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Post All Star breaking tonight, another young arm on the mound for the Dodgers,
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few minutes We'll check in with Steven Nelson and Jose Mota out the Galpin Motors
broadcast booth. Well last night, a river ran through Dodgers Stadium as Tao
provided all the offensive push. Last night, River Ryan made his major league
debut. The right hander we pitched into the sixth inning five and a third,
one run, four hits, struck out two while throwing a season high
seventy three pitches. He battled it out against the reigning Cy Young Award winner
Blake Snell, who was equally as good, but the Dodgers were able to
get to him. The Giants, though, scored first in the top half
of the fourth inning. A pass ball from Will Smith, the ball that
probably should have caught goes off of his catchers mid back to the backstop.
Matt Chapman scored from third and the Giants with an unearned run take a one
nothing lead, But the Dodgers came back in the bottom half of the fourth
inning. Tay Oscar Hernandez the guy, won the home run derby a week
ago. He has started off the second half of the season on a roar.
But Kansas City is the story bo say is there? Fifty six win
of the year. That's as many as they had all of twenty twenty three.
As Hernandez lifts off to left field, he can watch it fly halfway
up the pavilion, right next to the Dodger bullpen, and we are all
tied up. Tay Oscar Hernandez with his twenty first home run of this season,
and he was just getting going. As the Dodgers and Giants were all
tied up at one. In the bottom half of the sixth inning, Taot
delivered again and RBI single up the middle, scoring Freddie Freeman. As the
Dodgers took a two to one lead, River Ryan would go five and a
third Indians, he'd leave and get a no decision. The Giants, though,
would tie things up late in the seventh. Fitzgerald a home run to
left center field off Ryan Yarborough, and the Giants came back to tie it
at two. Then the bottom of the eighth, the Dodgers got something going
runners on for Wow tay Oscar again, two balls, two strikes, two
on two out, game tied at two. The pitch Hernandez with another base
hit in the center field tail Timing again comes through in the clutch. The
Dodgers lead three to two. Tay Oscar Hernandez delivers again with an RBI single
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runs As the Dodgers hang on and beat the Giants last night three to two.
Blake Trining gets the winning relief. Daniel Hudson comes in, strikes out
two and the ninth inning to pick up his seventh save of this season.
River Ryan and no decision put pitch Well into the sixth inning in his major
league debut. Dodgers have now won four in a row since the All Star
Break. Tasker Hernandez in these four games, betting four to twelve, He's
seven for seventy in ops over twelve hundred, two home runs, two doubles,
and five ribbis. Tay Oscar Hernandez is off to a great start post
All Star Games. The Dodgers get the win, improve to sixty and forty
one, and tonight it's game two of this four games set against San Francisco
as the home stand continues. Landing neck on the mound first pitch of seven
ten and with more, let's head out to the Galpin Motors broadcast both as
we say hello and welcome in Steven Nelson and Jose Mota. Guys, thank
you Tim. With Jose Mota, we're not sure about you. I'm not
sure about anybody else out there. I got enough gray hairs as it is.
Jose. The radio listeners can't see that. You just take my word
for it. The Dodgers aren't helping things of late. Six of their last
seven games have been decided in the eighth inning or later. So you want
to be a good big league player, well, the tests are gonna come
more when things are tight, when you really you have to go out there
and show your ability to slow the game down. You won the ball hit
to you on the defensive side. You want to be the guy in the
batters box when the game's on the line. And then as a pitcher,
you want to have the ability to have the mentality to say I want the
big spot and I'm gonna make that great pace. So you know what,
if you don't enjoy it, I am. I know you are, yeah,
but you know what the best thing is we can talk about it,
laugh about it because they're winning ball games, and I think you're leading the
way you talked about that, Jose led me perfectly to the man of the
night in game one. Who was the player of the game was the Taoscar
Hernandez show. The Tao show. Three of the six hits, drove in
all three runs in the game, caught the last out, and proving again
that he wants to be that guy. Where's that heartbeat? It just doesn't
get to spit up at all. He goes three for four, rest of
the team goes three for twenty five, and again mentality and separation to Oscar
has the knack. I will say to say I want the game on the
line, and also understand something else. He told me this in spring train,
and he goes, when I look at this lineup, I know that
I'm going to get a lot of opportunities because if I look one through five,
if I'm paid him six, there's gonna be plenty of Chenzis. We
met on bass now he wasn't talking about scoring position, but he goes,
as a slugging team, you have to be able to think as I do.
Once you reach first base, Steven, you aren't scoring position, and
was more particular to me as of late as the adjustment seams made on making
contact and sacrificing perhaps a little bit of power, which really he hasn't,
but the ability to just say, I'm a small ball player right now,
if I put the ball in play, it's going to be beneficials of my
team. And there it is. And he talked about how the derby has
helped his swing. You you talked about one Soda always said it fixed his
swing at Dodger Stadium a couple of years ago. Well, tasker Hernandez,
it has helped his swing, added some natural loft, not intentional, just
naturally and out of the break he's now seven for seventeen. And I'm glad
that you brought it up because we the Dodgers signed to Oskar Hernandez as a
slugger. Fans know him in the past for being a slugger thirty and one
hundred. But as we saw last night, not trying to hit it out
to left field halfway up the bill Villian as he did last night, but
do that every time he's up there, take it up the middle. Know
the situation went two outs. So he has been a complete offensive player.
And when that Dave Roberts just told the media he was not he did not
think that they were going to get this type of guy here in his first
year as a Dodger. He has been that guy. And I don't know
if you caught it. Tim a word that Jose Mota used in that description
of Tioscar Hernandez, he said, nack nack, fitting as we have Land
and Nack starting tonight for the Dodgers. When we come back to the booth,
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roll of getting too that in a second One of the big reasons why tay
Oscar Hernandez Karsten continues to produce. Yeah, he's been lights out. He
is. He's that guy who he walks up to the plate. He wants
to be the guy who's going to put this team, whether it's in a
position to come back and win, to get the win like he just wants
to be the guy to step up to give his teammates an opportunity to take
home the w. And so yesterday single handedly pretty much scored the runs he
was getting. He was just so efficient on the bases and at the plate.
And so he is someone but talking to him, you know, obviously
he just won the home runner we and there are a lot of ideas that,
oh, you take part in the derby, it messes up your swing,
you overswing things like that, and he was like, I don't know
about all that made my swing better, got me right where he wants to
be. So he's trying to put the ball in the air. He felt
that in the first half of the season he wasn't really getting the extra base
hits that he likes to. So by being able to just kind of move
the ball forward, like Dave likes to say, and kind of put it
in the air, he's been getting those results and finding that consistency. So
he feels really good at the plate, and it's just a matter of you
know, yeah, you stick to your approach, but when you get into
big positions in which you can help this team. He wants to be that
guy, and he's shown that he is that guy, no doubt about it.
Guys like Keiki, Hernandez have been big in these four games for the
Dodgers post the All Star Break. Collectively, this Dodgers team playing a lot
better than they were pre All Star Break. Yeah, going into the All
Star break, you know, and that was a tough week, whether it
was getting swept in Philly, you know, losing two of three against the
Tigers in Detroit, and just how they lost that final game in Detroit.
It was almost it was like they had it and then all of a sudden,
literally someone pulled the rug from underneath them, and you just kind of
saw it fall apart right there, and it was, you know, you
don't often see a lot of frustration coming out of these guys, but in
that clubhouse, you not only could you hear it and feel it, but
like the guys, and I think that was really important, I should say,
for everyone to kind of express that frustration, because then they went into
the break. Some guys went to the All Star Game. Other guys got
to just go home, do with family and take a breather. And then
it allowed for them to come back and get back on track right where they
wanted to be. And they've come out at the break high. Look.
And even when I was talking to Will Smith today and he was saying what
he appreciates what these last four games, these have been tough games. It's
not like they've just kind of blown them out ten to two. Or whatever
the case may be, against the Red Sox coming from behind to get wins.
Yesterday it was a tight game. So there these have been situations in
which they're proving not only to themselves that you know, this is the team.
They're starting to get more reinforcements back, Clayton Kershaw, Tyler Glassana is
coming back, the bullpen's continuing to get stronger. So it's just it's been
a shift in a mindset and so they just they're in such a better position
right now, and honestly, they might have needed just that little like,
all right, we got to settle back in and we know how good we
are. Let's get back to it. And so we're seeing this team do
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All right, let's head back out to Dodger Statum and check in with
the Dodger Skipper. Questions for Dave Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Robberts. I think
the thing with Landon is, uh, you know, certainly there's pitch ability,
there's a four pitch mix in there with with really good command. And
the challenge for him has always been that he eases into the game and you
try to feel your way into it, save energy, whatever it is.
And so what he's done so well this year is from pitch one to go
out there aggressive and not hold anything back. And so you know where he's
at right now. I feel he's got a good base that he can hold
his stuff into this and like I said yesterday, you know, get through
twenty two, twenty three, twenty four hitters. How that plays out tonight,
No one has any idea, but I do feel that, you know,
we've kind of put him in a position now that I think he can
take that next step. Now it's up Tim to go out there and perform.
How valuable just have these young arms beIN that's a Blaine and obviously we
know that it's veteran's coming back in the next two games, which is for
them to kind of hold their own and indeed such a have an impact.
I guess the right is it's been great. It's one it's been one of
the big joys for me watching these young pitchers develop, learn on the fly,
you know, with a club like ours, and so it's been a
lot of fun. And these guys are very mature. They watch, they
use their eyes, they use their ears, they ask the right questions and
you know, it's it's translating to performance. And so I think that,
you know, in the short term, near term and in the long term,
things are looking pretty good for us. Technically have a six man rotation
right now. It's like kind of technically right now, but I don't think
we're trying to get too far ahead of it. Obviously, we've got landing
going tonight, then we've got glass and then uh kursh so both those guys
coming back, and then you've got Stone going on Friday, and then we'll
kind of figure out where we're at there. You especially like a case my
class howls and the other guys are gonna have to manage ending twice a little
bit late. Doesn't make more sense to have a six man rotation the rest
of the year, you get or can you kind of go with the same
way you have and and accomplish that. I think we can do what we've
done. Uh, you know, I think that the six man A lot
of it is predicated on the schedule. And when you have consecutive days ten
thirteen days in a row, you know after this stretch we're gonna have some
some off days coming. So it just then you start to kind of put
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while since we've heard or seen Walker Bueller. What's going on? Well,
he threw a bullpen session today and I was talking to Andrew Friedman earlier and
he said his stuff is outstanding. He just has to learn how to be
more of a pitcher and rely on that a lot more than what he did
maybe before he had his second Tommy John surgery. So the Dodgers are very
optimistic about him after going to Florida and resetting for about a month, that
he's coming back with a clearer head and a better pitcher. And I would
expect Walker Buehler to be back pitching in a game within the next week because
part of the layers of the Dodgers of cutting ties with James Paxton is because
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Walker Buehller shortly thereafter. So he's on the horizon, and him throwing a
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that they believe the next five or six days is going to be vital for
teams to decide whether or not they are buyers or sellers. And quite honestly,
there are a lot of eyes on Arlington, Texas and the Texas Rangers,
who obviously are the defending World Series champions. They have had a lot
of injuries to their position players. They have not gotten Jacob deGrom back,
they were waiting for Max Scherzer, and right now they're under five hundred se
having games back in the Wildcard race, four games back in a really poor
Al West and going into the All Star Break. I had heard that Chris
Young their GM was still defiant in being a seller, but if they continue
to go downwards here in the next five or six days, he may change
his position. And former Dodger Nathan Evaldi certainly would be a very attractive starting
pitcher, not only for the Dodgers, but maybe the Yankees as well.
So Nathan Avaldi, who is a proven big game pitcher in October, would
be very attractive. David, is there a certain NL Central team that is
maybe looking at some of the Dodgers down the farm. Yeah. I found
out that the Chicago Cubs TIM are scouting this week all levels of the Dodgers'
farm system. And you may say, well, who might they be wanting
from the Dodgers, and who do the Dodgers want from the Cubs. It
feels like it wouldn't be Cody Bellinger. Ian Happ is an interesting outfielder and
also infielder Nico Horner, who could play second base and shortstop. The Dodgers
are not just looking for an outfield bat, maybe looking to add to their
infield depth as well, So Nico Honer, Nico Horner, and Ian hat
might be names that may interest the Dodgers. We'll find out the trade deadline
one week away, David, we appreciate it. We will check in with
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well, they can base it all off how guys have started on the
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for you. Last night River Ryan had two or three strikeouts, yet he
was throwing ninety seven ninety eight. How does that add up when a pitcher's
throwing that hard and only has that amount of strikeouts. I think it relates
to the Bobby Miller syndrome. Same thing too, guys can see the ball
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because people wonder ninety nine, how is he not missing best this? It'll
come with time, all right. At the Dodger bullpen, we saw peek
into what Dave Roberts was thinking. Daniel Hudson comes in to the ninth inning
last night. Obviously Evan Phillips is working through something. Jose, How difficult
is it for a reliever that is counted on for big outs to be able
to try to work through whatever pitching mechanics he's going through yet be available to
pitching games. It's hard, Dave, And I'll tell you that. You
can plan it out. All you want is say, hey, I'm gonna
get him high leverage situations. That's if the game calls for that. You
don't know what the game's gonna call for later, when maybe you have a
tight ball game in the tenth inning, you're like, he's my choice.
And it is a high leveraged situation, so you have to map it out
in a way in which you're also the one to use him way too early
to say I just wanted to get working because he still wanted our premier arms.
Right, And then if you bury him too much, and the mentality
is why may not being used in better situations though, right. So it's
a delicate balance. But for the picture himself, it's a matter of saying,
what is it that I need to do. I'm not gonna take it
personal when they use me, but I have to get better at something.
So it's a delicate balance. You've gotta be careful of the emotions. But
at the same time, no one explained to that person, Hey, this
is why I'm doing it. I'm gonna just skip you. I want you
to get some work in, but you gotta find the ability because I want
to use you in those situations again, all right, jose Motive, before
we let you go. I talk to your dad almost every day and he
always asks me who's my player tonight? And I try to pick a wide
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on, Manny, pick another game, pick another player. He goes with
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always for you, Dave. Oh yeah, it feels like sexy is another
word for confident. You feel like the confidence is getting back and you're trusting
what your legs can do for you. Yeah, I mean, for sure.
I think just you know, kind of going over the course of the
year and more at bats, you get the kind of better you feel,
and you start to figure stuff out in the game. Instead of you know,
using the cage and trying to figure it out, you kind of actually
figured it out in the game and try to figure out your feels whatever it
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Philly, it's been pretty good. So just keep trying to ride the momentum
and hopefully you can just keep carrying it on during the All Star breaks.
Since you are the pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin, what'd you do? Take
the boat out on Lake Michigan, you know, take the whole Lux family
out there. No, I actually went back home where my house is now.
I'm not gonna stay where in Wisconsin. But yeah, and I just
had a cookout a bunch of my buddies, family, my fiance, Miley,
her family, her friends. So one of those nights that was good.
And then I got to hit with my uncle, who has kind of
been my hitting coach, you know, ever since I was a little kid,
So that helped too. And then I think, you know, just
getting a mental reset away from baseball for a couple of days always helps.
How much custard was served at the luxe party, No custard, but a
lot of a lot of beers, brots and burgers. Man, a lot
of that. No no custard though, all right, since Milwaukee has known
for the brots. I actually learned my recipe from my in laws. They're
from the same area that your family's from. They kind of taught me how
to make the brots. Can you give us the lux family recipe on brotz?
I don't think we have one. Man, We just go to the
go to the store and get whatever we see. I don't know, my
family doesn't know how to cook like that, so I just, you know,
I go get them from the store and then throw them on the grill.
Now, I actually boil them with beer onions and then put them on
the grill. Get that char that's fair. I mean, that's that's the
true Wisconsin way. I can't I can't claim I do that. I'd be
lying to you. Gavin lux is our guest. You talk about the mental
reset. You guys come out of the break now winning four in a row.
It feels like this team is starting to get their swagger back. Is
that just coming with the wins or how you're winning these games? Uh?
You know, I think a little bit of both. Going into the break,
obviously we lost a couple of tough ones that we probably you know,
wish we had back. But I mean, baseball is just it's so up
and down, and you know, I think even you know, people thought
like, oh, it's the end of the world, and I look at
the standings and we're still eight games up and you know, twenty wins over
five hundred, so it's never as bad as you think it is. And
yeah, I think, you know, we gotta have a couple of good
wins against the Red Sox where we came back and fought our ass off to
to win those ones. And then even yesterday Tayo with three huge hits,
and you know, just little things like that over the course of the year.
Try to keep saying to like ride the wave, and I think you
know, our team's doing that, and we're gonna get healthy at the right
time and then hopefully just keep rolling like that. Kevin Lux, that's what
he's been doing, fighting his ass off every day. Yeah, and out
here, you're out here every day since the beginning of spring training trying to
get better. Can you describe the level of accountability you have for yourself and
your teammates have for each other. Yeah, I think you know, no
one's harder on ourselves than we are internally as you know, individual players,
So you know we as a team and I think you know, the work
ethic is contagious. I mean, you look out on the field every day.
Keyk's out of her early, Mooki's out of here early. Vargie and
Pahes are out here, like everyone's out here early, getting getting stuff done.
And you know, I think you look around the league and not every
team is like that. So I think just the work ethic is contagious,
and I think we just kind of feed off that from each other, right
Kevin, Thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate it. You're dripping sweat
before first pitch. You got a game tonight, and look how much work
you put in already Ready when every day, baby, when every day love
it. Gavin Lux is winning the day. Thanks a lot for the time.
And you know we're always rooting for you, always, my guy,
the big Sexy Gavin Lux. We'll send it back to you in the studio.
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in the big leagues, is first with the Giants, came up with the
Cardinals. There was a sinker, a sweeper, and a split finger fastball.
Making his twentieth start of the season. He's now transitioned from a relief
pitcher into a traditional starter this year. He's made twenty seven career starts in
seven years, nineteen of which have come this year. Hicks has pitched five
plus innings, or more than fourteen of his nineteen starts this year. Last
time out before the All Star Break, four and third innings, five runs,
eight hits. That was in a loss of the Blue Jays. He's
making his tenth career appearance, third career start against the Dodgers tonight. He
held the Dodgers to a two toh eight average over his career with twenty one
strikeouts. His first starts of the Dodgers this year came back on May thirteenth,
where he allowed two earned runs on seven hits over five innings of work
Landon Knack on the mound. For the Dodgers. He's one and two with
a three twenty three ERA. Twenty seven year old rookie right hander second round
pick in twenty twenty out of East Tennessee State, making his eight start,
ninth appearance here at the big league level. He tossed four to third innings
in his last outing against Philadelphia before the All Star Break, giving him three
earned runs, six hits and striking out five after entering the game as the
bulk inning guy in the second inning. He's facing the Giants for the second
time in his major league career. He last pitched against him on June twenty
eighth at Oracle Park. He took the loss after allowing just one earned run
on five hits through four and two third innings. He struck out his season
high seven batters in that game on seventy six pitches. So it's Landon Knack
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first pitch, we head back out to the booth. Stephen Nelson, Jose
Mota, guys, thank you TC. We know that everybody is looking forward
to the next two days, Game three and four of this series of the
Dodgers against the Giants, because it means the returns of Tyler Glass now and
Clayton Kershaw, the season debut of the future first ballot Animus Hall of Famer
Clayton Kershaw. But we cannot overlook tonight's Game two starter Landon Neck Jose Mota.
This will be his eighth start, ninth appearance overall. The home run
ball has bitten him through throughout this year. What are you looking forward to
tonight? Out of the Dodgers right hand? When that lineup turns around second
time, third time, I want him to show Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor
that he still has stuff to get people out another time. So he has
not pitch all that deeply. Ninety four pitches, Max, that was the
second start of the Big leagues, and the reason is he faced the Giants
three starts ago. The outs were hard outs, and that's just an indication
that your stuff is playing okay, and e've been fortunate, right. But
he's got the stuff to number one, throw three pitches for strikes. Number
two is he's got enough basketball to make second their pitches much better. But
he's got to show once again that competition is good. Guess what he's got
to follow Gavin Stone, Justin Robleski. He's got to follow Paxson and River
Ryan on what they've done on the first four games out of the break,
because perhaps he wants to be a part of that too. I'm glad you
brought up the link for Landonak. He's completed five innings in just four of
his eight appearances so far this year. But it does sound like Dave Roberts
and the Dodgers are more comfortable giving him that leash to go a little deeper.
They feel like his stuff can hold into the sixth inning. We'll see
how the game plays out, of course, and we'll see what we get
from Jordan Hicks. The Dodgers will face the converted reliever, long time cardinal
Jordan Hicks. The Giants signed him and turn him into a starter, but
this will be his last turn in the starting rotation for now, as they're
going to push him back into the bullpen, probably be a piggyback, a
bulk guy of sort the rest of the way. But this is a guy
we've seen with some electricity in the back end against Saint Louis. Now we'll
see him as a starter for the Giants, big sinkerball, So he's catching
up with those innings so right now, July has not been very good for
him two seven point seventy and the Dodgers need to make him elevate the baseball
all right, So game two for the Dodgers and Giants coming up shortly,
trying to improve to two to zero in this final series against their arch rivals
from NorCal. All right, thank you, guys. Dodgers start the night
sixty and forty one. An eight game lead now is the Padres have won.
Padres playing on the East Coast, that game has gone final as they
beat the Washington Nationals four to nothing. So a half game pickup by the
Padres. Dodgers going into action tonight, an eight game leading the division over
the Padres, nine games up in the Diamondbacks, twelve games up on the
Giants and the Rockies. Thanks for playing twenty three games back in the division.
First pitch is next landon knack on the mound when we come back,
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