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seventeen on this season, first place atop the NL West after taking three or
four from the Cincinnati Reds. The Dodgers continue their homestand tonight with the start
of a three game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.
First pitch from Dodger Stadium is coming up at seven to ten. Between
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hear from Kirsten Watson. In just a few minutes, we'll check you in
with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson out at the Galvin Motors Broadcast booth. Well
yesterday at the Ravine. It was a little walk off magic for show Hay.
In order to beat the Reds, the Dodgers sent out Landing Neck to
the mount. He went four and two third innings, allowed one run on
three hits while striking out five. The Dodgers game the early lead. At
bottom of the fourth inning, Freddie Freeman on base for Andy Pies. One
out Freeman at first, no score. Pitch win I drilled down the left
field line. It is hooking and that's gone. That's gone, wrapped around
the left field foul poll A line drive out of here. A laser beam
the left by Andy Pies for his fifth major league home run, and the
Dodgers lead it two to nothing. Two run home run for Andy Pajes.
That thing was a laser down the left field line three hundred and fifty seven
feet. It got out in a hurry, two run shot, and the
Dodgers r ubb two to nothing. In the top half of the fifth inning,
land and Neck would give up a run. It was a two to
one Dodgers lead. Ryan Yarborough took over for an inning. In two thirds.
He would give up a run to walk in a run in the seventh
inning, we were tied at two. It didn't get anybody across in the
top or bottom half of the ninth inning, so it was free baseball.
At Dodger Stadium yesterday, top half of the tenth inning. Bonda comes on,
shuts it down, prevents the Reds from scoring a run. Dodgers come
back in the bottom half of the tenth Any runners on first and second for
show, Hey Hey, we're looking to get a good jump on contact.
Won two pits. Oh Tony Swag's base hit right field. Here comes Heyward
around third, He'll score Emma. Dodgers win it three to two. The
second career walk off hit for show, Hey Old Tony Emma show rolls on
at Dodgers Stadium. Show Hey Otani with the walk off RBI single to right.
Dodgers winning in ten innings yesterday three to two. Anthony Bonda gets the
win in relief. Show Hey o Tani drives in a run. Pajes hits
the two run home run. That's all the Dodgers would need is they take
three or four from Cincinnati. After dropping the series, they win three in
a row. They're now thirty two and seventeen on this season. They've got
control of first place atop the Western Division of the National League, and tonight
they continued the home stand with the first of three against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, first pitch at seven to ten, and with
more we head out to the gallopin Moters broadcast booth as we say hello to
Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. Guys, thanks Tim. All right, most
of the Dodgers, coming off a seventh series win their last eight series,
going to try and finish up the seven game homestand by getting another one against
the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks. Arizona back at Dodgers Stadium for the first time since
last year's Division series. Yeah, and trying to right the ship. I
mean, you start to look at what happened last year, Arizona won the
first two games here and then the complete of the sweep over in Arizona.
But if you start to look at the bigger picture, and this was then
and right now is now. But the Dodgers here in this ballpark against Arizona
have've had pretty good ways of it, winning thirty one of the already eight
regular season games at Dodgers Stadium. But one thing about it, Arizona knows
full well that they have not been running at all cylinders. Tonight could be
the night, and they need to do a very good job in this three
game series to cut in to that nine game deficit that they're really trailing this
Dodger blanklub right now, who's leading the Western Division by seven and a half
in front of the second place San Diego Andres. If you look at Arizona's
year so far, they have really struggled against teams above five hundred. They
don't have a series win against a team more of five hundred yet. The
starting pitching does have some injuries, but it's been what's buoyed them this recent
stretch. I think nine in the last twelve starts three or fewer runs of
problem. The offense has been non existent. They got a lot of big
name players or young players who are expected to become big names a La Corbyn,
Carrol, a La Gabriel Moreno Allah Lordis Cariel, who are all scuffling
right now. So the Dodgers, whose pitching staff has been rolling, and
to try and continue that trend fore exactly and if you look at Corbyn Carroll.
I mean, here's a guy that took a baseball really by a big
whirlwin last year. I mean the National League Rookie of the Year. But
he comes in hitting this one ninety one the last eleven games, even lower
than that, barely one twenty. Well, he's the guy that once he
gets going and Arizona hoping he gets going very very soon, he can really
help set the table. And you look at the Dodgers. One of the
things that they're able to do. You look at Mookie betts Bett's hitting a
three thirty seven, he sets the table. Show Hey Otani hitting a three
fifty three, He helped set the table. Then Freddie Freeman and Will Smith
have a lot of it bats with runners in scoring position, along with ti
Oscar Hernandez. So if you look at the first five offensively, this Dodger
buck but they're doing a lot of damage. We're beginning now to see six
through nine in the lineup beginning to hold their own and both that's a welcome
sight. You think about the Dodger offense on the whole, leading the National
League in batting average, hits, walks, on base, slugging ops,
you name it, and that is despite having a six through nine that on
the season and has the lowest batting average in all the National League, the
second lowest ops in the National League. So all that to say that if
that bottom half gets going, lookout you will look out for most preview of
tonight's pitching matchup and play more as we get closer to first pitch. TC.
All right, thanks a lot, Nelly appreciated Dodger just celebrating a big
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This is Kirston's Corner with Kirston Watson. Hey, Kirson now joins us
from the stadium before the series opener with the Arizona Diamondbacks and Kirsen. You
can kind of feel like you can see the finish line a little bit with
these thirteen games in thirteen days. Listen, I might be counting down to
the finish line just maybe because look, this has been it's been a long
stretch. Thirteen straight no off days. That's not a usual thing in the
schedule, so for a lot of the guys. Dave Roberts was talking about
it today. First and foremost, he's really pleased with how the guys have
handled these last ten with now one more series against Diamondbacks left. He said
that the biggest thing has been the bullpen and just kind of not only how
they've managed themselves being available, but also with arms that have come in and
stepped up for kind of once who are injured are just kind of giving other
guys a day here and there. So he's been really pleased and also his
fine seeing how this team has put together wins. How this thirteen straight started
in San Diego and they lost that series, but to come back and win
the next two, just for them to kind of get back and kind of
back to their winning ways has been really big for them. So he's been
pleased and how everyone's kind of in a good spot. But he did say
that most of those bullpen arms are probably begging to get to that off day.
Yeah, And speaking of those, some of those arms that are looking
to get back ended up bullpen because the Dodgers are doing it with guys they
didn't think they'd be counting on at this point in this season, but looks
like the Calvary could be joining here at least soon with Joe Kelly, Evan
Phillips, even a Bobby Miller update. Yeah, so we'll start with Joe
Kelly. So he played catch on a flat ground for the first time today,
So that's a really good sign for him continuing just to progress. He
of course is going to have to go off the bullpen, so there are
still steps in his progression, but the fact that he played catch today for
the first time is a good sign. Then you have Evan Phillips, he
has thrown bullpens. He was playing catch today as well, and Dave Roberts
said that it's very realistic that he could be back in the next week to
ten days. So I think that's just a really good sign as the closer
of this team that he is continuing to feel really well. They're not pushing
him or anything. They're letting him take his time make sure that a hamstring
fully heals, but he's continuing to show signs that he's feeling good and working
his way back. Then, and there's Bobby Miller, as you mentioned,
so focusing out on the rotation. He is going to throw in a game
tomorrow here in LA at Dodger Stadium and going to do three innings, basing
some of the hitters on the team. And then Dave said that after that
he will go on his rehab assignment. So he's progressing and he doesn't have
as much of a build up as someone like Walker Wheeler had, but he
is going to have probably a couple outings to get him in a good spot
to make his way back. So yeah, arms are they're coming, They're
getting stronger. The arrow is pointing up for some of these guys coming off
the IL, and that is certainly great news, Karsten. We appreciate it.
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out for twenty twenty four. The head back out to Dodger Stadium and check
out with the Dodgers skipper Dave. Do you think any questions for Dave?
Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in
the dugouts with Dave Roberts. I think there was I don't recall which start
it was earlier on it was third or fourth start or something like that.
I think he just got tired of being mediocre, and I think all athletes
expect a lot of themselves, and for us to give him the opportunity to
ease his way into the big leagues, that wasn't good enough for him,
and you just saw way more. I just think he got tired of it
and decided that he was better than he was pitching and then you saw considered
the better strike throwing. And also I think that went hand in hand with
his mechanics that they worked on as well. Insulted where he gets sort of
tired of that sort of each each, that's each, that's each player.
You know, some players just have that innate of taking a little bit of
latitude and running with it, and some guys don't want it, don't need
it, and expect greatness from themselves from the outset, never throwing them on
other dgs and so forth. Is this from will you have for him the
whole season or just to be in the season, not planning for the whole
season. I have been mindful on his usage early on in the season as
he can continue to build a foundation. But tonight, Yeah, if tonight
goes well, uh, and it makes sense, I could see him,
you know, pushing pas hundred pitches tonight. All right, there's Dave Roberts
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Is Dodger insider David Bassei. All right, d ve got a lot talk
about the Big three on this Dodgers offense. Will Smith is including when there's
the Big four. But he had been a little bit of a funk and
he's gotten out of it. Yeah, he actually brought that to my attention
when he was oh for his last seventeen on the last road trip and coming
into this homestand it actually reached oh for twenty one. But since then he
has come out of it six for nineteen with a couple of doubles. But
just looking at his season, he's had a great year three forty with runners
in scoring position. He's the guy you wanted to play in those situations.
But if there's one kind of flaw to his season so far is the lack
of power. We're talking about a guy back in twenty twenty one that hit
twenty five home runs and ever since then the power has gone down, from
twenty five to twenty four to nineteen last year and this year Will Smith only
has four home runs and tonight will be the Dodgers' fiftieth game of the season.
He is on pace for, you know, in the forty doubles range,
but the home runs are starting to dwindle in the last few years.
So we'll try to find the answer to that. Tavid has driven by Ford.
Our teams are always built touch just like your four trucks and SUVs built
for tough LRDV. Michael Grove, here's a guy who was a starter,
kind of a bullpen long reliever. He's really immerged as a weapon now of
the bullpen. Yeah, and it was starting to show signs that his days
in major league baseball, his future in baseball was not going to be as
a starter. When he came out of the bullpen last year and he faced
right handed hitting teams and was trusting his slider, that's really when things clicked
for him and also for the Dodgers coaching staff in front office that you know
what, this guy might be a weapon coming out of the bullpen. And
Michael Grove's era out of the bullpen in thirteen games since April tenth is under
one zero sixty one. He has twenty three strikeouts and only four walks.
He's using that slider. He's got a fastball now that sinks, so he's
getting more swing and mess more than he's ever had before. And that slider
is a great weapon against left handed hitters. So Michael Grove has emerged with
all these injuries to Brazier and Joe Kelly as a high leverage reliever. And
the biggest thing is he has finally embraced it because even at the beginning of
this season in spring training, he really wanted to continue being a starter,
but you can make big money and have a long career doing what he's doing
right now, real quick, Dave. Jock Peterson back at Dodger Stadium.
Yeah, Jocktober back at Dodger Stadium. When he tried to enter the stadium
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winning streak into this series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who happened to be the
defending National League champions yep. And I think they come in and they would
like to have that the banner being towed around at the stadium, but that's
not the case. I mean, when it comes down to it, is
that the Arizona Diamondbacks, the defending National League champions or nine games behind the
Dodgers, really trying to righte the ship. And you know they've had a
lot of guys they just had not been hitting. But one thing about it,
we know the competition is going to be there, and there's some numbers
you need to disregard. I think anytime you go into a series. And
yes, it was Arizona sweeping the National League Division Series last year, and
they won the first two games here and then closed it out over in Arizona.
But putting aside postseason, the Dodgers have been victorious now in thirty one
of the thirty eight regular season games have been played between these two ball clubs
here at Dodgers Stadium. That's thirty one out of thirty eight. Put that
aside, that was then, this is now, And for Arizona they were
like nothing better obviously than to gain some ground of the Dodgers in the Western
Division the National League. All right, Rick, we're starting to get into
the point of the season where pitchers start facing the same teams, especially in
the Division. Yamamoto now is going to face the Diamondbacks for the second time
in two weeks. So is this going to be the real test for him
to teams are seeing him now for a second time. It might be.
I think it depends on which side of the coin that you're going to be
talking about. He went six shutout innings against Arizona, you know, just
a couple of series ago. That was on the first of May, and
the Dodgers won that game by eight to nothing score. But the way that
he commanded the strength zone with all of his pitches was really something that the
next outing was also very good. Dave Roberts eluding this afternoon that you know,
the pitch count may be increased with Yamamoto tonight, if he still has
that same command of the strength zone and gets ahead of hitters, it could
possibly go up to one hundred pitches. We'll find out on that end of
it. But I agree with you, you do learn more about hitters and
pitchers by seeing them and face hid them. We can get all the information
that we do. I mean, I'm holding up about a half inch thick,
you know, reams of paper that could give me all kinds of war
asses and therefores who hits the fastball, who does this? Who does that?
But there are some times that you just do not see the ball out
of a certain pitcher's hand that maybe throws the same thing as the next guy
you're going to see, maybe the guy you saw last night throwing the ballgame,
and maybe you don't hit them for whatever reason it is. So you
know, it's a learning situation, and I've always that it's easier for pitchers
to find out about hitters and their weaknesses that maybe it is for a hitter
to find out about the pitchers, because from a hitter it's all individual,
and I think from the picture you can go more blanket. We'll say,
oh, David Bassey handles the low fastball much better than he does the breaking
ball that's away, don't handle the fastball upstairs. I think it's easier for
pitchers to look at the breakdown and understand about the hitters more so than it
is for hitters to understand about the pitchers. That makes sense, Ricky,
before we back out of here. Yesterday, an exciting finish to the game,
Otani with his first career walkoff hit as a Dodger. What did you
think about that at bat and just what he was able to do? The
bat was obviously terrific because it ended with something that was going on. But
I think overall, if you look at the Dodgers and what they've been able
to do, David, I mean winning twenty the last twenty six ball games,
it's not just the hitting. The pitching for the Dodgers has maybe gone
overlooked, and it shouldn't be a look because in winning twenty the last twenty
six the Dodgers overall had the lowest era collectively in baseball two point one point
one during that span. The pitching, the starting pitching two point five eight.
The bullpend in those last twenty six games one point two eight er.
That's really off the charts. Chicks dig the long ball, but pitching wins
championships. Yes, thanks, Rick, this segment was the bridge to the
rest of your life. Oh, thank you, David. Thank for you
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more drip than usual, so I know you're feeling good. This isn't any
more than usual. These are my to my glove for the year. Come
on, I was telling people in spring training there was a moment in time
where I knew things were going the right way because you were back to yourself.
Yeah, I mean everyone keeps telling me that, like, the more
I run my mouth, the better, and so I don't know, I
probably manufactured it for a while, but no, I feel good. Was
there a moment in time in spring training that you felt like, Okay,
now I'm starting to feel like I'm beyond being a rehab patient. Yeah.
I mean I had a couple of good libyps and and that was kind of
a step forward at that time. But you know, I think this rehab
thing, especially the second one, kind of isn't as linear as maybe I
wanted it to be. And obviously my first two starts here didn't go how
I would want and so you kind of reasss and and learn like that that's
part of it. And now obviously we're kind of a little bit back on
the train. But you know, at the same time, you got to
think the same things and go and and work the same way and do all
those good things. I've heard players say this in the past with less serious
injuries than yours, that the physical part is part of it, but mentally
trusting your body to be able to do things is the biggest hurdle. Did
you experience that as well? Yeah. I mean, I think it's hard
to know what a ball is going to do or where it's going to go
when you don't know how your arm's going to feel in the way they're right.
I think that's the biggest thing, and kind of getting out of that
rehab mindset. You know, everybody says the rehab mindset. I think largely
like when you're really good, like when I've been good in this game,
it's like there's no physical concern and so, you know, you're concerned solely
about yourself physically for two years, and so it's a little bit of a
transition, and you know, now I can kind of get back to competing
and trying to, you know, do what I want with the ball instead
of worrying about what the ball is going to do to my elbow. Walker.
I was one of the few that was watching your podcast here in LA
on a regular basis because you were really candid with everything that you were going
through. Did you feel like that was kind of like a journal in some
ways in a in a twenty twenty four space, because you were you were
really spilling your emotions and how you were feeling and where things were going.
Well, yeah, I think, you know, it was important to me.
You know, I think whether this went good about or ugly, like,
to be able to talk through it's kind of cool. I think also
we can blame the people of Buffalo Trace for sending me stuff. I don't
think I normally would say everything I say on there, But that's kind of
the fun of it, right and getting to actually talk through you know,
where you're at, and you know, I think we'll do another one of
those here soon and kind of talk through the the good, good parts of
this thing. You said on that podcast Just Baseball that May was kind of
the month that you were circling and you guys were working backwards, so I
guess it was on schedule in some ways. Yeah, I mean we actually
probably well, my first May sixth, I think we probably beat it by
you know, eight days or so, so we were pretty pretty close.
We had always said May and then kind of see through the season how we're
holding up and if I need a breather or blow or whatever, and you
know, I think that's probably still an option at some point. Obviously I
feel really good right now, but yeah, it's always good to kind of
tick off, you know, beat a goal. I guess in some way.
But you know, my goal was to get back last year. I
didn't do that, so I'm glad this one worked out a little bit better.
Is it fair to repeat that last start? The start before your next
start is a bridge to the rest of your season. You're building off each
one. Yeah, I mean, I think every every start is you know,
every season that I've played, it's trying to build on something, or
build on the last one, or get back to one before or whatever.
I think, you know, the mindset of the mentality for me is a
little bit different than it used to be, and I think it has to
be. And you know I kind of came together in my last start,
and you know, we need to keep putting it together. The one thing
that I love about your mentality that hasn't changed. You don't just want to
be out there. You want to be the best. And it feels like
the more you get that itch, the more you want more. Yeah.
I mean, you know, at the end of the day, I think
I got really lucky to be in this organization. You know, drafted here
and come up here, and you know we've always been good in the regular
season. Like there's you know, you put together a nice start in the
regular season, that's kind of that's awesome, and that's what everybody wants.
But you know, we're building towards being really good in October. And I
think that's a perspective that I kind of was brought up with here. And
you know, something I don't think is going to change. I've never asked
you this before, but do you pitch with a chip on your shoulder?
People always seem to short change whether it was in college you were better than
where they slotted you, you were better than where you were drafted because of
the elbows surgery. Do you pitch with that chip on your shoulder? Yeah?
I think so. I mean I think you're kind of always teetering with
you know, if you're having any sort of success, I think you're teetering
behind or between like that chip and then you know, being too confident,
and you know, when you get hurt, I think that's probably the most
humbling thing that can happen to an athlete. You know, if you if
you perform badly, like you get to do it again the next week or
the next day or whatever. But getting hurt it's really you know, for
me, it's been what twenty two months of kind of trying to figure out
how to be good at this game again and you know, provide for your
family and all of that, and so yeah, I mean, I think
there's some sort of chip. I think for that to actually do anything,
you have to like physically be right and mentally be ready to compete. And
I think this last start was kind of all of that coming together. Before
I let you go, you must have been feeling little buffalo trace ish when
you gave Austin Barnes credit for why you moved on the mound. I thought
that was really revealing. He's been telling me this for a couple of years
and I don't I don't like doing it, but Burnsy has his moments and
it really made a difference, right, I think. So, I mean,
you know, it's kind of an abstract thing, but the orientation of
our body and the way my eyes see the plate and stuff like that can
kind of dictate some things happen physically. And you know, Barnes has always
talked about how he wants certain things to come out in certain you know,
lanes and things like that, and I had to be really perfect for it
to come out like that, where I used to be and so hopefully you
know, this kind of change works for the long term, but even just
for the one I have to give him a little little hot tip. Walker,
it's great having you back. I'm a little nostalgic. You mean a
lot to me. The guys that have been here since you were a rookie
mean a lot to me, no matter what uniform they're wearing. So it
feels like the world is a little bit more normal with you pitching again.
I appreciate it. Man. We'll talk to you guys here later on there
he is the man, but tane Walker Buehler, we'll send it back to
you in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks lot. Great to
hear Walker Bueler, good spirits and he is back after his last adding that
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head back out to the booth Stephen Nelson, Rick Monday, guys, thank
you Tim okay Mo. Before we get into Yoshinobu Yamamoto against the opener Joe
Mantaply for Arizona, let's talk about the weekend that was in Show hey Otani
Sho hey Otani Day officially now in Los Angeles County, May seventeenth, turned
into Show hey O Tani Weekend. He didn't have many hits in the series,
but he made him count his thirteenth home run on Show Heo Tani Day,
and then of course capping off the weekend with his first walk off as
a Dodger. You really, I think, really, it doesn't surprise me,
but impresses me and will take for granted the exceptional ability that he has.
What I really embrace is how his teammates and the city have embraced him.
Here's a star value, and yet it is not detracted from what this
team as a whole is able to do. And I'm not certain that that
works in every ball club where you get someone that comes in so dynamic,
they get so much attention front row and center, and yet he blends in
very well with his ball club, And I think that's a big, big
credit to show hey Otani who understands the team concept. And you don't get
a whole lot of superstars that maybe embrace that. Well, you talk about
superstar all at a word that isn't necessarily often tied to superstar, and that's
humility. I mean, shohe Otani. Maybe too much humility, you would
think, but that is the way he's wired and that is what endears him
to his teammates, his coaches, and fan bases as a whole. So
it was great to see over the weekend. And now the Dodgers try and
continue this strong stretch of play during which they've won twenty of twenty six games
MO with Yoshinobu Yamamoto starting against it. Yeah, a couple of things are
going to be looking at very closely. First standing in particular because it's the
three twenty four average whatever it is, he has, at least to this
point, has had a little difficulty settling in. Once he does, it's
been lights out. And he's a guy if you go to home played as
a hitter, if you're looking for one pitch, you're in trouble because he
commands five of them. Very well. Dodgers starters MiB best two point one
point one team era going back to April twenty First, I mean, if
we talk about the starting pitching, the bullpen's been even better than that,
Tim Kates. So hopefully both those things continue throughout this series. For the
Dodgers against Arizona. We'll talk to you when first pitch comes around. Yeah.
I need the bullpen to keep it going, get the starting pitching going
as well, and some timely offense, and the Dodgers can win their fourth
in a row. Tonight's against Arizona, the start of a three game series.
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