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Dodgers forty six and thirty on the season, first place atop the NL
West after taking the first two games in Denver of this series. The Dodgers
fell to the Rockies last night, but tonight they're right back at it,
a chance to win the series at Coors Field, Gavin Stone on the mound.
In the series finale, first pitch from Denver's coming up at twelve ten.
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That was yesterday today, Andre Ehier. Shortly we'll check in with Kirsten
Watson, and in just a few minutes we'll hear from Rick Monday and Tim
Neverett out the Galpin Motors broadcast boot Well last night in Denver. It was
the return of Bobby Miller, who ended up giving the Dodgers almost seven innings
six and a third, five runs, six hits, three walks, two
strikeouts in a home run. The home run, well, that was a
three run shot in the first. This is Bomby Miller's first start since the
tenth of April and his two zero pitch to Tolia I swung on pretty well
hit center field deep back. After it, piz Andy looks up, it's
gone a three run holding Michael Tolia's sixth home run of the year and the
Rockies on the board. It is three to nothing is Nicknahn and Stallings come
in to score ahead of Tolia. Michael Tolia the three run home run four
hundred and twenty seven feet to the center field that gave the Rockies a three
to nothing lead in the first, but that didn't last long. In the
second show, he Otani cleared the bases with a basis clearing double. The
game was tied at three, then Freddy Freeman a single to right that score
Otani. The Dodgers with four four in the second retook the lead up four
to three, but in the fourth the Rockies would tie it up in the
fifth, the Dodgers would retake the league. It's like a ping pong match,
back and forth. Jason Hayward with the RBI double Dodgers up six to
four in the seventh, ought Bortcherit scored on an air that brought in a
run. It gave the Dodgers a six to five lead. A couple of
sackflies in the seventh and ninth that tied the game and then gave the Rockies
the walkoff win in the ninth inning. Doyle to sackfly, scoring cave as
the Rockies win it in the ninth seven to sixth. The final, The
Dodgers saw a good effort from Bobby Miller last night. He gave him the
inning. It's not necessarily a great performance, but gave him a good an
outing into the seventh, the Dodgers' bullpen just had to get an inning in
two thirds as Johann Ramirez gets the loss. Dodgers fall to forty six and
thirty on this season today, though they still have a chance to get the
series win before heading home for a two game series against the Anaheim Angels.
Gavin Stone on the mound this afternoon and with more, Let's head out to
the gallopin motors broadcast both as we say good morning to Rick Monday and Tim
never guys, thank you Tim. Beautiful afternoon. Not a cloud in the
sky right now over Coors Field in Denver's we get set for game four of
this four game set, Dodgers looking to win three of four, Rocky's trying
to spoil it and split after last night's walk off win for Colorado. Ty
Block will get the start for the Rockies today. He's three and four in
a four to six five era. Gavin Stone will go for the Dodgers.
He is seven and two in a three to z oh one and the young
man making his fourteenth start pitching pretty well lately. But we go back to
last night moment a game the Dodgers had the lead after the sixth inning six
to four, Rockies took advantage of an error in the seventh inning by Cavin
Biggio, scored an extra run, tied it up, and it came down
to the bottom of the night. So many times we're looking at losses of
games and he's trying to find something that's positive. It's not that difficult to
find something positive. Last night and even though the loss, as you mentioned,
seven to six. But if you look at Bobby Miller, after settling
down in that first inning he started, he had a ground ball out,
he had a strikeout very quickly, two outs in a walk, there was
a single, and then the three run home run. After that, Bobby
Miller really showed the reason why the Dodgers were anticipating his return because he wound
up going six in the third innings five runs, yes, but only six
hits. He walked three, struck out two. But the other thing too,
is he had three ground ball double plays, so he pitched to situations
and for Miller, a very good outing at least in my estimation, in
coming off the injured list, because if we look back, the outings that
he had in the rehab starts were not particularly great, with the command of
strike zoned last night after the first inning much better. Now. Bobby says
he's feeling very well today, which is good news as far as runs are
concerned, and the offense runs have not been that tough to come by in
this series. These two teams have combined for forty seven runs over the first
three games, now the most run scored in the series. So far this
year sixty five the A's and the Rangers back in early May and Oakland.
But you know this is cors Field. The Dodgers could get and the Rockies
could get up to sixty five runs, who knows. And and for the
Dodgers trying to get things going show, Hey Otani again is going to lead
things off. He's in that leadoff spot. He's done a very good job
since the loss of the Mookie Bets with a fractured hand. And for Otani,
he's reached based safely now in eight of his sixteen plate appearances as the
leadoff hitter and he's seven fifteen in that stretch, so he's really helped set
the table and get it going. So Tani, then Will Smith, followed
by Freddie Freeman, then Tioscar Hernandez again against the left hander. We're seeing
Dave Roberts go with primarily a right handed hitting lineup. And for Freddie Fraeman,
seventeen game on bass streak, hitting three point fifty during that stretch and
he has scored sixteen runs. So Freeman getting it done offensively. Key k
Hernandez out there third today it'll be another chance for Chris Taylor he'll be at
second patting nine. Yeah. And for the Rockies, they understand fhul Wells.
You know, they've won consecutive games. They're trying to do that for
the first time this month. Their understanding also trying to come from behind.
Why do we say that, Well, the Rockies have trailed at some point
in sixty four of their first seventy four games this season. That's uppill.
That's the highest total of runs looking up and trailing the other team in Major
League Baseball to this point. Since the start of the twenty nineteen season,
the Dodgers have won sixty of eighty six against the Rockies. That's the worst
record for any team of the Majors versus any Division opponent, and the best
on the winning side for the Dodgers. Gavin Stone has the ball today.
Seven and two, Tyve Lock the lefty three and four Dodgers and Rockies wrapping
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Oscar Hernandez came out of the game. He's in the lineup today. What's
going on? Yeah? You know. The good thing is he's all good.
So yesterday Dave Roberts cided to take him out for a couple of reasons.
One, he's playing in all four here at Course Field, and you
know it's not the easiest of places to play. The altitude in Denver obviously
makes it very challenging. And as much as Taoscar said that he feels really
good, his body's in a good spot, he was saying, you know,
when you get you do that first to third, it's not easy.
All of a sudden, the lungs tightened up a little bit. So Dave
was saying, it was really just kind of trying to get ahead of things
and wanting to help protect him. Taoskar takes a lot of pride and wanting
to be an everyday player. So as you mentioned today, he is back
out there, he's playing in right field, so he just wanted to Dave
was saying, ultimately he wanted to get Chris Taylor in at bad. He
wanted to get Tioscar off of his feet. Yes, there have been times
where we've seen this before. Typically the games are a little bit broken open.
You know, it's kind of a five run game or a six run
game in which will take you know, Freddy and Tioscar and even Mooki off
their feet. So to do it in a two run game obviously did come
bring up some questions, but Dave was like, you know what, he
did it because he'd done it before. He feels good about hi decision,
and he did not. It was not the reason they lost last night.
And so but I think the most important thing is that Taioscar is he's good
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to start in this finale. Yeah, he really has been fantastic. He's
going deep into the games, he's been really efficient using just his pitch mix
so well and just continuing to really, you know, carry that confidence of
not only just an ace of a team, but someone who's going to have
a lot of success in this league. And so today is going to be
a new challenge for him, So you're playing at Coors Field for the first
time. What he does have to his advantage is, you know the Rockies
team what we saw in game one of this years against James Packs and they're
very aggressive. So if you can get ahead in the counts early, then
that should be a good place for him. But just having that command of
his pitch mix and being in a really good spot, I think that will
allow him to hopefully get deep into the game. Because that's also a big
focus because a lot of not only just what he does, but what the
group does today. It has impact on what the plan is going to be
tomorrow back at home at Dodgers Stadium against the Angels. We will find out
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surgery. All right, let's head back out to Coursefield and check out with
the Dodgers. Skibber any questions for Dave? Dave? Can you just describe
Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts Gavin
Stone today? What are you hoping to see from him just with facing the
Rockies and also just managing the kind of elements of Denver. I think as
far as Gavin, I hope I expect that the psyche doesn't change given pitching
in a different environment altitude. I don't think he's pitched here before. He
might have, but he's still in the baseball so well, you know,
we've got a rested pen and he'll have an extra day, you know,
coming out of this. So I'm just really proud of the way he goes
out there, attacks hitters, competes and commands at baseball. You guys put
more thought into just what the plan is going to be for tomorrow against the
Angels or are you waiting to see what happens at this game. We are
going to either do a bullpen game or do a spot start, So I
don't know if it's going to be somebody from Triple A or it's going to
be you know, yarbs, depending on how we do it with an open
or something like that. I just don't know right now. Is Land and
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And is he going to stay in rancho or they're going to be is
he going to start going up levels? You know what, Jack, I
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But I do know the next one is gonna be The plan is for four
innings, but I don't know where is he kind of maybe not a head
of schedule, but but has he kind of gone about as quick through this
process to this point? Is you guys going to hope? Yes? Yeah,
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Yesterday in Rancho Cucamonga, a sellout crowd at the Epicenter to watch Clayton Kershaw
make a rehab start. Sellout crowd at low Mart Field over there, Tim
and certainly a lot of buzz and excitement for the fact that Clayton Kershaw made
his first rehab start since undergoing his first ever surgery that left shoulder surgery performed
by the great doctor Neil Ella Trosh has allowed him now not to have a
setback. Last night three innings, thirty six pitches, and after the game,
Clayton spoke to quite a few media members that made the trip to the
IE. Well, I think I think the significance will be making it back
to the big leagues. You know. I think this is just another step
in the process. It doesn't mean it's not important, but ultimately all this
is for nothing if you know, I don't make it back. So it's
good. It's a good another step. I'm not getting, you know,
too high or too low, just you know, trying to make it through,
you know, make it through three or four more starts and kind of
see whe I'm at. The biggest thing, Tim from what I understand talking
to scouts and people around the league, is his fastball velocity. Last night
it was clocked at ninety. If it doesn't go any higher than that,
it is going to be even more critical for him to try to develop a
change up, something that he has said he's not been able to do,
and his former teammates have told me part of the reason why he has resisted
going all in with the changeup is because Kershaw is so great, and some
of his greatness is due to the fact that he tunnels the pitches in the
same armslot and you hear about pronation of the risk and all that. If
he starts to pronate his wrist a little bit differently for a changeup, he
has been concerned that it could affect his money pitch the slider. So that's
something to keep an eye on in these next three or four rehab starts.
That's interesting, all right, DV. We're getting closer and closer to that
trade deadline. Any stuff buzzing with the Dodgers right now. Well, the
two major starting pitchers that are out there on the trade market are not surprisingly
from the Marlins and White Sox, two teams that are not going anywhere any
anytime soon. Heyzus Lozardo of the Marlins is a guy that many teams have
their eyes on. And Garrett Crochet of the White Sox, who the Dodgers
could see next week when they play Chicago over there on the south side.
So those are the two names. And now you don't have Yamamoto, now
you don't have Walker Buehler. Many people believe at the top of the Dodgers
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the on Sunday Father's Day when he hit two home runs, and now all
of a sudden, he is nine for his last eighteen with three home runs,
three doubles and certainly has been a spark for the Dodgers offense at the
top of the lineup. Freddie Freeman has in his words, treaded water all
season long, but now in the month of June, tim he has really
gotten hot, which is a huge boost for the Dodgers. Freddie Freeman now
hitting three point fifty this month in seventeen games. That's big, especially with
Max Munsey's still out and now the Dodgers without Mookie Betts for the next six
to eight weeks. David Gavinstone along with Tyler Glass now I've been their best
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Stone's first time ever pitching at Corus Field, and sometimes that can get to
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champion Dodger Rick Monday. All right, Rick, the final game of four
at coors Field and the Dodgers come back tomorrow to play the Angels. But
do you feel like four games at Corsfield is going to hurt the Dodgers at
that high altitude today? Well, four games up in this ballpark, David,
as you well know, it's like spending a week in other ballparks because
of the altitude, is going to be hot today. One thing that is
good is not a high humidity up here, almost a mile high above sea
level. But for the Rockies, you know, a walk off victory last
night at the ninth, they're gonna sacrifice fly. But for the cottlebron of
Rockies, they're attempting to win consecutive games for the first time this month.
And here we are in the twentieth of June. Yeah, they've only won
five games this month, and the Dodgers are looking to get out of town
and have a happy flight. Andy pa has Rick. I know you keep
a close eye on center fielders around the league. Defensively one thing, but
also offensively. Now it seems like he has countered with a pretty good adjustment
to get his front foot down. Yeah, he has. From a hitting
standpoint, I think there's a couple of things and he really needs to get
that front foot down early, in particular with the hard stuff. Last night,
a little bit of trouble with breaking ball away a strikeout and there was
another pitch away called looking and then the change up the third strike out of
the ball game. Did have a base hit score also had a double.
He's a young player that the more and more we see him, David,
the more interesting he becomes. He's got all the tools that you could have.
He's a big guy. He's strong to begin with. He's got a
very good idea in what he's trying to do. A couple of things,
not only getting his foot down from a hitting standpoint, but as a guy
that used to play a center field or just watching him, this is not
a complaint that he has. I'm trying to help some way and somehow,
you know. I've talked to a couple of coaches. Defensively, he still
has his right foot in the air when the ball's crossing home plate, and
I keep talking about it. It's gonna cost him a step going to his
right. It's probably a step and a half, maybe two steps going to
his left, because you cannot move until you get your right foot down and
plant. If you're going to go either to your right. You can fall
to your right, but you have to plant that foot, the right foot
down if you're going to go to your left. So just little things here
and there. We've watched him throw. The throwing has gotten much better.
From the outfield. He has a strong arm to begin with, and he's
understanding. Now, look, his job to throw the ball back in is
to hit the cutoff man. You want the longest throw from the outfielders,
and I think infielders now understand, Hey, he's got a very strong arm.
They don't have to go out as far to get the throw from him.
Yeah, no doubt. The arm is pretty strong and made your league
arm. I love hearing you talk about how you see the littlest things when
it comes to outfielders that can be the difference between catching a ball or a
ball going for extra bases. Well, it's fundamentals. Fundamentals. Also,
how he feels ground balls they're coming, He feels them off to the side
and brings the ball in the glove to the hand. I would suggest that
he'd take the hand and meet the glove with the ball. A couple of
reasons, Hey, you're not taking as long to transfer all the way to
the bare hand. The other part, too, is the sooner you reach
into the glove, the longer you have to grip the ball cross seams.
Why cross seams, because then the ball is not going to tail away from
you. Because you can throw really the ball and not have the seams in
disarray. If you will, it gives you longer time to collect yourself.
If you go to meet the ball in the glove instead of taking the ball
in the glove all the way over to the bare hand. Hey, I
always say this, No, mar Garcia is a great resource for the infielders
and hitters, and Rick Monday is a great resource for the outfielders for the
reason that he just explained, you know how to tea Look, well,
it's it's a learning process. And you know this is this is a difficult
classroom at the major league level. It's a constant work in progress. And
he's not afraid to work. All right, Rick, I got my front
foot down ready to go for first pitch. Hey, we'll see you tomorrow.
We'll put both feet down to Dodgers Stadium. Look forward to it.
Rick Monday and Tim never will be on the call. We'll check in a
little bit later. Tim, back to you, all right. Thanks a
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you feel like this equates to Kendrick Lamar bringing out Doctor Dre on stage last
night? No, not at all. I don't think you're doing Doctor Dre
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should be having. Yeah, I don't think it's it equates very well.
So we'll start off already on it not great here, Dave, So let's
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in the bit. Hey. Speaking of doctor Dre, you know people always
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out their series at Course Field today. You've played left field, you've played
center field, you've played right field. What is so challenging about playing that
outfield at Course Field? It's big, that's it. It's big. It's
big. It's bright out there. It seems to be brighter than a lot
of places. Maybe it's the altitude. Denver on a four game swing,
after a travel day of you know, no day off with that travel day
at the twelve ten start is just a it's a tough it's a tough road
trip. It's a tough place to go play four days in a row.
It's a tough place to have a get away day game, especially at twelve
ten day game. But you know, that's that's kind of you know,
one of those advantages for the Rockies to have is you know they get to
be there all year or most of the year and train at that altitude,
and you know that dryness it catches up to you definitely on that last day,
and you know, your biggest thing is you're just hoping you're you know,
keeping your players healthy as you as you're getting out of there. Andre
Ethier had a thirty game hitting streak back in twenty ten, and unfortunately he
broke his pinky while swinging the bat in the cage and you were leading the
National League in triple Crown categories, all three of them. Can you relate
to Mookie Betts breaking his left hand in a different way obviously being hit by
a pitch? Uh, you know, the feeling taking that much time off,
How is this going to impact Mookie's season when he returns. I think
it starts and stops that. And you know, in common of me and
MOOKI and breaking our hands' Mookie's one heck of a player, and he's a
he's a year long triple Crown guy, not a I guess month and a
half season guy like I was, and uh, it's tough. You feel
for him, you feel for the team. I feel like MOOKI if you
could say this, I don't know if if it's you know, but he's
really come into his place as being not only major leaguer, but being a
Dodger, you know, superstar, this guy who is accountable on a nightly
basis and comes up with you know, big hits, big at bats,
big plays. We know the the journey he's had transitioning to shortstop this year
and this you know, and you can call it selfless, you can call
it h you know, just you know that mentality of you know what Dave
in the locker room like say, next man up, you know, next
guy up, to fill what we need. We know what we have.
We have great players in here that are gonna do great things, but we
need guys to always fill, uh, the spots in between when guys get
hurt, when guys aren't struggling. And you know, Mookie was able to
step up with the position void and roll right into that from second to short
you know all these different things. Yeah, I think you're gonna miss more
than just movies that you're missing a guy who you know it really is,
is like a jack of all trades at superstar level, and it's gonna be
tough. It really is gonna be from to come back and just not miss
a beat. Uh, let's just say six weeks at the best case scenario.
Are you going to be as strong you know, physically in your legs
and you know, in your rotation, in your swing, in your hands,
all that stuff. Are you to be literally of staying in there and
trusting the ball is not going to hit you when it's a you know,
when it's a tough front door slider, you know, stuff like that.
So there's a lot of things going to go through, But I don't put
any doubt that he will be successful coming back because the guy's good at everything
he does. Awesome hearing your voice and sharing your voice with the fans.
And hopefully see you at Dodger Stadium with the family in the home run seats
soon, I hope. So I'm looking forward in July. I'll be out
there, uh for sure, and I'm gonna hit up you know, the
Dodger staff there for my home run seats. I love sitting in oh hold
on to your nachos. Sometimes they get spilled, for sure. I heard
you. I'll save some for you out there. Thanks Dray. Thanks a
lot for coming on. And I feel like I got out of this clean.
Ah. Anytime I can pick you up, Thanks Drey. All right,
later there he goes Tim. Andre Ethier spent his entire twelve year Major
league career with the Dodgers. We'll send it back to you, all right.
Thanks a lot of DV. Great to hear from Andre Ehier. Dodgers
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the mound. Veteran leftended thirty three years old. It is ninth season now
the Big League's pitched a long time with the Giants. Third season out with
the Rockies three and fourth, a four to sixty five ERORA. It's making
his ninth start, his twelfth appearance last time out five and two, third
innings, two runs, seven hits, five strikeouts in a win over the
Pirates. He is four and three with a three to thirteen RA and twenty
career appearances nine starts against the Dodgers. That RA is eighth lowest against the
Dodgers a months active pitchers of fifty innings or more. His nine starts against
the Dodgers, he's four and three with a two point fifty eight RRA.
Six of those nine starts have been quality starts, so he's pitched well against
the Blue He's got a one to twenty three ERA and six appearances against the
Dodgersons joined the Rockies back in twenty twenty two. Gavin Stone on the mound
for the Dodgers, making his first start ever at Coors Field. He is
seven and two with a three to oh one ERRA. He is having an
all Star season. The twenty five year old right hander has come up big
second season now with the Dodgers in the big leagues. Making his fourteen start
last time out seven innings, three runs, four hits, three strikeouts and
a no decision. Against the Kansas City Royals and Gavin Stone, as we
mentioned to pitch really well for the Dodgers, been a mainstay in this rotation
since the beginning of this season. Gavin Stone, Ty Block, Dodgers Rockies.
We're fifteen minutes away from first pitch in the series finale from Denver,
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who was given the Dodgers fits over the years on the mound for Colorado.
First pitch coming up at twelve Ted Dodgers fans and Hansher listening and experienced by
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back out to the booth Rick Monday, Tim never guys, Tim, thanks
again. We count you down to the first pitch today. From cores Field
and Denver just a perfect day for a ballgame, great day for an afternoon
game here certainly Gavin Stone seven to two and a three ZH one era.
He'll have the ball today, making his fourteenth start for the Dodgers. Stone
he's had a pretty good stretch. He's got a win against the Rockies on
the second of June in LA, throwing five scoreless innings last Friday against the
Royals and no decision. But Stone, with a seven and two record,
has really stepped up in this season. The opportunity that he's been able to
have with the Dodgers, he's taken advantage of it. I think today in
particular, the Mile High Stadium is just about two hundred and sixty feet above
sea level and with the temperature it's going to be in the low nineties today,
so this is this is a good day to keep the ball down and
for Gavin Stone, he's had six ground bowl double plays turned in behind him.
Here's the other thing about Stone, He's handled the middle part of the
lineups numbers three, four and five hitters to just a one fifty six average
so far this season. That's the fifth lowest average against the middle lineup by
any darning pitcher in baseball, Ty Block, coming off a win over the
Pirates last Saturday, but prior to that, he'd lost his two previous starts
against the Cardinals and the Reds, allowing eight runs, eighteen hits, and
ten combined innings. That's in the ara of seven to twenty. Dodgers looking
for a win on getaway day in Denver and to try to take three of
four from Colorado before returning home to take on the Angels tomorrow night. Dodgers
Rockies coming up, Tim all Right, first pitch is next Ty Block on
the mound for the Colorado Rockies, the left hander going at it against the
Dodgers. Cavin Stone, who has had an all star first half of the
season, looking to keep it going in his first time ever pitching a chorus
field. Remember after the game, David Bassey's got you covered with all the
highlights postgame festivities in Dodger Talk as well. Dodgers Rockies from Denver is next.
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