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Talk. Like back, tim Cakes. Dodgers get the win over the Colorado
Rockies, a four to nothing shutouts over Colorado, as they improved a thirty
eight and twenty three on this season. Hi, everybody, and welcome to
postgame Dodger Talk here live from Dodger Stadium on an absolutely glorious Sunday afternoon.
Our phone number eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy eight sixty six
nine eight seven two five seventy I want to hear from you Dodger fans after
the Dodgers take two to three from the Rockies this weekend and now have a
six and a half game lead in the Division over the San Diego Padres,
who lost earlier. Today, the Giants loss, so they're now eight and
a half up on San Francisco. A Dodgers team that had travel issues coming
back home, was kind of sleepy on Friday night in the loss in the
series opener to the Colorado Rockies. They come back and win last night and
today they come back and behind Gavin Stone and the Dodgers bullpen, who combined
for a shutout win, the Dodgers take two to three. They've now won
five of six and the Dodgers again will head back east now for a six
game road trip in Pittsburgh and New York. Eight six six nine eighty seven
two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy What can't you
say about Gavin Stone and the job that he has done so far this season?
Gavin Stone has met so much to this Dodgers team, and quite frankly,
Gavin Stone made the rotation because of injuries to Clayton Kershaw and the back
end of the rotation. Gavin Stone was the fifth starter for this Dodgers team
and through eleven starts now twelve starts now after today, he's been absolutely fantastic
and he's given the Dodgers lengthy efforts. Whether it's six innings against the Braves,
seven innings one run against the Miami Marlins, six innings one run against
the Giants in San Francisco, six plus innings against the Diamondbacks, seven shutout
innings against the New York Mets, and today five more shutout innings in a
win against the Colorado Rockies. Gavin Stone has been impressive. Gavin Stone now
lowers his ERA to two ninety on this season, and he wasn't alone.
Got great pitching behind him from Michael Grove, who continues to be impressive as
a long reliever and a short reliever. Michael Grove was a starter who transformed
himself into a middle reliever bulk innings guy for the Dodgers last season, and
his role has even morphed yet again this year in twenty twenty four, where
he's able to pitch in multiple days as a traditional reliever, can one inning
one day, inning the next day, more like a guy you've seen in
an Alex Vesia, a Blake Trining type role. A traditional reliever, they
can go two of three games in this series, not just give you four
and has to sit out a few days. No, he has turned into
a really bona fide reliever for this Dodgers' bullpen, and he morphed into that
role I think based on necessity because of the injuries to the high leverage relievers
for this Dodgers bullpen, and some of them are trickled back in Blake trying
in Evan Phillips, Daniel Hudson. But you know there's still a list of
Dodger relievers Joe Kelly, Bruce, dar Garaderal that they're missing, and Michael
Grove has stepped into those roles. So a tip of the cap to the
young guys, Michael Grove. Gavin Stone reinventing himself. Gavin Stone after a
rough outing when he made his major league debut last year. I mean,
he was highly touted, but he's also a young man who was drafted in
twenty shortened season, shortened, no minor leagues at all. In twenty one,
skyrockets up to two different levels, twenty two, does the same thing.
Twenty three. He comes in and helps out this Dodgers team because of
injuries, but rough rocky beginning as a starter, and then went back to
Triple A. Reinvented himself, figured out which pitches are working, and came
back to the major leaves after the trade deadline last year and pitched well for
the Dodgers in September and came out of the shoot here in twenty twenty four,
and he's off to a six and two start now in twelve starts and
lowering his ERA to two ninety on this season. So I can't say enough
about what Gavin Stone and Michael Grove did today for this Dodgers' bullpen. Mookie
bets Freddie Freeman. You know, when Dodgers get production like they did from
the top of the lineup, Mookie bets Freddie Freeman in particular, good things
usually happen. And today they hit home runs in the first inning, and
before you can even sit down, it's a two to nothing Dodgers lead,
and Gavin Stone's dealing on the mound for the Dodgers, and he sprinkling a
running the third on a Miguel Rojas RBI single and Freddie Freeman a sack fly
in the eighth, and that's all the Dodgers would need today. But I
keep this in mind. This Dodgers team won four to nothing, and look
what they did with the runners in scoring position. They were one for eleven,
runners on left on base twelve. They could have busted this game open.
It could have been a lopsided avalanche of a win against the Rockies.
Today. It turns out all they needed was four really good pitching and the
Dodgers get the win and the Dodgers should beat the Colorado Rockies. This isn't
a while. Look what they did. This is a tone setter in the
NLS. This is the bottom feeders. The Colorado Rockies, a team that
has struggled for the most part of this season. Outside of the last ten
days, they've played better, no doubt, having won a couple of series
in a row. But the Dodgers are more talented. The Dodgers are a
way better team, and they showed that over the course of the last two
days. And I think it's unfortunate the travel issues that the Dodgers had of
being on a plane for thirteen hours, seven of which were on a tarmac
waiting for weather and pilots to come back from New York. The Dodgers were
sleepy, they were tired. Those bats were asleep on Friday night against the
Colorado Rockies, and they win the series opener. Dodgers bounced back with the
win last night, and they get the win today in the series win against
Colorado with the victory today, so an all in all, a good day
for the Dodgers. In front of forty eight two hundred and fifty one out
here at Dodgers Stadium, eight sixty six, nine, eight seven two five
seventy is our number again. The five through nine hitters. They came through
as well. For the Dodgers. Austin Barnes was two for four, Jason
Hayward came off the bench with a hit. Miguel Vargas was one for three.
He continues to produce. I love seeing Miguel Vargas doing he's doing.
I'm a big fan of his. He got injured in spring training last year.
Couldn't swing the bat during spring training. We all know that he was
just up there tracking pitches when he was taking his head bats. That was
it. He couldn't swing at all because he had the busted up hand.
He got the opening day start at second base. Offensively, he struggled the
first half of the season and at the All Star break got sent down to
Triple Oklahoma City and we never saw him again the rest of the year.
They start the season with him on the roster when they go to Korea,
but then he starts in Triple A Oklahoma City when their season starts, and
he gets off to a great start, swinging a hot bat. The Miguel
Vargas that we had seen in the minor leagues up until last year when he
made it to the majors. That's what we saw again in Triple A Oklahoma
City the first six weeks, and he gets rewarded for his great start,
called up, James Outman goes down and Miguel Vargas hasn't got a lot of
swings. He hasn't got a lot of starts for this Dodgers team, a
couple of third in the outfield primarily, and he continues to produce when he's
up there, one for three again today and he's swinging a bat with power,
and he's also getting on base when needed. I love seeing Miguel Vargas
out there. And he talked about it that he felt like he was just
too much in his head. He was trying to do too much at the
plate, you know, too many things being told to him, and went
back to simplifying his approach at the plate. And good for him going back
to what was successful and going back to what he did to get to where
he was at as a top prospect and break through to the major leagues and
now he's producing again. Love seeing it. It's a great story. Miguel
Vargas. How about Andy Pajus blistering start, then he cooled off. Well,
he's he's back to being hot again. He's now got a six game
hitting streak. When he got a single in the first inning today, he's
now hitting three to ninety five over his last what is this over his last
seven games, Andy piovers last five games, Andy Pajs is producing again the
bottom of the lineup Today, hitters five through nine had five of the Dodgers'
eight hits. That's good production top to bottom, really good pitching. You're
gonna win games most times when you've got that combination and good defense. It's
it's it's not a secret. It's not something that not all the people are
trying to figure out. It's just get good pitching, good defense, and
you get production from your lineup, you are gonna win baseball games. And
the Dodgers did that this weekend, taking two to three from the Colorado Rockies.
Eight sixty six nine seven two five seventy is the number Freddie Freeman a
home run today, He's now got seven the year, three hundred and twenty
eight in his career. Mookie Betts with that leadoff home run of the first
inning, he has now got fifty two career leadoff home runs fifty two for
Mookie Betts in his career. That's pretty impressive. On the season. Now,
he's got nine home runs, four of which are leadoff home runs,
and that fifty second career leadoff home run is now fifth most in Major League
Baseball. One more and he'll tie Craig Bighio with fifty three. Two more
and he'll tie Alfonso Soriano with fifty four. If he can get to fifty
seven career leadoff home runs, he'll be in second place and tie with George
Springer. And I don't know if he can get there, certainly, he's
still got a lot of baseball left in his career. But Ricky Henderson is
the all time Major League Baseball leadoff home run hitter with eighty one career leadoff
home runs fifty two. Now for Mookie Betts, I don't know if he
gets to eighty one. He can certainly, but it's ways off for Mookie
Betts. Eight six six nine, eighty seven two five seven. We'll take
a break, we'll come back. We'll hear from Jose Mota, We'll hear
from you. I got a couple of lines open at eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers take care of business. They defeat the
Rockies four to nothing, their sixth shutout win of this season, to pick
up a game on the Padres that pick up a game on the Giants.
Good day all around for the good guys who wear blue, the Dodgers for
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AM five to seventy LA Sports. We'll be ready. And here comes one
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It's toward the corner, it is gone. The fifty second career leadoff home
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They get their six shutout win of the year, as they also pick
up a game on the Padres in the NL West. They pick up a
game on the San Francisco Giants in the NL West. So all around,
good day for the good guys. The boys in Blue with a four nothing
win over the Rockies. Let's check out Jose. It's time to go around
the horn with Jose Mota. All right, Hose gonna start off with Freddy
Freeman. A home run is sack fly three walks today. He's hitting now
two ninety three on this season. I know he keeps talking about how he
doesn't feel like he's there yet, but man, he continues to kind of
just try to figure it out and figure it out. And hopefully he has
figured it out now two for four, last night, big day today,
Hopefully he has unlocked something. I think we have to admire, you know,
the person and stambout guy that he is, so how much he expects
that of himself, and not only that, but the way he engages himself
as to what he does for the team and what he means for the team.
It's it's remarkable because I talked to so many guys in that clubhouse and
even throughout baseball, and they said, well, you know what Freddy's kind
of got is not gonna be very vocal, but you watch him more.
You watch Freddy just go about his business. Also very important here, tim.
You watch Freddy go through the struggles, and you'll know exactly what a
professional player is supposed to be acting like, how he's supposed to be getting
ready. I mean, I can't get over the fact that we you know,
there's a doubleheader last year and Freddy goes between games you remember this,
and does the same routine after game one that he does for a game two
or three or one sixty two or whatever. That's just the sign of a
guy that I understands who he is. And you're talking about he's hitting today.
Anytime I see Freddy's scoring the ballt and hitting foul balls the left side,
it's a good thing hitting it both to the big part of the field,
like center field. I think there's some big things happening for him coming
sent Andy pot has we talked about to blistering start that he got off to.
He seemed to have gotten figured out at least from the different pitchers that
he faced, and now maybe he has turned and flipped the script back on
them. Now he has extended his hitting streak to now six games with the
single today in the first inning. He's now hitting on nearly four hundred in
his last five games. Good for him to kind of turn things around after
they'd adjusted to him. Yeah, and he you know, does a very
good job against left. He's coming into today three fifty against left. He's
right henders have out his number. But he's getting better, as he mentioned,
and to me has been a simple fact that now he's got better coverage
of home plate inside the outside, the swing is getting a little bit flatter.
You know, it doesn't have that loopy swing. It's there, let's
not lie about it. But he's getting better adjusting and seeing how they're pitching
to him. And on top of that, he's loading earlier. And when
he loads early, play coverage improves, recognition improves. Andy used to have
a walk in his game in the minor leagues, and I was like,
going to Ropa Scoria about this the other day. He hasn't showed that you're
in the big league, but it's in there. But the more he recognizes
where his zone is the big league strike zone with the umpires call and don't
call, and how they're pitching to him. And look at the one thing
too, Tim is a young player asking himself, Okay, am I just
making too much out of this because it's the big leagues? But yeah,
it is a big deal. But at the same time, you got to
go back and look and say, how many times am I getting myself out
by spreading the zone and you know, chasing too much versus guys really beating
me on pitches that I should handle. And I think he's answering the call
right now. I want to stay positive before we get to the struggles of
show. Hey, but Gavin Stone, I shut out Indians. He had
seven shutout innings in New York and his last start didn't really face any adversity
Jose until the fifth inning when they had runners on second and third or two
outs, and then he gets a line drive to end the inning. I
mean, Gavin Stone continues to impress. I mean, this kid is so
good going back to the last start, seven shutouts, five shout out here
today and he just throws strikes. To me, the biggest sequence and the
most important to me was first in and he throws an all in one sinker
in on Rogers, the cleanup hitter after a walk, and Rogers kind of
checks the swing and say, well for seeing fast for a sinker man.
Next pitch break them all away. And I think Dave Roberts mentioned something that's
so important on how he has a very good sense and a pulse for the
game. Sometimes you hold the baseball a little bit longer against guys, especially
guys that have this wider stance, and those six get a little tighter man.
Those are just some of the things that Greg maddox used to do in
smarter pitchers, saying, let me hold the ball a little bit longer so
I could gauge and throw off his timing. And he did a very good
job today reading that. Also, I think just by hearing him talk and
the way he refers to Austin Barnes, I mean he's learning. He's a
plot, but it's going to get it to a point where sometimes he's going
to call the shots and say, you know, this work for me and
this doesn't. But I think he has somebody like Austin Barnes and Will Smith
it I'll really engaging him and taking him in the right direction. But Le's
today, for example, he knows taswell hitting team. I mean they want
the fastball, and he goes instead of the change of fastball, let's change
directions more sladers. Got a lot of strikeouts on sliders today because he really
paid attention to how they're approaching his fastball and the change up show. Hey
Otani zero for three today, A couple of strikeouts intentionally walked got on base
because of catcher's interference. He is now hitting one ninety three in his last
fifteen games. He's eleven for fifty seven with fifteen strikeouts over his fifteen games.
Is there something you're seeing. You saw him in Anaheim, you've seen
him now here with the Dodgers. Jose, are you seeing something different?
This is something that he can put his finger on as far as what's happening
in his struggles at the plate. Ah. Yes, And actually that I
back with the Angeles. I spoke with Shorey about this that I'm and he
mentioned the fact that his base needs to be firm, you know, his
base needs to be where he has got the back foot planet his waves in
the back leg. He goes in and cots that knee and waits for the
pitch. You're not seeing that right now. You see a lot of early
cocking with that knee and then he's flying open. His feet are not steady,
and when that happens. First of all, he really doesn't take walks.
A lot of times he gets into these these swing modes and it's just
hard for him to get out of it. But I think for show he
is getting back to the basics. You know, the way he takes picture
Sometimes he's told me this. He goes, if I'm taking the pitch,
I'm falling all the way into the glove. That is a good thing,
And I need to you know, hopefully we'll see him do that a little
bit more. But if he s show his steed moving a lot, usually
it's not a very good sign because that means he's in swing mode, which
means he's almost I don't want to say guessing, but just saying, I'm
going to see this pitch here and it's not happening. And if he start
moving and his head moves and then the strikes on does Piers. But you
saw that bat against Lambert. He threw them seven change ups, seven ten
ups. Not great change up, maybe one very good one, but hitter
wal changes. But because he's moving so much, he just cannot keep the
bat in that zone longer and go the other way, as we know he
can do. But I've seen this happen, and before you know, he's
locked in a couple of hits left field, a couple of blue shots,
and he's right back where he needs to be. All right? Day off
tomorrow, teams heading to Pittsburgh. Is there a favorite spot to eat in
Pittsburgh for you? Is there a go to? Is it? What is
that famous sandwich place that everybody goes to there? I can't think of the
name, off fan, but is there a spot that you go to is
I found the Italians there? Man, I'm gonna tell you just to find
them and take care of business. A great little Italian, a little Italy
there at Pittsburgh, heading to that which my dad told me about back in
the sixties when he played about make sure when you go to Pittsburgh, you
know, try to polish free, but also don't forget about the Italian.
So I'm gonna try that tomorrow. Ah, that's a good insight there.
You have to visit with a legend today. I know he was an honor.
And I only get to see you, Jose and put eyes on you
and talk with you face to face. But to see your dad, the
great Manny Mota, what a legend, what an honor to talk to him.
I was in a I would and told my kids about it. They
couldn't believe it either. I'm no near that. But you know, Pop
says, we have a segment every Sunday on the Spanish pregame show, you
know, Sundays with a legend, Manny Motive. So I give him a
topic. He just goes out about it, talked about five minutes and it's
just great to have him around and he enjoined us so and he's a big
fan of A and five seventy. He'll tell you that every day. Love
it love. We are all big fans of Manny Mota and big fans of
Jose Motive as well. Say travel tomorrow, Jose, We'll talk to you
in a couple of days. Okay, there he goes Jose Mota. Yeah,
it was great to see uh and visit with his dad, Manny Mode
all the boat brief. Was great to see him in person. Just a
legend, a Dodger legend, the great Manny Mota. So that was awesome
to see him here. And it quieted down here at Dodger Stadium. The
kids running the bases is all complete. Now you just got some family out
here, Dodger players in front of off just kind of hanging out and enjoying
a Sunday afternoon on the field as the Dodgers get the win over the Colorado
Rockies four to nothing. Gavin Stone five shutout innings, allowed four hits while
striking out six, and as I mentioned with Jose didn't really have any threats
until the fifth inning, a lead off single and then a couple of fielders'
choice before a double put runners on second and third. That was the first
time all game that the Rockies had runners in scoring position against Gavin Stone.
He got a line drive out to a perfect positioned Freddie Freeman and that was
it as far as the threat from the Colorado Rockies. Dodgers tacked on a
run in the eighth inning on a Freddie Freeman sack fly. They went it
four to nothing. The struggles of show Hey o Tani, you know they're
not gonna last all season, right, you know, it's something that's not
gonna linger for the next four months. But it is intriguing to see him
struggle at the plate right now. Eleven for fifty seven, fifteen strikeouts in
his life fifteen games. That is a sub two hundred batting average for show
Heyotani and watching him in person today zero for three, couple of strikeouts,
gone on base twice via walk and the catcher's interference. Jose alluded to it.
I can see it, and with my untrained eye, he seems to
be lunging and just all the body weight, everything moving forward and he's off
balance at times. And the seven straight changeups from Lampert, the reliever for
Colorado just had him out on his front foot, and at the same time,
teams are now pitching him inside. We saw that in the Cincinnati series
last road trip. We saw it from the Mets as well, just constantly
throwing him inside and not afraid to throw fastballs inside. On show Heyotani because
he's struggling to get around on him and now he's opening it up trying to
turn on those fastballs. Leave him vulnerable to the pitches on the outside part
of the plan. Now when he does put a good swing on it and
have a great at bat. We saw the results in New York in the
game against the Mets, in which he homered to left center field on a
fastball on the outside part of the plate and he just goes the other way
with it, and he's so strong he hits it out of the ballpark.
He'll figure it out. There's a reason why he's a goat, there's a
reason why he's a unicorn. There's a reason why he's one of the best
players in baseball, and that is because he is a great hitter and a
disciplined player at the plate. We're just not seeing it right now, and
he can get back to that. As Jose mentioned with these professional hitters,
all it takes is one or two at bats, get back on track,
figure it out, and next thing you know, you're hitting and scoring runs
and having multi hit games and hitting home runs again, and the world is
right again for show Aotani. But in the meantime, the Dodgers take two
to three from the Colorado Rockies. The Dodgers win today for nothing over Colorado.
Five shutout innings from Gavin Stone. Mookie Betts goes deep. Freddie Freeman
goes deep as well. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two
five seventy. Michael being very patient leaving Dodger Stadium. I appreciate the patience,
Michael, how are you? I'm doing great? Shout out to Don
Kucko's shout out to the best thing I had at Dodger Stadium today, hot
Stone soup. He served the hot dish event. It was a great day
at Dodger Stadium. Overcounts, the start, Son came out, ended up
being a beautiful day. It was great to see the offense get going early.
Great to get some energy going after losing a bunch on the road.
Really quick before I throw it over to my son, who's gonna give his
take. After he gives his take, I wondered if you'd talk us through
what opportunities you think are there both on the everyday player and the pitching side
in terms of the farm and Vargas coming up quickly. My son is the
second grade, Dake, what do you want to say? Shout out to
Lukie that the first hander game he had, Jack, and shout out to
old Tani for trying and mostly games strikeouts, but he still played a good
game. What do you think you should do to get going good? Yeah,
it's good advice. That's great advice. What's your name again, young
man? My name is d A K E A d at the front,
Dake, you were wise beyond your years, young man. Do you play
baseball yourself? Yeah? What team were you on this year? Well,
it's not really It sponsored by the Dodgers and the name of the team is
Blue Crew. Nice nice, well continued success, Dake. I hope you,
uh you do well on the baseball field and appreciate you checking in you
and your daddy to check in more here on Dodger on Dodger Talk. Oh,
don't threaten us with a good time, and I appreciate the shout out
to Don Kuko's Michael Dake. I appreciate you to drive home safely. That
is awesome. I appreciate that Dake just chiming in talking about Mookie Betts going
yard and his first at bat and not worried about showy O time. Love
that from Dag. Thank you Dak, and to his dad Michael for checking
in eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six nine to
eighty seven two five seventy. If you ever listened to Top Night Dodger talk
the last couple of days, I've done it while Dave's been traveling. I
give you a farm report, so I kind of tell you what's happening with
the Dodgers' top minor league prospects from Oklahoma City all the way down to Rancho
Kouka Manga, and I've given you some names of players to be on the
lookout for. I mean, you hear about the Dalton Rushings. Of course,
Dodger top prospect. You've heard about Diego Kartai, even though he has
really come back down to earth as far as the Dodger prospect in the last
year and a half, he has struggled offensively. He's in Double A Tulsa.
Theron Lorenzo is in High A ball Great Lakes with the Lons. He
is a top ten Dodger prospect, a top one hundred overall in the minor
leagues. I bring up those three guys in the Dodger minor leagues because all
three are catchers. Now they play some first base designate hitter as well.
They're not solely catchers anymore because they're starting to groom him for others spots.
I've even heard Dalton Rushing can start playing some outfield because he's that goods as
far as an athlete. With three catchers and a guy in Will Smith who's
just signed a ten year deal with the Dodgers, there's a logjam there at
the catching spot for the Dodgers. If any one of those three, Dalton
Rushing, Diego Kartaya, or Theron Lorenzo have any aspirations of making it to
the big leagues with the Dodgers, it's gonna be tough to break through.
They may have to go find another position to do so. But I also
bring that up because they could be used as trades bait if the Dodgers needed
to add another arm. If the Dodgers needed to add another bat off the
bench, they have those players available. They also have a plethora of minor
league arms that they've acquired via trade to bolster their minor leagues and guys they
have drafted over the last three years. Maddox Runs a top first round pick
in twenty twenty one. Peyton Martin was a seventeenth round pick a couple of
years ago, has having a great year in Low A and now Hi A
Ball with the Great Lakes Loons. Jackson Ferris, who was the second round
pick of the Cubs and was avaulved of the Michael Bush trade they acquired him.
They wanted to draft him a couple of years ago, but he got
snatched up in his second round by the Cubs. Well, they're able to
get him in the trade this past offseason involving the trade for Michael Bush,
and now he is a top ten prospect for the Dodgers in High A ball.
River Ryan nick Frosso is unfortunately out for the year with the Torren Labram
are two top ten Dodger pitching prospects. And Osway De paula nineteen year old
left handed hitting outfielders in Rancho koukamonga top fifty overall minor league prospect according to
Baseball America. The minor leagues are stacked right now. We've seen these Gavin
Stones, Bobby Miller's, Immit Shean's come up and help out this Dodger team
of Michael Grove transferred from a starter into a lever, Miguel Vargas, Andy
pat Has. These are six or seven names I just mentioned that have helped
out this Dodger team in the last two years. I'm telling you about minor
leaguers that are maybe a year, two, three years away, maybe four
years away in host way to Paula. So yeah, there is a minor
league that is rich with talent right now for this Los Angeles Dodgers team,
mostly at the Double A level and lower, because they've really tapped into the
top minor league prospects that are in Triple A those names I just mentioned to
you just a few seconds ago. So I don't think there's a plethora of
guys that are necessarily right there ready and can help out this Dodgers team because
they've brought up those names, and they've brought up those pitchers and players to
help out this Dodgers team, but they're at the lower levels, certainly guys
that are on the horizon. And at least I mentioned you got extra arms.
You've got a lot of prospects. You can turn those prospects into instant
major league pitchers or position players based on a trade eight six six nine eight
seven two five said, you know what, let's squeeze in Ezzy before we
say goodbye here and wrap things up here on Dodger Talk. I appreciate the
way. And Izzy, how are you? Hey, I'm fine. You
don't sound Finezy you, I'm fine. I'm fine. Hey, you know,
I don't care, but I they didn't place it. I definitely had
no excuse to me to lose that game. On to this is sweating,
but listen, I'll just take it two hours three. Hey, they didn't
be swept, right, They got swept by the Red last week, so
by the week, but they'll be okay. So yeah, I think he'll
be okay too. I still think he'd have me trouble with the hamstring problem.
Peo. I don't know about that. Is he sTLD the base last
night. He was running the base is hard today. I don't know how
much of it's lingering. Thank you. Is he always great to hear your
voice as always. I don't I don't think the hamstring is necessarily the bother
anymore. I think it's just his mechanics are out of whack, and he'll
get it. He'll get it back very quickly. I'm confident in that.
And Friday's game, whether they were tired or not, they also ran into
a buzzaw. That was Dakota Hudson who out just one run on four hits
over seven plus innings. So he was really good. You tip your cap
to him, and you factor in the fact that Dodgers baby were a little
slow and lingering because of that travel issue. Combine it all and the Rockies
get a win. But the Dodgers bounced back last night with the win,
and they bounce back today with a series winning win over Colorado for nothing your
final that's gonna do it for postgame Dodger Talk. Many thanks to Colin e.
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of course to Dodgers Baseball. Dodgers with the win today and they take
two to three from the Rockies. For now thirty eight and twenty three,
there's six shutout win of the win of the season. They pick up a
game on the Padres, they pick up a game on the Giants as well,
and now they pack the bags and head east again. My friend,
if they've got a three game series against the Pirates and then three against the
New York Yankees, I'll have off night Dodger Talk tomorrow nights and then the
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have a great, safe rest of your Sunday afternoon. What a great
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