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Thanks for being with us on this warm Saturday evening. Man, it
is heating up here in southern California. I guess we've been lucky to have
gotten this far into the summer and had such nice weather, comfortable weather outside.
But today they turned up the furnace on us here in southern California,
in LA and Orange County and the Ie because it was absolutely hot to day
here in southern California and it looks like it's gonna remain that way now.
His summer is officially here with the heat, and the Dodgers offense was hot
tonight. Gavin Lux, guy that started showing you o Tani win deep.
The Dodgers put together a four run third inning, and that's what we like
to see, one of those big numbers on the scoreboard in an inning,
getting on the board, getting an early lead. And when you got Tyler
Glass now doing what he's doing seven innings, two runs, two hits,
ten punchouts, no walks, good things are gonna happen. And we've seen
him pitch really well over the course of this season. He has been everything
that Dodgers had hoped for when they acquired him from Tampa and the Ryan Pepio
deal and then signed them to the extension. You can't ask much more from
Tyler Glass now, who you bring in to be one of those one to
two top of the rotation starting pitchers for you and Tyler Glass now off to
a great start. In the month of May, he only had one win,
but during that month of May he got absolutely zero run support and had
that one rough game against the Cincinnati Reds and what she gave up four and
runs. But he has gotten back on track with a win now against the
Royals and a win tonight against the Angels. He's had a couple of hiccups,
yes he has, but when he pitches six innings and gives up one
run on three hits and loses in Pittsburgh like he did at the beginning of
the month, when he pitches strong for you and gets a no decision over
seven innings and an extra innings loss or win. But he gets a no
decision against the Mets in New York at the end of May. Those are
tough, you know, when he limits a team to three runs on four
hits and you know, keep shooting a game and you can't score any runs
for him, and a six to nothing loss to the Diamondbacks, that's tough.
And he's been on the receiving end of those tough losses this season.
And the eight and five record, yeah, you'll look at it and go
man, eightn five, Okay, Look at the strikeouts. Look at the
RRA now to eighty eight, leading baseball in strikeouts. Look at the quality
starts. Look how many times he's pitched into the sixth, seventh, eighth
inning like he did against the Mets back in April. I mean, he's
got now six double digit strikeout games after punching out ten tonight. He has
been fantastic for this Dodgers team, as has Gavin Stone. Yamamoto is right
on track with those two before he got hurt. In my opinion, Tyler
Glass now and Gavin Stone, they've got to be All Stars. They've got
to be in the mix as two of the better pitchers in the National League
that earn spots onto the National League All Star Team. And I know it's,
you know, three and a half weeks away the All Star break and
the game down in Texas, but you look at the Erara to eighty eight,
that's that's pretty good in baseball right now, or the you know,
strikeouts. Tyler Glass now one hundred and thirty five, got eleven more than
Cruchet, who the Dodgers are gonna see in the series open against the White
Sox on Monday. It's been a really good first half for both Gavin Stone
and then Tyler Glass Now again, two guys who I truly believe deserve nods
in the National League All Star Team this year for the first half of the
seasons they are having. And just a second, we're gonna get into a
little bit more about Tyler Glass now because Tyler Glass now has been really good,
but you need to look at the numbers a little bit more clearly as
far as innings and starts, because he's starting to get up there near career
highs. And I'm looking at the calendar and it says June twenty second,
So that's something we're gonna get into a minute eight six six nine eighty seven
two five seventy eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy Gavin LUCKX tonight
two for four, a home run, two RBIs hey last night, Let's
be honest myself. Some of the callers, some of the reactionals media a
little hard on Gavin Lucks. The tenth inning, the Dodgers had the tie
run ninety feet away and all they needed was him to put the ball in
play. Kicking Hernandez put the ball in play, and the Dodgers can get
a time run across, and who knows what happens, and they can maybe
get a win a game they should have won up two to nothing last night,
And tonight, what does Gavin lux do? Comes back, goes two
for four, has a home run an RBI single later in the fifth inning.
Lucks, along with Rojas and Bigio, had six hits in that seven
to eight to nine spot. Six hits for the Dodgers and scored five of
their seven runs last night. Typically cap to Austin Barnes, Hey, we're
gonna get the guy's credit as much as we get on players for you know,
lack of production or making a mistake or not coming through in a certain
situation. Hey, that gets talked about a lot, and that's part of
the reaction and maybe overreactions sometimes on postgame shows, and that's what fans are
all about, and we love it. But at the same time, when
a guy like Lux comes through tonight with a two for four performance, and
Miguel Rojas goes two for four and Calm b Show gets on base of a
bunt and then a base hit, he goes two for four, scores twice,
you gotta tip your cap. You gotta apploud those guys for doing their
job tonight, a combined six for twelve Rojas, Lucks and Bigho in the
seven to eight to nine spots for the Dodgers tonight and last night, Austin
Barnes. Austin Barnes a two out base hit in the fifth inning, turning
the lineup over to show Hey O Tani, who then hit that two run
home run for the Dodgers to give him a two to nothing lead last night.
Go to tonight, no Austin Barnes in the lineup, but the bottom
of the lineup comes through, gets on bas scores, runs. Top of
the lineup does what they're supposed to do, and the Dodgers pull away with
a seven to two victory over the Angels. It's simple. Sometimes do your
job, produce and get good pitching, and more times than not, you're
gonna win a baseball game. And tonight the Dodgers won their forty eighth of
this season, and now forty eight and thirty one overall eight six six nine
eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy Real
quick, I want to go back to Tyler Glass now before we get to
your phone calls, we' here from Jose motis a Jose Mota coming up at
the bottom of the hour. Tyler Glass now has been a guy who has
gotten hurt over his career. And Tyler Glass now has battled through an arm
injury a recovery from that twenty twenty two and he only made the two starts
came back last year after the arm surgery and put up his biggest numbers quantity
wise of his career, certainly not wins and losses. Well, it was
his biggest win. Ten wins was his biggest last year. Twenty one starts
he made last season in Tampa, most team made in a season in his
career. Twenty one starts when ten and seven three point fifty three rora,
and he pitched in one hundred and twenty innings. Okay, keep those numbers
in mind right here, all right. Twenty one starts one hundred and twenty
innings. Twenty one starts one hundred and twenty innings. Okay, you got
those in your mind right now. Last year, twenty one starts one hundred
and twenty innings, right now as we sit, not even at the halfway
point number wise of the season, not even at the All Star break,
but right now, Tyler glassnow, sixteen starts one hundred innings. Sixteen starts
one hundred innings. Remember those two numbers I just told you, Remember,
twenty one starts one hundred and twenty innings. He's five starts away for matching
what he did last year, which was a career high, and he's twenty
innings away. Do the math. That's probably what three starts away from tying
the career high and innings pitched with one hundred and twenty. What are the
Dodgers gonna do when they get to those marks? Are they gonna blow right
through it and have Tyler Glass now just keep pitching in August, in September
and get ready for some October baseball. I think it's something they've probably already
thought about. Believe it or not. They're pretty smart in the front office.
Believe it or not, They've probably already thought about this. They probably
already have mapped it out. There's probably a Google doc or a spreadsheet somewhere,
maybe on a floppy disk or a ZIP drive somewhere that's got this already
mapped out and scenarios laid out for what Tyler Glass now is doing. Twenty
one starts, twenty one starts last year, He's at sixteen already. He
could get to twenty one starts right after the All Star break, then you
got all of August, September, in October. It's just something to keep
in mind. And again, I'm sure they've mapped this out. Maybe he
gets skipped a couple of times in the rotation. I don't know, he's
pitched so well. Do you want to take him off his rhythm that he's
on right now, in the momentum that he's built. Maybe an extended break,
you know, a a soreness, a calf wink wink to the iel
for fifteen days is a break for him. Maybe you tied in with the
All Star break and he gets three weeks off with the All Star break and
then a two week eye els did I don't know. I'm not sure how
it works out, but I imagine the Dodgers' front office is seeing what I'm
seeing. Five starts away from a career high, twenty innings away from a
career high, and it's June twenty second. Dave Roberts was asked about it
in the pregame with the media and we had it for you on Dodgers on
Deck and said, yeah, they're looking at it, and they're gonna look
to get him, you know, some rest here and there. Not sure
what that means. Maybe skip some starts, Maybe go to a six man
rotation when they get healthy again here. Maybe he gets skipped in a turn.
I'm not sure, but it's just something to kind of keep an eye
on man. He's been so good, it's been really good, and they've
got an investment in him now for multi years. And this is a young
man who's just coming off a twenty twenty two year and which only made two
starts. Something to keep an eye on Tyler Glass now here in twenty twenty
four. You don't want to go to the well too soon. And when
you go to him in August is September, maybe he's hit a wall.
And I'm just saying, what apps right? What if he hits a wall?
What if he gets to a point where that body is not used to
getting to twenty five starts? Twenty seven starts? It happens. You can't
just all of a sudden wrap yourself back up one year and then take it
and splode through that number the next next years. It's a hard thing for
pitchers to kind of balance, and you have to be careful. You don't
want to taxi guy the first half of a season, the first four and
a half months of a season, because you have to keep in mind one
hundred and sixty two games. You got to keep in mind October. They're
counting on Tyler Glass now for October that's great what he's doing, one hundred
and thirty five punch outs. Love. It should be an all star season
for Tyler Glass now, absolutely, but I wanted for October. I don't
want him to be tapped out because he's already hit his innings and his starts
and he's gassed. So again, I'm sure they've thought about it. I'm
now thinking about it. Dave Roberts was asked about it in the pregame,
so certainly they're aware, but just making you Dodger fans aware, it's crazy
he's been I don't know how you throttle back, so to speak, a
starting pitcher to ease the innings and the starts. I'm not smarter. That's
why I'm not a GM. I'm clearly not smart enough to make those decisions.
That's somebody else's job. So I'm sure they thought about it and broken
down the scenarios and looked at the innings. And again, I talked about
this a couple of days ago on Dodger Talk. Going into seasons, every
player, especially pitchers, they've kind of have it mapped out. This is
what we project. Okay, we project this amount of starts, this mini
innings, this is what we see you doing. I mean, chin,
things change when guys get hurt. It's the part of the game. But
certainly going into a season, if you're healthy and injury free, this is
what we see you doing. And I imagine they knew that didn't get hurt.
He's gonna get to his max innings and his starts for his career pretty
quickly. And he's knocking on the door and getting to that number. Eight
six six nine, eight seven two five seventy. We'll take a quick break,
we'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls, Jose Mote as
we go to the top of the hour here on Dodger Talk. Eight six
six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight six six nine eighty seven two five
seventy Knights. Bounce back win for the Dodgers tonight. All around, great
offense, timely hitting show, Hey goes deep, Dodgers get a great performance
from Tyler Glass. Now the bullpen puts up zeros. Everything you want and
expect that the Dodgers, they did tonight and they get a seven to two
win over the Anaheim Angels. Your phone calls, Jose Motos. We continue
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the Angels. They have now won eleven of the last twelve. As they
get a seventy two win tonight in front of fifty three and seventy three,
Tyler Glass now gets the victory. Let's go out to the phones, Aiden
leaving Dodgers Stadium on this hot Saturday night, Aiden, and you enjoy the
game? Yeah, Tim, it was awesome, such a fun game.
The city connects new uniforms. They looked great. I thought, shout out
Bigo for laying that, butN down loved it. Phenomenal, great game,
great time. Yeah, no doubt about man. Drive to save home on
your way back, and I appreciate you checking in. It was a good
win for the Dodgers and Bigo throwing the butt down getting a base hit.
I mentioned seven eight nine hitters tonight combined for six hits and scored five of
the Dodgers' seven runs. Again, everything clicking for the Dodgers. Top of
the lineup with Otani driving in runs, hitting for power, bottom of the
lineup getting on base, set and the table, and Tyler glasnow absolutely fantastic.
Ten punchouts tonight, zero walks in a win over the Angels. He's
now eight and five on the season. Let's check in with Jose. It's
tough to go around the horn with Hosea Jose. I know, we talked
about Yamamoto a lot before the season started and the pickup of him and the
contract that he got as a young twenty five year old out of Japan,
and Tyler Glass now gets acquired, and yeah, he's a big time name,
hard high school. We know what he can do in Tampa and man,
he has lived up to his contract and his hype. I mean,
he has been fantastic, Hose, even through the no run support during May
and early June. Tonight ten more punch outs. Oh, there's no doubt
about it, Timo. We consider that who he was back in Tampa Bay,
who he was in Pittsburgh. Okay, a guy that was told more
to pigeon to contact with a high frame that he has in a large frame
of the extension. But let's talk about a guy that the Dodgers had scouted
it for a long time. Obviously a guy that the Dodgers know the injury
history, but also a guy that the Dodgers know in terms of pitch development
and pitching experience. There is way more than the tech, and there's still
more. He has proven to be a guy that can be dominant. But
also consider this, how in the world are you able to strike out double
digits. Guys come into this organization and be a target on you pretty much
in a bullseye, and his don't wack people. I mean, it is
amazing to me somebody who throws this hard you can manipulate the striking as well
as he does. And you mentioned Yamamoto who does it so well too.
But this is all based on philosophy and I'm belief and I'm making sure that
in that pitching lab you understand what they're explaining to you. Because when hitters
want to jump a Birdie, for example, because he throws a lot of
strikes, well that is a definition TOI of quality strikes. Quality strikes are
ones in which you think a hitter might be looking into his zone, You
look at his hot zone, and that you locate exactly where he is,
and when he's trying to jump in you eardy and that induces weak context or
swings and missus. This guy is not just to throw. This guy can
really pitch. I brought up the numbers just a few minutes ago for Tyler
Glass. Now, last year he came back off the arm surgery, twenty
one starts, one hundred and twenty innings. Already this year, Jose,
and we haven't even gotten to the halfway point of one hundred and sixty two
games. We haven't even gotten to the All Star break. He's already at
one hundred innings and he's at sixteen starts again, twenty one starts last year,
one hundred and twenty eight. He's going to blow past those numbers either
before the All Star break or right after the All Star break. What do
you do with Tyler Glass now, knowing that you need him for October,
but you can't run him out there for thirty starts before the postseason, can
you? Well? Yeah, the thing is you also don't want him to
get rusty and keep him on his groove. Here the dollars through the years
Historic can have done a fantastic job and finding a way to get these guys
fore they need to be. And I know the last two octobers things have
not gone well. When you have been planning and mapping out the rotation,
there have been a lot of question marks. But this is a guy that
he's a big boy. Okay, he's a big boy who's going to pay
a lot of money, and I think you understand the responsibility along with that
now. Because he's a guy that is so reputable mechanics and you don't see
him one hundred and twenty pitches, He's going to be more manageable than other
guys have been in that Situashington, because number one, you have the option
now of guys that are coming back to the rotation to where you don't have
to expose him every five days. The Valuis have done a very nice job
with him in getting him some extra day. But I do see the concern
because truthfully, there is an injury history there too. What I would say
is with a guy like talent Glass, now, his ability to keep him
manageable pretty much is all you want. But I think that the most important
thing is to keep him in a group and manage how you can handle him
getting a little blow here and there, a little rest so you know,
through the years we've seen that happen. Let's go back to last year and
the same question was brought up with Bobby Miller when he blew through whatever innings
he had pitched ever before in the minors, and they happen to find a
way to get it ready. And even though he didn't pitch, you know
good and I've told but there's gonna be a way because there's depth and there's
many things. What I really hope doesn't happen is that he's with injury and
then you're forced to do it. But he he done tried, the way
he takes care of his body and the way he pitches, mechanics and all
that to perhaps below pass. But you want to be very careful because the
most importantings are the cover. In October, Dodgers head to Chicago for the
first leg of this six game road trip. Are you a deep dish Chicago
style pizza guy, I'm not. I don't like the thick pizza. I
don't. I don't like that stuff. Come on, I like it too
much dough, too much bread. I don't like that. Well, instead
of eating five you eat three pieces? How about that? Absolutely? Do
you like the Chicago pizzas? What's your go to in Chicago? Eh?
I do. Uh. It's a place called like a local place called Super
Rosa that I really like. Obviously, you have the Dinos and Gino's the
East and all that kind of stuff. But you can't go wrong with that
tip. You got to come to Chicago and just you know, Joe the
scene and go deep dish. I mean, you can only do in Chicago,
get the real stuff. So I want to get your cast that thought.
All right, sounds good. Jose safe travels and we'll talk to you
a couple of days. Oh my friend. All right, there he goes
Jose Mona joining us here on postgame Dodger Talk. Is the Dodgers get the
seven to two win over the Ange. Tyler Glass now gets the victory.
Gavin lux too for for a home run show, hell Tani hits a bomb
into the right center field pavilion at number twenty three on this season, Let's
go to Brad and mission Viejo. What's going on? Brad? Always better
when the Dodgers win the world is right? Yeah, thanks for taking my
call? Question on Glass? Now, yeah, he pitched the through the
seventh to nine and he actually you know, the first run came in on
that. You know that interference on Will Smith, you catch your interference And
it was encouraging to see him even though he give up the home run to
a Hoppy late in the game. In the struggles when he wasn't getting run
support, he would give up a really early home run, like with the
Padres and with Pittsburgh and with Cincinnati. So even though you know he didn't
give up a home run in the last start against the Rangers, I mean
against Kansas City, so it's encouraging to see that he's not gonna get hit
hard that way most of the time. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt
appreciated, Brad. Thanks for checking in here on postgame Dodger Talk. I
thought he pitched really well tonight, as Dave Roberts alluded to in his postgame
comments that you heard on the Clubout Show, they could have left him out
there. I mean, he's had seventy four pitches seven innings. I mean,
the only thing that he really gave up was that solo home run to
a Hoppy in the seventh inning, and that was a home run with two
outs, and he challenged o Hoopy and o'hopy hit up fastball outside part of
the plate. When you throw ninety eight and you could turn that around and
hit a home run, exit velocity's going to be high. On a ninety
eight mile hour fastball, because you're generating a lot of the power as well
on the pitch. And that ball got out for a home run, you
tip your cap. You got a seven to one lead, and you're challenging
the hitter. He challenged a lot of those Angels hitters. Taylor Ward comes
to mind, Ohopy earlier, and he was throwing ninety seven mile an hour
fastballs on the outside part of the plates for strike three and they were taking
them. He was challenging, hey, I'm going to throw it out there
if you can turn around and hit it more to you, and they weren't
even swinging on some of those pitches. He had ten punch outs tonight,
as you alluded to the catcher's interference. That run came around in the fourth
inning, and then the solo home run with two outs of the seventh.
That was it. Two hits against Tyler Glass. Now that was all that
the Angels had coming up. In a couple of minutes. We'll get you
an update on Clayton Kershaw. Is it a setback? I don't think necessarily
yet we'll call it that, but maybe a roadblock or a roadbump here in
the road for Clayton Kershaw. We'll get to that in a second. Lewis
and El Serrito, what's going on? How you doing tonight? Hey,
Tim? Go ahead, Lewis, Lewis you there? I think we lost
Lewis it took us off a speakerphone or something. Lewis, you took us
off a speakerphone or I'm gonna go ahead and put you back on hold.
Buddy, I appreciate it, but wait a lot of times I'll make sure
we get to you and be fair to you for that. But yeah,
it's it's a good win for the Dodgers to night, to bounce back,
get the offense. And you look at what they did collectively tonight. The
bottom of the lineup came through. It wasn't reliant just on the top four
hitters in the Dodgers lineup, which we've seen in some cases. And that's
you know, quite all right. There are games in which the top of
the lineup, the big bopper, so to speak, the Otani Smith,
Freeman's they got to do the job. And tonight Will Smith oh for three
with a basis loaded walk, he got an RBI on struck out a couple
of times. Freddie Freeman was one for three. Ta Oscar Hernandez was zero
for four but hit the ball hard. Show Hey Otani came through with the
home run, was on base a couple of times. The bottom of the
lineup turned the lineup over, did a really good job getting six of the
Dodgers nine hits, and it's tonight one of those collective units offensively it took
for the Dodgers to get this win. Behind Tyler Glass now on the mound
in the seventies, real quickly. Michael Peterson, he's a thirty year old
rookie. And Tim Neverett, by the way, had a great story about
him and his background being from England, pitching for Team Britain, Team Great
Britain in the World Baseball Classic, going to Riverside Community College, pitching in
an over thirty men's league in Las Vegas every weekend when he was not cleared
to play in red shirting here in southern California. A great story. Finally
makes it, gets drafted and makes his way up and gets promoted by the
Dodgers last week and makes his debut and gets the win, pitching two winnings
on Tuesday at Corus Field, and then comes in tonight in his second appearance
in the big leagues. It has a one two, three ninth inning,
big guy, big physical six' seven right hander who could throw it up
there. It looks like in the upper nineties now, a little bit of
control issues maybe leading into this. I'm not really sure why he's taking this
guy so long to get to the big leagues, because at his first two
appearances he's looked really good. Looks really good for the Dodgers. Maybe they've
tapped into something here with this thirty year old rookie who could be a nice,
pleasant surprise for the Dodgers at the back end of the bullpen. Especially
with the length of this season. It's not gonna be one or two guys
all season long. I mean, I'm looking at my injured list right now
on our board here, and I mean there's like a handful of Dodger relievers
still on the injured list. Kyle hurt got sitting down to triple a's.
He's making his way back, you know, Joe Kelly, Bruce, dar
Gradol, I mean, Ryan Brasier. The Dodgers gonna need all hands to
help out over the course of one to sixty two and Michael Peterson just one
of those guys. The time is now. They need him right now to
help in the back end of the bullpen. Maybe in a long situation,
blowout situation. He gets to win against the Rockies on Tuesday, comes in
tonight in a seven to two game to get the final three outs, and
he does what he's supposed to do. You know, the last thing you
want to see is him to go out there and give up two or three
runs. The next thing, you know, it's a seven to five game
and they got to go to Evan Phillips, or it's a seven to five
game and you got to go to Blake Trining, one of your high leverage
relievers, and what should have been a blowout win and get an opportunity for
Michael Peterson. But that's exactly what happened. He comes out there, Peterson
does his job. I like what I've seen from the thirty year old six
seven rookie. I like to see a little bit more of that. All
right, go back to Lewis and Elsa Rino looks like, we fix your
phone issue. Lewis, go ahead, thanks so much. Sadly, I
think it was my two things A I agree with you about the Google document.
They have it all mapped out. This excitement about oh are they can
go to a six man rotation? You know when we can go to six
men rotation is frankly bs. They have it mapped out. They pulled people
in when they meet him. Kyle Hurd, as you pointed out, just
came back off the sixty day. He'll get a couple starts in Oklahoma City
and at some point you'll see him. I think klas Now was amazing tonight.
He's really been good all year, and I think the Dodger knowledge,
the fact that he was misdiagnosed with an injury, they know what to do
with him to keep him sharp, because I think somebody like him, you
have to keep sharp and he'll go over his innings limit. And that's good.
I mean, And I guess I really like the depth of the team
going forward, the depth of the pitching. I think they finally have learned
their lesson, so all of the Gavin Crochet people, it's not going to
happen. And again, I'm quietly confident about the team, and I do
like show heo Tani leading off, I have to say, I have to
say, do you think they will change. What's your thought on that.
I don't know. I think they'll go back to Obviously, Ivy Mookie has
the lead off better. I appreciate the phone callers, but you're right about
the pitching. You know. I'd love to see another arm added to this
roster, especially in the rotation, because I'd like to go to October with
a lot of proven arms. Not to say that these young guys likes the
Stones of the World and Bobby Miller's aren't going to be guys that can contribute
on October, because I think they're absolutely going to be. But you could
never have too much experience, you could have never have too much arms,
quality arms, I should say, in your rotation and in postseason baseball come
October, you just can't. You can never have too much. So if
they can go out and get another arm, especially a starter, look out
and then looking getting these relievers like Joe Kelly and Bruce Dark gratteral back will
still be nice and who knows, Dustin may maybe even at some point in
the second half of this season. Here's the name to keep an eye on,
and I don't know if we'll see him unless it's at of necessity.
His name is Justin Robleski. He's a twenty three year old left hander.
He was the Dodgers eleventh round pick in twenty twenty one out of Oakla,
home of state. Six to one left hander throws gas. The guy pumps
gas. The guy can strike out anybody. He has risen through the ranks
in the Dodgers minor leagues. A year ago he was at Great Lakes in
High A ball. This year he started the year in Tulsa and made thirteen
starts, had sixty two strikeouts in sixty seven innings. He's been promoted to
Triple A Oklahoma City. He got the start tonight, he got the loss.
He went five innings, struck out eleven, walked one. Now aget
you can't look at when loss record necessarily in Triple A. Sometimes he came
and look at the era because they played altitude in some of these spots,
and the ball travels like an albuquerkie. The ball flies. But keep an
eye on Justin Robleski, a hard throwing left hander, a starter. He's
in Triple A now. Eleven punchouts and his first start in Triple A tonight
for all Oklahoma City. If we get to the second half of the season
and the Dodgers need a starter, don't think they won't make the possibility of
Justin Robleski an option there. Last year they rent and got a Kyle Hurt.
Last year they went and got and him A Sheehan out of Double A
Tulsa. They went and got a Bobby Miller who was sort of in the
same boat Double A, Triple A, and they brought him right up to
help out because they needed arms because of injuries. Now, knock on Wooden,
the Dodgers don't hit by the injury bug. But I'm just keeping an
eye out and I'm just bringing this name up to you now, Dodger fans
here on June twenty second. Justin Robleski twenty three year old left hander out
of Oklahoma State, a couple of years ago, eleventh round pick. He's
in Triple A now, hard throwing left hander could be an option for the
Dodgers if they need somebody in the second half of the season. I don't
think he's quite ready yet, but after the All Star break, give him
some more starts in Triple A, get him some more seasoning, so to
speak. I think he'll be a guy that Dodgers could possibly bring up if
need be in the second half of the season. I told you I give
you a Clayton Kershaw update. I also give you a Max Unsey update and
Dustin May and Bruce ar Gradero update. We'll start with Dustin May and Bruce
dark Graderol. They are throwing bullpens just according to Dave Roberts today, and
he said their sessions are quote promising, and he still expects Dustin May and
Bruce dark Graderole to help this team at some point this year. But clearly
no timeline for either Dustin May or Bruce Dark Graderol right now. But Dustin
May Bruce dark Graderol according to Dave Roberts, he still expects both of them
to be a part of this team at some point. Okay, Max Munsey,
according to Dave Roberts, still not swinging a bat. He is taking
ground balls. David Vasse has seen him in pregame taking ground balls. He's
been at Camelback Ranch working out. His return remains TBD. And the problem
is it wasn't just a small little bleaque injury. Apparently it was a big
o'blique injury. Wasn't just an isolated the spot they can work on. Apparently
it was a bigger injury than they thought, and it's been a nagging injury
and slow to heal, and he's certainly been frustrated. He told David Vassay
that on the pregame show last week. But Max Munsey baseball activities but not
swinging to bat yet. So it kind of feels like the timetable for Max
Munsey is clearly post All Star break, and who knows even after that when
he returns now then you get Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw through a bullpen session
today but reported some feeling of soreness in his shoulder. This according to Dave
Roberts, the Dodgers are now going to monitor him in the next couple of
days, and Dave Roberts said said it's possible that his next rehab auti,
which is scheduled for Tuesday in Oklahoma City with the Dodgers triple A of Philly,
it could be pushed back now. David Vassay talked about it with us
here on Dodgers on Deck in the pregame show. He said, the level
of concern isn't great right now, because this could be part of the process
of coming back from an arm injury. In this case, it's a shoulder
injury and surgery. You build up calcium, you build up stuff around the
surgery, and it soar and you have to work through that soreness. It's
part of if you have a knee injury, you know this, you know
the Weekend Warrior. If you have an ankle injury, a knee injury,
the calcium build up around it, the scar tissue, that's the better thing.
The scar tissue that builds up from an injury. And you rehab and
you strengthen the ankle or the leg or a calf, or an arm or
a hand or a shoulder. The tightness is gonna be there, but you
have to work through it. And I think, based on what I'm seeing
in David Vassay's comments in the pregame show, sort of feels like that could
be what he's doing experience. Let's hope and that they'll monitor him and if
they need to push back his second start, which he made his first one
for the Ranchel Cukamunga quakes earlier this week, then so be it. But
I don't think it's necessarily a roadblock right now, maybe just a little bit
of a hurdle, a speed bumpoy, so to speak, for Clayton Kershaw
as he makes his way back from shoulder surgery this past offseason. So a
little bit of soreness that's expected, and you're coming back from an injury.
So hopefully he just gets through it. It's not soaring the next couple days
and he can go back out there on Tuesday for Oklahoma cite all right,
that's gonna do it for a postgame Dodger Talking extended version tonight, Happy birthday
to my guy, Colin Yee. Check him out on Twitter, Colin ye
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One of the good guys out there in a world with bad people. He's
one of the good guys. We're in a Beach Boys sweater tonight. How
about that. He's an old soul and a young body. Colin ye ten
on Twitter X give him a follow, give him a happy birthday, shout
out, a special shout out on this Saturday, and he's got an hour
left of his birthday. I think he turned what twenty two today? Pretty
close to that, all right, Thanks to Colin, Thanks to you for
being a part of the show, Thanks for listening, thanks for podcasting.
We'll be back on Monday, David A bad Sale'll be back with all the
postgame festivities ends from Chicago. Well I'm Wrongo Casino, Dodgers on deck on
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So on, everybody,