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take two of three from the Yankees. Well tonight they're back home for the
start of a six game homestand first up a three game interleague series against the
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lasting action on Sunday Night baseball at Yankees Stadium. As Tyler glass Now got
the start, and he put the Dodgers in an early hole as Waldo Cabrera
a solo home run followed up by an Aaron Judge rb Gui double which was
misplayed by Andy Pajas in right center field the Yankees and the third took a
two to nothing lead. The Dodgers, though, would answer back Mookie Betts
a two run double in the fifth that tied the game at two. In
the sixth, ta Oscar Hernandez gave the Dodgers the lead buckle up for the
two to one. Tayo Teas off left field, hit deep again, Tioscar
Hernandez. It's Tayo time, and that might be the one swinging the bet
I was talking about. He turned around a changa Taoscar Hernandez with the home
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the sixth, though, Tyler Glass now gave up the lead two balls,
one strike, one out. In this sixth inning, the pitchering Glass now
pulled in the air right field and hammerd Grisham tosses the bat. He has
flipped the scoreboard with a home run, his third home run to hold the
year, a three run blast, giving New York a five to three lead.
Here at the bottom of the sixth they were chanting, we want Soto
for one Soto. Instead they got Trent Grisham, and he hits a three
run home run sub one hundred batting average, but he comes through there on
a ninety six mile an hour fastball that he turns around for a three run
home run. Yankees take a five to three lead. The Dodgers would get
to within one in the eighth on a Will Smith sackfly scoring show he O
Tani. Dodgers were down five to four. However, Johann Ramirez came back
out to pitch the eighth and a one run game, and Aaron Judge crushed
a fastball for a four hundred and thirty four foot home run is twenty fourth
of this season. The Yankees took a two run lead and they go on
and win it by a final of six to four. Former Dodger Caleb Ferguson
gets the win. Tyler glasnow gets the loss. He falls to six and
five on this season. He is now winless in his last six starts.
The Dodgers lose the finale in New York, but they still take this series,
taking two of three. They're forty one and twenty six overall. Pack
home to start a six game homestand James Paxton on the mount. In the
series opener, it's the Dodgers take on the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers.
First pitch at seven to ten and with more let's head out to the
Galpin Motors broadcast booth as we say hello to a Rick Monday and Steven Nelson.
Guys, thank you, Tim Mo. We are recovered from the off
day, getting ready for a six game homestand on the heels of a six
game road trip. And while the Dodgers finished that trip five hundred taken two
to three in New York. Given all the hooplaw the pomp and circumstance and
the noise that went into it. Don't care that Wan Soto didn't play the
fact that the Dodgers won that series and nearly swept it. Hopefully we'll give
them some momentum into this one against the defending World Series champion. Recovered.
Heck, I just walk up. How about the fact I think the impact
that the Dodgers and what they did in the Bronx winning two out of three
and really even competitive throughout the game three of that series. But I think
they proved something to themselves more than maybe everybody else on the outside looking in,
And that being the fact didn't play particularly well in Pittsburgh the first series
on that road trip, and I think they come back into time. They're
in a streak now, they're going to play thirteen consecutive games, and that
was a very good two out of three to win. And they were not
alone, as we found out in New York because there was a large group.
They'd even had a police escort coming down the street the Yeku Stadium.
So this is the club that has to be feeling good about themselves and it's
a good way to come back into a series. Against the defending world champion
and the Rangers are five going out. How difficult it is to repeat a
World championship because everybody knows you're coming into town. It has been a weird
year in the whole American League West. I mean, the Rangers are three
games below five hundred, but they're only five and a half games back for
the top spot in their division. But they have been in the midst of
a brutal stretch. I mean they've lost seventeen of their last twenty six.
But for the Dodgers in this matchup, they saw him in Arlington last year
and at the time it was Hey, this could be a matchup, a
potential World Series matchup, and you coming out of that thinking, I don't
know if Texas has all the pieces. Well, they showed even you can
finish the season cold, but if you get hot at the right time,
you can take it all the way. That's exactly what they did last last
October, despite coughing up the division to Houston on the last eight year.
Put the pieces together when they needed to be put together. So did the
other team that they played in the World Series, that being the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Diamondbacks get in. They're a wild card team, but they played their
best baseball when you really had to play it be in postseason play. So
you look at the Rangers coming in. He has five and a half out
Seattle. Has it taken people by surprise in American League Western Division because you
look at what the Mariners have done. They're in first place for a lot
of reasons, including playing within their own division. They've won fourteen of the
nineteen games played against teams in that West. It's gonna be a heavy interleague
month for the Dodgers. That the Yankees series just their seventh, eighth,
and ninth interleague games of the year. You gotta play forty six, so
this is gonna kick off a stretch of seeing a lot of American League opponents.
Here the six game homestand with Texas and Case, James Paxson will have
the ball for the Dodgers opposite Dane Dunning for the Rangers. We'll get into
that a little bit when we check in a little bit later. Thanks Tim,
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back home after all the buzz over the weekend and the bronx with the Dodgers
and Yankees. But Heirson, last time I looked, these Texas Rangers are
the defending World Series Champson there in town that they are, So this is
gonna be. You know, as much as it may not feel like the
Yankees Dodgers excitement, that atmosphere was insane. It truly was a postseason one.
Well, it doesn't necessarily feel like that East West rivalry, there's still
something in this one. I mean, look, like you said, you
got to give them that respect. They are the World Series champions going into
this year, and so when I asked Dave Roberts about it, he said
that they're a team that's kind of finding their way at the moment. So,
yes, it does feel a little bit different because of that, but
ultimately there's still a good team. The team They're gonna face some really good
pitching. So yeah. So and even with talking to Oscar briefly, he
said, you have to approach this one just as similar as they did the
Yankee So hopefully they'll be able to put up some good numbers here in this
one today. And the fun ist back for Corey Seeger back at Dodger Stadium
for the first time, but really not the first time. Yeah. So
he was a part of the All Star Game when they played here, but
two years ago now, yes, two years ago, and so that was
technically his first time coming back to Dodger Stadium. But it's an All Star
game, totally different atmosphere, there's players from different teams. It's just the
feel is different. Yes, it's still the iconic Dodger stadium. It's a
totally different vibe. So this is his first time coming back in the regular
season as a Rangers player with his teammates facing his former teammates the Dodgers,
and so he said, you know, this was a really special organization for
him. This is where he you know, he is where he grew up.
It's where he became a young adult, and he really learned about himself.
He learned how to do things the right way, play the game the
right way, and so those are a lot of the things he learned here.
He's carried over into his career now with the Rangers, now being a
World Series champion with both organizations. So he unfortunately is not at the moment
playing in this series. He's been dealing in nursing a hamstring strain and something
that happened last week. On Wednesday, he said he's trending in the right
direction. But when he was asked if it's likely that he will be playing
in this series, he didn't have an answer. So he was like,
a game, I don't know. We'll see. So I think we're all
going to find out. He'll probably know before us, but we will find
out when he goes into the game, but the fact that he's back here,
got to spend some time with his former teammate. It's all Chris Taylor
and his family yesterday, So uh, it's definitely it's a special return for
him no matter what, looking forward to his return at some point. Cur's
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Dodgers skipper anything else? Questions for Dave? Dave? Can you just describe
Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugout with Dave Robbers?
You know, obviously they're the world champs. They're sort of kind of trying
to find their way right now. They've been banged up a lot. I
think Corey is in town, but he's not act or not playing tonight.
But yeah, they're still the world champs and we came off a big series
in New York, get an off day, and I expect us to play
well, you know this home stand. James Packiston after his last outing,
what are you hoping to see from him today? Just kind of keep back
on track. I think with James, obviously the New York outing was abbreviated
intentionally. Then the last one just wasn't very good. And so I think
that right now it's go out there and filled the strike zone. The stuff
plays in the zone. He just hasn't been in the strike zone very much.
And you know, I think if he gets ahead, it's an aggressive
swinging team and get some swinging miss gets some quick outs and you know,
get into that six inning. Sure, what the success she hit on the
world. Did you learn anything on the team that you didn't know? No,
not really. I think that I've been with these guys for for long
enough to appreciate that, you know, the ability to focus and play a
clean ball game, play up to the level of competition. It is certainly
in there. We haven't been as consistent as any of us would have liked.
But that's baseball. It's a marathon. But no, I was.
I was happy to see the way they responded. And you know, we're
going to start here at thirteen in a row. The pen is in a
good spot. I think our starter is in a good spot right now,
and so I just want to keep playing, you know, build off that
momentum this last series. Dad, you mentioned here when you when you when
he's master your years and what do you think of first Gosh, superstar,
just a heavy baseball player, great competitor and really has performed really well on
the biggest of stages. So, you know, very good Dodger, and
he had a chance to coach him like kind of every October, right especially
in the years that hasn't worked out for you guys to kind of talk about
guys and that moments. Do you think I've seen the two time World Series.
Do you think there's such a thing as an October player? And if
Segar is one, why do you think he is? Well? I think
that over the first couple of years, I don't think he was very good
in the postseason. I think in twenty it really started. And I think
Corey is an aggressive swinger, and so he understood the value of just taking
walks when you need to and when they throw it over the plate, hit
it hard and do what he does. And so he's carried that on through
the you know, following postseasons. You know, as far as us,
it still takes more than one player. I think collectively, we just haven't
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But first, joining Tim Kats on Dodgers on Deck, I accept everybody for
who they are. This is Dodger insider David Basse. All right, DV,
he's back. He's a World Series champion with the Texas Rangers and the
Los Angeles Dodgers. Welcome back Corey Seeger. Yeah, indeed, welcome Corey
Seger back to Dodgers Stadium. Despite him not being in the starting lineup tonight
for the Rangers. He's been dealing with a left hamstring issue that he injured
over the weekend when the Rangers were playing the Giants, but nonetheless great to
have him back at Dodgers Stadium. This is the second time that Seeger has
been back to Dodgers Stadium since signing with the Rangers. He was an All
Star for the American League when the Midsummer Classic was at Dodgers Stadium a couple
of years ago, but this is the first time he's coming to town wearing
that Rangers uniform and coming back not only a two time World Series champion,
but coming back a two time World Series MVP. I think winning's fun.
Anytime you can win, their fun. So to be at the top is
what you're always trying to accomplish. So in a lot of ways, there's
a lot of similarities. You know, how you get there, things like
that were probably different, but at the end, winning is the same.
So a lot of the times were similar. And that was when Seger was
asked about the difference between the Bubble Championship with the Dodgers in twenty compared to
a full season World Series championship with the Rangers last year and this season.
Corey Sieger He's been hitting the ball hard, but not a lot to show
for it. He's hitting two seventy one with an ops of eight thirty two
thirteen homers and certainly playing still solid shortstop. If you remember when he was
with the Dodgers, Mookie Betts was a right fielder tim and now he's a
shortstop. And Seeger was asked about his thoughts on Mookie moving the shortstop.
I think it's really impressive. I mean, he hasn't played really the infield
since the minor leagues. I know he did a couple times here or there,
but to go out and play a position probably since high school that he's
played short I don't know what it was ex actually, but that's not an
easy thing to do to learn on a big league level. It's great to
have Corey Seger back. He still has such strong bonds with his former teammates.
He spent the off day with Chris Taylor, among others. So Corey
Seger, even though he's wearing a Ranger uniform, will forever have that Dodger
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a while. How is he progressing? Well, he's still not swinging the
bat, and this obleak issue has basically debilitated him from doing anything physical up
until today. The last homestand we saw Max Munsey take some ground balls,
but he was not allowed to throw across the diamonds. So today was a
major improvement because when we got to Dodger Stadium around on two o'clock this afternoon,
the Dodger third baseman was not only fielding ground balls, but he was
throwing across the diamonds. So that's a step in the right direction. But
my understanding, Tim is that Mounsey is weeks away from returning to the lineup.
What about Clayton Kershaw David any update? Yeah? I asked him what
he thought about Dave Roberts comparing this start to the throwing and the simulated games
to his first week of spring training, and he said, look, you
can do the math. I've pitched two innings in a simulated game and you'll
be able to track it as the time goes along. So basically he's going
to make at least six to seven, maybe eight starts before he comes back
sometime in July, and right now the Dodger rotation is pretty full, especially
with Bobby Miller on the horizon to return to the rotation. Yeah, Bobby
Miller. One more start in Oklahoma City, then he's going to return.
David, appreciate it. Looking forward to your conversation with Brad Paisley that's coming
up, Dodger fans in about fifteen minutes. Yeah, that same Brad Paisley,
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But man, what an exciting series in the Bronx. It was exciting from
a lot of different reasons. And what about to Askar Hernandez. By the
way, congratulations to a Teo the National League Player of the week. He
did everything so dragged the infield. If you look at last week and especially
with that big Grand Slam that he hit on Saturday night, eat Yankee Stadium
and David for the second trip in a row. The last one was twenty
sixteen. But if remember a number of years ago Dodgers went into Yankee Stadium
and pantone two ninety four came in. Well, they were there again this
past weekend and kind of took over a Yankee Stadium and Yankee fans were stunned
again by the support that a visiting team, I mean the audacity of the
visiting team had a lot of fans that came in to their house. It
was really nice to see. And this is a ball club. I was
talking earlier to someone about momentum and some people that maybe have never participated in
sports or competed don't understand momentum. Is it important? Well, I think
it's important along with chemistry too, and I think the momentum hopefully that they
garnered from that winning two out of three in New York is now going to
carry over. They're in a good spot the Dodgers right now, no question
about it, seven and a half game lead in front of the San Diego
Padres. Are they better than what the record is? In my mind,
yes, they're a better team. They've had injuries. Every team is going
to have injuries, and still maybe a long way away by Max Munsey.
We don't know how far away he is at the present time either. So
this is the club comes in knowing full well, they come in with a
positive thought. Two out of three in New York. Now they're going to
be home for thirteen games, and this is a good kind of a test,
thirteen games in a row, at least the two series here before they
go back out. That was one thing I've been meaning to ask you.
How much more is left for this Dodger team. It feels like there's a
lot more left. I don't think you want to peak too early. It's
funny. Dwayne McDonald and I were having the conversation our great producer engineer a
little bit earlier about teams that will momentum playing well, do they peak too
early? Because you can make the argument if you look at the Texas Rangers,
who are coming in tonight, the defending World champions they barely got into
postseason play last year. Well, they won a World championship, and the
team that they played against, the Arizona Diamondbacks, who did not play particularly
well until it really really mattered at the end of the season. They get
into a wild card, they played lights out during the postseason, and they
wound up in the World Series. So yeah, it's nice to have seven
and a half game lead right now. It would be better to have a
seven and a half game lead after Game one sixty two and have a club
A that's healthy and B playing well. Right now, the club's not totally
healthy, but they are playing well. Going back to taoscar Hernandez, who
is the National League Player of the Week, Like you mentioned, it feels
like on that stage in New York, he has become a household name.
Now in Los Angeles, Well, let me ask you this, because you're
on the field talking to the guys a lot, and in the locker room
and around him. He's enjoying being here with the Dodgers, and you see
it up close to personal. They enjoy having him here. Yeah, I
feel like he has that million dollar smile right, and he kind of fills
in a lot of different areas about Hey, let's go out and play.
If you play well enough, you can have even more fun. He happens
to have fun each and every day because he realizes, hey, look,
it's a true grift, true gift to be really one of the six hundred
major league players that are out there right now if you consider all the different
teams that are playing in Major League Baseball, and he's in the upper echelon,
and he was last week the best of the National League. Hey,
Rick, you always wonder about players and whether or not they can perform on
the biggest of stage. I feel like we learned something about ta Oscar Hernandez.
You bring up a good point, because there are some players that quite
frankly, don't want to play for the teams that have the bright spotlights on
them. It's one thing to say, oh, I want to play in
the big stage. Okay, who can perform? There is a player that
I know a number of years ago with the Boston Red Sox that ask a
starting pitcher about a day or two before he was going to pitch in the
World Series. Aren't you scared? And that picture said, no, I'm
not scared. I'm really looking forward to it. This is an area that
I look forward to since I was a little kid. And this other pitcher,
who is a reliever at the time, said, I'm scared to death.
Quite frankly, I hope I don't get in the ball game. Those
are not the guys you wanted your team. Obviously, it's not that easy
to play under the brightest lights because not everyone has the greatest of expectations of
not only themselves but those around them. That's coming from a man that delivered
one of the biggest home runs in Dodger history. He liked the big stage,
Rick Monday. We had a big ball club that got us to the
big stage. You delivered as well. Thanks Rick, I'll be your PR
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only Brad Paisley. Thanks for that intro. I don't know how much of
that I deserve. Thank you, You deserve all of it. And it
was great to see what Yankee Stadium. I couldn't believe how good your seats
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you know, our World Series games before, and this was every bit is
exciting. It's it's crazy. I hope you weren't getting a hot dog when
ta Oscar Hernandez hit his grand Slam. No, I was. I was
sitting there and I mean just as shocked, and I mean it was just
great. It was. It was literally the moment the Yankees fans started to
believe true Blue. Brad Paisley is our guest. And I got to ask
you, can you set the scene for Dodger fans? Are you in the
part of your property in Nashville where you brought Eric Neander and Andrew Freeman together
for Tyler Glass Now? You miss Glass now? I feel like both times
you've seen the Dodgers this year, you've missed Glass Now pitching by one game.
You still have not seen Glass now pitch for the Dodgers, but you
you brought them together. Well that's I mean, that's really that's a kind
thing to say. I don't know if it would have happened without me,
but I like to I'll definitely pretend to take the credit, but it's really
it was a really amazing night. We have. I have this bar we
broadcast from there. You can go back and see it on your I guess
your Instagram look at you? Yeah, right right on the iHeartRadio app,
you can find that Dodger talk. We had about forty executives and baseball people
here between the two teams, mostly Dodgers. But it was a really amazing
experience to see the way that this sport is just like it's always been.
I don't know whether the NFL or basketball or how or soccer or how they
they operate in terms of like the way deals get done, But for these
it felt like in the days of the you know, Babe Ruth and Yeah,
and you know what I mean, Garrek and these guys, like the
things were going on where these guys would need it, you know, Rudy's
Bar in New York and just hash out like, well, I mean,
I don't know if we need them this year, do you want them?
Yeah, I guess I'll you know that kind of thing. It felt like
it was that kind of thing, like basically, the Dodgers really wanted glass
now and the Tampa Bay Rays knew they couldn't really keep them and they wanted
to see what they could get, and over the course of sitting at the
bar and having drinks, you know, it became really clear that these are
guys that really want to build the best teams they can, and they like
each other, and everybody had alcohol. And then the fun part was like
reminiscing. I was sitting there and talking to Eric about the World Series against
the Race, and then you know, watching as we kind of teased him
about something that happened in that and then the same with like what happened in
years prior and just memories and it's just baseball is the best, it really
is. Thanks a lot for the time, Brad. And if you want
to support Brad and his great wife Kim, you can do so by going
to the store dot org. They've had this free grocery store that helps underprivileged
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Brad and Kim Paisley the store dot org. Brad, you're the best.
Great seeing you on Saturday. It was great to see you too, and
in fact I barely got to see you and that was just exactly the right
amount of time. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. I love you,
buddy, Love you to see you soon. There he goes, Brad Paisley
joined us, and if you want to hear the full conversation, you can
go to the iHeartRadio app. Tim We'll send it back to you in the
studio. Thanks a lot, DV. Great to hear from Brad Paisley.
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Steven Nelson, Guys, Thanks DC. The Dodgers getting close to officially
welcoming the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers to Dodgers Stadium a three game set
here and with the Rangers in town, MO, that means the return of
a former and beloved Dodger, Corey Seeger of course, just won his second
World Series, was the World Series MVP for the Rangers last October in their
victory over Arizona, and no Dodger fan will ever forget what he did on
the twenty twenty run. Yeah, and not in the lineup tonight. Fourth
consecutive games that he's not being in the starting lineup nursing a hamstring. It's
a little bit of an issue in brus Bochi does not want to be able
to push it right now early and extend the absence out of that lineup.
But one thing about it, listen to Dave Roberts, I thought he summed
it up very well earlier this afternoon talking about the Rangers. He said,
look, you have to treat them carefully because they are a very aggressive hitting
team and when they get the offense going, very similar to what we see
the Dodgers. They have some guys that can hit the ball to gap to
gap extra bases, and some guys occasionally can run into it and hit it
out of the ballpark. The highlights without Corey Seger, even with Corey Seger,
Marcus Simon, who's the lead off batter tonight for Texas, and Adolis
Garcia the right fielder batting third. Hey, the Dodgers do own the National
League Player of the Week, the reigning NL Player of the Week in Taoscar
Hernandez. He's probably the one who was most upset to be leaving New York.
Yeah, well, you know in New York would have sent a limousine
to take into the airport. A question about that. And for James Paxton
getting the start tonight, and for the left hander his twelve start a factor
of five and one so far, you know, what he's really done is
kind of even the batting average left handed and right handed hitters against him.
All the home runs that being seven of them had been hit by the right
handers. He's actually owned the lefties. And I bring that up because only
one left hander in the Rangers lineup tonight. There's a couple of switch hitters
that they'll be batting from the right side of his Packston. But this Dodger
ball club, one of the things have been able to do recently, score
early in the games. And the other factor this may come down to bullpins.
The Dodgers' bullpen by far, has had a better start this season.
It's been rugged for the Texas Rangers. They're bulk e twenty six out of
the thirty teams. Wool all right, So James Paxson, coming off his
worst start as a Dodger in Pittsburgh when he was touched up for seven runs,
six of amern At just an ending in two thirds. One positive that
he can lean on coming into this one is that his new home has been
a sweet home at Dodger Stadium. He's two to zero here in La in
four starts with a two point seven to eight era. I'll try and hold
down the defending champs. First pitch coming up soon. Back to you,
Tim, all right, thank you, Nelly. Dodgers and Rangers, starting
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