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enjoying your Thursday afternoon. Your Los Angeles Dodgers thirty eight and twenty five on
this season, first place to top the NL West after winning five of six.
They hit the road to start a road trip in Pittsburgh, but have
dropped the first two games to the Pirates. This afternoon, they like to
get back on track before they hitded to New York to face the Yankees this
weekend. Walker Buehler on the mound. First pitch from P and C Park
is set for three forty between then and now. We got a lot to
get to here. On Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, David vas segoes one
on one with Jason Heyward, who had a big game yesterday. We'll preview
this pitching matchup. You will hear from Dodger manager Dave Roberts. Shortly,
we'll check in with Kirsten Watson. We'll get your O Tawni rewind. We'll
get you an injury report in just a few minutes. We'll check in with
Rick Monday and Tim nevert Out at the gallupin Motors Broadcast booth. Last night
in Pittsburgh, the Pirates absolutely pounded Paxton. James Paxson was five and oh
coming into the start yesterday. He'd got some help on defense in his previous
start, had walked the tightrope for many of those starts, going in with
an undefeated record. But yesterday the wheels fell off. In this second inning,
after a scoreless first, the Pirates would send everybody to the plate and
more in the bottom half of the second inning. They scored seven runs in
the inning off James Paxton, who left with two outs in the second inning
and the Pirates up seven to nothing. The Dodgers had themselves a hole they
had to dig out of, and they started getting out of that hole in
the third inning. Thanks the show. Hey, Rookie's gonna take off with
this pitch, Connor Joe, the first basement backs off. There goes Mookie.
This Paul swung on hammer to centerfield in deep Sowinsky back to the track.
He's to the wall. It's gone a home run show. Hell.
Tenny hits it out and the Dodgers on the board. At seven to two
for show Hey home run number fifteen as he got a ball at one hundred
plus right down the middle and he absolutely crushed it. Two run home run
for show Hey o Tani off of Paul Skens, who was the one hundred
mile an hour flame thrower for the Pirates yesterday. The Dodgers able to get
to him the second time around, as they were down seven to two in
the fifth, they able to get to him yet again. This time Andy
piees he is a bright young pitcher. Boy, He's got some right arm.
Oh one pitch and pie has hits the ball deep to left and is
carrying near the track to the wall. It has gone a home run,
Andy Piez with his sixth home run of the season, and it's now a
seven to three ball game. As Piez leads off the fifth with a home
run to the left, Andy pie haz with a home run. Dodgers down
seven to three. Unfortunately, Pittsburgh would get that run right back in the
bottom half of the fifth inning, Dodgers down eight to three. In the
six, Hayward scored Will Smith and RBI single Dodgers only down three eight to
five, but they would give the runs back in the bottom half of the
seventh inn as the Pirates would tack on a run and then two more in
the seventh as they took a ten to five lead. The Dodgers would get
one more in the top half of the eighth inning Gavin Lux and RBI singles
scoring Jason Hayward. Pirates win it ten to six. Yesterday, Paul Skeens
gets the win. He's now three to oh. James Packs in his first
loss of the season. He falls to five and one after giving up seven
runs on six hits, walking too in an inning in two thirds yesterday,
a couple of bright spots showy Otani a couple of hits. The two run
home run Freddy Frieman got a base hit for three for four goes Jason Hayward
as he's now hitting two sixty nine on the season. Also, Andy Pajz
in the eighth spot goes two for fourth the home run he's now hitting two
sixty three. So the bottom of the lineup coming through yesterday with six of
the eleven Dodgers hits. But the Dodgers just couldn't get out of that hole
yesterday that James Paxson put him in the second inning as the Pirates take Game
two of this three game series. They're now in twenty nine to thirty two
on the season. The Dodgers fall to thirty eight and twenty five on this
season. Tonight it's the game in which the Dodgers need to get a win
in order to avoid being swept out of Pittsburgh. Walker Buehler on the mountain
with more, Let's head out to the Gallpin Moters broadcast both at PNC Park
as we say hello to Rick Monday and Tim Neverck. Guys, Tim,
thank you very much. The Dodgers and the Pirates getting set for Game three
of this three game series. Dodgers looking to salvage a game now as they've
dropped the first two, losing last night by a ten to six score DISASTERUS
second inning which they allowed seven runs. That was the big issue and the
Dodgers just could not recover. So zero and two here in Pittsburgh, looking
for a win here heading into New York, and they want to avoid being
swept. They have not been swept in Pittsburgh since the twenty fifteen season August
seventh, eighth, and ninth, and trying not to repeat that feat.
Bailey Falter, a left hander, will go for Pittsburgh tonight. He is
three and two with a three to two two ERA. Walker Buehler going for
the Dodgers. Bueller will make his sixth start of the season. He's one
in three and a four to thirty two ERA. And as far where's the
Dodgers are concerned, Well, you know, you look at this team and
you go, oh, you know, they lose two in a row.
Here, they were swept recently by Cincinnati. They had a five game losing
streak. Well, let's lick look at the last twenty four games. Their
record in the last twenty four games twelve and twelve. He said, that's
not great. But in that time they've gained a game and a half in
the standard. Yeah, it's really kind of crazy. You've extended the last
twenty seven games, they're fifteen and twelve. But here's the difference. The
run support overall for the season is just a fraction over four point eight runs
per game. That's seventh best in Major League Baseball. That's a very good
number. However, over the last twenty seven games, it's under four runs
per game. That's one of the big differences, and it can be attributed
to the lack of hitting, in particular with runners in scoring position the last
eleven games. We talked about it last night, but the last eleven games,
opportunities to knock in a run the Doctors are two for one hundred and
two, make that twenty for one hundred and two. That comes out to
just a one ninety six batting average. So they're getting guys on, but
they're not able to knock them in as consistently as they were maybe about three
weeks ago. And we've seen this a number of times before with Mookie Betz.
If he goes hitless for a few games, somebody pays the price down
the stretch where he has three four hits in a game. Now, he
has been struggling over his last twenty fourth match. His last six games he
has won for twenty four. That one was a home run back on Sunday
against the Rockies at Dodger Stadium. But still he has not been productive on
this road trip at all. Yeah, five games without a base hit,
and he looked at show Hey Otani. The last ten games, he's hitting
just under the Mendoza line. If you look at ti Oscar her name.
This is going to be batting in the number four position tonight. Last seven
games, he's three for twenty nine, So we'll see some different faces in
there tonight, including Austin Barnes will do the catching a breather for Will Smith.
He'll be back in there tomorrow night, opening game of that series in
New York against the Yankees. Vargas in left, Ky k Hernaniz starting at
third base, and Miguel Rojas will be at second base tonight against the left
hander. Faltered thought maybe, just maybe Will Smith would be in the lineup
against the left because he's been crushing them lately, but he does have the
night off, and then he'll be back in there against the Yankees in New
York tomorrow. Pirates are twenty nine and thirty two. They are six and
a half back of the division leading Milwaukee Brewers. They're in fourth place currently
in the Central Division. The Dodgers, meantime, are seven games up and
in first place over the Padres in the National League West at thirty eight and
twenty five thirteen above five hundred Walker Bueller against Bailey Falter. That's the pitching
matchup tonight. First pitch not that far away, Tim all right? Thank
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one with Jason Heyward. We'll break down this pitch. He match up yet
another Southern California arm on the mound for them, the Pirates three straight games
the Dodgers have faced that of next So your otani rewind and we'll visit with
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Why KIE's gonna take off with this pitch? Connor Joe the first basement
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fastball at one hundred plus right down the middle and he absolutely crushed it.
Here's a one one and o'tania reps it in the right field of base hiit.
Taylor's gonna have to stop at second base. The ball was hit so
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from PNC Park. Heirson, this is the Dodgers team that won five of
six going into Pittsburgh. But here we are a game away from being swept
out of PNC Park. The Dodgers need a win tonight. Yeah, they
do. And even Dave Roberts when he was talking to the media this afternoon,
he said, like, look, as much as this is going to
be a good matchup, Walker Buler is going to take the mound. Hopefully
he can get things going early and set the tone. We did see the
offense. As much as the Pirates outscored them, the Dodgers did out hit
them last night. So you know, the offense was showing really good signs
of life last night, so hopefully they can keep that going. But ultimately
today is a must win. And even with I just actually was talking to
Anthony Vonda just a couple of minutes ago about kind of his transition to the
team, but also just what he's been seeing from the group as of late,
and he said that, you know, I asked about the vibe in
the clubhouse right now, having already lost the series but still being in a
position in which you're avoiding the sweep, and he said, you know,
this clubhouse they understand it. You know, there's not any panic or anything
like that, but they understand they need to get the job done today and
everyone a happy flight to New York. So it's going to be a late
one tonight, but hopefully, you know, they can get things going early
offensively and put up some really clean innings from the pitching standpoint and get into
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That's Cars with a K Walker. Bueller, he's back, but he's
still trying to get back on track. Yeah, he's someone who he was
really honest with us. After every outing with his media, he's been very
transparent, but really after the last game. He was saying, you know,
his body is in a good spot physically. There are times where he
is executing his pitches, he's getting the results that he wants, but there's
just a little bit of inconsistency with that, and so that's what's led to
some of his frustration, is he's not getting the results that he wants to
be seeing and the results that he's used to seeing pre surgery. So I
think for him it's just kind of navigating through that side. Dave robertson the
organization has talked about, you know, he is coming off of not playing
for a while, a major surgery, a second Tommy John, all of
that. So there is a level of patience that he that the team of
course is having with him. But when it comes to today, Dave said,
he's gonna have to be that stopper. He's gonna have to go out
there and execute his pitches. Dave has felt like he has really seen signs
in which the stuff is there. It's just it's going in and it's coming
out. So it's a matter of being more consistent with it. So,
yes, it's gonna take time, and they understand that and they do believe
he's really close to kind of being where he wants to be. But today,
you know, Dave said, look, you got to read the room
sometimes, and this is a game in which he's going to have to be
that stopper. Like I said, He's gonna have to execute his pitches and
hopefully he can get some run support to help kind of, you know,
lessen the burden, if that makes sense. But then it's also Walker Bueler,
and so he's a competitor. He knows what he needs to do.
So hopefully go out there and be electric with staph today. Let's hope then
get a little momentum heading into New York this weekend. Kierson, we appreciate
it still to come here. I'm Wrongo Causino Dodgers on deck, will dive
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series in Pittsburgh. David vassegoes one on one with Jason Hayward of Next we'll
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too is pitching tomorrow in Okay. See, let's head back to Pittsburgh and
check out with the Dodger Skipper. Any questions for Dave Dave? Can you
just describe Dave? Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts with Dave
Roberts. I think that each outing there's been things to pull from a couple.
You know, you've put it all, he's put it on together.
I think that you know, the foundation of the arm strength, that the
durability, the ability to kind of sustain a game, you know, get
through six or seven in's, I think is there. The execution has been
in and out. I think today lines up really good for him. You
know, certainly reading the room, we need him to be a stopper tonight
and with that obviously comes the offensive performance. But as far as on the
run prevention side, you know, Walker's got to be good tonight. We've
got a rested pen and that we should do a good job of preventing runs
and then now we just got to go score more runs than those guys.
Yeah, with him expressing just like some frustration and kind of his performance,
and do you have to kind of remind him just be patients that you guys
have with him, or just is there a conversation that you guys gonna have
to have a a player like him right now. I've talked to him about
it, and I think that this is still a process. But I still
stand by the fact that, you know, appreciating where we're at to try
to avoid getting swept, you know, appreciating that it's still a process.
The expectation is still to be very good tonight and help us want a ball
game. So yeah, there's gonna be some things that he's going to continue
to get better at, and he will as time goes on, but for
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right, DV Mookie Betts. It's no secret he's in a slump. But
why yeah, one hit in his last twenty four at bats. That was
a home run back at Dodgers Stadium. In the last one hundred and fifty
at bats, Tim, he is slugging in the mid three hundreds, and
that is a great departure from what we saw last year as Mookie hit thirty
nine home runs while this year he's only on pace for twenty two home runs.
When Dave Roberts asked about the reason, he believes it's a lazy quote
take for you to just point at him playing shortstop, because at some point
in time he was going to go through a slump in the season, and
he believes that and was prepared for the fact when he did go into a
slump that people would point to Mookie Betts being worn down by playing shortstop.
But he's not ruling it out, but he's also not conceding that's the issue.
And I asked him whether or not there's a tell sign to all that,
and he didn't seem to really have an answer. But he's going to
wait for a bigger sample size to make any sort of proclamation for the reason
why Mooki has gone into a little bit of a power outage here. But
the fact is Muki had a great start to the year, and even with
this slump in the last twenty something games, his ops is over nine hundred.
So we saw that last year, we saw it the year before.
Mooki is an inconcit distant hitter. He has high highs and sometimes the valleys
are low, and honestly, in the month of May his low was not
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Otani did something last night DV He's never done before. Right there, there's
even a baseball card tops just produced in the last hour or so of Paul
Skeens versus Show, Hey O'tani? Well the home run Otani hit off of
Skiens last night. His second at bat was clocked at one hundred miles point
one miles an hour, So one hundred point one miles an hour from Skiings
and that was the first time in Otani's major league career he has ever hit
a fastball for all home home run coming at one hundred plus miles an hour.
Hard to believe, but last night was the first time. Love those
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Uh Dodgers and the Pirates DV. What is it about the Bucos?
They just keep beating the Dodgers. You know, it's funny. I got
a text from a former Dodger, and not too former of a Dodger that
lived through some of those Dodgers struggles against the Pirates and coming into the game
tonight. Since twenty twenty one, the Dodgers are just five and ten against
the Pirates, and here at P and C Park are just two and six
against the Pirates. I don't know what to say. And that's the record
since twenty twenty two, five and ten against Pittsburgh, two and six here
at P and C Park, And yeah, I guess even former Dodgers are
still traumatized by the lowly Pirates, who could be the second team in the
last two weeks that are sub five hundred to sweep a three game series from
the Dodgers. The last one was another in now Central team, the Cincinnati
Reds on the last road trip. All right, he's what the Dodgers before
they headed to New York. That's right. Hopefully that does not happen to
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I'm going with the number three horse, Peaceful Waters, Peaceful Waters. I'll
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and now joined by David Basseying, Here's LA Dodgers broadcaster there and World Series
champion Dodger Rick Monday. Rick, as we overlooked the Clemente Bridge here at
PNC Park. I haven't asked you in the previous two pregame shows if you
ever cross paths with the great Roberto Clemente. Actually I did. My first
year coming to the National League from the American League was in Chicago with the
Cobs nineteen seventy two. That happened to be Roberto Clemente's final season, and
we played them late in the years my recollection and then Dwayne McDonald, producer
engineer. He's like the mister fix It of baseball. If you have a
question, he can find the answer to it. And it was in the
middle of September that the Pirates came into Chicago and one thing I remember David
is that he hit one line drive to center field and I broke back on
the ball. And we're playing at Wrigley Field day game. Obviously there were
no lights at that particular time, and I thought that ball was going to
be near the wall and I broke back on the ball. I turned around
to where I thought the ball was going to be a hit to to catch
it and the ball was hit so hard with top spin, it landed.
It was like a pitcher thrown a sinker. It landed just about where I
had exited the area he was hit so hard. But I remember how he
played the game with such elegance and how everyone respected the man, and you
know that was and then we lost, and we lost a terrific person.
Had to be an outstanding player. But I lost a terrific person as he
was trying to help others, no doubt, Rick. And as far as
the Dodger connection goes, I guess you could put that under the one that
got away because he was in the Dodgers minor league system. Tim Nebert and
I talked about last night. I brought up the fact that he was he
was with the Dodgers and under contract with the Dodgers, but he got through
with a rule five ye a draft. So it's one of those things.
Since you dropped the name on me, I'm gonna drop a name on you.
I doubt if you recognize the name. But after I mentioned the name
and explain, there'd be a lot of us that may have smiles on our
face. The name is Carl Stole's st L z does it ring a bell
at all? It does not. It should. Here's the reason why.
It was on this date that Carl Stoles had a dream that he fulfilled,
and it was starting little League on this date. And he started with Lundy
Lumbert defeated ly like Hombing Derry in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The score was twenty
three to eight. That means nothing to anyone except it was on this date
that Carl Stoles started the Little League program, and his idea was teamwork,
to form concepts of sportsmanship, fair play and teamwork. And for those of
us that happened to play and reaped the benefits of Little League, it was
Carl Stoles on this date, nineteen thirty nine. Maybe some of these over
zealous parents I see at little League field should be reminded, you know,
one of those difficult things of a youth program not the kids, it's the
parents, and the parents need to realize, along with some of the coaches,
that the program designed for the kids, not for them. Okay,
here's something for you, Rick. With this year round travel ball that's gone
around and grown into a monster of its own, what advice would you give
to a parent that has a young boy or girl that plays Little league.
Now, I don't know all the intricacies of travel ball, but I'm not
a gigantic fan of it overall. When it's just constant this, I truly
believe in retrospect. I truly believe that playing a lot of different sports if
you're interested, not being forced, but if you're interested, I think help
you overall develop your motor skills and give you a better insight and maybe even
a better appreciation for one sport versus the other. I say that because I
grew up with some guys. It was before travel ball. But I know
how some of the guys played on different teams and different teams and different teams,
and that's all well and good. But I know a couple of guys
that were maybe the best players that I played against in Little league and in
Pony League and in American legue in baseball, that they burned out very very
quickly, and they had nothing to do with baseball, and they could have
gone on. In my estimation, I saw a lot of guys that could
have gone to very good universities, maybe on scholarships, to play the game.
Well, you're a great example of that. At Santa Monica High School.
You weren't just a baseball player. You were a basketball player too.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I played football and occasionally would run a
track an event here in an event there also participated something was called at the
time, and it was held at the La Coliseum, the Junior Olympics,
and I ran the four forty relay in the Junior Olympics at the coliseum along
with then it was the broad jump now it's the long jump and finished in
the top three in that category. And when you were done, you went
surfing in the Santa Monica Bay. Yeah. Our biggest decision, our biggest
decision in Santa Monica High School is when we had the two a day practices
for football. In that break, that two or three hour break, if
we would stop at this one root beer place on the way to the beach
or on the way back from the beach, that was our biggest decision at
the time, toughest high school decision right there. Yeah, it'll be a
tough decision on the plane too. Do I hear you? Do? I
sit next to you? Do? I sent a long way away from you?
Love it, Rick, We'll all come bother you either way. Oh,
I'd look forward to it. Thanks, I'll send it back to you
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now what will likely be vasse fielding insults from a Dodger player. It's an
engagement of endearment this high and tight. The Dodgers are wrapping up the series
in Pittsburgh, and I'm here with a man that certainly inspires his teammates by
the way he approaches the game. And last night, Jason Hayward did that.
Man, you were an inspiration last night, the way you just kept
playing and the team almost came back to complete the comeback, no no doubt.
One one at bat at a time, one pitch at a time,
one player at a time. It's uh, you know, it's fun to
compete. You know, they played a really good game. They got off
to a nice start, and we kept having abs and our bullpen did a
very nice job coming in. Sounds like you're quoting Creed the movie Creed,
because that's what Rocky would tell Adonis. One step at a time, one
punch at a time, one round at a time. I've seen it,
but I did not even think anything about that. But you know, I
think like that's you know a big part of games like that one when you
go down early, it's like you know, one thing at a time,
control what you can. You know, no different from any other game,
but still, like literally you have to lock in and buy in, you
know, to that. I thought we did a pretty good job against their
starter. He made pitches, but we had a B's you know, good
AB's team. AB's put us from runs and like I said, Bullpen came
into a nice job. They out slowed this last night. Jason, do
you feel like you're starting to get into the rhythm of the season. Obviously
it was stopped because of the back injury, but do you feel like you're
starting to get back into the rhythm. Yeah, definitely, I would say
so. And you know, in my mind, the rhythm is all about
adjusting, you know, one day at a time, take what you got,
focus on what you do have, not what you don't. Go compete.
So yeah, it's nice to be back in the floor of that,
you know, knowing my role right now is kind of be ready for whatever
it's always been that, you know with this group. But you know,
still it's just nice to be focused on the day to day and you take
care of what I can take care of and you know, compete with our
guys. How would you take inventory of where you guys are at as a
team. Right now. We are playing the schedule. We're playing the schedule
and you know, competing every day. What I do love is that you
know, our thoughts and vibes are like, you know, we do this
together. You know, ups, downs, all that kind of stuff,
and you know it's all a part of it. You know. I'm I'm
happy to be honest to see us like needing to figure things out right,
need to make adjustments, be aware of the details that we you know,
have to adjust to, whether it's on the fly or on one day at
a time. And then you know, over the one sixty two. I
like what that, you know, the opportunity that gives us as a group
because obviously you know again like the cares, they're the work ethics there.
But it's also nice to know, like waging it to end network and uh,
that's that's why I really like about right now. No matter how the
stretches, is it fair to say that offensively or as a group, you
guys are experiencing more adversity than you did at any point in time during the
regular season last year. I have no idea. I mean, I think
when I say that meaning like schedules or schedules like sometimes you line up you
get everybody's best. Sometimes you catch one of their best and and get another.
You know, we'll see how you know, the rest of us have
finishes out. We'll see how the second have goats like. But at the
same time, I think that's that's great with competition, is getting everyone's best
and teams going forward, so they want to do their best to line things
up that way. But all in all, you know, missing months is
very tough, you know, me not being here for you know, that
amount of games was tough for our balance and whatnot. So if anything,
I just think like the reality is like, yeah, it's fair to say
you're trying to cover you know, more things at once than what we had
to go through at any point last year health wise. But that's that's the
name of the game, you know. It's how you handle injuries, how
you handle depth and make up slack for things like that. But no,
all in all, you have to you know, understand like sometimes the offense
is going to be there, the pitching's going to have a tough game sometime,
the pitching's going to be amazing, and the offense is not going to
be there, but you keep pushing and you fight like hell to have that
all line up. Jay, thanks a lot for the time. I love
the respect your teammates have for you. You've earned that respect and they certainly
show that. So thank you for the time. And we'll see on the
plane tonight. I appreciate you, Bro. We'll have a good flight there.
He is the man, Jason Hayward. We'll send it back to you
in the studio. Tim, all right, thanks a lot. DV Dodgers
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a Southern California kid. Twenty two year old left channer at a Chino Hills
fifth round pick of the Phillies in twenty fifteen, made his major league debut
in twenty one with the Phillies, traded to the Pirates at the deadline last
year. Making his twelve start this season last time out six shutout innings,
two hit, five strikeouts and a no decision against the Blue Jays. He's
making his second career appearance and first start against the Dodgers. His only other
appearance came against the Dodgers in twenty one at Dodgers Stadium, when he was
his second career appearance in the big leagues. He went three innings in relief
in a Phillies three to one loss. He is two and O by the
way at PNC Park this year two fifty six ERA seventeen strikeouts and holding new
opponents to a one eighty four batting average. Walker Buehler on the mound for
the Dodgers one in three four to thirty two ERA, twenty nine year old
right hitder, making his six starts since returning from Tommy John surgery last time
out, six innings, four runs, six hits, seven strikeouts, four
walks in a loss to the Colorado Rockies. Three career starts against the Pirates,
he's two and zero with a two thirty seven ERA fifteen strikeouts in nineteen
innings. Both of his wins came at PNC Park, where he's got a
sub one ERA flowing one run over thirteen innings. Walker Buehler Bailey Falter out
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Ahi, Tim, thank you very much. We count you down to the
first pitch of the third and final game here in Pittsburgh. This year,
the Dodgers zero and two in this series. They were shut out, won
nothing in Game one, losing ten to six last night. But tonight different
night, and Walker Bueller, coming off back to back starts in which he
is not won through a season high ninety two pitches against Colorado last Friday,
came away with a loss. So Bueller is due to have a good outing
and he hopes that he can put one together here tonight. I think just
trying to put things together, including the delivery iron things out. He's not
been happy with it. In the first inning has been problematic for Walker Buehler,
with the batting average of over four hundred in the first inning that he
has faced the opposing hitters. So one thing about it, he gets the
ball over the plate, he's got a high percentage to strike outs. Hopefully
that's the case tonight. And for the Dodger hitters, they have to figure
out Bailey Falter a couple of notes very very quickly. First of all,
Falter, in particular right handed batters, he's trying to run the ball in
on their hands and hitters have not really been able to get on top of
that elevated fastball. So the Dodgers have some work to do and figure him
out early. A couple of pitching injury notes for the Dodgers. Tomorrow.
It'll be another rehab start for Bobby Miller, should be his last rehab start
before he joins the rotation in a little less than a week. And also
a Kyle Hurt will pitch in a rehab game tomorrow. Tomorrow. Also,
Clayton Kershaw will have a two inning SIM game in Rancho Cucamonga. Again,
it's not in the minor league game. It's going to be early in the
afternoon aside from everything, just to clarify that, but he's going out to
Rancho to pitch against some of those guys from the Quakes tomorrow. So we
should have a report over the weekend on the progress of Clayton Kershawn when he
may be ready to make that next step and get out and face more hitters.
Meantime, we get you set Pirates Dodgers Game three coming up from Pittsburgh.
Tim, all right, don't forget when this game is over, I'll
be back with all the postgame festivities. That's right, getaway day for the
Dodgers as they head to New York to take on the Yankees. I'll have
Dodger talk as well. First pitch from Pittsburgh is next. Walker Buehler on
the mound for the Dodgers. Bailey Falt out at Chino Hills. We'll go
for the Pirates. First pitch is next. I'm Tim Kates has been wrong
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