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NLS after a three and three homestand the Dodgers now head east for the final
road trip before the All Star Break. First stop Philadelphia in a three game
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of the show. He'll go one on one with the Big Maple James Paxton.
Shortly we'll hear from Kirsten Watson and in just a couple of minutes we'll
head it out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast. Both in here from Rick Monday
and Tim Neverett Well Sunday at Dodgers Stadium, the Brewers down the Dodgers and
spoiled a big league debut. Justin Robleski, the twenty three year old rookie
left hander called up from Triple A, made his first start in the big
leagues, and Robleski he was good the first three innings, putting up zeros.
In the fourth, though he ran into trouble otherwise known as Christian Yelich.
Oh, we had good reports on him this season in Double A and
then getting the opportunity to pitch at Oklahoma City just twice. Though. Yelich
hits a ball in the air to center field and deep Pie has going back.
He's at the track and this ball's gone. Yelich is homeward for the
second consecutive game and it's two nothing. Milwaukee two run home run from Christian
Yelich Brewers the two nothing lead. Robleski, though, was able to rebound
get out of that inning. In the fifth, Robleski made another mistake,
though, this time leaving a ball over the middle of the plate for the
nine hitter catcher Eric Haas, who hits a two run home run to right.
Brewers with a four to nothing lead. The Dodgers offense, though able
to get some traffic on the base pass, but couldn't push any runners across
until the sixth, when the Dodgers broke through thanks to Chris Taylor. One
ball, one strike, pitch to Taylor, He swings hammers at the left.
This ball's deep, this ball's done. Chris Taylor with a two run
home run get slipp Dodgers on the board. It's four to two. Third
home run of the season for Chris Taylor. Oh did he ever smack that
one? That pitch was left over the plate and he hit it out four
hundred and three feet into the left field Pavilions. Two run home run for
CT three, his third of this season, that cut the deficit in a
half. Dodgers down four to two. However, the Dodgers got beat as
the Brewers extend their lead a run of the seventh, two more in the
eighth, two more in than ninth as they go on and win it ninety
two. Christian Yellis Blake Perkins both homer and had three hits, drove in
three runs. The Dodgers offense. It consisted of that CT three, two
run home run. That was it, Justin Robleski against the Law in his
major league debut. Dodgers fall to fifty five and thirty six on this season.
They maintained those their seven and a half game lead in the division.
After a day off yesterday, and the Dodgers on the road in Philadelphia for
the start of a three game set. Bobby Miller on the mount in the
series opener, first pitch coming up at three forty and with more we head
out to the Gaping Motors broadcast booth as we say good afternoon to Rick Monday
and Tim Never. Guys, Tim, thank you very much. It is
a warm and muggy evening here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Citizens Bank Park,
getting ready for game one of this three game set featuring the two top teams
in the National League. The Phillies come in with a record of fifty eight
and thirty two. There seven and a half games up when the Atlanta Braves
in the National League Eastern Division. Meantime, the Dodgers are fifty five and
thirty six, also seven and a half games up, but on the San
Diego Padres pitching matchup tonight. Good one, Bobby Miller going for the Dodgers,
hoping to find his way after being on the injured list with the right
shoulder information. This will be his fourth start since returning from the il and
Cy Young favorite Zach Wheeler at nine and four to two seven four Era going
for the Phillies and mal When you look at the Dodger lineup, looks a
little bit top heavy. The first four are all stars and then the last
five are going to have to try to find a way to get it done.
This's an interesting series because you have thirteen all stars if you're looking at
both of these teams, franchise record seven for the Philadelphia Phillies Dodgers of course
with six of those, but they're going to lose one of those six.
If we found out earlier today, is that Tyler glassnow now goes on the
injured list and for how long? We don't really have any idea at all.
Dave Roberts will address that a little bit later on, But for this
Dodger ball club, I think you start to look if what they've been able
to do surprisingly enough on the road they're twenty seven and seventeen. A lot
of different reasons for it, including they have the third best road batting average
of any team in the National League. Well, just to follow up on
the transaction with Klasnow going on the aisle, Justin Robleski, he just made
his major league debut Sunday afternoon, remains with the club and is going to
remain in the rotation for now. Michael Peterson has been called back from Triple
A and he is active in the Dodger bullpen tonight. So that's some of
the business out of the way for today. But the Dodgers need to take
care of business against this tough, tough Philly lineup that gets two of their
sluggers back tonight off the injured list. Kyle Schwarber is back. He will
lead off and be the designated hitter. And Bryce Harper, who's been battling
a hamstring injury, says he's good enough to go and he'll bat third and
play first. Yeah, they get the power back, and for the Dodgers,
they need some very good advanced Kevin Bigee overturns the lineup. He's at
third base. Miguil Vargas is going to be in left field. Boys,
he's been swinging the bat very well. Interesting enough James Autman starts in centerfield,
and of course rojast short Gavin lux is going to be at second base.
But as you mentioned, really at the outset, it's the bottom part
of the lineup that needs to stand toll. The top part, well,
most of him are head of the All Star break, needs some more offense
lower down. The Phillies getting some offense too out of a former Dodger,
Trey Turner, who is hitting three point thirty five this season, seventy two
out of two point fifteen. He has had some injury issues, so not
as many ad batch as some of his teammates, but still getting it done
with seven home runs, he has fourteen doubles and eleven stolen base. Yeah,
the other part two in the stolen base department, you go back to
the last three years, he's been thrown out only four times in seventy two
attempts to steal a base. Watch out for him, he's been and only
as you mentioned, fifty one ballgames. But when he's in there, he
really makes the clock tick for the Phillies. Bobby Miller at one in one
takes on Zach Wheeler at nine and four Dodgers Phillies game one of a three
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joins us from Philadelphia. Big news a couple hours ago, the Dodgers placing
Tyler glasnow on the iel. What's going on, Kirston? Yeah, so
he's dealing with a little bit of back tightness, a little back issue at
the moment. So Dave was saying that after his outing on Saturday, is
when on Sunday he came in said he started feeling it. They were hoping
they could just give him an extra day, maybe have him take down the
start on Friday, but with traveling across the country, Dave was just saying,
it didn't. They made the decision that it didn't really make the most
sense for him to come with the team out here, just made more sense
to put him on the IL. This was a conversation that actually things kind
of worked out perfectly at Dave was telling us that the organization as a whole
has been having some conversations and you know, at some point, how do
you give Tyler a little bit of a blow or a little bit of a
break in the season, And he was just, you know, he was
pitching really well. Things were in a good spot. He wasn't dealing with
any issues, but nothing had come up just yet. So now that he's
dealing with his back tightness slash kind of a back situation, they just it
made the most sense for him to go on the IL. Now, they
don't have an exact timeline for his return after the All Star break, but
they don't expect this to be a lengthy il stick. Well, that is
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The Phillies getting healthy unfortunately right now. Yeah, I mean they're bringing back
some bad boys today. And this is a team that you know, they
obviously have had a lot of success this year, and they got Zach Wheeler
out there on the mound. Dave was saying that this is going to be
it's gonna be a tough matchup. He's hoping that Bobby Miller, you know,
with facing a tough lineup like the Phillies, that he can rise to
the occasion and kind of get back to where he wants to be and get
back on track. Is coming out of a pretty solid outing against the Diamondbacks
in which he did kind of boost his confidence. But to keep that going
and then the offense has just gotta find ways to get to Zach Wheeler.
But also with knowing he is really very good. So how do you just
take advantage of the mistakes? How do you get on base? How do
you make some moves from there? So I think that's the plan of attack
from the Dodgers. But I do think this is this might be a little
bit of a picture's duel today. Yeah, well fast one. You never
know. Make sure you're watching from first pitch. That absolutely could be a
quick one. With this great pitching match with Kirston, We appreciate it.
We'll check in with you appter. The game still to come here on Marongo
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We'll get you an injury report and we'll hear from the manager himself, Dave
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Game one of this three game set, first pitch of three forty. This
it's the LA Dodgers injury report of the big news in the last hour.
Tyler Glass now placed on the IEL with back stiffness. David Vassain's got more
on this and how long is he really gonna be out? Jason Heyward on
the I L with a bone bruise and his knee, Mookie Betts on the
IL to fracture, to hand yoshinob We have a moto on the I L
with the strained rotator cuff, Walker Buehler on the IL, Michael Grove on
the I L, Ryan Brasier on the IL. Clayton Kershaw set to go
out on a minor league rehab. The signment this weekend with Oklahoma City Max
Munsey. Well, he's still got the oblique injury. All right, Let's
head back out to Philadelphia and check out with the Dodgers skipper. Anything else?
Dave Das questions for Dave. Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts. I think
for me it's obviously uh you know, Zach's one of the best pictures in
the game. And I think for me to see Bobby step his game up,
you know, I thought, you know, it's fun to play against
the best, compete against the best, and you know this is a great
ballpark, a great baseball city, and so to see Bobby's game elevate,
you know, he's coming off a pretty good one and so just see an
uptake and performance. It's super a good one. Considering just how much success
that acting like us had. What's got to be a key to success just
for your offense to get going today can Yeah, it's going to be a
tall task with a Wheeler. You know, he throws strikes, it's big
stuff. It's a big fastball. It's a breaking ball in there, and
so I think you just try to be aggressive with them and get on that
fastball and a lot of glove side fastballs. So again, you know,
he's one of the best in the game, and hopefully he makes some mistakes
and we can capitalize. Yeah, we're gonna activate recalled Michael Peterson. Tyler
just had some back stuff get tightened up, tightened up on him on Sunday,
So obviously we can retro him. Don't know when he's going to start
after the break, but it shouldn't be too much further after the second half,
and he don't backs up before it's you know, the big body guy.
I think, yeah, and so sometimes it's there, then it's not,
but I think butting up to the All Star break, we just wanted
to get ahead. It would be close to it for hys pitch, Like
how much were we as are we going to make it maybe a time off
for him this year? You know, it just sort of lined up with
the All Star break, So we've obviously been thinking about that with no real
idea when it might or might not happen. But with the backflare up,
we just thought this is as good a time as any how much for the
way he's pitch recently. Factor did hit No, not one. We expected
him to make the start on Thursday, but with the backflare up then it
just kind of made sense. All right, there's Dave Roberts talking about Tyler
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Dave gotta start with the big news. Tyler Glass now on the IL
he goes on before the All Star break, not gonna pitch in the Midsummer
Classic, and then you've got kind of a buffer here with that break.
How long is he gonna be out? Well, it's interesting, Tim that
Dave Roberts said that he injured his back on Sunday. Tyler Glassnow did not
start Sunday's games, So did he tweak it while he was playing catch off
a flat ground? When did this back issue flare up? And he did
say that it did not affect his last few starts, where he's been as
we should say, a little more human than what he was, say,
a month ago. My thoughts are that there is no doubt something flared up
with Glassnow's back, But instead of trying to push him for one more start
before the All Star break, the Dodgers off that this is a good idea
to shut you down. Skip just one more start, and at this point
in time in the season, you'll get at least ten days to get ready
to come back. Sorry, Tyler, you won't be able to pitch in
the All Star Game, but there's a bigger picture here and we can't take
any chances with you, especially since Yoshi Yamamoto is out for an undisclosed amount
of time. I mean, you gotta start looking at his numbers too,
right, A year ago career high twenty one starts, one hundred and twenty
innings, he's already at eighteen starts, haven't got to get the All Star
Game yet, and he's already at one hundred and nine innings. Last year,
again, one hundred and twenty was his high. Well, at some
point he's going to have to go beyond one hundred and twenty innings. The
Dodger is not only traded for him, but also gave him a very nice
contract extension to not be a twenty start, one hundred and twenty innings pitcher.
They're looking for a guy to take the next step in his career,
not only in the regular season, but he is going to be counted on
to be the Dodgers horse in October. Is he ready for that? That
still remains to be seen. Six different Dodgers selected to go to the All
Star Game, including tay Oscar Hernandez. David and I know you've talked about
it. He wants to be in this All Star Home run derby hasn't been
announced yet. He's told me on two different occasions that he wants in on
the Home Run Derby. He's just waiting for an invitation from Major League Baseball,
and on Sunday, after he was selected to his second All Star team,
he went on the record again and disclosed that he wants in. You've
said that if he made the All Star team, he would love to be
in the Home Run Derby. Is that still something you're interested in? Yeah?
Yeah, why not? U Obviousually in my career, I wanted to.
I wanted to be a part of it, see how it feels,
and why not trying to go for it and win everything. So now it's
official, your name's out there. I don't know. I don't know.
It depends how MLV wants to decide yes or no, but I'm able to.
I'm gonna be oping to to participate on it. Why hasn't Major League
Baseball invited him? He's a guy that wants to participate. They selected Pete
Alonzo, many believe, over Francisco Lindor because they want that narrative in the
Home Run Derby. They want the polar Bear there to defend his crown.
But why not have a player that's eager to participate? And Taoscar Hernandez also
told me, Tim, he is bringing the Sunflower seats for the National League
All Star Team. Love that David is driven by Ford. If there's one
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far as a trade, that's right. Nathan Avaldi, the former Dodger who
was traded for Hanley Ramirez back in August of twenty twelve. The Rangers are
seven and a half games back of first place in the AL West. They're
eight games out of the wildcard spot, the final wildcard spot, and Ken
Rosenthal reported the Rangers are open to best sellers. And Nathan Avaldi has one
more year left on his contract because he's only sixty nine innings away from a
twenty million dollar cost to kick in for next year if the Range are sellers.
Nathan Evaldi is a guy that is a proven winner, two time World
Series champion. And I've talked to former teammates and opponents of him, Tim,
and they said, if there was one pitcher they would want in Game
seven of a must win playoff series. It would be Nathan Avaldi. If
he's available, he would be a big time target. It's worth repeating,
David. As we get closer to the deadline, it's a lot of teams
still left fighting for possible postseason play and that smaller's the market up a little
bit, right right, But it's starting to clear up a little bit as
we get closer to the end of July. The teams that are going to
be buyers and the teams that are going to be sellers are starting to be
more clearly defined. The Washington Nationals also are sellers, despite them being maybe
a year ahead of schedule in their rebuild. Former Dodger Dylan Floro is having
a great year with Washington. His eras two zero six. He also may
be on the Dodgers radar. A name to keep an eye out there for
David. Appreciate it. We'll check back in with you in just a couple
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I've played in two nlcs's against the Phillies in seventy seven and seventy eight.
Rick, does it have that playoff feel today? And know it has that
feel where you realize is that, Hey, there's this thing called a high
temperature and be very high humidity. And I think this is going to be
a challenging series for maybe starting pitchers to be able to who stands tallest in
this heat and the humidity, and who has who asked the labor and who
does not have the labor on the mound. And if you're looking at Bobby
Miller, this might be a good time for him to be able to find
that strength zone and work consistency. Then he's been able to quite frankly,
for most of the six starts that he's had already. Rick, when you
look at Bobby Miller and his last start, things really could have fallen apart
on him in that fourth inning, but he talked about keeping his composure.
How important is that for him tonight as well? Well, I think it
is because you're dealing with well, let's be honest. You have two clubs
here that will be represented by thirteen players in the All Star Game. One
of them, unfortunately, Tyler Glass, now goes on the injured list for
the Dodgers, but for the Phillies they have a record setting seven players headed
to the All Star Games. So for Miller and that last outing, and
that was on Tuesday, you know, five innings, two runs on the
fourheads, gave up a home run. But you know, he walks guys
and really relying upon, you know, critical pitches. He's walked fifteen guys
in the number of innings that he has worked so far. The other part
too, David, I don't know, I've said this before during the broadcast.
I don't know if it's by design, or as a result of the
shoulder situation that he had. But we are not seeing. For example,
if we look at the last couple of years Bobby Miller are thrown something like
two hundred pitches one hundred miles an hour or more, we have not seen
that. I don't think it's necessary to throw one hundred miles an hour,
but it's between ninety six and ninety seven ish, maybe ninety eight, which
is fine. But the location has been the problem, not necessarily the velocity.
And what I was trying to say, Rick is, oh, hey,
look at Bobby Miller looking at the scoreboard. It feels like a lot
of times he's chasing velocity. Yep, yep. And I think you know,
there are some ballparks over the years. You might have talked about this
before. There's some ballparks over the years that know that a pitcher chases velocity.
And by that you look up on the scoreboard, and trust me,
the pitchers know and the hitters know exactly where it is located on the scoreboards
that indicate the velocity the last pitch of this throne. And when you're chasing
velocity, that means is a picture you turn around and see what's going on.
Here's my point. I know that over the years there have been some
ball clubs that purposely have dialed the radar gun down. So, in other
words, if David Vassays used to throwing at ninety six miles an hour,
I dial it down to ninety three. If you look at the scoreboard you're
trying to chase velocity, you only see ninety three. Now do you try
and put something a little extra on it to get to the ninety six that
you're normally receiving? And that's you know, that's a dangerous area. And
some teams have done down in the past. I had no idea if they
do it here, I doubt it very seriously. But it's something to really
kind of watch. Rick. Speaking of tricks, we've heard about the Dodgers
at Yankee Stadium. There's on and on rivals trying to do things to undermine
the opponent in their home stadium. Do you remember anything like that happening in
Philadelphia when you played, No, I was too busy as the heckler that
was on me for eight years. It was sitting behind the dugout at Veterans
Stadium that for eight years was on me. From the moment came out for
batting practice and then on deckford during a ballgame that'd yell at me, called
me a bump, called me everything else that could be. In eight years,
I never looked him. I never turned around. I didn't know where
he sat. I knew it was somewhere within the first few rows behind the
visiting third base dugout uh and then and I had pretty good success against the
Philadelphia pitching staff. In one game, I'm getting ready to come out before
batting practice, says Okay, here we go. I'm going to listen to
this guy with the leather lungs again. And he wasn't there. And I
had a miserable game that wasn't there during the during the game itself, come
to the on deck circle in silence. And the next day I come out
to take VP and he goes, hey, hey, Monday, you bumped
you on turn the first time I see this guy, And I said,
where in the heck were you yesterday? I said, I put up with
you for eight years. I've never looked at you. I've never made any
gestures towards you. I'd never said a word to you. Where were you?
He says, Well, my daughter graduated from high school yesterday. I
said, well that's all, that's all good. Uh, but don't ever
do that again. And when the game started, I come to the on
deck circle goes, Hey, come on, Rick. For eight years I
put up with that guy. Kill him with kindness. Rick, absolutely city
of brotherly law. David can't wait to hear the game tonight. Rick,
Thanks a lot, and we'll check in with you later. We'll send it
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your time, James, appreciate it absolutely. We've seen you pitch obviously,
You've done a great job for the Dodgers all season long. How has the
experience been being on a new team in a new city and still being very
good for the team. It's been great, and I've had an awesome experience
here. Teammates are awesome, coaching staff, training staff, training staff.
Everybody's treating really well, taking great care of me. Yeah, I feel
like I was just welcome with open arms. We've heard from other pitchers that
the Dodgers do it better than most teams around baseball. Have you experienced that
firsthand? Yeah, you know, I really have. I've gotten a lot
of help with some pitches. You know. I came in and I needed
to help my chain up and I really got to help a lot of help
there. And uh, you know, I'm kind of evolving in the way
that I pitch. I don't have quite the same stuff that I used to
have, and they're they're helping me make that, make that change and learning
how to pitch with different stuff, and it's been it's been great. Is
that the first step to understand that you are evolving, that James Paxton at
this stage of your career is not that James Paxton from even five years ago.
Yeah, you know, I think you see it happen to all pitchers
most pictures. You know, you get a little older, and you lose
in velocity, maybe lose certain sharpness on certain certain pitches, and you have
to learn how to pitch a little differently, and uh, you know that
can be tough, and it has been, you know, frustrating and hard.
But I've had a lot of help here to uh, to help me
learn how to make that work best. And it's been a good experience.
You always hear about love language when it comes to relationships. When it comes
to pitching, if somebody says the same thing but in a different way,
does it click for a pitcher more than maybe somebody else saying this same thing.
Yeah, you know, I've heard that. It just depends, I
think different people a little kind of grasp on it with things that are said
differently. You know, so a lot of people can say the same thing
to you, but it just takes you know, someone saying in a way
that you understand that really, like you said, clicks with you. And
I feel like they've done a really good job of helping me with that and
you know, finding things that help me figure things out. What does Connor
McGinnis so do so well that it seems to really click with so many pitchers.
I think he's just really good at understanding, you know, pitch grips
and stuff and how guys throw the baseball, and he's really good at just
explaining how the ball moves and how to create movement and stuff like that.
He's helped me tremendously with my change up and my two scenmer. I changed
my grip and my two seam just the other day, and really help with
the movement. So you know, I think he's just got so much experience
working with different guys too, that he knows different things to try and trust.
Right, he builds that trust with the with the pitcher. And how
does that trust form? Does it come from seeing what the ball does when
you change things? Or does it? How does the trust start to form?
You know, I think it's just his personality. You know, he's
very easy to talk to, and you know, I think he just like
you said, everyone knows how experienced he is and stuff, how many guys
he's worked with and helped, and he's very patient with guys. And he
also, you know, is very good at cheering you on and you know,
encouraging you to keep on trying stuff. I've actually heard change up in
James Paxton a lot more during this season, so I guess he's really trying
to encourage you to throw that pitch. Yeah, you know, it's a
pitch that I've never really used a whole bunch of my career, but like
I said, where I'm at right now with my career myself, it's a
pitch that is extremely useful. I've heard Kershaw talk about change up envy.
Do you have change up envy as well? Oh? For sure, you
know guys with great change jobs. It's a it's a pitch that's so effective,
especially you've got a really good one, so it's fun to kind of
play with and have some success with it. Now. James Paxton is our
guest in front of first pitch and James, you've been unbelievable. I feel
like Houdini level where you're able to navigate in and out of traffic. How
have you been able to do that so successfully all season? Just sticking with
my process, you know, it's I'm on the mound and I'm giving everything
I got in every pitch and doesn't no matter what's going on around me.
I'm focused on throwing my next pitch. And you know, just I think
just having that mental kind of approach has helped me work through situations where you
I know, I mentioned at the beginning of this that you're a proud Canadian.
What was it like for you when you saw Eric Gagne last week be
introduced and throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. It's pretty cool, you know.
It's it's awesome to see those guys that have represented Canada so well and
had so much success. You know, come out and just be examples of
what you know Canadian baseball players can be. And he's a great one.
What is baseball like for a young man in Canada? Is it as big
of a deal as hockey is? Or you outlier when you decide I'm going
to pursue baseball. You know, I think it's getting more popular. There's
definitely some good leagues up there. There's not as many as in the States,
obviously, but there's some great programs and there's a lot of really good
baseball players coming out of Canada these days. Yeah. Yeah, Are you
a big hockey fan? I would say I'm a big hockey fan. I
enjoy I really like watching it live live. Hockey is one of my favorite
sports to watch. I could see it being something that I get into watching
more when I'm done playing baseball. Would you lean anyway with the team in
Canada? Oh? I gotta stick with my Canucks, you know, Vancouver
hometown team. I'll be a Canucks fan forever. See, this is what
I wanted. I wanted that Canadian accent to come out. Can you just
say organization once? Organization? Thanks a lot for the time, James.
Great to watch you pitch this year and continued health the rest of the way.
Absolutely, thank you very much. There he is the man, James
Paxton, a proud Canadian. We'll send it back to you in the studio.
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Zach Wheeler on the Mountain nine and four to two seventy four ERA, thirty
four year old right hand in his twelfth season in the big leagues, is
fifth with the Phillies, making his nineteen start this Hay year last time out
six innings, two runs, five hits, seven strikeouts and a no decision
against the Cubs. He's going for his tenth win of the season, and
if he does, it'll be the first time ever in his career that he's
had ten wins before the All Star break. Wheeler has added a splitter to
his repertoire pitches this year. Into that mix, he's now limiting a hitters
to a one to seventy one batting average against the Dodgers so far in his
career six starts, two and two with a four to seventy two RORA and
forty strikeouts. Bobby Miller on the Mound one and one with a six to
twelve RA twenty five year old right hander making his seven start this season.
Remember, he spent a couple of weeks on the IL with some shoulder tightness
last time out. Five innings, two runs, four hits, four strikeouts,
and a no decision against the Diamondbacks. Facing the Phillies for the second
time in his young career, he faced him in June of last year.
Six innings. He gave up three hits, three walks, and struck out
seven for the win. Bobby Miller, Zach Wheeler, Dodgers Phillies. We're
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the two guys on the call, Rick Monday, Tim Neverertts. Tim,
thanks again, We count you down to the first pitch tonight in Philadelphia Citizens
Bank Park between the two top teams in the National League, Phillies at fifty
eight and thirty two the Dodgers fifty five and thirty six, both teams seven
and a half up and leading their divisions. Bobby Miller gets to go.
This will be his fourth start since coming off the injured list after suffering right
shoulder inflammation. He pitched last Thursday against Arizona, got a no decision,
allowed two runs in five innings, which was good. That was his longest
outing since coming back from the IL. Yeah longest outing, but for Bobby,
Billy needs to find the striketh zone with more consistency and against a good
fast ball hitting team, which the Phillies qualify in that area. He's going
to need those secondary pitches i e. The curve ball and the changeup,
and the doctors have to figure out how to hit the fast ball off of
Zach Wheeler first of all, with two strikes. He pitches inside a lot
the last three years, the first pitch is going to be a fastball if
he's day's tune to what he has done in that period of time. So
a low batting average against again with Wheeler only one ninety four average overall.
So he's a guy he's not afraid to come inside if you're a hitter.
And Zach Wheeler named his second All Star team. He's also one of the
early favorite for the National League Young Award. That's your pitching matchup tonight,
Zach Wheeler for the Phillies against Bobby Miller for the Dodgers. As we get
you set for this one, lineups and first pitch are just around the corner,
all right. Dodgers start the night fifty five and thirty six first place
all alone atop the Western Division of the National League. The Padres seven and
a half games back of the Dodgers. Padres home tonight against the Seattle Mariners.
Meanwhile, the Arizona Diamondbacks they are ten games back in the division.
The Snakes will play host to the Atlanta Braves later on this evening. Giants
way back, Rockies even further back in the division. It's a battle of
the first place Dodgers against the first placed Phillies. Don't forget after the game.
David vest State's got you cover with all the postgame festivities and Dodger talk
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