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the two time World Series MVP. In a little bit, we'll check in
with Kirsten Watson, and we'll also hear from Rick Monday and his sidekick today
Steven Nelson in the Gallup and Motors Broadcast booth. Last night. The Dodgers
were big over the Rangers fifteen runs scored. It was the most runs they
had scored all season long, and James Paxton gave the Dodgers a solid start
by going six innings and in the bottom of the first inning, Paxton was
given a three to nothing lead. Early this season, the numbers for Will
have been better on the road than they have been here at Dodgers Stadium.
Two to sixty six clip here compared to three zero five away from home.
And he hits one high in the here left field, Langford on the warning
track. He's at the wall, he leaves up and that ball is gone
vacd four of eleven hits for Smith. That our home runs. This one
a three run shot. They gives the Dodgers they are That was Will Smith's
tenth home run of the season. The Dodgers were up three to nothing.
That was a wall scraper. It barely got over the top of the left
field wall, right in front of those home run seats. In the fourth
inning, the Dodgers were up three to one when Mookie Betts hit a basis
clearing double. The Dodgers were ahead six to one. Fast forward to the
sixth inning, the Dodgers played home run derby. The first up show Hey
Otani hitting a two run home run. It was nine to one Dodgers.
Then it was Freddy Freeman's turn. Has not mattered who has pitched in this
game for Texas. The Dodgers have found a way to punish him, and
now Freddy shoots one the opposite field left center field. It's traveling and hit
it god. Freddy Freeman makes it back to back for the Dodgers, his
ninth of the year double digits for LA. Their lead is nine. Hey.
The Dodgers were not done there. Later in the inning, the raining
National League Player of the Week, ta Oscar Hernandez took his hack on a
one. Hernandez pommels the ball left field in deep. It's a home run
derby at Dodgers Stadium. Toyo Tom continues from coast to coast. Third home
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since twenty twenty one. In the same inning, seven runs were on the
board, and they go on to beat the Rangers fifteen to two. Tonight,
Walker Bueller is on the mound against the man the Dodgers have seen a
few times, John Gray, making his first start since coming off the fifteen
day injured list. First pitch is coming up at seven to ten from Dodgers
Stadium. With more, Let's check in with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson for
the first time here in the gallupin Motors Broadcast booth. All right, thanks
David Moule. We're back at a game two for the Dodgers against the Rangers.
They can take the series from Texas. I'll make it back to back
series wins against a team that was the best in baseball and the Yankees and
the defending World Series champions. But let's get to the news of the day.
Acquisition for the Dodgers. Cavin Bigio, who was just dfaed by the
Blue Jays a few days ago, acquired by the Dodgers for some cash considerations.
In Braden Fisher, minor league pitcher, right hander but for Calvin Bigio
already here and already in the starting lineup, Yeah, hill batter the nine
spot and playing third base. Kind of an interesting pickup. Also, we
saw Visio the Dodgers were up in Toronto earlier, and if you look at
the third base position, and I think to Stephen with with Max Munsey not
even taking batting practice even to this date because of you oblique, it just
has not responded as rapidly as Max and the Dodgers would like it to get
better. So that's kind of a question mark how much longer he is going
to be out. But here's the point. Third baseman combined this year it
hit below two hundred, just a one ninety eight batting average. And then
you look again seven, eight, and nine. While that particular threesome in
the Dodgers' lineup is starting to produce a little bit more, it's still just
barely at the Mendoza line. So this is an interesting acquisition. Bizio,
the left handed batter, which also brings up another scenario, and you know,
talk about it the Dodgers with another left team, if you're going to
go to the platoon situation and it's a left handed pitcher that's going to be
on the mound. The Dodgers then are going to be if it stays the
platoon situation, very left hand, hitting heavy in their dugout coming off the
bench. So kind of an interesting pickup. And for Bizio, just watching
him take ground balls and banning practice today, this has got to be a
whirlwind for him to say, hey, wait a minute, I get bad
news, and now I get good news and join the ball club that is
seven and a half games leading the Western Division of the National League. Cavin
Bigio born in a bat bag, of course, in a hall of favorite
Craig, So there's not a lot of experiences that he hasn't had in the
game or heard about or seen firsthand. And hopefully that will help him get
settled in quickly wearing a different shade of blue. Now the Dodgers, what
have they got in store to try and back up last night's performance season high
fifteen runs, five home runs, that matches the season mark for the Dodgers.
For them coming in that one inning, they opened up an absolute can
on the Texas range. Yeah they did. It was an unusual night and
I think you look at Bruce Bochi, the manager of the Texas Rangers.
A manager that's been through a lot of different battles, a different and the
World Championships in two different organizations in over four thousand games that he has managed,
he understands, Hey, look, this is just one of those nights.
Every team is going to have them. But the Dodgers happen to catch
a ball club, the Texas Rangers. It's very unusual that the Rangers would
give up fifteen runs at all, especially when you look at the starting pitcher
allowed three runs or less in twenty one consecutive games until last night. So
the Dodgers and Game two will have Walker Buehler taking the ball. We will
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A stolen base for Otani is fifteenth of the season. Anderson with the
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This is Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. All right, we are with Kirsten
Watson in the interview room at Dodgers Stadium. Kirsten, great to be with
you in this format. I know it's kind of crazy, like you feel
like the rest of the media should be in here so much a bit at
the podium, but hey, just us I like it. Hey, we
just are fresh from talking to Cavin Bigio. We'll hear from him later in
the show. But what were your first impressions I think he seems like he's
going to be a great fit with this group. I'm interested to see kind
of just how things played out. As he mentioned, he's primarily going to
be stepping in at third base. I do imagine that, as we've seen
with a lot of our players, he will be more of like a utility
guy, and maybe we'll see him kind of in other spots. But to
see that he is kind of expected to now be the everyday third basement until
Max Munsey comes back, it should be interesting. And obviously, like you
said, sometimes a change of scenery is what you need to get back on
track. I know the offensive numbers haven't necessarily been where he would like them
to be this year, so hopefully it could be. You know, he
saw the offense yesterday. I hopefully you can parton that. It was great
to see him in Taoscar Hernandez embraced. You know, he takes a beat
before you remember they were teammates in Toronto. Yeah, and just I think
obviously it was intentional putting those guys next to each other in the clubhouse,
and Taioscar has talked about just his time with the Blue Jays and how special
that group of guys that he was with and kind of just the family they
built, how they relied on each other to push themselves to be better,
the leadership role he had with them. So to now see he has that
here, I think that's going to be huge and hopefully it only you know,
continues well, but hopefully only it works for Kevin and putting him in
a good place. Did you have a chance to see Cavin Bigio and Tioscar
Hernandez interact when the Dodgers were in Toronto, or any of those younger players,
you know, when I think about I don't think I saw the two
of them interact. I did see him with Vladdie, but I didn't see
him with Cavin per se. But I do imagine it's just he just from
talking to him. The return to Toronto for Teoscar, he said, it's
always something special and it always brings a different memory. The first time he
had gone back, he said, was very emotional. This time felt a
little bit different since he had been there before. But it's a lot of
really special memories, and so I think they can now have that and create
new ones here in Los Angeles. Kevin Bigio was not going for my shots
at the reports that Otani was signing with Toronto. Did you get my jokes?
I feel like I was a man on the island right there. No,
I liked your joke. I thought I thought he was going to bite,
But I think it probably took him a minute. And then I think
we have to realize, like some player, we don't know him that well
just yet, but like some players are obviously very in tune social media,
and but I don't know if he's had active on social media, so I
can't tell if maybe at first he didn't really get it and then he was
like, oh oh yes, yes, yes, but hey, either way,
now he gets to be his teammate, and I think that in itself
means a lot. Yep, welcome to the pressure cooker, Kevin Bigio.
Yeah, there's probably a lot of media. When he first walked into the
clubhouse, I even was laughing. So I had seen him when he kind
of turned one of the corners and one of our camera crews was following him
and he was literally thinking. I was like, wow, it's like probably
thinking, welcome to La Cameras are gonna be everywhere. This is Hollywood,
this is where it happens. And also this is where you get a chance
to win. So I think that's what is even more exciting than any of
it, no doubt, should be fun to see how this goes. Kirsten,
thanks a lot for the time. We'll talk to you tomorrow. All
right, I'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, Tim Kates will have that pleasure.
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But yesterday we did see Yoshi Yama Moto under the supervision of the Dodgers' training
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But anyway, it makes sense. They're being very careful with him.
And on Thursday, Bobby Miller is scheduled to make his final rehab start,
and he will return when the Dodgers are on their next road trip. All
right, let's head downstairs right now to hear from the Dodger manager Dave Roberts.
Do you think questions for Dave? Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave? Roberts had
a good conversation with Cavin earlier. It's good to have him. Funny story
is I I think I saw him maybe in an airport years ago. I
think it was an airport or someone, and I say, hey, one
of these days, you're going to be a Dodger. You're going to play
for me one of these days. And he remembered that little interaction, and
sure enough it came to pass. But he's a baseball player, He's versatile,
can play anywhere essentially on the diamond for us right now, just max
the injuries taken longer than we had hoped, and so to get some cuverage
versus right handed pitching. Running them out there at third base is sort of
the plan. And if I have to kick him out, whether it be
to center to right to second base, you know, during the game for
whatever reason, if the game calls for it, we can do that.
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today, Cavin Bigio met with the media in front of his locker. I
was there inside the Dodger Clubhouse and we wanted to introduce you to the newest
member of the Dodgers, Cavin Bigio. Yeah, it's hard to put in
words. You know, that was a place where I was drafted in twenty
sixteen, and you know, played with a lot of guys from twenty sixteen
till you know a couple of days ago, and uh, you know a
lot of emotions that I you know, sat and you know went through process
and you know, put myself in a good position to uh, you know,
make a make my next step forward, you know, being here.
So I'm excited about what are the expectations the team has conveyed to you about
your role, how you're gonna play. Is it going to be mostly third
base until months he comes back? What's the discussion has been like? It
seems that way third base for right now. But I think the overall message
is, you know, finding any way to help this team win. You
know, being in Toronto, you know, we had a really good team
there and that was kind of my main message to uh, you know that
stuff. You know, whatever I got to do, second, third,
first, outfield, pitch run, pitch hit, kind of the same thing
here. You know. I just want to be, you know, a
good piece for this team and you know, hopefully be the next the last
team standing at the end of the year. How much is a change of
scenery going to benefit you? I think we're going to find out, But
I'm excited about it. Do you think it's a coincidence your lockers next to
taoscar Hernandez's. I don't think so. No, I don't think so.
No, I don't know. I'm very excited to play with him again.
Obviously, you guys are seeing what he's what he's capable of, and you
know, I've played with him for four years, so you know, very
excited to see him continue to do his thing. He had a lot of
success in nineteen and twenty. What kind of went wrong thelast couple of years
and what do you think this team can kind of help you a proa?
Yeah, I mean, not to get into it. You know, it's
you know, a lot going on. You know, first two years,
you know, really good for me. You know, twenty twenty one,
move moved position, battle through some injuries, and you know that kind of
led to a little bit of role change and you know, me being able
to adapt to it. And then you know last year, you know,
being able to work my way into an everyday role towards the end of the
season into the playoffs. You know, it was really special and whatnot.
I know the player that I can be, I know what I'm capable of
and you know, I know that I can reach it and hoping to do
so with the Dodgers. That's Cavin Bigio, who the Dodgers traded for with
the Toronto Blue Jays. Vigio told me that he did attend one Dodger game
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Dodgers and Rangers getting set for game too, And how are the Dodgers going
to top fifteen runs from last night? Well, you know what the rumors
are, don't you. If you score a lot of runs one night,
you've got the next night and you get shut out. Hopefully that's not going
to happen. But you know, a new face in the Dodger lineup today,
and you know, you start to look at what has happened. And
Kevin Bigio has not only been acquired by the Dodgers and Miguel Vargas goes to
a TRIPLEA, but Bigio is in the starting lineup tonight, playing at third
base and batting in the number nine spot. Everybody keeps talking about Bigio's on
base percentage. I guess the Dodgers may be looking to get that lineup turned
over more times than it has been. Yeah, I think one of the
things that kind of happens. Bigio, in looking at some numbers, does
not swing the bat that often, which sounds kind of weird. But if
we look at it, he does not have a high percentage of swings at
pitches. He does have a high percentage of his strikeounts have been called.
They have been looking so hopefully the Dodgers can kind of look at his swing.
Evidently they liked what they saw in that brief time up in Toronto,
and he had been DFA by the Blue Jays. The Dodgers are looking at
and picking it up. And I think the Dodgers have something under the sleeve
that they figure out. Look from a mechanical in instance, maybe there's something
that they can tweak, but if you look at it, you know,
quite frankly, let's be honest, the Dodgers hit the third base position,
and we don't know how long Max months he is going to continue being out
with the oblique injury. He's still not swinging the bat. But if we
look at third baseman this year, collectively, they're hitting below two hundred eight.
And if we look at the seven, eight, and nine spots and
the Dodger lineup, number seven is hitting two eleven, number eight is hitting
two three, and number nine is hitting two eight. So there's very little
production at the bottom of the lineup. And I think also the consistency of
defense at third base. This is an interesting acquisition. Yeah, from what
I understand, Bigio can play defense at every position except shortstop, so let's
see what he has tonight. Like you said, Rick, the Dodgers are
searching for some answers at third base and the bottom of the order. You
know, you bring up I think an excellent point because if you look at
the Dodgers tradition, especially over the last number of years, versatility has always
been the big caning card for many many of the players that they had been
able to either hold on to or acquire, and Bizio fits into the category.
I'm thinking of Keiky Hernandez multiple positions. I'm thinking of Chris Taylor,
multiple positions. We're seeing now that Miguel Rojas can play three different positions.
If you had to an emergency, you could blame in other positions too.
He understands how to do that. So versatility is something that really kind of
adds to it. The other part, you know, Bisio left handed batter
now against lefties start against them? Are the Doggers going to be left handed
heavy on the bench, because if you're going with a platoon against the left
handed pitching, which is not going to happen tonight, you could possibly have
Loos Hayward and Bizoo all three on the bench and being left handed batters and
then being ready to come in during the game. And how many teams in
the Western Division have a lot of lefties in their bullpen. There's quite a
few in that category. But interesting ballgame last night and it was Rockets Red
Glare. How about the fact that if you start to look at the starting
pitching last night, with Dane Dunning's starting three and two thirds, six runs,
four hits, a home run, and it was almost one year ago
that he also went three innings against the Dodgers, five runs, seven hits
and two home runs. And it was almost exactly a year ago. Yeah,
how about that John Gray, the former Rocky on the Mount tonight,
Rick and Steve, we'll get into that a little bit later. Rick,
thanks a lot, and we'll see what Calvin Bigio's got for Los Angeles well
and looking for big things and for the Dodgers looking for their forty third victory
of the season. So you little bit later, David sounds good. Rick.
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and still means so much to the Dodger organization. The way he played,
the way he carried himself first class will always be remembered, especially as long
as I'm here, and I'm talking about two time World Series Champion and two
time World Series MVP. And thirty year champion Corey Seeger. Thanks a lot
for the time. Great to be with you again. Yeah, thank you.
It's glad to be back on here. Hey, after that pregame press
conference yesterday and we walked back to the clubhouse, I felt like I didn't
want to leave, like I was gonna grab onto your ankles or something.
I know, you walked me only back to the clubhouse. So nice,
nice little choffeur back over there. Hey, I know you want to play,
but there is a silver lining that last night you were able to not
only take in the appreciation of the organization but the fans. The way they
received you last night. Yeah, you know, it was really awesome.
You know, I'm not the one to really like the spotlight, but just
that special interaction to the fans, you know, just the way they supported
me throughout the years, the ups and downs, everything, the way they
support this team. You know, they always have a special place in my
heart, and last night was pretty cool. It feels like you would have
taken it in better the way things were last night than being on deck as
the second hitter of the game. Yeah, you know, that would have
been a lot more fun. But just the just the total embrace. Man.
Like just what I said before, you know, it was really special.
It's something that I'll I'll never forget. And like I said again,
you know this fan this, this this organization, this fan base. You
know, they have a special place in my heart. Did you realize how
much you meant to them before last night? Not really? You know,
you never really get caught up in it. I think, you know,
you just you're going out there and you're trying to do your job, trying
to win. You know, you're all always trying to perform well for him.
But to see the appreciation of the gratitude that they showed me, it
was, it was, it was really humbling. Almost. The one thing
that I love so much about the teams you played on was the bond that
you had with your teammates. And to this day, how close are you
guys still, because it seems like whenever players from that part of Dodger history
come together, it's like a brotherhood. Yeah, you know, extremely,
I think a brotherhood's a good word. You know, we went through a
lot of a lot of fun times, really close knit group. You know,
people still vacation together and stay in contact. You know, it's It's
something that'll be hard to replicate in the future, but it's something you'll always
enjoy the memories of. Do you remember who was your favorite roommate who?
Definitely I gotta go with Ross Stripling, Yeah, me and him. Me
and him lived for a couple of years together. Barnes and Trace Thompson are
close seconds, but I think raw Sex's cake on that one. He seems
to be a very responsible type of guy. That's exact athlete the right word,
you know. He's actually helpful, knows how to still like have fun
and just sit there and watch some shows and hang out and actually takes out
the trash. That's one thing Barnes will never do is probably still doesn't do
it. Hey, can you believe Austin Barnes right now as we speak,
is the longest ten yured active Dodger. I know it's crazy, right,
who would have thought that? Not me? Good for him though, he
he means a lot of this organization. He's He's done a lot for him.
He's a he's a good piece of keep Corey Seeger is our guest,
two time World Series champion and a champion for the Dodgers. And I remember
the first time I met you, it was in the hallways of the press
box. You're with Julio Rias after he won Minor League Pitcher of the Year
and you won Minor League Player of the Year, and it feels like you
haven't changed one bit. Oh man, try not to. But I had
some I had some good molding over there. You know. I had a
lot of a lot of good role models, a lot of good people in
that clubhouse, a lot of good staff, a lot of good media that
took care of me over there. They really shaped me into who I am.
When you go back to last year and the run to the World Series
Championship in the ALCS, you guys beat the Astros in seven games, was
there any part of you that felt some sort of vindication or redemption for what
took place in seventeen or is that not even part of it? For sure,
I'd be lying to if I didn't say that. It was definitely.
The initial was the happiness for the Rangers and moving on in the World Series
and stuff like that. But once you got home and kind of processed it,
it felt like you did something good for your old team, for sure.
How many texts did you get from your former teammates. Quite a few.
We'll keep those names under wraps, but yeah, there was definitely quite
a few. I was going to ask you, this was twenty seventeen the
best team that you played on with the Dodgers, or obviously twenty winning the
World Series? Probably seventeen, to be honest with you. Hard to compare,
you know, obviously, but that was a really good team we had
felt like, I don't know, it just felt like that was as close
as you can get to winning the World Series without doing it. But also,
like I said, the bond, the brotherhood you all had together.
Yep, you know, I think that's something that kind of will forever hold
us together. Right. It's it's those moments, those games that define you
and make you closer and help you basically rebuild from there, right Like you
got to start over and recoup together and and get things rolling. So it's
games like that they're bring you closer. He gave us so much enjoyment,
and the way you did it and still do it is first class, and
that obviously comes from your mom and dad. How's Big Jeff Sieger doing.
He's great, Uh, he's uh, he's happy, you know, he's
got light work now though he's only got one guy playing now, so they're
they're on reduced baseball games. But now they're they're watching Kyle's oldest son go
play. Okay, he's uh, he's really enjoyed being a grandfather. If
he thrown to him against the barn in North Carolina, still, I don't
think that'll ever go anywhere. It's just, uh, it's just that Kyle's
barn now. So it's it's something that he really enjoys and you'll never be
able to get that out of him. That's awesome. We'll see what happens
tonight and the rest of this series. Either way, it's great to have
you back in Los Angeles and you will forever mean so much to this organization.
And it's not just what you did on the field, but just who
you are as a person. I think that's what resonates with all of us.
Thank you. I really appreciate that. I'm appreciative for everything that they've
done for me. There he goes. Corey Seeger has been our guest and
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He is two and two this season with an ERA of two to twelve,
but he just came off the injured list with a groin injury and the
last time he pitched was Sunday, but in relief, So this is the
first time that Gray is making a start since the end of April. And
if you look at what Gray has done this season, he's been very good
when he's healthy. But he will likely be on a pitch count tonight sixty
to eighty pitches and Jose Orena, the former Marlin, will be ready in
the bullpen if needed. As far as the Dodgers go, Walker Buehler,
who is one in three with an ERA of four eighty two, making his
seventh start since coming back from his second Tommy John surgery. The last time
he pitched was in Pittsburgh. It was a three inning outing. It was
not his best, but he did not get great defense behind him either.
And look, here is the deal with Walker Bueler. He needs to get
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Before first pitch, let's check out once more with Rick Munday and Steven Nelson
DV it's Walker Buehler against John Gray. A couple righties. Walker still trying
to Settle in coming off the surgery, John Gray coming off an injury.
But when he has been out there this season, Rick Munday, he has
been really tough to get to. Is era at two point one two on
the year. He's probably going to be a little limited in terms of pitch
count tonight. But the Dodgers' offense is clicking right now, Yeah, it
is, and we're going to find out about Walker Bueller. Hopefully he is
clicking also. And you look at Buehler at home, the ERA is much
much lower, in fact, to about half of what he's been on the
road. Three starts at home prior to tonight, three also on the road,
and Walker is the first one to come out. He knows full well.
Consistency has been rather elusive to this particular point. And I always expect
when Buehller goes on the mound to see just a terrific ballgame being pitched.
One of the lefties that will be in the Ranger lineup to face Walker Buehler,
Corey Seeger. He was not in there for the series opener, He
did receive a lovely video tribute and an incredible deserved ovation from the fans at
Dodgers Stadium and now for the first time as a visiting player, he will
be in the starting lineup at Dodgers Stadium Game two for the Dodgers and Rangers.
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