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Speaker 4: host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kaks.
Speaker 5: Well, say goodbye to the Chicago Cubs from the remainder
Speaker 5: of the season. The Dodgers are done with the Cubbies.
Speaker 5: After twenty five games to the season. They have now
Speaker 5: faced them seven times.
Speaker 2: That is it.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers in Cubby will not see each other the
Speaker 5: remainder of the regular season. But who knows, maybe these
Speaker 5: Dodgers and Cubs will meet up somewhere in the postseason.
Speaker 5: Hi everybody, and welcome to postgame Dodger talk here on
Speaker 5: a five to seventy LA Sports thinks you being with
Speaker 5: us on this Wednesday night. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy is the number. Eight six six
Speaker 5: nine eight seven two five seventy. Got a couple lines
Speaker 5: open if you want to jump on board. Certainly a
Speaker 5: disappointing series for the Dodgers in Chicago last night, losing
Speaker 5: the leads, going back and forth, exchanging runs with the Cubbies,
Speaker 5: and then losing in extra innings to Chicago Tonight, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers jumped out to a turn two nine in the lead,
Speaker 5: gave up the lead, only to see the Dodgers offense
Speaker 5: regive them a two run lead in the top half
Speaker 5: of the fifth inning, only to see then Jack Dreyer
Speaker 5: give up four runs in the bottom half of the
Speaker 5: fifth inning as the Cubs come back and win it
Speaker 5: seven to six.
Speaker 6: Tonight.
Speaker 5: A bullpen game for the Dodgers, and we're used to
Speaker 5: bullpen games. We saw the postseason, we saw him in
Speaker 5: the World Series, and what we saw in October last
Speaker 5: year was a bullpen pasted the baton to one another,
Speaker 5: put up zeros and let their offense go to work.
Speaker 6: And win baseball games. That was a recipe for.
Speaker 5: Success in twenty twenty four many times, including in October.
Speaker 5: But tonight one of those examples of a Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 5: I think that is starting to rack up a lot
Speaker 5: of miles on these arms. Now, twenty five games into
Speaker 5: this regular season. Ben Casparius, who's a former starter in
Speaker 5: the minor leagues just a year ago, went forty pitches tonight,
Speaker 5: two and two thirds, probably right around where his cap
Speaker 5: was as a long reliever for this Dodgers team at
Speaker 5: the big leagues. But he's a starter, not built up,
Speaker 5: not used to going more than forty forty five to
Speaker 5: fifty pitches. Dave Roberts pulled him in the thirty and
Speaker 5: with two outs and the Dodgers on top three two
Speaker 5: to nothing. It would then take the Dodgers' bullpen to
Speaker 5: pass that baton and keep the lead and keep the
Speaker 5: highest scoring offense in the Chicago Cubs off the board.
Speaker 5: Anthony Bonda did it for two thirds of an inning.
Speaker 5: Noah Davis came in and had a rough outing, give
Speaker 5: up a three run home run to Pete Crow Armstrong,
Speaker 5: who continues to haunt the Dodgers, and it's really a
Speaker 5: Dodger team that he's getting after. Since becoming a big
Speaker 5: leaguer two years ago, Pete Crow Armstrong at a Harvard
Speaker 5: Westlake High School doesn't have more than two home runs
Speaker 5: against any team in baseball except for the Dodgers. He
Speaker 5: has four home runs in now ten games against the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: his hometown team. That aside, the Dodgers' bullpen had to
Speaker 5: put up zeros after the mistakes by Noah Davis. And certainly,
Speaker 5: when you give up four runs like Jack Dryer did
Speaker 5: and you're down seven to five, you're putting yourself in
Speaker 5: a tough situation. The credit to Kirby Yates, Evan Phillips,
Speaker 5: Luis Garcia, who got out of.
Speaker 6: A jam thanks to a double playball.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers' bullpen put up zeros after Jack Dryer's fifth inning,
Speaker 5: except the damage was done and the Dodgers' offense outside
Speaker 5: of the Andy Pot has home run to make a
Speaker 5: one run game couldn't muster up much the rest of
Speaker 5: the way. One positive Mookie Bets tonight. Mooki Betts hopefully
Speaker 5: had one of those games that gets him back on track.
Speaker 5: Mookie Bets three for five tonight with an RBI. He
Speaker 5: had been really in a funk offensively the last eight games,
Speaker 5: so good to see Mookie Betts hopefully turn the page
Speaker 5: from whatever he was in again tonight three for five
Speaker 5: with an extra base hit. Maybe he starts heating up
Speaker 5: for show Heyotani. That dad strength hasn't shown yet. Since
Speaker 5: coming off the paternity list. Shoe Heotani has struggled at
Speaker 5: the plate in three games since returning, one for eleven,
Speaker 5: no extra base hits, five strikeouts, and he's walked twice.
Speaker 5: And tonight, Shoeyotani came up with a golden opportunity to
Speaker 5: help out the Dodgers down seven to six in the
Speaker 5: sixth inning. Andy pot Has had already homered. Dodgers had
Speaker 5: two to on two out, runners on second and third,
Speaker 5: and showy Otani popped out to shortstop. Well, the table
Speaker 5: was set for him, but he couldn't deliver. I mean,
Speaker 5: how many times in the first twenty two games of
Speaker 5: this season have we heard, well, Shoeyotani's not getting up
Speaker 5: enough with runners in scoring position. The guys in front
Speaker 5: of Shoeyotani are not putting him in position to drive
Speaker 5: in runs. Tonight an example of that they did and
Speaker 5: he could not deliver eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 5: two five seventy. The Dodgers pitching tonight backfired. And what
Speaker 5: was a bullpen game and all it takes is one
Speaker 5: bad inning tonight, it was two bad innings for the
Speaker 5: Dodgers that really did them in. Yet they kept they
Speaker 5: kept scratching, they kept clawing. When you've got an offense,
Speaker 5: fight the Dodgers that in two games scored sixteen runs
Speaker 5: against the Cubbies. You should at least win one of
Speaker 5: those games. Right, it's an average of eight runs per game.
Speaker 5: They had ten last night, they had six tonight. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: the Dodger pitching let them down last night, and Dodger
Speaker 5: pitching let him again down tonight eight sixty six nine
Speaker 5: eighty seven two five seventy. And before you jump on
Speaker 5: Max Munsey and his struggles, the struggles are real. The
Speaker 5: struggles are real for Max Munsey tonight didn't get the start.
Speaker 5: Miguel ro hosted zero for one tonight, coming off the.
Speaker 6: Bench as a pinch hit or late in the game.
Speaker 6: And what did he do with that one at bat?
Speaker 5: He struck out Now hitting one to seventy eight on
Speaker 5: the season, slugging two forty seven and Max Munsey now
Speaker 5: still with as many home runs as me in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five, zero and only four runs batted in for
Speaker 5: Max Munsey, So I know he is struggling, and Dodger
Speaker 5: fans want to pile on Max Munsey, but it is
Speaker 5: not a one man blame game here for the Dodgers'
Speaker 5: inability to win the last two games in Chicago, pitching, defense,
Speaker 5: base running, just little things add up. They extend innings,
Speaker 5: They give an extra out to a Cups team that
Speaker 5: doesn't need an extra out. Tonight, the Dodger pitchers combined.
Speaker 6: For seven walks, seven.
Speaker 5: Seven free passes to Chicago Cups players, which led to
Speaker 5: Pete crow Armstrong still in a base late when he
Speaker 5: walked five stolen bases tonight. Makee that with two, three, four, Yeah,
Speaker 5: five stolen bases for the Cubbies tonight against Dodger pitching.
Speaker 5: Five stolen bases, defense pitching, and you got an offense
Speaker 5: in the Cubbies that can score runs and they can
Speaker 5: swing it. That's not a recipe for success with the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: and they tonight saw a Cubs team come back down
Speaker 5: twice by two runs, take the lead, hang on to
Speaker 5: the lead and win the series of the season four
Speaker 5: games to three. Dodgers and Cubs will not see each
Speaker 5: other again the rest of the regular season. Kind of weird, right,
Speaker 5: the whole Tokyo two game series, the Dodgers playing the
Speaker 5: Cubs early at Dodgers Stadium here in April, and then
Speaker 5: the two games in Chicago to make up for the
Speaker 5: two games in Tokyo. That's it because of the even
Speaker 5: schedule across the board. Now in baseball, you only get
Speaker 5: seven games against teams not in your division, and so
Speaker 5: the Dodgers and Cubs won't play each other in the
Speaker 5: hot summer Chicago days that we've seen so many times
Speaker 5: in the summer.
Speaker 6: Nope.
Speaker 5: Next chance we will see the Cubs and Dodgers play
Speaker 5: is an October if both can get there. And the Cubs,
Speaker 5: by the way leading the NL Central at sixteen and ten,
Speaker 5: the Dodgers one game back. Now the padres in the
Speaker 5: NL West at sixteen and ni, let's go out to
Speaker 5: the phones, Jasper Newport Beach start things off on this
Speaker 5: Wednesday night after the Dodgers lose in Chicago's seven to six, Jasper,
Speaker 5: what's going on.
Speaker 2: Hey, Timmy, how you doing tonight.
Speaker 5: I'm okay, I'm okay. I'm a little frustrated with the pitching.
Speaker 5: I mentioned over the weekend, my concern for the bullpen,
Speaker 5: the amount of innings being pitched, and when you're asking
Speaker 5: the bullpen last night to throw a lot of innings
Speaker 5: because Dustin May struggled in tonight, they got to go
Speaker 5: back out there and seven different relievers have to pitch
Speaker 5: in the bullpen game. I know there's a day off tomorrow, Jasper,
Speaker 5: but May, we're asking a lot out of these guys.
Speaker 2: They couldn't agree more. Sam, I just want to call
Speaker 2: and tell you that this Dodger team right now is
Speaker 2: reminding me of my golf game a bit, and for
Speaker 2: all my golfers out there be able to relate. One
Speaker 2: club starts working, the others start to disappear. Starting pitching
Speaker 2: has been really good. The bullpen lights out, especially in Texas,
Speaker 2: and the offense just couldn't get those big Dodger innings going.
Speaker 2: And here in Chicago you said it, sixteen runs in
Speaker 2: two games and the pitching starts to disappear. I think
Speaker 2: we just need to get the driver. Got to get
Speaker 2: the Irons a short game. All fire and at the
Speaker 2: same time we're gonna go on a big win streak.
Speaker 5: It's a good analogy. I like that, Jasper appreciate the
Speaker 5: phone call. Yeah, the Dodgers are like a lot of
Speaker 5: people's golf game. Right now, something's working, the other two
Speaker 5: parts aren't working. It's just when you figure out that
Speaker 5: other part that wasn't working, the part that was working
Speaker 5: for you stops working. So yeah, it is certainly frustration
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers again last year twenty twenty four, especially
Speaker 5: in October. Great defense, good base running, did not make mistakes,
Speaker 5: didn't hurt themselves, no self inflicted wounds for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: And when you play clean baseball and you got the
Speaker 5: offense like the Dodgers have, and you can get some
Speaker 5: good pitching, you're gonna win more times than not if
Speaker 5: you're the Dodgers. But when the hitting falls off a
Speaker 5: little bit, where's the defensive pitching to pick him up?
Speaker 6: It has to be there.
Speaker 5: Well, the hitting's there tonight he scored six runs. He
Speaker 5: scored sixteen runs in two games, but starting pitching hasn't
Speaker 5: been there the last two nights. Well, certainly a bullpen
Speaker 5: game tonight with Ben Casparious getting the start but the
Speaker 5: bullpen last night and the bullpen tonight again. A lot
Speaker 5: of innings starting to mount up for Dodger relievers. Two
Speaker 5: thirds here, two thirds there, an inning here, two and
Speaker 5: two thirds more for Ben Casparius.
Speaker 6: I think Jose Motor brought up a really good point
Speaker 6: when he was all with this in the Clubhouse show.
Speaker 5: It's this twenty five games into the season, seven of
Speaker 5: those games against the Chicago Cubs. You're starting to get
Speaker 5: a little familiar with the pitching. You're seeing relievers now
Speaker 5: a lot. Think about the sixteen to nothing game that
Speaker 5: Ben Casparrius got touched up with A couple of saturdays, go,
Speaker 5: I was there.
Speaker 6: I stayed for all nine innings.
Speaker 5: Watch Miguel Rojas doing impressions on the mound in a
Speaker 5: sixteen to nothing loss at home to the Cubbies. They've
Speaker 5: played out seven times in the last month against each other.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of time seeing Casparius, a Bonda, a dryer,
Speaker 5: a dust in may, seeing these different Dodger pitchers on
Speaker 5: the flip side the same thing. How many times have
Speaker 5: they see Matthew Boyden now a couple you know, we've
Speaker 5: seen show to Imanaga a couple of times. So you're
Speaker 5: starting to get familiar with the other team, just like
Speaker 5: you would though in a seven game series. First time
Speaker 5: you see a starting pitching in game one, well you're
Speaker 5: gonna see him in game four. So as a batter,
Speaker 5: you're a little bit more familiar because you got four
Speaker 5: abs against the guy four days ago. So it's muscle memory.
Speaker 5: You remember what he's like, what he does, what he
Speaker 5: doesn't do, how he pitches you. So the fact that
Speaker 5: they've seen each other now seven times in twenty five games,
Speaker 5: that could.
Speaker 6: Be part of it.
Speaker 5: And when you're throwing a lot of Dodger levers out there,
Speaker 5: they soak up innings. That's given the Cubs a lot
Speaker 5: of opportunity to see these guys and get familiar with
Speaker 5: Dodger relievers and to see Jack Dryer. And tonight it
Speaker 5: was Jack Dryer's turn to give it up. He'll like
Speaker 5: give up two hits, but he walked three and a
Speaker 5: sack fly, a two run single and a RBI single
Speaker 5: did him in. When you load the bases up and
Speaker 5: then you you give up a hit here, a sack
Speaker 5: fly there, and a hit up the middle. Damage done.
Speaker 5: That's three runs right there, part of a four run
Speaker 5: fourth inning for the Cubbies. They win it seven six
Speaker 5: over the Dodgers tonight, as the Dodgers fall to sixteen
Speaker 5: to nine on the season. Let's go to Santos and
Speaker 5: the Ie checking in here on Dodger Talk on this
Speaker 5: Wednesday night.
Speaker 6: Santos, welcome, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, Tim?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'm just like yeah, man. I mean it's
Speaker 1: like Dave like he should, uh, he should let Casparius
Speaker 1: out there a little bit longer, you know, like Casparre's
Speaker 1: was being a dog. He was out there, Like I
Speaker 1: was surprised to see him take him out, Like I
Speaker 1: think it was a third with two innings. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: he could get at least like another two more innings,
Speaker 1: like at the very least, Like, let that guy just
Speaker 1: burn out because what we got the Pirates coming up
Speaker 1: this weekend. Like give him the weekend off, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: burn him out because our bullpen's been burnt out for
Speaker 1: at least.
Speaker 5: Last thing I want to do is burn him out
Speaker 5: for an extend amount of time and hurt his arms. Santos,
Speaker 5: I mean he threw forty pitches tonight, just looking at
Speaker 5: how many times he's pitched. He threw forty seven against Colorado.
Speaker 5: Last Wednesday, he threw forty one against these same cubs
Speaker 5: in that she lacking, which they lost sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 5: Other than that, he hasn't thrown really more than thirty
Speaker 5: five pitches in a game. So I don't know if
Speaker 5: it's too much to ask him to finish the third inning.
Speaker 5: He's at forty pitches, he's got two outs. You know,
Speaker 5: maybe you try to get that final lot, get him
Speaker 5: to forty five pitches.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what his limit is. I don't know
Speaker 5: how he's feeling. You know, behind the scenes, I'm sure
Speaker 5: they know all that. They've charted all it, and they
Speaker 5: had a game plan for everything. But I'm with you
Speaker 5: with the with the the way he was pitching, and
Speaker 5: I appreciate the phone call, with the way he was pitching,
Speaker 5: the way he was out there and didn't seem to
Speaker 5: have a lost stressful contact and innings out there in the.
Speaker 6: First two and two thirds.
Speaker 5: I mean, he gave him a lead up double in
Speaker 5: the second, but a ball that fell in and you know,
Speaker 5: you could have been caught, but got out of it
Speaker 5: with the strikeout, ground out and a flyout got himself
Speaker 5: out of it really quickly, and then a flyout on
Speaker 5: the strikeout. Maybe let him go a little bit more,
Speaker 5: especially with a bullpen that is pitched a lot of innings.
Speaker 6: And last night you.
Speaker 5: Saw guys had to come out and pick up for
Speaker 5: Dustin May.
Speaker 6: So again they know everything.
Speaker 5: They know it better than we do as far as
Speaker 5: the feel where he's at, the pitch count, all.
Speaker 6: That stuff's taken it.
Speaker 5: It's it's not just a guess, all right, Hey, you
Speaker 5: know what forty pitches, Hey, let's take him out, okay
Speaker 5: or whatever. It's it's all planned it strategized out. They
Speaker 5: got a game plan and kind of a map of
Speaker 5: where they're following here. This this bullpen game. That's the
Speaker 5: problem with bullpen games. If if something goes off course,
Speaker 5: I mean, you got it mapped out. You know a
Speaker 5: lot of times they got it mapped out to the hitter.
Speaker 5: All right, you're gonna get these two hitters. You're gonna
Speaker 5: get this inning, all right. If he goes, if you
Speaker 5: get it quickenning here, you're gonna come back and at
Speaker 5: least the first two guys because they're lefty, righty you
Speaker 5: know it's all it's all strategically done right. There's a
Speaker 5: purpose for what they're doing. But all it takes is
Speaker 5: a home run or a couple of walks like what
Speaker 5: happened with Jack Dryer in the fifth inning, and your plan,
Speaker 5: your map to navigate through twenty seven outs, all of
Speaker 5: a sudden you got issues and you're off course.
Speaker 6: You gotta figure out how to get back on course.
Speaker 5: And now you've got a lingering bullpen out there already
Speaker 5: throwing a lot of innings, and now you're chasing a
Speaker 5: seven to five Cubs lead, and it's the fifth inning.
Speaker 5: You know, it's the bottom of the fifth, and you
Speaker 5: gotta go back out for the sixth, seventh, eighth, and
Speaker 5: maybe the ninth if if you gotta go back on
Speaker 5: and pitch the bottom the ninth inning, And you got
Speaker 5: people that have to cover those out, and you're in
Speaker 5: the fifth inning now and you've already used up one, two, three,
Speaker 5: four relievers out of that bullpen.
Speaker 6: So it changes the game plan.
Speaker 5: It certainly gets you off course for the plan you
Speaker 5: have in place for Dave Roberts and Mark Pryor.
Speaker 6: Despite all that, the Dodgers still had the lead twice.
Speaker 5: In this game, leading by two runs two to nothing
Speaker 5: early and then a five to three leading the fifth,
Speaker 5: and they made it a seven to sixth game in
Speaker 5: the sixth inning and still had an opportunity. So that
Speaker 5: all being said, the offense, still chugging along, had opportunities
Speaker 5: eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seven.
Speaker 6: He will take a break here, come back. We'll get
Speaker 6: to more of your phone calls.
Speaker 5: As the Dodgers lose in Chicago tonight seven to six,
Speaker 5: Matthew Boyd gets the win.
Speaker 6: Jack Dryer gets the loss.
Speaker 5: Ta Oscar Hernandez drove in four of the Dodgers six runs.
Speaker 5: Mookie Betts had an RBI double, Andy Paez had a
Speaker 5: home run. He's got home runs down back to back games.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's gonna get going. We saw Mookie Betts tonight
Speaker 5: have an RBI double in the top half.
Speaker 6: Of the fifth inning.
Speaker 5: Mookie tonight with a three for five outing. Maybe he's
Speaker 5: gonna get going offensively again. Dodgers, though, head back home
Speaker 5: after a disappointing two to three road trip in Texas.
Speaker 5: In Chicago, now the Dodgers back home for a six
Speaker 5: game homestad beginning of Friday night. Look ahead to that
Speaker 5: coming up in your phone calls. Thanks for being with
Speaker 5: us on this Wednesday night. Dodgers lose to the Cubbies
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Speaker 6: It's now tied at three. Here's the pitch, swinging a
Speaker 6: five ball that field hit well back toward the wall.
Speaker 6: It is gone.
Speaker 5: Tayo tasof and the Dodgers jump back in front. Task
Speaker 5: is a two run home run in the fifth inning,
Speaker 5: part of a three run fifth for the Dodgers, number
Speaker 5: six on the season for Tae Oscar. Andy Paez would
Speaker 5: also go deep in the sixth inning, his fourth of
Speaker 5: the season. Second home runs as many days, but not enough,
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Speaker 5: Cubs own the season series with the Dodgers. They have
Speaker 5: now played seven times. That is it for the regular season.
Speaker 5: They will not meet again until October if both teams
Speaker 5: were to get there. The Cubs win the season series
Speaker 5: four games to three with this two game sweep at
Speaker 5: Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Dodgers Tonight, a bullpen game.
Speaker 5: Seven different relievers took the mount starting with Ben Caspirius,
Speaker 5: who went two and two third innings, no runs, one hit,
Speaker 5: three strikeouts. Remember Ben Casparius got lit up at Dodger
Speaker 5: Stadium just a couple of weekends ago, and he comes
Speaker 5: back tonight and pitched really well. Jack Dryer, who pitched
Speaker 5: well against the Cubs a couple of weekends to go
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium tonight, comes out, walks three, gives up
Speaker 5: four runs, part of a four run fifth inning for
Speaker 5: the Cubs that gave him a seven to five lead,
Speaker 5: pass his home run minute, his seven to six game.
Speaker 5: So it's part of baseball right to see a team
Speaker 5: and a player have the ups and downs of a season,
Speaker 5: a series, a week and for Ben Casparius, the low
Speaker 5: of lows a couple weekends ago against the Cubbies, comes
Speaker 5: back out tonight and pitches really well into the third inning,
Speaker 5: struck out three along the way through forty pitches, give
Speaker 5: up just the one blue pit that was it, which
Speaker 5: is a double. But good for Ben Casparius, Jack Dryer,
Speaker 5: He'll bounce back, no doubt about it. He is a
Speaker 5: really good young reliever for the Dodgers. Just tonight a
Speaker 5: hiccup for him in the fifth inning. Despite it, the
Speaker 5: Dodgers almost came up with a couple of runs in
Speaker 5: the sixth inning and shoey Otani a golden opportunity with
Speaker 5: two on, two outrunners on second and third, but he
Speaker 5: popped out to shortstop to end the threat, in which
Speaker 5: a basit would have given the Dodgers back the lead
Speaker 5: again eight to seven.
Speaker 6: So, uh, he comes through.
Speaker 5: We're not talking about anything but a Dodger will win
Speaker 5: probably he pops out, and we're talking about the struggles
Speaker 5: of the offense against the high scoring Chicago Cubs, who
Speaker 5: are the highest scoring offense in all of baseball as
Speaker 5: they beat the Dodgers tonight seven to six, eight six
Speaker 5: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the number.
Speaker 5: Let's go to Charles in San Diego's next up here
Speaker 5: on postgame Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing, Charles going on?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Doing good? Yeah, a couple of rough outings we had
Speaker 3: here in Chicago. You do have a couple of things,
Speaker 3: you know, with the bullpen being being used as it
Speaker 3: has been, and just found out today that Blake Snow
Speaker 3: is gonna be shut down possibly, So I was wondering
Speaker 3: if you keep hearing about Tony golfriend is coming back
Speaker 3: and a couple of other pictures like code pick or whatnot,
Speaker 3: do you think that they're gonna big him up, bring
Speaker 3: him up in the next home stand or well do
Speaker 3: you think on that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate the phone call Michael Kopeks a ways away.
Speaker 5: I know he's throwing bullpen sessions, but he is not
Speaker 5: close to coming back and being a part of this
Speaker 5: Dodger bullpen. I'll give you a quick Tony Gonsolin update.
Speaker 5: He allowed two runs in his longest outing in a
Speaker 5: minor league start since twenty twenty three. Yeah, he allowed
Speaker 5: two runs, pitched into the sixth inning in his fourth
Speaker 5: and what could be his final rehab start in Triple
Speaker 5: A Oklahoma City. He threw seventy nine pitches for Triple
Speaker 5: A Oklahoma City. Gonsolin induced five groundouts, including a double play,
Speaker 5: also got three infield popouts.
Speaker 6: He threw thirty six fastballs.
Speaker 5: This was tonight in a start for the comments in
Speaker 5: Triple A he averages fastball around ninety three. They're saying
Speaker 5: he talked out about ninety five ninety six. So now,
Speaker 5: in four rehab starts for Tony Gonsolin, he's allowed six
Speaker 5: runs on eleven hits with six walks in fourteen innings
Speaker 5: with sixteen strikeouts. So the way it lines up right now,
Speaker 5: I guess he could be good to go next week
Speaker 5: in the series against Miami if he were to get
Speaker 5: called up from Triple A Oklahoma City, and he very
Speaker 5: well maybe called up because the Dodgers I don't think
Speaker 5: they could keep having bullpen games once a week, at
Speaker 5: least not right now while they are banged up. And
Speaker 5: he brought up Blake Snell's name, Blake Snell is not progressing.
Speaker 5: David Vassay mentioned it in the pregame show. I'll repeat
Speaker 5: what David said then that Blake Snell was scheduled to
Speaker 5: throw a bullpen session but decided not to and canceled
Speaker 5: that after he felt some discomfort playing catch yesterday. He's
Speaker 5: gonna be re examined in Los Angeles and the team returns.
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts said, the Dodgers have stressed to him it's
Speaker 5: the big picture. Certainly, it's a six month season, so
Speaker 5: don't rush back in late April, because they're really gonna
Speaker 5: need Blake Snell after the All Star breaking into October. Certainly,
Speaker 5: that's why you're seeing Showyotani the long play here with
Speaker 5: him ramping up and an update on Shoeyotani did not
Speaker 5: throw a bullpen session because of the paternity league that
Speaker 5: he was gone. He is not going to throw a
Speaker 5: bullpen session until this weekend. According to Mark Pryor, So,
Speaker 5: he didn't have a setback. It's just the paternity list
Speaker 5: being gone for a couple of days prevented him from throwing.
Speaker 5: So they want to just rush him back to throwing
Speaker 5: a bullpen. They wanted him to play some long costs
Speaker 5: and get back into a routine before he starts playing
Speaker 5: and pitching more and returning for the Dodgers. So there's
Speaker 5: a quick up on Blake Snell, showy Otani, real quick
Speaker 5: on Will Smith did not play tonight. Austin Barnes got
Speaker 5: to start and play the entire game. Will Smith did
Speaker 5: not play because of the sore left wrist that he
Speaker 5: suffered when he banged his wrist last night tagging Ian
Speaker 5: Happ in the sixth inning there in Chicago. Let's go
Speaker 5: back out to Chicago. Let's check in with the Dodgers
Speaker 5: skipper Dave Roberts. Certainly not going to be a happy
Speaker 5: flight for the Dodgers as they return home from this roadchip.
Speaker 6: But let's get his postgame thoughts.
Speaker 7: We're just not pitching the way we're capable of. I
Speaker 7: think that certainly been the starter did a really nice
Speaker 7: job getting into the third inning. I think we're walking
Speaker 7: a lot of guys, giving free bases and having to
Speaker 7: be perfect to get out of jams. The pitch count
Speaker 7: with a lot of guys is up and just giving
Speaker 7: guys opportunities. But obviously you can look at those guys
Speaker 7: and they're swinging the bets. Well, we made a lot
Speaker 7: of mistakes. It was good to see the offense fight
Speaker 7: back and you know, give us a chance to win.
Speaker 7: Excited to get home, but there's no sense of panic
Speaker 7: or reason of panic. Some good things with the offense. Obviously,
Speaker 7: Mookie showed some life. Andy showed some life this series,
Speaker 7: which is great. This road trip actually, and so we'll
Speaker 7: get some other guys on track. Tail was good, but
Speaker 7: we got some things to clean up. But you know,
Speaker 7: outside of that, we just got to keep moving on.
Speaker 6: Jack has been excellent as of late.
Speaker 4: But if you were to look at today's outing, if
Speaker 4: there was something that he could just whether learn from
Speaker 4: this or take something way, what would it be.
Speaker 7: Well, I think think with Jackie is I think there
Speaker 7: were some uncharacteristic walks obviously, and he's one of those
Speaker 7: pitchers that his stuff does play in the hitting zone
Speaker 7: and he just didn't give himself a chance. So three
Speaker 7: walks to start his outing certainly wasn't ideal, and you
Speaker 7: know that, you know, unfortunately was the difference in the game.
Speaker 7: But shoot, Jack's been.
Speaker 6: Great for us.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 8: Part of your identity was how good you guys were
Speaker 8: on defense and base running. Do you feel like you
Speaker 8: guys are giving away too many outs on the bases,
Speaker 8: and where do you see all that being played into
Speaker 8: one run games?
Speaker 7: You know, I think the last that was I think
Speaker 7: a problem. The first couple weeks of the season, it
Speaker 7: was addressed, and I think the last couple of weeks
Speaker 7: we've done a really nice job of that. But yeah, today, certainly,
Speaker 7: you know, throwing to the wrong base which ended up
Speaker 7: being a run different in the ballgame right there, Obviously
Speaker 7: getting picked off where a rally could have you know,
Speaker 7: started brewing. Now there's just things that, yeah, we gave
Speaker 7: them extra out, and a team that's playing well, playing
Speaker 7: as well as they are, you just can't afford to
Speaker 7: do that.
Speaker 5: All Right, there's Dave Roberts kind of echoing a lot
Speaker 5: we've been talking about here on Dodger Talk, is that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers just not playing clean baseball. And you got
Speaker 5: to get good pitching, timely hitting, but certainly you got
Speaker 5: to play crisp defense, and you gotta play air free defense.
Speaker 5: You gotta play smart defense. Talking about throwing to the
Speaker 5: right base on a base hit and throwing to third
Speaker 5: and letting the guy who just got the single advanced
Speaker 5: to second on the throw and getting into scoring position.
Speaker 6: That kind of stuff cannot happen.
Speaker 5: You got to throw it to second to keep the
Speaker 5: runner at first and keep him from scoring and being
Speaker 5: in scoring position for the next batter. Getting picked off
Speaker 5: at first base when you've got runners on first and
Speaker 5: second is an absolute no.
Speaker 6: No cannot happen, And it happened tonight. From Austin Barnes.
Speaker 5: Go back to the last couple of series and we're
Speaker 5: talking about the last road trip, the struggles on the
Speaker 5: base pass, Andy Bojez, a couple of base running mistakes.
Speaker 5: You have to play Chris baseball, and you have to
Speaker 5: least put yourself in a really good situation to let
Speaker 5: your offense and you're pitching do their thing by playing
Speaker 5: good fundamental defense and being smart on the bass pass.
Speaker 5: If you do that, you're going to be successful. But
Speaker 5: if you're not having good hitting and you're not having
Speaker 5: good pitching, and you're not having good defense and you're
Speaker 5: not smart on the bass pass, I mean, you're talking
Speaker 5: about quadruple whammy there, and then you're not gonna help.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna have a lot of success at all
Speaker 5: by doing that, and Despite all that, tonight, the Dodgers
Speaker 5: still fell just one run short, and as Dave Roberts mentioned,
Speaker 5: not panic time. You know, Mookie Betts swung in pretty
Speaker 5: good bat tonight, three for five with an RBI double.
Speaker 5: We saw ta Oscar Hernandez driving four runs, Andy Potters
Speaker 5: back to back nights with home runs. Austin Barnes, despite
Speaker 5: getting picked off at first base, which is.
Speaker 6: A no no, went two for four tonight, had two hits.
Speaker 5: So a lot of positives to build off from this game,
Speaker 5: and certainly a lot to clean up if you're the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: and it's something that will keep harping on. Rick Monday
Speaker 5: mentioned it several times throughout the game, just not playing fundamental, crisp.
Speaker 6: Clean baseball.
Speaker 5: And you got to do that if you're gonna win
Speaker 5: on the road and certainly at a home you've got
Speaker 5: to be doing that as well. And the Dodgers just
Speaker 5: start't doing that right now. They've been able to overcome
Speaker 5: that with some timely hitting and a lot of talent
Speaker 5: on offense. But on a night in would Showyotani goes
Speaker 5: one for five and outside of Mookie Betts, Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 5: and Andy pat has nobody else drives in runs for
Speaker 5: this Dodgers team, and the Dodgers really just didn't have
Speaker 5: a lot of opportunities after that, stranding five base runners
Speaker 5: in tonight's game. That's gonna do it for postgame Dodger
Speaker 5: Talk Mini. Thanks to Colin Ye for all his help
Speaker 5: and all his great work.
Speaker 6: We appreciate that. See why.
Speaker 5: Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being a part
Speaker 5: of the show tonight. As the Dodgers lose in Chicago
Speaker 5: seven to six, they get swept in this mini two
Speaker 5: game series at Rickley Field.
Speaker 6: They lose the season series to.
Speaker 5: The Chicago Cubs four games to three. Dodgers now sixteen
Speaker 5: to nine overall in this season. After a five game
Speaker 5: road trip, back home Friday night to start a six
Speaker 5: game homestand against the Pirates and the Miami Marlins. First up,
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