Dodgers Territory - Shohei Ohtani SHOVES, Dodgers, Tucker Beatdown Diamondbacks

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas break down the action between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks in the third game of a four game set. Shohei Ohtani made his 10th start of the year and a...bsolutely dominated the D-backs on both sides of the baseball. We dive into the marvel that is Shohei coming off a night where he reached base 5 times as a hitter and tossed 6 shutout innings as a pitcher. Plus, Kyle Tucker has a big game, and Alex Freeland has been great since being recalled. And, a Gavin Stone update that has us worried for the worst. Our recap, your reactions! 🌶️ Subscribe to the YouTube channel!https://www.youtube.com/@DodgersTerritory  Follow our social media channels for more content!https://x.com/LADTerritory https://www.instagram.com/ladterritory/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578546105253  Check out DT merch at https://dodgersterritoryshop.com Support Guidry's Guardian at https://guidrysguardian.org Find Clint on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@alldodgers Follow Katie's work at The Athletic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/katie-woo/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:21 So, all right, let's get into this. This is game with 62 of 162, Shohay Otani Clint, going up against right-hander Zach Gallen. We'll talk Shohei a lot, of course, but the Dodgers offense jumped all over Zach Gallen early on. Yeah, this is an offense that had an axe to grind didn't have a great first couple of games in this series. and, you know, for all the crap that they get about not giving Shohay runs to work with, they gave them some runs to work with. When their 40th game, you feel good about that, second best record in baseball. You feel real good about that.
Starting point is 00:02:59 You got a good commanding lead in the NOS. And yeah, five runs, as you mentioned, jumping all over gallon, five runs in those first three innings, seven scored overall. I really love that they spread out, they shared the wealth. It wasn't just one inning. they moved they moved the ball around a whole lot and also people are going to be happy the Kyle Tucker haters are going to be happy three hit game including a two run homer to get the offense going there in the second inning for the Dodgers which it was weird I don't know if you saw it he was showing
Starting point is 00:03:31 bunt to start that frame yeah very very peculiar but you know every time the people try to to kind of every time they say oh I'm out on this guy you pull me back in sort of thing but man did he need that entering the game. I think he was like seven for his last 47, under 150 over the previous two weeks. Good, good to see the $60 million investment have a nice ball game. Yeah, I think it's just a matter of time that I think at the end of the season, everything will even itself out. But man, you said that the Dodgers have a commanding lead in the NL West,
Starting point is 00:04:05 and you're so right. I mean, six and a half games, right? Six and a half games over the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Potteries. Those two teams tied with identical records of 32 and 28. But yes, good to see Kyle Tucker kind of get off the Schneide a little bit. I'll take a two-run, home run after showing bunt early. It's fine. I mean, nobody in the ballpark would have expected a bunt from Kyle Tucker.
Starting point is 00:04:27 He didn't end up doing it, but that's the right. A two-run, home run, is what you expect. All right. Let's talk a little bit more about Shohei Otani. Shohei in the lineup on a start day for the second consecutive time. But Dave Roberts did say, Clint, he made it very clear. be on the bench tomorrow. So whatever you needed to do today on this Wednesday show, hey, empty the tank.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Empty the tank he did. You know, you saw him kind of nibbling at his right middle finger a little bit. I was talking in my all Dodgers discord. If you guys want to support me there, check it out. But I'm not going to say the link here because that would be, I mean, I don't think anybody would care. Regardless of that, you didn't see him throwing a lot of split finger fastballs early in the game, kind of had some. some command issues with the curveball as well. And, you know, with where he was biting there, if you guys are watching and not listening, you know, on that kind of inside of the middle finger there, that's where you're going to either kind of get a grip to, you know, get a good command and
Starting point is 00:05:27 turn that baseball over your hand with a curveball or with your split finger. You're going to have it kind of slide through that part of your finger. So if it was feeling a little won't have notice because the sweeper was still insanely dominant, as it always is. The fastball, it's, it's fun to watch him just decide when he's going to throw 100 or he's going to throw 97 with ridiculous spin on it. He is just a fun dude to watch. And, you know, this, he keeps setting some sort of records, Riz. Here we go from Jeff Passon here. ERA lowers to 0.74. through 10 starts. That is the lowest ERA in Major League history.
Starting point is 00:06:16 Sorry, sorry. That is amongst the lowest ERAs in major history. It's so beautiful to watch him on both sides of the ball. Six innings, another gem against the D-backs. Three for four today. You know, three for four, and he lowers his ERA to 0.74. He had two walks. Three for four and two walks.
Starting point is 00:06:37 I mean, it's just unbelievable. Then, of course, on the other side, six innings just giving up two hits, no earned runs, six strikeouts. So the man is three for four with two walks and also pitched a six strikeout, six inning game. I mean, it's just beautiful. The Dodgers now 40 and 22 on the season. Again, a beautiful seven to nothing victory over the Diamondbacks in Arizona. You'll take it every single time. A couple of other things we wanted to talk about in terms of this game, Clint.
Starting point is 00:07:07 We mentioned jumping on Zach Allen early five. runs in the first three inning seven overall spreading it out over a course of the course of the game you talked about that a little bit Alex Freeland top of the seventh a two run single seven nothing Alex Freeland has really been impressive six for 11 with a double and a home run in his last four games what have you noticed about him he had three hits today what did you know what have you noticed about him lately at the plate you're saying a dude who's finally feeling comfortable I think you know obviously he he opened the season with the ball club out of spring training uh was sent down a couple of weeks at AAA, found something at AAA was raking down there. But I think the confidence
Starting point is 00:07:46 in knowing that when they called him up, Dave Roberts said, look, bro, you're getting a runway. This is going to be your opportunity. And it took him a game or two to kind of get his feet wet again, kind of settled back in. But since you're just seeing really good quality at bats, he's not, it's, you know, the old cliches, the baseball cliches of staying within himself, trying not to do too much, just getting, you know, barrel to ball. and good things will happen. He's moving the baseball all over the field and has been a really, really good nine-hole hitter
Starting point is 00:08:20 for this team, and you saw him. He's getting on base a fair amount, chips in a couple of runs, but also scoring for Shohei Otani, who you mentioned had the three-hit day. He had, he reached base five times because that's what Sho-hane does. He's absolutely,
Starting point is 00:08:37 you ever just really, you know, I want to make it about Sho-Hag. I never just really sit back and take in the experience, the Marvel that is Shohayotani, to hit at an MVP level, something we will never know about, to pitch at a Cy Young caliber clip. It's insane. I think of like a pitcher hitting, the best of the best pitchers. You think of Clayton Kershaw.
Starting point is 00:08:59 He was so damn good doing it, but you watched him in the batters box. And I love the future Hall of Famer, but he did not look quite like an athlete in the batters box. with the stick in his hand. He wasn't hitterish. He wasn't hitterish. And you think about all of the guys, of course, back in the day when pitchers, of course, in the National League had to hit. And yeah, they just look awkward, right?
Starting point is 00:09:20 They look like you and I in the box trying to make contact. I certainly couldn't make contact. I could not get it out of the infield. I could. I could. No, no. I look hitterish. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:09:33 I do not think I could get it out of the infield. But like Zach Grinky, I mean, you were around in Zach, covering the Dodgers in the Zankanke era, he was one of the better hitters, better hitting pitchers in the National League. And even so, him, it was still very much, you know, knobbed baseball, you're trying to hit, you're trying to chop a baseball over the gap, over, you know, second base gap or whatever. Like, he was somebody who maybe, maybe, you know, he was a shortstop growing up and all that kind of stuff. Maybe he's sort of athlete-ish, hitter-ish.
Starting point is 00:10:04 But then you also think of somebody like Rich Hill, who, our friend, Ross Tripling, told me you get him in the scrap zone and he's just hoping for the best um listen don't don't don't forget about our friend babe ryu hengen remember remember that one of the greatest that was still one of the greatest moments like we all we all had the joy but watching you and nomes just experience that joy out in the left field pavilion i believe you guys were in that was that was that was a flip an awesome thing. But to watch Shohei Otani do this where he is arguably the best hitter in the game, the most complete hitter now hitting back over 300, the OPS is going to creep back up over 1,000. He is the most complete hitter. And he is also arguably one of, he can be one of the
Starting point is 00:10:55 most dominant pitchers in the game. It is so, so fun to watch this dude operate. My God. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool to see. And again, the more innings that he continues to eat up, the more conversation or the more he will be in the conversation, of course, of perhaps winning that Cy Young Award because the only knock on Shohei is just, is he going to have enough innings? And there is a ton of competition in the national league, Clint, in terms of a starting pitcher that could be in the running for a Cy Young Award. Obviously, we're talking about the Paul Schienes of the world. Certainly Christopher Sanchez, whose scoreless inning streak, oral is okay, because it's safe because Christopher Sanchez had 50 and two-thirds innings of consecutive ball of scoreless innings. So congratulations to Christopher Sanchez. What a run that he's been on. But I tell you,
Starting point is 00:11:43 Shohay's right there. Jacob Mizorowski with the Milwaukee Brewers is pitching out of his mind. Harrison, Kyle Harrison with Brewers now, too, pitching out of his mind. So there's a lot of competition in the National League. There's not any competition in the American League, especially now that Terek Scoobal is on the shelf with an injury. But Shohei is a beauty to every single day, whether he's pitching or not, whether he's hitting or not, or whether he's doing both in the same game. And we're excited about that. All right, you had mentioned, I'm talking a little bit about the bullpen, Clint, seventh and eighth, clean frange for Jonathan Hernandez, the only Hernandez that is not on the IL right now. And you bring up a really good point. So
Starting point is 00:12:21 solid, 113 ERA over eight innings. What is he doing well? Because I know you love to break down pitching. What's funny is he's one of those guys that I, I, I, I, I, you know, know he is going to be such a short timer that whenever he's pitching, I'm kind of doing something else. I've honestly not watched him a whole lot. He's going to be one of those guys. He's going to show up here. It's going to be one of those like, oh, man, I can't believe they're sending this dude down or they're DFAing this guy after he's been so great over this time. And then he'll go somewhere else and he'll post like an 8 ERA and then he'll end up with the World Series ring at the end of the year. But I think what it is, it's what the Dodgers do best is they instill confidence in
Starting point is 00:13:02 people. They, they identify the best pitches, the best quadrants for those players. You've seen it with Will Klein. We've seen it with Evan Phillips. You know, maybe somebody like E-Philly, you mix in that sweeper to create a weapon who will be back eventually, by the way, he's set to head out on a rehab assignment pretty soon, feeling earlier than expected for him. But somebody like Hernandez, he's just another one of those guys that the Dodgers find. Like I've said it before here on the internet, on this show like Andrew Friedman, you know him and Brandon Goebes. They love spending the money. They love going out and getting to show Hey Otani, trading some guys to maybe not the trading guys, but getting a Tyler Glass now, extending him and all that. But this is where they get off.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Finding the diamonds in the rough people that maybe, maybe pitchers who haven't quite developed all the way or maybe just didn't really have the best coaching staff or the best game planning coaches just to have them to maximize the stuff that they have. And you're seeing that with somebody like Jonathan Hernandez. You see it like somebody who, you know, wrap this game up as well in Jack Dreyer. Like this is a reason. There's a reason we love Mark Pryor.
Starting point is 00:14:19 There's a reason we love Connor McGinnis and Rob Hill and these type of dudes. They, that three-headed dragon of pitching knowledge and, and just everybody else that goes in between, you know, Pete Montaro doing video stuff and all that, they are so damn good at what they do and so damn good at maximizing. I'm not going to say the worst pitchers because I know very little about Jonathan Hernandez. I think they get the most out of the guy, right? They don't try to make people who they're not.
Starting point is 00:14:51 I think the Dodgers are really good about allowing the guy to be who he is, obviously tweaking some things, like wanting to get the most out of the player, but they don't try to make them somebody that they're not. And I think that you have to have those guys that are the kind of garbage time mop-up guys, right? I mean, right before we did, before I watched the Dodger game, I did unobstructed views on Nesson for the Red Sox and Orioles game. And Ryan Watson is that guy for the Red Sox, right? I mean, Peyton Tolly pitched a really good six shutout innings.
Starting point is 00:15:23 Ryan Watson comes in out of the bullpen to eat up a bunch of innings because the Red Soxie, Red Sox had a decent lead at that time. And that's kind of what, at least in this situation, Hernandez was, is for the Dodgers at the time. But you need, I mean, those are valuable guys. They're just as valuable as anybody else. I mean, it takes, it's going to take a lot more, as I've mentioned a billion times, take a lot more than the 40 man.
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Starting point is 00:17:26 We'll get back to the box score here before we move on to some other Dodgers conversation of the day. By the way, guys, tune in tomorrow. We do have the Bulldog, Oral Hersheiser, joins myself, Alana Rizzo, Katie Wu, and we thinks you're going to like it. But looking up and down that lineup, another two-hit game here for Freddie Freeman. Freddie has been on a tear. We mentioned the three-hit game for Alex Freeland. You mentioned Otani in there with the three hits. and get that back. Actually, this is a better screen. Let's go to here.
Starting point is 00:17:59 You know, Andy Pahez gets a double in there. The Homer for Tucker. If we're talking about one of the things I really like to see is, you know, spreading it out, not just scoring in one run and not just scoring through the slug and all that. This is a great game in terms of doing a little bit of everything. And about it. Dodgers win. That's how you win. Put more points on the board. You and the points. You just love to ruffle the feathers at our chats. It's like they're not runs. They're not points. They're runs.
Starting point is 00:18:29 But I just love, I love the people who have been watching us for like so long who are like, actually it's runs. It's like, how many times have we gone over this? I know. It's me. It's me jeffin with you. That's what I do. It's what I'm here to do.
Starting point is 00:18:45 It entertains me. It brings me sustenance. Anyways. It does. Before we say goodbye, I just wanted to really quickly. reiterate what you and Katie and I talked about with, well, several people, but the bullpen dogs. Again, doing the job when Edwin Diaz goes out. I mean, I don't think enough can be said about what the bullpen has done specifically in the absence of Edwin Diaz. I wasn't sure how that was going to work out.
Starting point is 00:19:12 And I tell you, they've been brilliant. So obviously, a tremendous start from Shohei, but a bullpen, you know, locking it down as well. I don't know if most of you saw. I'm sure that you did because I know that you guys are paying attention. But the first All-Star voting has opened in terms of players. Who are you absolutely certain Clint needs to be there? Looking at the, okay, so of the players that we can vote for, we can't vote for pitchers as fans, but of the players that we see here on the screen if you're watching, of course, all your starters, Freeman, it's funny.
Starting point is 00:19:46 It has some Kim's on there, but that's the guy who was a starting second basement at the time. You got Moogie beds. At the time. Yep. Max Muncie, Teosker, Hernandez, Andy Potts. Kyle Tucker, Will Smith, Shohay Otani. I got three guys. Show Hey, of course. You're going to have Shoehonti in there.
Starting point is 00:20:00 He will be doing all of the things. Andy Pahez. If Andy Pahez is not a National League All-Star this year, I swear to God, I will riot. I don't know where. I don't know if it will be public. But I'm not going to be a happy boy. I'll tell you that much. And another guy, like, I'll go back and then I'm interested in the guys that you believe really, really need to be on that all-star team. because we might not see a Will Smith this year.
Starting point is 00:20:25 He's not going to have the counting stats. You're probably not going to see Mookie Betts now. Two years running that Mookiee Betts won't be an All-Star. Maybe Freddie gets in there. He's turned his season around. But one guy who's been consistent and also had himself, you know, an RBI single in today's game, Max Muncie. Muntz, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:42 Even if Muntz, you know, was very, apparently very upset at himself in the game, or before the game hitting BP yesterday, slam the bat, broke the bat and all that kind of stuff with the frustration. pouring over. He's still just such a consistent rock in that lineup and finding a way to either get a hit or get a walk, keep the lineup moving. OPS close to I think 9 or sorry 880 or something like that. I don't have
Starting point is 00:21:09 the numbers in front of me. You'd think I'd put those up. But he is good. He is good. He's consistent. And I would love to see Muntz kit his what third All-Star nod. He deserves. I do believe it would be his Yeah, for me, you're spot on. Your choices are absolutely spot on. Shohay, Avi. Andy Pahas.
Starting point is 00:21:28 I mean, if there's only two, to me, it's Shohei and Andy. But yeah, Muncie's the consistent clog in this, consistent clog in this whole thing. So I don't know about Freddie. I don't know that Freddie's had an all-star year. I mean, certainly not to his, not to his standards either. You know what I mean? I mean, he's so upset still that he's not hitting 300.
Starting point is 00:21:45 He wants to end the season at 300. He's getting there. He's like, what, 276 now? So he's, you know, he's getting there. But I don't think he's having an all-star. year. And I think it's important that, you know, and Freddie's been to enough and he's a veteran player. He's a future Hall of Famer, first ballot hall of famer. I think Freddie, and I would tell Freddie this to his face. You know, I don't, I don't think Freddie thinks he's an all-star
Starting point is 00:22:04 this year. So, but yeah, Muncie, Pahez, and Shohay, for certain are incredibly deserving. And who knows what happens by the all-star game? But of course, the names on there are who was the starting person at that spot to open the season? And that is why Hassan, Kim is up. Pride is like love. You feel it in your heart. IR. Radio. Canada's number one streaming app for radio and podcasts,
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Starting point is 00:25:26 see some old friends, familiar faces coming over from Camelback Ranch. And Dave Roberts gave a not good update when we're talking about Dave here and how he would speak. But this is the quote on Gavin Stone. He's one that I'm really bummed about. I think his makeup is off the charts. good, compete. Right now, his body's just letting him down a little bit. All of our bodies are for real, but there's nothing else he can do when he ramps it up. It just sort of shows itself again. So right now I'm not sure exactly where he's at in this progression.
Starting point is 00:26:00 And if you guys have been watching me, we talked about it a lot more on my other show, the All Dodger Show. We are weeks away from the tweet that says Gavin Stone is undergoing season ending. surgery of some kind and it sucks. It's terrible. I think there's just something going on in there. And clearly if he keeps re-agravating something or if something just can't, you know, he can't get over the hump, whether it's scar tissue or whether it's further damage, I had heard shortly after from a source after the injury that it's much, much worse than the Dodgers were letting on. They were hopeful that a little bit of rest and, you know, some injections in there would bring down the
Starting point is 00:26:42 inflammation, he would be okay. I don't think Gavin Stone's going to be okay. Um, so that's, that is that is tough. Yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, right, right shoulder inflammation, right? I mean, it started, um, he's, he continues to be sidelined from that. It began after his first cactus league start early in the season. I mean, this has been something that's been going on for a really long time. So yeah, I mean, the Dodgers are usually pretty coy about their injuries. I mean, we went from, you know, Tyler Glass now is not going to need an I else into, well, who knows when Tyler Glazno's coming back. So, I mean, that's just their way. And that's the okay and they don't need to they don't need to share everything with us they're obviously doing
Starting point is 00:27:16 something right um but yeah it sucks it sucks for gavinstone um he was so good for this team i feel badly for him yeah and what 2024 i mean we're talking about him being a potential all star at that point and now it looks like he's another one of those guys where you know injury could derail his career hopefully it's something minor or hopefully there's just one of those days and we've seen it happen as well uh where something just kind of changes you go out there you do your work and then suddenly the next day it doesn't hurt i'm 40 now it always hurts the next day he is still young i'm a man i'm a fort i'm 40 um but this is why i quickly for the people who are saying oh yeah trade somebody like river ryan for a terrick scubel which listen
Starting point is 00:28:00 detroit tigers aren't trading terrick scubal and other teams need him a lot more are willing to give up a lot more but river ryan is kind of the only legitimate starter on the 40 man roster in the organization that is ready to plug in play in that rotation right now if there is another injury. Another injury. Yeah. That's just the thing. Anyways.
Starting point is 00:28:22 You can never have enough pitching depth. Really quickly, Bobby Miller ramping back up, shoulder and back issues have sideline him to this point. Bill Plunkett, friend of the show, we just saw his quote about date, you know what Dave had said, but they are the forgotten men of the 40 man roster stashed on the 60 day aisle and relegated to rehabbing at Camelback Ranch. No one has been forgotten more than Bobby Miller, once a top Dodgers prospect now,
Starting point is 00:28:46 trying to recover from shoulder and back issues. So, yeah, I mean, he's not coming back anytime soon. So it's a bummer, but that's why I said you can never have too much starting pitching. We went from where are we going to fit all these guys to please nobody else go on the IL because then it will be River Ryan. And again, no disrespect to
Starting point is 00:29:02 him, but River Ryan is not Blake Snell. River Ryan is not Tyler Glass now, you know, so River Ryan's not Gavin Stone. I mean, let's be honest. On the final thing I'll say about this is thank God, Roki Sasaki's finding something because we would be in a world to hurt. Eric Lauer's been solid in his two, his two appearances, his two stars. But if Roki Sasaki wasn't start hadn't found something, Emmachian's been a little bit better, of course. If those two guys hadn't found something, we'd be in a world of hurt right
Starting point is 00:29:32 now. But right now, the Dodgers are not in a world of hurt. They have the second best record in all of baseball, sitting pretty in the NL. West. You might fall back on hard times, but enjoy the good times right now while we can. I'll hit the music and we'll remind you guys, the Bulldog joins us tomorrow. Yes, tune in. To that. And again, I'm going to continue the conversation over on my All Dodgers YouTube channel. If you stay here, it'll actually take you straight over to the YouTube channel if you're
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