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need him, Dodger right hander, A complete game shutout tonight for the Dodgers
as they win it in Chicago four to nothing over the Wide Sox. Hi
everybody, and welcome in to postgame Dodger Talk here on You're Home of the
Dodgers and five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app. The
Dodgers get the sweep in Chicago, they take all three games. They've now
won four straight overall. A day off tomorrow as they continued the road trip
on Friday with the start of a three game series against the San Francisco Giants
in the Bay Area. The Dodgers to needed some length out of Gavin Stone
last night when Bobby Miller winch just two innings and they handed it over to
Michael Peterson and the rest of the bullpen. They needed six guys to come
out of that gate in the bullpen to get through nine innings last night.
Six relievers they needed last night and a four to three Dodgers win tonight.
They needed Gavin Stone going into this one. They needed him to give him
some length. They needed Gavin Stone to pitch deep into a game tonight to
help out the bullpitch. Sure, there's a day off tomorrow, but it'd
be nice to get these guys off their feet and not having to get hot,
not even needed to take off the windbreaker to break a sweat and let
them get in essence, two full days off today tomorrow before a start of
a three game series in San Francisco. And that's exactly what Gavin Stone did,
was pitched a complete game shutout and not have to bring in anybody out
of that bullpen. Yeah, Alex Vesia was getting warm. Dave Roberts had
somebody starting to get loose in the ninth. As Gavin Stone went out to
pitch the ninth in he's sitting on ninety three pitches, gets a ground ball
or a flyout pop up the third, Tommy fam singles with one out and
I'm so glad Dave Roberts left him in there. In an error in which
you get to a high pitch count, you're late in the game. Sometimes
the computer tells you, or your gut tells you, or your pitching coach
tells you, Hey, just go the bullpen, bring in a fresh arm,
somebody different. Let's get the final two outs, let's get out of
Dodge and let's go to San Francisco. And Gavin Stone, to his credit,
deserved to be out there. And Dave, I think knew that and
let him get the final two outs. And that's exactly what he did,
and he did it quickly. In that ninth inning, after Tommy fam singled
with one out in the ninth Bennett Tendy comes up and on a second pitch
change up flies out to Andy Pajes in center. That brings up Robert,
who, on the second pitch grounds out on a sinker pitch number one hundred
and three ballgame over Gavin Stone, a complete shutout. Dodgers win four to
nothing eight six six nine, eight, seven, two five seventy. You
heard Gavin Stone in the clubout show it if you didn't. David Vets even
joke with him how calm he was and just kind of nonchalant he was after
pitching a complete game shutout. And as he said, it's the second time
in his professional career. He's done that first time at the major league level,
and for him it was just, hey, glad, I can do
what I can do help out the team. Nobody in the bullpad to come
in, gave him a night off, got some offense, we got the
win. He was in complete control. Well. Even in his postgame interview
tonight in Chicago on the mound, Jose Mona mentioned it, now, I'm
glad he did. Kevin Stone on top of that mound owned guaranteed rate field.
There was a presence, an aura, if you will, a command
from Gavin Stone the entire night and with an air of a pitch clock where
sometimes you can get flustered. Sometimes you can get sped up and rushed and
your pitches are high in the zone, or maybe you get sloppy and leave
a ball over the middle of the plate and he start to get hit around.
He was pitching early in the pitch clock. He was mixing up his
pitches, whereas last year he only had really a two maybe three pitch REPERTI
to used. No, He's now got a fastball, slider, a sinker,
and a change up in his back pocket that he can use and tonight.
He was efficient, He was in command and his pitches. He was
dotting the fastball inside outside, and a tip of the cat to Austin Barnes,
who were gonna hear from, and just a little bit Dodger ketcher who
got the start tonight. Austin Barnes takes a lot of incoming from Dodger fans.
Austin Barnes gets it because he doesn't hit three hundred and driving eighty runs.
But Austin Barnes does a lot right behind the plate and it was on
full display tonight. The way he helps kind of orchestrate the game, calling
the pitches, keeping Gavinstone calm on the mound, keeping the rhythm going batter
to batter. It's almost like dancing and your partner. You have to be
in complete rhythm with and dancing and that picture and a catcher have to be
in rhythm calling pitches on the same page. Pitcher and catcher have to be
on the same page as far as what the game plan is overall, the
catcher receiving the ball, helping out his pitcher with framing. There's a lot
that goes into it besides a guy just calling a sign throwing it and throwing
it back to the pitcher after the pitch comes. There's a lot more to
it. And tonight, Gavin Stone and Austin Barnes, they were dialed in,
dialed in together, and that's something that Austin Barnes brings as a veteran
catcher behind the play. Fact let's go back out to Chicago, guaranteed raid
field or on David Vasse stalking with Austin Barnes and the rest of the media.
Austin first complete game for the Dodgers since Buehler did it two years ago.
What was working so well for Gavin tonight, same stuff he's been doing
early. Just sinking the ball, put in just really uncomfortable, but he's
he's something the ball hard and he's just born on their hands and then uh,
you know, his slider makes you respect the other side of the play.
He has the ability to force him on the other side. And then
uh, and it's to you know, he threw some good ones in there
ten too, but it was I think it's just a sinker and his slider
today that was really just helping us throughout the lineup. When you have a
picture that's going that way and feels like a lot is working for him.
How fun is the desk catcher and how much easier of a job? Doesn't
make it, Oh, it makes it so much easier. You know.
His ability to affect people in get him away, spin the ball away,
get that special little changeup underneath them at times is uh, you know,
it's unique. You know he's got a great little mix, really confident right
now, and you know he made it really he could. You know,
he made it really easy to it felt like the ben attendee at that maybe
was the one that was extended a little bit more in the sixth inning,
but he got him to the grounding to an inning ending double play. How
did you navigate through that? Yeah? I thought I thought his change up
was he just had to get it though, a good change up really,
I think, you know, it's change of special. I think sometimes throughout
this game he was, you know, kind of throwing it into the dirt
a little bit. But when he lands it, it's with his speed.
It's pretty special. So, yeah, you can't say enough about what somebody's
been doing for us, going deep into games, resetting the bullpen. No,
he's just been quiet, steadyings going about his business and uh, you
know it's a testament to him. All right, there's Austin Barnes Well said
from Barnesy, quiet's almost like an assassin out there, a steady uh get
you know, a reset of the bullpen is exactly what they got with not
having to bring anybody in tonight in a complete game shutout from Gavin Stone,
and he touched on it. Uh. He was even able to get his
change up in there for strikes and his fastball. Yeah, it sits middle
nineties. That's really good, and he's the way he's able to pinpoint it
and hit his spots inside outside. And as Barnesy said, there with the
sinker tonight and the sinker getting a lot of ground ball outs going with the
slider that was absolutely filthy. And he didn't miss the old cement mixer slider.
He didn't miss on those. He had a lot of bite on that
slider and that kept hitters, I think guessing for the most part tonight for
the White Sox because ninety three ninety five, all of a sudden he throws
you a sinker and then a wipeout slider. You have no idea what's coming,
and you can't hit it, and tonight he had seven punchouts, zero
walks, zero walks. Again control efficient with this pitches one hundred and thirty
total pitches, seventy three for strikes. He was in command on that mound.
I cannot tell you the last time I've seen a Dodger pitcher that in
control on a mound. I mean, you think about some of the great
performances. I mean, we just had the ten year anniversary of Clayton Kershaw's
no hitter, and you go back to that game against the Colorado Rocky's a
Dodger steam David Vatse talks about it. Yeah, that was another game where
you just kind of felt like, this dude is in control. He owns
the pace of the game, he owns what he's doing on the mound.
He is dictating what is happening at the plate by whether he's pitching. That
kind of felt like one of those nights tonight from Gavin Stone and the Dodgers
provided the offense. Shoho Tani solo home run to lead off the game is
twenty fifth of the season, and then a three run third inning for the
Dodgers put a four spot on the board for him and that would win it
for nothing over the White Sox. Dodgers have now won four straight. Gavin
Stone now nine to two on the season. Gavin Stone, to me is
an All Star Dodger fans, he is an All Star and he needs to
be picked as an All Star. And he's not in a fan vote because
he is a pitcher that is selected by players and coaches. But you look
at what he has done this year. Him and Tyler Glass now absolutely absolutely
should be All Stars. And tomorrow at nine am Pacific, the first round
of the voting stops. And we've seen some updates the last couple of weeks
as far as how it's going in the National American League. Ta Oscar Hernandez
needs to get your vote. He absolutely needs to get your vote. Freddie
Freeman needs to get your vote. Milkie Betts is not going to play in
the game, but deserves your vote. Look at what the Dodger pitchers are
doing in Tyler Glass now and of course Evan Phillips should be an All Star
with thirteen saves, he's been very good. But this Dodgers team should be
well represented in the All Star Game this year in Arlington. Here's Dave Roberts.
In case you missed it, Dave Roberts pre game today, asked by
David Vassay about the All Star voting, which again stops tomorrow the first round
of it. The first round stops at nine am tomorrow. Here's David vass
asking the manager, Dave Roberts about the All Star voting. Listen carefully,
Dodger fans, Dave, tomorrow's the deadline for the first tier of All Star
voting. Will Smith, Ti, Oscar Hernandez among other players that might have
a case. What do you believe as far as them being All Stars?
Yeah, it's a no brainer. I think Will is an easy one.
As far as talent, He's one of the top two or three catchers in
the game, let alone the National League, and with Teo. You just
look at the numbers and what he's done on the production side, performance side.
It's you know, the All Star Game is interesting because it's a lot
of it is based on popularity and certain fan bases that are more active voting.
And my encouragement for the Dodger fans is to, you know, get
off your hands and start voting for your players, because you look at all
these other fan bases that the players aren't nearly as having the seasons that our
guys are having, and they're leading the fan voting. So that's what's disappointing
for me as a manager, because the players are not going to promote themselves.
So it's about the fans, you know, supporting their players. All
Right, there's Dave Roberts telling you Dodger fans to get onto Dodgers dot com
slash vote and get those Dodger players to the next round and get him to
the All Star Game in Arlington. Will Smith absolutely deserves it. Ria Muto,
the catcher in Philadelphia, is having a good not really. William Contreras
and Milwaukee, okay, one point four million votes is the leading catcher of
the National League as far as vote getter can tell. Marte is the leading
second base vote getter. I mean Jerkson Profar one point six Jerkson Profar's got
more votes than Tiascar Hernandez. Something wrong here, Something wrong here, Dodger
fans. You can vote five times per day. You got until ne o'clock
tomorrow for the first round of this All Star voting show. Heo Tani is
certainly having a lot of votes to one point seven million votes so far.
Dave Roberts message from Dodger manager to you get out there, vote early,
vote often. First round ins tomorrow at nine am. Dodgers dot Com slash
vote Dodgers dot Com slash vote. Brad mission viah Welcome to Dodger Talk tonight.
Brad, How you doing, Hey, thanks for taking the call.
You know, it's funny the Dodgers got two shutouts in this series, and
you know how lowly the White Sox are. They teams have been scoring like
twelve fifteen runs against him, but the pitching was that good. We're really
didn't matter in this case. Yeah, Yeah, two shutout wins appreciated.
Brad a three nothing to win in the opener, they win four to three
last night, and they get the shutout win again tonight for nothing over the
White Sox limiteding them to just four hits in this game tonight was Gavin Stone
who threw a complete game shutout, struck out seven along the way, and
he got just all he needed from showey Otani in this Dodgers offense a four
run victory. They beat him four to nothing to get to fifty one and
thirty one overall on this season. How about this the first sellout of the
year at guaranteed rate field in Chicago. Bad team, yet they don't get
much crowds there. Dodgers come to Chicago, they get a pretty decent crowd
the first two nights, and then you had Mexican Heritage Night in and it
was a sellout crowd tonight on the South side of Chicago, thirty six,
two and twenty five got to see their favorite Dodgers sweep the White Sox with
a four nothing win. Luis Elcerito, Welcome to Lewis. Lewis, you're
on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Hey, Tim? Always a pleasure
and good point about the voting. I'll say two things to all of those
people who live in die By just v lo and vlo vlo Vello. This
is just another example that it doesn't work that way and people need to start
looking at it. Stone was amazing tonight. He has presence, he knows
how to pick chin. Barnes was obviously helpful, but he only goes up
to ninety five. Landonnak is not nearly as polished, but I believe has
a similar potential, even though I think he's a year or two older,
and just the more and more. I've been watching baseball for a long time,
and it looks like that somebody in the Dodger organization is beginning to realize
that when you just do Vello, you get caught because when the pitcher loses
control or doesn't have his villo, it's not always going to work. And
hitters, as many of the best hitters have said, you know, can
groove a one hundred mile an hour pitch as well. But if somebody can
throw ninety five and then has a change like Gavin has, it makes a
big difference. And I'm just really, you know, continue to be pleased
with the pitching despite you know, some of the injuries, and I think
in the long run, the bottom of the order is going to figure it
out. Yeah. Yeah. My concern is when when will Months he come
back, because I think if he doesn't come back, that more than the
outfield has to be addressed to the trade line. Although I would love to
see Cody Hosey take get a shot again, I know he's not you know,
he was a high round rap pick. He seems he's finally figured it
out. Bring him up if it doesn't work, okay, you know,
it wouldn't be a tremendous loss for the entire system. You're right, Lewis,
I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for the phone call. Well said
on a couple of points there and wanted to touch on Cody Hosey. Not
sure he's the answer at third base right now for a team that's on the
hunt to win the championship. I think veterans is what you need. Proven
October performers are what you need, Guys at the major league level that have
performed consistently. I'm not sure I want to dip down and rely upon a
guy who's not played at the big league level yet going into the second half
of the season in October. If Max Muns he's not able to come back
anytime soon, and quite frankly, it doesn't look like he's close at all
to coming back. Not swinging to baseball, taking ground balls, but very
limited in his baseball activities trying to come back from that oblique injury. A
Cavin Bigio, Keiky Hernandez, I think those are your answers right now with
third base. Again, that's just my personal opinion. You don't want to
necessarily go have to go to a Cody Hosey at this point of the season,
when the Dodgers' top prospects as far as infielders are concerned, you brought
up pitching, and you're right. The philosophy I think for the Dodgers has
changed the last couple of years. You look at the pipeline of players that
have come up. Who's unfortunately Hurt, Kyle Hurt, who they brought up,
Gavin Stone, Bobby Miller. These our young men that are, yes,
guys who can throw mid nineties Bobby Miller, upper nineties, near one
hundred. But they've become good pitchers and they've risen to this level from straight
from Double A or quick stops in Triple A because they're good pitchers. And
I keep saying that, and you're probably thinking, yeah, of course they're
pitchers, we get that. No, No, there's the art of it.
Be able to throw multiple pitches and throw them for strikes, and be
able to get out of an account on which you're behind two to oho,
and be able to use an off speed pitch and throw it for a strike,
to be able to pitch backwards to a hitter, leading them with an
off speed pitch early in the bad Those things the art of pitching. The
Greg maddox is of the world where you don't throw ninety nine one hundred miles
an hour, but you can sit ninety two to ninety five with your fastball,
paint the corners inside outside, and keep the hitters guessing because you are
so good at mixing up your pitches. The confidence out on the mound.
The presence is the word you use there, Lewis, and I appreciate that's
an exact word that I think describes this. A presence on the mound,
and Gavin Stone had that tonight, and you're seeing that presence from all these
Dodger young pitchers. I think Bobby Miller, out of all of them,
is trying to figure out how to become more of a pitcher with all his
pitches and not just that ninety nine mile an hour fastball that he can throw
eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seven. We'll take a break,
we'll come back, We'll get to more of your phone calls. Big win
for the Dodgers tonight. The offense delivered showe Aotani tenth straight game with an
RBI, setting a Dodger franchise record. It's a solo home run of the
first. Dodgers score three in the third. They shut out the White Sox
four to nothing for the second time in three games, and Gavin Stone throws
a gym a complete game shutout, four hits, seven punch outs, zero
walks as the Dodgers get the win four to nothing over the White Sox.
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two on this season and again tomorrow nine am the first round the voting for
the MLB All Stars comes to it in and then they'll open it back up.
But get those Dodgers in, get him towards the front, and all
the positions from Teoscar Hernandez to Will Smith to show hey, o Tawny,
get them to the front of the line. As far as the National League
All Star voting, Dodgers dot com slash voting, Dodgers dot com slash vote,
Dodgers dot Com slash vote. Let's go back out to the phone.
Thanks for being patient, Alan West Covina, Welcome out. How are you
doing? Al Al going once? Yo? Go ahead? Yo? What's
up? Man? My bad? That was that was? That was my
bad on my part? Good? Yeah, that was a solid wind,
solid series. Everything's on point. It's like you know which but you can
talk about and you know, leading the charger with you know, with the
callers that you know have they've been supporting no excuse me, supporting you know,
Stone and all that. And then one of the things that the main
thing I wanted to call about is it just show hey, at lead off,
you signed the unicorn. Hey, let's let's use them. However,
and yes he's available. Why not I've heard of something like you know,
like when Mookie comes back, like okay, is a lead off you know,
solidified? It's like Okay, Mookie, you know at lead off in
the playoffs last year where they you know, it was you know, we
were rise cold. Yeah, appreciate it. Now. I think that's a
little down the road. That's something we don't have to worry about right now.
And I know it's fun to talk about. Uh, when Mookie returns,
will he return to the leadoff spots? Will the batting order to go
back to what it was pre fractured hand for Mookie Betts. We'll find out.
As David Vassay and I talked about on the Dodgers on Deck show before
the game, Dave Roberts has sort of left that door open. He hasn't
closed it by saying no. And as David Vassa pointed out, and he's
absolutely right by by not closing the door on it, you allow the opportunity
that when Mookie Betts comes back, and remember one of minor league rehab assignment,
some at bats in, but he wants to get back in the flow
of the regular season when he does come back, you know, after the
All Star break, and you can't just rush a hitter back. They got
to get back, they got to get strong, and you can do only
so much in the minor leagues and get those at bats down there in Triple
A and Double A. But when he comes back and he's cleared and he's
healthy and he's coming back, you still got to get right at the plate.
And maybe you don't throw him back into the leadoff spot and you keep
shoe Otani as the leadoff hitter for however long, a few games, a
series, a week, two weeks, I don't know how long. I
don't think there's a number you can necessarily put on it. But you allow
Mookie time to reinterrogate himself here into this Dodger lineup, allow him to come
back and be a part of this team. And then once he's back into
a flow, maybe he's got some groove going at the plate, he gets
some home runs, he gets them all, you know, he's able to
put the ball in play. Then you bring Mookie back to the leadoff spot.
So I don't think you close the door on and say no, as
soon as Mookie comes back, first game back, he's back in the leadoff
No, You'll allow a little period for him to get situated back in the
lineup and playing every day, getting those three to four five at bats,
every single night, and then you slowly move the lineup back to where it
was. I think ultimately, ultimately the plan is to have Mookie Betts as
the leadoff hitter when he does come back at the end of the season and
into the postseason. All right, that's gonna do it for postgame Dodger Talk.
Many thanks to you Dodger fans for being the part of the show.
If we couldn't get to you, I apologize. We'll get to you tomorrow
night because I'll be back with off night Dodger Talk at seven o'clock tomorrow night.
Right here in a five seven ELA Sports, we'll have a farm report.
Yeah, we got some big Dodger prospects on the move this week and
they're moving the ourselves up to Triple A and high A ball. We'll tell
you tomorrow on the farm report, what's happened with the dodgertop prospects. As
we get closer to the MLB trade deadline, some of these names that we've
been hearing about could be in play if the Dodgers want to make the trade
and help out the major league roster. Thanks to Colin ye thanks to all
you Dodger fans. For being a part of the show tonight. Thank you
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complete game, shutout. What a Jim Solo. Everybody