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Talk. Like back damn cats Well I Dave fill with mixed emotions for the
Dodgers here at Dodgers Stadium. They get a three nothing a win over the
Kansas City Royals. Shohi Otani goes deep twice, Freddie Freeman hit back to
back home runs with Otani in the sixth enning. Tyler Glass now gets back
on track with seven shutout innings for the win, his first since May fourth.
Dodgers take two or three from the Royals with a three to nothing shutout
win, all to have it come to a temper with Mookie Betts finding out
that he has a fractured left hand after getting drilled in the seventh inning by
Royals reliever Dan Altavila a ninety eight mile an hour fastball off his life left
hand. He went down. He was down for several minutes in pain.
Dave Roberts and the Dodger training staff rushed out to Mookie Bets. He was
on the ground riding in pain for several minutes before being helped off the field.
You knew right away this is not good. If Mookie Bets is in
this much pain and where he got hit directly by a ninety eight mile an
hour fastball, it does not feel like this is going to be a good
thing. And sure enough they did X rays a fracture in his left hand.
Dave Roberts informed us during the Clubhouse show as we heard from him and
his postgame thoughts about Mookie Betts, and then we heard from Mookie himself say
it's just going to take rest, no surgery. He will meet with the
hand specialists here tomorrow in Los Angeles to find out more the extent of the
injury, and I assume we'll find out what the time table looks like for
Mookie Bets and this fractured left hand surgery noted. That is great news.
That certainly brings down the recovery time dramatically. Now it's just a waiting game
as far as rest and how quickly that left hand can heal for Mookie Bets.
Now it's the middle of June, his father's day, It's June sixteenth.
You still got half a season to go, which is good news.
You don't want to see this happen at any time of the year. But
as Dave Roberts was asked in his media session, if it's gonna happen,
aren't you thankful what happened right now so he's got time to come back and
get ready for October. And the answer is yes, you don't want this
to happen ever, but you certainly don't want to happen late in the season
where you lose a guy potentially for October. So that is the silver lining
I guess out of this. Yes, Mookie's out with a hand injury.
It's fractured, no surgery, shorter timetable, and it happened here in June
to give him time to come back and be a part of this team September
and October. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the telephone
number. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. On top of
all that, with Mookie beds, we find out from Dave Roberts more about
Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Now, last night, the Dodger right hander came out of
the game after throwing twenty eight pitches in two innings. And after the words
we found out it was tricep tightness in his right tricep in this throwing arm.
Goes on the il today and and in doing so we find out afterwards
it's not in the tricep, it's a strained rotator cuff. Now not a
doctor, but kind of feels like those are different parts of your arm.
The rotator cuff more up in your shoulder area, whereas the tricep certainly behind
your bicep more on your arm. Feels like two different spots. But certainly
they're able to pinpoint what it is and no surgery is required. Just like
Mookie Bets, so positive to silver lining. Injury stinks, but the silver
lining is it could have been worse. It's a strain in the right rotator
cuff. Rest, rest and rest feels like you when you go the doctor
and you get an injury, you feel sick and they say, hey,
just lay down, rests, take it easy, get off your feet.
Well, that's what it is. For Mookie Bets, rest, rest,
rest, get that broken bone in the hand healed. And for Yoshinoba Yamamoto,
rest, rest, rest, get that shoulder strain, the inflammation down,
get that pain out of it and come back, hopefully in a few
weeks and start being able to throw a baseball again. He won't throw for
a few weeks. Dave Roberts made that known. They're shutting him down for
a few weeks to give him complete rest. He will not be throwing a
baseball to let that inflammation, that strain in the right shoulder subside, and
hopefully he can get right here post All Star break. And I say post
All Star break because we're what a month away from the All Star Game,
the All Star break that's mid July. We're mid June. We're four weeks
away. If he's not going to pick up a baseball for a few weeks,
it's got to get ramped back up. Might as well just keep him
out until after the All Star break. That's just my thoughts. Got eight
game lead in the division, you got Bobby Miller coming back. You got
a good bullpen that's got arms that are fresh. Guys are coming back healthy
in the bullpen as well, Kyle Hurts, you know, off in the
distance, you don't need to rush your Yoshin wib Yamamodo back just to have
him for July games. Have them ready for September and October. That is
the most important part of the baseball calendar. Eight sixty six, nine,
eight seven to two, five seventy, so a lot to get into Dodger
fans. And I want to hear from you. I don't want to hear
doom and gloom. I don't want to hear sky is falling. I don't
want to hear this season is over. You heard Dave Roberts. This team's
got to move on. Yeah, it sucks. The Mookie Betts got hit
by a ninety eight mile an hour fastball on his left hand and is now
out. It stinks, But somebody's gotta play shortstop tomorrow, and Denver,
somebody's got a bat leadoff. You can't go to Coursfield tomorrow and say I'm
playing eight. We're gonna have a hole at shortstop and I've got no leadoff
batter, because what are we supposed to do? No Mookie Betts. Now,
you gotta get out there tomorrow and get ready to play a series against
the Rockies. And they got Miguel Rojas that can play every day at shortstop.
They got Key k Hernandez who can play in shortstop as well. They've
got show hey Otani who can move up and bat lead off. They can
maneuver the lineup around because it's a deep lineup, as we've seen, not
just one guy one through nine that they rely on. No, Mookie's part
of a big three, a big four, big five in this Dodgers lineup,
and it's a huge hole. Don't get me wrong, this stinks.
You don't want to lose anybody. You certainly don't want to lose one of
your superstar MVPs. But the Dodgers have to keep moving on and they've got
the depth to do it. This isn't a franchise or a team here in
twenty twenty four that has no depth and has got no answer, and it
has to go out and do it via trade or bring in somebody who is
obviously not, as you know, a fit and shortstop or not gonna bring
the offense like a Mookie Bets. So you're gonna have to find other guys
to re elevate their game now to help fill the void, no doubt,
because it is not easy or daring near impossible to find somebody to do what
Mookie Betts does at the top of the lineup like he brings every single night.
But again, the Dodgers have got to get ready for Denver now,
and they've got the bodies and they've got the players to do it. I'm
confident. I'm confident that they can ride this through now. As I was
speaking here, we're gonna get to your phone calls in just a couple of
minutes because I know a lot of Dodger fans have got a one line open.
You want to jump on board was looking up during the break and Manny
Machado of the Padres last year went on the injured list after he had a
fractured metacarpal. A fractured metacarpal in his left hand. Okay. Initially X
ray said it was clean, but further testing revealed that he had a small
factor, a small fracture in the left hand. Now, Manny Machado went
on the injured list a year ago. Colin Ye looked it up on the
game blog, and I appreciate Colin doing this as we're talking, Colin Ye
looked it up. Manny Bachado small fracture hit on the hand. May fifteenth
was backed by June second. He missed fourteen games. Let's call it two
and a half weeks he was out. That was it now, No,
no, no, I don't want to get you too excited and start thinking,
well, well, same injury. He'll be back in two Weeks's pump
the brakes a little bit. This is just to give you an example of
another player recently. Last season, Manny Machado hit in the left hand.
It was a small fracture. I don't know the difference in fractures a fracture
my book. If it's cracked, it's cracked. If it's broke, it's
broke. Doesn't matter. If it's a small crack, big crack's it's it's
all fracture, right, got to heal it now. If Mookie Betts,
from what we understand, fracture left hand be evaluated again tomorrow by a hand
specialist. If it's the same sort of injury, I don't know if he
comes back like Manny Machado does in two and a half weeks and miss only
fourteen games. But the point is it wasn't a season ending injury for Manny
Machado just a year ago. It wasn't a three month injury for Manny Machado
last year, same injury, fractured left hand hit by pitch last May,
Manny Machado. Today Mookie Bets hit by pitch, fractured left hand middle of
June. So there's some positivity there in my mind, there's some hope that
this won't be a long il stent. Now, with that being said,
you want Mookie Bets back healthy and ready to go, not a Mookie Bets
that forces his way back, maybe rushes his way back, just to get
back on the field. You need him to be at its best because they
can't flare up. You don't want to be a linger injury. You won't
don't want to be something that bothered him all year moving forward. The same
time, somebody just reminded me Miguel Vargas got hit in the hand last year
in spring training and could not hit. Miguel Vargas, I'm gonna look up
how much he missed in spring Traine. Remember he was in the box and
just kind of standing there and taking pitches and wasn't able to swing because he
got hit. So there's some positive to what has been a somber afternoon here
at Dodger Stadium. The only bright spot a Dodger win. The somber news
of Mookie Betts going now on the il with the fractured left hand after getting
hit by a pitch, and of course Yoshinobu Yamamoto having these strained right rotator
cuff and going to miss significant time as well, at least not throw the
baseball for a few weeks. All right, let's go out to the phones.
We'll start off with Dake from Dodger Stadium. Dake, you're out here.
You're one of the fifty two thousand and seven eighty nine. Hope you
had a great time until the seventh thinning. How you doing, Dake,
I'm doing pretty good, Uh, I said, talk to you again,
and uh shout out to show heal Thani for two jacks and uh first second
Fred helped him and he got back to back Zack and we hope Mookie's gonna
be okay. He's gonna be okay, and uh shout out to glass mountains.
He didn't let anybody hit except like he he had seven in the pitch
nowhere and runs right right and what we're talking about. Yeah, and he
served up sharp shards to the other team and they were walking on broken glass
over there, right. Yeah, Dake, I appreciate it. Hear from
you. We also want to wish a happy Father's Day to you, Tim
Kates. We know your father shout out to Don Kuko's as always, all
right, appreciate it, Thank you, Dake and today's dad. I appreciate
the shout out. I appreciate the Father's day. Love, Happy Father's Day,
right back at to you as you are a great father. And having
your boy watch some baseball and Dodger baseball and join it here on a Sunday
and getting to see a Dodgers win. Certainly, Uh. The news tempered
by the fact that rookie Betts is going on the entured list with the fractured
left hand, and again, uh, certainly we wish the best for him.
Miguel Vargas, it was broken fingers in spring training, so I mean
it was the pinky, it was on his right hand, A little different,
a little different. So I think the Manny Machado injury last year in
which he got hit on the left hand and it was a fracture in his
left hand, I think that's more of something we could look at as a
similar injury and hopefully fingers crossed prayers up that it's the same kind of timetable
moving forward for Mookie Bets. In that last year, Manny Machaddla just missed
two and a half weeks officially fourteen games that he was on the IL.
Let's keep going on the phones, Josh Sierra Madre, Thanks Josh for being
patient. Welcome to postgame Dodger talking with the Dodgers beat the Royals three to
nothing. Hello, Tim, I appreciate you. I appreciate you taking my
call. I want to with you and your family. Happy Father's Day.
Thank you. Somewhat of a somber weekend. It's great they took the series,
but it's definitely a bit summer when you see two of your big cogs,
Bets and Yamamoto go down. I mean when you saw Bets go down
and the type of pain that he was, he didn't even want to stand
up because he was in so much pain. You kind of knew right away
that there's going to be some kind of fracture. Hopefully that you know it's
since it is the same fracture that Machado suffered, he'll be in a similar
timeline, maybe a bit longer, although I'm not going to try to rush
him back. Sure, but between the two injuries. I am much more
concerned about Yamamoto because when you hear a rotator cuff, you hear anything in
the shoulder that usually doesn't go away within a month. So we'll see what
happens. Obviously he's gonna get rest and everything, but you know, I
keep thinking about seeing CODEI Senga on the injured list after he through last season
with a lot of pitches with a ton of velocity. Yamamoto threw a lot
of pitches in Japan and especially in the Japan Series last year. The Japanese
pictures, they gets squeezed a lot out in their home league before they come
over to North America, and sometimes you know, they tend to be damaged
good when they come over here. So you hope, you just really hope
that you know, some rest can do the job, because in my opinion,
if the Dodgers do not have Yamamota healthy in October, I do not
see the Dodgers making a deep run. I hope he comes back, but
I'm much more concerned about Yamamoto than I am about Bets. All Right,
appreciate the phone call, Thanks for checking in, Josh. I would agree
with you. If we're gonna look at the two injuries to Bets and Yamamoto
and the severity of it. I would agree I would be a little bit
more concerned with Yamamoto in the way that he has pitched most recently the game
in New York. I go back to that game at Yankee Stadium last Friday,
seven shutout innings, he threw one hundred and six pitches. Now,
keep in mind, he has four straight starts in which he threw over one
hundred pitches, and he was pitching into the sixth than seventh inning, and
all four of those starts, and he goes two and one with a no
decision. In the last one against the Yankees, he was fantastic. Seven
punchouts, scattered two hits, threw one hundred and six pitches. He had
his rest days extended to a full week in between that start. A Yankee
stand him until last night, and then we find out afterwards, Yeah,
they did it because he just didn't feel right when his schedule start was coming
on Thursday, so they pushed him back to give him some extra rest.
Now, from what I understand, last night, he said he was feeling
some discomfort and then he felt better. It was gone, and then he
felt it again last night during the second inning. Now, if that's the
case, if it went away and came back, maybe this extended arrest will
certainly be the cure to help that strained right rotator cuff. Let's hope.
So you never want to root for anything worse. I mean, come on,
you don't want that. And certainly Dodger fans are a hope that this
is just the case that you need some rest and get him back, you
know my words, post All Star break, because looking at the schedule a
month away is the All Star break? If he's gonna not throw a baseball
for a few weeks, a few weeks to me is two to three weeks
not throwing a baseball. Is he gonna be ready to come back right away
and pitch a week before the All Star break? No, So realistically,
we're looking at post All Star break at the soonest for Yoshinobu Yama Modo to
come back. In my opinion, based on the schedule in front of us
and the way it lays out. With that being said, we knew these
starting pitchers were gonna have to get rests and then the game in which baseball
is now in twenty twenty four and looking at numbers, and you divide the
numbers by how many starts, and you get to a certain amount of innings.
It's all math, it's all done. It's not just hey, every
five days, let's see how long you can go. Chuck it, throw
it, and in five days we'll see how your arm feels. There's a
little bit more strategy to that. Look at how many innings we project,
how many starts, let's divide that, let's get to how many innings we
think. There's workload, there's taxiing innings, all all of that combined.
It's all factored in, right, the human eye and the numbers. And
with that being said, maybe this break will be a good thing for him
to reset post All Star break, get ready for the second half of the
season, because he was really good up until last night, in which he
had to shut it down. Look at his last four starts, seven shutout
innings against the Yankees, no decision, six innings, one run, seven
hits in a win against the Rockies. Before that, he got touched up
in Cincinnati, but that was an awful series against the Reds before that,
pitched into the seventh inning, eight strikeouts and got a win against the Arizona
Diamondbacks. So again, you hope for the best. You hope this is
a short term. Just get rest, get right, get the inflammation out
of that strain right rotator cuff, and he can come back here after the
All Star break. Again, those are my words post All Star break,
because somebody tweeted at me, well, how do you know the timeline?
I'm just looking at the calendar. So June sixteenth, when they say they're
shutting him down for a few weeks, he won't throw baseball. We're now
into July. The All Star breaks mid July. You're not gonna just bring
a guy back who hasn't thrown a baseball in a few weeks. Got to
rap him back up. It's got to get a rehab assignment or two underneath
his belt, a couple of SIM games and do the math. That's a
month away, So post All Star break is what you're looking as for is
yos Yoshanobu Yabamodo at the earliest, in my opinion, Mookie Betts again,
Colin ye great at looking this up here. Fourteen games missed by Manny Machado
a year ago. He had a small fracture in his left hand when he
was hit by a pitch on May fifteenth. He was back on June second.
He missed fourteen games. To me, that's something you can look at
as an example for Mookie Best. Every injury is different. I understand that.
I get everybody heals different. Every injury where it happens is different,
and so that can change the timeline. I understand that, okay, But
if we're just trying to find an example of what a similar injury and the
timetable for somebody that went through it, there is one many Machado just a
year ago eight sixty six, nine, seven seventy, Ish, Ish was
that the game today? Hopefully you got one of those cool hats that all
the dad's got coming into the game today. Sold out crowd fifty two,
seven eighty nine s on the Dodgers shut out the Royals. How you doing,
Ish? Hey, pretty good, tim man, thanks for taking our
call here and happy Father's it to you. Guys man. We had a
pretty pretty awesome time over at the game. Man, it was it was
so much fun, so much fun until you know, of course, uh
the seventh anym so. But but you know what No, I definitely wanted
to put it positive on it. You know, obviously your heart goes out
to Mookie. You know, he has been working hard this this season,
and uh, it's obviously this is something that nobody wants. But I don't
know, I think that him as a student of the game, I have
a feeling he's just gonna sit. He's gonna ingest as much as he can,
you know, as far as the Dodgers system and whatnot. And I'm
willing to put, you know, put it down that he's going to come
back, you know, raring and ready to go. And I think we're
we ain't seen nothing, you know what I mean. That's that's kind of
what I feel. But anyways, I just wanted to check in with you
guys see how it's going. Happy Father's Day to my father as well.
Happy Father's Day, Dad. We love you, man, And it's going
to be upward and upward and onward, you guys, no doubt. I
just appreciate the phone call. Mookie Bett made the move to shortstop during spring
training, and David Veasse has alluded to this and talked about it a lot.
Rick Monday's chimed in and talked about it as well, having move positions
when he was a professional player for so many years. It's not an easy
thing. And to move to shortstop is downright hard to do. And to
look at what he has done in seventy two games coming into this game,
seventy three today, almost three hundred at bats, and the tax that it
takes on your body to play shortstop and to learn the shortstop position on the
fly this season, and all the amount of ground balls that he takes every
day. And I was here before the gates open to the stadium and saw
Mooki going through it with Dino Ebol and Miguel Rojas at shortstop daily. David's
mentions daily he's at Dodger Stadium and taking ground ball after ground ball after ground
ball, and practicing and bettering his craft at shortstop. This injury. Now,
you don't want to see anybody get hurt, understand me. You don't
want to see anybody get hurt, but mentally and physically outside of the now
fractured of the wrist which needs to heal, but every other part of his
body. This is a chance for him to exhale and to physically get right.
If he wasn't one hundred percent. Now he can get back to one
hundred percent if he was feeling tired, and he would never admit this,
even mentioned last week with David Devas say that he feels better than he ever
has. Okay, that's great. What else is he gonna say? But
for Mookie, this is a chance to throttle down during the season. Ll
get that hand right, mentally, get right with the daily grind of seventy
three straight games, learning to position at shortstop. You can step back from
the situation, exhale a little bit, mentally, reset, physically, reset
for the second half of the season. Because again, I'm gonna look at
this timeline here of Manny Machado missing fourteen games two and a half weeks last
year with a fraction in his left hand, and I'm looking Mookie Betts two
weeks, two and a half weeks. What does that look like right before
the All Star break? Do you bring him back or do you give him
an extra what seven days of rest with the All Star break to get right
for this second half of the season. My opinion, just like Yamamoto,
my opinion, if he's even ready to come back pre All Star break,
I'm holding him back until after, just to make sure it is right.
Now again, we'll find out more on the timetable. We just don't know
yet. But if we're gonna go off of Manny Machado's injury a year ago
in the same thing, that he could be back in a couple weeks.
But again, every injury is different. Kind of preface this by saying that
every injury is different, everybody heals different. Certainly eight six six nine eighty
seven two five seventy. Do we want to take a quick time out,
Colin, Let's do it eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy on
a line open. We'll come back. Get to your phone calls. Dodgers
win the game, they win the series, but they lose Mookie Betts fractured
left hand after getting hit by a fastball into seventh Inny. Yoshinobu Yamamoto officially
on the injured list as well. He's got a strained rotator cuff in his
right shoulder. He is being shut down for a few weeks, will not
throw a baseball. So a solemn day for the Dodgers injury wise, but
they get the win over the Royals. They improved to forty four and twenty
nine, and they pick up a game in the division. Now eight up
over the Padres in the NL West. Your phone calls when we continue,
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Let's go out to kenon Newport Beaches. Next up here on Dodger Talk,
can how you doing? Hey, Tim? Heavy Father's Day and good winn
bad break for Mookie bet I have a question for you. As a former
catcher, you know that shortstop is an area where you get a lot of
line drives, a lot of hard ground balls. Do you think when Mooki
comes back, just to make sure it does the honor recurrence of the injury,
they'll put them out in the outfield and make it easier for him where
he's only getting two or three balls to night. Possibly, Man, it's
the left hand, so it's the glove hand, so it's not like it's
the throwing hand and it's gonna be exposed out there and shortstop maybe. I
mean, I think it depends on how he's feeling and what he wants to
do. He'll be the one making the decision. I believe when he does
come back. So I don't know. I think they can waive this,
get through this, this injury bug here. I think ken they can get
through it. The Yamamoto injury, as the caller alluded to earlier, that's
the one that scares me more. How about you, Well, here's my
question about Yammoto. Japanese baseball. The ball was smaller, and when he
was in Japan, he would pitch every sixth day, and I don't think
he was throwing the ball as hard as he is the last couple of games.
And you got to remember, he's only what five eight, one hundred
and sixty five pounds, and I always wondered how he could sustain that with
a larger ball in the major leagues. So that's such a little concern of
mine. But it's been really, really good and I hope it doesn't change
it, but it's just a thought. Yeah, we'll find out kan great
to hear from you. We'll check in with you in a couple of days,
but certainly yeah, fingers crossed and the rest will help out this strained
rotator rotator cuff for Yoshidobu Yamamoto and some reaction on Twitter, and I appreciate
bartleyy weighing in on Twitter about the injuries. Again, not a doctor,
just using the Manny Machado injury. And again, every injury is different.
Fractures, a fracture and non displaced fracture is different. I get all that
versus a full fracture, but last year it was two and a half weeks
fourteen games from Manny Machado. If the injury is similar, again, everybody
heals differently. Every injury is different. We'll find out if it's four to
six weeks, who knows, We'll find out if a cast is needed.
I don't know. We'll find out more from the specialists tomorrow that Mookie Bets
will see, but certainly not good news when he's in pain. As tough
as Mookie bets Is to see him riving in pain on the ground. You
know it hurts, You know he's in pain. You know it's something.
And we found out it was a fracture in his left hand and it'll be
re examined tomorrow. Yoshioba Yamamoto strain right rotator cuff. He has been shut
down for a few weeks, will not throw baseball for the next couple of
weeks. According to Dave Roberts, Dodgers with the win now head to Colorado.
They got baseball to play. They can't just stop the season and wait
for Yamamoto to come back and wait for rookie Betts to get healthy and that
that bondy heel. They got to keep playing baseball. And so it's off
to Colorado for a four game series. Raoul and Fontana is next up here
on Dodger Talk. Raoul, how you doing, how your Father's day?
Hey, Jim, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I was fortunate
enough to be at the game today. It was a great game. Yeah,
unfortunately with the injury with Mooki and I'll touch on that in the second.
My hat's off to Tyler Glasstow for great performance after that first and second
inning, and I knew he was gonna at least strike out seven, and
he walked off with nine strikeouts. And it was great that he was able
to give the pool pants on some rest, especially coming up on that four
game series in Colorado, and just wanted to touch on, you know,
Mookie, the fans I might be upset or you know, you know,
pumped out because you know, they think that maybe the Casey pitcher might have
done it on purpose. It is baseball, Unfortunately, things like that aren't
going to happen. But I don't see it. I don't think that the
Kasey pitcher did it on purpose. I kind of feel like, with you
know, him having to two runners on and knowing that uhs on Dick,
I don't think he wants to face show hey with with you know, the
basis noted coming up, you know, so, and you know, Casey's
in the middle of, you know, of a race too. They're five
behind Cleveland right now in the Al Central, so you know, they you
know, they were eager to win win the ball game as well, so
you know, but it went in our favor, and uh that's all I
gotta say for now. Taking my call. No, absolutely I appreciate the
phone call, Rabel. Yeah, certainly it was not intentional from Dan Altavilla,
the right hander for the Kansas City Royals. It was a ninety eight
mile an hour fastball in on the hands. It gets Mookie on the hands.
Mookie, you heard his post game comerdence say that the guy's got a
wipeout slider. He throws hard inside and then he gets you with to try
to chase on the slider. So he was in on it and didn't want
to duck out of the way, and you can't be scared to play it.
All this stuff that you hear from hitters, you heard from Mookie Bets
post game. So it wasn't intentional. I don't believe it was a no
Dodger Fans booed the right hander Altavilla as he came off the field serly and
uh not happy with what they did to Mookie Betts and hitting him on the
hand there. But I don't think it was intentional at all. Eight sixty
six, nine eighty seven two five seven. Let's wrap things up with Marcos
and ben Rovi's gonna be our final call here on this Father's Day Dodger talk.
How you doing Marco's I'm good, Happy Father's Day. I appreciate it.
H I was watching the game, and uh, I kind of fell
asleep. But before I fell asleep, I saw Sohio Turney hit the home
run. And the one stat that kind of stuck with me when I woke
up was Mookie Betts hadn't had a day off and you know, God forbid
that he got hurt today, and he did get hurt, and uh,
I was just wondering if since he's an awesome batter and he's like our you
know, our leadoff spot, but we have, we can give him like
a day off like once a month or something, right, I mean to
kind of give him a little break because I mean he's getting a break forcefully
because of his injury, which is a bumber. I wish I could switch
risks with him, but unfortunately these things happened. I don't think it was
intentional at all. It's part of the game. And uh, as far
as I can't pronoun the day, I'm sorry. Other pitcher that got hurt.
Yeah, him getting hurt. I think, like a previous color I'd
mentioned is the ball is different because I used to play Japanese baseball. It's
like a batting cage ball. It's like softer and the balls take a little
bit of backspin. That's why the hitters are so good coming from there,
because it teaches you how to just go with the pitch. But as far
as his shoulder, I think because the ball is a little bit heavier,
that's the only thing. But he's an awesome, phenomenal, lights out type
of picture, and uh, I think this is just gonna make him better.
I mean, uh, we had similar injuries to uh uh Man,
I can't think of his name of Bobby Miller, right, and uh yeah,
and even even uh Buehler coming back. So it's not a it's not
it's not something to to. I mean, it's it's a concern, but
I think he's gonna come back stronger, and uh, you know, we
have a good bullpen that's actually kind of been holding us up, and we're
gonna get a lot of guys back, So you know, Joe Kelly looks
he's gonna be coming in soon as early as uh July seventh. It looks
like so you know, just hanging their Dodger fans. We're gonna be all
right, no doubt about it. Appreciate the phone call. Thanks for checking
in, Marcos. Yeah, if you could switch risks with them, that's
it's amazing that you would give up your wrist to give the Mookie best uh
to play immediately. But he'll be okay, he'll heal, he'll get better.
How long will he be out We'll find out, I assume tomorrow,
in the next couple of days, he's going to see a hand specialist here
in La tomorrow, probably the same hand doctor David Vassay saw when David Vassa
had to have surgery on his wrist after smashing into the wall at the slide
at Miller Park. So David veasse can certainly weigh in on that. I
thought I totally forgot about David Vassa's injury. I don't think it was to
the hand, more so the risk for David vess But certainly David Vessie had
to see the hand specialist, maybe just the same hand specialist that Mookie Betch
has seen. Tomorrow, we'll find out in the next couple of days.
Certainly, Dodgers heading to Colorado to take on the Rockies. That's gonna do
it for postgame dodge talk. Many thanks to Colin. Ye many thanks to
you for being a part of the show here on this Father's Day again,
Happy Father's Day to my dad. Happy Father's Day to all you dads out
there. And certainly appreciate you being a part of the show on this Sunday.
A lot of things you could have done with your time. We appreciate
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