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Speaker 3: Dodgers lose again. They fall to the Brewers six to four,
Speaker 3: a game in which the Dodgers battled back from a
Speaker 3: three to nothing deficit, took the lead, only to have
Speaker 3: the bullpen give it up with a three run eighth
Speaker 3: inning by the Milwaukee offense against Daniel Hudson, and the
Speaker 3: Dodgers fall to the Brewers six to four. Hi, Welcome
Speaker 3: to Dodger Talk here on this Thursday afternoon. Tim Kate's
Speaker 3: with you here for the next thirty minutes until we
Speaker 3: hand things over to the Petrols. Some money show. Eight
Speaker 3: six six ninet eighty seven two five seventy eight six
Speaker 3: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. The Dodgers at
Speaker 3: one point had a five game winning streak. They won
Speaker 3: the first two games of this series in Milwaukee. A
Speaker 3: first place Milwaukee Brewers team, by the way, and a
Speaker 3: really good team that's very good late in games, and
Speaker 3: that is more obvious than the last two days where
Speaker 3: they've come back and beat the Dodgers. Today. They do
Speaker 3: it with three runs in the eighth inning against Daniel
Speaker 3: Hudson as the Dodgers fall apart late and lose today
Speaker 3: six to four. They split the four game series with
Speaker 3: the Brewers, but when they split games, they're losing in
Speaker 3: the standings. As the lead is getting smaller and smaller,
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers now have a two game lead over
Speaker 3: both the Diamondbacks and the Padres in the NL West,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers said at seventy one and fifty one, the
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks and Padres are both sixty nine and fifty three,
Speaker 3: two games back in the loss column, two games back
Speaker 3: in the win column. As the Dodgers played today, the
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks and Padres are both idle. So the Dodgers just
Speaker 3: lose a half game. So a two game lead now
Speaker 3: in the division and down the stretch they come. And
Speaker 3: if you're a Dodger fan, buckle up because it is
Speaker 3: going to be an interesting run for the Dodgers the
Speaker 3: rest of August September and going into postseason play, as
Speaker 3: the Dodgers right now find themselves with some question marks,
Speaker 3: and I think the biggest question mark the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: is the bullpen, and I bring it up for this reason.
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson's got a lot of innings underneath him right now.
Speaker 3: And today Daniel Hudson gave up three runs. And it's
Speaker 3: not reacting in the moment, oh no, But look at
Speaker 3: his numbers. Fifty one innings now or fifty innings pitched
Speaker 3: for Daniel Hudson. Last year he had twenty seven to
Speaker 3: third combined with the year before. Because he's been hurt
Speaker 3: for the last year and a half leg issues. In
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, Daniel Hudson pitched to combine fifty two innings.
Speaker 3: He's gotten to that point now where he matched twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one already here on June or August fifteenth. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers need to find more arms down there in the bullpen.
Speaker 3: And you look at what's coming. Maybe Bruce Dargradole, Ryan
Speaker 3: Brazier certainly is going to be added to this bullpen
Speaker 3: this weekend in the Saint Louis series. Blake Trining again.
Speaker 3: A lot of miles on that arm and that body.
Speaker 3: It's been taxed this year. He's on the injured list
Speaker 3: right now. But the Dodgers look at this bullpen and
Speaker 3: They've had a lot of arms being used and a
Speaker 3: lot of miles put on these arms this season. And
Speaker 3: the reason is starting pitching has just not gotten deep.
Speaker 3: Starting pitching has failed to go deep into games on
Speaker 3: a consistent basis. When you've got starters going three innings,
Speaker 3: four innings, pitching into the fifth and asking your bullpen
Speaker 3: to get twelve outs, to get fifteen outs, to get
Speaker 3: seventeen outs in a game, and do it on a
Speaker 3: daily basis, You're asking these guys to pitch a lot
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. Accountability for the starting pitching, yes,
Speaker 3: and it's taxed the bullpen, And that to me is
Speaker 3: a problem because it's August fifteenth, and I see a
Speaker 3: lot of veterans down that bullpen that have got a
Speaker 3: lot of innings underneath their belt, and I look at
Speaker 3: what's coming to help this Dodgers team. Is it going
Speaker 3: to be enough? I think the biggest answer to this problem,
Speaker 3: and I think it really is the Dodgers' biggest problem
Speaker 3: right now their bullpen and having enough guys with arms
Speaker 3: left to get him down the stretch and into the postseason.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are gonna need to get more out of
Speaker 3: these starting pitchers. They're gonna have to get more effort
Speaker 3: in innings out of every single starter moving forward. Jack
Speaker 3: Flaherty today, ninety three pitches through five innings. You could
Speaker 3: have maybe thrown them back out there in the sixth
Speaker 3: to face the heart of the lineup. Mitchell Contreras adamis
Speaker 3: for Milwaukee. Maybe he gets them out, Maybe he can
Speaker 3: get three more outs for the bullpen and make it
Speaker 3: a little easier for them. But they need more starting
Speaker 3: pitchers to get at least five, I mean minimum five
Speaker 3: now moving forward, because this bullpen to me looks tired.
Speaker 3: This bull bullpen to me, I mean look at Evan
Speaker 3: Phillips as an example. Evan Phillips, the slider doesn't have
Speaker 3: the bite anymore, as daunting as he was out there
Speaker 3: on the mountain late in a game, and how tough
Speaker 3: he was for hitters with that sweeper. He just does
Speaker 3: not look like the same Evan Phillips. These guys are
Speaker 3: getting older, and more innings put on these arms because
Speaker 3: of the lack of ability of starting pitchers to go
Speaker 3: deep has run this Dodger bullpen into the ground. It
Speaker 3: just has. And the Dodgers are a first place team,
Speaker 3: They're a team clinging on the division right now. Seventy
Speaker 3: one wins is fantastic, But I look at this team
Speaker 3: if they were if they were a car, they'd be
Speaker 3: almost running out of gas with their bullpen. Are they
Speaker 3: going to have enough to get through the stretch run
Speaker 3: and two October? The starting pitching is gonna have to
Speaker 3: be better. And with River Ryan going down, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: now need to find another starter tomorrow. Is it Justin
Speaker 3: Robleski who's gonna go out and pitch for the Dodge?
Speaker 3: It can't be a bullpen game. There's no way they
Speaker 3: can go a bullpen game tomorrow, not after the bullpen
Speaker 3: had to pitch the last two games. Land and Next
Speaker 3: saved their rear end by pitching four innings the other
Speaker 3: day in Milwaukee and not having to go to anybody
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. But now back to back games,
Speaker 3: you're asking the relievers to get a lot of outs.
Speaker 3: Four and a third innings yesterday they had to pitch
Speaker 3: combined today the Dodgers' bullpen had to come in and
Speaker 3: pitch the final four innings. Eventually, you can look down
Speaker 3: to the bullpen and say, man, we just don't have
Speaker 3: the arms they've had to piece it together with different
Speaker 3: players that they've picked up. Honeywell, they picked off of
Speaker 3: waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates to pitch against the Tigers
Speaker 3: right before the All Star break. Brent Honeywell wasn't on
Speaker 3: anybody radar, and all of a sudden he's come in
Speaker 3: and been a much needed arm out of that bullpen
Speaker 3: to help out the relievers on the back end. But
Speaker 3: today you saw I tire Daniel Hudson, to my opinion,
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson that just didn't have the bite, didn't have
Speaker 3: the control. And they're gonna need to get better starting
Speaker 3: pitching moving forward. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy. No Mookie Bets in the starting lineup today.
Speaker 3: It looks different, It certainly does. And and Mookie, you know,
Speaker 3: knowing that is gonna have to play every day moving forward.
Speaker 3: I know he missed what forty some odd games, and
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts wanted to get him off his feet today
Speaker 3: and not play four days in a row and get
Speaker 3: him ready for the next the next series in Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: I don't know his body, I don't know what the
Speaker 3: situation is, but you're in a dogfight and I need
Speaker 3: my best guys out there, not second guessing him. But
Speaker 3: you know, maybe Mookie gets out there and plays today,
Speaker 3: and I know he's he's still coming back, but Mookie
Speaker 3: is a freak athlete. Mookie bets can do anything. And
Speaker 3: to me, Mookie Betts's got to be in the lineup
Speaker 3: every day, and I think moving forward, he will be
Speaker 3: in the lineup every day. Today a day off to
Speaker 3: start the game, and the Dodgers lineup just looked different.
Speaker 3: It did show. Hey, o Tani one for five today,
Speaker 3: put the ball in play, only one strikeout. But don't
Speaker 3: look now, he's now hitting closer to two ninety than
Speaker 3: he is three hundred. That slug starting to come down.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers today put the ball in play, but hit
Speaker 3: it right at guys. They had ten hits out hitting
Speaker 3: Milwaukee again for the second straight game, but for the
Speaker 3: second straight game, can't hang on to a lead. Yesterday
Speaker 3: it was the defense getting away. Today it was Daniel
Speaker 3: Hudson in the bullpen letting them down. The Dodgers going
Speaker 3: forward are going to have to get better outings from
Speaker 3: their starters, deeper outings from their starters, because the bullpen,
Speaker 3: to me, looks taxed five seven. It's goad to the phones.
Speaker 3: Let's start things off with Garrett and Portway Niemi check
Speaker 3: it in here on Dodger Talk on this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 3: After a rough one, Dodgers lose six to four to
Speaker 3: the Brewers. What's up, Garrett, mister Tim, how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna assume could be better?
Speaker 3: Yes, you're correct, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, okay, so I'll get right to it. The eighth inning,
Speaker 4: I think you know, I'm usually the one on the
Speaker 4: other end of the Dave Roberts is the breezing Vollbar
Speaker 4: problems saying guys that players got to play the game.
Speaker 4: But just to your opinion, case that eighth inning, you know,
Speaker 4: he couldn't find the strike zone, so he walks the
Speaker 4: first two guys. That's no big deal, But there was
Speaker 4: nobody up in the bullpen n till he'd already given up
Speaker 4: a run. And to your point you just made, we
Speaker 4: need to give these relievers a break. And we're typically
Speaker 4: the ones that don't let the starters work through your problems,
Speaker 4: but we let the relievers give the game away. And
Speaker 4: I don't want to be hysterical, but I think you
Speaker 4: got the statup yesterday. I listen to the last Yesterday
Speaker 4: show too, three and forty going into the eighth inning
Speaker 4: with with losing or being in the eighth inning.
Speaker 3: That was three and forty two. Now one day he
Speaker 3: had that number.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I'm calling, right, I have vacillated, not
Speaker 4: even calling. I'm like, this is one game, but it's
Speaker 4: not one game anymore. We we have given away so
Speaker 4: many games in the eighth and ninth inning, and I
Speaker 4: think it was fascinating and fought back on some callers
Speaker 4: a few weeks back when someone says we don't have
Speaker 4: a closer, I think we'd start very evident. We have him,
Speaker 4: we just do not use him as one Michael Kobek,
Speaker 4: we traded for him. What are we doing? We need
Speaker 4: some stability in that eighth and ninth inning. We just
Speaker 4: don't have it. And as much as I love Daniel
Speaker 4: Hudson man He's had a career, he just doesn't have
Speaker 4: He doesn't have that outpitch every game. And it's we
Speaker 4: should have had someone backing him up when we saw
Speaker 4: he didn't have it in the first three in the
Speaker 4: first three batters, is my point. I don't think I
Speaker 4: really had a point calling, and I think I just
Speaker 4: meant to say, like, you brought up a good point
Speaker 4: yesterday and today it read it's over ahead again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it, Garrett, thanks for that. Uh, Dodgers
Speaker 3: three and forty two when trailing after the eighth inning,
Speaker 3: it's not that they're blowing games and the three forty
Speaker 3: two because of that, when trailing after the eighth inning,
Speaker 3: they are in the eighth inning on they are three
Speaker 3: and forty two. That's the number Rick Monday hat. So
Speaker 3: it's games late. They're just not able to come back
Speaker 3: and win it. It's not blowing leads per se.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the last two days haven't been good and they've
Speaker 3: letting leads get away from them. Today they give up
Speaker 3: three runs in the eighth inning. You talk about a
Speaker 3: great point you brought up. They don't let starters work
Speaker 3: through issues. And that's a baseball issue. That's not the
Speaker 3: Dodger issue. That's a baseball issue. They're so quick in
Speaker 3: baseball now to get to the bullpen the first sign
Speaker 3: of trouble adversity. It's rare to see a starter be
Speaker 3: allowed to pitch through it, work himself out of a jam,
Speaker 3: try to you know, really find a gut check and
Speaker 3: see if he can get out of a jam with
Speaker 3: runners on or deepen account and pitch himself out of it.
Speaker 3: Teams are so quick to go to the bullpens. And
Speaker 3: with that being said, you're right today Alex Vessia pretty
Speaker 3: much had a long leash there in the seventh inning.
Speaker 3: I know they started getting Daniel Hudson up, but back
Speaker 3: to back walks, an infield fly to Frelick and then
Speaker 3: they leave him into face or a tease, and he's
Speaker 3: still struggling to throw pitches and find the zone. And
Speaker 3: it was a three to two pitch that he got
Speaker 3: to pop out, and then terrain comes up and he
Speaker 3: falls behind three to one. I mean, Vessia had a
Speaker 3: pretty long leash there, falling behind in the count. Batter
Speaker 3: after batter after batter, after walking the first two that
Speaker 3: he faced. If that were a starter the first two walks,
Speaker 3: managers would have came out and pulled the guy. But
Speaker 3: for some reason, Alex VESSI had a long leash today.
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson did too. I all here from Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: coming up in a little bit. I don't know if
Speaker 3: he'll address it or not, but the Dodgers. Maybe he
Speaker 3: just didn't have the options today. Maybe guys were down
Speaker 3: and they couldn't go to him late in the game.
Speaker 3: Now you bring up cope Michael Kopek, I think is
Speaker 3: your high leverage reliever right now with the freshest arm,
Speaker 3: And I think today was a good spot for him
Speaker 3: in the sixth inning. And I questioned it at first,
Speaker 3: but Colling you and his baseball wisdom pointed out Dodgers
Speaker 3: with the four to three lead, it was the heart
Speaker 3: of the lineup coming up for the Brewers there in
Speaker 3: the sixth inning when Kopek took over after five innings
Speaker 3: of Jack Flaherty, Garrett Mitchell, Wilson Contreres, and Willia Damas,
Speaker 3: You've got the heart of the lineup right there for Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: And you bring in Copeck. You have a one run lead.
Speaker 3: You need somebody in to put a zero up. You
Speaker 3: need a stopper right there for the heart of the
Speaker 3: lineup for Milwaukee. And he did exactly that line out, strikeout,
Speaker 3: fly ball boom. Copeck gets the heart of the Brewers
Speaker 3: lineup out and then you leave it up to the
Speaker 3: rest of the bullpen to face Sanchez, Hoskins, Frelick and
Speaker 3: the guys at the bottom of the lineup for Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Turns out Bessia struggled held on to the lead, but
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson just couldn't get it done in the eighth inning.
Speaker 3: And again, the problem to me is, you've got a
Speaker 3: gassed bullpen and I don't I don't see it getting
Speaker 3: one hundred percent anytime soon. It's not like they have
Speaker 3: got days off coming. It's not like the All Star
Speaker 3: Break is coming. It's not like they've got a bunch
Speaker 3: of starters in a row that you can say, Okay,
Speaker 3: you know they're gonna give them six or seven and
Speaker 3: the bullpen's gonna get a little chance to catch his breath.
Speaker 3: The way it is now, the Dodgers have got TBD tomorrow,
Speaker 3: Tyler Glasnell on Saturday, and you can probably pencil in
Speaker 3: at least six right for Tyler Glasna on Saturday, and
Speaker 3: then Clayton Kershaw on Sunday. Hey, roll the dice. We
Speaker 3: don't know what Clayton Kershaw we're gonna get moving forward.
Speaker 3: It's game to game? Is it the good one? Is
Speaker 3: it the Clayton Kershaw posts shoulder surgery? We just don't
Speaker 3: know because we don't have enough sample size yet. After
Speaker 3: a few starts since he's made his return eight six
Speaker 3: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. JB Louisiana is
Speaker 3: next up here on Dodge Talk. Welcome, JB. Thanks for
Speaker 3: checking in. We got to JB. Go ahead, JB, go ahead.
Speaker 3: You're on the air, all right, Jabi, I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: you back on a hold. We appreciate you checking in
Speaker 3: from the Bayou. Let's go to Nick and San Diego
Speaker 3: is next up here on Dodger Talk. After the Dodgers
Speaker 3: blow a lead in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Nick? Not too good. I'm not happy about the last
Speaker 6: two games. You know, I'm starting to call calling Roberts
Speaker 6: insteads the manager. I'm calling the mismanager. You know, I
Speaker 6: you know, I understand all the players love him. You
Speaker 6: know he's good with the media, and but I don't know.
Speaker 6: He's not a strategist, that's for sure. He leads to
Speaker 6: too long or not long enough. Either way, it is
Speaker 6: never the right way. You say you're talking about Copech
Speaker 6: coming in, find a harder lineup. No, Kopex should be
Speaker 6: a closure period.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you got to hang on to that lead
Speaker 3: at that point, I appreciate the phone call. Nick. You
Speaker 3: got to hang on to that lead. In the sixth inning,
Speaker 3: it's four to three and you got the heart of
Speaker 3: the lineup coming in in a Milwaukee Brewers team that's
Speaker 3: top two in baseball and comeback wins. You need to
Speaker 3: put a zero up against the heart of the lineup
Speaker 3: in there in the sixth and if Dave Roberts is
Speaker 3: looking down the bullpen into what he got, Michael Copec's
Speaker 3: your best option if he goes to Vessia or he
Speaker 3: goes to somebody else besides Michael Kopek. Everybody's calling right
Speaker 3: now and said, why don't you go to Copek when
Speaker 3: you got the heart of the Brewers lineup coming up?
Speaker 3: He did that. Kopek put up a zero. Then it's
Speaker 3: on Alex Vessi to come in and put up a zero.
Speaker 3: In the seventh inning, he walked the tightrope and did
Speaker 3: not before walking the first two batters. And then it's
Speaker 3: given to Daniel Hudson who again starting to rack up
Speaker 3: those innings and put a lot of miles on that
Speaker 3: body that hasn't been out there for the lot pull
Speaker 3: out the greater part of the last two years because
Speaker 3: of injuries. Now I don't know who was shut down.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Dave Roberts after our break here, but
Speaker 3: you know, the options may not been in there for
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts to go to eight sixty six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 3: two five seventy. Alex Vesia throws twenty seven pitches today
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson blows the game and throws twenty pitches. Are
Speaker 3: Vessie and Hudson now down for Saint Louis series? They're
Speaker 3: not pitching tomorrow. Can they come back and pitch on Saturday?
Speaker 3: Or are they done until Sunday? So now you've got
Speaker 3: two less arms you can go to at least for
Speaker 3: the series open tomorrow in Saint Louis. We'll take a break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back, we'll get to your phone calls. We'll
Speaker 3: hear from the manager. Dave Roberts. I'm just as frustrated
Speaker 3: with you, But I look at the Dodger bullpen and
Speaker 3: I'm starting to get a little worried. Aging arms and
Speaker 3: a lot of innings. A lot has been asked for
Speaker 3: this Dodger's bullfit because the starter's inabilities to go deep
Speaker 3: into games, and it's not just a Dodger problem. It's
Speaker 3: a baseball program a problem. And I got a story
Speaker 3: for you as well. Major League Baseball maybe coming up
Speaker 3: with a plan to fix this problem because starters just
Speaker 3: don't go deep anymore. Eight six, nine, seven two five
Speaker 3: seventy Dodgers losing Milwaukee six for the final. They're leading.
Speaker 3: The division has shrunken down to two games. They're just
Speaker 3: two games up now on the Padres and the Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 3: Dodgers losing Milwaukee six to four. They were down three
Speaker 3: to nothing, tied, it took the lead, Daniel Hudson gave
Speaker 3: it away in the eighth India with three runs as
Speaker 3: the Brewers win. It's six to four. Coming up. We'll
Speaker 3: hear from Dave Roberts, so also gonna tell you what
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball is gonna maybe implement in a few
Speaker 3: years as far as starting pitching requirements. Let's go back
Speaker 3: out to the phones. Rudy and Baldon Park is next
Speaker 3: up on Dodger Talk. How you doing ruddy right?
Speaker 7: Guys?
Speaker 5: Do it?
Speaker 7: Thanks for taking a call. Sure I hear some Congress
Speaker 7: calling and talking about the starting pitcher bitching. I know
Speaker 7: we don't have a lot of good I mean they
Speaker 7: don't go along like before, but the boopin the booping
Speaker 7: being weak for a while already. These are not the
Speaker 7: first or second time they do it. They do it
Speaker 7: in Detroit, they did it yesterday, They've done it other times.
Speaker 7: I mean, is it a bitching coach or do you
Speaker 7: think they warn or you think their bullpen is getting
Speaker 7: too old? Because before we used to have a good bullpen.
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 3: It's a lot of aging arms down there, appreciate it,
Speaker 3: and injuries have hit this Dodgers team. You're you're counting
Speaker 3: on trying in Brazier, Hudson, I mean, uh, Vesia, I mean,
Speaker 3: these guys aren't spring chickens. You know, they're all over
Speaker 3: the age of thirty. These are guys, a couple of
Speaker 3: them past the age of thirty five and have battled
Speaker 3: injuries the last couple of years and missed significant time,
Speaker 3: and now you're asking to come back and do a
Speaker 3: full workload. It's tough. You're seeing guys hit walls. Alex
Speaker 3: Vessia did and seem to be pitching better the last
Speaker 3: week or so. Daniel Hudson, maybe he's hit that wall.
Speaker 3: I mentioned. He's over fifty innings now for the for
Speaker 3: the season. He didn't have fifty innings combined the last
Speaker 3: two years because of injuries. Jimmy and Santa Clarinas. Next up,
Speaker 3: you're on Dodge Talk. Jimmy, how you doing good?
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 5: Tim?
Speaker 8: Thanks again, I appreciate it. I just you know, we
Speaker 8: got we gotta get a hitting back. I mean, we
Speaker 8: need to score at least five or six runs a game. So,
Speaker 8: I mean the pitch has been all right. I mean,
Speaker 8: I say, check clarerty in Persian. But you know that
Speaker 8: dude slider got it's nasty. It's nasty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, appreciate it, Jimmy. They had ten hits today.
Speaker 3: They out hit the Milwaukee Brewers the last two nights.
Speaker 3: Defense threw it away for the Dodgers last night late
Speaker 3: and they lose to the Brewers. Today, the bullpen gives
Speaker 3: it up a bullpen that has gassed, the bullpen that
Speaker 3: is tired, and the bullpen that right now, I don't
Speaker 3: know who they call upon for help. The only help
Speaker 3: they're going to get is if starting pitching goes longer
Speaker 3: and Major League Baseball. Today ESPN a report that Major
Speaker 3: League Baseball is considering a six inning minimum for starting pitchers. Now,
Speaker 3: before you get too excited or too upset about this,
Speaker 3: anytime there's a rule change, like the pitch clock or
Speaker 3: anything that they implement Baseball, they have to start it
Speaker 3: down the minor leagues. The robowump the computerized Baseball umpiring system,
Speaker 3: it's being used in the mind of these right now.
Speaker 3: It's still another year away from being implemented, at least
Speaker 3: in Major League Baseball, so it has to kind of
Speaker 3: go through its trials and errors and test runs at
Speaker 3: independent ball in the minor leagues before it actually gets
Speaker 3: to the major leagues. So this would still be a
Speaker 3: few years away. But Major League Baseball's thinking is starters
Speaker 3: just don't go long anymore. It's very rare that you
Speaker 3: get a starting pitcher to go past the fifth inning.
Speaker 3: The average is five and a third innings. So right
Speaker 3: now they would have it at mandate that a starter
Speaker 3: has to go six innings and the only ways you
Speaker 3: couldn't go six innings is if the pitcher got hurt,
Speaker 3: you give up more than four runs in a game.
Speaker 3: And what is the third rule. There's a third rule
Speaker 3: that major League Baseball four throw one hundred pitches, give
Speaker 3: up four more earned runs, or you get injured. Those
Speaker 3: are the only way a starting pitcher would be able
Speaker 3: to come out before six innings. You get to one
Speaker 3: hundred innings, one hundred pitches, you give up four more
Speaker 3: un runs, or you get hurt. And the caveat is
Speaker 3: if you get hurt, you can't just say, oh, my
Speaker 3: guy's hurt, I'm taking them out of the no, no, no.
Speaker 3: The injury has to involve a stent on the il
Speaker 3: to avoid a kind of manipulation of that rule. So
Speaker 3: this is what Baseball is thinking about, and if they
Speaker 3: did implement it have to be agreed with the Baseball
Speaker 3: Players Association, and it's still years down the road because
Speaker 3: that's how things work. Again. You have to roll it
Speaker 3: out slow, six eating minimum, throw one hundred pitches, give
Speaker 3: up more earned runs, or get injured. Are the only
Speaker 3: three ways and exceptions that a pitcher can come out
Speaker 3: of a game. I kind of like it. Now, maybe
Speaker 3: you have to loosen up the pitch clock a little
Speaker 3: bit to help out with that, because now we're really
Speaker 3: just taxing starting pitchers and rushing them. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: kind of like the framework of where they're going. Maybe
Speaker 3: they'll tinker with it a little bit. Certainly the Players
Speaker 3: Association is going to push back, but I like the
Speaker 3: framework of that. I like the idea and thinking a
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball to implement a six inning minimum for
Speaker 3: starting pitchers. Again, it's going to be down the road.
Speaker 3: You have to build up minor leaguers to do what
Speaker 3: you got test run. It's it's not just gonna roll
Speaker 3: out next year. So it's it's down the line. But
Speaker 3: something major League Baseball is kicking the tires on Ken
Speaker 3: in Newport Beach next up here on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 3: you doing Ken?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 5: Tim? So you know, I've had issues with Roberts handling
Speaker 5: of pitchers for a long time, going only back to
Speaker 5: World Series in Kershaw leaving them too long. The last
Speaker 5: couple of years in playoffs a perfect example of Bueler
Speaker 5: gave up four runs, four walks, and four innings, and
Speaker 5: he has an era in the minor leagues of six
Speaker 5: point fifty and six. In the majors, he should have
Speaker 5: been out of there when you could see he didn't
Speaker 5: have any ability to throw strikes. Now I understand what
Speaker 5: you're saying about Kopex. He is the single best guy
Speaker 5: that got out of the pen. The problem with using
Speaker 5: him in the six is that Dodgers are losing games
Speaker 5: in the eighth and ninth and they didn't have the
Speaker 5: beginning of the lineup in the eighth inning. But their
Speaker 5: pitchers are so bad these days coming out of the pen.
Speaker 5: I'd rather see Cope Prits be your closer so that
Speaker 5: you can then figure out how to use your other
Speaker 5: guys in the regulatings. But unfortunately we gotta watch this
Speaker 5: thing because you look at what Arizona and San Diego
Speaker 5: is doing. They're scoring seven, eight to nine runs a game. Yeah,
Speaker 5: getting scary.
Speaker 3: Can I don't think they're going to maintain that pace.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, we've got to run, but I just
Speaker 3: don't think the Padres and the Diamondbacks keep up that
Speaker 3: offensive face. There's just no way they can do it.
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Speaker 3: the manager, Dave Roberts and what he had to say postgame.
Speaker 9: Dave, how do you process a game like this and specifically,
Speaker 9: how do you process the way the eighth inning went
Speaker 9: for you guys?
Speaker 10: The eighth inning, obviously, I felt really good about having
Speaker 10: Huddy start the eighth and I think he just, you know,
Speaker 10: from the first hitter made a mistake with Cheurio and
Speaker 10: in a one run ball game, gave up the pull
Speaker 10: side double and then you're trying to manage that run.
Speaker 10: Then he gives up the unfortunate walked to Mitchell, and
Speaker 10: then even after that, he gets a ground ball that
Speaker 10: was a double play ball that just unfortunately hit him
Speaker 10: and it was right at Gavin. It's a double play ball,
Speaker 10: and I think later on the inning another ball hit him,
Speaker 10: the black ball just to Keyk's left, so we couldn't
Speaker 10: turn to there and fortunate enough to get an out.
Speaker 10: So it just kind of went awry that inning. But
Speaker 10: you know, it's one of those things that happens, but
Speaker 10: very uncharacteristic of Huddy.
Speaker 9: As far as the offense goes, they gifted you some
Speaker 9: runs with some poor defense. And how did you see
Speaker 9: the offense today?
Speaker 10: I thought, offensively, I like the approach. I thought we
Speaker 10: hit to all fields. I don't know how many times
Speaker 10: we struck out, but it just seemed like we were
Speaker 10: taking good at bats. I've got some big hits, and
Speaker 10: so yeah, I liked it. I thought we had enough
Speaker 10: to win a ball game.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 3: There's Dave Roberts talking about the eighth inning Daniel Hudson. Yeah,
Speaker 3: some tough look balls that go off the foot of
Speaker 3: Daniel Hudson, certainly, but you know, he wasn't getting swinging
Speaker 3: missus and he was struggling to get ahead in the count.
Speaker 3: Alex Vesi in the seventh inning also struggle with his
Speaker 3: pitching and the Dodgers' bullpen falters, and the Dodgers give
Speaker 3: up their game in Milwaukee and they get the split,
Speaker 3: splitting those four games with the Brewers, who are at
Speaker 3: first placed team in the NL Central and who knows, Dodgers,
Speaker 3: they very well see them again come October. But the
Speaker 3: Dodgers got themselves a fight now, two game leading the division.
Speaker 3: Padres and Diamondbacks both off today, so they are just
Speaker 3: now two games up when they started the day two
Speaker 3: and a half. They pick up a half game on
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and the Dodgers now will get ready to
Speaker 3: go to Saint Louis for a three game series against
Speaker 3: the Cardinals. That's gonna do it for Dodger Talk. Coming
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers. They blow a lead in Milwaukee, let this
Speaker 3: one get away, and they're leading out down in two
Speaker 3: in the division. Ryan Hudson the winning relie. Daniel Hudson
Speaker 3: the loss for the Dodgers in relief, Dodgers losing six
Speaker 3: to four. We're back at it tomorrow from Saint Louis
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