It's very exciting to win,
you know, combat games and come from behind games. But
I just hope that there's more stability in allowing the
offense to play their game a little bit more on
the smother side without having the press into these certain
situations of windows that happened during the game. It that's
gonna happen about the guys throwing some most early because
(12:06):
they're gonna still some runs. But you can say, you
can always say when these these there's a little more
distress in scoring runs when the opportunities are not there,
when the windows are closing in the offensive side, when
you just can't get it done. But uh, I just
hope that we can flip things around. And going back
to the postseason last year, no doubt, no doubt, it
was about the offense scoring a lot of runs and
(12:27):
torching other teams and at the same time capitalizing on
every single mistake made. And it started with the Pottery
series where the ball was outstanding, give them the ball
to Yabamolta and things like that. But they pretty much
made it on two and a half starters, considering that
the state of injuries and all the you know, things
that were lacking there. But glad to see the offense clicking.
Hopefully they'll continue to do that, but I just want
(12:49):
to see kind of things even out a little bit
more and having the pitching pick up the offense sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, Jose Mota. Before I'll let you go, a
little known fact about the mysterious Jose Mota is that
he is the true foodie on this show and the
pizza talk earlier on. I did hear that what you
got for us in New York? Jose, If somebody wants
to go get a slice a pie, where would you
recommend in New York to get a good pizza.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I'm gonna go to John's, There's no doubt about it. Okay,
John's Yes on Bleaker Street. Yes. And now for a
good Italian I like the old Tom Italian. So I'm
going to go to Primona. Okaymola's on the east Side.
Just an old throwback boning, uh Vill Palmer, John Clovers
your entire place. So things like that are good. But
(13:38):
I can't beat going New York because it's Dominican town.
Washington Hikes, Vince Kelley's the area Dominican so he could
go find anything you want from the dr.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How could want Soto be sad he's still in New
York with all that great Dominican food.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
How can he have this body language? One, Toto? Come
on now, all the people supporting you there. But I
mean that's another topic and we can get into a
little bit more about.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Hey, we'll do that during the next ring delay.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Talk.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I mean, the whole documentary thing. I got to follow
that too. That's a good stuff you got today. The
guy waking up and hitting his phone bit. I mean,
come on now, that blue light, Dave. You got to
give some advice here too.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah, hey, blue light, get the blue light before you
call into.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
The show about the kmart one right.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Jose, and great to hear your voice.
And before we let you go, this is the best
time than any. Can you give us an update on
how your dad, the legendary Mani Mota is doing.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Pops was actually riding a tricycle today in his rehab
where I get to take him two or three times
a week, and he was quite happy. So I keep asking, like, Okay,
when can he do this because he is dying to
write that trike at down your stadium in the hallway.
So they're like, little by little he's getting there. Maybe
another week or so he'll be able to go to
the stadium and ride his trike. Somebody next to him though,
(14:58):
make sure he's you know, they'll lose his vout. But
Dad is doing quite well, and thankfully, as always, I
appreciate all the prayers and thoughts from so many people
all over the world that have shunt up the talks
to all of us, So thank you so much. Pops
is uh what in fact? Pops is like, where's the
game tonight? I can't find the game?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, it's on a five seventy, that's where the game is.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, he's all believed that he was turning right away
between between A five seventy and Pepe, and you know,
he's he's quite happy.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All right, Jose, thanks a lot, and we're so happy
your dad is on the way back and can't wait
to see number eleven back at Dodgers Stadium. We'll talk
to you tomorrow. You take care there, he goes Jose Mota,
part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast, and the Dodgers
and Mets in rain delay here top of the third inning.
(15:47):
But first pitch is coming up at six thirty five.
Let's go out to our guy, Ira Craig in Long Beach.
Can't have a rain delay Dodger talk without Iray Craig.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
What they I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I am doing my mighty fine. My friend. Listen, how
old is Many Mota.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I don't know how old he is, but he's in
great shape. And that's the reason why he survived.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Gollie Man, I mean that guy was old when he
was still pinch hitting back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
That he will tell you. Whenever he pinch hit for
guys like Dusty Baker or Willie starg Old, they did
not like it. He was not a popular guy when
he was sent to the on deck.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Circle, but he was affected.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yes, he was a great teammate, and everybody loves many
Mota and we're all really happy that he's on his
way back. Hey, II, Ray Craig, you could appreciate that
since the Dodgers are playing the Mets. Not only was
Many Mota one of the greatest pinch hitters in baseball history,
he also was one of the great hitting coaches and
(16:57):
first base coaches in Dodger history. He was the first
base coach in eighty eight when a Mike Soosha hit
his big home run off of Dwight Gooden in Game
four to tie the game, and he was the first
base coach slapping Kirk Gibson when he hit his walk
off home run against Dennis Eckersley.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
There you go, there's some key information right there. I
can remember that night, man. I remember what I was
doing where I was. I was a go and see
Judas Priest that night when he away at Homer at
Irvine Meadows, and I.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Am not surprised.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I was sitting right by, right by Irvine Medos watching
the TV, and I was like, hold on, man, because
if they get if they get, somebody on Gibson's coming up,
I'm telling you. And sure enough you did and you
hit that home run and we ran all the way
through the strawberry fields. That Judus priest walked in, bought
a beard, Knights went out, concert started. Rob Halford comes
(17:53):
out and says, oh, here, you dogs just won a
big game.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That's correct, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Listen, you want some good pizza, dude, I got great
pizza for you in Long Beach, Belmont Shore on Second Street.
The oldest business on Second Street is Dominico's Italian Food.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I've been there.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Have you to Dominico's.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh yeah, I've been to Dominico's. I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
It's solid. It's solid, Creg.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Well, their Italian food is good, but their ground sausage
pizza is awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That sounds like a man of the people type of pizza.
So we'll try that out. Thank you for the contribution.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You also use the dipping the salad dressing to dip
it ind.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Oh come on, if you got to dip the pizza,
it's not at the top, Craig, I'm sorry, dude.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
The salad dressing there is just.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Why don't we just get a side of ranch, Craig.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No ranch, bail on that same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's what I'm saying. If I have to dip my
pizza and ranch or sauce, then I'm talking about Papa
John's or Domino's. That ain't for me. Hey, that's the
first thing we've ever disagreed upon. That's the first thing
we've ever disagreed on. All Right, Greg, you're the man.
Thanks a lot for the phone call. We got to
run eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
(19:17):
I think we can all agree. If somebody says this
is the greatest pizza and you dip it into something,
it's not the greatest pizza. Eight six six nine eighty seven,
two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers and Mets.
We're gonna get things going here shortly. The Mets are
going to bring out their reliever, Max Kranick in place
(19:39):
of Griffin Canning, who was the starter for the Mets
when the rain came down. And I would venture to say,
in some form or fashion at some point here, you're
going to have You're gonna have Matt Sower in some
form or fashion in this game, because he's a starter
in TRIPAA. He's been extended as a reliever out of
(19:59):
the bullpen so so he's essentially your long reliever and
in games like this you need Matt soer Hey, by
the way, speaking of pizzas and all that, a quick
good pizza, I gotta say, if you're from the valley,
Baron's pizza is a pretty good one. On Ventura Boulevard.
Let's go out to north Ridge. Carlos, Hey, you know
the great one A Carlos You're on Dodger Talk, David.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I appreciate the opportunity, Thank you very much. So I
was not gonna, you know, talk about any specific player
per se or anything like that. What I was gonna
comment about was how, you know, the fan base for
our team has grown over the year, especially last year
after the World Series win, and how many players, how
many fans who are new to baseball, you know, panic
(20:45):
in May, we had a four game losing street recently,
you know, and then it was just panic online, you know,
all the Dodger groups like on Facebook, you know, negative comments,
fire Roberts. There was fans that were happy that Barnsey
left and the seat three left, you know, bashing you know,
kersh because he got touched up a little bit. I
(21:06):
think that we shouldn't do that. You know, as fans,
we got to be more supportive of our team, good
times and bad times. Unfortunately, some of these new fans,
you know, kind of bums me out. And I know
that there's a lot of fans out there who feel
the same way. You know as well.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
If you become a fan the last ten or twelve years, Carlos,
you've been spoiled because we all know it wasn't like that,
even as recently as twenty eleven. I think we all
need to have that perspective that this is the golden
age of Dodger baseball, and it's hard to acknowledge that
when you're in it, because twenty thirty years people will
look back in sports history and they'll say that was
(21:44):
the greatest time to be a Dodger fan right there,
and we're living it right now absolutely all right, Carlos,
thanks for the phone call you made sense. I like that.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
the phone number I wanted to share with you. Player
A and player B that are playing in tonight's game.
(22:05):
Player A is Juan Sota, who signed the richest contract
in North American sports history. Player b is Taoscar Hernandez,
who re signed with the Dodgers for three years and
sixty six something million dollars. And we all know how
great of a teammate Taoscar Hernandez is, and that should
factor into all this. Look, I've confirmed the Dodgers had
(22:27):
real talks with Scott Boris and they were a real
player for Juan Soto. If they signed Juan Soto, they
probably don't re sign ti Oscar Hernandez. And I may
be in the minority, And I know how good of
a hitter Juan Soto is, but that's all he is.
He's a good player. He's a good hitter. Not even
a good player. He's a good hitter. He doesn't play
the outfield that well. We have seen him have lapses
(22:50):
of hustle, not only this year but in years past.
He's a great hitter, but just in this season. Small
sample size of the first fifty games to Oscar Hernandez
has one less hit than Juan Soto. He has two
more home runs than Juan Soto. He has way more
RBIs than Juan Soto. Taascar Hernandez has ten home runs
(23:12):
and thirty eight RBIs, while Juan Soto has eight home
runs and twenty one RBIs Taascar Hernandez coming into the
game tonight hitting three oh seven Juan Soto two forty three.
Taoscar Hernandez has a better slug in percentage ops ops
plus And if you're into that silly stat of war,
(23:33):
Taascar Hernandez beats Juan Soto in that category as well.
Not to mention the great teammate and inclusive teammate, and
the great fielder and the heart and soul of the Dodgers,
ta Oscar Hernandez is. Give me eight other ta Oscar
Hernandez is, and I'll beat your eight other Juan Sotos
without a doubt. Don't ever forget that eight six six nine,
(23:56):
eight seven two five seventy is the phone number that'll
do it for us on rain delay Dodger Talk. Hopefully
no other rain delays, and after the game we'll have
the postgame show, all the highlights and postgame reaction as well,
But for now we're sending it back to Rick Monday
and Steven Nelson at City Field, top of the third
inning in a scoreless tie with Freddie Freeman at the
(24:18):
plate and runners in scoring position, Rick and Steven right
around the corner on a five to seventy LA Sports
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