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and twenty eight on this season first place a top the NL West after coming
back in beating the Royals last night. In this series opener, the Dodgers
look to make it too straight over Kansas City. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound
for the Dodgers tonight, first pitch coming up at six ten. Between then
and now, we got a lot to get to here on Morongco Casino Dodgers
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went Junior, the second overall pick in the twenty nineteen MLB draft, made
his major league debut in twenty twenty two. He is one of the young
stars we'll hear from him coming up at about five forty five. We'll also
check you with Kirsten Watson. We got your o Tani rewind. Then in
just a few minutes we'll hear from Rick Monday and Tim Neffert out the Gallpin
Motors Broadcast booth. Well last night, the Dodgers fell behind early, tied
it up, and then won it late thanks to Freddie Freeman. Gavin Stone
got the start seven innings, three runs, only four hits along the way,
struck out three, but he got into trouble in the fourth inning.
Salvador Perez hit a four hundred and thirty seven foot three run home run to
left to give the Kansas City Royals a three to nothing lead. Meanwhile,
Cole Reagan's pitched pretty well for the Kansas City Royals until the fifth, when
the Dodgers finally got to him. Miguel Rojas a two run home run down
the left field line that made it a three to two Royals lead. Then
later in the inning, Chris Taylor home run tied it to one. Pitch
hits, a drive to left field and deep. This ball headed back to
the wall. It's gone. The first came run of a season for Chris
Taylor and it ties the game at three. Two home runs of the inning
for the Dodgers. It's a three to three ball game. It's been a
while since Chris Taylor is able to circle the bas as his first home run
of the year. That one the left center three hundred and ninety six feet.
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would end up going seven innings. Daniel Hudson would pitch the eighth. In
the bottom of the eighth inning, the Dodgers got a little something going against
the Kansas City bullpen. Mookie Betts got on the base. Freddie Freeman came
up and gave the Dodgers the lead. Smith sat at the bell, looks
at second. Now Kicks comes to the plate and Freeman Benson in the center
field of base hit Rookie around third already he's on his way to the plate.
He stores Freddie Freeman with the go ahead run down It in at the
bottom of the eighth. That's four to three Dodgers lead. What hit by
Freddy Freeman, who's at two eighty six with runners in scoring positions, so
that mistake you give the Dodgers a little bit of gamp, then they will
take advantage of it. Freddy Freeman drives in Mookie Betts to an advanced on
a wild pitch that scores the go ahead run at the bottom of the eighth
with two outs, Dodgers up four to three. Alex Vessio will walk a
little bit of a tight rope in the ninth inning, but get out of
it with the same Daniel Hudson gets the win. He's now three and one.
Dodgers get the victory four to three over the Royals to improve to forty
three and twenty eight on this season. The Dodgers last night also able to
pick up a game on the San Diego Padres. Padres, by the way,
have already lost again today, so the Dodgers at the moment a seven
and a half game lead over the San Diego Padres eight and a half games
over the Arizon. The Diabacks the chance to pick up a half game more
tonight. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound game two of this three game sent first
pitch is six to ten and with more let's head out to the gaping Motors
Broadcast booth, as we say hello to Rick Monday and Tim Never guys,
well, thank you Tim very much, as we get you ready for Game
two between the Dodgers and the Royals here at Dodgers Stadium. It is an
absolutely picture perfect evening here once again, temperatures will be in the low eighties
as we get ready to start this ball game tonight. Meantime, the Dodgers
come in with forty three wins twenty eight losses. They are currently seven and
a half up on the Padres, the Mets beating the Padres earlier today five
to one, so the Dodgers leading the division by seven and a half.
The Royals are six in back of the Cleveland Guardians in the American League Central
at forty and thirty one. The Royals, meantime, we've lost five of
their last six games, and they are twelve and twenty against teams that are
five hundred or better. So perhaps their schedules catching up with them a little
bit. And the meantime, the Dodgers looking to string a few wins together.
Yeah, and for this Dodger ball club, I mean a thrilling win
last night, as Freddie Freeman delivered the game winning what proved to be the
game winning base hit to score Mookie Benz in the bottom of the eighth inning.
But you know, we keep talking about the bottom part of the Dodger
lineup has really been a challenging no question about it. But Miguel Rojas,
batting seventh last night, hit a two run home run. This was after
the Dodgers were down three to nothing. And then two batters later, Chris
Taylor, batting the nine spot, his first home run of the season,
and that was on a changeup and he went yard. So this Dodger ball
club, they come from behind victory, which is needed because if you look
at the Dodgers season tim you know they began thirty three and seventeen. Well
since the twenty first of May, they're one game below five hundred, ten
wins, eleven losses. So maybe turned things around last night with a winning
imagined that last night. This was the time of year it's called the June
swoon. They're game under five hundred right now in the last twenty one as
you mentioned, But again, a chance for a series victory here if they
can beat Kansas City tonight. They have had very good success against Kansas City
at Dodgers Stadium. Seven career meetings here, the Dodgers have won six of
them. Yeah, and for the Royals, they're feeling pretty good about themselves,
and they should. I mean, they're forty and thirty one. It's
been quite a turnaround if you look at the Kansas City rules, because remember
last year they were fifty six wins and one hundred and six losses. So
they're kind of, you know, shooting to the moon as far as what
they're doing right now. They're within striking distance, but like you were saying
earlier, they need to put together a string of wins to kind of close
the gap. Trailing now Cleveland by six. Rookie bats has quietly put together
an eight game hitting streak. Freddie Freeman's hit in four straight. Freeman with
the game winning RBI last night. Sho Heltania a couple of hits in the
game last night, and last night's at bats looked much better than previous at
bats in recent days where he didn't appear to be expanding the strike zone.
It all, yeah, better balanced, because the previous dozen games for sho
hey Otani had hit below two hundred one. He was nine for forty seven,
but last night the balance was much much better that we saw, in
particular the last road trip. So the Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals Game
two of this three game interleague series. The way the schedule goes, these
two teams will play every year, but in each other's ballparks every other year.
So that's the way the new schedule goes. That went into play last
year, so we can expect to see Kansas City and the Dodgers playing a
lot more often than they have in the past. The Dodgers eleven and eight
all time against the Royals. Counting it down to the first pitch here at
Dodgers Stadium on a beautiful night, it's the Dodgers and the Royals coming up,
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but up next the Dodgers superstar Otani and the Otani ree one plus we'll visit
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That's him the right field past the diving second baseball lofton and that's a
base hit for Otani. Man that ends the string of ten straight set down
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Swung Island hit it a center field. That's a base hit for Otani.
He's two for three, a leadoff single for Show hit and the go
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Hey, Kirston now joins us from the stadium on this Saturday night before the
Dodgers and the Royals. Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets to start tonight. Kirson on extended
rest too. Yeah, Yoshioba is coming off of I would say his best
outing of the year so far. He was absolutely fantastic at Yankee Stadium.
That obviously is a very good lineup, and how he just controlled not only
himself his stuff. He was absolutely fantastic and so coming out of it,
his pitch count was hying out up to one hundred and six pitches, so
Dave Roberts he originally was supposed to pitch in the Ranger Series, but Dave
felt that because of the emotions, the intensity of playing at Yankee Stadium in
that matchup, and just what it required. We saw quite the uptick in
velocity for Yoshiobu when it came to his just his pitches and stuff, so
they wanted to give him an extra day so that he could feel better.
From talking to him, he said that his body felt really good, but
he did have just a little bit of feeling tired coming out of it.
So he actually had a conversation with the coaches and they just felt like it
made more sense to give him an extra day and run him out here in
this Ranger series. So hopefully he can continue just kind of carrying over that
momentum. He does believe that the uptick in velocity was due to not only
the environment but also some mechanical changes. So yeah, so hopefully he'll be
able to keep it going. I don't think we'll see as you know,
at like ninety eight and we saw Yankee Stadium, but I do think it'll
be a little bit higher, especially if the mechanical changes we've been working on
does lean that way. Speaking of keeping it going, this Dodger's bullpen leads
to keep it going as a collective unit, they've been really good. Yeah,
they've been really good. They've been best in baseball since April twenty first,
So the numbers for them have been just fantastic. And with talking to
Blake China a couple of minutes ago, he was saying he really believes that
it's due to quite a few things. One, there's a lot of veteran
leadership in the bullpen and these are guys who have been around this Dodge organization
for a while, so that definitely helps. But then you have there's so
much support not only from each other, but from the coaches. He was
saying that between Josh Bard, Connor McGinnis, Mark Pryor, they put them
in this situations to be very successful. And by doing that, whether it's
you know who, they're looking to be matching up again, the lanes are
going to go out and having multiple high leveraged arms available, is that because
of that they can have a lot of success because they're put into positions to
be successful. So I think it's very telling. He even also added,
he said, you know, he with different organizations that he's been a part
of, he truly believes that when it comes to preparing the pictures, and
it's not just those three guys I mentioned. There guys behind the scenes that
also have a lot of impact, but he felt that the Dodgers they do
that the best. And so you're just seeing kind of a representation of all
of the support they have that they can go out there, they know what
they can do, they can be effective, and so we're getting the results.
And a guy like Blake Trinon, who had an interesting kind of start
to the season, came back healthy, but then for spring training took that
comebacker off of his ribs and then was down for a while. They're hoping
it won't be able to play in South Korea. He wasn't able to,
and so because of that, you know, that was a little bit challenging
for him. So he's just happy to be back and healthy and playing some
really good baseball. And he's got a zero ear right at the moment.
Yeah, Hey, what else could you ask for? It? You can't
ask much more from him. He's been fantastic here so we appreciate it.
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with the Dodger skipper. Questions for Dave, Dave, can you just describe
Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts David
Yoshinobu today after his outing in New York, he talked about just the uptick
of velocity. I know, we talked about the emotions at the moment,
but he also felt like there were a couple of mechanical changes that might have
led to it as well. What have you been seeing from him and do
you think there can be some carry over into this outing tonight. You know,
I can't really speak to the mechanical adjustments that he made with the pitching
guys, I did certainly see the uptick in velocity and the great performance.
I think, you know, we try to give Hi an extra day just
to kind of get off that high and be able to reset back here at
Dodger Stadium, but he feels good physically and it'll just be interesting to see
which I was curious also with Gavin Stone last night, coming off a big
series against the Yankees, and how he would respond here. And he passed
with flying colors, and I expected the same thing from Yoshinobu. And you
guys are going up against Seth Lugo. What have you been seeing from him
this year? And how is he impressed? You know, Seth Lugo is
a guy I've always admired from the other side. It just seems like he's
very methodical, very cerebral in how he prepares for major league hitters for a
game, even when he's in the bullpen. It just seems like he was
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all right, DV. Last night, Chris Taylor did something he hasn't done
all year, and that's hit a home run. Can we see more of
CT three now? Well, you'll see him when the matchup is conducive to
him having success or giving him the best chance to have success. And I
know there's been a lot of criticism of Chris Taylor and a lot of questions
about why the Dodgers still carry him on the roster. The facts are is
Chris Taylor is the twenty fifth guy, twenty sixth guy on this roster.
He plays once or twice a week tim and he has come up with a
lot of big hits for the Los Angeles Dodgers since twenty seventeen. And last
night, you know, in a regular season context, was a big hit.
Two outs. He ties the game with a home run, the first
since last September seventh. So I know everybody's itching to get rid of Chris
Taylor. But for a guy that doesn't play every day, plays once or
twice a week and has the history of coming up with big hits, and
the Dodgers have the big lead in the NL West, there's no reason to
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gonna get a start on this next road trip DV. How's he feeling after
his last rehab appearance. I actually talked to him earlier today, Tim,
and I said, you know what, it's funny how everybody's trying to dissect
your rehab assignments the last two, especially because, as I told you three
weeks ago, Tim, he was ready to go, but the Dodgers were
not ready to have him come back. He will pitch next Wednesday at Corsefield,
and he just told me the adrenaline adrenaline level was not there for him.
The last couple of rehabs starts because you know, obviously he's he's ready
to go and wants to be pitching in the Major League, So he's been
itching for three weeks to get back, and obviously coursefield, no pitcher is
looking forward to pitching there. But in this case, Bobby Miller is why
seven days rest for Yamamoto dv Well, the Dodgers are saying that after that
emotional start a Yankee Stadium where he threw harder than he has thrown all season
long, topping ninety eight miles an hour on the fastball and throwing one hundred
and seven pitches, the Dodgers just felt like, for the big picture,
long term, let's play it safe and have Yamamoto on seven days rest.
Whether or not there was an underlying issue that we don't know about remains to
be seen. If ever we will hear about it. Because he's pitching tonight,
right, They're not just putting him on the il, So the Dodgers
must feel comfortable enough that all he needed was a couple of extra days rest
and really, tim that's the biggest challenge for the Dodgers the rest of the
season, not only how do they keep glass Now and Yamamoto healthy, but
how do they keep them at a point where their stuff is still at its
peak in October because they especially need Tyler glass Now to be that guy he's
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Royal superstar shortstop Bobbywood Junior is going to join us. That's a good find.
How long did you wait in the line to get that one? Wow?
I guess the reason why I was able to get to him is I
cut him off at the pass. But what a play in the seventh inning
last night? Right? Yeah? Well, he's just an outstanding player.
And also I think he understands the attention that he going to get because of
his athletic ability and what he means this Royals team and the fact that he
also, you know, second generation major league good player. And the nice
thing is he's good enough to where people want to talk to him instead of
you know, they say, oh, hello, that's about it. By
the way, speaking of hello, I was talking to you yesterday. I
said, Hey, the night before the Dodgers will lose, and I thought
you needed a helmet to do the postgame show last night. Is like,
nobody called and that was a heck of a ballgame, and you were asking
for phone calls to be made to postgame Dodger Talk. I mean, you're
better off doing the show after they lose. Unfortunately. Yeah, it's okay
to call in to celebrate the accomplishments of the players. What a difference twenty
four hours make, right, Rick, Because the last three games the Dodgers
were involved in, it came down to the eighth inning and the three best
hitters. Yeah, and that's the big deal. I'm glad you brought that
up because looking at some numbers today, we have been talking for a long
time about, well, the top of the order's been pulling the wagon and
the bottom part of the order, well, not so much. And up
until about two and a half weeks ago, the bottom part of the order
wasn't pulling much of the wagon at all. How Over, here's some numbers
that I think are worth mentioning because since May twenty eighth, so the last
sixteen games, the numbers seven, eight, and nine hitters combined in this
Dodger lineup are now hitting at two nighty over that period of time. So
we're beginning to see now a lot more production at the bottom, which just
really kind of enhances what happens at the top. Guys at the top we
set up before David, they cannot stay hot the entire season. Mookie Bets
cooled off a little bit. Show Hey O Tanis cooled off a little bit.
Freddie Freeman came through with the game winning hit last night in the bottom
of the eighth dunning, but that was after Bets got the single with two
outs. For some reason, there was a throw over the first to try
and pick him up. A huge error. And you cannot give a good
team tames, you know, an extra out if you will, or allowed
them to get someone at the scoring position, and it wound up being a
big, big deal for the Stander Baul club. I'm so happy you brought
that to light Rick about the bottom third of the order, because it feels
like we've been bombarded with the fact that they have not produced, but all
of a sudden now when they performed the way they have, you don't really
hear that too often. No, And again that date goes back the last
sixteen games. The seven eight to nine hitters combined are hitting at two to
ninety. Also in a period of time, seventeen extra base hits in those
sixteen games, including six home runs, and for Chris Taylor finally connected last
night, Miguel Rojas also hit a big two run home run, both of
those home runs coming in the third inning, which tied the game at three
to zero at that particular time. So again, bottom third of the order
stood large last night. I'm sure you could appreciate the feeling Chris Taylor shared
after the game. He was very candid by saying, I'm so happy to
hit that home run. I thought I would never experience that again. Yeah,
well he was going to at all hard work he's been putting in,
including this afternoon. Again, really happy for Chris Taylor. You know one
thing about it, he does not make alibis. He says, Hey,
look, it is what it is. He works hard each and every day,
and I hope that that's a big stepping stone for Chris Taylor who hit
that home run. Here's the other thing too, is it Taylor now with
two strikes the last thirty six at match, Now with two strikes, he's
not had a base hit. So that's something I'm certain it's kind of wearing
on his mind as well. And is he going to change the swing a
little bit to try and put it into play more often? And hopefully that
that's going to be the case. We'll see how the Dodgers do today against
Seth Lugo. It is Barnes Day at Dodgers Stadium. Yeah. I hope
you get some phone calls in the postgame show tonight, David, even after
a win. Okay, thanks, Rick, appreciate it. We'll check in
with you and Tim Neverett a little bit later. For now, we'll send
it to Tim in the studio. Kates, all right, thanks a lot,
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now by Bobby widd Junior. Bobby, thanks a lot for the time,
and welcome to Los Angeles. Yes, thank you, thank you, and
happy belated birthday. I guess that was not the greatest birthday. You guys
did not get the win, but it was the first time you played at
Dodgers Stadium. Did you have a chance to take that all in? Yeah,
it was pretty It was pretty special. Just the weather out here,
the fans, I think there was almost fifty thousand here last night, and
just the atmosphere was great. Stadium is great and just kind of there's a
history here and so even with my dad playing playing here and I think he
hit his one and only home run here, so which is pretty special to
be able to kind of play here. And yeah, do that. Do
you know who that home run was off of? Pretty sure as ishmael Valdez.
Oh yeah, mister blister. He had a lot of blisters back in
the day. Yeah, that's awesome. Were you here when your dad hit
that homer? No? No, his last year was in two thousand and
one, and I was born in two thousand, so I can't remember what
year he hit the homer, but it was before. They might have been
nineteen ninety five or something. So yeah, oh man, you're making this
all feel old. Yesterday was Bobby's twenty fourth birthday. And I guess when
you come to a stadium like this or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, there's
a lot of history on this field. Some players are not able to really
appreciate it. What's the balance there? Yeah, that's that's It's something huge.
You got to enjoy every moment and just take it all in because once
your career's done, once baseball's over with, the game is going to keep
going and so really it's just to take it, take it all in.
That's even what kind of talked to Dave Roberts a little bit just now.
You just said, just take it all in and enjoy it, go out,
venture out, and just be where your feet are. And so that's
pretty much a big thing for me is just to enjoy everything that I do,
because you never know when your last day is going to be playing baseball,
and once it's done, it's gonna keep going. So enjoy every moment
and just have a lot of fun. Bobby, we know where your feet
were last night in the seventh inning. That was one of the most incredible
catches A that I've ever seen, and b one of the most incredible baseball
IQ plays I've ever seen. How did you have the presence of mind to
not try to make that play by yourself, but to find your second basement.
Yeah, it's just one of those reactionary plays you just kind of just
happens, and then next thing you know, we get a double play.
And so yeah, I just knew that try to make a play on the
ball first, or try to help help our pitchers out. And then once
that happened, I knew that if I try to make a play towards first,
someone's gonna be there. And I loften was there and you made a
great throw and make it quick transfer and everything got to double play and so
it was great. So it's another case of you trusting your teammates that they
would be in the right spot no doubt. Yeah, one hundred percent.
And that's kind of what we're doing here. We do our work where you
try to get prepared each and every day. But then we got to pull
for each other. That's how we got to do it and just to the
next guy, and that's our mentality and that's it's been working a lot and
just got to keep getting better every day. It feels like you're a rover.
I know this is not softball, but it feels like the Royals have
three outfielders on the left side. You get to a lot of fly balls,
pop ups and shallow left field. Yeah, it's just kind of just
try to some of the stuff we do in the offseason. Just put your
body in crazy, crazy movements and just try to get good jumps on that.
And then I had a little bit of a football background. I was
a wide receiver just going after the football and try to catch touchdowns, and
so that's baby had something to do with it. Just I just want to
try to make plays in the ball. Yeah, we saw that. It
looked like you were a wide receiver in the seventh inning last night. Yeah.
Yeah, just those are the fun ones for sure. Bobby Witt Junior
is our guest driving in. I was listening to Buster Only's podcast and he
had JJ McCullough on, and he was describing just the conversations you had with
the team on wanting to stay long term in Kansas City, and it wasn't
about you, it was about the team. How are they going to build
a winner. It feels like you guys are taking that step this year.
Yeah, definitely. That was something that was huge that JJ and the whole
front office did and the moves they made, the veterans we brought in with
the core group that we have here is a lot of fun and we got
a great team here and that is why the reason I call this place my
home now. And so it's just one of those things where it's just got
to keep getting better every day and just keep vibing with the team and enjoy
it. We know your name, we know your dad, Cavin Bigio's now
with the Dodgers. There seems to be more players in Major League Baseball right
now than ever before that had dads that played before them. Can you put
your finger on why that is? I don't know. I just fell in
love with the game at such a young age. And I don't know if
it's just because of how much passion my dad has for the game, just
because of he growing up. That's every day we had baseball on, We're
talking about baseball, whatever it was, and so it's just it's one of
those things where I just loved it ever since I was growing up, and
I wanted to follow his footsteps in a way, and so that's definitely like
a dream of mine. But then also just didn't I was playing at every
other sport too, but baseball was just where my heart was at shortstop spend
your life, I assume for a very long time. Do you have an
appreciation for what Mookie Betts is trying to do? Yeah, definitely. It's
incredible just to see his work ethic that he does to put in the work.
Even I got a chance, I had the opportunity to play with him
and with the WBC whenever. Yeah, and so just the work he was
putting in because he knew he wasn't gonna be playing short for that team but
he was just still put in the work because he knew that there was a
chance he'd be playing short last year, and then just the work that he
puts in just to become a shortstop. And I know, I think he
said on a podcast something that's one of the most toughest things they ever done,
but he's I think doing a great drum. Did you feel like you
grew a lot as a baseball player being part of that team USA Team?
Yeah, definitely, just being around those guys, seeing their routine, seeing
their work ethic. There are a reason why those guys are All Stars every
year in the way that they handle themselves, They take care of their body,
and just it was great to pick their brains and just be a part
of that team. Hey, Bobby Wood Junior, way to introduce yourself to
Los Angeles. It was awesome to share you with Dodger fans and you certainly
are a champion of a per so thank you for the time. I really
appreciate it. Yes, thank you, thank you for having me there.
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the two thirty six ERA veteran right handed thirty four years old, ninth season
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seven innings, four runs, eight hits, four strikeouts in a loss to
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is two and two at a six thirty ERA. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound
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in his first season out of Japan, making his fourteenth start this season last
time out, he was fantastic over one hundred pitches, seven shutout innings,
two hits seven strikeouts in a no decision at Yankee Stadium last weekend. He
was absolutely fantastic, ranked second on the Dodgers in strikeouts, tied for second
in games started, and second in innings pitched. Tonight his first career start
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Two guys on the call tonight, Rick Monday and Tim Nevers. Tim thanks
again, we get you ready for tonight's ball game. Dodgers Royals schame two
of this three game set. Yoshinovo Yamamoto at six and two with an ERA
of an even three, going against Seth Lugo. Lugo nine and two with
a two three six ERA. One of the best pitchers in baseball right now.
Last year with the San Diego Padres, prior to that with the New
York Mets, signed with the Royals as a free agent in mid December.
Lugo has been a tough customer and he is looking to become just the second
pitcher in Major League Baseball this year, along with Ranger Suarez of the Phillies,
to get to the ten win mark. Tim just looking at the numbers
of the this should be a long night for hitters and for Yamamoto. You
start to look at the two stars that he's made already in the month of
June. While he's one to oh, era is below one and the batting
average against is below two. However, once this the first inning has been
somewhat problematic for him this year, over a three hundred batting average that ERA
over five and a half in the first frame. Yamamoto is scheduled to pitch
Thursday night here at Dodgers Stadium. However, the Dodgers decided to push him
back a couple of days give him even more rest, and tonight he is
pitching on seven days rest. Yeah, and so how long he'll go,
we'll be able to find out. And for Lugo, he's one of those
guys once he gets runners on base, in particular runners in scoring position,
just a one eighty batting average. Signed as a free agent in December,
and boy, the Royals really enjoying having his presence seth Lugo on the hill
for Kansas City. Joshinobo Yamamoto looking for his seventh win of the season,
making his fourteenth start for the Dodgers Royals. Coming up from Dodgers Stadium.
Lineups. First pitch right around the corner. All right, thank you,
guys, first pitch coming up. Don't forget after the game, David Massey
has got you covered with all the postgame highlights, a reaction from the clubhouse
from the manager, Dave Roberts, and of course, Dodger Talk as well
on our flagship A five seventy LA Sports is Game two of this three game
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