Hi everybody, and thanks for being with us on this off night Dodger Talk
here on AM five to seventy LA Sports. Thanks for being with us Thursday
nights, May twenty third. A lot of graduations happening out there around southern
California, whether it's elementary school, middle school, high school, college graduations.
Congratulations to all those graduating promoting moving on to the next level. It
is a big accompt of accomplishment for everybody out there putting it in the time
and the effort and the hard work through their education. So big congratulations to
all the graduates out there at all levels this graduation season. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy is our phone number here on off night
Dodger Talk. And I want to hear from you on this Thursday night because
the Dodgers right now sit atop the NL West. They've got a lead in
the division over the San Diego Padres by six and a half games. That's
right. The Padres and Giants both won today. They have picked up a
half game on the Dodgers of the Padres are a six and a half games
back. The San Francisco Giants are seven and a half games back. But
the Dodgers just finished a thirteen games in thirteen day stretch and basically they played
a game over five hundred during that stretch. They win seven and six.
They're coming off a home stand in which they went four and three. They're
coming off a series in which the Dodgers dropped two of three to the Arizona
Diamondbacks. And certainly it's a long one hundred and sixty two game season.
Then the Dodgers have a six and a half game lead, They're thirty three
and nineteen, and they're sitting pretty comfortably atop the NL West. And it's
not nitpicking here. It's not picking zits on a supermodel, so to speak,
here as far as the Dodgers are concerned. But there are some things
that are starting to pop up with this Dodgers team. Through the first I
don't know what sixty two game, fifty two games of the season, there
is a point in which the Dodgers seem to just kind of hit a roll,
whether it's in a series, a home stand, a road trip.
And I know it's tough to get up for one hundred and sixty two games,
and this is a Dodgers team that is winning a lot of series.
But I look at this series against Arizona, these last three nights out of
Dodgers Stadium. They win the series opener, and the Dodgers extend their winning
streak, and the Dodgers are riding high, winning four in a row after
dropping the series opener to the Reds. And they come back the next night
and they lose seven to three to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Christian Walker hits a
home run, Marte hits a home run, and the Dodgers struggle. The
Dodgers again lose last night and they get shut out six to nothing by the
Arizona Diamondbacks. Zero for eight runners in scoring position. They strand eight base
runners out there and quite frankly, offensively locked any kind of enthusiasm in my
mind any pop out out there. Mookie Betts got on base a couple of
times, Gavin Luxman two for four, but the Dodgers had an opportunity after
opportunity to drive in runs and just missed on fastballs right down the middle of
the plate from Ryan Nelson, who came in it struggling so much so that
Tory Lavello, the manager of the Diamondbacks brought in an opener to start in
place with Ryan Nelson so he can come in as the bulkinning guy. And
Ryan Nelson looked really good against the Dodgers. Had some traffic on the bass
pass, but got out of that traffic challenging Dodgers' hitters. The Dodgers are
first six innings yesterday, had runners on base and stranded them there. Otani
left on base in the first taskar Herlanda is a lead off walking the second
they got nothing. It won out double by Mooky. In the third,
Dodgers have the heart of the lineup up and Otani and Freeman get out.
In the fourth inning, second and third, with one out, Andy Pott
has strikes out on a ball down the middle. Jason Hayward grounds out.
Threat done. Fifth inning, first and second, nobody out, Otani flies
out, Freeman strikes out, Will Smith flies out to end the thread.
The sixth inning, one more chance. The Dodger's still in this game.
First and second, nobody out. How many times are they gonna put on
a platter for you? And Andy Pott has grounds out into a weird two
five six' two double play, and then Jason Hayward flies out. There's
just to me stretches in which the Dodgers look lethargic out there offensively at the
plate. They don't have that fire at the plate. And I got a
couple of texts last night from Buddy saying, what kind of a bats are
these that the Dodgers are having? How do you have runners on base less
than two outs and not put the ball in play, not driving a run,
not get on the scoreboard. And it's happened several times. I don't
know if it's the Dodgers feel like we've already won a series. In this
case, they lose the series, but we're already at the end of the
finish line, so to speak, of this homestand this series, this road
trip, and they have letdown games, And to me, I'm starting to
see too many letdown games at the end of a series. They're now eight
and nine in getaway games eight and nine, there are sub five hundred team
in getaway days. Into a road trip, over into a homestand into a
series, you're moving on to a different part of the road trip eight and
nine for Dodger team, that's thirty three and nineteen to be under five hundred
in getaway games of a series, a road trip, a homestand that to
me is pretty glaring. Finish off their teams, finish off a series.
And it may seem like nothing right now, but you got to start learning
how to finish off teams. Why because when you get to October, you
have to finish off a team and you have to know how to put your
foot on the throat, cut the head off of a snake, so to
speak of. It's the Diamondbacks. When you're up in a series, whether
it's the NLDS, a wild Card round, the NLCS, the World Series,
you're up in a series two games to one, three games to two,
finish them off. Don't get complacent, don't get in a rut,
don't get into well, you know what, we'll figure it out. Because
last night is a prime example of a Dodgers team that can put the ball
all in play when they want to, but when they've got opportunity after opportunity
and they don't, they get shut out again for the third time this season.
Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. A lot
has gone right for this Dodgers team. Certainly, they're playing really well,
but right now, something that sticks out is finishing off series, finishing off
home stands, finishing off a road trip. Finishing off series is gonna be
a big thing for this Dodgers team come October. It will be you remember
it. You don't think so. Now you're sitting in your car, you're
sitting back listening to Dodge to talk, eating a little something, and you're
like, you're crazy, cats, what are you talking about. I'm telling
you put it in the old memory bank. This Dodgers team learns needs to
learn how to finish off a team. It's something that it's starting to feel
like it's a problem. And the Dodgers went on the road and cured some
of those problems a couple of road trips ago and got right again after losing
three straight series at home. The Dodgers are going on the road again right
now for a six game East Coast road trip. And these are series the
Dodgers to win. At Cincinnati, at New York against the Mets. They
should win these series. They're rested, they're ready to go. They should
be rejuvenated after a day off at a night in Cincinnati to enjoy a night
steak meal or wherever they're at in Cincinnati before a three game series and heading
off to the Big Apple and City Field next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
But it's just something that I was thinking about last night and again when
I got some text messages from Buddy saying what's going on in these getaway days
and a couple of jokes about how maybe I'm a curse doing getaway Dodger talk.
No, no, no, This Dodgers team is really good and they've
won series. But to me, to be eight and nine and get away
days, you got to finish off teams. You got to finish off opponents
when you have a series win or a chance to go out on a winning
note on the road eight six, six nine, eight seven, two five
seventy. And I bring this up because the Dodgers right now are not only
need to figure that out come October. Learn now how to win, how
to finish off teams, because when you get to October you're gonna have to
do that. Learn now how to manufacture runs, so when you get to
October, you're not having to figure it out on the fly. You get
it. Practice things now, do them now. Over the course of one
sixty two so when you get to October, it's not new to you finishing
off teams manufacturing runs. Last night, the Dodgers were down three to nothing
after a three run fifth inning, but they had the first four innings to
get on the board. Just scratch, crawl, do something to get a
run across to take the lead. In the fifth inning, they're down three
to nothing and they have first and second, nobody out. Tyler Glass now
pitches his butt off, gives up three runs in the fifth inning. You
have a chance to pick them up. You have a chance to make it
right for Tyler Glass. Now, first and second, nobody out. Oh
Tani flies out, runners move over, Freeman strikes out, and Will Smith
flies out. Your two three four hitters with runners in scoring position, and
what is a tainable game? Still only three to nothing? You get one
runs, three to one, you get two runs. It's a one run
game. And Tyler Glass now maybe goes back out there, gives you an
extra inning, or do you get closer to that Diamondbacks bullpen. Things could
change with a pitch here, pitch there. We saw that last night with
Tyler last Now in the fifth a one out walk and then a single and
then a one to two pitch to Corbyn Carroll and all of a sudden,
a nothing, nothing game is a three to nothing lead after Corbyn Carroll's two
run triple, and then you spike a ball and Corbyn walks in from third
on a wild pitch. Baseball can change in a hurry eight six, six,
nine, eighty seven to two five seventy. I also want to bring
up the point that the Dodgers are going into a stretch, not just thirteen
games in thirteen days and they finish off, but they're now going into a
stretcher which they're going to make two East Coast road trips in the next three
weeks. They go to Cincinnati and New York for six a day off a
week from today, and then they get a three game series at a home
against Colorado. That is it, three games at home against Colorado, a
day off, and they're going back to the East Coast, three at Pittsburgh,
three at Yankees against the Yankees. This is a tough stretch. You
thought thirteen games in thirteen days was rough, and the Dodgers, you know,
had some of those games at home. They're on the West coast.
Certainly, you only had to play San Diego, San Francisco, and then
back home for a seven game homestand you didn't have to leave California. But
now they're gonna have to go to the East Coast twice. So it's an
interesting stretch here for the Dodgers, going back east to Sincy in New York,
only back home for three games, and then right back to the East
Coast for Pittsburgh and the Yankees. You've got fifteen games, twelve of which
are gonna be in the Eastern time zone, and you've got to make two
cross country flights. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of one hundred
and sixty two games, I understand that, but that's a lot of travel
and wear and tear on it team that right now is playing over the last
thirteen games basically a little over five hundred baseball and what was possibly an eight
or nine game lead, the division is down to six and a half and
the Padres are gonna keep winning. And he's certainly the Giants, maybe they're
playing a little bit above their skis right now, but the Padres are a
team to keep an eye in on your in your rear view mirror. There
as far as being only six and a half games back eight sixty six,
nine eight to seven, two five seventy. Coming up at about seven forty,
we're gonna get you a farm report, and again i'll give you an
update of the Dodgers' top minor league prospects. There's already been some shifting when
the season starts in the minor leagues about you know, ten days after the
major league start. Minor league camp breaks and guys report to Triple A,
Double A, High A Ball, Low w A Ball. They stay maybe
at Campbelback Ranch for rookie ball and extended spring training. But guys break about
ten days after the major league season starts, and already we've seen some shifting
because the Dodgers have called up from Triple A arms Miguel Vargas. That means
it's a trickle down effect. We're seeing guys then called up from Double A
to Triple A to fill the void, and guys are rewarded for good play
the first five weeks of their minor league season, so it's a trickle down
effect. We're seeing guys moved up from Rancho to Great Lakes, Great Lakes
to Tulsa, the Double A team and Double A Tulsa to Triple A Oklahoma
City. So we'll give you an update on the Dodgers' top twenty prospects and
some guys who are off to great starts that maybe aren't on the radar necessarily
with Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus and MLB dot Com, but that are off
to really good starts here in twenty twenty four and have earned promotions up to
different levels in the minor league. So that's coming up at seven forty.
Your phone calls at eight six six, nine eighty seven, two five to
seventy. Also, today is an anniversary for Sean Green. Now, you
older Dodger fans have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about, but you'll
hear it coming up in about ten minutes. What Sean Green did on this
day, Now, it's gonna be hard to believe twenty two years ago,
is that right? Twenty two years ago Sean Green accomplish this feat. You'll
hear that come up about ten minutes. We'll take a quick break, we'll
come back. Your phone calls Stu, Chris, Gregbrian, Roger, Izzy,
I see it. I got one line open. Eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy. Dodgers need to start finishing off teams,
start winning series. Stop messing around when you get a team on the ropes,
finish him off. When you take the first game of a series,
come back the next night and beat him again. When you got a rubber
game in a three game series like you did last night, you got to
manufacturer runs, figure out a way to get some runs on the scoreboard and
stimulate the offense. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. It's
Off Night Dodger Talk. It's gloomy out in southern California as the sun sets
on this Thursday night. Thanks for being with us, Tim Kates, ronniey
Fossio, and you right here on your home of the Dodgers, AM five
seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tim Kate's with you here
on this Thursday night, May twenty third. Off Night Dodger Talk continues until
the top of the hour. Coming up in about twenty minutes. We'll get
you a farm report. Coming up in less than ten minutes. We will
get you an anniversary for Sean Green twenty two years ago today. Hard to
believe it was that long ago. It feels like it was literally just a
few years ago, but twenty two years ago today, what Shawn Green did
in Milwaukee eighty six, six nine, eighty seven two five seven's go out
to the phones, thanks for being patient. Chris is in Malibu, Chris,
welcome to Dodger Talk. How you doing? Hey, damn you got
me? I got you, Chris? Go ahead. Hey, you know,
so this is my very first of all, if you have if you
have a payroll and this kind of quality of guys, get the first two
guys on base. There's no reason storing at least one run seventy five percent
of the time. I mean, I just the guys are just too good
not to do that. And here's my theory, a little bit out there.
But what do you think of this Freddy Wiggles. Let me let me
finish the sentence here about the Freddie Wiggles, I associate the I associate the
Freddie wiggle with last year getting swept by the diamond Back. Remember the Washington
Nationals, the baby dark thing. Yeah, they didn't do that. The
next year they did something different. I think what I'm boiling it down to
is they don't have this killer instinct. I'm going they're getting a triple and
you're doing a goofy little Freddie wiggle. I don't think it's very intimidating.
You need to kind of be really going after the team, like you're out
there to just knock them out. You have to and chick the other team
doing a silly little wiggle dance that you did last year that you lost.
The whole thing isn't freaking. It's the long mindset, all right. I
appreciate it, Chris. It is a different celebration. It's not necessarily the
same Freddy wiggle that they used in twenty twenty three. I don't know the
background of this. I'm not prevy to that. Maybe you have read or
heard in an interview a player talk about it if you have eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven, two five seventy. But from what I understand,
it's completely different, and it's a little wiggle and boom shake to one side.
So I can't believe we're sitting here actually talking about celebrations after a double,
a single, or whatever they do to get on base to celebrate what
they just did. But I guess we're here at that point. But it's
not the Freddy Wiggle like it was a year ago. It is a little
different than that. Again, I don't know what exactly it means. I
don't know the history of it. I know Freddie Wiggle was his dancing that
he did at a birthday party and also what he did at the gala last
year. But it's completely different. I don't think it has good or bad
juju either way. As far as what happens on the field, I don't
believe in that, but you know, certainly if you do, then more
power to you. Greg and Sherman Oaks is next up here on Off Night
Dodge. You talk. Hi, Greg, Yo, long time listener,
first time caller, appreciate that. Grab it to our mind. Yeah,
you know, you were talking about those getaway games, and I know the
team has relied a lot on the long ball. I would be interested to
look at the stats on those getaway games and see how many home runs we've
hit in those getaway games and the staff the reason we're not hitting them is
that the reason why we're losing, And if so, I'm kind of worried
about that. We've got a manufacturer runs. Just like you said, Yeah,
it's something They've been pretty good at doing and I appreciate the phone call.
Greg. I'm bringing up this stat that I saw yes yesterday, and
now I'm trying to go back and find it about the Dodgers' home runs and
where are they at as far as record wise when they do hit home runs,
And I'm going to try to figure that out and pull that up here
as soon as I can find it. But yeah, the Dodgers, I've
been pretty good as far as not relying on the home run ball the start
this season. Certainly, when they do hit home runs, their record is
really good. And when they don't hit home runs, it comes down and
they're more of a pedestrian team as far as win loss record is concerned.
But I don't know and getaway days of a series or a road trip or
a homestand necessarily what the home run to win loss ratio is eight sixty six
ninety seven two five seventies, stealing Calabatsa's thanks for being patience too. How
are you doing tonight? Excellent? Tim, Thanks for having me on.
I see a glaring in that miss and Dave Roberts' inability to use the bunt
if you got first and second, nobody out, a little leaguers, pony
leaguers, all the way up through the organizations. You bunt them over to
get him into scoring position. He's got guys on second base and extra innings
recently, where the guy's on second, nobody out. He doesn't bunt them
to third. When's the last time you saw a Dodger bunt. I saw
Dodger attempt to bunt. H was a key. Key Hernandez attempted to bunt
and popped out. The other night, I did see shoey Otani put down
a bunt for a basic ruled the basic could have been ruled an air on
the throw. But I've certainly seen it more this year Stu than in the
past five years. There's no doubt about that. Why why did he have
a thing against bunting. He's a little guy who played small ball his whole
career. Why wouldn't bunting just be a natural transition into managing Well, I
think that I appreciate it. I think the bunch comes more into play during
the regular season in extra innings, especially when you have that free runner at
second base and you're batting and you want to get that runner across it's it's
in the numbers. I guess you know to butnt that guy over with one
out a chance to drive him in. Now, Certainly, if it's the
heart of your lineup, you know you're two three, four hitters, you're
not necessarily going to ask them to bunt a runover to then try to run
get a run in. But if it's where you're up the home team and
you hold the opponent to no runs in the top half of the inning,
you're the tenth inning and it's three to three game, and all of a
sudden it's the bottom of the tenth inning, the Dodgers are at home,
and you got the free runner at second. I think it's in the best
entrance of the Dodgers at that point to bunt the runner over to third one
out. Then all it takes is the ball driven to the outfield, a
ball to the gap, and even a base it certainly, and you win
the ball game. When you're just needing one run and you can get them
ninety feet away with one out, I think that's where you want the bunt
to come down. I don't think in a three to two game necessarily in
the fifth inning and you're asking somebody to bunt to get the runner over to
the third to try to get the time run into that situation. I think
you let it play out until you get later in the game. Now here's
the what I was looking for. Play Carris put this out there on Twitter
and this was posted yesterday. The Dodgers record in twenty twenty four when hitting
two or more home runs seventeen and one to nine to forty four win percentage.
The Dodgers record this year when hitting at least one home run in a
game eleven and six. Okay, still five games over five hundred. The
Dodgers record when they hit zero home runs in a game zero. They are
now five and twelve for seven games under five hundred. Again, much different
looking Dodgers team win loss record wise. When they don't hit home runs two
or more home runs, they're seventeen and one. Hit one home run,
they're eleven and six. When they hit zero home runs, they're five and
twelve, eight six, six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's
go to Eric and Hollywood. Always great to hear your voice, Eric,
how you doing on this Thursday night? Nod JR. Nay shoo, Tim,
you know what. I am always glad to call it and talk to
you, Tim. I think you're amazing. Thank you very much for those
stats. But I am a little bit concerned. I know it's really really
early in the season. I listen to you all the time. Hey,
relax, don't jump overboard yet. But some of the tendencies that I see
from the Dodgers is what I saw in the postseason last year. It's like
guys disappear and they're not balling, and they're not putting. They're not they're
not putting back to ball and getting singles and stuff like that. Now,
I'm not as seasoned as you are, because you watch this game and you
know this game better than I do. I'm just a fan and I'm gonna
overreact, and you're hearing me right now. Overreact. But what is it
with the jelling of this team. I don't think they're jelling yet, you
know what I mean. I know that whole thing with O Tommy and You're
gonna pitch it and all that, and ki Oscar and and you know,
and and and and Miquel and all that. They're all messing with him.
But it's it's something about a jelly phase that this team needs to get to.
The ninety nine Yankees had a geling phase and they came into every game
like nobody's gonna beat us. We have the best team on the field.
There's no way you're gonna beat us. I just don't feel like the Dodgers
have that, you know, I just don't all right, fair enough.
I think this team has gelled well. I think this team has been hit
with a lot of off the field distractions already, and that has certainly been
the case with what's happening off the field with Ipe show Otani's former interpreter.
I mean, that is a big story. That is certainly something that has
affected Shohees's personal life in a big way, and showi Otani has continued to
go out there every day and play even when it broke over in Korea.
It is something that for a new player on a new team with new teammates
to lose his best friend and interpreter that's been around him and this game for
the last six years in Anaheim, he very easily could have taken some time
away from the game. He very easily could have been in a huge rut
with all the distractions and mentally just checked out. It could have affected this
clubhouse tremendously with the being a distraction and constant questions from the media, from
international media, from the news media starting to cover the story. It could
have been a huge problem as far as talked about every day and a focus
that's taken away what they're doing on the field. But it hasn't. It
hasn't. Shohay has continued to go out there, play every day, produce,
been really good, been a good teammate, and it hasn't been an
issue, I believe at all in the clubhouse away from the field, with
this team, traveling personalities on the team, it just hasn't affected them.
And that's something that very easily could have affected this team with a new guy,
most high paid player in baseball, highest paid salary in North American history
of professional sports, and it breaks like it did off the field, it
could have been a monstrous distraction and something that really caused a problem in the
clubhouse because of all the questions. But it didn't. I think that the
credit to everybody in that clubhouse, a credit to the leadership of Dave Roberts,
that coaching staff, guys like Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman Tasker, Hernandez,
for keeping a light keicking Hernandez, for keeping a good attitude out there,
everybody involved in that roster and in that clubhouse and on that team playing,
and in the team buses. I think that doesn't get talked about enough,
quite frankly, to be thirty three and nineteen six and a half games
up playing the way they have been, and sure we're talking about finishing off
series. We're talking about a team that needs to do better in getaway days,
finishing off series, finishing off road trips or home stands. Put that
aside, this team very easily could have gotten off to a awful start.
For the distractions off the field was Shoeyo Tani, but they didn't a lot
of affect him on the field, between the lines and even in the clubhouse.
I think that needs to be addressed. What they've been able to overcome
with all the expectations and eyes on the Dodgers this year, for the signings
and for the amount of money that was spent, and with what they did
in free agency and who they brought in. There's a lot of people want
to shoot arrows at the Dodgers. Baseball people, baseball fans from all across
the country, and the Dodgers are going to get those slings and arrows all
the time for being the Dodgers, for being who they are and what they
do and how they win, and for being one of the best teams and
best organizations in baseball. And to have a distraction like that, again,
things kind have gone very south quickly, but they didn't. And that needs
to be I think talked about and mentioned because here they are first place in
the division. They've been able to compartment compartmentalize, excuse me, and put
aside all that stuff being talked about and dealt with in the court and off
the field and gone out and played baseball. Is he Isabelle in Anaheim?
Hi? Is he? Hey? Hayekim, how are you look good?
I got your tweet last night where you said you didn't want to call in
it was too late, you were too upset. How are we feeling twenty
four hours later? Well, they say, help we feel after tomorrow game,
because I'm still now over trust me. But Tay, last night game,
you know what I much? It was first rating last night, and
I forget that this is still a brand new team by and what's see what's
see what happened, It's just gonna be I'm ki hearing that this is a
season. Then I'm sallry. It's not for me anymore. It charly became
me lad after the fish after the Fish game. Is he Great to hear
your voice, Hope you're well, okay, okay, talk to you later.
I got to make sure we point this out. And great to hear
from is. I'm glads she's doing well today. May twenty third, twenty
twenty four, twenty two years ago. On this day, it was a
Thursday afternoon, a getaway Damn Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Dodgers
blew out the Brewers sixteen to three. How about this day from Shawn Green.
He had a chat with roysch here a couple of days ago. Breaking
ball hit pass first, a base hit for Green. His terrists will score
easily. Shawn's on the way to second, and he's got his fourth extra
base hit of the series in Milwaukee. Next pitch and Green sends a flyball
to Rhyde. O Chow has to go back on the ball. Still going
back and this ball is out of here. A home run for Sean Green
and the Dodgers have a three run blast and put them ahead six to one.
Sean Green has hit six home runs at Miller Park in the last two
seasons. Goes to one bolt in one's right Glennon rushed Jordan's late worked at
inning at two thirds, Green swings drives it high and deep the right center
field. This one is back and he's hit his second home run in the
ball game. He is fourth in the series and the Dodgers lead it nine
to one. And for Sean Green, boy, he is swinging and he
looks like the Seawn Green of last year. That ball was driven and the
right center field. It is three seventy four and that ball was shit up
into a landing. It takes outside one and zher and the next pitch he
drives it to left field. It is up. It is back and he's
done it for the third time. Sean Green three home runs this afternoon and
the Dodgers lead at ten to oohing Green going around second basin, he has
not been choosy. He's gone to right field, he's gone to right center
and this time he hit it over the left field wall. What an afternoon
for Sewan Green. The next one, there's a drive the right center field.
He's done it. Four home runs for Sean Green to tie the major
league record. The Milwaukee fans are in their fate, giving him a standing
ovation and as he circles third, What to day? Ross Porter and Rick
Monday with the call. May twenty third, two thousand and two. Shawn
Green six for six, a record tyn six six run scored, a record
tigned four home runs, a record tied five extra base hits, seven RBIs,
and a record setting nineteen total basis. Sean Green in Milwaukee this day
twenty two years ago. How about that? I remember that like it was
yesterday. All right, Coming up next, we'll get you a farm report.
We'll try to get some phone calls if we can. It's Off Night
Dodger Talk right here at AI seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Off Night Dodger Talk continues here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Tim Kates with you here until the top of the hour. Thanks for joining
us on this Thursday night, May twenty third, The Dodgers with a night
off. They're in Cincinnati about to start a three game series tomorrow at Great
American Ballpark. It's the start of a six game East Coast road trip tomorrow.
We'll get it all started with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck at three o'clock,
James Paxson on the mound for the Blue Right hander Graham Ashcraft will go
for the Reds first pitch at four to ten, and that'll be the start
of that three game series in Cincinnati. The Dodgers looking to get back on
track after dropping two of three to the Arizona Diamondbacks to finish off this last
homestead. Alright, let's get you updated on what's happening down in the minor
league for a ball all the way up to Triple A. Let's go down
on the farm. We start off with the Dodgers number one overall prospect,
Dalton Rushing, twenty three year old second round pick in twenty twenty two out
of Louisville. Baseball America has him down as the number forty three overall prospect
in all of baseball. Right now, he's in Double A Tulsa and tearing
it up, bitch slinging a peak pri at the right field, and this
one is long gone, and that one one hops over the fence. Belchia
Avenue. Dalpha Rushers drives a three run homer. That was a bolt time
here Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call, one of four home runs for
Dalton Rushing on this season in thirty games to forty eight average, six doubles,
the four round trippers, sixteen ribbies and eight eighty five ops. Hoossuay
de Paala. He's eighteen years old. He's the number forty two overall prospect
according to Baseball America. He's six three, one hundred and eighty five pounds.
The left handed hitting outfielder is in Rancho Cucamonga, and right now he
is crushing it all the way. There goes George the pitch his beltip deep
to right, the Hayes who's turns watches go on post sway that Paula overless
for the first fifth plus of the season. It's easy, just like that
Depalla in the drive steep bright field. We got ourselves at time on his
first career too hover game in a Rancho uniform posts Way. Paula one hundred
percent locked in Rancho Cucamugga Quakes for Radio Network in thirty one games, one
hundred and twenty one at bats, nine doubles, two triples, now four
home runs, three of which have come in the last three days. It's
got twenty three runs batted in sixteen walks a seven to seventy nine ops.
He's sixty three one eighty five, A big young man who most likely will
be on his way to Great Lakes with the promotion to High A Ball.
Dodgers number four overall prospect Nick Frosso twenty five year old right hander. He
has done for the year. He had shoulder surgery in November. He is
not gonna pitch. River Ryan, the dodgers number five overall prospect, twenty
five year old right hander, should be in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, but he's
on the sixty day il with OKC shoulder fatigue. Jackson Ferris twenty year old
left hander, the number seven overall prospect. The Dodgers got him in a
trade with the Cubs his past offseason involving Michael Bush. He was the second
round pick for the Cubs in twenty twenty two. He's in High A Ball
eight starts, one to three, five ninety one ERA, thirty nine strikeouts
in just thirty two innings. Diego Kartaya March Herald, the Dodger catcher now
twenty two years old. He's in Double A Tulsa, twenty six games a
one to ninety one average, two doubles, four home runs, thirteen ribies
and thirty three strikeouts. Stay Ron Lorenzo, twenty year old catcher, first
basement designated hitter, top one hundred prospect in Baseball America, a top ten
prospect for the Dodgers. The young Man of the Dominican Republic is in high
A ball with the Great Legs Loons, and he is hitting the ball hard
and the pitch let Runzo Laser in the left is down in rolls against the
wall for Theodness giving the wave around the new periods is fuck it up and
mob the twenty year old in center field. That thing is moving out there.
Walk off home run Loons Radio Network with the call that came yesterday for
the Loons. Thirty three games for Theyron one hundred and twenty three at bath
two thirty six average, but he got eight doubles, five home runs,
sixteen ribies, twenty five walks in an ops near eight hundred. Peyton Martin
a nineteen year old right hander. He's in low A ball Rancho Kuka Manga,
seventeenth round pick in twenty twenty two. He was slow played to start
the year out of extended spring training. Just three starts, eight and two
third innings. He's got twelve strikeouts. Kendall George, the Dodger's first round
pick a year ago. He's eighteen years old, five ten, one hundred
and seventy pounds. Kid was graduating from high school a year ago. Now
he's playing professional baseball. He's in Racho Kouka twenty seven games so far to
seventy five average, a double, eleven ribies, an eleven stolen basis.
He's a speedster. Maddix Bruns, first round pick of the Dodgers in twenty
twenty one, out of high school. He's now twenty two years old.
He's in Great Lakes. Five starts, got a lot of strikeouts a bit.
He's a swinging him in Masterman K's six strikeouts Ramatics runs here tonight Loun's
radio network with the call. He's got twenty three k's in thirteen and two
third innings and a one ninety eight ero. Maybe Maddix Runs has figured it
out. Dodgers top fifteen prospect Justin Robleski, twenty three year old left hander
in Double A Tulsa. Eight starts, two and one, record forty four
strikeouts in thirty nine and a third innings. Ronan Cop twenty one year old
left hander. He's in Double A Tulsa, a top twenty prospect for the
Dodgers, seven games, eight and two third innings. He's two and oh
with a nine to thirty five r He's got sixteen walks already in limited time.
How about some guys down on the farm there aren't considered top twenty prospects,
but are off to great starts here in twenty twenty four. Andre Lipsius
twenty six year old second baseman, first baseman. He was designated for assignment
in March by the Detroit Tigers. The Dodgers claimed him put him in TRIPLEA
Oklahoma City. What a season he's happening. Box pitch is ripped to left,
deep down the line towards the corner, and this is a fair paul
and a two run home run for Andre E. Lipsius, his second home
run of the game. He had an opposite field solo shot of the second
and now he yanks a two run shot to left field here in the fifth
Okay see Baseball Radio Network with the call three thirty five average, thirteen home
runs, nine doubles, thirty six ribbies, seventeen walks. He's got an
ops over a thousand. He's twenty six year old. Andre Lipsius Ben Casparius,
twenty five year old right handed pitcher, fifth round pick in twenty twenty
one out of Yukon. He started the year in Double A Tulsa five starts,
thirty four strikeouts in twenty one and two third innings. He was promoted
to Triple A Oklahoma City. So far in three starts two and oh two
to twenty five r raight, he's got eleven strikeouts in sixteen innings. Keep
an eye on him. He could be one of those next call ups for
the Dodgers. Jack Dryer, you heard about him last week on the Farm
Report, twenty five year old left hander. He can deal. He started
the year in Double A Tulsa fourteen and two third innings as a reliever with
twenty strikeouts. Promoted to OKC. So far in four games, four and
two third innings, he's given up a home run, three runs, eight
hits and five strikeouts. So a little bit of a tough adjustment for young
Jack Dryer. Jared Carroll's twenty three year old son of Eric Carroll, started
the year in High A Ball with the Great Lakes Loons. Was five and
oh sub two R thirty six strikeouts. He got promoted to Double A Tulsa.
He's already made a start this week. It was a rough one three
and two third innings, six runs, seven hits, six walks, got
a no decision. Alex Freeland, twenty two year old shortstop, a third
round pick out of Central Florida in twenty twenty two, started the year in
Great Lakes with the Loons, now in Double A Tulsa. Freeland in fourteen
games there three thirty three average, two doubles, three home runs, seven
ribies, and eleven walks. Ed Gardo Hearnriquez, twenty one year old right
hander out of Venezuela, started the year with Rancho Cucamonga between the Quakes and
High A Ball at the Great Leagues Loons. He's pitched in nine games,
seventeen to the third innings. He's got thirty four strikeouts and a one p
fifty ERA. Speaking of hard throwing right handers, Raynaldo Yeen, twenty year
old out of the Dominican Republic. He's in Rancho Cucamonga, the reliever,
sixty four to one ninety big guy, twelve games, two to zero three
saves eleven and two third innings. He can flat out deal oh two all
the way. Fastball at one oh four, Hey o, fastball swung on
and miss shut the door. Maybe don't say a word. The Quakes keep
it coming, five straight wins the Rainaldo Yean makes it happen here in the
ninth inning in one two three fashion as he picks up the Safe Quakes radio
network with the call one hundred and four miles per hour? Are you kidding
me? He throws one hundred miles an hour plus consistently, and he's got
an off speed pitch in the mid eighties. He is filthy. Reinaldo Yen
keep an eye out on the young twenty year old out of the Dominican Republic,
out of the bullpen with the Quakes. Certainly we'll get promoted with the
Great Lakes Loons. So there you go. You're caught up on what's happening
from Oklahoma City in Triple A down to Rancho Kuck among a lot of prospects
off to good starts here in twenty twenty four, and other guys that are
off to great starts as well at different levels, already moving in around from
different levels, up a ball to high a ball, high a ball to
double A, double A to triple A. We're seeing some shifting of the
Dodgers prospects now six weeks into the twenty twenty four minor league season. All
right, so you're caught up to date on what's going down on the farm.
That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk on this Thursday night. Certainly appreciate
all your phone calls. Great to go down memory Lane with Sean Green and
the anniversary of his fur home run game in Milwaukee, and glad to get
you updated on what's happened with the Dodgers minor league prospects down on the farm.
Thanks to Ronnie Foscio. Thanks to you for being a part of the
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