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spent their Memorial Day in the rain. Hopefully the taste of defeat washed away,
and now they can start anew in the Big Apple, a three game
series against the New York Mets. It's a doubleheader from City Field, Tyler
Glass. Now we'll get the start in game one, Gavin Stone. We'll
get the start in game two. Game one coming up at one ten pm.
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throughout the show. Shortly we'll hear from Kirsten Watson and in just a few
minutes we'll head out to New York at the Galpamotors Broadcast booth and hear from
Rick Monday and Tim Neffett Well. Sunday in Cincinnati, more of the same
from the Dodgers offense, not much as they lost to the Reds. Yoshiyamamoto
got the start. The right hander would go five Indians, giving him four
runs on six hits while striking out eight along the way. Yamamoto was good
early, but he ran into trouble the second time through the Reds lineup.
In the bottom of the third, he loaded the bases with two outs,
looked like he was about to get out of it with two strikes on Jonathan
India two to one pitch, India bounces it through the right side of base
hit day La Cruz will score. Here comes Steer right behind him. It's
at two runs single for Jonathan India and the Reds for the third straight game.
Score first. It's two nothing, Thank you India. Jonathan India with
the two run single as the Reds took the two to nothing the leading and
they weren't done. The very next batter, Nick Martini hits, a flare
out behind second base that scored too. The Reds, with four runs off
of Yamamamoto in the third, take a four to nothing lead. Yamamoto would
go the five innings, give up just those four runs on six hits while
striking out eight. Meanwhile, the Dodgers offense had only five hits in the
entire game. They struggled again with runners in scoring position, one for eight
on the day. In this series against Cincinnati, the Dodgers hit one thirty
eight. There were four for twenty nine with runners in scoring position. Getting
guys on not a problem, Driving them in was a problem. The top
of the Dodgers lineup doing all the work with all five hits in Sunday's game.
Freddie Freeman. He drove in the loan run the pitch man. Freddy
lines at the left center field that ball is gonna get down, passed a
diving Fairchild around third. Is Otani coming to second base, and then Stanley
with an RBI double. Is Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers are on the board
here in the ninth in I think it's four to one. You want don't
go away, Freddy Freeman the RBI double, his fifteenth double of the year,
RBI number thirty. Unfortunately, the Dodgers get no more. They would
threaten in the ninth inning, but Red's go on and win at four to
one. Dodgers get swept out of Cincinnati. They've now lost five in a
row. They're thirty three and twenty two on the season. They had rain
in Cincinnati on Sunday that was an hour delay, and yesterday rained out in
New York City as the storm came through New York. And the Dodgers today
playing a doubleheader, and then they'll play the finale of this three game series
tomorrow from City Field. Game one starter Tyler Glass Now with more, let's
head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth at City Field and say hello to
Rick Monday and Tim Neffertt. Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Ken confirm the weather today much better than the weather yesterday. And due to
the forecast yesterday on the Memorial Day holiday, no game here in New York
postponed to today in a traditional double header, as the Dodgers will take on
the New York Mets in the first of a three game set that'll be abbreviated
to just two days. Tyler Glass now will get the start here Game one,
coming up against Tyler McGill, and then in Game two it'll be the
veteran Jose Kintana opposite Dodger right handed Gavin Stone. So maybe the day off
could be a good thing considering the way the Dodgers have been playing. The
offense has not been where they needed to be. They've lost five straight for
the first time since April of twenty nineteen, trying to get back their winning
ways, and maybe perhaps a double header can put them in the right order
well, maybe be able to zero the odometer. Dave Roberts talking about it
a little bit earlier as well, I mean you start to look, the
offense has really struggled. It has sputtered the top of the order between bats
and Otani. You know, the averages are there. Otani the last ten
games is hitting two eleven and that's not bad. But the Dodgers in the
bottom third of this lineup still really have continued to struggle. And for Dave
Roberts, trying to find some type of a combination. And today it's going
to be Chris Taylor starts at third base. He'll bat seven. Jason Hayward
to get in right field, batting eighth, and Andy Payaz will beat in
the nine spot. He will play in center field. Gavin Lux beginning to
swing the bat a little bit better, as the average up now above the
Mendoza line, and hopefully that's a sign of some very good things to come,
and the offense hopes to click. With sho Hey o Tani in the
lineup for game one, he will not be in the lineup for Game two.
Dave Roberts a short time ago saying that they will give show Hey the
night cap off, and it looks like McGill Rojas will be at second base
in the second game. But there's a first game of this ball game or
this afternoon be able to win and the Dodgers, you begin to start to
analyze from an offensive standpoint. Since the tenth of May, the Dodgers offensively
are twenty ninth in batting average. To put it in perspective about Hey need
to do some things. Oddly enough, it's been primarily against the fastball that
the Dodgers have not really had a lot of success with, not the breaking
stuff, not the off speed stuff. It's been the heater. So the
fastball has been the problem. At least that's what the Dodgers have identified at
this point in time. We'll see if that gets corrected here today and maybe
the day off. It's everybody in a better frame of mind. The Dodgers
come into the game five games up on the Giants and the Padres with a
record of thirty three and twenty two eleven over five hundred. The Mets,
meantime, struggling at twenty two and thirty and the Mets in the East are
in second to last place fourth, fourteen and a half behind the leaders,
the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies looking now like they might start to run away
with the Eastern Division. So game one we'll see Toyler McGill out of Los
Alamitos High School pitching for the Mets and Tyler glasnow from Hard High School in
Santa Clarita, pitching for the Dodgers. That game's coming up. And then
in Game two, it'll be Hose Kintana against Gavin Stone. We've got a
double dip from New York coming your way. Tim All right, thank you,
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Y'all on the official home of LA Dodgers Baseball, Dodgers and Mets. Game
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Game one is that one ten? This is the rewind to one pitch?
Why that is ripped so hard? It went off the well? But Spencer
steer the first basement. I mean you want to talk about a missile hit
down to first, an absolute rocket off the bat of Otani's Spencer. Steeer
was right there, but it went off of his glove. Look an initial
thought like it went through it and Steer check the glove just to make sure
did it go through or off the glove? One hundred and thirteen miles an
hour off the bat of show Hey Otani. A hit for Otani, one
of only five Dodger hits on Sunday. He would score the only Dodger run
of the game. Showy Otani. Now hitting three thirty six on the season.
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from City Field. It's a doubleheader today. Here's a no game yesterday,
an extra day of rest for a Dodgers team that has lost five in a
row. All right, we're gonna play eighteen innings back to back here,
what's the plan? According to Dave Roberts, Yeah, so game one lineup
is out, as you saw, So Tyler Glass now is gonna take the
mound for this one. Of course, the hope is for him to go
deep help protect the bullpen, but the bullpen isn't a really good spot just
having the off day yesterday, and then even the high leverage arms they didn't
get into the game on Sunday, So he feels like everyone's in a good
spot regarding that. So it's your usual top of the order for Game one,
and then you've got Chris Taylor who's gonna be at third. But in
Game two, Dave said that Shoho Tani is going to be down. He's
still kind of nursing that hamstring bruise. He told us yesterday that he is
feeling a lot better, but Dave just wanted to be mindful of that kind
of get hot, cool down, get hot again. He said, it
just doesn't necessarily make sense. So he is going to truly be off in
that second game, and then you'll see a little bit of differences in the
infield, like Miguel Rojas will play at second He said he was still deciding
exactly what the outfield is gonna look like, but so yeah, just kind
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this is a big guy who's trying to get back on track after his
last two starts, things have gotten away from a little bit. Yeah,
you know, if you look at his last two if that first one of
the two, he talked about how just things were out of sync. He
just he didn't really have the feel for his pitches and it just wasn't kind
of he wasn't executing them how he wanted to. And the last outing he
said that he felt a lot better. He just felt like that fifth inning
kind of got ahead of him, and that's where we saw the runs pick
up and things like that. So when Dave was talking about him today,
he was saying, Tyler glassnow is such an individual who truly has to be
in sync to kind of feel his best on the mount, to get the
results, to get that swing and miss, and so the last few he
hasn't necessarily felt that. But it's somewhat considering he is so tall, you
know what, he's six seven, right. You know, I'm very tall
up here as well. We we're lengthy individuals. Sometimes it's a little hard
for us to you know, get everything going when we need to. So
it's just a matter of when he feels that kind of his levers are moving
the way he needs them to and wants them too, that he's in sync.
So that's really the focus for him. But Dave dees feel like from
what he's been seeing from bullpit and stuff, he should be in a good
spot today. Let's hope he can get back on track in this Dodgers' offense
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let's head back out to New York and check out 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. I know you've talked
about just the offense and right now kind of what's been missing has been attacking
that fastball. What THO was kind of just the first step and whether it's
making some adjustments or just seeing your offense get back on track. I think
that's the first part of it. You know, this McGill, it's a
it's a it's a lively fastball. He's gonna throw a ton of fastballs at
us, and I think for me, it's almost like the Barry Bonds approach
of taking a picture's number one pitch away from him. And he's going to
challenge us with the heater, so we'll see how we respond and mixing his
secondary and then Q Quintana is a different type pitcher with a sinkerballer, uh,
you know, command kind of mix and match. But this is going
to be an interesting test for us. So this first one doubleheader, good,
bad, or indifferent for a slumping offense. I'll tell you after tonight.
But my expectation is good. If so doesn't say to assume he wouldn't
pinsh it as well, Yeah, he'll be down. He'll be down,
you know, because then it sort of defeats the purpose to get him ready
crank back up. So yep, does the all with that? With that,
Yeah, he's on board with whatever I think is best for the team,
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DV. Hopefully a day off yesterday with the rain in New York will
jump start this Dog offense, which is right now in a serious rut.
Yes, and their personalities are in the same rut. A lot of these
offensive position players have not been in a great mood because the light has been
shown on them that they have not been very good, not only just the
last three games, but this goes back ten to fifteen games where the Dodger
offense is only scoring about three runs per game, and it is now very
much out in the open that they have not been good against fastballs. And
after the Dodgers were swept in Cincinnati, Gavin Lux answered the questions, Yeah,
yeah, I mean as a team, I don't think we're hitting the
fast fall very well right now. You can look up to advanced stats and
no secret, but yeah, it's just I think it's part of baseball.
It's still a really good group, really good lineup, and it's just one
of those runs where we're just not really clicking, not getting hits and scoring
position kind of you know us. So it's just a long season. It's
one of those runs. And you know, it's a really good lineup,
so we we know it's gonna flip. Could just kinda make it happen,
really, Tim, The only two Dodgers that are hitting is Mookie Betts and
Taoscar Hernandez, so they need a lot more and especially more from their seven
eight to nine hitters. They ranked last in all of Major League baseball,
hitting just under one ninety with an on base percentage just over two hundred.
It's the worst in baseball. That includes the Marlins, the Rockies, the
Oakland A's, the Dodgers, seven eight and nine hitters the worst in baseball.
David on Sunday in Cincinnati, eighth inning, Johann Ramirez was out there
on the mound. He got two quick gallets and then he gave up a
single, and then he hit back to back batters and he started thinking,
oh no, Friday night, he couldn't get out of the inning and out
of his own way. And Dave Roberts did something very interesting. He ran
out to the mount almost didn't take him out of the game, but encouraged
him. Yeah, on Friday night in Cincinnati, the Wheels came off with
two outs in the fifth inning. That's when the red scored six runs and
it felt like again things were going to unravel in a three to one game,
and David Bell was starting to get heated that two of those hitters,
those Reds hitters were hit by a pitch, and we all know David Bell's
temper. Temper tantrums came spiral out of control and the Reds were starting to
get upset because really, the rule in Major League baseball is if you can't
command the fastball inside and you start hitting guys, then you shouldn't pitch there.
So Dave Roberts saw the entire situation unfolding, and he decided to do
something that you'd rarely see from a major league manager and go out there.
And the way Dave described it was love on him. You know, it
was, you know, on the heels of the other night and had trub
having trouble, you know, commanding the baseball and the result of the other
night, and you know, he's emotional and he cares, and he's trying
to impress with the new ball club. And I saw some of the same
things happening, you know, tonight today, and so I wanted to kind
of cut it off before it kind of really spun out. And I just
tried to reassure him and give him some confidence and love love on him a
little bit and try to give him take a little bit of pressure off him.
So I'm happy to see that he went back in there and threw a
strike and got out of it. But you know, you've got to,
I mean, you know, trying to do everything I can to kind of,
you know, show him we care and give him some confidence. And
Johann Ramirez still on the Dodger roster, maybe not until Friday. That's when
Evan Phillips is supposed to be activated. If all goes well, and as
far as the Dodger bullpen goes, they have added a reliever to be their
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Rick, it's a beautiful day here in Queens to play too. Hope
you stayed dry. Yesterday stayed dry and it was like running an obstacle course,
trying to go in between the rain drops, and we took the subway
back. I know that you did also a little bit later on. By
the way, we did not abandon you. We had no idea where you
were, because David Masse is so well connected folks that he's in the locker
room, he's on the field, he's in the tunnel, he's I mean,
you're all over the place, David. Yeah, you're right. I'm
a man on an island for sure. But I'm glad you got back to
the hotel looking for friends. That's what it is, exactly right. But
the seventh train certainly is a great experience. Have you ever come to a
game here? Oh, it's an experience, all right? Did you when
you played in New York? Would you stay in the team bus or would
you ever would you ever take the train to Yankee Stadium? No? No,
Now, you did not want to be bus Okay, gotcha? No,
only because there's a lot of fans here and you don't you don't need
to be accosted or you know, it's one of those things. How about
this doubleheader today, Rick, who do you believe it? Which team has
the advantage do the Dodgers have the advantage getting a day off kind of resetting
after a poor series. Well, I don't know about an advantage, but
I think it's an opportunity, an opportunity to reset. And those of us
have been watching this and listening to it, understand the Dodgers. They had
been very inconsistent from really top to bottom, and the bottom third of the
order in particular has combined. You look at the totality of the season when
you go seven, eight to nine combined, just a one to eighty five
banning average. That cannot continue. But what are the options at this particular
point. Max Munsey is not back in the lineup. That's another wrung of
the ladder, if you will, talking about the depth overall, But you
start to look at the lineup today and the bottom is going to be Chris
Taylor at third base, Jason Hayward just off the injured list, he's back
in there again in right field, and Andy Pies in center field. And
Pies has really kind of struggled oddly enough with the fast ball, and that's
kind of the story with the Dodgers. Now. I looked at some numbers
of piz the other day and the fastball was giving him problem as well.
But if you look at this Dodger club as a team, really, since
the tenth of May, mysteriously enough, the fastball has been rather elusive to
this Dodger bats. So that's a big, big question mark that I have
offensively. After that final game in Cincinnati, I presented that fact to Gavin
Lux and Freddie Freeman, and they both told me the staff has made the
hitters aware that they have not been good against fastballs. Yeah, they knew
that. They didn't have to see it in APPRNTA. I've got to ask
you on the speaker caper in Cincinnati. Yes, I know you were doing
from the dugouts some of the TV work that was down there. You talked
about, Hey, you discovered that the Cincinnati Reds had brilliantly put down an
extra speaker to play the walk up music for the Cincinnati Reds players when they
would come to home plate didn't hit. But here's the catch. They didn't
put it in their own dugout, which would have been about fifteen feet to
twenty feet away from they're on deck circle, so their players could have heard
the walk up music on this additional speaker. They put it in the visiting
doug outside. You brought it the attention of some people, but to no
avail. That's right, Mark Pryor, the Dodgers pitching coach told the security
guard position right by the Dodger dugout to tell them to turn it off,
and the guy who radioed up to the booth and said, hey, they
wanted off, and in another series against another team, they did oblige,
but they only obliged for an inning and a half before they not only continue
to play walk up music, but also other effects of music, and they
even turned up the speakers. So Mark Pryor is very close to pulling the
plug on that speaker. You know, you can get your attention if you
tell the umpires and say, if you don't unplug it, we're not taking
the field exactly. And even some of the umpires I've heard in other series
of Great American Ballpark have told them to cut it out. So it never
got to that point. But obviously the Rets knew what they were doing by
not putting a speaker in their own home Dugout. Well, speaking of umpires,
did you see it? Angel Hernandez has now officially announced his retirement as
a major league umpire. They worked this first major league game nineteen ninety one,
full time, hired in nineteen ninety three. And if you know,
everyone that I talk with that knows Angel Hernandez personally and has worked with him,
had been around with a lovely man. You ask some of the people
once he takes the field in his has been a little mysterious at times,
but he I'm in full service for Angel Hernanez and we wish it well in
retirement, no doubt. But when you know an umpire's name as well as
you know a player's name, means something's off well, And even I don't
want to point it out to a point of something distracting towards Angel Hernanez.
But you know we're in different ballparks when his name, his name is announce.
You hear people boom. Well, you never get booed Rick, You're
celebrated every day in this booth. Want to send it back to you back
in La Tim Kats, All right, thanks a lot, David say.
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it's been cool. It's been a unique experience and you only get to,
you know, do it for the first time once. So it's been it's
been great. Yeah. I've been around Kershaw a lot since the book came
out, and he really hasn't talked about it too much. What's has been
what's been his reaction to the finished product? Yeah, he's selling that meat
package. Yeah, what's going on in her shot beef? But no talk
about the book, right, He's a left. He's not trying to be
Nolan Ryan. I don't get it. You know, Clayton has been,
I think, very gracious about what for him. I don't just assume he
said is kind of a strange experience, right, Like, he didn't ask
for this book to be written. He was very cooperative and generous this time
with his time during the process, but it wasn't something that he was necessarily
like looking forward to, and you know, he had when we've spoken about
it, he says he hasn't read it, which is totally fine. I
think it would be very strange to write a or to read a four hundred
page book about yourself, you know. But he's been, yeah, very
gracious and polite, and you know, has told me like he hopes the
thing does well and passes along when people tell him they like it, and
so. But yeah, it sounds like he's more probably focused on what's more
important, which is spending time with his family, getting his shoulder right and
you know, selling that beef package. Yeah, no doubt beef and getting
that shoulder right. He feels like it's starting to come around. Did you
do you believe that he expected to be a Dodger this season. I think
it was definitely up in the air, you know, coming into the offseason,
and kind of wrote about this in the last chapter of the book that
he was more open to going to Texas and probably he ever had been,
and the way it worked out with Texas's finances, they weren't particularly aggressive and
going after him, and the Dodgers, you know, were probably more patient
in terms of letting him figure out what it was it was important to him,
and it worked out that, you know, they were able to get
him on a pretty decent guarantee for this year with a player option for next
season, which was very important because I think one of the things that you
know, he expressed to me that he really wanted was not just to make
come back for twenty twenty four, you know, come back mid season coming
off surgery. He wanted to if he was gonna keep going to at least
do another full season, or he had a full offseason where he could come
in sort of normal and healthy and you know, been twenty twenty five,
which could be you know, theoretically could be a Swan song. Who can
say, but the Dodgers willingness who divide that player option, I think really
helped. Andy McCullough is our guest, and speaking of the time that you
did cover the Dodgers, they not only had their best players be leaders,
whether that was Justin Turner or even Chase Suttley. David Freeze back in eighteen
and nineteen obviously set a lot of the tone and led. Do you believe
this Dodger team is missing that their two best players are not really vocal leaders.
Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, as someone who's not
around every day, it's harder for me to say. And I think that
it's something that you know, we'll know more as this year goes along.
I mean, Dave Roberts has always talked about how it's important to have your
best players be leaders. You know, that makes everyone's job easier when it's
Clayton Kershaw and Justin Turner and ken Lee Janssen providing those sort of examples.
But like Kershaw was never a particularly vocal sort of guy. I mean Justin
Turner, you know, I mean, maybe ken Lee was the most vocal
of those three, but like Turner was not a big raw ra speech sort
of guy. Utly certainly wasn't. I think it is interesting, you know,
it's it's a challenge for someone like Otani to be the leader given that
one like he doesn't you know, English isn't his native language, and so
there's challenges there. He's had obviously a you know, tumultuous start to his
Dodgers career with the scandal, and you know, I was thinking more Mookie
and Freddy and that's not them. Yeah, I guess the issue with Mooki
and Freddy is is it leadership or is it just like get a hit in
the playoffs a little bit about right, Like, like would anyone you know,
would it be an issue if they hit three hundred in the postseason?
Probably not. Now how much does that affect, you know, the vibes
and all that stuff coming in? I don't know. I just think so
much of what has been rendered a judgment about this team is just based on
the fact that those two guys didn't really play well in the postseason the last
couple of years, which, like, you know, it goes on their
record for it. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's
it is definitely easier for a manager, for a team, for a clubhouse
when the best players set the example for sure, all Right, Andy thanks
a lot for the insight. I don't buy everything you just said, but
I did buy your book for other people in my family, trying to help
the McCullough household. There last of his kind, the biography of Clayton Kerrshot's
a great book. Find it now. Thanks a lot for the time.
My insight is worth what I charge for it. But the book is on
discount at ashet dot com. Okay, that's enough, we'll send it back
to you in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks a lot of
dv Thank you, Andy. It's a great book. By the way.
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for season now in the Big League's making his third start this year. He
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now. Last time out, five innings, three runs, four hits,
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back out to the booth Thrick and Tim guys, Thank you, jam We
count you down. The first pitch here at City Field in Queens as the
Dodgers take on the New York Mets, Game one of a three game set,
Game one of a double header that seted your way starting momentarily meantime,
the Dodgers here at City Field have played very well in their last twenty games.
They've won sixteen of those, so the vast majority of them. However,
they're currently mired in the five game losing streak. It's been seven hundred
and forty six days between the time they lost five in a row in April
of twenty nineteen and right now and they're hoping for Tyler glasnow to have a
bounce back performance after he suffered a loss his last time. Yah. He's
also suffered from a very little run support. In fact, you start to
look over the last three games, he's had just three runs scored behind him,
and he begin to look at some of the numbers also with the glass
noow tim fourth lowest banning AMAGS is starting pitching one eighty one, the highest
total of strikeouts with eighty seven, and if you start to look at the
first and second time to the it's below a two hundred batting average against.
Third time two lineup has been somewhat problematic from an earned an average standpoint,
But for Tyler Glasgow, I really expect him to come out to make a
very big statement early in the ballgame and control this this baseball game. Eighty
seven strikeouts and just sixty seven innings pitch this year and overall the opposition hitting
one eighty one against him. That's the second best average against in the National
League for a pitcher. Tyler McGill is my ould opponent. He's out of
los Alamitos High School, former Arizona Wildcat, and also was at loyal to
Marrimount. He'll be the mound opposition here in game one. Game two Jose
Kintanna for the Mets, Gavin Stone going for the Dodgers. A traditional double
header, A little more unusual these days not to have the day nighter,
but we've got the traditional. Will be about thirty thirty five minutes after the
conclusion of this one that Game two will begin. Tim all right, it's
the Dodgers and Mets. Dodgers have lost five straight, Mets have lost five
of their last six. Dodgers looking to get back on track. It's game
one of this double header after the rainout yesterday. First Bitch is next.
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