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of this season as the Dodgers beat the Red Sox four to one thanks to
Freddie Freeman's grand slam in the eighth inning. Hi, everybody, and welcome
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in eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. If you're one of
the fifty one thousand, five hundred and sixty two who enjoyed a Dodgers win
and then enjoyed the drone show tonight at Dodgers Stadium, I want to hear
from the eight six six nine to eighty seven two five seventy. The first
seven innings were sort of like the way the first half of the season ended,
just kind of blah, and the Dodgers had two hits, couldn't really
do anything in the runners at scoring position, oh for four that category.
Couldn't string together any hits in the first seven innings in the game, and
Nick Povetta looked really good against the Dodgers, struck out eight for the first
six batters that he faced. He struck out in the first two innings.
The Dodgers offense looked lethargic, and then the eighth inning, whether they got
a spark or not, I think they did in the top half of the
inning for Miguel Vargas. Yeah, they had a miss cute earlier in the
game out in the outfield, but Miguel Vargas made up for with a great
play, a shallow left field catch and then he back picks the runner O'Neill
at first base to double them up. It wasn't a hard hit ball into
the alley. It was a shallow hit, routine fly ball to left field,
and he saw Tyler O'Neil just kind of non shalanning his way back to
first base and Miguel Vargas, who's got a really good arm, an eighty
nine mile an hour laser from left center field to first base to double up
Tyler O'Neill at first, and it got the crowd. I think back into
this game. Yeah, the Dodgers, you know, saw the Red Sox
challenge and it was kept. That was great. He was out. The
momentum then carried into the bottom half of the eighth inning. And this game
of baseball is all about momentum, especially in the course of nine innings.
Certainly momentum from game to game. You know it's next day's pitcher, right,
But in a game like tonight where you get a little bit of buzz
back inside Dodger Stadium on a great defensive play from Miguel Vargas, and then
he leads off the bottom half of the eighth inning with a walk. It's
not sexy, it's not like a home run to tie the game, but
he got on base, and the Dodgers looked like maybe they were gonna strand
him. There after, Chris Taylor struck out looking, but Shoeotani hits a
ball down the line and one hops into the stands for a ground rule double.
All right, got something going, runners on second and third, Tye
runs ninety feet away, go ahead, runs standy at second base, and
the Dodgers have Will Smith up to bat, who you know can drive the
ball. When he makes contact, he hits the ball far and it takes
a fly ball to the outfield. And this game was tied at one.
That's all they needed, and Alex Korra rolled the dice. Now, if
you look at the career Freddie Freeman with the bases loaded in this kind of
situation, he's like well above a three fifty hitter. Okay, with that
being said, I understand a little bit what Alice Korr is doing because if
I got second and third, a one nothing game, eighth inning, if
Will Smith's gonna make contact, more chances than not, he's gonna probably drive
the ball, fly ball to the outfield, sack fly. We got a
tie game and possibly Shoeyotani tagging and go to third. I'm gonna take my
chance with the guy who maybe he's not gonna hit the ball deep for a
sack fly in Freddie Freeman, and maybe a guy I can get to roll
over a ground ball lefty on lefty when they bring Barondino in kind of got
an awkward delivery. Maybe I can get him to roll over on a ball
or pull a ball to first or second base and doesn't have a lot of
speed. We can double them up for a double play and get out of
the inning, no damage done. I get the thinking from Alice Corra,
I do it absolutely backfired though on the former Dodger and now Boston Red Sox
skipper and Freddie Freeman saw an OH one curveball right over the middle of the
plate, and as he told David Vasse as he walked off the field just
a little bit ago, he was looking for something that he can drive to
the outfield, and he did more than that. He said, it over
the field the wall in the right center field and the Dodgers get a grand
slam, take the lead, and then turn the ball over to one of
their high leverage relievers and Daniel Hudson to get the save. It worked out
perfectly for the Dodgers. The bottom of the lineup gone on base in the
bottom of the eighth, the top of the lineup got them into scoring position,
and then the meet in the lineup with Freddie Freeman delivered with a grand
slam worked out perfect for the Dodgers. It did not work out for Alex
Cora in the Boston Red Sox and their game plan of trying to bypass Will
Smith, get to Freddie Freeman, get a double play ball and get out
of the inning. But that didn't happen. Want to mention quickly, Gavin
Stone. Gavin Stone. Where would this Dodgers team be without Gavin Stone?
Every five or six days, eighteen starts on this season could have been an
All Star if not for this last couple of starts in which he had a
couple of hiccups and didn't get to ten wins. Gavin Stone Tonight, first
game back after the All Star break for the Dodgers, gets to start against
the Red Sox. Lead off batter, first pitch double. I don't know
you, but I was driving back to the Petros some money summer tour in
El Segundo, and I'm on the four or five thinking, oh my gosh,
this game is gonna take forever. The Dodgers are in trouble. A
leadoff double from Jaron Duran out of Cyprus High school one pitch into the game.
Goodness gracious. The season starting in the second half, just like an
in in the first half, and to Gavin Stone's credit, he goes out
there and pitched himself out of trouble. He did that in three of the
first four innings. Duran double line out, line out, line out to
get out of the jam. Had a one two three second lead off single
in the third, then a strikeout, ground out, ground out, got
out of the jam about the fourth inning, leadoff infield single devers another infield
single first and second fourth inning. Uh oh, Gavin Stone on the ropes,
Yoshida flies out a bray you struck out and Smith grounded out. He
had traffic on the base pass in three the first four innings and got out
of the jams. Pitched himself out of trouble. Gavin Stone, to me
tonight looked like a guy who's got pos a poise and is not afraid of
it. Gets a little bit of adversity on the mound. And you saw
that in full effect tonight. For Gavin Stone handed it over the bullpen after
five innings allowing one run and needed the bullpen. This is important keeping this
in mind, Dodger fans in a one nothing game in which Gavin Stone keeps
it a one nothing game through five innings, and your Dodgers' offense is sleep
walking through the first four five and you get to the sixth inning, it
is imperative that the Dodgers' bullpen Bonda Vesia Yarborough. They've got to come up
and put up zeros. You've got to keep it a one nothing game.
You can't allow the Red Sox to tack on run. You can't allow the
lead to extend for Boston. You can't allow the game to get away from
the Dodgers, especially a team that lost six to seven going into the All
Star Break a one to five road trip. They needed to keep it close
and hope that the bottom of the lineup late would spark the top of the
lineup. And that's exactly what they did. Credit to Gavin Stone keep it
in a one nothing game. Credit to the bullpen for keeping it a one
nothing game until the eighth. And then Miguel Vargas getting it started. Show
hey, o'tana you paying big bucks to get it big hits. He delivered
with the double. And then you pay Freddy Freeman to be an All Star
first baseman to deliver, and that's exactly what he did with the Grand Slam,
the Dodgers winning four to one. Let's go back out to Dodgers data.
Before we get to your phone calls, let's check in with the Dodger
manager Dave Roberts. Get some of his postgame thoughts. Stay, Yeah,
that was play, just to bounce back from that miscommunication out there in left
center and come back and make a big play, huge play, and then
lead off that next inning with a big walk to kind of get that rally
started. Really good to see him, you know, write the ship right
there. It was just more of just kind of appreciating the fact that he's
got to continue. He's still gathering repetitions out there in left field and you
know, use his ears, but when once it gets loud, you got
to use your eyes as well. And a corner outfielder, you got to
be mindful of that center fielder too, who's using his hands. So it's
one of those things that he's getting better and more confident, and I wanted
to make sure that we keep that confidence and he doesn't start to, you
know, get some anxiousness when he's out in left field. The fascinated,
well, it started with Vargie and I thought CTI had a really good at
bat right there, and you know, got called out on a borderline,
pitched down and then obviously Show got to pitch up in the zone and doubled
right there, and they have to make a decision, you know, with
Will versus Freddy, and you know, to bring Tayale in the conversation.
So it was good. So it was a great inning, good at bats,
and we just didn't have any answers for Paveta tonight, but it was
good for us to hang in there. And a credit to the pitching.
You know, Gavin did a heck of a job minimizing, you know,
just one run, and then the guys in the bullpen did a fantastic job
to him. Yeah, Dave Roberts echoing everything I just said as well.
Great job by Gavin Stone the bullpen keeping in a one to nothing game.
Miguel Vargas great defensive play, leads off the next inning with a walk to
get the offense and to jump start it in that bottom half of the eighth
inning, and the Dodgers come back and get the big hit from Freddie Freeman,
a grand slam, and they beat the Red Sox four to one,
eight six, six, nine, eighty seven two five seventy to go out
to the folks to get things started with Brad mission via ho Brad, your
first up? Go ahead, man, Hi, how's it going. I'm
doing good celebrating a big Dodger win, Brad. Yeah, me too.
It's hard to believe that ninety eight games played, only sixty four left,
so it's almost like two fifths of the season. So it's especially nice to
you know who not as many games left, you know, to get a
good start. Yeah, it's a great way to start the second half,
Brad. I appreciate it, and thanks for counting us down to how many
games are left of the season. Dodgers fifty seven and forty one. They
maintained their seven game lead over Arizona and San Diego. The Diabacks won earlier
tonight, and the Dodgers keep that delete in the division at seven games a
game tonight. That Yeah, it's it's only, you know, game one
of the second half of the season, but it's a big game for the
Dodgers in particular. You ended the first half of the season playing really bad,
and that's just honest. The offense was terrible, the starting pitching was
suspect they were trying to put together games in Detroit just to get twenty seven
outs, and the Dodgers get swept. In Philadelphia, dropped two of three
to the Tigers, give up five runs of the ninth inning, and I'll
lose that game in all walk off fashion. In Detroit, it was a
bad finish to the first half of the season. And to come out be
down one to nothing, have no offense for the first seven innings, the
first twenty one outs of a game, you've got two hits, that's it.
And the offense got jump started in the eighth inning, they get a
Grand Slam and you know, this win. While it's only one of one
hundred and sixty two, it gets the Dodgers to fifty seven and forty one,
seven game lead over the Diamonbacks. Padres have a loss, so that
they're now eight games back in the division, and it gives the Dodgers something
that's positive to look at and moving forward to tomorrow because that's the next game.
The Dodgers can hopefully ride a little bit this momentum. With Justin Robleski
on the mound getting the start for the Dodgers' third start since getting called up
from the minor leagues eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five to
seventy eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Let's go
out to Aaron and Portland. Your next up on Dodger Talk on this Friday
night, Hieron, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I appreciate
it. I'm just saying this momentum might be a little bit different. Yeah.
Ready, Freeman was kind of out of a little bit of a slum
and that, you know, maybe like it might help the team be a
little bit more cohesive at this point and after after the Altar. Great,
you know, we got some rest, we got some things, but this
might be a team building point in the uh on top of our players and
Gavin some crush it today. I think he really stepped it up. And
that's a very good look. That's very good look. Yeah, it was
really good tonight. I appreciate the phone call, Eric, And this is
a way the Dodgers can you know, hopefully get some momentum going in this
series, this home stand, start to chalk up together some winning stream in
the second half of this season, and certainly you're playing for the long hole.
I get that, and for those of you texted me and tweeting me,
it's one of one hundred and sixty two. Pump the brakes again for
the psyche of this Dodgers team. For some of these guys individually, to
have some success at the plate, to have some positive results on defense,
to have a positive outing like Gavin Stone did, to put up zeros in
a positive way like this Dodgers bullpen did. It's something to build on.
It's something this Dodgers team can see positive results and build on that tomorrow when
Justin Robleski goes out there, and then on Sunday when James Paxton goes up
against Cutter Crawford. You start stacking the wins, stacking series wins. It's
big and I think this Dodgers team now getting healthy is an important thing as
well. Just real quickly about Freddie Freeman, because I got a couple of
texts tweets about that. Excuse me about why would you pick the Freddie Freeman
over Will Smith? Well, that's a great it's a great question. Will
Will Smith was potentially walked to get to Freddie Freeman, who, with the
bases loaded this year, is now five for nine at the plate. Freddie
Freeman in his Dodger career since coming over is now nineteen for thirty seven with
the bases loaded. Now they know the numbers, and I think again,
I understand what Alice Cora was doing. A guy who can slug drive the
ball in Will Smith, and when he hits the ball, you know more
times than not he's driving the ball to the outfield. And in that situation,
that's what the Dodgers were looking for. And Alice Cora, playing with
a one nothing lead with five outs to go with one out there in the
eighth inning, was looking at what he had in front of him in a
possible double play ball, Freddie Freeman at the plate. He's gonna roll the
dice with Freddie Freeman at the plate rather than Will Smith and see if we
can get out of it with no runs for the Dodgers. And it absolutely
backed fired him and the Dodgers get to win four to one on the Grand
Slam. I'm gonna give you a quick injury update because tonight we saw Clayton
Kershaw get an outing for the Oklahoma City Baseball Club, the Dodgers Triple A
affiliate in ok C and tonight Freddy Clayton Kershaw went out and did okay and
was probably gonna be his last rehab assignment, So I think we are getting
really close to seeing Clayton Kershaw. He threw sixty seven pitches tonight for OKC
on the road in Round Rock. Four innings, three runs, six it,
no walks, two strikeouts, sixty seven pitches, forty nine for strikes
and afterwards, Clayton Kershaw spoke to the local media there in the Round Rock
and said, ultimately, it's just where the team is at, because obviously
I'm not built up to one hundred pitches, so would love to come back
whenever they need me, but don't want to put the team in a bad
spot. When asked about if he's ready to join the rotation, I think
because of injuries, I think we're really close to seeing Clayton Kershaw come back
and pitch for the Dodgers real quickly. Mookie Betts broken hand said he's progressing
but not fully healed. He spoke to the media before the game today.
He said his grip strength is at about forty to fifty percent of normal,
so he's still got a ways to go. Mookie Betts has been taking ground
balls, but no backhanders. It requires more of a grip on the glove
to backhanded baseball and not swinging anything yet as far as a baseball bat.
So it's a slow recovery for Mookie Bets right now. He is nowhere near
returning, nowhere near close to join this Dodgers team again, and that's expected.
This is not a timetable that he's behind. This is right on par
as far as where they thought he'd be in his recovery. Tyler glassnew put
on the eel before the All Star break with stiffness in his back, spoke
to the media before the game today and said, it's quote tall man back
then. He just had some some aches and some tightness because he's a big
guy, and they rested him. He went to the All Star Game,
they skipped and start. He threw three simulated innings today about sixty pitches,
and he is tracking to make his return against the Giants, most likely on
Wednesday, in the third of the fourth game against the San Francisco Giants.
So there you go. Clayton Kershaw could be coming back really soon. If
not on this let's see five dation now, maybe on Thursday, I guess
if I'm doing my math correctly, but certainly could be coming back to this
Dodgers team in the next week or so. Mookie Vetts training in the right
direction, but still not close. And Tyler Glass now looks like he'll be
activated just the ones start skipped before the All Star break and he'll be back
in the rotation later on this homesteed eighty six six nine, seven, five
seventy it's going to Ryan leaving Dodgers Stadium and saidnight after a four to one
dot Ch win with the Red Sox, h Ryan, I'm doing great,
doing great now that Freddie Freeman came in and hit that Grand Slam that was
absolutely spectacular. Being that night, I was hoping something like that would happen,
and it did happen. I mean, Alex Coora used to be a
core Dodger player, but for him to walk Will Smith to face Freddie Freeman,
I'm glad it happened the way it did. Yeah, I get it,
Ryan, I appreciate it. I see where Alex core is coming from.
Is I've explained a couple of times. I understand his thinking behind wanting
to get to Freddie Freeman as opposed to will Smith, just because of the
slug and the ability of Will Smith more times than not to drive the ball
to the outfield. And that's all it was going to take to tie that
game up at one. So I understand the move. It just absolutely backfired
on Alex Cora and the Boston Red Sox eight sixty six nine seven two five
seventy. I talked about it before the all start breaking. The Dodgers had
lost five or six on the last road trip, and I think it's well
worth addressing tonight and will be a topic on Dodger Talk after every game moving
forward until the trade deadline. And our buddy John Fuller, formerly of Coffee
Teen, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf now with Wallberger's the great Big John Fuller,
who's on his way to Tommy's right now as we speak. He said,
what's the most important need? Starting pitching, relief pitching, or a
big time bat. He says big time bat. I say starting pitching.
You're gonna get Joe Kelly back here, he's back. You're gonna get hopefully
bruised our graderol Ryan Brazier sometime in the future. You're gonna get arms back.
But I think the Dodgers with the question mark of the future of Clayton
Kershawn, how much you're gonna get him here in the second half of the
season as he builds up. Still, you don't know the extent of Bobby
I mean Bobby Miller's and trip awake. Can he come back and be affected
Bobby Miller, You just don't know. Walker Bueller somewhere in Florida trying to
figure out where his fastball and his command is gone. When will he return?
You just don't know. Yamamoto shoulder, You don't know when he's returning.
He's throwing, but he's not close. So I think starting pitcher,
a big time starting pitcher, is what the Dodgers need to be focusing in
on right now. As far as the trade deadline here at them into July
eight, six, sixth ninety seven, two five seven. We'll take a
time out, we'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls and Jose
Mota as well. Dodgers beat the Red Sox tonight, thankster Freddie Freeman's Grand
Slam in the eighth inning. They come back and beat the Red Sox four
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It's the seventh career Grand Slam for Freddie Freeman that comes to the bottom of
the eighth and the Dodgers take a four to one lead. Freddie Freeman delivers
curtain call and all a Grand Slam with one out in the bottom half of
the eighth inning off Brennan Burandino out of Valencia, and the Dodgers come back
and beat the Red Sox tonight out of Dodger Stadium four to one. Daniels
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to intentionally walk Will Smith to load the bases and get to Freddie Freeman with
the left hander on the mound, and it backfires as the Dodgers get the
four to one win. Let's check in with Jose. It's time to go
around the horn with Jose Mota. All right, Jose, great John Tonight,
you and Tim never on the call. We'll start with the decision by
Alice Cora. I've said it a couple of times. I get it.
I understand one nothing game, second and third, and you got a guy
in Will Smith who likes to drive the ball, whether out of the ballpark
or just the ball out into the outfield that would have tied the game and
won. And Otani moves over to third, still with the runner and chance
to win it for the Dodgers. I get the decision by Alice Gordon want
Freddy Freeman. Tim McKay, thank you very much. It was a fun
time to be on the boots again, replacing the great Rake Monday and with
Timmy Wilson does a great job. But yeah, I mean Alex Corey cannot
lose that game with Ellot, with will Smith hitting, he cannot lose that
game. The thinking is pretty much logical as you would expect. And in
baseball today you play more on the book than anything else. And he did
what his team was requiring, but which was to take a chance on Freddy
maybe rolling over something, get in the out with a leap runner or something
like that. But I know one thing I feel good about that bad because
you know, throughout the night after the strot cut, I kept saying,
you know, friendship making good passes at the baseball, and Freddie hicks the
ball the other way. It's a great sign. It doesn't mean that he's
gonna get based HiT's only the other way, but it just aligns his body
so nicely. And he saw how he flipped that switch and not break the
ball and just was able to deposit it. But Dodgers could not have asked
for a better situation right there, to the bottom go out there and lead
it off after a strock cout on Taylor and to pitch it. You know,
he should have been at least protecting the plate. But to have Shohale
Tony Cei a LEFTI there. To me, it was important to get him
straightened out. And then the intention of walking Freddie who else. That's that's
why they chant his name. You brought up Miguel Vargas, and I go
back to the half inning before which he doubled up O'Neill on the fly ball
to shallow left field to end the top half of the eighth inning with a
little bit of excitement and a little bit of buzz back in Dodgers Stadium on
a great defensive play from Miguel varguson as the baseball guys would have it,
he'd lead off the bottom half of the eighth thing funny how that happens all
the time. And he draws a lead off walk to get the lineup turned
over eventually, and a chance to turn that lineup over and get to the
big boppers, and a chance for the Dodgers to put themselves on a chance
to win it, and they did. All those things matter a looted to
him, because we consider a young guy learning the position. He knows he's
made a couple of mistakes out there the same pretty much a manner in which
this one happened. But to stay in the game, that's what you want.
You want young guys and burying guys to stay in the game no matter
what happened before. And you're aware of situations. You're aware of how much
it means to eliminate a base run or to at least keep him honest,
like hitting a cutoff man. So he did all that, stay in the
game, firing all ways. You mentioned there's eighty nine dont all fast ball
and then Tyler O'Neill. I mean, first Lase coach, somebody's gonna be
saying get dirty here because it's always coming right. But hey, give it
to Vargas for completing the play and give them the Dodgers a chance here because
all they needed was one swing to get it done and it did happen.
Do you believe in momentum game to the game, Jose? Is this something
that positive results, whether it's from the bullpen, Gavin Stone, Freddie Freeman,
you mentioned shoo Tani facing the left and have it a positive result.
Miguel Vargas, great defensive play, a walk in the bottom half, of
the eighth Inny. These positive things that are happening for the Dodgers and they're
seeing positive results. Is that part of momentum that can carry over to the
next day, Do you believe? Because when you're not playing the game as
you expect to play the game of the highest level, and you know,
pouring out a lot of runs a night after night, getting to starting pitching
every reason lined up, Boy, you gotta go out there and celebrate small
victories. And sometimes that means a good at bat that ended up with an
out and things like that. So that's the way you can survive through one
sixty two because you know that tom October you better be celebrating this balls of
things because you're gonna be facing the best of the best, right, so
might as well get used to it, not wish for the big moment.
So oh that was good. No, No, all these little things apply.
And also, you know, as I mentioned during the broadcast, two
tim when you're not hitting, all the mistakes look bigger, all of them.
I mean, a guy doesn't make a pitch, a god doesn't cover
our base, mental mistakes, best running mistakes, everything looks bigger when you
don't hit well. You hit you know what you got to eight in the
world. Oh yeah, a little mistakes here, and they're great. He's
gonna address it and talk about it. No, No, it should matter
a whole lot because all those things add up. And at the same time,
when you're trying to become a championship caliber team, will you be able
to pay attention to all those things. But anything he can build from one
at bat, one inning, whatever it takes to say, hey guys,
we're not out of this. We still have the same you know, drive,
same hunger. It's just not going our way. You can build off
of that and know that the mental part takes over and you forget about what's
happened physically and the four days off and all those kinds of things to say,
we got something going and we out there and believe it. Before you
know it, your mind changes and things change around you too. With some
results, Let's hope it carries over to tomorrow, game two of this three
game series and to start off the second half of the series, Jose,
we appreciate it, and we'll hear you're on the call tomorrow. We'll get
it started tomorrow with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck at three o'clock. First pitch
at four fifteen. Have a great rice here to night, but great now,
but let's hope that doesn't take as long as score again. Right,
absolutely, there he goes Ose. Alright, Dodgers get the win four to
one. They wait until the eighth inning, and Jose mentioned, let's get
some of the runs earlier. Eighth Inny Grand Slam from Freddie Freeman. The
Dodgers beat the Red Sox four to one. Trey west La, You're next
up here on Dodger Talk. Hi doing Trey? All right? All right,
all right, hello Tim, thank you sir for taking my call.
A couple of things. I want to start off with just a big congratulations
to Taoscar Hernandez for a hell of a home run derby championship. I don't
think that was mentioned, and agreeing with Jose and the previous caller Aaron,
even if that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things in the season.
You call it morale, you call it motivation. I call it mojo.
I really felt when I saw that was watching the derby, I said,
this is going to be a positive thing. And like Jose was saying,
these positive things, you can build on that. The team would, you
know, really take that in and we saw that tonight. I'm not going
to, you know, Monday morning cornerback COR's decisions. It's picked your poison
at that point. But I will say this, with Freddy at the plate,
I mean, I don't know there's anybody I'd rather have at the plate
with the game on the line. The guy's calm, cool and collected.
Chef Freddy comes up and so it's one of my favorite entres, a grand
salami alfredo slightly, i'lldentated with a little sprinkle of swag, and he takes
what he can get. You know, he's going to get a single or
he's going to put it out. And we got the game, and he
just made it happen. And I do think this is an important win.
You say it's one out of one sixty two. This is a huge win.
First game coming back after the break, everybody rested up. It's positive
all the way around. We should be round around this team. Everybody should
be positive and optimistic. It was a hell of a wand it was a
great win. And just congrats to the Dodgers tonight, and let's just look
forward to a great second half. All right, well said trade Mike Glendora,
wrap things up here on Dodger Talk on this Friday night. How you
doing, Mike, I'm doing great, Sam, Thanks for sarving Mark call.
I had a couple quick questions for you. Chris Taylor. What do
you expect from him? Do you think he's gonna be around in the bottom
of that order? I mean we're pretty top heavy man, the bottom half
of the order. We need to get a couple of bats on lineup to
go face the Phillies. And one more thing, what are your thoughts on
Dave if he doesn't do this year? Is either the Dodgers are gonna get
rid of him or you think he's gonna stick around. So I don't think
that's the time or place to be talking about that right now, but I
appreciate the phone call, Mike. I will talk about Chris Taylor real quickly.
I think CT three has been given every opportunity here, and I think
they'll continue to give him that landing pad there to try to figure things out
offensively. They need somebody to step into third base. If they don't address
it with the trade deadline, that's going to be more of a platoon situation
with Keith and Cavin Veigio and Chris Taylor at third base. One of these
guys has got to raise their hand at some point and say I want to
be the everyday third baseman until Max months he gets back, or the Dodgers
are gonna have to address it at the trade deadline. Well, one of
those two things is gonna have to happen here before the deadline at the end
of July, so we'll see what happens. But certainly Chris Taylor has been
given every opportunity to try to produce offensively and play every day. All right,
that's gonna do it. Mini. Thanks to all you Dodger fans for
being a part of the show. Thanks to Colin Yee back in the studio.
Appreciate that big win for the Dodgers tonight. They were trailing one to
nothing until the eighth inning when the magic started thanks to Miguel Vargas to get
it going show Hey Otani a double and then a grand slam Freddie Freeman his
second of this season, his seventh of his career, and the Dodgers come
back and beat the Boston Red Sox tonight four to one. They start the
second half of the season on a winning note with a win. They're now
fifty seven and forty one and maintain their seven game lead over Air Arizona in
the NL West. We'll be back at it tomorrow, Morocco Casino, Dodgers
on Decades and I all started at three pm, first pitch at four fifteen,
Justin Robleski on the mound. That'll be a nationally televised game. The
only place you can hear it, though, of course, right here on
your home of the Dodgers am I seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app until tomorrow. I'm a great safe rest of your Friday night. Thanks
for listening, Kim and everybody out there so long. Let's just