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game lead over the San Diego Padres, ten games up on the Diamondbacks,
eleven and a half games up on the San Francisco Giants. Game two of
this three game interleague series is coming up from the South side of Chicago.
Bobby Miller on the mound, first pitch coming up at five to ten.
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we'll head out to the Galpin Motors broadcast booth and visit with Rick Monday
and Tim never Well. Last night in Chicago, James Paxton was really good
the big Maple the left hander five shutout innings. He scattered just three hits
along the way while striking out six. Garrett Crochet, the big left hander
for the White Soxy here his name a lot in trade rumors. While Crochet
was equally as good pitching into the sixth inning, no run, five hits,
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the White Sox off the board. Alex Vessi had got the ninth truck out
of better and he picked up the save. Dodgers get the three to nothing
shutout win over the White Sox. Daniel Hudson gets the winner relief of James
Paxson, who gets a no decision despite five really good shutout innings. Alex
Vesia his fourth save of the year. He continues to impress coming out of
the Dodgers' bullpen as the Dodgers win the series opener. They're now forty nine
and thirty one on this season and look to make it two straight on the
south side of the Chicago with Bobby Miller on the mound with more, Let's
head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast booth as we welcome in Rick Monday and
Tim Neffer. Guys, Tam, thanks very much. A little overcast here
in Chicago as the Dodgers and the White Sox gets set for Game two of
this three game series. Dodgers winning the first win last night, blanking the
White Sox three to nothing. It was the eighth shutout of the season for
the Dodgers, the eleventh time the White Sox have been shut out. Bobby
Miller, the Elk Grove, Illinois native, grew up about sixty miles from
where we're sitting right now. He'll pitch tonight one and one on a six
era. Chris Flexen, the veteran, is two and six with an ERAI
just over five. Tonight marks the half of the season. It's game number
eighty one with eighty one to play, So when you get to the halfway
mark, you pretty much know who the pretenders are and who the contenders are
around major League Baseball. Dodgers certainly contenders, and the White Sox, I
don't know if you can even call them pretenders. They've got the worst record
in Major League Baseball at twenty one and fifty nine. Well, the Dodgers
took care of business last night. It took them a while because they had
to get past the starter that they faced, that being Garrett Crochet and young
left hander. My goodness, what a five and two thirds. But it's
more pitch count right now. He's pitched more innings than he's ever pitched in
his professional career. So he was taken out. That was good news actually
for the Dodgers because they got to the bullpen, and for the White Sox
they have had difficulty about every category, including the bullpen on top of that.
So the Dodgers wind up, as you mentioned, with the shutout victory.
And maybe the key to success is Miguel Rojas because he had a couple
of days hits in last night's ball game. When he gets a hit,
the Dodgers incredibly enough twenty three wins, no losses. He's a big man
and he's moved up in the lineup tonight as well, hitting the six spot.
So if he gets a base hitting his first at batch and we just
declare it over, declared over so much, you're throwing the white towel and
we just go back to the hotel and wait for tomorrow Knight's game. It
is interesting though, because not only has he been able to contribute in getting
the base since you look at migout Rojas with the big shoes now to fill
with Mookie Betts out with the broken, the fractured hand. The last seventeen
games, Miguel Rojas is hitting three twenty eight. He is getting the job
done offensively and defensively right now sho HeLa Town. He had another run batted
into the ball game last night with a sacrifice fly late eight straight games.
That is a career best for him, and with one more run batted in
tonight, he would tie an all time franchise record. Roy Campanella during the
nineteen fifty five season drove in a run in nine straight game. Well,
he was named before the last night's ball game nationally Player of the Week for
the receding week. How do you pitch to him? I mean that that's
the big question too. You know, you can look at well, here's
a guy who's getting the base hits it. If you were an opposing pitcher
at the ball club, how would you eight pitch to him and be what
would your defensive lineman be? Well, right now, the defensive lineman put
the outfielders in the bleachers because that's the best opportunity maybe to catch something a
flyable that he is John, he continues to get it done, for sure.
The Dodgers incidantly in terms of offense. They have scored four hundred and
one runs. And where does that sit. Well, that's second in all
of Major League Baseball, only behind the Baltimore Orioles who have four hundred and
five. So if you wonder if the Dodgers are scoring runs, yeah,
they are scoring them with the best of them. They've scored runs. In
fact, here's a couple of numbers too, stumbling across today. Dodgers score
first best record in baseball. They're thirty seven wins in five losses. When
they put it tally on the board first, what about the White Sox when
they score first, there's sixteen and twenty one. They're the only team in
Major League Baseball with the losing record when they put a run on the board
before the other team. Dodgers are forty nine and thirty one overall. Right
here at the halfway mark, they're eight and a half up on the Padres
in the National League West. Meantime, a White Sox twenty one and fifty
nine. They are already thirty one games behind the division leading Cleveland Guardians.
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Oscar Hernandez is bag Kirston, but not back in the lineup. Yeah,
not in the lineup just yet. I think Dave. The hope is that
he'll be back out there tomorrow. But Dave just wanted to give him a
day today, so he and his family they flew back there with the organization
back in Chicago. But the last twenty four hours have been I imagine probably
pretty emotionally draining. We don't know the specifics, but he did have to
go home and you know, had a family situation to deal with. So
he's back, but Dave just wanted to get him this day to recovery.
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and just feel good and then hopefully kind of get back in the lineup tomorrow
and help contributing to this team and some more wins. Speaking of winning Miguel
Rojas, it's every time he gets a hit. I mean, we know
the stats. This guy's got to meet in a lineup, right, the
stats don't lie exactly when he goes, the team goes. You're right,
the stats really do not lie. And there's now been a lot of fun
with this. So even if we go back to the game in Colorado,
ninth inning, they're down five runs, Miguel Rojas gets a hit, So
at that moment, because at that point he hadn't he didn't have a hit,
and so at that point you're just like, oh my goodness, either
the stat is going to be over and he's finally gonna have a loss when
he gets a hit, or in some crazy way they're going to win this
game. And I'll know what happened. They came back and won that game
in one of the most exciting fashions ever. So after the bus Miguel Roja
is sitting in front of me, and I was like, Mickey, oh
my goodness, you almost lost the stat It was almost over. We were
all freaking out, and he was like, you know what's so funny is
as soon as I hit that ball and got to first base, I looked
at Clayton McColough, the first base coach, and he he goes, I
told him we're going to win this game, and Clayton was like what,
he goes, We're gonna win this game. Don't ask me how. I
don't know, but we're gonna win this. And of course we know they
came back to win it. So at that point Miguel told me he was
like, we can no longer talk about this number because he's officially he's officially
superstitious. So today even when I asked him, I was like, listen,
I made a promise to you. We're not talking about the numbers,
but how much fun are you having with this? And he was like what
he loves most about it is just the fans are really into it. So
he's like, as long as they can keep cheering me on, he said,
I want us to keep winning, so if I can get it hit
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Hopefully he's gonna have some fun with this one. I know that emotions
can be high when you're playing in a place where you've got so many friends
and family coming to check you out. But he's looking to get back on
track in Colorado. You know, as much as it's kind of the ampt
andy excitement of just getting back on the mound, there are some challenges that
are posed when you're playing in Colorado. So the hope is that you can
kind of keep the blinders up do what he needs to do. And he
told us he's feeling really good heading and not only that start in Colorado,
but also this one today, so let him have some fun. He got
to spend some time at Soldier Field yesterday. He's a big Bears fan.
So yeah, So hopefully today he can kind of put all that momentum into
a big win against the White Sox in front of his friends and family.
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Dave? Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure
in the dugouts with Dave Robberts, You know, I think we're just going
to kind of go all systems forward and hope and pray that it comes later,
which typically hope is not a good strategy. But that's all I've got.
As far as the weather, so I don't know, it's supposed to
come later and it's not going to change, you know, the pitching plan.
As far as Bobby started. With Bobby, what are you hoping to
see from him? Obviously his last one in Colorado stuff is in a good
spot. Just Colorado elements kind of played in there. But what are you
hoping to see with him today? I think Bobby's a little too emotional,
understandably, so his first start back, you know, we got him on
a track to keep the blinders on and to manage emotions. I didn't see
that as much his last outing. I expect a different kind of way about
him demeanor tonight to go along with the pitch execution, which understandably so again,
hadn't pitched in a big league game in a while, so the juices
were going. But I expect a good one from him. He should have
a lot of family and friends here, being from Illinois, do you expect
the emotions to be running higher for him? Oh, that's a good point.
I didn't account for that, so yeah. I mean, as a
young player, you get your family, and I was that player a long
time ago, where you get excited to kind of show out in front of
your family and friends, which is totally understandable. But I do believe once
you get in the game, then you kind of, just like I said,
put the blinders on. So I think he's going to pitch well tonight.
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All right, David Kevin v show at the bottom of that Dodger lineup.
How important is he for this Dodgers team to get it back to the
top. Yeah, he understands that. Tim. I was talking to him
earlier today before batting practice and he said, it's my job to get on
base for those guys. And he was pointing up at the scoreboard where they
had the lineups displayed for the Dodgers in white, sox Otani, Will Smith
and Freddie Freeman. So he's very aware of that. And going back to
the Freeway series when he laid down a bunt and that sparked the Dodgers' rally
in that third inning where they scored four runs. Bigio bunted, got on
bass, had the Angels on their heels, and waam Otani hits a two
run home run to help the Dodgers win that game. And Bigio actually told
me when he steps in the batter's box, he's looking to see where the
third baseman is playing him, he said, usually third baseman play him even
with the bag or even a couple of steps in. Well, that the
Angels third basement was playing him deep and that's why he decided to lay that
bunt down. So he's one player that embraces the bunt, he said.
His dad, Hall of Famer Craig Bigio, always has been a big advocate
for it, and he is just trying to get on base somehow, some
way. Last night you have Miguel Rojas on the postgame DV. This is
a guy who we know the number Dodgers are undefeated when he gets a hit.
How is he embracing this? Is he accepting to it? Is he
trying to stay away from this number because it could be distracting. I guess
I was unsure because, as you know, Tim, when you talk to
players, they don't want to hear their hitting streak. They're on bass streak,
how close they are at a history. So I wasn't sure if we're
supposed to even broach the subject with Miguel Rojas. But he's a guy that
loves the game, loves being here, and he is completely embracing this.
Being a guy that when he gets a hit. The Dodgers are undefeated this
year twenty three and oh, so it's safe to be able to talk to
him about it. And I guess it all started at Coors Field last road
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Dodgers met the expectations from them and from people on the outside looking in as
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winning the World Series, and everybody with the Dodgers understand that. But how
can you be disappointed with the team that if they win tonight will win their
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call him in the NL West, and have been one of the best two
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So I would say he's met expectations individually, and the Dodgers doing as
much as they can right now. Tim, you can't win the World Series
in May or June, but what you can do is make life a lot
easier for yourself in September, and they have done that again on their way
to another one hundred win season. You talked to Bobby Miller a lot DV.
He's made one start since coming back from the IL. He win six
and the third Indings gave up six hits, five in runs. But that
was in Colorado at Course Field. What do you expect out of him today
the second start back, Well, this lineup should cooperate with him. They're
not a very good hitting lineup. And look, he is very honest with
himself that he does allow his emotions to get the best of him at times.
Sometimes Rick Monday does as well. Just kidding, He's the complete opposite.
His emotions never get the best of him. But yeah, Bobby Miller
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understanding is he is going to have thirty two family and friends in attendance tonight
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the South Side last night, despite Garrett Crochet pitching very well against them.
I tell you what, he was a delight to watch from afar. I'm
not certain that he was a whole lot of fun at home plate. He's
got a live arm and really had an idea in what he was trying to
do. Went five and two thirds, but for the Dodgers. James Paxton
another very good outing for the Dodgers. You know, you start to look
for Paxxton. Now, the last three starts given up just two runs.
He's given up just seven hits, and that comes over eighteen innings that he
has pitched, and he really kind of sensed the tone this Dodger ball club.
Took them a while from the hitting standpoint the Dodgers in order to get
to the bullpen. And as soon as they took Garrett Crochet out, not
because lack of effort or anything else, He's never pitched this many innings in
his career. They're they're protecting a very good arm out there. And Tim
Nevert and I were both commenting, is that that was a big break for
the Dodgers, very similar to a World Series game. We might add a
number of years ago when they took out the starting pitcher and that's when the
Dodgers said, Okay, that's enough of this, let's put runs on the
board. And that used to be the Dodgers offensive identity to knock out even
a good starting pitcher and get to the opposing team's Let me ask you about
hitter's identity because I don't know how much you believe in the numbers, if
they're a coincidence or not. But mcgol Rojas, for example, when he
gets a hit there, twenty three wins and no losses, that's a pretty
good run. I don't care how you view it. That's an incredible run.
And if we look at Miguel Rojas, you know, the last seventeen
games, he may be the hottest hitter as far as average. He's hit
three twenty eight in the last seventeen contests. Well, I'm glad you brought
that up because I wasn't sure how to view it. How should we view
that number? Is it a coincidence, is it something to bring up right
here, or is it significant? I think it's more coincidence than anything else.
But I don't think it's coincidence. The last seventeen games he's hitting three
twenty eight. I think that number means more to the really the true aspect
of what we're looking at here. He provides a great defense, no question
about that. And when he gets in the offensive mode, and if we
look at Rojas tonight in the lineup, he's hitting in the six spot,
so he is moving up the ladder as far as being able to do it.
But that's pretty good average three twenty eight the last seventeen games, especially
for a player that's not known for his offense exactly. But if you look
at he's had a couple of years when he went down to Miami, the
kind of figured it out. And he's a big, big man right now
in this Dodger lineup and really in the ball club with the absence of Mookie
Betts. And how long he's going to be out, we don't really know,
but we hope it's I hope it's a speedy recovery and there's no residual
effects, because having experienced at a broken hand, every injury is different,
but I know that there was some limitations as far as range of motion that
I had for a considerable period of time, and many, many years later,
I still feel the residual effects of a broken hand and then a broken
wrist. Same here with the wrist. Well, yeah, how many slides
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Bill Russell played his career nine and fifty third game in a Dodger uniform.
Well, that became the highest number of games played by anyone in the
Dodgers' history. As it turned out, so Bill eighteen years career, he
wound up playing twenty one hundred and eighty one games in a Dodger uniform.
And I don't think you can ever look at that and say treat that lightly,
because that's an amazing amount of games. Over twenty one hundred games,
the most games ever played well wearing a Dodger uniform. The only way I
would say that's going to be threatened is if Freddy Freeman played his entire career
with the Dodgers. But six years is the life of his contract. I
feel like Bill Russell, he's safe from Freddy Well. It might be,
yeah, I mean with with free agency and what goes on at the present
time, but we are seeing more and more long term contracts to the elite
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say, Bill Russell was considered the Dean in the eighties when he was playing
all those games. Yeah, we called him a few other things. He
was always stirring the pot, but he was every day he could count upon
him. And I think if you took a poll and you say, okay,
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had to have someone hit the ball, put the ball into play and maybe
have a positive result. I think of the tallies, at least mine would
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influencer Austin Barnes. But a great teammate, I would imagine. Oh yeah,
absolutely, a great teammate. Just likes to mess with some guys kind
of like get them off their game and just kind of like get some genuine
reactions out of them. But yeah, no, he's a character man.
I was telling Mark Prari yesterday how much I enjoy being around yourself, Gavin
Stone and Bobby Miller and all three of you seem to be very coachable.
Yeah, we try to be. Yeah, No, we all kind of
came up together and kind of fed off of a little bit of the culture
that they've built down in the minor league system here and really just kind of
push it. Everybody kind of pushes each other to kind of get the best
version out of themselves. And yeah, I mean it's been a great group
and it feels like, like you said, the culture down there is to
be yourself. The way you pitch is not the same way Bobby Miller.
Yeah no, obviously very different guys as far as what we do on the
mound, But yeah, no, everybody, our entire minor league system is
a lot of kind of being yourself. They're gonna give you all of the
tools to get to that best version of yourself, but also just staying true
to yourself because everybody's different. They know not everything works for everybody. There's
no cookie cutter way to do things, and so they really are doing a
really good job of making sure that everybody has the tools to get to where
they need to be. But being themselves in this day and age of everybody
looking at velocity, how did you separate yourself to be recognized to be a
pitcher? I think I was always a guy who could just pitch. That
was always kind of my calling card for a long time, and then I
never even learned velocity until kind of later on. I was always a pitcher
first, and so I kind of learned how to throw with lesser velo early
on in college and then kind of kept on with that and really just learning
how to switch speeds, really play the front to back game and just keep
people off balance. And you also have four pitches. The way I understand
it, is there a temptation to try to use all four or how do
you mix and match when you have that many pitches in your back pocket.
A lot of it just kind of goes with what the what the game's calling
for, what the batter calls for, just kind of like with the matchups,
I usually try to at least mix in a little bit of the four
just because the more pitches that they have in the back of their mind,
the less they can actually eliminate, and it just makes it just a little
bit tougher. Even even if it's something that they handle it well, if
you just kind of give them one look at it, it still has that
in the back of their mind. So we try try to kind of mix
things up as well as we can, just to kind of keep them off.
Landon Nak is our guest in front of first pitch between the Dodgers and
White Sox. I mentioned Bobby Miller. He's on the mound tonight. What
have you seen from Bobby being teammates with him since the minor leagues and just
his growth to where he's at right now. Yeah, no, he he
has continued to h to fine tune things this like the longer we've gone obviously,
I got to see Bobby from the alt side all the way through,
played with him in Great Lakes and in Tulsa, and then kind of getting
to see him again here now has been pretty cool. The guy has Obviously
he's worked his butt off, He's continued to develop his off speed pitches a
lot, and he's really a much more complete pitcher than minor league Bobby.
You just mentioned the alternate site that was at USC during the twenty twenty COVID
season. It feels like the players that were there formed a lifelong bond.
Absolutely, yet, I mean it was something that not many people kind of
got to go through, and so the guys that did where we were kind
of all kind of just away from everything. It was just hotel, field
and back, and so it was just kind of those were your only group
of people you really got to be around during that time. And so yeah,
of course you kind of create a bond with those guys and have that
shared experience that you'll be able to remember for the rest of your life.
Landon Neck is our guest and he will be introduced as a new character in
the Dodger Giants rivalry. He pitches Friday Night in San Francisco. How much
are you looking forward to, obviously making another start, but getting your first
taste of pitching in San Francisco. Yeah, very exciting. Yeah, I've
always kind of growing up. You always kind of hear about the Dodgers and
Giants rivalry that they've always had and kind of just how far that goes back,
and so yeah, getting to kind of get out there and pitch in
enemy territory in San Francisco and kind of getting to experience the energy from those
fans as they get fired up to play us. Yeah, no, I
can't wait. That's going to be an awesome experience. And you're unflappable like
Gavin Stone as well, So I don't feel like that is any sort of
intimidation, especially Mac. A lot of Dodger fans show up in San Francisco,
now, yeah, absolutely, Dodger fans travel really well, of course,
and going to play a team that your rivals with, of course they're
gonna want to be up there to experience it as well. And so yeah,
no, absolutely, it's it's something we all want to embrace. All
right, Thanks a lot for the time. Great to have you around again,
and I feel like this is only the beginning for landon Neck. Thank
you appreciate you having me there. He is the man land and Neck.
Tim will send it back to you in the studio. One of the young
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two and six five oh three ERA. Twenty nine year old right hander fourteenth
round pick of the Mets back in twenty twelve out of Newark, California.
That's in Northern California, ninth season in the Big Leagues, first with the
White Sox, he's been with the Rockies, Mariners, and Mets. Making
his fifteenth start this year. He's allowed three runs or less, and his
last eleven starts going two and three with a four to fifty three ERA but
a two to fifty four opponent's batting average during that span. It's making his
third career start or second start, third career appearance against the Dodgers, so
he's pitched out of the bullpen as well. He earned a win and his
last and only start against the Dodgers back in September of last year in Colorado,
allowing three runs on six hits while striking out three over six innings of
work. Bobby Miller on the mound one on one sixty, twenty five year
old right hander making his fifth start this year, his second start since coming
off the IL last time out six and third innings, five run, six
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to the booth Rick Monday Tip. Never guys, lax again, Tim,
We count you down to the first pitch here at Guaranteed right Field in Chicago,
Game two of this three game series, Bobby Miller hopes to have a
much better outing than he did the last time he pitched in Chicago. Go
back to April tenth Wrigley Field. He only lasted an inning in two thirds,
giving up five earned runs. That was very early in the season.
He's at a different point and hoping for a different result here tonight, Miller.
Two things are going to look for a command of the strike, Sill.
The other part too, is the change. It the reason to mention
the change hip. Well, the last two years Bobby Miller when he's used
that pitch has worked out well, just to one thirty batting average against.
But he needs to throw strikes in order to set up that change. Chris
Flexen going for the White Sox. The White Sox have not had a lot
of success when he's been on the hill. They are two and fourteen in
any game that he has appeared in this season. In fact, they've lost
their last eight straight games in which he has started. Yeah, and for
Flexen likes to move that fast boat inside overpowering. He, like Miller,
does have a good change yet Miller has the fast ball to go with it.
But for Flexing, don't give up the ship too early. You know
he's allowed just three runs or less in seven of his last ten starts,
so he can deal a very good outing for you, Rich. The midway
point of the Major League season on the Dodgers will look for their fiftieth win
of the season here in Chicago, Tim all right, first pitch is coming
up Game two of this three game series. Dodgers start the night eight and
a half game lead atop the Western Division of the National League over the Padres,
ten games up on the Diamondbacks, eleven and a half games up on
the Giants. Well, the Rockies are twenty one games back and the division.
As we play game eighty one of the season, folks, we have
hit the halfway point of the twenty twenty four MLB series seious season. Well,
technically, after this game is over is when we'll play eighty one.
But Game eighty one is coming up next. Dodgers and White Sox from Chicago.
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