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Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers shut
Speaker 2: out the Guardians by a.
Speaker 3: Final score of ford and nothing.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase live at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: with you until five o'clock tonight. We're leading you up
Speaker 2: to We are leading up to Fox Sports Radio Sunday Night.
Speaker 2: Football is on another station tonight, so I was thinking
Speaker 2: we were going to carry it, which we are not.
Speaker 2: But we have Dodger Talk for you until five o'clock.
Speaker 2: We will hear from Jack Flaherty, we will hear from
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia, we'll check in with Jose Mota, and we'll
Speaker 2: also give you a Teoscar Hernandez update. But you know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, after the way people have been talking about them,
Speaker 2: you would I think they were five or six games
Speaker 2: back in the NL West and fighting for their playoff lives.
Speaker 3: Instead with the win.
Speaker 2: Today, they have the best record in baseball. How about that?
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem to be what we're reading, what we're hearing,
Speaker 2: all the panic in the streets, what you're reading, it
Speaker 2: seems like, oh, the Dodgers are falling apart, and so
Speaker 2: is their record. Well, they may not have their full
Speaker 2: compliment of pictures that they would like to have right now,
Speaker 2: but slowly but surely they're getting them back, and in
Speaker 2: the meantime, they're winning games, and they're beating the best
Speaker 2: I know. We don't keep tabs on the Guardians out
Speaker 2: here in LA. I don't keep tabs on anything Cleveland,
Speaker 2: by the way. I mean they could be from Mars, basically,
Speaker 2: anything from Cleveland. I mean, they might be in a
Speaker 2: different solar system as far as I'm concerned. So I
Speaker 2: feel like you may be feeling the same way. The
Speaker 2: only thing we really know about Cleveland is Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. Nobody else in LA knows about anybody
Speaker 2: or anything in Cleveland except for Lebron James. And the Guardians,
Speaker 2: by the way, are one of the best in the
Speaker 2: American League. They are in first place in the Al Central,
Speaker 2: even though now their lead has shrunk to two and
Speaker 2: a half games over the Royals. So the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: a very good team, and yesterday I said, I thought
Speaker 2: it was important for the Dodgers to have a lead
Speaker 2: going into at least the seventh inning, so they did
Speaker 2: not have to see some of the two best high
Speaker 2: leverage relievers the Guardians have to offer. So not only
Speaker 2: did they have a two nothing lead, but they tacked
Speaker 2: on two more against a low leverage reliever in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, Max Munsey Homer will Smith was part of
Speaker 2: the action with a double and they go on to
Speaker 2: beat one of the best teams in the American League,
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Guardians. But by the way we get phone
Speaker 2: calls and what you read online, you would think the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were six or seven games back. The truth of
Speaker 2: the matter is the Dodgers' magic number is down to
Speaker 2: thirteen to clinch the NL West again and there's only
Speaker 2: nineteen games to go. The Padres lost again to the Giants.
Speaker 2: They're six games back. The Diamondbacks are in the middle
Speaker 2: of playing the Astros right now. They have an early
Speaker 2: three to nothing lead out there in Houston. But right
Speaker 2: now the lead is seven games. If they win, it'll
Speaker 2: be six and a half again. But time is running out.
Speaker 2: The calendar is on the Dodgers side. After taking three
Speaker 2: out of four from Arizona, they basically took control of
Speaker 2: this division. It got down to four games a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago, but the Dodgers took control of this
Speaker 2: division taking three out of four in Arizona, and now
Speaker 2: take even more of a tighter grip on this division
Speaker 2: by taking two out of three from the Guardians.
Speaker 3: Shutting them out four to nothing.
Speaker 2: Behind Jack Flaherty's best performance not only as a Dodger,
Speaker 2: but of the entire season for Jack Flerity in his
Speaker 2: renaissance season for Jack Flarity. Jack Flerity now is twelve
Speaker 2: and six on the year with an ERA of two
Speaker 2: eighty six overall with the Dodgers five and one a
Speaker 2: two sixty one ERA in seven starts. His whip is
Speaker 2: one sixteen uh. He has forty seven strikeouts, only ten
Speaker 2: walks today, six strikeouts, no walks, four hits. It was
Speaker 2: his finest moment and I'm sure he loved doing it
Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium. The last time Jack Flaherty pitched
Speaker 2: into the eighth inning of a game was when he
Speaker 2: was with the Cardinals in twenty nineteen. That's how good
Speaker 2: he was today against a very good slugging hitting team
Speaker 2: in the Guardians seven and a third scoreless innings for
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty. Let's head downstairs right now and here from
Speaker 2: the winning pitcher, Jack Flaherty on sports net LA.
Speaker 4: It was fun. You know, those are when you get
Speaker 4: different elements like that, whether it's super cold or really hot,
Speaker 4: you know, it's just another challenge that's, you know, fun.
Speaker 4: Then it just leads to a lot of preparation before
Speaker 4: you know, I go to make sure you know, everything's moving,
Speaker 4: you're hydrated, But I'm pretty sure everybody else was hotter than.
Speaker 5: I was out there.
Speaker 6: You were excellent today, and just what was the focus
Speaker 6: for you? Navigating through their lineup and being able to
Speaker 6: get deep into the game and just be efficient with
Speaker 6: your stuff today.
Speaker 4: You know, they came out swinging the bat early, so
Speaker 4: at that point we just you just got to go
Speaker 4: go out and execute and let everything else come to you.
Speaker 4: You know, we had some strike casts as a game
Speaker 4: went along, but you know, first and foremost, run about
Speaker 4: and execute some pitches, and they're swinging the bats early,
Speaker 4: and defense made some great plays. You know, I didn't
Speaker 4: know months could jump like that. That was that was
Speaker 4: impressive and a huge play too, because ball gets through
Speaker 4: the inning looks a little bit different. Man said he
Speaker 4: get two outs on that play and uh able to
Speaker 4: get laying out right after that, so, uh, you know
Speaker 4: it's a huge play. Yeah, guys did a good job
Speaker 4: all weekend.
Speaker 7: What was the conversation up to the seventh penny?
Speaker 4: Uh, it was just you know, how you're feeling, and
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, I I'm always honest. It
Speaker 4: was like I knew it was getting towards the end there,
Speaker 4: just with where my body was at and how I
Speaker 4: kind of diden feeling all week, you know, a little
Speaker 4: like little uder the weather kind of throughout the week.
Speaker 4: So you know, I went out, gotten out, kill a hit,
Speaker 4: and kime and got me. So it was uh yeah,
Speaker 4: it was pretty straightforward.
Speaker 7: Tale and get deeper into games. Just what did it
Speaker 7: mean to get into the.
Speaker 4: Eighth and uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just just huge,
Speaker 4: especially you know you get the bullpen day yesterday, which
Speaker 4: which they did a great job brace starting the game
Speaker 4: and then you know, guys were putting up putting up
Speaker 4: runs and uh, just the way the offense came out
Speaker 4: and swung it in the way that guys came out
Speaker 4: and threw it, so you don't get deep after after
Speaker 4: a bullpen game, you know, was huge, and yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just it's a nice feeling when you.
Speaker 6: Think about just kind of pitch usage. Fastball is really good,
Speaker 6: but also you kind of went to it more. Was
Speaker 6: that a part of the game plan going into it
Speaker 6: or was that field during the game.
Speaker 4: I think it's all feel, you know. I feel like
Speaker 4: he had asked that a lot. And it's just a
Speaker 4: game to game thing. Like we threw more sliders today,
Speaker 4: not as many curve balls, and it's been kind of
Speaker 4: the opposite in the last couple months because I haven't
Speaker 4: felt I haven't had a good slider, so I had
Speaker 4: a better one today. Worked on it all week and
Speaker 4: I was able to make you know, execute. So that
Speaker 4: was nice for me to see having worked on it
Speaker 4: all week and really try to make some adjustments. But
Speaker 4: it's just a game to game thing.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: It does a really good job of mixing things up.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: I shook once and I shook a couple of times.
Speaker 4: One of them I get a hit and I, you know,
Speaker 4: give him a little okay out ones on me. So
Speaker 4: but he does really good job and they do a
Speaker 4: really good job of game planing and just find ways
Speaker 4: to mix it up.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty did a real nice job today, efficient and
Speaker 2: effective seven and a third scoreless sinning. And when he
Speaker 2: talks about the slider today, he got five swings and
Speaker 2: misses on his slider. That was the second most swings
Speaker 2: and misses by any pitch he threw today. The one
Speaker 2: he got the most on was his curveball. So all
Speaker 2: of it was playing together, the fastball, the slider, and
Speaker 2: the curveball. And if you're asking me right now, to me,
Speaker 2: Jack flaherty has separated himself as the number one starter
Speaker 2: in this rotation. As I have mentioned before, I'm a
Speaker 2: firm believer Glass Now and Yama Moto are going to
Speaker 2: be coming back, but they're only going to get one
Speaker 2: or two starts. Don't expect five or six innings from
Speaker 2: Yamamoto on Tuesday. He's only pitched two innings and two
Speaker 2: separate rehab starts because of pitch count, so don't expect
Speaker 2: him to go more than four or five innings on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Whether or not he's built up for Game one of
Speaker 2: the postseason. I still don't see the Dodgers going that route.
Speaker 2: I want Jack Flaherty on the mound. That guy has
Speaker 2: the edge and attitude you need to set the tone
Speaker 2: for a playoff series. Oh, by the way, Michael Kopek
Speaker 2: remember him. Yeah, he's pretty good too, and he was
Speaker 2: in the game today after Flairty came out with one
Speaker 2: out in the eighth inning and he was able to
Speaker 2: retire the rest of the Guardians by He was able
Speaker 2: to retire the side in order the two batters he faced,
Speaker 2: and he also had a strikeout.
Speaker 3: With the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek in seventeen games is three and zero with
Speaker 2: an ERA of zero fifty three zero fifty three for
Speaker 2: Michael Kopek. So the two pitchers the Dodgers acquired at
Speaker 2: the trade deadline have been huge impact guys because of
Speaker 2: injury and also just performance, flat out performance. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Hollywood. Eric, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing? Go ahead, do your Dodger nation?
Speaker 5: Damn it?
Speaker 2: Love taking care of the Guardians. Man, forget about these guys,
Speaker 2: but listen continue, Eric, listen to you now. You were
Speaker 2: so down in the dumps the last couple of times
Speaker 2: you called me. But what did I tell you, Eric,
Speaker 2: You'd be calling back, hooping and hollering, Dodger nation and
Speaker 2: all that stuff, And here you are crawling back to.
Speaker 5: Me, David. Come on, nobody likes me.
Speaker 3: I keep the receipts, Eric, I keep the receipts.
Speaker 5: Nobody likes somebody that's right all the time. That's not cool, Man,
Speaker 5: I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I've been wrong.
Speaker 5: No, Well, you always I mean, as far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 5: you're always killing me. Man, You're always right.
Speaker 2: You're always telling me be cool.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But I love it. I love this game.
Speaker 2: I love this win. I'm still a little bit concerned
Speaker 2: about the pitching.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: I know we have a couple of horses coming back,
Speaker 3: but I'm a little bit concerned. And Yo, David, what's
Speaker 3: up with Kevin stone Man?
Speaker 5: That was like a shot.
Speaker 3: That was like a shot in the dark.
Speaker 5: Man, what's up with that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was shocking to all of us, Eric, I mean, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: another one of a long line of pitchers this season
Speaker 2: that have gotten hurt for the Dodgers. He's thrown more
Speaker 2: innings than any starter on the Dodgers staff. He has
Speaker 2: made twenty five starts, the most of any other Dodger,
Speaker 2: so he's had a big workload and unfortunately for him,
Speaker 2: the shoulder just couldn't take it anymore. But I will
Speaker 2: say this, Eric, the Dodgers are not ruling him out
Speaker 2: to return this season, which is a good thing. They
Speaker 2: don't know really right now, and nobody really knows for
Speaker 2: the next ten days or so until he starts to
Speaker 2: pick up a baseball again and sees how his shoulder
Speaker 2: feels when he throws it. But I would say Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone coming back in time for Round one probably not likely.
Speaker 2: If he does come back, it would be in a
Speaker 2: limited fashion.
Speaker 5: Well, I love the Dodger W Dodger Tax, Shane Caambo,
Speaker 5: George Hornhey Bray.
Speaker 6: We all love you.
Speaker 2: Keep doing your thing man, go blue all.
Speaker 3: Right, Eric, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight six six seven two five seventy is the phone
Speaker 2: number the Dodgers shut out the Guardians today, Ford to nothing.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll hear from Alex Vesia and
Speaker 2: we'll check in with Jose Mota. Plus we have a
Speaker 2: ti Oscar Hernandez update for you as well, Dodgers have
Speaker 2: the best record in baseball after their ford to nothing
Speaker 2: victory over the Guardians. On the Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network.
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Speaker 5: Sure, hey, swings and hammers one way down the right
Speaker 5: bit line.
Speaker 2: That ball's gone home run show, Hey tony number forty six? Oh,
Speaker 2: what a monster blast over the visiting bullpens. Incredible Big
Speaker 2: Tokyo show, Hey Otani with this forty sixth home run
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 3: What a shot. We have not seen that before.
Speaker 2: We have seen home runs hit into the loge level,
Speaker 2: down the right and left field lines, But when was
Speaker 2: the last time you saw a player hit a ball
Speaker 2: one hundred.
Speaker 3: And seventeen miles an hour?
Speaker 2: That hit direct shot on the nineteen fifty five World
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Speaker 2: he has never seen it. What a shot four hundred
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Speaker 2: own the Dream. So the Dodgers win the final two
Speaker 2: games of this series. The Dodger bullpen yesterday had seven
Speaker 2: different pitchers come out of that bullpen, starting with Ryan Brasier,
Speaker 2: ending with Brent Honeywell. Alex Vesia was our pregame guest
Speaker 2: and he took us through what it's like for a
Speaker 2: reliever during a bullpen game.
Speaker 7: We call it our lane, right, and you know, whether
Speaker 7: you're facing five, six, seven, eight nine or one two,
Speaker 7: three four five, right, like, it's kind of broken up
Speaker 7: to for like myself or Blake or Huddy, Evan Kobe,
Speaker 7: right like all it's broken up differently, and you know
Speaker 7: we're talked about that and told, but still the game, right.
Speaker 7: You know, there's certain situations where if I'm coming in,
Speaker 7: I can come in the fourth inning to face a
Speaker 7: certain amount of hitters, so I can come in the
Speaker 7: eighth inning to face those same hitle hitters. So you know,
Speaker 7: and that's that's a DOCS call. And you know we're
Speaker 7: ready for it.
Speaker 2: Have you've been able to come in whether it's the fourth,
Speaker 2: the eighth, the ninth. Is there something different about the
Speaker 2: innings even if you have that certain lane you described, Uh, no.
Speaker 7: We try to keep it. You know, the score is irrelevant,
Speaker 7: the inning is irrelevant.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, we go out there and do our job right,
Speaker 7: And that's where you don't you don't put more pressure
Speaker 7: or less pressure on yourself depending on the situation. You
Speaker 7: want to kind of eliminate all of that and focus
Speaker 7: on the you know, one, two or three hitters that
Speaker 7: you know you're the task at hand basically, And yeah,
Speaker 7: that's it helps kind of eliminate riding the highs too
Speaker 7: high and the lows too low, right, And that's trying
Speaker 7: to stay consistent, is you know, just knowing what to
Speaker 7: do when you go out there for you know, preparation
Speaker 7: and all that stuff that you can do before the
Speaker 7: game before you know your name gets called. And once
Speaker 7: you out there, your job is to get three outs,
Speaker 7: put up a zero walk out, gets the game going.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's what Alex Vesia and the other six relievers
Speaker 2: did for the Dodgers last night in a big win.
Speaker 2: Vessia was one of those seven pitchers, and certainly that
Speaker 2: bullpen game went smooth, smoother than most. With a six
Speaker 2: run first inning by the Dodgers in their seven to
Speaker 2: two win last night, you would love to see Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski and all the Dodger pitchers for that matter, throw
Speaker 2: strike one and get those guys back in the dugout.
Speaker 2: And that's what Jack Flaherty did in his seven and
Speaker 2: a third scoreless innings today as the Dodgers shut out
Speaker 2: the Guardians forward to nothing.
Speaker 3: All right, let's head out to our guy, Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Moda.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota. Jack Flaherty almost went to the Yankees. They
Speaker 2: backed out because they were concerned about his back. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers right there to catch him. Where would they be
Speaker 2: without Jack Flaherty.
Speaker 5: Uh? Not where they're at right now, because this guy
Speaker 5: takes the ball and he has set it tom pretty
Speaker 5: much for guys on that rotation, and in fact, tegue
Speaker 5: to some of the players in the staff was expected.
Speaker 5: Now that every game matters, every game is a playoff game,
Speaker 5: and it just it's beautiful to watch him pitch because
Speaker 5: his pace is one thing, but also how he reads
Speaker 5: how guys take pitches. It's something that hitters and opposing size.
Speaker 5: I've told me he's like he sees how guys take
Speaker 5: a pitch, and he'll double up on him and full them,
Speaker 5: thinking that he's not going to repeat it, and before
Speaker 5: we know, they're swinging him, especially when he throws those
Speaker 5: breaking balls all in different angles.
Speaker 3: He was talking about his slider today.
Speaker 2: Was he using the fastball office slider or was it
Speaker 2: the fastball establishing that command and then going to the
Speaker 2: curveball and slider.
Speaker 5: He had command of the fastball, which is number one.
Speaker 5: If you're erratic with your fastball and you try to
Speaker 5: spin the baseball, you're not going to have success in
Speaker 5: guys spreading this all more. But when you have command Dave,
Speaker 5: even if you're missing close enough like he does with
Speaker 5: a fastal sometimes on purpose, especially up and a way
Speaker 5: on lefties, they're going to be looking out there. He
Speaker 5: backs or breaking and steals strikes in that manner. So
Speaker 5: and he's a strikes through which is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 5: But you know he got the strikeouts. He's closing in
Speaker 5: on two hundred punchoes, but he throws strikes and is
Speaker 5: not afraid of contact. But certainly you saw that, you know,
Speaker 5: the pitches kind of accumulated a little bit more is
Speaker 5: he found more strikeouts and swings and missus. But he's
Speaker 5: like the perfect versatile picture on getting his defense ready
Speaker 5: to play, keeping them on their toes, but also when
Speaker 5: he needs to wrap it up, he does it all right.
Speaker 2: So, like I mentioned at the trade deadline, there were
Speaker 2: some concerns about Flaherty's back. Have you seen anything that
Speaker 2: tells you that there should be any concern when a
Speaker 2: guy goes into the eighth inning, it feels like, I know,
Speaker 2: a back can pop up at any time, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like he's dealing with anything right now.
Speaker 5: The only thing I've seen from this guy that convinces
Speaker 5: me that he is all fine is his workout. This
Speaker 5: guy is in the clear and cursehop mode of just
Speaker 5: being an animal in the eating of everything that has
Speaker 5: to do with equipment or waits or running in conditioning.
Speaker 5: He just goes after and just gets through it. And
Speaker 5: the hottest days and the coolest days, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: He stays with his routine. And when your manager says
Speaker 5: that he is one of the hardest workers you've ever
Speaker 5: seen Dave Rowan's been around a lot of guys. But
Speaker 5: to say that with the guy that just got here,
Speaker 5: you know a few weeks ago. He speaks loudly and
Speaker 5: then I pay attention to mechanics. Is he varying anything,
Speaker 5: Is he favoring anything? Absolutely now, So obviously Dodgers that
Speaker 5: due diligence on him in this medical report to say,
Speaker 5: get him over because no matter what, they're gonna be
Speaker 5: taking good care of him, and they have.
Speaker 2: Jose Mota has seen a lot of games played here
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium, going back to when his dad, Manny,
Speaker 2: was playing for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen.
Speaker 2: Any of your dad's teammates hit a home run off
Speaker 2: the stadium club facade where Otani hid his today.
Speaker 5: Ep I mean that is absolutely ridiculous for show. Hey,
Speaker 5: Oshue City ought to be very proud of their native son,
Speaker 5: because there's been nobody that I've ever seen in nineteen
Speaker 5: sixty nine. The furthest one I've seen, Oh, the right
Speaker 5: field side is stargled over the bleacher. Okay, but pavilion
Speaker 5: on that roof, but nothing like this on the pole
Speaker 5: side to stay fair and the blast off the bad.
Speaker 5: The sound is just tells you that a big boy
Speaker 5: hit it and de Ble kept traveling as you mentioned.
Speaker 5: Who knows how far would have lended had not death
Speaker 5: thought up there.
Speaker 2: So you're saying you don't like my nickname the big
Speaker 2: Tokyo for Otani when you mentioned.
Speaker 5: I would say Oshu probably most likely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you want me to say the big Oshue.
Speaker 5: Big Oshu fits better?
Speaker 2: Mayoral here It sounds more lively when I say the
Speaker 2: big Tokyo rather than the big Oshue.
Speaker 5: The big Oshue is You're gonna get more applied from that,
Speaker 5: and no questions that whatsoever, knowing that you did your homework.
Speaker 5: He did play in Tokyo, he did play he played
Speaker 5: ok Io when he played in the fam. No matter what,
Speaker 5: you know what, there's a big.
Speaker 2: One wow, jose Mota bringing the guntlent on me. Correction
Speaker 2: and retractions from jose Mota.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm not gonna make it look bad. That's what
Speaker 5: I don't want anybody saying. Hey, by the way, he
Speaker 5: said it wrong, and Jose knew about it. He didn't
Speaker 5: tell you anything. Well, you know what, I am your friend,
Speaker 5: I am your wingman, and I'm just telling you that
Speaker 5: I want to be correcting myself when they'll say things
Speaker 5: right on the air.
Speaker 2: Hey, I just try to bring the dramatics, Jose, That's
Speaker 2: all I try to do. The big Dominican Jose Mota
Speaker 2: or the big Fullerton.
Speaker 5: Guy ticket today.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad, all right, Hose, thanks for checking in.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 5: You got it?
Speaker 3: Brother, There he goes Jose Mota Wow.
Speaker 2: The authority on Japanese nicknames, Jose Mota Wow. Do not
Speaker 2: do not overstep on the o Tani nicknames here, all right.
Speaker 2: I'll let Victor Brick know as well. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 2: Dodgers shut out the Guardians today. Ford to nothing, Man,
Speaker 2: I'm getting criticized for a lot of different culture pronunciations.
Speaker 3: People are all over me for not.
Speaker 2: Saying Chef Merito correctly, and now I got Jose coming
Speaker 2: down on me for on a highlight call saying.
Speaker 3: The big Tokyo show.
Speaker 2: Hey, Otani, the real big Tokyo is Kevin Seki out
Speaker 2: there in Torrence, California, who was out here with his
Speaker 2: little buddy Ryan. So that's where things stand as far
Speaker 2: as nicknames go.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Another update, on Teoscar Hernandez. You heard from him on
Speaker 2: yesterday's show where he said that he dodged a huge bullet.
Speaker 2: The ct scans came back negative on his left foot
Speaker 2: after being hit by a pitch in the first game
Speaker 2: of this series, and today he was out here with
Speaker 2: Thomas Albert and his staff doing some agility drills testing
Speaker 2: that left foot, And just by being out there this
Speaker 2: morning watching him, what I observed was he he was
Speaker 2: still feeling a little something in certain movements with his
Speaker 2: left foot. So him being back in the starting lineup
Speaker 2: tomorrow may seem like a stretch, but it feels like
Speaker 2: he's getting closer. And as far as Bruce Star Grattarol goes,
Speaker 2: they did call up Noah Ramirez or Nick Ramirez today,
Speaker 2: there's a possibility they were going to use him today
Speaker 2: or tomorrow. The Cubs have a lot of lefties in
Speaker 2: their lineup, so the Dodgers may be playing the matchup
Speaker 2: game to a certain extent. It feels like Greterol will
Speaker 2: not be activated until the second or third game of
Speaker 2: the series against the Cubs. So that's your update on
Speaker 2: ti Oscar Hernandez and Bruce Starr Grattol tomorrow, it will
Speaker 2: be Walker Buehler on the mound for the Dodgers going
Speaker 2: up against Kyle Hendricks Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 2: at six o'clock with first pitch at seven ten. And
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night, that's the Japanese marquee matchup show dot
Speaker 2: Imanaga going up against Yoshi Yamamoto on Tuesday night right
Speaker 2: here at Dodger Stadium. That will be broadcast to Japan, Tokyo,
Speaker 2: wherever you want to talk about it, they will be
Speaker 2: watching in the country of Japan. So Tuesday night a
Speaker 2: marquee matchup. That'll do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Ye back at our Burbank studios, Thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Once again, the final score from Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: shut out the Guardians Ford to nothing.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night. We'll talk to
Speaker 3: you tomorrow. See them