Dodgers Territory - Yamamoto Certified Ace, Edwin Diaz Unavailable? Dodgers Outlast the Mets

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas break down game number 17 for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The hosts dive into the dominant performances from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Treinen, and Alex Vesia that led to ...the team's MLB-leading 13th win. Edwin Diaz was unexpectedly unavailable, raising eyebrows. Katie Woo checks in from Dodger Stadium for the latest from Dave Roberts. Recap, analysis, fan reactions and more! One thing to pack, five ways to power! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code FOUL at Ridge.com/FOUL #Ridgepod 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/  Subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTubeRate and review our podcast on Apple and SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:37 We want them to just keep on winning series. And that is what they have done. They've secured the series win. Good evening and welcome to a live post-game edition of Dodgers territory. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alana Rizzo. Katie Wu is in line getting ready to go into the Dodgers Clubhouse. She'll talk to Dave Roberts first and then make her way into the clubhouse.
Starting point is 00:02:10 in what is yet another win. Great pitching today. Honestly, Clint, great pitching today on both sides, both the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yamamoto, we keep doing Yamamoto post games. We need to have somebody else on a Tuesday, but hell of a job by Yama,
Starting point is 00:02:26 hell of a job by Trin and hell of a job by Alex Vesia. On a night where he had all of the nurses and medical staff in, that helped him and his beautiful wife deal with that tragic event in the offseason. But heck of a win for this team. The daughters just keep rolling, Clint. Yeah. What is this now? Two in a row because they lost the getaway day or at least the series finale there over the weekend.
Starting point is 00:02:48 But what do we want them to do? We want them to just keep on winning series. And that is what they have done. They've secured the series win. You got Shohei Otani. Bump day tomorrow. We'll talk about that later. But yeah, every bit of a pitcher's duel, you know, as advertised with Yamamoto and Nolan
Starting point is 00:03:07 McLean, young ace of that New York Met staff. If you like pitchers' duels, this was your game for sure. We had the, what, lead off Homer served up by Yamamoto. And then after that, I think he retired 19 or 20 in a row, just absolutely dealing, pitching into the eighth inning, gets through, let's throw the pitcher bug up there, gets through seven and two-thirds. And then Blake Trinan, huge appearance to not allow an inherited runner to score because you know how important that is to me. But fun game. You know, there was a lot of theatrics yesterday from Rebleski. not going nine, not being allowed to go nine.
Starting point is 00:03:43 There's a lot of vitriol online about that, but today just a ho-hum, very good Dodger 2-1 victory. Yeah, it was beautiful. And you know you had Kyle Tucker come in in the clutch there late in the ballgame to drive in the go-ahead run, that flare single, that drove in the two-to-one offensive offense that the Dodgers needed. And we talked about on our show on Monday that, you know, perhaps that Kyle Tucker was pressing a little bit.
Starting point is 00:04:08 You know, we used that cliche so much. in baseball, but he got the job done tonight, and it was absolutely beautiful. Yamamoto, I tell you what, and this is funny right before we went on the air, Clint, I sent you this tweet from John Heyman who said that, you know what, we should start talking about Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the same type of conversation as Paul Skeens
Starting point is 00:04:28 and Terrick Scouble in terms of being the best pitchers in the game right now. Obviously you wanted him to be the Sy Young Award winner last season. Perhaps Yama is in that conversation this year gets more votes than he did last year. But hell of a game for him again. That was a pitching clinic, as Richard Flores, 8395 said in our chat.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Guys, get your comments in the chat. We'd love to hear from you. Don't forget to let us know how you're feeling about things. That was a pitching clinic. Yamamoto is spelled G-U-T-S. That's not J-E-T-S, not the Jets. It's guts. If you don't, if you don't Vesia, then you just hate yourself and must be a minute.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Oh, geez, gosh. If you don't like it. All right. So, anyway, yeah, I mean, it was just beautiful. And then everyone's like, oh, my goodness, you know, when Dave Roberts elected to take Yama out and bring in Blake Trin, you know, and Joe Davis said it really well on the broadcast with Eric Caros. He was like, do you go with a tired Yamamoto or do you go with a fresh Blake Trinan? It turns out that Dave made the right call. Blake Trinan comes in, gets the job done to finish it out. And then, of course, Alex Vescia comes and locks down the ninth inning for his second save of the year.
Starting point is 00:05:35 It was just beautiful. I mean, it was a low-scoring game, but a great pitching performance all the way around. Yeah, and we had a lot of dialogue on my All Dodger show yesterday, and by the way, we'll have a post-post game after we wrap up here. So go check it out, subscribe over there, join the conversation. But there was a lot, like I said earlier, there was a lot of conversation. There was a lot of people upset that Justin Rebleski was not allowed to complete that game yesterday. It's early April or mid-April at this point. It's early in the season.
Starting point is 00:06:06 He does not need to go nine innings. Yeah, it would be nice. it'd be cool it'd be bitching it'd be sexy doesn't need to do that um the same you know way that yamamoto doesn't need to get through eight uh the point i'm getting to here is i believe in dave roberts i think he knows what he's doing at this point i think we can all shut up about questioning dave roberts because he's got a lot of hardware once as a player three times as a manager now of this team he's got a lot of hardware in that hand that says he knows what the f he's doing Yeah, he does.
Starting point is 00:06:40 Yoshinovo does as well. Seven and two thirds, four hits, the one earned run, one walk. Seven K's 104 pitches. And like E.K. said, if he's already throwing 104, why not let him throw 107? But Blake Trining comes in. 65 of the 104 were for strikes. He was definitely looking to match Justin Rubleski, right? Obviously, Justin, great, great performance yesterday.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Yama, another tremendous performance today. I think the biggest question for me, and I actually texted Katie Wu, who obviously is there at the Mark, waiting to hear from Dave Roberts before she goes into the clubhouse. The only question I have about this game was where was Edwin Diaz? Why was Alex? Yeah, Stanley 299. I hear you, man. Why?
Starting point is 00:07:22 Because he didn't pitch yesterday, right? He hasn't pitched since Friday. Yeah, so I don't know if he's hurt. They claim he's not hurt. They claim it's not an injury. They claim they're hoping it's not a mechanical issue. The VLO's a little bit down. We talked about it yesterday.
Starting point is 00:07:37 and I sent Katie a text. I said, why didn't he pitch? She's like, I'm going to find out. I said, well, if you talk to Dave while we're on our show, please let me know. Because that's just an interest in. Alex got the job done, but he's not our closer. I mean, in two one game, a guy that doesn't pitch yesterday,
Starting point is 00:07:54 hasn't pitched since Friday. It's Tuesday's Tuesday, right? So, like, he's obviously, I mean, I don't know. He's going through something. I just don't know what it is. That was a little peculiar to me. Yeah, to not see him in that game. against his former ball club.
Starting point is 00:08:11 If there is a red carpet to be rolled out for Edwin Diaz to pitch, it was tonight. So it is a little, you know, they got the job done. Alex Vescia is very good at his job. Love the kid. But to not have Diaz ready in that situation, you know, at some point, Dave's, you know, Dave's Davisms are going to catch up to him. And he's going to have to say, yeah, there's something going on. Or it's an injury or we're just, we're slow playing him right now.
Starting point is 00:08:42 We're not going to put him on the IEL yet. And we're hoping everything turns out okay. But you can't just keep saying, no, he's available. Maybe I don't want to talk about it. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Like maybe they're just waiting to see, like let me just rest him for a couple of days to see whatever it is that is, I don't even want to say ailing him because I don't know if it's an injury. But whatever it is that is not allowing him to be an automatic run out there guy.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Um, maybe they're trying to see if like it just calms down, like if he starts to feel better. So they don't have to ILM or are they going to have to like retro activate it back to when I don't know. It's an interesting scenario. So maybe, you know, by the time, um, I don't know. I'm sure that's going to be other, other than the like great game tonight, that's going to be the first question that's asked. Where was that one B. Yeah, yeah. That if, if that's not, I mean, you've been in that seat.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Like, does Kirsten have to ask the. positive question first or can she ask the bigger question like you've been employed by sports net i don't know and and the dodgers i mean she'll probably go positive first i mean she'll probably talk yamamoto first is my guess i mean i don't want to speak for her i don't know how she goes about her business but i mean she'll probably go yamamoto first and then the lockdown effort by the pen but then parlay that into i mean i would think you know you'd parlay that right away into where was where was edwin diaz or, you know, there's a reason that they're not running him out there. I mean, certainly not his usage.
Starting point is 00:10:09 He's arrested. He's plenty of rest. Something's going on. Something's going on. I don't know what it is. Now. And, again, hopefully, Katie, just fight your way to the front.
Starting point is 00:10:20 You know, you're in L.A. now, home girl. You got to, like, sharpen them, them claws a little bit, get to the front. It's a catfighting that, uh, that clubhouse. Like, go for Bill Plunkets knees. Like, she just, she just like, I mean, with Dave in the interview room. Like, as soon as Kirsten's done. Clubhouse was the word I came up with. I'm just trying to tell her to choose violence.
Starting point is 00:10:39 You woke up and chose violence today. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised by you at all. Hey, how about a little bit of a pallet cleanser? We'll continue talking, of course, about this game. But Elisheva asking in the chat, Alana, what does that shirt symbolize? We were talking about before the show. Oh, thank you for asking Elisheva Jones.
Starting point is 00:10:57 So this is from our friends at Athletes Logos. So obviously remember Team Italy, who Clint wanted to win. the World Baseball Classic. I was still in the USA because he had money on Team Italy. But remember they had the espresso. I'll bring it down just a little bit. Remember they had the espresso machine in their clubhouse and dugout during the World Baseball Classic.
Starting point is 00:11:19 So this is what we call it. They also do it in Latin cultures. So this is like the Cafeterra where you make like cortaditos or like we call it, you know, the Cuban coffee, like the little espresso shots. So this is the Cafeterra for Team Italy with the Italian colors. So athletes logos check them out They're super cool they do a lot of really cool stuff and they do it quickly like really fast So they were kind enough to send me a cafe terra
Starting point is 00:11:43 Yeah, so that's what that means so I want to give them shout out Shout out to those folks. I'm going to shout out Gary G4M in the chat because we talked about it kind of glanced over it a little bit here But brings up he's most impressed with Blake Trinan and after what we saw last year Watching him get a win for this team is great And we talked a little bit about Trinan. I think yesterday we've talked a little bit about it with Tanner Scott. With Tanner Scott as well.
Starting point is 00:12:11 To see Blake Trinin come in relief with two guys, the runners are on the corners. There are two outs. And what we've seen a lot from him in recent vintage, last year especially, that would be the recent vintage. We've seen him walk that guy. He was very close to walking that guy, that lead off batter or his lead off better. who he was facing, but the fact that he was able to kind of bear down and break off that slider and hit the bottom of the strike zone, that was big. That was a big moment.
Starting point is 00:12:43 And I had put in our rundown as like, is this the momentum, like that momentum moment that this team needs to score that final run. And then when we talked a little bit, of course, about Kyle Tucker, but it doesn't need to be hit hard. It just needs to find grass. And that's exactly what happened. Hit it where they ain't. That's exactly what Kyle Tucker did.
Starting point is 00:13:02 It was a little flare single. that's all it took. You drove in the winning run or the go-head run at that time, proved to be the winning run, obviously. And that's what you need, you know? Like, just figure out a way, like, figure out, take the pitch that they give you and do something with it, make contact.
Starting point is 00:13:19 You never know what's going to happen when you make contact. So they did exactly what they needed to do. It was a great pitching performance. They got enough offense, obviously, and give credit, obviously, to Nolan McLean pitched really great as well. And the Dodgers ultimately, you know, came out on top.
Starting point is 00:13:33 and the Mets continue to scuffle. I did not think the Mets were going to be this bad, this early on in this season. Much more to come here on Dodgers Territory. Hopefully we'll have some answers about Edwin Diaz momentarily. Get your questions into the chat. We appreciate you guys being here. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Greatest five stars as we try to make our way to 20,000 subs.
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Starting point is 00:15:03 I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind, and now got my own show. So if you're tired of lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week. Film Never Lies, available on all TSN platforms in the IHeartRadio app. Day, there's some good stuff. There's other good stuff that went on around the game, before the game. This is just an opportunity for me, much like Dave got today, to give Teaska Hernandez some love, because he's having himself one hell of a fine season so far. I think his average, yeah, he just dipped under 300, but still, he's hitting the ball hard. You see the 858 OPS.
Starting point is 00:15:41 The homers are there. He's playing, he's not, hasn't been necessarily a problem defensively in left field. It's doing a great job. Doing exactly what you want. You'd love to see that one up. See the left handed average go up a little bit? Yeah. But you know what?
Starting point is 00:15:57 We have talked about at length, the players Clint, that we thought needed to take a step forward or get, back to where they were two years ago. TASQa Hernandez was one of those guys, right? We talked about Tanner Scott and the sample slides that we've had so far. We talked about it on our show yesterday. You've got to give this guy flowers because in the sample slides that we have,
Starting point is 00:16:17 so far, Tanner Scott has done exactly what he's needed to do. Same exact thing with Blake Trinan. Those were two in terms of the bullpen that we said, listen, you cannot perform the way that you performed yesterday, or yesterday last season. You must be able to take it to a different level. and they've done that and the same thing with Teo, right? Teo, whether it was because of the injury last year
Starting point is 00:16:37 or whatever the situation was, he needed to get back to where he was in 2024. The reason everybody was praying and screaming and saying, Andrew, you must bring him back in 2025. And he's doing that. He's doing that. I just got a text from Katie Wu that he threw a bullpen today. So that's what we, that's the speculation anyway,
Starting point is 00:16:59 is that Edwin Diaz, through a bullpen today, which is strange to me because that should not affect his ability to come in. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. You know this organization enough. There's something going on.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Yeah. They're not saying it. Whatever it is, they're not saying it. At least not right now. They're probably still trying to see if whatever it is can calm down before it has to become an I-L stint. That's my guess. That's my guess on that.
Starting point is 00:17:31 But back to what you were talking about. I guess, Teo has done a really good job so far this season. Mookie Betts, any update on him? What do you think is going on there? Yeah, so he was obviously at Dodger Stadium. He's been at Dodger Stadium. He was moving, throwing medicine balls around and all that. You can hear it for me or you can hear what Mookie told our buddy,
Starting point is 00:17:49 more so your buddy than mine. David Vassay will come back and break down where Mookie's at right now. I'm able to throw, run. I feel it, but it's not that bad. Haven't started hitting yet, but we're doing. uh like med ball throws so uh we want to get fully comfortable with like throwing the med ball and like not having really any uh hesitation with that before we start swinging just because i don't want to start developing bad habits because i'm scared to swing you know so um but i mean with all that being said
Starting point is 00:18:24 i mean things are going great i mean it's just an oblique and it's going to take it's going to take time do you only do you feel it still in everyday life or just in certain movements no just when i start doing like sport stuff i mean you know everyday life no it's is is way better and i mean now now it's now it's not i'm pretty normal um it's just when i get here and i start having to do like sport specific stuff is when i start feeling it it it's not that it hurts or i mean it's not that it hurts it's just that you feel it and the more you you don't really want to you don't want to fill it because the more you feel it it's it's it's the mean it's it's the mean it's it's it's it's the mean it's is still healing and any quick movements from there could just re-injure it and then it's then we're in a
Starting point is 00:19:05 much worse spot. Apologies, the audio was a little low there. So hopefully you guys heard it. We'll give you a second to turn your headphones back down or your audio back down. But everything I'm fine with, he's moving. He doesn't want to aggravate it. He's taking his time. And we want to avoid the situation that happened last year where maybe he rushed back from
Starting point is 00:19:26 that sickness and maybe develop. up some bad habits in that swing that took five, you know, four or five months to get out of. So I'm fine with it. You can't, you cannot rush obliques. You can't rush obliques and you can't rush hamstrings. You just can't because once you think you feel good, I mean, any slight movement, if you come back too quickly and you're starting all over again. So you have to be very, very careful.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Chris Murphy 5424 says, just think they didn't want to put Diaz under pressure facing his old team so soon after leaving. Absolutely not. Not when you give a guy that much money. You're running him right back out there. I saw this one as well. I was trying to find the one you just said. Sometimes they're very hard to find in the moment. But Darren bring it up. He has more time to play guitar. Does Moogie. Yeah, I still want to see him playing the one that Brad Paisley gave him because I know Brad wants a picture of that. Yeah, he's got to get to work on that. Yeah, a four 99. Oh, sorry, 499. Yeah, from, we keep messing it off for, for Dade. Francisco. Fernando. Fernando. Francisco. Yeah. The third. Yama Ace was amazing tonight. Great win. Now, one of my favorite days tomorrow. Two reasons, obviously, Jackie Robinson Day. And what? And it's
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Starting point is 00:23:24 What do you make of that? I think it was a shoulder. I might have given you the wrong information there. I'm pretty sure it was a shoulder for Casperius. It also seems a little bit like, yeah, let's just give you a little bit of a break because you have an eight ERA to open the season. A couple of games. Phantom I.L.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Wink, wink, don't tell Rob Manfred about that one. But, yeah, Kyle hurts up. We haven't seen him yet. Happy for him. Happy he's getting some service time. Happy for his pops. Because he's somebody who's always in my DMs and in my mentions trying to tell me, hey, you know what?
Starting point is 00:23:59 I know a guy that can start. I know a guy that can relieve when we hear this person is injured, this person is injured, and this person is injured, and this person is injured. So, Ben Casperius, tough start to his season. Hopefully he takes his time to get some things sorted out there. The other news of the day, how about this button? We got Brock Brock, or as you call him, beef. Brock Stewart went out on a rehab assignment today with a single A Ontario Tower buzzers
Starting point is 00:24:23 down the road for me. The outing has been completed. a clean inning, three strikeouts in that inning for Brock Stewart, somebody who Dave said, he's going to be about three weeks before he's an option to return. He pretty much going through a full spring training. Something also, somebody else, Kiki Hernandez said he's going to go out on a full 20-game minor league rehab assignment because he also did not have. And you imagine Kike in the minor leagues for, I can't get ready.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Get ready, people. That's going to be a good time. You know, I'm setting you up potentially for failure here, but he strikes me as somebody that would be pretty generous. Like, he seems like he would take care. A million percent. That's what I mean. You're right. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:25:06 I don't know if the kids say it anymore, but like, I think that spread would fuck. Wow. With all due respect. With all due respect. What are the people you say, the people used to say back in your day, like, that was bad. That was boss hog. Wait a minute. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:25:27 What I'm like, Dukes of Hazard? What is wrong with you? Shut up. Moving on. Moving on. Thoughts on JT. Justin Turner signing with the Toros de Tijuana. He wants to keep playing baseball.
Starting point is 00:25:43 He found a way to keep playing baseball. That's cool. That's fun. Justin Turner playing baseball is good for baseball. Justin Turner should be on an MLB team. This bums me out. I'm happy for him. because he wants to keep playing and that's fine.
Starting point is 00:25:59 I just, I don't know where, because he's obviously has to be a DH. He's not going to play defense. Yeah. I'm happy for him if this is truly what he wants. I just, I mean,
Starting point is 00:26:10 the faster he stops playing, the sooner he can become a manager, and I think he'll be a tremendous manager. Or some sort of coach. He'll be in the Dodgers organization. That's the important thing. The sooner he stops playing, the sooner he can come home and he could be,
Starting point is 00:26:24 whatever his role is going to be, you know he's going to have that that same badge that's me pulling the thing from my hip because that's I'm assuming that's how Kirsch wears his badge around Dodger Stadium as a special assistant right that is how like JT needs that he needs that badge get him a job he'll get it he'll get it when he's ready to stop playing when he wants it I wish him nothing but the best he's a good dude love the kid yeah nice kid friend of the show actually he's not and as soon as he also retires we could have more of an excuse to have him on here and talk about it his career. Something I know he doesn't want to talk about his career yet because he still wants
Starting point is 00:27:01 to be having a career playing baseball. But shout out JT. Hopefully that he gets one more title down in Mexico. I think that would be pretty fun for him. We got one more super chat on the way out. It is from, oh, it's from Gary, a different Gary. Gary is 2000. It's just money, though. It's just $499 super chat. We appreciate that. Thank you, Gary. We appreciate the support. My guess is that he wanted to type something else and then just something went haywire and this is the poor guy.
Starting point is 00:27:33 He gave us $4.99 for nothing. Sometimes it happens. People just want to support. That's what it is. I appreciate that, buddy. I think, I think, Mateo says, I put the wrong screen up, but it's way too late for a lot of to deal with your energy. I love that he loves our show.
Starting point is 00:27:52 Thanks, buddy. Yeah. We have a good time. We try to have a good time here. And we'll have a good time again. Thursday, noon o'clock Pacific time 3 p.m. on the East Coast. We will be live, Katie. We will be back with us.
Starting point is 00:28:05 And I'm sure we'll be talking about Edwin Diaz heading to the IL by that point. That's what I was going to say to. Call it now. I know. I think you're right. I hope not. But at this point, it's a whole, it stinks. It stinks. It stinks up the high hell right now.
Starting point is 00:28:24 It does. You know what doesn't stick, though? If you guys hit that like button and that subscribe button. Oh, that's true. Yeah. And it also doesn't stink if you become a member. I got all these buttons. I'm going to push them.
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Starting point is 00:28:48 You guys are the best for putting up with us. We appreciate it. We will see you back on Thursday. Katie will be back with us as well. Have a good night. Thanks for being here. We'll see you then. Bye.
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