Dodger Talk is sponsored by LA Care Health Plan, providing affordable healthcare insurance to millions of Angelinos for over twenty five years. And now your voice for Dodger Talking like the back Damn Kates. Tough night for the Dodgers, a game they gotta have. You've got to beat the Anaheim Angels. I don't care if you're banged up. You're missing three guys out of your lineup tonight, two of which are on the Iel. Will Smith had the night off.
You still have to figure out a way to beat the Anaheim Angels. Hi, everybody, and welcome into postgame Dodger Talk here on your Home with the Dodgers A five seventy LA Sports Tim Kates with you here at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. If you're leaving the Dodger game tonight,
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This is a game the Dodgers have to win. I mean, you just took three or four from the Colorado Rockies, who are awful and in the bottom of the NL West, and now you're facing an Angels team that's got twenty nine wins on this season. This is an Angels team is not very good. This is an Angels team that doesn't have a lot of pop in the lineup. This is an Angels team even by Ron Washington's words, are learning how to win, learning how to figure out what kind of team they
are, and building a winning culture down in Anaheim. And it's gonna take time down there with with Ron Washington, who is really a great manager, a great baseball coach, a great baseball mind. But quite frankly, this is a game you have to win. And I feel for a show, Heyotani, because for six years season Anaheim banged up Mike trot Out basically carrying the Angels up and down the season, not making the playoffs, losing baseball games, and he got out of Anaheim because he was tired of being the
only guy doing anything. Unfortunately, tonight, in the game against the Anaheim Angels, his former team, Shoeyotani is really the only guy who did anything on offense tonight against the Anaheim Angels. Shoeyotani walked a couple of times, then hits a two run home run. Then Shoeyotani has a base hit in the eighth inning. He was a one man band offensively for the Dodgers tonight, driving their only two runs and getting on base and having their only hit
after his home run in the fifth inning. They had one hit after his two run home run in the fifth inning. That's it. One hit and that was Otani's infield single in the eighth inning. There was a lot of one, two, three innings. There was a lot of three up, three down for this Dodgers lineup who only had five hits in the entire game.
And again, and showey Otani lived it for six years in Anaheim, having to carry the Angels to wins, having to carry the Angels through games because of lack of supporter around him and no Mike Trout half the time because of injuries, and tonight, showey Otani kind of felt like that again.
Now it's only one game, certainly, and this is a Dodgers' offense is really good, even banged up. With Mookie Betts not playing, injured, Max Munsey's still hurt the oblique, and Will Smith getting the night off, there's three big offensive powers not in the lineup for the Dodgers right now. But despite that, Teoscar Hernandez can't have an OH for four night. Freddie Freeman cannot have an OH for four night. Andy Payez Tonight hitting cleanup.
It's got to be better than OH for four or two punch outs. Miguel Rojas OH for four. Miguel Vargas had a base hit. Chris Taylor had a base hit off the end of the bat. Actually, he's starting to heat up. Chris Taylor's got a hit in the last five games. I believe it's Actually Brent brought his average up to near one forty. The best sequence for the Dodgers tonight offensively was in the fifth inning, and it almost wasn't a great sequence for the Dodgers in that bottom half of the fifth inning.
Landon Neck just had a top of the fifth inning, got out of it, and again with Zero's five shutout innings. They get to the bottom of the fifth inning against Matt Moore. Key Y Hernandez flies out on one pitch. Chris Taylor pops out on one pitch, two pitches, two outs, and as Rick said on the radio, and as they said on the TV broadcast, with no more Garcia Para, no more says he is taking right here. There's no way they're gonna let the third batter of the inning
swing on the first pitch of it. At bat. They've got to make Matt Moore do a little bit more, and Austin Barnes took a strike down the middle of the play third pitch thrown by Matt Moore. The next pitch was a change up in which Austin Barnes hit over the shortstop netto for a single to left. A two out flar to left by Austin Barnes that brought up the top of the lineup turned it over for sho hey Otani, who won a one to one fastball, turned around a ninety one mile an hour
fastball four hundred and fifty five feet for a two run home run. A great couple of bats right there for the Dodgers, and say what you want about Austin Barnes. That was a great at bat, puts the ball in play, finds the field and left field for a base hid couple of pitches later, show Hey, Otani, your lead off battery, your designated hitter, your power guy. Hits at four hundred and fifty five feet for a two run home run. So it looked like it could have been a one
two three fifth inning on three bitches. Turns out Barnes singles Otani homers and it's anything but an easy inning for Matt Moore and the Dodgers get on the board with a two to nothing lead, turning it over to the bullpen, which has been really good, by the way for this Dodgers team. And
going into tonight's game, David Vatsa talked about on the pregame show. Dv who was reporting for Sports to at LA tonight, did a great job, went down to him the dugout, and Dave brought the fact that, however long landon that goes, look for Ryan Yarborough to be the bulk inting guy, which we've seen plenty of times. Ryan Riarboro in that role last year
and this year. Ryan Yarborough comes in in the sixth inning, hits the first battery, faces, gives up a single two batters later, hits a batter to load the bases, and then hits zach Nato to bring in Ringifo to get the Angels on the board, and then Mickey Moniac grounds out to bring in the tie in run. That says about as bad is it anything you can have as a relief pitcher, hit three batters, give up a couple runs in the lead, and the Angels after that felt like they were
seeing blood in the water attacking the Dodgers. Meanwhile, the Dodgers' offense had one hit the rest of the way. That was from Showayotani in the eighth inning and the tenth down three to two, after the Angels manufactured their run to take a lead with the free base runner go to the bottom of the tenth inning, face and Carlos Zesteves, who's really good by the way to retire twenty one in a row, coming in, but you get a free
runner at second base. It's the pinch runner, Calum Bizio. Jason Haywards hits it to the right side of the infield, advances Bizio to third, does his job it's a great at bat, moves the tying run over to the third base, one out infield in All you gotta do is hit the ball in the outfield final hole somewhere. Hit the ball hard and it's gonna go through the infield. It's all you got to do. Put the bat on the ball, and the Dodgers see Kei ge Hernandez strikeout and Gavin Luck
strikeout. If it had gone one more batter, Will Smith was on deck to pinchhit. But as it is, BHOs stranded ninety feet away and the Dodgers lose three to two. Now you can say, hey, it's baseball. It's one of those games. One hundred and sixty two. You're gonna have one of those flat games. I don't think tonight's one of those nights. You can have a flat game. You're facing an Angels team that's not
very good. Their starting pitcher sand A Vault leaves the game in the third with an arm injury, and the young man at a Mission Viejo is a really good pitcher pitch for Team Mexico. It's been one of the better pitchers for Anaheim in the last couple of seasons. Hate to see anybody get hurt out there. Hope, hope for the best for that young man and that it's nothing serious. But it didn't look good the way he was holding his arm, and you don't want to speculate, but it's just it didn't look
good. It's an arm injury. You hate to see it. He had to leave the game without throwing another pitch. And you get to the Angel's bullpen. You gotta tack on runs. You gotta get more than show Heyotani coming tonight. Offensively, you'd have to have more than three hits outside of a show Ayotani. And those three hits outside of Otani, two of which were not a part of that home running hitch because it was the Austin Barnes single then followed by his home run, So you had two other hits outside
of that from the Dodgers offense. I'm sorry, I can't shock this up to this. Hey, it's baseball. The Angels fought harder and played better down the stretch. I can't believe that. I can't land and Knack pitched his tail off tonight. Five innings, no runs, two hits. You can make the argument land and Knack could have gone back out for there for the sixth inning, Land and Knack would have been facing the two three four hitters for the Angels, ringifo Ward and then Polar was hitting for Calhoun.
I mean he was at seventy three pitches. They hit the ball hard, but at guys he got out of trouble. What trouble he had. I mean he had a two out walk of the third, got a ground ball to get out of it. He had a lead off walk of the fourth, but was able to get out of it pretty easily. He had a two out single in the fifth, but got out of it with the line drive out to center field. Seven pitch fifth inning. He could make the case Land and Neck could have gone back out there to at least go batter
to batter in the sixth inning. If he goes out there in the sixth, you have a two to nothing lead and Raneefo puts the ball in play and the leadoff batter gets on base. Well, you got Ryan Yarborough then to come in and pitch. But as it is, they gave Ryan Yarboro the ball and he hits the first guy he faces, and it was a twenty seven pitch sixth inning from Ryan Yarborough to tie the game. Disappointing.
This is a disy loss with the Dodgers. Rick Monday brought up a couple of times on the pregame and during the game, you're in a stretch here against last place Colorado, a bottom feeder in the Angels, and a Chicago White Sox team coming up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. That is circling the drain already and we haven't eve gotten to fourth of July. These are games and series you have to win. You're supposed to win, you should win, and you should win pretty easily. The Angels had lost ten in a
row to the Dodgers going into this game. Now a new season, I understand that, but still, over the of course of the last two years, the Dodgers have owned the Angels and team against team going into this game tonight, on paper, Dodgers should have beat up on the Angels tonight, should have beat up on the Angels as it is, the Angels winning ten innings three to two. Las Garcia the win, Evan Phillips the loss. Dodgers fall to forty seven to thirty one on the season. All right,
let's go out to the phones. Brad mission via Hill. Brad, thanks for being patient, buddy. How you doing Brady there? Brad? All right, we'll go to Garrick. Garrick's leaving the game. Gerek, you doing, yeah, doing great? Just let just left the game. I agree with you. It was definitely a frustrating lot tonight. But you know, I mean, I remember the game from Colorado the other night and that comeback. It was epic. This team showing a lot of heart and a
lot of fight. I know they didn't tonight. I feel the frustration, but I definitely agree that there were some highlights. Like nax He was he was very solid tonight, right, Yeah, shoe Hey was solid. He carried the team. Dave looked good and his sport coat over there on sports and at LA. But I think that I think the Dodgers are going to be just fine. I agree these are these are must win games that you
want to see our team win. But I will say that in the year's past, I'd rather these games happen now than in October, because I'm tired of watching these games in October. So I'd rather it happened now. Let's figure it out, let's get healthy, and let's win in October. All right, so I think we're gonna be all I think we're gonna be all
right. All right, Grek appreciate the phone call. Eighty sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy Landing and that tonight pitched five scoreless sittings, giving up two hits, two walks, struck out too in his first start for the Dodgers since May nineteenth against Cincinnati. Now he's been down in Triple A, Oklahoma City, and we've talked about it here on Dodger Talk. David Veassey is mentioned in on A five seventy numerous times today. Land and That
didn't do anything wrong. The last time he got sent down. It was a numbers game, and with Walker Bueller coming back, you had an excess amount of starting pitching. And so that's why Land and That got sent back down to Triple O Oklahoma City. He had pitched well in his four starts for the Dodgers at a necessity and injuries. It's just they started to get healthy again. So Land and Nack have been down at Triple A, but now the Walker Bueller's hurt again. On the IL he's still waiting for Clayton
Kershaw to comeback, Bobby Miller's come back and made one start. Landon Nack pitched really well tonight. I can't say enough about him, he continues to impress. I know he came up in his first start. I think it was against Saint Louis or Cincinnati. I remember what it was, and you know, had a rough first inting and nerves got to him. But ever since then has been really good. But by the way, Miguel Vargas tonight single in the second, extending his batting streak now to three games. He
is now hitting four hundred in the month of June. Is Miguel Vargas. So he continues to produce when given the opportunity and show Heyotanni with his twenty second home run tonight. How about this, It's his first home run, obviously against his former team. He's been six years in Anaheim. Okay, so tonight his home run against his former team. Now Shoheotani has homeward against every team in Major League Baseball except the Philadelphia Phillies and the Saint Louis Cardinals.
How about that. The Philadelphia Phillies and the Saint Louis Cardinals the only two teams that show Heyotani is not homeward against interesting. He does that tonight by beating hitting the home run against the Angels, so he checked them off
his box. So good for show Heyotani. But again I mentioned it earlier, this sort of felt like show Heyotoni the last six years in Anaheim, nobody to help him out offensively, doing it all himself with home runs and driving in guys and just not get enough pitching down the stretch and losing the
close game. I feel like he's probably seen this a thousand times. He's experienced this a lot down at Anaheim, and that's what's frustrating to me is he came to the Dodgers to win and get away from that atmosphere down in LA. And today it just kind of felt like, you know, the Angels got that momentum against Ryan Yarborough after he made those mistakes, and the
Dodgers just couldn't get anything going. For whatever reason, they just could not figure out the Angels bullpen tonight's and tonight Estevez comes into the tenth inning and gets three batters and strands the time run at third base Paul in Lagoda the Gel down deep in the nine to four. Nine, Paul, how are you doing tonight? Welcome to Dodger talking, good tim Thanks. How have Dodgers come up with clutch hits when you got five guys on the team back
in two hundred? Yeah, looks Bonds, big o, Kecky Hernandez and uh it's the fifth guy. Uh, five guys? How do you? How do you? How do you win games like that in the clutch? I mean, when you're going deep into the playoffs, you got you have clutch guys. They don't even have to have s. You don't even know how his sacrifice lives these guys, well the Dodgers. Yeah, Paul,
I appreciate. You got to put the ball in play in that tenth inning, and I know you're facing a really good reliever and he got the best of Keiky Hernandez and Gavin Lux, but runner at third less than two outs infield in you've got to get that run across. You got to put the ball in play somehow. You got to punch the ball to the outfield. You gotta find some grass behind the guy who are in on the edge there. You gotta figure out a way to get it done. As far as
the lineup is concerned. Keep in mind, no Moncie, no Mookie bets. They'll be back from injuries at some point. Okay before October and tonight, you didn't have Will Smith, who got the night off after catching three or four games at altitude in Colorado. They wanted to keep him off his feet and give him a break tonight. All right, So look at the lineup. You had ta Oscar and and his betting second, yet Andie pot has betting cleanup. You have Miguel Rojas batting fifth. You have Miguel Vargas
hitting six. You had Keyk betting seven, Chris Taylor batting night, and Austin Barnes being ninth. Not necessarily murderers row. I understand that, but it's not a lineup that we expect to see in September and October. When they're healthy and they're back, we're going to see a deeper lineup. Certainly, Key K, Chris Taylor, Barnes not what you consider a huge threat in a Dodger's lineup. But I say that in an Austin Barnes had one
of the Dodgers five hits. Austin Barnes put it in play with two outs into fifth inning to turn the lineup over to show Heyotani, who then proceeds in to hit a two run home run and get the Dodgers on the board. So, yeah, you want to you want to bark and nitpick at Barnes and Taylor and Kik and the guy's hitting under two hundred. Well, you know, Barnes came through with the two out single then scoring on the two run home run. So it's it's a tough game to play, I
get it. It's it's it's uh, you'll lose more than you'll win as far as that bats, you know, making the outs. But tonight you have to be better if you're the Dodgers and the tenth inning, and certainly you gotta figure out a way to punch across that run to tie it up. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five. Say we'll take a break. We'll come back into more phone calls. We'll hear from Jose Mode
as well. Tough one for the Dodgers. Showe Aotani was a one man ban On pays four times two for two, two run home run, two Ribby's two walks. Unfortunately, the Dodgers and the rest of the lineup had three hits combined. Only one hit after Otani's home run the fifth inning. That came from Otani on an infield single. In the eighth inning. Ryan Yarborough hits three batters in one inning. Last time a Dodger leader the reliver did that was before World War Two. That says a lot a lot of
things went wrong tonight for the Dodgers. They lose to the Angels three to two. We'll come back your phone calls Jose Mota, Thanks for being with us late night on this Friday night. It's Dodger Talk on A five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio AM five seventy LA Sports. Be anywhere at any time and you can hear past episodes of Dodger Talk all of those things. Search AM five to seventy on the iHeartRadio app. We're streaming online.
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my question is, excuse me if Will Smith is doing so well? Why do we keep putting Barnes in. I don't get it. Needed a night off three four in Colorado. They wanted to give them the night He had the night off two days ago. Good points are lost to Colorado. Good point. Well, we wanted to give him off his legs. I guess I'm not sure one. I appreciate the phone call, give him the night off. Can't catch one hundred and sixty two. You know, maybe something's
barking. We don't know. Dave Roberts didn't allude to anything. Will Smith obviously was healthy enough to be a possible pinch hitter in the bottom half of the tenth inning. He was on deck ready to go for the Dodgers. If Lux was able to get on base or punch across the run or whatever. He was going to come up to bat as a pinch hitter there in the bottom half of the tenth inning. But as it was, Luck struck out into the game and we never saw will Smith have an opportunity to come
to the plate. So nobody's saying injuries. You're not hearing anything that's barking or bothering him from will Smith himself. So I'm just going with the fact that he was in Colorado for four games and caught a lot of eddings up there in the altitude, and it's tough for everybody. And the Dodgers' bullpen was gassed from being up there. It's a real thing going up to the
elevation. I mean. Dave Roberts was on with Petrol some money a couple of days ago, and they were joking with him about, you know, you're going to dinner. Kind of wine you drinking? He says, no, no, no, here at elevation, I just drink water the entire time I'm up here. Says he's got a hard time sleeping, and he's just the manager. You know, it's a different spot to go up to.
And you know, Freddie Freeman talked about he had never been He was on David the pregame show tonight and said they had never been to Colorado for four game series. Obviously playing for the Braves, they didn't play him as much, but he's never been to Colorado for a four game series. And Dave was giving him a hard time about having to used the oxygen mask, and Freddy said, hey, you may not have seen other guys because it was down inside the tunnel there inside the clubhouse. But he says quite a
few guys were using the oxygen mask. It's just tough for playing in Colorado. And I get other guys who played up there were in the lineup tonight but catching and you know that grind. It's it's real. So maybe he just needed a day off, a quick turnaround. You're playing in Colorado, you gotta come back to play a night game. You're playing a two game series. Who knows, maybe Will Smith gets tomorrow off and then really he gets a whole weekend off and he's ready to go for a six game road
trip. So I don't know. Nobody's say anything. David Vassei hasn't alluded to any injury. Doesn't feel like there's anything there for Will Smith eight sixty six ninet eighty seven two five seventy. Bobby leaving the game tonight, Bobby, how you doing seven hundred miles and two hundred dollars for this? I was a little disappointed, to say the least. The sixth inning was In fifty five years of going to Dodger games, that was probably one of the
most painful innings I've ever seen. Three hit batters, you've got to be kidding me, and he's looking at Dave Roberts after the second hit batter like poe. I can't keep playing like this. I was so stunned that they kept him in, but they did, and he allowed those two runs and we go home with a very boring game that they couldn't execute. My question to you is this are we lacking grit? I saw it in the Colorado first game when they came back six runs or whatever, seven runs in the
ninth Inny to win that game. That was true grit. I didn't see any grit tonight. And I love Freddie Freeman. I'll die with Freddie Freeman, but goodness, gracious, you're right, they gotta do something. Last part, I agree with the other caller that said, hey, you know what, get it out of your system now, because if this happens in October, I'm going to be crying again for the next as I was the last two years for bad performances. So great talk show. Appreciate the opportunity
and thanks to hear what your spot responses are? All right, Bobby, I appreciate it. Safe travels back to Salt Lake City. Too bad the Dodgers couldn't get a win for you. Landed an act pitch really well, Ryan Yarborough. I mentioned it after tonight and giving up those two runs and two innings of work. His ERA is near five now. In the month of June alone, his era's three twenty eight on the season, but in the month of June now his era's almost at five. So he struggled here
in the month of June. Tonight. I don't know if he was looking over at the side or not asking for Dave Roberts to pull him I at the game, but certainly they had nobody warming up, and Dave Roberts left it up to Ryan Yarborough to get out of his own mess. And he was able to do that with the ground ball and a strikeout and limit the damage to only two runs to his credit, okay, and then come back out in the seventh inning and pitch a one two three seventh inning on only
thirteen pitches, so he was able to find his control. He was able to get some outs in the seventh inning. It was just a rough start for Ryan Yarborough. Was he not warmed up? Was he not ready to go? If that's the case, you got landon Nak who's hot, Who's still able to go back out there? At least in my opinion, go batter to batter, But they lected to go to Ryan Yarborough, and Yarbs
goes out there and hits three batters in the inning. And Rick Monday mentioned it the first time a Dodger reliever since Carl Doyle in nineteen forty to hit three batters in the same inning. Was pre World War Two. Jeff Weaver two thousand and four, just twenty years ago, was the last Dodger pitcher. He started that game back in two thousand and four. In the first inning hit he hit three batters. Jeff Weaver two thousand and four, last
Dodger starter, last Dodger reliever Carl Doyle pre World War Two. Frank and Downey is next up before we get to Jose Motive. Frank, Welcome to Dodger Talk. Hey, what's up? What's up? Man? Kind of frustrated over today's loss. I have a couple of questions. My first is, what do you think about the Dodgers changing up the lineup a little bit because we're not getting nothing from the bottom of the lineup. What you think about Miguel Rojas and Miguel Vargas statting back to back to start the game.
Then you got Okanie Freeman, Will Smith Osker, and then we're deep in the middle of the lineup where pitchers are fearing us, you know, in the middle of the lineup. And what do you think. I don't think so I appreciated Frank. Tonight's lineup is hopefully not a lineup you're gonna see come October in an NLDS game or NLCS game. This is a Dodger's team missing Mookie Betts. This is a Dodgers team Missy maximun See and he's not coming back until after the All Star break, if not right around there,
if he's able to come back from this oblique injury. And you're not having Will Smith in the lineup tonight, that's three big bats not in the lineup. It's a lot to make up, but it's not an excuse, no excuse at all. Shoel Tani got it done. Tasker Hernandoz goes oh for four, Freddie Frieman goes over four, Andy Pojask goes over four, Miguel Rojas goes oh for four. They combined to go oh for what is that twenty Oh for twenty you got five batters, one, two, three,
four, five four batters? Was it a math major? Okay, I was a history major, all right? Stop looking at me. Oh for sixteen, oh for sixteen with five punch outs, you're two through five hitters tonight. Wow, that's not gonna get it done. And you talk about changing up the bottom of the lineup. Yeah, Miguel Vargus had a base hit. Chris Taylor had a base hit. He's it looks like he's turning things around and he's got to hold the size of I don't know, the
hugest crater you can think of to get out of. And Austin Barnes we mentioned it earlier. Austin Bartson two out after two pitches, two out in the fifth inning for Matt Moore, takes a pitch and then hits a single over Nato at short. It's the old bloop and blast base hit, two run home runs show ay Otani and the Dodgers are two to nothing lead. As it is, Dodgers didn't have much offense the rest of the way, Just an infield single from Otani and the Angels win it three to two.
Let's check out with Hose. It's time to go around the horn with hosean motor Jose. I mentioned it earlier for six years, poor show. He Otani's in Anaheim and doing it a lot by himself and seeing you know, close losses and games on which nobody's helping him out offensively, and man, it kind of felt like that again tonight. He's on base four times, drives in both of the runs. The only guy to have a base hit after his home run, and that was his single in the eighth inning.
Nobody else seemed to do anything. Yeah, a tough night overall. You know, there's a game that falls only on the offensive side of things. I know that Ryan Yarborough didn't have a good outing, obviously a touch and field guy who just did not have a touch at all for the baseball tonight. But you know, when the Dodgers won a game recently against Kansas City Royals and Will Smith, I mentioned to Dave Bessy, I said, these are games that are field good wins. You didn't outslug anybody. You played
the game right, and Tim, there's no doubt in my mind. I continue to say this. It's great to have these open scores and run deficits and differentials. That's all great, but you have to learn how to win games like this one, Colorado or not. You got to have better at bats. And I'm going back to a quote from Dave Roberts end of April when the Dodgers were cruising through Washington, Toronto and Arizona. Half of the bat the big leagues for you a couple two strikes. They need to do
a better job in that. Yeah, you're gonna lose some games, but I think this all prepared your mind in the flow of the game and the and the preparation for you to play against tougher teams in October where you're not gonna be able to unslug everybody all the time. So I think there's a tough loss. And I'm got a little pick you here, but I think we have to be greedy in saying that winning by the open scores is great. I'll slugging people's great, But reality is you got to learn how to
win in other directions too. I just to further that, I think that is a great example on the tenth inning, when Jason Hayward hits the ball on the right side of the infield moves beg over to third, and you got one out runner at third. You're down three to two. And I know Carlos Estevez is a really good really retire twenty one in a row going into the night's game and end up retiring three in a row after striking out Key Gay and striking out Gavin Lux. But the approach has got to change.
I don't know. You gotta just say one of those guys got to get the ball in play. That's what matters the most, you know, putting the ball in play. And with two strikes, when you get into that mode and that mentality automatically, you know, kids are being taught now and plays are being taught, you lose power. You don't lose power. I mean, look how many two strikes home runs, Jessicaernander said this year, Because you think in middle of the field the other way, right,
I mean, he also punches out a lot. There's no secret hiding that. But you got to just go with what the game is calling for. In that case is you're not gonna lose anything. But I think of two strikes, you're thinking contact infield in that increases your your batting average by a whole lot, many many more points, and certainly the pressure's going to be putting a team that is trying to find this way, and Ron Washington said it trying to learn how to win, and that is exactly why they needed
to do a little bit better off today. And you know, the issue of Mookie not being around and maximumtsy has nothing to do with what happened here tonight. Land and Neck. Five innings, no runs, two hits, two strike out, seventy three pitches. You know, every inning seemed like he had a guy on except for the second, but he was able to get out of it with a couple of strikeouts in the first and the third
inning, he got around a two out walk with the ground ball. Out of the fourth inning, he got around a lead off walk by getting out of the inning. In the fifth inning, he had a two out single, was able to get out of it with a line drive to center field a seven pitch fifth. It seemed like he was in a good spot now.
They had turned the lineup over and it was two, three, four in the sixth inning and Dave Roberts Alexa go to Ryan Yarborough, who, as you mentioned, is a field guy, and obviously he didn't feel like he had it tonight, but landon thatck, I could make a case he can go back out there for the sixth inning at least batter to batter and see how he goes. I would say the same thing too. Obviously,
Dodgers do have a plan with him. And you see the numbers in triple A numbers here where he won six innings, second out of here in the big leagues. But this kid can pitch. There's nothing like magical, and you go, oh my god, let's let's have a highlight reel. He just gets people out. And yes, I mean, tell me about a pitcher, premier pitcher, ace or not, or number five guy that doesn't have a game where there's gonna be a lot of balls hit at people.
That's going to happen against a lot of guys, right, But somehow that wave needs to be written a little bit longer too, and he's find a way to get people out and get out of it. And he said, I know part of the thing that he brought to the big leagues was and I remember him telling me this in spring training, goes if I can just
avoid that one beginning, I feel good about what can happen. And he actually had a couple a little you know, misplays and balls that didn't go his way early in his career here in the big leagues in April in May, but he found a way to throw them zeros. And I say, get it right that and trust that. And going to Ryan Yarborough, here's my observation with him. Okay, if you look at his role since he came up with Tampa Bay, he's way better when there's an opener for him.
Right If you look at lately, he has not been able to him to get stressed out, and I think it's affecting him and just getting a fearful of baseball feel for the zone, knowing that he is not going to see a lineup maybe a second time. But he is better when he's prolonged a little bit more. Now with all this is, the starters are doing a fine job. You do not have the necessity right now to have a bullpen game. Well, he's the bulk guy, but he is better when
he's out four and five. And look at the numbers from last year with the Dodgers, he was much better with a fearful of baseball. Tonight, it's an operation on him just not having the breaking ball, maybe went to the fast fall a little bit too late, but you can see the ang's sitting on that breaking ball, and unfortunately for him, just they just hey, I mean, release point was way off, the rhythm was way off,
the mechanics were a little bit distorted. But I think he he better serves his team with more innings under his belt, almost like a you know, come middle of the game starting pitcher than he is right now. And I know that it's all based on guys doing a good job starting games, but I think it affects guys like this. And I've talked to you guys and I come in for both innings before and they're like, if I going to be reliever much, either just let me go four or five or three
or four, because for two innings you just don't find it. And then you got to get into a rhythmus that when am I going to pitch next to pace yourself to know that you're gonna be a guy that's not gonna be rested for four games? Yeah, yeah, real quick, going back to Landon Nak, a guy who pitched his butt off. Finally you get some runs on the board for him in the bottom half of the fifth inning. Jose to me again, I want to see a little grit out of a
guy. I want to see him go back out there now pitching with the lead you know, pitch maybe a little adversity. If the leadoff guy gets on, Let's see what he can do. Let's throw him out there a little bit to the Wolves in the sixth inning, in a game that's in June and against the Angels, and you have a two to nothing lead. Let's see what happens. Maybe he goes out there and get you into the three outs and get you to the seventh inning. I mean, I don't
see the harm in this. Oh I'm right there with you too. Also, I looked at it like pitch proportions and the way he spare things on the first inning, twenty four fastballs, thirteen slider, seventeen change ups. So he's pitching, he's not just throwing. And the more he sees a lineup, the better off he's gonna be. And then you can see more more swings and misses and more chases. I think against this lineup tonight, if they sung for a third time, I was gonna trust him all the
way and who knows if you won the game or now. We don't know what the offense is going to do. But I think there's a kid that has earned. I'm going to sell you this what he has earned the opportunity to steal down up for a third time, to see how he reacts to that opportunity. Absolutely, well, you're stuck with me again tomorrow night, Jose as David Vast walking the seat on TV. Hey, DV. He's rocking it. He's nice and shining, he's got the makeup ar doing a
fantastic job. And keep it rolling. All right, Jose, we'll talk to you tomorrow. You got it all right? There, he goes, Jose Mota joining us here on Dodger Talk, Dodgers losing ten innings to the Angels three to two. Show he o Tani on base four times, goes two for two, a couple of walks, it's a two run home run in the fifth inning, and that was it for the Dodgers offense. They lose it in ten innings. Land and Neck. We talked about five shutout
innings and left with the lead. Turned it over to Ryan Yarborough in the sixth who gave up a couple of runs after walking three batters in the sixth inning. That minute a tie game. Dodgers were losing ten innings. Let's go back out to Dodger Stadium land and neck five starts in the Big leagues continues to get better tonight puts up zeros through five innings. Let's hear from
Nacker playing in overall, how did you feel tonight? So good? Well, good throw felt smooth, especially with like very beginning stuff, stuff felt pretty good. Change up felt great tonight. So yeah, felt good. First inning you throw twenty one pitches. Were you fighting yourself in that first inning? I honestly no, I feel like I was making good pitches. They were just falling off and taking some taking some good swings and having some good takes in there. But uh, I mean stuff, stuff felt good
for you. Good go at fifth inning, you got great defense behind you, especially on the left side of the infield. We saw you go directly to those guys in appreciation. How much did that help you get through that inning? Oh? Absolutely, I helped a ton Yet obviously Migi hid came up and had the little mountin visit as well, right before those couple of plays, and so kind of already having that leadership right there, and then them going and immediately making two great plays. Hymn kik. It was just
huge. What did you say to you on the mound. It was just telling me to take a breath, kind of kind of relaxed for just a second, take a quick breather after the couple close pitches for a walk the bet before start off too. Oh. He was just wanted to kind of give me the reset and was thinking was very very good buses. All right, there's landing neck and one point real quick, he walked Taylor Ward there on six pitches he got a strike, looking at a strike, swinging,
okay, six pitches walks Taylor Ward. Fourth inning, and that's when Miguel Rojas goes over to talk to him, and Austin Barnes comes out to talk to him on the mound, and he talked about, well, David, just now, well what do they say, you know, just to calm him down, just to stop the momentum, stop the the rhythm of walking the guy and getting into a rut then and things spiraling out of control. Stop that momentum, squash it before the Angels can get anything going. That's
a great job by Austin Barnes and Miguel Rojas, veteran guys. Young pitcher, go out there, talk to him, tell him a joke, whatever, get him back in line. And the next batter he goes two to zero to Calhoun, gets a strike and then gets him to fly out for the first out of the inning. Dials back in. He's good to go, get to feel the choice and then a ground ball out. Great play from key Ky a Hernandez to get out of the inning. Hey, sometimes
you need your defense to help you out. They did tonight in that fourth inning, helping out landed Neck. But he also helped himself out by not throwing ball after ball after baul and walking guys. So you gotta give everybody credit for that. A lead off walk, let's regroup. They did that, a couple of nice defensive plays, landing net gets him out of the inning with zero. That's a really good job by a young pitcher to have that kind of poise and to be able to dial it back in mentally on
the mound in a situation like that. So just wanted to point that out. That was a great job by him and the leaders. Austin Barnes and Miguel Rojas to help him get back and zeroed in there in the fourth inning. He'd go five shutout innings, seventy three pitches left with the two nothing leading again and you knew what happened. Tenth inning, Angel scored the top of the tenth. Dodgers couldn't punch her on across that free base runner in
the bottom half of the tenth. That's going to do it for postgame Dodger Talk an extended version on this Friday night. I know Colin, you wanted to go home like a half an hour ago, so I'm sorry, Colin. Thanks to Colin as always, thanks to you the Dodger fans for being a part of the show all season along every game, win or lose. This was a tough one. Dodgers fresh off winning three and four in Denver, they come back home and they dropped the series opener to the Angels.
Tomorrow they look for the split. It's a two game series. That's it. Off day on Sunday. We'll be back out with Morono consinto Dodgers on dec adt six pm, First pitch at seven ten Title Class Now and Zach fleasach the pitching matchup. If you missed any part of the show, as always, you can listen for free on the iHeartRadio app until tomorrow. I have a safe press of your Friday Night on the thinks, So Sily and so just Chifling.