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off last night in San Francisco, the Dodgers look to get back on track
this afternoon up at Oracle Park as they take on the Giants. Tyler Glass
now on the mound, first pitch coming up at four fifteen. Between then
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also hear from Dodger reliever Evan Phillips. David vas Say. We'll check in
throughout the show, and in just a few minutes we'll check in well.
Rick Monday and Steven Nelson out the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. Well, last
night Landon Nack was pretty good, but the Dodgers offense couldn't come through down
the stretch. The big right hander four and two third innings allowed one run
on five hits. The Dodgers gave him a lead to work with, but
not until the fifth inning. That's when the Dodgers got things going against Logan
Webb. Miguel Rojas a leadoff single. The next batter, Gavin Lux eat
off batter of board for the second time today. Gavin Luck swings to the
first pitch, line drive left center field gap. That'll split the gap and
one hop all the way to the wall. Rojas is gonna be waved around
by Dino Evil? Is there gonna be a relay? No? An RBI
double for Gavin Lucks. The Dodgers on the board first, Gavin Lunx with
his eighth double of the season, his twentieth run batted in as the Dodgers
took a one to nine in lead. Lux would advance to third on a
wild pitch. Three batters later, up came Will Smith, we now north
of seventy pitches, his seventy second. On the way to Will Smith,
Will swings in lines up base, hitting the center field take that Lux will
step on home plate. The Dodger lead. How about that? Indeed,
Will Smith drives in a run, the Dodgers up two to nothing. Landing
Neck had a two to nothing league going to the bottom of the fifth when
Mantos would hit a solo home run to get the Giants on the board.
It was a two to one Dodgers lead. In the sixth inning for a
cal State Fullertson standout Matt Chapman a two run home run that gave the Giants
a three to two lead. The Dodgers down but not out. In the
top half of the ninth inning, Jason Hayward a sackfly, scoring Andy Piez,
who hit a triple before that, that tied the game at three.
The Dodgers had new life going to the bottom of the eighth with Blake Trinon
on the mound when the Giants walked him off as a leadoff walk to Mantos.
Fitzgerald pinch running. The Giants have the potential winning run on base,
nobody out. In the bottom of the ninth, Trinon's one two pitch in
yer right field hit deep wisely toss the pet That bowl is going. The
Giants have walked it off. Somebody named Brent Wiseley with a two run walk
off home run, just his third home run of the season. That one
off Blake Trining in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Giants come back
and win it. Last night they beat the Dodgers five to three, Daniel
Hudson with the blown save Blake Trining. With the loss, the Dodgers have
their four game winning streak come to win in. The Dodgers fall to fifty
one and thirty two on this season, their lead in the division now seven
and a half games over the San Diego Padres, eleven games up on the
San Francisco Giants, who get the win in the series opener last night.
But a new day, new game and Tyler Glass now on the mound for
the Dodgers Game two of this three game weekend series from Oracle Park and with
more, let's head up to the Bay Area the GALPU Moots broadcast booth and
welcome in Rick Monday and Stephen Nelson, Guys, thank you to another gorgeous
day here in San Francisco. Earlier start time, but maybe a little bit
more wins today. MO, what do you think looking out here right now?
Well, there's a little bit of wind and blowing out towards right center
field at least to begin with one thing we know on the banks of the
San Francisco Bay that win could change. And yeah, we get pretty good
windage indication by just looking at the ships anchored out of the bay in which
way that they are sitting at anchor. So, guy, he's blowing out
towards the right center towards right field a little bit today. But we'll find
out one thing about it. Also with the Tyler Glass now throwing, and
he's given up eleven home runs, but for the most part, he does
not have a lot of fly balls that are hit in the ball games,
and he gets a lot of ground balls. In fact, six grounded into
double plays. Hopefully he does that today. I would love that again.
There's so many outings this year. We're like, this is the best we've
seen tyler Glass. Now, wait, this is the best we've seen Tyler
Glass. Now, but last start in the Freeway series seven innings against the
Halo shut him down, only one to earn run, struck out ten and
he we got through those innings on just seventy four pitches. Yeah, and
he attacks the strike celle, there's no offens and butts about it. You
know, this is a big games, a big series, the last series
the Dodgers will play in San Francisco this year during the regular season itself.
And yesterday last night the seventh sellout that they've had. They expect a big
crowd today as well. Don't know if you noticed it coming in the buses
or none. If you want to park right across the street from the ballpark
today, the charge is one hundred and fifty dollars. And as we were
waiting for the busses to pull in, we saw two cars pull in.
They had their hands out. They put the cars in reverse and they back
down. They decided to go somewhere else and walk a little bit farther.
Yes, can I please put this on Rick Monday's tab Rick without to park
the garden Monday with an m Yeah, a hard pass, hard pass.
So last night, you know, the win didn't matter for the three balls
that were hit by the San Francisco Giants that left the yard, Matos Chapman
and then Brett Wisey's first career walk off hit, the two rung shot off
Blake Trent, and the Dodgers walked off for the fourth time this year.
I want to say, mo and so that ended a couple of streaks.
Yesterday, the win streak ends at four. Show hey, with Tany's RBI
streak ended at ten. Yeah, he'll get over it. I know that
from it. I know that from a personal situation has ended at ten.
So he had just started another one today. Knows out of respect for you
that he did not drive in a run right, Yeah, trust me,
he was totally oblivious to that. All right, Tim, We are going
to step aside here for now. We'll come back in a little bit talk
more about Tyler Glass now and the bullpen that the Dodgers will face today in
Game two of this series. The Dodgers trying to even things up against their
rival Giants. All right, thank you, Nelly. If we get you
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Hey Otani won for three last night with a walk on base twice,
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did not factor in the decision last night. He pitched really well four and
two third Indians, gave it just one run on five hit, struck out
seven along the way. The lone run that he gave up came on Almato's
home run in the bottom half of the fifth inning and that was it.
That left with the two to one Dodgers lead, but would leave and not
get a decision in the game when it was all said and done, and
afterwards, Land and Nac talk with the media. I feel I feel like
at the very beginning of the game, my throw was like a little off.
We were we were still making pitches when we need to, but that
was just a little off. And then kind of got my curve ball going
a little bit, and I think that kind of like locked in the rest
of the throw, and so after that, like some things felt much much
easier. And then yeah, fifth inning, you know, leave one over
the plate obviously sometimes it's gonna happen, and then a couple of singles,
but you know, stuff all good. Dave said ahead of your adding that
the focus was just going as long as you can, as far as you
can. How do you just kind of manage yourself? I guess when that's
kind of what's being told to you and you're trying to kind of get deep
into the game things like that, I mean, you just kind of have
to continue to go all out until it's your time to come out and make
sure that you're kind of going all out every pitch because I mean, yeah
again, like you don't know when your last pitch is, so I mean
one hundred percent just trying to go all out the entire time and make every
pitch like it's going to be your last one and just keep on going.
We're trying to go with that home run pitch, I was trying to go
down in a way it just kind of leaked a little up middle a little
bit and just kind of came back on me. What do you sort of
allowed you to start? I know, obviously being up and down while also
being a rookie and trying to get your funeraly, Like, where's allowed you
to sort of have the success you've had there at beginning since your big career
At this point, I think it's it's just been kind of continuing to do
my routine, kind of treat every odding the same little bit. It's like
getting up here and understanding that you don't need to do extra. You just
need to make sure that you are executing your pitches, You're keeping them off
balance and kind of moving things around and just not over complicating things on yourself.
Do you any different having it's a little bit of a runway now in
the rotation. I mean we continue to keep the same mindset, continue to
like you never know when your last ounting is up here. You just got
to continue to take it day by day and just continue to work on your
craft. All right, there's landed Neck. Last night did not factor the
decision four and two third Indians gave up just the one run on five hit
struckout seven. He has pitched really good in his time now up at the
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can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts
with Dave Roberts. You got a glass now today four to fifteen start,
You expect shadows, and I know that's talked about a lot, but how
much of an advantage, even more of an advantage is that for Tyler?
You know, it's certainly an advantage for any pitcher. I think with the
fifteen start in the summer, it's gonna affect the game. Later, so
I think for us it'll be kind of the later innings, right, I
think the shadows, well, we'll come into play. But you know,
right now, Tyler's throwing the baseball extremely well. You know, it's two
fastballs, it's the slider, it's the break in ball. So he's on
a good right now. So I'm excited to see what happens tonight. You
know about openers and how to construct the lineup, what went into the thinking
and what you're expecting. As far as the pitching deployment from the Giant side,
you know, obviously they got this kid going and it should probably be
one inning. That's kind of how they they've used him. So my first
hitter outside of the you know show Hey and Freddie is Jason in the sixth,
which I don't think that they'll get there. So it's a balanced lineup,
and I feel that the guys we ran out there today it's going to
be heavy, right I think, coming out of their pen. So we
met up pretty well today. I think. I know he plays against lefties
and that happens not as often as righty's but as far as Miguel Vargas goes
the second time around, what have you seen from him that has made him
be more successful? You know, it's it's a situation with the roster where
we're at that McGee's only Vargas is only playing verse left. But he's a
guy that's built to play every day. I trust him first right handed pitching.
It's just with who we have giving other guys the opportunity to play versus
right handers. I see a lot of confidence. He's watching the game,
he's prepared, his swing is in a considerably better place. He's taken more
aggressive swings, and he's really cleaned a lot of things up. So really
excited to see, you know what he's done. You know, he looked
back a year ago and he's a completely different player and person than he was
last year. How was he taken to that kind of role and how much
is that sort of confidence he has right now for a player role to being
away with that? You know, he's I don't think he's okay with it,
and I don't expect it, but I think he understands what's around him.
It certainly beats triple A, and I think the good thing about him
is that he's not letting his lack of opportunity affect his mindset. All right,
there's Dave robers down the dugout and talking a lot about Miguel Vargas.
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Basale. All right, DV. We heard your conversation with the man of
the hour yesterday, Javier the bad Boy, and uh, well, are
his five minutes of fame over? DV? I'm afraid so, Tim,
Xavier the bad Boy is just a bad boy again and a clubhouse attendant,
but a very good one. And he took all of that in great stride,
a little nervous when he spoke to the Japanese media yesterday with the same
backdrop, by the way that Otani and Yamamoto speak to the Japanese media with.
So he's just back to normal old Javier. Now, we heard Dave
Roberts a little bit eluding you asked a question about Miguel Vargas. David,
this is a different Miguel Vargas, and we saw the first half of last
year, isn't it. Yeah, And what Dave Roberts said is one hundred
percent true. Miguel Vargas loves being in the major leagues. Even if he's
not playing every day, it's still a better life than obviously the minor leagues.
But Miguel Vargas told me earlier this afternoon that you know what, I
want to play every day when I don't see my name in the lineup,
yeah, my feelings get in the way, but I put my feelings in
this locker, and once I put my uniform on, no more feelings.
I'm part of the team, and whatever they need me to do, whenever
they call upon me, that's what I'm going to do. So that's a
sign of maturity that Dave Roberts was talking about. And it's not just Miguel
Vargas saying that to Dave Roberts, but those are his actions, and when
he says it to somebody like me, who obviously I don't have as much
influence on things as Dave Roberts does, that's genuine. And Miguel Vargus loves
being part of this team. And like he told me, he said,
he puts his feelings in his locker if he's not playing, but he's read
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obviously Vin Scully made that very famous call, if you have a sombrero,
throw it to the sky. Yeah, we'll hear it coming up in just
a couple of minutes. David kek Hernandez. What adjustments is he making or
not making right now? Yeah? Not sure. If you noticed this Tim
Wednesday night in Chicago, he had a very different batting stance. He was
a little bit more with his hands away from his body and the bat a
little bit more straight up to the sky. And I talked to Aaron Bates,
one of the Dodgers hitting coaches, about it yesterday, and he told
me that's an adjustment they decided to go with to keep Key Kate behind the
baseball. It has to do with his hips and how it triggers his hips,
and not to get a little bit too ahead of himself. So even
a guy that's ten years in his major league career making adjustments because obviously he
has not been hitting the ball that well, and he has made an adjustment
just to trigger the hips a little bit differently. All right, DV.
Appreciate it, great stuff. We'll check back with you in just a little
bit. Also looking forward to your conversation with Evan Phillips that's coming up in
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champion Dodger Rick Monday. Rick the Dodgers back in harness tonight, as you
like to say here this afternoon, Tyler Glass now on the mound. Isn't
he tough enough to hit without hitters having to deal with the shadows that will
be here today? Hey, you may be onto something I did not like
hitting with shadows in particular, David, here's the shadows part that to me
was the most difficult, and that's when the infield is in dark shadow and
then you're looking at a very bright, I mean a very bright illuminated background.
Also, if that shadow is about three quarters away from home plate to
the mound, the guy who's delivering the balls in bright sunshine, then it
goes into the dark shadows, and from a hitter's perspective, it's like you
lose the ball for a few feet because it goes from illuminated to all of
a sudden in shadows. It also presents a problem defensively because you're standing at
bright sunshine. It's like standing on the beach and you're looking into dark shadows
at home plate. Not as much here as Wrigley Field. I think Wrigleyfield
can be the most difficult, and the reason is because the way the stands
are stacked upon themselves so much, you know Dodger's standing for example, they're
moved back, so one is not really creating a dark shadow on the all
the way down on the field level. But it is more difficult here,
and I think that's where you see some outfielders that maybe lose a step in
trying to go after the ball, not really picking it up immediately off the
bat. Last night, speaking of outfielders not picking up the ball, it
was an exciting play. I told Andy pa Has a few minutes ago how
exciting his triple was. In the ninth inning. Elliott Ramos was there,
but it clanked off his glove. He climbed it. You know the other
thing about Paz Jose Moden I talked about this on the bus to the ballpark
this morning. Anie pie has showed me something last night, not necessarily with
that triple, with a pitch that was inside to him, that was upstairs,
and he gets back and he's just stared out at the pitcher. Now,
stairs don't win ball games, but the fact that here's a young man
that hey, look, you're not going to intimidate me. And it was
right after that he took a good swing. So those are the little things
that I look at for young players, how they're maturing, how they're not
going into a corner, how they're not going to be intimidated. And for
Adie Pyez, he is not going to be intimidated. It's funny you bring
that up because He also told me that that pitch inside and he motioned inside
and I said, hey, we saw you look out to Duvall. He
said, I did, okay, I'm not going to be scared good exactly,
And I love that because you cannot you can't whimper, you know,
the old saying there's no crying in baseball, at least not publicly. But
how do you react right then and there immediately? And when he showed that
to me, he's going to be just absolutely fine. Not that he had
to prove that to me. He's really advanced beyond his years and what he's
doing really in the pressure cooker and playing a difficult position up the middle.
You have to be strong up the middle, and he's helped be strong up
the middle. Hey, he said one hundred miles an hour and emotion as
Devall buzzed the tower. Yeah, in the FASc lating and you can see
close to one hundred. With the starter for the Giants today, who is
going to go the first inning? So it's going to be bullpen back committee.
We'll see how it goes. The Giants bull been comes in. They're
a little bit gassed, as far as you know. They had to be
used a lot during the series preceding the Dodger's coming into town. We'll find
out how that happens to work out as well. Knew obviously as they rotate
umpires around the diamond. Last night, rookie Edwin Jimenez had a rough night.
And when I know he had a rough night, Rick is when a
player like Will Smith, who's the catcher A and B doesn't complain a lot
is complaining. The antennas go up a little bit more. Yeah, well,
let me give you the report and we do this and I said last
night, and not to single out umpires. They have a very difficult job
to do. But if if an infielder misses the ball and outfielder misses the
ball or doesn't get a good jump, we talk about it where the eyes
and ears and people in their cars are at home listening to the radio don't
know what happened, and it's our job to say, have a bad swing
on a bad pitch. We talk about it. Well with the Edwin Jimenez,
who is a rookie umpire. You know, if you're one hundred percent
right, then there's a great line. I think it was. Bill Kunkle
was americaly umpire at the time when it was Separate American and Nashal came out
with a line that says, people expect you to be one hundred percent right
on opening day and get better as the season goes along. Well for mister
Jimenez, his rating last night in called Strike's accuracy was only seventy four percent.
That's the lowest rating that we have seen of a major league umpire in
a game this year. I'm a big believer, Rick. When a player
like yourself did back in the day have a bad game, or anybody on
the Dodgers has a bad game, they have to stand up and talk publicly
to the media. Yep, don't it. I feel like umpires get let
off the hook a lot of times. Yeah, because they're not approachable.
If there is a controversial play, there will be a crew chief that may
engage, doesn't have to, but may engage with a question or two from
the media, but they'll send a pull reporter in the room. Well,
I said last night in the broadcast that the homeplate umpire last night was getting
more looks in a department store window with a fire sales sign posted up in
it. That's the best way to describe it as only Rick Monday can is
our time? Up? It is Rick, I'll bring you some garlic fries.
A little bit later, Hey, I a bad idea. Thanks Rack.
We'll check in with you and Steven Nelson a little bit later. Forward
to it, David. We'll send it back to Tim Kates in the studio.
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Evan, thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate it. Yeah, of
course, David, thanks for having me. I had to break up my
conversation with Blake Snow when I saw you playing catch. Your catch time was
over. I had a jog over here. Well, I appreciate you making
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I feel like I had to tell you that full disclosure because so many of
your teammates get upset when I talk to him. Not a problem with me.
I appreciate the honesty. And when I said, you check your ego
at the door. There's not too many relievers that obviously get the line's share
of the ninth inning but also understands the role and the importance of pitching in
other innings. How has that been able to stay consistent with you? You
know, I've ut my role and as a major league pitcher, it has
always kind of been flexible up until the past you know, year or two.
So I've understood the value of of every out throughout the ball game,
and uh, you know, the Dodgers value those same things. So I
think, uh, it's kind of like a perfect harmony when you know that's
mindset and it combines with their mindset to get the job done, to win
the game. Right. So, me being versatile in some different roles when
called upon, I think in me having a you know, pretty standard mindset
with that I got, I don't get, you know, to uppor two
down based on what inning I'm throwing. I think it allows us to put
the you know, best you know, guys out there and their roles to
win the game, and you know, more often than not that is going
to be me in the ninth inning to finish the game. But I think
it provides flexibility in our bullpen, and I think you know, the seven
other guys down in the pen, whoever we have on a given days,
they're also willing to do the same thing. I thought the great example of
that was in Chicago. You face the same groupings of hitters in the eighth
inning one night, and then the same in the ninth inning. Yeah,
exactly, And I think you know that speaks volumes to how we'll approach,
you know, certain lineups in certain games. So I think, uh,
you know, not being you know, afraid of those situations and you try
not to have you know, too much ego to say that I should only
pitch in the ninth inning or for whatever reason that may be. Yeah,
I owe a lot to this team, So I'm certainly not going to be
the kind of guy that you know is stubborn about when I'm gonna pitch.
I'm happy to do whatever is and preferably it's one that's helping us win.
Yeah, it feels like we all need constant reminders. When it comes to
the Dodgers, it's not about the inning that you pitch in, but the
groupings of hitters that you're prepared for. Yeah, more often than not,
you know, especially earlier, and you know when the bullpen got started to
get into the game, it's all about their laying and about you know,
what sequence of hitters is coming up with the score is you know, certain
kind of leverage situations like that. Those are all indicators of who's going to
go win win, Uh. You know. Bullpen availability is another thing that
comes into play. You'll see from time to time when we have to force
guys into different spots because we have you know, pittures that are down that
day, things like that. But I'll tell you what, just the way
all that information is communicated, you know, day in day out here is
what makes this machine run so well. Heavian Phillips is our guest super reliever
for the Dodgers. You've had success now two three years running with the Dodgers.
Do you feel like you've taken the next level now where you're starting to
read swings from hitters and be able to make those adjustments in real time.
You know, I really don't even know if it's about, you know,
the the in game adjustments to the hitters. I think it's it's still all
about what I'm doing out there. I think our preparation and our preparation and
our you know, attack plan is always going to be what we fall back
on. There may be moments where you have to react to what the hitter
is telling you, but more often than not, we're gonna stick with what
we're doing. And I think, like you said, to your point,
I've had, you know, two or three years of success at this point.
But to be honest with you, I think I'm finally at that stage
where I fully believe in myself and I have that confidence rebuilt, you know,
from all those times you throw out my struggles early in my career,
I think I finally feel one convicted and what I'm doing, I feel convicted
in, you know, my adjustments up there on the mount and what I
need to do succeed each night. Since you came off the injured list,
do you feel like you've been able to pick up where you left off?
Mostly? You know, there's been a little like hiccups here and there,
and like you, sometimes it's in catch play. Sometimes it's in the game
where you're fighting a feeling versus you know, what's what you're seeing. And
that was definitely the frustration going on the ils. I was in such a
good spot with you know, all of those things, and I was trying
to maintain those things while I was down for four weeks. So there have
been moments here and there where you know, I feel like I'm going to
execute my slider in a certain spot and it just you know, stays on
the plate or you know, trying to expand and things like that. So
those fields are still coming back to full circle for me. But you know,
the work is there every every single day, and we trust that it's
going to be there when we need to. I know, you're always working
on yourself every day. What is the evolution of Evan Phillips. Is it
a new pitch or constantly being able to perfect the pitches that you already have.
Yeah, at this point, I think it's just continuing to you know,
to strive for perfection. And what I'm doing, I think the mix
that I've been showing now for a couple of years has been working well.
So it's more so about you're putting the game, playing together and understanding how
to attack a hitter, understanding the the situation of the ending, and that
has been the biggest adjustment to the ninth inning, and you know, closing
games, finishing games, Understanding how to finish the game and understanding that,
you know, win a guy's on base and it's a you know what kind
of threat is at the play, all the all these factors that come into
play. Talking with guys that have done it in our bullpen, talking with
staff that have you know, seen it and experienced it. Learning that part
of the game has been the next step this year. Evan Phillips is our
guest. He's not just about himself. He has a great baseball IQ.
So I'll ask you this, Evan, Nobody's been able to answer it.
We saw Johann Ramirez in Cincinnati where Dave Roberts need to go out there to
set him down. Ever since that hug, the famous hug on the mound,
seems like a different pitcher. But there's got to be more than just
that, sure, And I think that's that's where the day in the day
day out work comes from. I think you see that moment on the mout
and you see, you know, the recent success since then, but the
credit goes to Johan's work day in and day out. And I think,
you know, our pitching staff or pitching coaches have done a great job,
you know, really giving him some length and some runway to really see this
through. And he has shown us tremendous growth in a short amount of time.
So I think you're saying that he's earned himself even more opportunity down the
line. So I think we'll continue to see a lot of Johann Ramirez and
hopefully he can continue to run with it. What about Anthony Benda. Here's
another guy that was cut loose, the Dodgers pick him up and now he
seems to have a lot of trust from Dave Roberts. Yeah, AB's in
this category. You know, a guy I feel like he was similar to
myself when I first got to the Dodgers, where he had no other choice
but to listen at this point in his career. I think the Dodgers brought
him in and saw, you know, something that they liked, and then
we got him with our team, our group and introduced a couple of new
things, and he's been able to run with it as well, so I
think he's been a great piece for us so far, and we can hoping
that can continue to build as well. Evan, is it a case where
at a certain point in time in your career you finally give in and maybe
be less stubborn than a guy just coming in? And you know, I
guess when you first get here, you feel like you have it all figured
out. You know, it's certainly it's more of an independent like like case
to case situation. Right, So you look at any any acquisition we bring
in, you know, every season, right, so like this year,
you look at ti Oscar Hernandez, who has had plenty of success, all
Star player in his career. He wanted more, he wanted a championship,
and I think he knows that the Dodgers handle things differently. Here. You
look at a guy and maybe we talk about the pitchers. We talked about
Kevin Biggio as well, like another guy that has had success at the major
league level. We bring him in. He's willing to listen, he's willing
to learn, and we're hoping we can take it somewhere. So I think
that mindset when you come to the Dodgers and you know that the goal is
to build a better version of yourself to help this team win a championship.
That message is really clear here, and I think it helps guys on a
day to day basis get their work in and have a plan to how to
get better. Would you even say a player of Chilio Tani's caliber came here
and now he wants more from himself. Absolutely, Shohay Mookie, Freddie Freeman,
all those guys when they first got to the Dodgers, it was they
signed here for a reason. They signed here to win championships and to build
better versions of themselves and help you know, they're part of it and help
the team win games. So I think you know, there's no one that's
immune to it on this team. I think it's one of the Dodgers standards
that we all, you know, kind of abide by here. I think
it's it's a great recipe, you know, to win baseball games, and
now our next step is putting that together in the postseason winning a championship.
I know you're always thinking the game, seeing what's going on around the league.
As we are just a month away from the trade deadline, do you
start to run scenarios and mock trades. You know, I definitely don't.
I don't put names to it by any means, but you know there's plenty
of that going on behind the scenes. You know, I wouldn't be surprised
if we see some movement. I think it's natural for competitive teams to want
to get better. And I can probably say this for as far as our
front office goes that they're in the business of getting better and winning baseball game.
So if an opportunity to work to present itself, I'm sure we won't
be shy to make that happen. So you're not like Zach Granki back in
the day where he's on the Dougat railing and tells a j Ellis I would
trade you. No, definitely not who I am. But I've heard those
stories and they're all pretty incredible. Evan, thanks a lot for the time.
Great to see you and your family on this road trip, and continued
success and health the rest of the way. Yeah, sir, thank you
very much. There he is the man, the super reliever, nice guy
off the field, animal on the mound. Evan Phillips will send it back
to you studio Tim. All right, thanks a lot of DV Thank you
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that's tied for the fourth most of the Major leagues. Left handed batters
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nine with six home runs off him. Tyler Glass now on the mountain for
the Dodgers eight and five with a two and eight eight ERA. Thirty year
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last timeout seven shutout innings, two runs, two hits while striking out two
to ten for his eighth win of the season. That was against the Angels.
He struck out double digit batters six times already this season. He leads
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Facing the Giants for a fifth time in his career, second time this season,
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tim getting closer and closer to the four to fifteen scheduled start time the Dodgers
and Giants Game two of this series. Logan Webb, the game one starter
for San Francisco, was the only announced starting pitcher in this series for SF.
That's because he's one of the rare healthy starters in their rotation. Jordan
Hicks, a converted reliever, he is there as well. But so many
guys on the injine list, you know, Blake Snell, Alex Cobb,
Kyle Harrison, Keaton Win the list. It keeps going on for them,
and so Logan Webb. Him getting through seven innings last night was was huge
for Bob Melvin because it helps give their bullpen a breather. Knowing that we
got potentially two bullpen games lined up for the Dodgers against the Giants here these
next two games. Yeah, and I think if you look at San Francisco,
they're gonna start Eric Miller, the left hander. First of all,
he throws very hard. The second thing is when you start to look at
us, so, oh my goodness, is eight start of the season,
well all eight, including today, had been as the opener. He has
averaged eleven to twenty pitches in the game. But here's why he's starting the
ballgame today. He equalizes left handers they've hit only won thirty What about lefties
in the Dodger line? Obviously Otani down the leadoff spot, the third batter,
the left hander Freddie Freeman. So trying to really eliminate if you can
instead of nine innings, they're hoping is very good against the two of the
three first batters and being left handed, and reduce it to eight innings and
try and win it that way. The Dodgers' record against left handed starters this
year is very good. You look at it, say twenty two and eight.
Well, four of those eight losses have been against left handed openers.
They're one and four when facing a left handed opener, as they will tonight
against Eric Miller. So it's a strategy that the Dodgers have seen and it's
been effective against them this year. And they've also seen Miller in fact four
different games, all in relief, two times in May twice. Also if
you go back to April. But again he's not going to be in there
for very long. This is his eight start again as an opener, plus
thirty two strictly out of the bullpen, but one thing about it, I
have to look for changeups. He's gonna throw some heat and high heat at
home plate. Well, we're gonna see heat on both sides. The miller
from the left for the Giants, and of course Tyler Glass now from the
right side for the Dodgers. Already at one hundred innings this season, just
the third time he sent the century mark for innings pitch in a single season
in his career. He has been dynamite for the Dodgers his first year.
He is probably going to be an All Star, and hopefully he can pitch
the Dodgers to a win today to even this three game series here by the
Bay. Time back to you, all right, appreciate it, guys.
Dodgers fifty one and thirty two. The Padres, they've already won today.
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