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and here from Rick Monday and Tim neffertt Well. Last night in Pittsburgh,
it was a pitcher's duel as the Dodgers struggled offensively to get after Jared Jones,
the former Lamarado High School standout, when six shutout innings, allowed just
three hits along the way while striking out six before turning it over to the
Pittsburgh bullpen. Meanwhile, Tyler Glass, now who has gotten zero run support
in his last five starts, it continued again last night. Six innings,
he allowed just one run on three hits while striking out nine. The only
run of the game he gave up came at the bottom of the third,
a solo home run. It was just joining us. They were a little
tarny taking the field tonight. Three two pelt at the right field and date.
This ball's back and it is can over the clemeny wall for a home
run. A three to two pitch, A fastball left up and end,
so Winsky turns on it for his fifth home run of the season. The
Pirates strike first to night it has one to nothing Pittsburgh. Jacksonwinsky with the
solo home run the thirty and that was the only mistake that Tyler glass Now
made the entire night last night, and the Dodgers right after Alex Vessi has
scored at seventh inning. Ramirez a scoreless eighth inning. Meanwhile, the Dodgers
offense had five hits in the game. They actually out hit the Pittsburgh Pilots
last night, five to four, but that solo home run was the difference.
The Dodgers had a couple of chances with runners in scoring position, especially
late. They wasted two late inning opportunities. Gavin Lux double leading off the
seventh but was stranded at second. Then pinchitter Andy pot Has struggled to in
the eighth inning with runners on first and third as he struck out. The
Dodgers last night were zero for twelve with runners in scoring position. They left
nine base runners on base. The Dodgers had a chance of the ninth inning,
bdard On in relief. Banar pitching for the Pirates, their closer usually
lights out, facing Chris Taylor, who almost hit it out oh one pitch.
Taylor swings hits a high fly ball deep to left center, going back
toward the notch, but's gonna stay in. It's caught by Reynolds a one,
two, three ninth, and the Pirates shut out the Dogs one to
nothing here tonight and take game one of those three game series. Chris Taylor
gave it a ride last night. That ball was deep four hundred plus feet,
but the wall was four hundred and twelve and it stayed in the ballpark
at P and C Park as the Pirates hang on for a one to nothing
win over the Dodgers. Jared Jones at Alamarad against the win, He's now
four and five. Tyler Glass now again no runs support. He falls to
six and four on this season. With the loss, The Dodgers now thirty
eight and twenty four on this season as they drop this series opener. The
good news is the Padres also lost, so the Dodgers remained seven games up
on San Diego. They're eight and a half games up on Arizona going into
tonight's game, and James Paxston on the mound for the Dodgers, looking to
get them back on track in game two of this three game series from Pittsburgh.
It's the Dodgers and Pirates, and with more than head out to the
Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. As we welcome in Rick Monday and Tim Neffrick.
Guys, Tim, thanks very much. Got except for Game two of this
three game series Dodgers and Pirates and the the old battling Buckos they battled last
night. The Dodgers had a bottom out kind of night offensively last night.
You know, the season is all peaks and valleys, and this was the
bottom of the valley last night for the Dodgers in terms of the offense.
Oh, for twelve with runners in scoring position over the last four games,
they've just got four hits in thirty six at bats with runners in scoring position.
These things all turned around eventually, but for the Dodgers that can't come
soon enough. It was just in the bottom of the valley. It may
have been in a trench, and they've been in a trench the last ten
games with runners in scoring position. Did some numbers on that, seventeen for
ninety three in the last ten games. That's a one to eighty three batting
average when they've had opportunities to knock in runs and with one swing. The
difference in last night's game with the Jack Lewinsky hitting the home run, just
getting recold because he was not producing well. He produced last night his first
evamp took a three to two pitch Tyler Glasnow offering out of the ballpark and
that was the extent of the scoring. And not too many times do you
lose a game or the other team. He was also hitless with runners in
scoring position and hookie bets. He is in a slump. He's won for
his last twenty one. That was a home run on Sunday. He has
now gone four straight games without a hit. He did reach base in the
third inning last night when he walked, but he's gone four straight games without
a hit. It's only the third time in his career that's ever happened.
Yeah, and the man right behind him show hey O'tani. The last eight
games. First of all, the strikeat rate is almost at forty percent,
and in those eight games Otani now surprisingly even though he's still hitting at three
twenty one last eight games, it's a one ninety four Patty average. One
of the concerns tonight is going to be the fastball. Paul Skeins, the
rookie phenom who less than a year ago was just beginning LSU's run to the
national title. Just out of college and he's already in the big leagues and
he is dominating major league hitters. Makes his first ever start against the Dodgers.
He's a Southern California out of El Toro High School. He grew up
an Angels fan, and he's going to be pitching against whom he saw make
his major league debut as a pitcher with the Angels. But he throws the
hardest fastballs far and away out of any starter in Major League Baseball. And
the Dodgers have struggled against pitches that have been ninety nine miles an hour plus
this year, hitting only sixty eight against them. Yeah, they're gonna have
to change something now. Sometimes hitters will say, look, here's a guy
with an overpowering fastball and he's thrown thirty seven pitches one hundred miles an hour
or higher. Do they get a little bit deeper in the box, in
other words, towards the catcher, deep in the box, give themselves a
few more men, maybe a foot, depending upon where they normally stand.
Also, do you think about choking up? Do you go hunting for a
fastball first pitch because it's not just the fastball, Then you thinker and the
splitter that scheme throws. So I think from an offensive standpoint, the Dodgers
have to figure out something in their pregame meeting. Look, are we going
to change our approach? And certainly need to change it firstus the approach they
had last night. As far as the lineup is concerned, Chris Taylor back
in there. The hardest ball he hit all year was hit last night in
the ninth inning, it seemed, and it went into the area known as
the north side notch four hundred and ten feet away. It was like a
four hundred and nine foot out, which would have tied the game but for
Chris Taylor getting another chance starting on back to back nine Yeah, and I
think also with Taylor, we talked about it quite a lot. His strikeout
percentage is really high. I mean it's forty five percent. That's going to
have to change. Last night it did. He put the ball into play
all four outings. But if we go back to spring turning, Taylor came
in and say, look, I'm no longer buying into that launch angle,
he says, hitting too many balls into the air well. Last night,
he made three fly ball outs to the outfield and one pop up to the
infield, so it was not the lion drive stroke that he's been working in
trying to find. So the Dodgers and Pirates go at it Game two of
this three game series, Dodgers trying to even things up. It is Paul's
Skeins pitching for the Pirates. He is two and oh with a two forty
five ERA one hundred miles an hour fastball almost every fastball he throws. Meantime,
James Paxton, the lefty, is five and oh. He is off
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and tonight they got their work cutout for them against Paul Skeans. Yeah,
they really do. And yesterday when it came to Jared Jones, he was
finding different ways to be effective. And I think even when Dave was talking
about him afterwards, like there are some challenges when you are facing younger pitchers
where you have information on them, of course, but not as much as
necessarily to help you make those adjustments you really need to be making in game.
And so today is going to be a similar battle against Paul Skeans and
the other catchers that he throws the ball really hard, tim And unfortunately right
now for the Dodgers, as much as the offense hasn't been you've kind of
seen these inconsistent results. The offense against the hard ball is not necessarily the
numbers aren't where you'd want them to be, so that's right now. The
biggest focus for the offense is how do you get back on track going against
the hard stuff. And because of Paul Skean's is gonna be pitching today most
of his stuff, the numbers are up there, so it should be it's
gonna be a tough one for them. Hopefully they can get the results.
But Dave was saying, you know, they're trying to make you know,
adjustments. It's obviously a very broad word and that means a lot of different
things, but they're trying to do what is necessary to get the results.
So hopefully that happens tonight. We'll see what happens. But I think the
hope is just find ways to get going early. That's got to be the
focus, and then hopefully, of course they're really strong outing from James Paxson
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get the start last time out and abbreviated one, but that was on purpose.
But what about tonight. Yeah, so his last one, he only
threw three innings, and he was sufficient and effective. It was great,
and they were being very mindful of his you know, start dates. So
he is someone who does performs better when he's on an x straight day or
so of rest, and so his last one was his first one on regular
rest, so they limited the pitch count so that he was able to kind
of be ready for this one. So when it comes to today, Dave
feels really good about where he's at. He can hopefully he can get deep
into the game or really just go for as long as as hard as he
can. Because the other catch, which probably I forgot to mention, is
the weather here in Pittsburgh. You know, there is some raine that's going
to be coming in tonight, so hopefully it doesn't interrupt, you know,
early in the game, and so it's kind of like, hopefully they can
get through six seven innings before it does downpour. Well let mean I say
down poor, because I don't want to wish that upon us before it's ours
s Erraine. So hopefully they can get as much as they can from the
starters though, because that is something that they got to be mindful of.
So we can get some quick efficient, you know, five innings. Let's
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check you with the Dodger skipper. Questions for Dave Dave? Can you just
describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave Roberts.
It's it's difficult at times when you don't have familiarity with with a pitcher,
you know, yesterday obviously, Jerry Jones had his way with us.
It's fun to watch a young pitcher compete like you did. Obviously, unfortunately
we were the recipients of a good outing, you know, with schemes,
just kind of watching the video and you know, trying to you know,
gather information. It's a four pitch mix, it's good man, it's high
velocity, and so I think it's more of just trying to be on the
attack. I think, you know, for us hunting certain pitches locations,
and when we do get an opportunity, we got to cash in. And
so you know, you let a young pitcher get confidence and get settled in.
You know, you see what can happen. You had a Taylor start
yesterday, You have him at third base today. Was that predetermined or did
you see something last night that made you think that you want to give him
another opportunity tonight. I think it's a combo. I thought the first at
bat, I like, the first at bat, I like the contact,
and the last at bat versus Bednar. I think it's just trying to create
a little opportunity for him, you know, with schemes. I gave Pies
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I'm on a weather man, but I know there's some rain in the
forecast. What's going on? Oh yeah, you can feel the humidity here
at PNC Park. The tams are getting closer to ninety degrees and there's been
thunderstorms since last night in the Pittsburgh area, and batting practice was canceled for
both teams because the skies opened up for about twenty minutes and there was that
threat throughout the early afternoon that it could happen again. This game is going
to start on time, but about three hours from now is when weather forecasters
are saying there could be more rain in the area. So fingers crossed the
Dodgers and Pirates can get this game in before the rain and the sky opens
up. But right now, they have a bunch of bunch of youth baseball
and softball kids walking the field, similar to what we see on Sundays at
Dodgers Stadium. So right now, beautiful weather, I guess steamy weather to
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is a guy who can throw it up there in the upper nineties and usually
over one hundred. Yeah, and he's a tall kid, six six.
You heard from him on the pregame show yesterday. And look, the Dodgers
are under no false pretenses that this will be easy. This is going to
be a tough matchup for them. And Skiings has been tough on Major league
offenses since his call up. And what makes them difficult, like I mentioned,
is that not only is he six six, so when he releases the
ball, HiT's extremely close to the home plate than most pitchers. So that
makes it another layer to the difficulty to hit him. But the Dodgers have
got to find a way to move runners over and do a better job with
runners in scoring position than what they did last night. Dave Roberts actually said
when he talks about adjustments that hitters are going to have to sell out at
times for the fastball, and we'll see whether or not they do that against
one of the young heart throwing pitchers in Major League Baseball, Paul Skins.
All Right, DV Friday, Dodgers will be at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
But it's a big day for some of the Dodger pitchers on the injured
list. Yeah, Rancho Kucamonga is going to have Clayton Kershaw out at their
stadium. No, not pitching in a game, but pitching a two inning
simulated game. And for Oklahoma City Bobby Miller, it is expected to be
his final rehab start before he rejoins the Dodger at Dodgers. And also a
name we have not heard in quite some time that's been on the injured list
since the first month of the season, and that is reliever out of USC
Kyle Hurt. Kyle Hurt has been on the sixty day IL with right shoulder
inflammation and is expected to pitch in the same game that Bobby Miller is going
to start on Friday for Oklahoma City. So that would be huge for the
Dodgers to get an arm like Hurt back in their bullpen. No. Doubt
about it. Guys starting to trickle back. That's always a good thing.
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in downtown Pittsburgh with some thunderstorms circulating the area. Yeah, a little steamier
also because the offense seems to be well in a quagmire right now. Got
runs on five fifth last night, and for Timeler glassnow he gets stuck with
the loss, even though he pitched much better than to get the loss.
Six innings one run on three hits, was all struck out nine. But
the problem for Glass now has not been the pitching. It's been lack of
hitting and lack of scoring. The Dodgers now the last time they scored a
run with Tyler Glass noow actually still in the ballgame. You have to go
back to May fourth. It's been over a month, it really has.
And it's shocking when you read that, see that, hear that. But
for glass now Rick, he's been better than advertised as far as what we
knew about him in Tampa Bay. Yeah, yeah, I think if you
start to look at what the glass now has done. Also, the first
nine batters through the first inning just to one twenty nine batting average against his
below two hundred to second time through. The third time through has been a
little problematic. As far as the earned run average, it's over six,
but the batting average against is barely two hundred. So he has held up
on that end of it. And then you start to talk about holding up.
Alex Vessi again comes in. Vessia has lowered his ERA to one point
three. The lefty has been equally effective against left handed hitters right handed hitters.
And then Johann Ramirez came on and worked a scoreless eighth inning one two
three. He got through it. So the Hunters have to figure out a
better way to try and attack it, because last night they had plenty of
opportunities, but they were zero for twelve with runners in scoring position. And
I did some adding up the last ten games. Now the Dodgers has a
team with a chance to knock in a run and scoring position collectively hitting just
one eighty three, and that's not going to get it done when you look
at who they faced last night and who they're going to face tonight. Not
an easy task going up against pitchers that throw one hundred plus miles an hour.
No Tim and I will talk about it also a little bit later on
the pregame show. But I look forward to seeing what is going to take
place with Paul Skeins, who's the local Sun, the California product out of
the Fullerton I've seen him pitch once on television for a few innings and it
really caught my attention, and I want to see him now up close and
personally. He's got good stuff, and the Dodgers are going to have to
make some adjustments, and I'm not seeing a whole lot of adjustments offensively at
the present time. When you talk about adjustments. I mentioned this that I
saw a video from Darryl Strawberry last week where if he was not hitting the
fastball well, he would move back on the pitcher. If he was not
seen or hitting the off speed stuff, he would move closer to the picture.
You don't see those adjustments, right, And who's pitching on that given
night, because it's a guy that is labeled as a soft tosser that throws
a lot of breaking stuff. Then yeah, maybe you will move forward in
the batter's box a little closer to the picture. Maybe you move forward a
little bit closer to home plate, daring him to give you a fastball.
And are you trying to basically lay in the weeds and just hunt for that
fastball? You know, pictures set up hitters a lot. How many times
can hitters maybe set up a picture? Doesn't happen as often as picture is
doing it to hitters, But it is a possibility to do that if you
tempt them to do it. But how many guys do you see to go
home plate? They measure it from the bat to home plate. We see
Miguel Rojas do that every bat that he has, even though he knows where
the comfortable point is in that the batter's box. But they're all conditioned,
most of them are conditioned to be the same place at the same time,
the same place, and the adjustments are made from a swing stand point and
approach standpoint versus physically moving around. Interesting that Strawberry would do it, and
he was quick enough and strong enough to be able to move forward closer to
the picture by talking about moving forward and maybe even closer under play too.
That's what struck me. Rick. We're talking about a player that was a
thirty thirty player and he's even talking about making those type of adjustments. Yeah,
you do. You have to make adjustments. I'm still a firm believer
that baseball quote unquote baseball, And I'm talking about the large picture with thirty
teams and thirty organizations, with the defensive alignments that I'm seeing, it is
no longer the shift being applied. How many infields play shallow, very very
few, only in some circumstances if they move the infield in or the runner
a third in a close ballgame, late in the ballgame. My point being,
there's a lot of base hits out there if you learn how to bunt
and guys are hitting around two hundred that don't bunt that can run. My
question is why exactly if you're struggling with runners in squirm position and you're struggling
to have productive outs. Yeah, well we noticed what a bunt can do.
With the bunt that Austin Barnes laid down in New York against the Mets
late in the ball game, no doubt. And Chris Taylor was able to
split hits out there. It's not easy to get them. But if your
one dimensional and that one dimension is not working, why do you not then
open your arms with at least the thought and work on bunting. Bunting can
be a weapon, not an inconvenience. I love it, Rick, That's
why I like to look at life with a broad optical horizon. Really,
Yes, you're so full of it. We'll set it back. Is our
time up? We'll leave it right there, Rick, please, we'll send
it back to the studio. Tim All right, thanks lock, guys.
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Did I feel like I tapped into your motivation? Oh yeah, yeah,
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Hopefully I get a boom box after this, but yeah, it's gonna
be. It's in the mail. Oh yeah, thanks, thanks for sure.
I just need the charger honestly. Okay, we'll get to the charger
for the boom box I gave you last year, courtesy of Travis Matthews.
Yeah, thank you, Travis. Hey, how about this. Not a
lot of people realize Back in LA you and Bobby Miller are roommates, and
he said he was a good roommate after that torturous flight last week from New
York back to LA. He was leaving while you were coming home. Yeah.
We got back at like I don't know, it was probably like eight
o'clock. Yeah, and he was going to the field that day. It
was our off day. And I come in and I eat something, I
order some DoorDash, eat something, and then Bobby wakes up and it's literally
probably like twenty minutes Rob. Whenever I got home, he left and I
went straight to bed after that. How many interactions do you guys have living
together? Oh? Yeah, I mean we see each other all the time
at home, at the field. Yeah, we're pretty much always together.
It sucks that he's been hurt, you know, this long, because he
hasn't been on the road trips and stuff. But uh yeah, whenever I
come home, like, we're always together pretty much. Can you tell his
demeanor has changed in any way while he's been on the iol because he wants
to pitch so badly. Oh yeah, he's itching the pitch. That's all
he wants to do is pitch. I mean you can tell he's he's uh,
you know, anxious to get back out there for sure. But no,
he's got a good head on him. Do any of you cook?
Does anybody make a home cook meal? I don't. I don't cook.
Bobby cooks. Bobby likes to cook. Bobby he just got we have this
little pool area and there's a girl downstairs. He just got a bunch of
Kershaws Kershaw's beef. Yeah, so he's been cooking that downstairs. Have you
tried any of the kers Shaw beef. Is it what they say on the
package? No curve balls? No, I actually haven't tried it. Bobby
said it's really good though, So Bobby knows his way around the grill.
Yeah, he's a grill master, all right. That's a good roommate to
have a guy that knows how to grill. Oh, I know he doesn't
never cook me anything, but I'm sure I would if i. Gavin Stone
is our guest, just had a first pitch here in Pittsburgh. How's the
season been going for you? Obviously we know things seem to get into a
rhythm, but for you personally, I'm sure you want more. Yeah,
I mean, I'm just trying to win ball games for the club, to
be honest, it's been a lot of fun so far. I don't get
a lot of strikeouts. Of the defense has telled me out a lot so
and they've been great. We've had a great defense all year. But no,
it's been a lot of fun. I'm enjoying it. Still got a
long ways to go though. On the flip side strikeout pitchers, sometimes the
guys behind them kind of get bored when they're not doing much stuff. But
it seems like the pace that you pitch at and the way these guys play
behind you. It works that you work fast and you induce a lot of
contact. Yeah, I mean it's always been something that I've done, is
just work fast, try and get the guys back in the dugout, trying
and put up more runs, get them off their feet as much as I
can do you pay attention to that when people want to poke holes in your
game and say, well, you know, he puts up zeros, but
he doesn't strike out a lot of guys. No, I don't care.
Zero's is really it's the only thing that really matters. Do you feel like
you're starting to find pitches that can dial up for you to be able to
get that strike out when you need it? Oh? Yeah, there's opportunities
certain pitches of certain areas. You know, the last couple of games,
I've gotten a couple of strikeouts on fast on heaters up and heaters around the
zone and stuff like that, and then I think that'll open up my change
up. And the slider has been good too, so you know, just
trying to find ways to open up the change up and then and then you
know, catching them off guard with other crap what's the biggest difference between the
a year change up appears and the way your two seamer appears to hitters because
they're both pitches down in the zone. Yeah, I'm honestly, I mean
I'm not sure. I know two seamen has more vertical on it obviously,
Uh, probably more run too, but I mean that feels the natural pronation
feels good out of my hand. Uh, And so that's why the two
seam works really well. And then and then the change up I've had since
I got into Pro Bowl, and it's, uh, you know, it's
a it's a pitch where you gotta you gotta keep making adjustments on week to
week. But no, they've been, they've been, honestly two of my
best pitches this year. Thanks a lot for the time, Gavin, really
appreciate talking to you, and like I've said many times, you're an easy
gutta root for. And we'll certainly uh find that battery for your boombox zoom
banks. Appreciate it. There he is the man, Gavin Stone. Even
when the power goes out, cool as a cucumber. We'll send it back
to you in the studio. Get that guy a new battery for sure.
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Tigers. He allowed two runs on three hits while striking out nine over six
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James Paxton against Paul Skeens, game two of a three game series. Right
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