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Speaker 2: We are live at Bush Stadium in Saint Louis after
Speaker 2: the Cardinals beat the Dodgers five to two.
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Speaker 2: Between now and eight thirty, we have a great show
Speaker 2: for you. We are going to take your phone calls.
Speaker 2: We are going to talk about the tough decisions the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have to make here in the next couple of days,
Speaker 2: with Tommy Edmund and Max Munsey coming back. Also, you
Speaker 2: will hear from Tyler Glass now. We caught up with
Speaker 2: him before today's game. Wanted to hear from him what's
Speaker 2: going on with his elbow and exactly how things went
Speaker 2: down from a bullpen session that he completed with no
Speaker 2: pain to landing on the il with right elbow ten
Speaker 2: to nine ers. So we will hear from Tyler Glass
Speaker 2: now coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 3: But as far as.
Speaker 2: This game goes tonight, I was really hoping Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: would be able to shove and get everybody back on
Speaker 2: the Bobby Ice bandwagon. It just did not materialize, and
Speaker 2: you could see it in the first inning.
Speaker 3: It was a Bobby.
Speaker 2: Miller that did not have command of his secondary pitches.
Speaker 2: And I love the breakdown Jose Mota gave us because
Speaker 2: it kind of looked that way even though we are
Speaker 2: pretty high up here in the press box, it looked
Speaker 2: like Bobby Miller was pushing his pitches and he's throwing
Speaker 2: ninety eight. I know, I understand all that. I know
Speaker 2: the Dodgers would not pitch him in a game if
Speaker 2: he was not healthy. He was supposed to start in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, but was scratched from his start a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago, so he was a full go down there.
Speaker 2: But you have to wonder whether or not Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: is being honest with himself and honest with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: about how he's feeling physically with his shoulder. Two seasons
Speaker 2: in a row with some shoulder issues that have delayed
Speaker 2: his seasons and put him on the il two years
Speaker 2: in a row, and all of a sudden, maybe he
Speaker 2: was overcompensating and that's why he had a groin injury
Speaker 2: that prevented him from pitching for about a week and
Speaker 2: a half two weeks. You just wonder, and I over
Speaker 2: the years, not just with baseball, but the NBA and
Speaker 2: college football, covering those sports a lot, you see really
Speaker 2: good players not perform at the level that you have
Speaker 2: seen them perform before. And instead of just jumping to
Speaker 2: the conclusion, Ah he's washed.
Speaker 3: He stinks.
Speaker 2: A young man like Bobby Miller doesn't just lose it.
Speaker 2: You have to wonder if there is something physically going
Speaker 2: on that he's trying to push through because he feels
Speaker 2: the urgency of not only his season, but also making
Speaker 2: a mark in his career with his very competitive Dodger
Speaker 2: pitching staff. Not just with the guys that are here
Speaker 2: right now, but you know the guys that are coming
Speaker 2: up through the system. You don't want to be passed
Speaker 2: up like Tony Gonsolin and Dustin may have been passed
Speaker 2: up by a lot of other young pitchers in the
Speaker 2: Dodger organization. So I'm sure he feels that pressure as
Speaker 2: well to pitch. I saw him on the bus today.
Speaker 2: You know, I just on the mount. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: what I see on the bus. What I saw on
Speaker 2: the mounta tonight was not a confident Bobby Miller. That's
Speaker 2: not the same Bobby Miller we saw last year. He
Speaker 2: dominated this Cardinals lineup last year, and you're telling me
Speaker 2: tonight he can't go even five innings. There's something off,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure when we're going to find out.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure when Bobby's going to be honest
Speaker 2: with himself, because right now he's not the same guy.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs right now before we get to your
Speaker 2: phone call.
Speaker 3: So we have two.
Speaker 2: Lines open at eight six six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Let's hear from Bobby Miller and what he
Speaker 2: had to say after tonight's games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've obviously been working on a lot,
Speaker 4: but I mean the biggest thing was working on delivery
Speaker 4: and stuff like that, like mechanics, trying to get the
Speaker 4: velocity back. Might have been chasing that a little bit
Speaker 4: too much instead of just pure pitching. You know, I
Speaker 4: can build off off of tonight as well. You know,
Speaker 4: really just tonight, it was just falling behind a couple
Speaker 4: of guys, like two oh two to one. Yeah, one
Speaker 4: of the homers. I thought, I got very inside. You know,
Speaker 4: it's two h count. There's no excuse for that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just falling behind. You know, I feel like if I
Speaker 4: got ahead of a lot more betters today, Strike one,
Speaker 4: get one would have been a completely different ball game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, delivery fell a lot better, you know, walks
Speaker 4: her down, but still falling behind accounts.
Speaker 5: So I lost was like ninety nine ish in the
Speaker 5: first thing that kind of dipped it from there?
Speaker 3: Is that just sort of getting out of your delivery
Speaker 3: and sort of.
Speaker 4: That think, you know, I've just had a lot of
Speaker 4: time in between these last few outings, sliolly building endurance
Speaker 4: back up right now. My arm felt great the whole
Speaker 4: time threwout, so you know, could have just been like
Speaker 4: first game back. Jader's a little bit had that a
Speaker 4: little bit today, but you know, I'm felt good. Just
Speaker 4: fell behind some hitters and next time out there, you know,
Speaker 4: just focus on getting strike one and it'll be a
Speaker 4: different ballgame.
Speaker 6: Have you guys been able to like just say, for
Speaker 6: like why and me don't speak and man hasn't quick
Speaker 6: down there?
Speaker 7: That for you?
Speaker 4: This year really just pulling off towards the first play
Speaker 4: side a little bit, you know on the slider. Those
Speaker 4: hulled sliders really just came from like pulling off, you know,
Speaker 4: trying to focus too much down and the way instead
Speaker 4: of think keeping the line middle and making it look
Speaker 4: more like a strike the whole time. My last outing
Speaker 4: the slider was a lot better. I wasn't really yanking
Speaker 4: at that much. Yeah, I definitely could have thrown the
Speaker 4: change up a little more tonight as well. It wasn't
Speaker 4: there at the beginning of a game, but towards the
Speaker 4: end it felt really good. Kind of some swinging misses
Speaker 4: on it, but they also had some really good takes
Speaker 4: on some change ups as well. So you got to
Speaker 4: tip the cap on that we.
Speaker 3: Had to move.
Speaker 8: The factor has been able to command the.
Speaker 5: Secondary stuff been this year, leading to some of these troubles.
Speaker 4: You know, towards the end of the game, I thought
Speaker 4: it was a little bit better. Really only really had
Speaker 4: the the curve ball at the end of the game
Speaker 4: and the change up. But if I had that change
Speaker 4: up in the beginning of the game, I think it
Speaker 4: would have been a different story as well, showing different
Speaker 4: speeds and stuff instead of just a lot of high
Speaker 4: glossy fastballs. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 5: We hadn't taping you. Obvious instant decision to kind of
Speaker 5: send you down they the house for priding.
Speaker 6: It was after you important and tough since you.
Speaker 4: Kind of did that news that he was on the Oh,
Speaker 4: it was very tough, you know, But I mean I
Speaker 4: wasn't surprised either, you know, That's how I was pitching,
Speaker 4: you know, coming back from the injury. Uh, it was
Speaker 4: it was really tough, you know, just coming back in
Speaker 4: the middle of the season when a lot of people
Speaker 4: were in mid season fom you know, I didn't realize
Speaker 4: how tough it would actually be. I definitely took that
Speaker 4: for granted, you know, just solely slowly building off each
Speaker 4: outing right now, you know I couldn't. I can definitely
Speaker 4: build off the night. It's really just falling behind a
Speaker 4: few guys. And I really think that was just the
Speaker 4: weak spot tonight, was falling behind with early off speed
Speaker 4: and fastball as he ink in a couple but you know,
Speaker 4: just folks on getting the strike one on every single
Speaker 4: batter and stiffen ball game.
Speaker 3: All right, there's Bobby Miller.
Speaker 2: And thanks to my guy Jan Terribio from Dodgers dot
Speaker 2: com for bringing us Bobby Miller in the Dodger Clubhouse.
Speaker 2: And look, he was very honest right there with his
Speaker 2: answers when he got when he came back from the
Speaker 2: setback with his shoulder to start the year. He took
Speaker 2: for granted how tough it is to just parachute in
Speaker 2: the middle of the season was start one, while other
Speaker 2: pitchers have had a full spring training and are well
Speaker 2: ahead of him. So I took That was one of
Speaker 2: the biggest things I took away from listening to what
Speaker 2: he had to say right there and also being honest
Speaker 2: with himself to the with the two to zero fastball
Speaker 2: to Alec Burlison for a two run the home run,
Speaker 2: which you know was was basically the reason being he
Speaker 2: could not land his breaking stuff, and that was in
Speaker 2: the third inning with one out, he got Victor Scott,
Speaker 2: the nine hitter, to fly out to center field, gave
Speaker 2: up a base hit to Mason Win, and then Win
Speaker 2: was able to come around and score on the two
Speaker 2: run home run by Alec Burlison. But that seems to
Speaker 2: be the bat that's the micro causm a Bobby season
Speaker 2: where he gets behind and counts because he can't land
Speaker 2: his secondary pitches and hitters are sitting on his fastball.
Speaker 2: So that was very frustrating for him and obviously to
Speaker 2: watch if you're Dave Roberts, eight six, six, nine, seven two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number Dodgers fall to the
Speaker 2: Cardinals tonight, five to two. The Dodgers took the lead
Speaker 2: in the first inning on textbook baseball, get him on,
Speaker 2: get him over, get him in. Show Hao Tany led
Speaker 2: off the first inning by getting on base with a walk,
Speaker 2: stole second, got to third base on a fly ball
Speaker 2: from Mookie Betts to left field, and with the infield
Speaker 2: drawn in, Freddie Freeman hit a ground ball through.
Speaker 3: The right side of the infield.
Speaker 2: That was beautiful, and you thought with the Dodger scoring first,
Speaker 2: that was a good sign they were going to win
Speaker 2: the game because they were fifty two and thirteen coming
Speaker 2: into today. When they scored first, that obviously was not
Speaker 2: meant to be. The Cardinals got the momentum back when
Speaker 2: they scored a run in the bottom half of the
Speaker 2: first inning off of Bobby Miller. Eight six six ninety
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. By the way,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman left this game in the eighth inning with
Speaker 2: a jammed right middle finger. That's his throwing hand fielding
Speaker 2: a ground ball by Nolan Gorman. And we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Freddy in just a moment to see how he's feeling
Speaker 2: and whether or not it's going to keep him out
Speaker 2: of the lineup for a couple of days. If it does,
Speaker 2: you know, it's really hurt because Freddy is going to
Speaker 2: be out there.
Speaker 3: Rainers. Shine. Let's go out to Teluka Lake lead us
Speaker 3: off on Dodger Talk tonight.
Speaker 9: Hey DV I hope you're doing well. Good to hear
Speaker 9: you back where you belong. I'm not doing the talk
Speaker 9: show real quick. Something I want to unpack. I noticed
Speaker 9: Gradarole on that injury that he got. I don't know
Speaker 9: if you noticed or anybody brought it up. It seemed
Speaker 9: like the play before where there was a ground ball
Speaker 9: foul hit down the third line, where he sprinted toward
Speaker 9: that thing, and then he came back and threw that
Speaker 9: next pitch which he supposedly got injured. On my point
Speaker 9: of telling you this, it just seems like I know
Speaker 9: it's been brought up at some point. The staff, whether
Speaker 9: it's the physio, the training, the medical, they need to
Speaker 9: be a little more accountable, I think for all these
Speaker 9: injuries that we're having, Dave.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know where this, Dave, I don't
Speaker 2: know where this narrative started, but I'm gonna nip it
Speaker 2: in the bud right here. The Dodger training staff is
Speaker 2: one of the best baseball those guys.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Ever since there was a somewhat of a change in
Speaker 2: training staff regime three or four years ago, they have
Speaker 2: been much better and very proactive. So I'm not going
Speaker 2: to buy that these injuries are on the training staff.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Tommy John Elbow's blowing out. I know it's
Speaker 2: very abnormal to have these many on one team the
Speaker 2: last couple of years, But that's not on the training staff.
Speaker 2: That's on how these pitchers are being trained and what's
Speaker 2: being emphasized in the minor leagues, not just with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: but across baseball.
Speaker 3: So that's not on the training staff.
Speaker 9: Well, the expectation is, you know, these guys are coming
Speaker 9: in and they're throwing you know, these huge bullpen sessions
Speaker 9: at triple digit numbers, and it's like, at some point
Speaker 9: something's got to change. I'm not just saying for the Dodgers,
Speaker 9: but in general. These guys like taking a sports car
Speaker 9: and driving on the track and then using it as
Speaker 9: your everyday driver.
Speaker 2: It's just, well, are you gonna blame the training staff
Speaker 2: for what Bobby Miller just admitted he was doing chasing velocity.
Speaker 2: He's got to get away from that and be more
Speaker 2: like Gavin Stone, who's a pitcher who's not chasing velocity
Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: You look at these guys like you know Greg Maddox.
Speaker 9: I know there's only one Greg Maddox, but he pitched
Speaker 9: for how many years? And he was crafty and you
Speaker 9: know the guy as far as Kershaw right.
Speaker 2: Now, Kershaw's throwing eighty eight ninety miles an hour and
Speaker 2: getting more outs than Bobby Miller throwing ninety eight tonight.
Speaker 9: Right, Well, we need to you know, we need to
Speaker 9: focus on that then. I mean again, not necessarily on
Speaker 9: the training staff, just the approach from the entire organization.
Speaker 2: Like the approach is got to start at the high
Speaker 2: school level too, Dave, go to, uh, anywhere in your
Speaker 2: local neighborhood there, go to our high school and ask
Speaker 2: the baseball coach what they're emphasizing and how they're training
Speaker 2: their pitchers.
Speaker 3: Seriously, do a deep dive on that.
Speaker 9: Well one let one let okay.
Speaker 3: Report back on out of the grassroots.
Speaker 9: One last thing, Dave, real quick, which I think is
Speaker 9: relevant from what I understand now, some of the minor leagues,
Speaker 9: they're taking these guys who historically weren't pictures but they
Speaker 9: could throw, you know, the upper nineties or whatever, and
Speaker 9: they're turning them into pictures because they're not coming into
Speaker 9: the you know, the professional ranks with that kind of
Speaker 9: mileage on the r Dave, that's.
Speaker 2: Been happening for years, Dave, Dave, that's been happening for years.
Speaker 2: Ken Lee Jansen was a catcher and they converted him
Speaker 2: to a pitcher because he couldn't hit.
Speaker 3: That's been happening for years.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, hope hopefully we'll get better at the right time.
Speaker 10: I feel the fact that this division is close, We've
Speaker 10: got a renewed focus and we're not taking anything for granted,
Speaker 10: and I have a high expectation we're going to do
Speaker 10: well this year in the playoffs, assuming everybody's healthy, and
Speaker 10: I'm hopeful.
Speaker 9: That's all he could say.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave, all right, Dave, thanks a lot for the
Speaker 2: phone callppreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers fault tonight
Speaker 2: to the Cardinals. The Padres are winning, They're likely going
Speaker 2: to be just two games back by the time this
Speaker 2: show is over, and the Arizona Diamondbacks lost to the race,
Speaker 2: so they remain three games back. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Woodland Hills. John, You're on Dodger Talk with David Vassey.
Speaker 3: Hi, John, yeah, I know it's you.
Speaker 8: Know, it's only August twentieth, but I think there's definitely
Speaker 8: cause for concern for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The reason being only August twentieth. It's getting late early.
Speaker 3: As the Great Yogi bearra would say, John.
Speaker 8: I'm made to that, David. I have to tell you.
Speaker 8: Anybody that's calling the show and saying that the Dodgers
Speaker 8: will make the playoffs but they may not make a run,
Speaker 8: they don't understand the game of baseball. They don't understand.
Speaker 8: I mean, right now, the Padres and the Diamondbacks are
Speaker 8: breathing down their necks and there's no fight in these Dodgers.
Speaker 8: These Dodgers don't have that person in the clubhouse that
Speaker 8: will fire them up. You know, I'm thinking of you know,
Speaker 8: I'm thinking about guys from the past that literally would
Speaker 8: give that energy that they need. They don't have that
Speaker 8: right now. And Bobby Miller an over five r Bobby
Speaker 8: Miller had an over five e r A in triple A.
Speaker 8: There's no way he was going to be successful today
Speaker 8: in Saint Louis. Zero chance that he was going to
Speaker 8: have a good outing. When he can't get guys out
Speaker 8: in triple A they've got huge issues. Both the holes
Speaker 8: are are rampant in terms of in terms of the
Speaker 8: Dodger lineup. Uh, I'm sorry, but our amazing catcher.
Speaker 2: I actually feel like the Dodger lineup, the holes are
Speaker 2: going to be filled here coming up when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: return home.
Speaker 3: John, Well, you might.
Speaker 8: Be right, but I think Barnes has to get a
Speaker 8: little bit more opportunity in the lineup because he manages
Speaker 8: the pitching staff so much better as good as as
Speaker 8: good at it.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm with you on that, John, will Smith is
Speaker 2: is the everyday catcher because of his bat, not because
Speaker 2: of his defensive prowess. If he's not hitting, Austin Barnes
Speaker 2: should be catching more than once a week.
Speaker 8: I agree. I mean there was some plays today that
Speaker 8: cost the Dodgers runs and it was all based on
Speaker 8: Will's you know, play behind the plate. And if he's
Speaker 8: not hitting home runs, if he's not hitting doubles, then
Speaker 8: I mean Barnes has been hot for a while. I mean,
Speaker 8: there's no reason he plays.
Speaker 3: Once a week. He plays once a week. Think about that.
Speaker 3: Think how hard it is to hit?
Speaker 2: We keep hearing all these hitters say it's so hard
Speaker 2: to hit so hard to hit, How much harder is
Speaker 2: it to hit major league pitching when you're only playing
Speaker 2: once a week. So look, I'm not saying that Will
Speaker 2: Smith is not a really good catcher and hitting catcher
Speaker 2: and doesn't deserve to play the majority of the games.
Speaker 2: But look, there is something wrong. He's not hitting the
Speaker 2: base spelled the way he used to for whatever reason
Speaker 2: this year. So if he's not hitting and he's hitting
Speaker 2: sixth in the lineup, then maybe the Dodgers need to
Speaker 2: consider giving him more rest, giving him more days off.
Speaker 2: All right, John, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And by the way, tonight Bobby Miller had four wild pitches.
Speaker 2: I would contend two of them were on Will Smith,
Speaker 2: but nonetheless they go down as wild pitches. That is
Speaker 2: most by a Dodger pitcher in a game since Fred
Speaker 2: Norman in August of nineteen seventy against the Cubs at
Speaker 2: Wrigley Field. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers fall to the Cardinals tonight,
Speaker 2: five to two. And speaking of some of the quote
Speaker 2: holes in the Dodger lineup, they are going to be filled.
Speaker 2: And I feel like the bottom of the Dodger order
Speaker 2: has already been better than what we saw the majority
Speaker 2: of the season because Kevin Kiermeier has It's been a
Speaker 2: breath of fresh air, not only defensively in center field,
Speaker 2: but also offensively. And I know tonight he hit into
Speaker 2: a double play, but last night, the Dodgers don't win
Speaker 2: without Kevin Kiermeyer's for RBI. So for the most part,
Speaker 2: he's been very good offensively, exceeding my expectations for what
Speaker 2: he might be able to do with the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: so far, I'll give you the exact numbers with the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in twelve games, kier Myers hitting two fifty nine
Speaker 2: with an ops of seven seventeen. So that's better than
Speaker 2: I thought, especially him understanding what his role is at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the order, to get on base, to
Speaker 2: move the runner over. Those are things that don't show
Speaker 2: up in the box score. And on Monday, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are going to activate Tommy Edmund. Tommy Edmund is going
Speaker 2: to play primarily center field, and when they want to
Speaker 2: give Miguel Rojas days off, I'm sure you're going to
Speaker 2: see Edmund at shortstop, meaning Kevin Kiermaier and Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: will be at shortstop and center field, respectively, And the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have very interesting decisions to make roster wise, with
Speaker 2: Edmund being activated on Monday and Max Munsey going to
Speaker 2: be activated on Tuesday. And the way I'm looking at
Speaker 2: it is Nick Ahmed is going to be designated for
Speaker 2: assignment and Andy Pajez probably is going to be optioned
Speaker 2: down to the minor leagues, because I don't see the
Speaker 2: Dodgers just cutting loose Jason Hayward. He's not had a
Speaker 2: great year, but the Dodgers have had a lot of
Speaker 2: respect for that veteran, so at least for now, that's
Speaker 2: the way I see it going with those first two moves.
Speaker 2: The other question is, with Keik Hernandez hitting three hundred
Speaker 2: in the month of August and playing the defense that
Speaker 2: he's playing at third base, does Max Munsey automatically get
Speaker 2: his position back, or since Monthsey was only hitting one
Speaker 2: sixty three against lefties, do we now have a platoon
Speaker 2: at third base. I don't believe it's a foregone conclusion.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey gets his third base job every day back,
Speaker 2: at least in the immediate future. Your thoughts eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Ken in Newport Beach. You're on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hi, Ken, hey man. First off, I want to tell you,
Speaker 7: I think you're doing an excellent job being live and
Speaker 7: doing what you know, what's what's her name used to do?
Speaker 7: I'm really impressed. I think you're really doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Oh you're talking about you know sometimes I feel like
Speaker 2: Chris Farley, fat guy in a little coat on TV.
Speaker 3: Ken, But I like to talk baseball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, No, you're doing this super job. Smith.
Speaker 8: There's something wrong here.
Speaker 7: It's one thing. In July and August he's barely hitting
Speaker 7: over two hundred. But all the time I've watched him,
Speaker 7: I've never seen him. I don't want to say bobble,
Speaker 7: but he normally picks up those those bad pitches. That's
Speaker 7: four and two of them. He should have caught it,
Speaker 7: Like you said, I don't know if he needs to
Speaker 7: see if i'mtometrous, there's something wrong health wise, But this.
Speaker 2: Is I think tonight, Ken, Ken, I think tonight he
Speaker 2: looked very sluggish behind the plate, and at the plate
Speaker 2: he looked very sluggish.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know, man, That hitting is one thing.
Speaker 7: He's barely over two hundred, but four balls I've never
Speaker 7: seen that happen to him because he's a great catcher.
Speaker 7: So they need to have somebody take away at him.
Speaker 2: And I wouldn't say he's a great catcher, ken. I
Speaker 2: think that that's a little I would not call him
Speaker 2: a great catcher.
Speaker 8: He's been a good catcher.
Speaker 2: That's different than great. Johnny Bench was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just looking at what happened today defensively and
Speaker 7: putting it with the last two months offensively, and I'm
Speaker 7: saying they need to have somebody look at them. Something's wrong.
Speaker 7: This is the you know, you don't have a slump
Speaker 7: for two months and you don't let four balls get
Speaker 7: past you in an important game.
Speaker 2: So I agree, And that's why I feel like if
Speaker 2: you want to get Will Smith back, give him more
Speaker 2: time to work on his hitting, because when he's catching,
Speaker 2: he cannot focus on fixing whatever. And also give him
Speaker 2: some days off play Austin Barnes more. I mean Austin
Speaker 2: Barnes in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty caught the
Speaker 2: majority of those playoff games because the lights were too
Speaker 2: bright for he has MONI Grandal, and he was better
Speaker 2: defensively than Will Smith, and Will was the DH.
Speaker 3: So why not play Austin Barnes a little bit more?
Speaker 2: Especially now that you're getting Munthsie back, You're gonna get
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond, so you can afford to compensate at least
Speaker 2: twice a week for your offense, and you're not really
Speaker 2: compensating that that much considering Smith's not hitting. To get
Speaker 2: better defense behind the plate, I.
Speaker 7: Agree that's you know, the two most important, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: positions on the field are center field and catcher, and
Speaker 7: you've got to have great defense in those two or
Speaker 7: you're gonna have problems always.
Speaker 2: All right, Ken, thanks for the phone call. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine seven two five seventy. We have three lines
Speaker 2: open as we are taking you to the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour live from Bush Stadium in Saint Louis. After
Speaker 2: the Cardinals beat the Dodgers five to two. Look the
Speaker 2: Dodger lineup. It's got to figure out a way to
Speaker 2: score more than two runs on four hits. But everybody
Speaker 2: keeps talking about these holes Offensively. The Dodgers, I believe,
Speaker 2: are going to be fine, especially when Tommy Edman comes back.
Speaker 2: Max Muntsey's going to be in the fold all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Now one through nine, Where are you going
Speaker 2: to exhale if you're an opposing pitcher, especially if Will
Speaker 2: Smith gets things going here. One through nine, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, when the Dodgers are healthy beginning next week,
Speaker 2: is going to be really.
Speaker 3: Tough for the opposing pitcher.
Speaker 2: That I would contend one through nine with Tommy Edmund,
Speaker 2: Max Munsey or Keike Hernandez, along with everybody else that's
Speaker 2: in the lineup right now, and tonight the Dodgers sat
Speaker 2: ti Oscar Hernandez, who has not had a great road
Speaker 2: trip all of a sudden, now, I would contend one
Speaker 2: through nine. The Dodgers have the best lineup in baseball
Speaker 2: eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two five seventy. When
Speaker 2: we continue live from Bush Stadium, more of your phone calls,
Speaker 2: and also we'll hear from Freddie Freeman to give us
Speaker 2: an update on his jam middle finger in the eighth inning.
Speaker 2: And also Tyler Glassnow, who was supposed to start tonight,
Speaker 2: but yesterday the Dodgers decided, you know what, glass Now
Speaker 2: is talking about his elbow.
Speaker 3: We need him down the stretch il for you.
Speaker 2: We'll get Tyler's out of the story when we continue
Speaker 2: live from Bush Stadium in Saint Louis after the Cardinals
Speaker 2: beat the Dodgers five to two on a five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 1: On air at AM five to seventy, online at AM
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. This is Dodger Talk with David Massonitch.
Speaker 2: From Polante to o'tohonny is wings Hits are trying to
Speaker 2: write and date this fall's.
Speaker 3: Back and it is gone into the bullpen.
Speaker 2: A line drive home run for show, Hey o'tony It's
Speaker 2: three to two.
Speaker 3: Home run number thirty eight for Otani show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 3: with a very good game tonight. He scored both of the.
Speaker 2: Dodger runs, that one, driving himself in with his thirty
Speaker 2: eighth home run of the year in the fifth inning.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers fall to the Cardinals tonight five two.
Speaker 2: This is Dodger Talk David Vasse live at Bush Stadium
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis, with you until eight thirty tonight. We
Speaker 2: will hear from Tyler Glass now in a moment, but
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Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number otani Homwerk for the Dodgers tonight. But
Speaker 2: the Cardinals got three home runs, one from Alec Burlison,
Speaker 2: a two run shot, and solo shots from Mason Winn
Speaker 2: and Nolan Arenato. By the way, Mason Wynn might be
Speaker 2: my favorite player not wearing a Dodger uniform to watch
Speaker 2: play the game of baseball. I love the way he
Speaker 2: plays shortstop. I love the electricity he brings to the bases.
Speaker 2: And he's got some pop too, as we saw tonight.
Speaker 2: So remember that name, Mason Winn, and if you're a
Speaker 2: baseball card fan, go find his rookie card. Might be
Speaker 2: worse something down the road, but Mason win that's the
Speaker 2: name I feel is going to be in the thorn
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers side for years to come. Speaking of that,
Speaker 2: Nolan Aernato's home run was his twenty third home run
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. How about that, No excuse me, his
Speaker 2: thirty second home run against the Dodgers and his ninety
Speaker 2: ninth run against the Dodgers in one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: three games played against them. Here's another interesting note on
Speaker 2: Aeronado's home run. It was only his thirteenth of the season,
Speaker 2: and him and Paul Goldschmid have not had great years.
Speaker 2: That's part of the reason why the Cardinals are basically
Speaker 2: on the brink of playoff elimination.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 2: They have combined to hit thirty two home runs. Otani
Speaker 2: hit his thirty eighth alone tonight, So those two guys,
Speaker 2: Goldschmid and Aeronato combined have not hit as many home
Speaker 2: runs as show hey Otani eight six, six, nine, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Also, the Dodgers not
Speaker 2: only lost the game, but they lost their first baseman,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, who played his two thousandth career game last night.
Speaker 2: He had to come out of this game because of
Speaker 2: a jammed right middle finger, that's his throwing hand. He
Speaker 2: jammed it fielding a ground ball by Nolan Gorman in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning, and we noticed that Freddy was not
Speaker 2: on deck in the bottom of the eighth inning. It
Speaker 2: never got to his spot, but we did notice obviously
Speaker 2: that he did not come out to play defense. Keyy
Speaker 2: Hernandez finished the final inning at first base, with Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas sliding over to third and Nick Ahmed at shortstop.
Speaker 2: So everybody wants to know how serious is this jammed
Speaker 2: right middle finger? Here is Freddy Freeman moments ago.
Speaker 11: Yes, the bad hop to the right right, he went
Speaker 11: back with ball, but you can see kind of pull
Speaker 11: up the tip of my finger.
Speaker 8: So well, the ball hit your fing in the ground.
Speaker 11: The moon hit my finger.
Speaker 6: The X rays, it's crazy negative be allowed X rays.
Speaker 11: I'm a little nervous and the finger blew up like that.
Speaker 6: You think I'll do any more further test tomorrow, I
Speaker 6: don't think.
Speaker 11: So we're going to go with day to day and
Speaker 11: you know I've already iced it, so we're gonna see
Speaker 11: how it is.
Speaker 4: Don't really have.
Speaker 11: Any X rays or negative and we'll see how it is.
Speaker 6: Just well, like the swelling increase over the course of
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it just started getting bigger, bigger, And
Speaker 11: as you guys know, when you jams something it just
Speaker 11: kind of swells and gets tight and then I just
Speaker 11: didn't even kind of hurt me throw so best to
Speaker 11: get me out and gets mye on it and see
Speaker 11: if yeah, we could.
Speaker 3: Do the next day.
Speaker 1: Did he try and grab a batter?
Speaker 3: And I have not. I just I didn't think.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he's back in the Dodger lineup tomorrow. If not,
Speaker 2: you know it won't be too long thereafter that Freddy
Speaker 2: will be back in there. He prides himself if he's
Speaker 2: available on the team, in the dugout to be out there.
Speaker 2: And he certainly expressed expressed that to us before yesterday's game,
Speaker 2: which was a milestone game, two thousand career games. Not
Speaker 2: many guys can say that. And uh, we'll see where
Speaker 2: Freddy's at tomorrow morning. If it was a night game,
Speaker 2: maybe we'd give the Dodgers a little more of a
Speaker 2: chance to manage it to get him ready to play.
Speaker 2: But a quick turnaround, I would say it's fifty to
Speaker 2: fifty for Freddy to play. Eight six six ninety seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. The Dodgers fall
Speaker 2: tonight five to two to the Cardinals. How about you
Speaker 2: see riversides? Andre Palante going seven innings tonight to pick
Speaker 2: up his fifth win of the year.
Speaker 3: I see you and eaters. I'm not gonna ignore.
Speaker 2: That Bobby Miller lost the game tonight for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: a spot start for Tyler glass Now, who was scheduled
Speaker 2: to start tonight. And this was somewhat weird that Tyler
Speaker 2: glass Now did not start tonight and we did not
Speaker 2: get an official roster move until thirty minutes before first
Speaker 2: pitch yesterday.
Speaker 3: We found out after the game.
Speaker 2: Maybe part of the reason why was that Tyler glass
Speaker 2: Now was trying to make his case that he was
Speaker 2: good to go. But once you alert the training staff
Speaker 2: that there is something going on with your elbow, it's
Speaker 2: their responsibility to treat it cautiously. Especially with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: who are looking towards the postseason. You're not going to
Speaker 2: compromise Tyler glass Now for one start in Saint Louis
Speaker 2: in the middle of August. So he sounded the alarm
Speaker 2: bell by letting them know he was feeling a little
Speaker 2: something in his right elbow after his bullpen session a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago. So you can't blame the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and I understand glass Now feeling great today. Wanted to
Speaker 2: pitch today, but you know, as a pitcher, once you
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, put yourself in Dave Roberts shoes,
Speaker 2: put you yourself in the training staff shoes. A picture
Speaker 2: of Tyler Glassnow's caliber tells you, you know what, my
Speaker 2: elbow's not feeling right.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: You're going to obviously played extremely cautious and put him
Speaker 2: on the fifteen day il and not have them start tonight.
Speaker 3: But it seemed like after.
Speaker 2: Glass Now said that he tried to walk it back
Speaker 2: the last couple of days and yesterday afternoon, that's not
Speaker 2: how it works. The Dodgers have a long track record
Speaker 2: of protecting their pictures and players being extra cautious.
Speaker 3: So here was Tyler.
Speaker 2: Glass Now earlier today explaining his side of the chain
Speaker 2: of events.
Speaker 6: No, just like after a bullpen, just a little sore,
Speaker 6: nothing crazy, and I just think they wanted me to
Speaker 6: go on the aisle. Just give me more time, kind
Speaker 6: of having postseason as the priority.
Speaker 2: Dave said, yesterday, you fought to try to make today's start.
Speaker 3: Did you feel well enough to start today?
Speaker 6: I feel fine now, Yeah, I think I think that's
Speaker 6: the most frustrating thing I think it's just I don't know.
Speaker 6: I I didn't want to go on the IL, you know,
Speaker 6: but I think the decision was made, and I think
Speaker 6: maybe I'm not like logically thinking or something, but I
Speaker 6: feel fine. I just think their main priority, like I said,
Speaker 6: is postseason, so I kind of didn't have like a
Speaker 6: they didn't. Yeah, I guess I'm just on the ile.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been able to process all that when you
Speaker 2: kind of let them know you felt something and them
Speaker 2: playing it's safe.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got like spoke my mind and they spoke theirs,
Speaker 6: and they ultimately get the decision. And it's not like
Speaker 6: you know, I mean, it's out of like trying to
Speaker 6: decide the best decision for me and the team. So
Speaker 6: it's not like you know what I mean, like I
Speaker 6: trust all the medical staff and the coaches and front office,
Speaker 6: and if that's what they want to do, that's what
Speaker 6: they want to do, and I just I'm looking forward
Speaker 6: to the postseason else anything similarly with this in your
Speaker 6: elbow this year, on the course of the season, I
Speaker 6: think like after surgery, there's just like tightness within that
Speaker 6: because they kind of like double loop that ligament in
Speaker 6: there and like there's for a while after there's gonna
Speaker 6: be like a little bit of like space created, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean. So there's gonna be some tightness,
Speaker 6: and that's kind of like all it felt like. So
Speaker 6: it is a similar feeling, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: just from like post top stuff. So it was nothing
Speaker 6: like super concerning to me.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you've had enough stuff gone on
Speaker 4: with your elbow that you have a pretty good handle
Speaker 4: on whoa, what's a little more serious what's not? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think so, But I think, like, yeah, I guess,
Speaker 6: I mean, I guess going in after that bullpen and
Speaker 6: saying stuff, I think they just maybe were a little
Speaker 6: concerned and they just they wanted to do this, and
Speaker 6: I think just previous years past, like kind of getting injured.
Speaker 6: I'm sure that was taken into account. And whether I
Speaker 6: think it is like a too aggressive approach, it's one thing.
Speaker 6: But I like, I again, like they're just trying to
Speaker 6: get me ready for postseason. That's the only thing that matters.
Speaker 6: So I think if I miss a starter or two,
Speaker 6: like I'll be frustrate and everything. But I think the
Speaker 6: long term picture, it does it make more sense. Like
Speaker 6: it's hard to swallow, but it is what it is.
Speaker 6: You know, you're kind of like a normal brushing on
Speaker 6: the eyel sort of your normal same routine.
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 6: So I'm not really quite sure what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6: I'm still waiting for some into but I think I'm
Speaker 6: just gonna take a little bit of time start throwing.
Speaker 6: Like I feel good now, i'd probably start throwing, and
Speaker 6: I think hopefully I can. It's like retroactive or whatever,
Speaker 6: and I'll be able to start. I don't even know
Speaker 6: the day, like twelve days from now or something like that.
Speaker 6: So that's the only thing I've kind of planning torch
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 5: I kind of went through six scans and got information
Speaker 5: from the team. Did they think kind of what just happens? Like,
Speaker 5: I know we've made a big deal about the innings
Speaker 5: and stuff like that, but does that kind of play
Speaker 5: a factor in through anything?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 5: What do you mean, like thetend and night is kind
Speaker 5: of creeping up at this sum of the year, Like
Speaker 5: it's just kind of like something to happen that the
Speaker 5: surgery or like.
Speaker 6: This, I don't potentially like part of me thinks it's
Speaker 6: just as like a post like it hasn't been that
Speaker 6: long sin surgery and my arm has been feeling really good.
Speaker 6: It's just one of those like I think there's just
Speaker 6: scar tissue and things that have to open up and
Speaker 6: or it's not maybe like I don't it feels pretty
Speaker 6: fine to me though. Yeah, I just think that's just
Speaker 6: the nature of throwing. And like I think ten and
Speaker 6: night is something that everyone deals with at some point,
Speaker 6: So I think it's just like a cautious approach and
Speaker 6: it is what it is, you know, something No, I
Speaker 6: mean I kind of want to say something, and it's
Speaker 6: almost like a for me to say something. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I like want to mention it, you know, And then
Speaker 6: I think that day it was just a normal soreness,
Speaker 6: and then like the following days it was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I feel like it's fine. I just think I'm also
Speaker 6: planning on or like my most important priority is postseason
Speaker 6: and like winning a World Series. And I think just
Speaker 6: with with being here for so long and having the contract,
Speaker 6: like I think I'm kind of obligated to like mention
Speaker 6: it to them and like we kind of have to
Speaker 6: think of it as a team, you know, and whether yeah, yeah, did.
Speaker 2: You did you have an MRI and Did that give
Speaker 2: you some sort of peace of mind?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm waiting.
Speaker 6: It wasn't like anything crazy. I'm still waiting for like
Speaker 6: people to like look at it and talk about it,
Speaker 6: you know, like doctors and stuff. So I'm still I'm
Speaker 6: waiting on that. But what I've gotten initially is like
Speaker 6: it's it's fine, just tenan itis. Yeah, did you cut
Speaker 6: short your bullpen session or did you just know it
Speaker 6: was normal?
Speaker 3: Felt good?
Speaker 6: Just a little soreness, like I said, But like there's
Speaker 6: like a fine line, I guess, like everyone has a
Speaker 6: little soreness, you know what I mean. Like it's just
Speaker 6: one of those things I mentioned, And they just took
Speaker 6: a really cautious route and it's probably better off for everyone.
Speaker 3: So it is what it is, all right, it is
Speaker 3: what it is. Tyler Glass.
Speaker 2: Now you have said that your elbow wasn't feeling great,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers did the responsible thing by putting you
Speaker 2: on the injured list, and you heard what Tyler glassnaw
Speaker 2: had to say. He expects to be back pitching in
Speaker 2: twelve days when he's eligible to come off the il. Well,
Speaker 2: that puts him right in line to either pitch the
Speaker 2: final game of the Baltimore Orioles series at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: but more than likely the Dodgers will hold him back
Speaker 2: and set them up to pitch during the four game
Speaker 2: series against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix, which begins on
Speaker 2: August thirtieth. How big of a series is that? Now,
Speaker 2: four big games in the desert for the Dodgers at
Speaker 2: the end of this month, and Tyler glass Now more
Speaker 2: than likely will be lined up to pitch one of
Speaker 2: those four games, and hopefully the Dodgers by now by
Speaker 2: then will have a larger lead in the division than
Speaker 2: they do right now. The Padres are only going to
Speaker 2: be two games back at the end of tonight, and
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks, who lost in Tampa Bay are remaining three
Speaker 2: games back. So that was Tyler glass Now's explanation before
Speaker 2: today's game on why all of a sudden he could
Speaker 2: not make tonight's start or today's start, and just how
Speaker 2: there was some sort of back and forth not only
Speaker 2: between him and the team, but also it sounded like
Speaker 2: he had a lot of voices in his own head
Speaker 2: trying to figure out and kind of rationalize what was
Speaker 2: going on in his elbow. What I will say is
Speaker 2: the good news is that it's not serious. Ten tonightis
Speaker 2: what I also will say, and I'll get back on
Speaker 2: my soapbox, Mike Clayton Kershaw appreciation soapbox. I feel like
Speaker 2: we all take for granted the fact that a guy
Speaker 2: like Kershaw, throughout his career has taken the ball no
Speaker 2: matter how he has felt, to be able to go
Speaker 2: out there and make close to thirty starts as many
Speaker 2: times as possible. He has done thirty starts six times
Speaker 2: in his career, He's made at least twenty five starts
Speaker 2: ten times in his career, and he's made at least
Speaker 2: twenty starts fifteen times in his career. So here we
Speaker 2: are talking about Tyler Glass now making a career high
Speaker 2: twenty two starts, and we have to be very careful
Speaker 2: with him, which is fine, that's his career, that's his path.
Speaker 2: But I think we all should remind ourselves that not
Speaker 2: only has Clayton Kershaw been one of the greatest pitchers
Speaker 2: the sport has ever seen, but part of that is
Speaker 2: he's out there every fifth day and not getting extra
Speaker 2: rest all the time throughout the majority of his career. Now,
Speaker 2: obviously he's in the twilight of his career, things are
Speaker 2: a little bit different, but even last year he made
Speaker 2: twenty plus starts. And I will also say we should
Speaker 2: all appreciate the all time Dodgers saves leader ken Lee Janssen.
Speaker 2: How many relievers make fifty appearances for thirteen straight full seasons.
Speaker 2: I would love to know what other closer has been
Speaker 2: able to do that. And as you know, Kenley Jansen
Speaker 2: didn't just come in for one out in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning or even three outs in the ninth inning of
Speaker 2: games when he was at the height of his powers
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, Dave Roberts trotted him out
Speaker 2: for a lot of multiple inning saves and Alex Kora
Speaker 2: actually did that before the All Star break this year,
Speaker 2: so he's still going strong. How many relievers pitch fifty
Speaker 2: games in thirteen straight full seasons. How many relievers and closers,
Speaker 2: specifically because the ninth inning is high stress, appear in
Speaker 2: sixty games nine times in their career doesn't happen. I
Speaker 2: think we all have to appreciate the fact these pitchers
Speaker 2: that are able to be reliable. That's part of being
Speaker 2: a great player, being reliable, being able to be out there.
Speaker 2: If Tyler glasnow wants to be an ace, he's got
Speaker 2: to be reliable to be out there every fifth day,
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers have taken extra good care of him,
Speaker 2: giving him extra day's rest all season long. So I
Speaker 2: feel like last year was a step forward in his career.
Speaker 2: This year has been another step forward in his career,
Speaker 2: and hopefully the postseason takes him to another level in
Speaker 2: his career. But moving forward, I feel like the training
Speaker 2: wheels have got to come off on Tyler Glass now.
Speaker 2: He's got to be reliable and manage his body and
Speaker 2: manage the pain tolerance to be out there for twenty
Speaker 2: five at least twenty five starts. I believe he he
Speaker 2: did feel pain in his elbow. I'm not questioning that,
Speaker 2: But today he's saying he feels fine. So it's hard
Speaker 2: for me to back Tyler Glass now to say, you
Speaker 2: know what, you shouldn't have put him on the il.
Speaker 2: You left the Dodgers no other choice. When you say
Speaker 2: your elbows barking after a bullpen session, they had no
Speaker 2: other choice.
Speaker 3: There's nothing they could do.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number Dodgers fall to the Cardinals tonight five
Speaker 2: to two. Let's take one more phone call before we
Speaker 2: say good night. Bobby in the Central Valley. How you doing, Bobby,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. Walk us off?
Speaker 3: Good Thank you, Davie.
Speaker 12: Hey, I was agreeing with you on the curse all talk.
Speaker 12: We kind of forget about him, man, he's uh, he's
Speaker 12: been our guy for X amount of years and uh,
Speaker 12: you know right now he's all went healthy and hopefully
Speaker 12: he'll carry us through.
Speaker 7: I would tell my cousin today, I go here we
Speaker 7: go again.
Speaker 12: We're gonna have to rely on Poort Curshaw.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he's a min staple man.
Speaker 12: You know, he's our guy, and uh, I don't people
Speaker 12: forget about him.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think anybody's forgetting him.
Speaker 2: But I think we have all taken for granted, just
Speaker 2: granted there he has done for the Dodgers, even in
Speaker 2: the postseason, going in anymore because the bullpen wasn't very good,
Speaker 2: or pitching on three days rest in the postseason, because
Speaker 2: they had nobody else. Everybody just points to the failures,
Speaker 2: but don't look at the circumstances.
Speaker 12: You're right, my friend, you are one hundred percent right.
Speaker 3: Let's snack on Kenley Jansen's name too.
Speaker 12: Oh your damn right. And one last thing, you were
Speaker 12: talking about Mountain.
Speaker 7: Edmund earlier coming back Monday and Tuesdays.
Speaker 12: Don't you think Hayward should be sent down?
Speaker 9: Or I mean, I know you can't be.
Speaker 3: Sent down either.
Speaker 2: You're gonna cut ties with Jason Hayward. And look, he's
Speaker 2: been on the team for the last year and a half.
Speaker 2: I just don't see how that would be great just
Speaker 2: to cut him. It feels like you want to keep
Speaker 2: the roster depth and PAHs as options. It's not like
Speaker 2: he's lighting the world on fire. He wasn't playing great
Speaker 2: defense in center field. He's starting to get better ever
Speaker 2: since Raoula Banyez was with the team in Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: But look, this is a roster crunch.
Speaker 2: So this is a tough conversation, but obvious to me,
Speaker 2: the obvious choice it is.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well, thank you DV.
Speaker 1: You have a good night.
Speaker 2: Huh, thank you, Bobby, thanks for calling. That's a good
Speaker 2: way to end the show. Good call all right, tomorrow
Speaker 2: Kershaw Day Here in St.
Speaker 3: Lewis.
Speaker 2: Kershaw coming off his first win of the season and
Speaker 2: his best start of the year in Milwaukee, he is
Speaker 2: one in two with an ERA at three point fifty,
Speaker 2: going up against another veteran, crafty righty Sonny Gray, who's
Speaker 2: eleven and seven this year with an ERA of three
Speaker 2: ninety three. Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins at ten
Speaker 2: am tomorrow with first pitch at eleven fifteen. That'll do
Speaker 2: it for us on Dodger Talk tonight. Ten Kates will
Speaker 2: be along tomorrow for Getaway Day, and then I'll rejoin
Speaker 2: on Monday night from Dodgers Stadium when Justin Turner and
Speaker 2: the Mariners come to town. And by the way, that'll
Speaker 2: be the first time Justin Turner has played at Dodgers
Speaker 2: Stadium not wearing a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 3: It's been a well, i should say, since not wearing
Speaker 3: a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: Last time he played at Dodger Stadium was actually during
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two NLBS Game two.
Speaker 3: Against the Padres. Never played another game for the Dodgers
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 2: Retz didn't come to town last year and the Blue
Speaker 2: Jays did not come to town.
Speaker 3: But since he was created to the Mariners, here we are.
Speaker 2: Justin Turner expected to come back on Monday and hopefully
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have a classic eighties type montage ready for
Speaker 2: Justin Turner on Monday Night. All right, thanks calling ye
Speaker 2: back at our Burbanks Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out
Speaker 2: here in Saint Louis, and thanks to you for listening.
Speaker 3: In case you missed any of.
Speaker 2: The show or our pregame conversation with veteran Ryan Brazier,
Speaker 2: you can find it all on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: You can also follow me on social media at the Real.
Speaker 2: Underscore DV and on Instagram at officially bass At once again.
Speaker 2: The final score from Bush Stadium in Saint Louis. The
Speaker 2: Cardinals defeat the Dodgers five to two. Have a great
Speaker 2: rest of your nights.
Speaker 3: See them, y