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Speaker 5: The seven game winning streak comes to an end for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. Is they lose in Atlanta to nine four
Speaker 5: to three. Hi, everybody, and welcome to Dodger Talk on
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Speaker 5: As the Dodgers had a seven game winning streak going
Speaker 5: into the series finale in Atlanta, Dustin May on the mound.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers had scored sixty three runs during that seven
Speaker 5: game winning streak. Coming into tonight, they fell behind two
Speaker 5: nothing in the first. They were down four to nothing
Speaker 5: after three innings. To their credit, the Dodgers chipped away
Speaker 5: Max Munsey couple of RBIs Miguel Rojas, of all people,
Speaker 5: his first home run, a solo shot at pinchhit home running.
Speaker 5: The seventh inning. Dodgers were down one and they had
Speaker 5: opportunities again. In the ninth inning, Hey Sun Kim, a
Speaker 5: pinch runner for Andy Patez, who got on board the
Speaker 5: leadoff infield single, stole second. Will Smith struck out a
Speaker 5: drop third strike and great base running. What a heads
Speaker 5: up piece of running from Haysung Kim running to third
Speaker 5: when the throw goes to first. On the drop third
Speaker 5: strike from Will Smith, the Dodgers had the tie running
Speaker 5: ninety feet away. Again. I know it's Ryzola Iglesias, a
Speaker 5: really good closer for the Atlanta Braves, but not a
Speaker 5: great at bat for Miguel Rojas and from Austin Barnes
Speaker 5: striking out on changeups from Iglesias out of the zone.
Speaker 5: And that ended the game with Kim standing down the
Speaker 5: third base line, and that was the tie in run.
Speaker 5: Felt like the momentum had swung back in favor of
Speaker 5: the Dodgers. You get an infield single, get something going,
Speaker 5: Kim Steele's second base, gets a little energy into the
Speaker 5: Dodgers dugout, and then they leave him ninety feet away.
Speaker 5: So disappointing, laws certainly, you're happy with the two of
Speaker 5: three you get in Atlanta from the Braves and you're
Speaker 5: still in first place atop the NL West. With the
Speaker 5: road trip now continuing in Miami tomorrow eight sixty six,
Speaker 5: nine eighty seven to two five seventy. We're here from
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5: Also gonna give you an update. I tweeted it out
Speaker 5: earlier this afternoon at Tim Kats, Tim c at s.
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Speaker 5: eight six six ninety seven two five seventies a number,
Speaker 5: But again, you can follow me on Twitter at Tim Kates,
Speaker 5: tim c A t S. I tweeted it out Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 5: It caught my attention following the Oklahoma City comments. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers Triple A team. The lineup was posted and Dalton
Speaker 5: Rushing was not catching and was not a designated hitter.
Speaker 5: He was in left field. We'll get into that coming
Speaker 5: up in just a little bit. What that means maybe
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers moving forward, What it means for the
Speaker 5: twenty four year old Dodgers' top hitting prospect, what he's
Speaker 5: done so far in Triple A, where he fits into
Speaker 5: the puzzle, as far as the Dodgers at the major
Speaker 5: league level. What this means maybe to a move to
Speaker 5: left field. We'll get into that coming up in just
Speaker 5: a little bit, and hear from Dave Roberts as well.
Speaker 5: Let's get out to the phones. Eight sixty six ninety
Speaker 5: seven two five seventy rough one for the Dodgers. Had
Speaker 5: opportunities Dustin May put him in a hole they almost
Speaker 5: got out of it, had a chance to tie, if
Speaker 5: not winning in the ninth inning, only to lose four
Speaker 5: to three. Let's go to Eric and the two one
Speaker 5: three is first up here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, Eric, I'm doing pretty good, a little
Speaker 3: bit frisky, a little bit on that medicinal Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, So while you're on it. What do
Speaker 5: you want to say?
Speaker 3: Here? We are, right, you know, the one the best
Speaker 3: record in the league, and yet our pitching staff has
Speaker 3: been a little bit decimated. We really haven't been clicking
Speaker 3: on all cylinders. And here we are with the best
Speaker 3: record in the league. Right. But I'm calling because I
Speaker 3: got some bigative things to say. How about that? Tim go? What? Huh? What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So here we go. Uh. As much as I love
Speaker 3: Andrew Friedman, as as much as I praised this regime
Speaker 3: right for being the best run organization and all the sports, yes,
Speaker 3: I've been saying this right, but we might hold on
Speaker 3: to our guys a little bit too much. I E.
Speaker 3: Chris Taylor, I E. Max Munsey. I know Max has
Speaker 3: been he barreled, he barreled it out tonight today. But
Speaker 3: we might be hanging out hanging on to these guys
Speaker 3: a little bit too much. I know. Maybe you can
Speaker 3: talk about the incentives that goes along with keeping Chris
Speaker 3: Taylor this long. I don't know, but Timmy, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pound this. I'm gonna keep saying this show Hey needs
Speaker 3: to go down in the lineup, Cheryl, would you I.
Speaker 5: Like him in the lead? Ospot Eric, I appreciate the
Speaker 5: phone call. First off, hanging on to Max Munsey and
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor for as long as they have. These guys
Speaker 5: got pretty hefty contracts. These aren't players. They just signed
Speaker 5: two small deals, and hey, we can afford to get
Speaker 5: rid of them if they're not producing. We got somebody
Speaker 5: we can bring up and we'll eat the costs. Chris
Speaker 5: Taylor's making thirteen million dollars this year in the last
Speaker 5: year of his deal. He's got a club option for
Speaker 5: next year for twelve million dollars, but most likely will
Speaker 5: not see that. Max Munsey, you gotta figure he's going
Speaker 5: to get some kind of offense going even going to
Speaker 5: the eye doctor and finally getting glasses, which is another
Speaker 5: thing that's interesting. How is it that it's taken this
Speaker 5: long to find out you've got a stigmatism in your
Speaker 5: eye and glasses are going to help you, or goggles
Speaker 5: are going to help you at the plate. I mean,
Speaker 5: he didn't need him when he was hitting thirty plus
Speaker 5: home runs the season, but now that he's struggling, I
Speaker 5: guess you kind of try everything and see what you
Speaker 5: can get, right, And certainly maybe his eyes were the
Speaker 5: reason he only had a couple of RBIs going in
Speaker 5: tonight and had a pair tonight RBI six and seven
Speaker 5: on the season, so maybe hood get things going. I'm
Speaker 5: still confident, Max Munsey, I am. I brought this up
Speaker 5: on Dodg S you talk the other night. I'm more
Speaker 5: concerned about left field than Mike and Conforto. And we'll
Speaker 5: get into it with Dalton rushing and again where he
Speaker 5: fits into the puzzle now, maybe moving forward and playing
Speaker 5: left field and triple A. But to me, left field
Speaker 5: is a glaring issue right now for the Dodgers, and
Speaker 5: Michael Conforto made a nice diving play in left field tonight.
Speaker 5: Go into this right great, But at the plate, Michael
Speaker 5: Conforto is now hitting one forty one and he was
Speaker 5: zero for to tonight with a couple of strikeouts before
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts took him out of the game in the
Speaker 5: seventh inning for Miguel Rojas as a pin shitter who
Speaker 5: then hit the home run. It's a glaring hole in
Speaker 5: the lineup with Michael Conforto there offensively, and something's going
Speaker 5: to have to be done eventually if he can't turn
Speaker 5: things around. Trey and west La is next up here
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers lose to the Braves
Speaker 5: four to three in Atlanta. How you doing, Trey, what's
Speaker 5: going on?
Speaker 3: Very well, sir? How are you, Tim Toll?
Speaker 8: You appreciate you taking my colle Hey, you know real
Speaker 8: quick though, with the CT and the Muncy Bash, it's
Speaker 8: been going on since last year and CT's on the books.
Speaker 8: And see, like you said, he literally just got glasses.
Speaker 8: The same thing happened to Key k. He wasn't. I mean,
Speaker 8: we don't even know how that was affecting him. And
Speaker 8: you know, it's a slow degradation. He might not even
Speaker 8: have realized it. But let's just let's just chill on
Speaker 8: that situation. The thing that's bothering me. And as you know,
Speaker 8: I'm trying to be objective and I'm generally way optimistic,
Speaker 8: but tonight I'm a little disappointed. That night then me,
Speaker 8: despite the fact we lost the game, I don't think
Speaker 8: we should have lost it. In the top of the
Speaker 8: nice situational awareness, you had Pajz battle.
Speaker 3: At the plate. He fouled a few off.
Speaker 8: He gets on. You get Kim on and this guy
Speaker 8: is he's Flash Gordon on the basis he's doing his
Speaker 8: best Elie Day La Cruz impression and he gets the
Speaker 8: third with one out. Now here's what I don't understand.
Speaker 8: Iglaciers is at the mound and he's dealing, and he's
Speaker 8: in rhythm. You got to slow the guy down. You
Speaker 8: got to throw him off. I mean, he's just going
Speaker 8: he's pitching, he's going quick. I don't know if it's Miguel.
Speaker 8: And then when we get to you know, is the
Speaker 8: whole other thing, because I think that that bat was
Speaker 8: even worse if they don't understand it, isn't it Dino's
Speaker 8: job to Yoda on the line of slow down, step
Speaker 8: out all time, throw this guy off. Let him think
Speaker 8: about Kim on third while he's dancing halfway down the line,
Speaker 8: because we don't even need ideally sack Fly but we
Speaker 8: don't even need that. You need a dribbler because he's
Speaker 8: going home. He's going to beat the picture home. And
Speaker 8: you know, it's as we know, it's the little things
Speaker 8: in the game. I don't want to be overly particular,
Speaker 8: but that situational awareness, and I think from the best
Speaker 8: team in baseball, we should have seen a little bit
Speaker 8: of that conscientiousness right there.
Speaker 5: I'm with you, agree you let me know, but I'm
Speaker 5: with you, tr I appreciate it. Yeah, I didn't think
Speaker 5: they were very good at bat. For Miguel Rojas, you
Speaker 5: get ahead one to zero and then three straight change
Speaker 5: ups that were in the strike zone and you strike
Speaker 5: out swinging. All right, I Glacius is nasty. Okay, he
Speaker 5: just struck out Will Smith on a to two fastball.
Speaker 5: You know, thankfully the drop third strike, Kim's awareness gets
Speaker 5: over to third. Rojas has gotta somehow put the ball
Speaker 5: in play, shorten up your swing. It just felt like
Speaker 5: it needed to be a better at bat. And then
Speaker 5: with two outs, you really got to put the ball
Speaker 5: in play somewhere because a ground ball out, a fly
Speaker 5: ball out, and the game's over. You gotta put the
Speaker 5: ball in play somewhere. And Austin Barnes swings at the
Speaker 5: first pitch, strike one, takes a fastball down the middle
Speaker 5: of the plate, strike two, fouls off the third pitch,
Speaker 5: and then strikes out swinging on a slider that's out
Speaker 5: of the strike zone. Ball game over. Gotta be better
Speaker 5: at bats than that. And I know the Dodgers wanted
Speaker 5: to get to Otani certainly, Colin, he and I were
Speaker 5: sitting here thinking, gosh, just can somebody walk, can somebody
Speaker 5: get on maybe or get hit by just something to
Speaker 5: get to Otani so he can drive the ball somewhere.
Speaker 5: He can put the ball in play and maybe get
Speaker 5: the Dodgers tied or get him a lead somehow. But
Speaker 5: unfortunately they just couldn't turn that lineup over. Yeah, that
Speaker 5: situational baseball. That's a heads up job by hay Sun Kim.
Speaker 5: I thought it was brilliant to have him out there
Speaker 5: steal second. He had thirteen stolen bases in triple A
Speaker 5: alrighty in the first month of the season. Steal second.
Speaker 5: He's halfway between second and third on the drop third strike,
Speaker 5: the catcher looks him down, and as soon as the
Speaker 5: catcher squares his shoulder to throw to first, Kim took
Speaker 5: off for third. The throw goes to first on the
Speaker 5: drop third strike, and then by the time the first
Speaker 5: basement was that Matt Olson gets to throw over to third,
Speaker 5: Kim safe. He beats the throw easily and the Dodgers
Speaker 5: have the tie. Run at third base with one out,
Speaker 5: and the Dodgers are right where they want to be
Speaker 5: with a chance to flip the lineup over in the
Speaker 5: ninth inning, but they can't get to that point because
Speaker 5: of strikeouts. Eight sixty sixth nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 5: seventy Bill admission via ho is next up on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hi doing Bill, pretty good?
Speaker 10: Thanks for taking my call. What do you make of
Speaker 10: Elder with his six strikeouts in the wizarded three innings,
Speaker 10: six or seven strikers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had six strikeouts and five innings tonight.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and I mean he was He's the era was
Speaker 10: pretty high when he came in. And the question is
Speaker 10: this game and the first game, whoever that starter was
Speaker 10: that pitched that excellent, you know, the two to one game.
Speaker 10: He had a lot of strikeouts too. Are you concerned
Speaker 10: about that every few games? I mean, they've got to
Speaker 10: put a cirk at number of last night, which was great,
Speaker 10: But are you concerned about the strikeout the pace sometimes
Speaker 10: it goes on with the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the Dodgers saw that on Friday night,
Speaker 5: running into a buzz saw again on Friday Night with
Speaker 5: Grant Homes nine punch outs. The Dodgers collectively eleven strikeouts
Speaker 5: in that game. Tonight, twelve more strikeouts collectively. That's that's Dodgers, Right,
Speaker 5: that's typical Dodgers. You know, they'll strike out a lot,
Speaker 5: but at the same time, on the flip side, they'll
Speaker 5: win a game putting twelve runs on the board with
Speaker 5: seventeen hits and three home runs. It's not boom or
Speaker 5: buss necessarily, because they had a chance to win the
Speaker 5: game tonight. They they chipped away in a four to
Speaker 5: nothing deficit and manufactured runs an RBI double, an RBI groundout,
Speaker 5: a pinch hit home run. So it's not necessarily a
Speaker 5: boom or bust. They're just a team that will strike
Speaker 5: out a lot. But quite frankly, looking baseball, that's the
Speaker 5: way it is now. You know, we're seeing a little
Speaker 5: bit of a swing of the pendulum back to less strikeouts,
Speaker 5: put the ball in play more, not an emphasis on
Speaker 5: slug as much. But we haven't got completely back to
Speaker 5: where it was twenty five years ago, so we're still
Speaker 5: seeing a lot of strikeouts in baseball. Dodgers certainly one
Speaker 5: of the teams that strikes out a lot. But look
Speaker 5: what they've done the seven games going into tonight, the
Speaker 5: seven game winning streak, they had sixty three scored runs.
Speaker 5: They averaged nine runs per game. Granted it was against
Speaker 5: the Pirates, the Marlins and the first two games against
Speaker 5: the Atlanta Braves, but it's a good Schwellen bocking against
Speaker 5: Grant Holmes, two really good pitchers for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 5: The Braves are under five hundred. But let's not get
Speaker 5: it wrong here. They're a bad team. They're a good team,
Speaker 5: and they're a team that's gonna be fighting down the
Speaker 5: stretch in the second half of the season. They'll continue
Speaker 5: to get healthy. They've kind of, you know, lucky they
Speaker 5: have the Marlins in their division because they're so bad,
Speaker 5: but they're gonna chip away at that deficit. The Mets
Speaker 5: have gotten off to an unbelievable start twenty two wins.
Speaker 5: I think they're the first team to get to twenty
Speaker 5: two wins, but they've now lost too in a row.
Speaker 5: They've lost six of their last ten. Dave cooled off,
Speaker 5: the Padres, cooled off, the Dodgers eight no start, cooled
Speaker 5: off now a seven game winning streak. Lose tonight, but
Speaker 5: they're in a nice stretch here with I think they
Speaker 5: go to Miami for a three game series which they're
Speaker 5: gonna absolutely tear apart the Marlins at least they should.
Speaker 5: They should score as many runs as they did Monday,
Speaker 5: Tuesday Wednesday at Dodger Stadium again against the Marlins in
Speaker 5: a ballpark where the ball is gonna fly out of there.
Speaker 5: I mean, it should be a home run derby for
Speaker 5: this Dodger team. We saw it Tani go off and
Speaker 5: his last time in Miami last season where he set
Speaker 5: the record and had had ten RB in the game,
Speaker 5: hit all those home runs. That was in Miami, folks.
Speaker 5: It's a place where the ball travels. And the Dodgers
Speaker 5: could feast on the Marlins for the next three games,
Speaker 5: which would be great for them. But tonight, yeah, disappointing
Speaker 5: ninth inning. You fought your way back, you had a
Speaker 5: golden opportunity with the Tyne run ninety feet away, and
Speaker 5: you strike out twice. I mean, tip of the cap
Speaker 5: to riizul Iglesias. A good closer. As Jose Mota mentioned,
Speaker 5: he was an angel at one point. He's become the
Speaker 5: closer for the Atlanta Braves. Has n't been dominant, necessarily
Speaker 5: picked up his six saved tonight. Okay, He's been really
Speaker 5: good and he is a really good reliever and closer
Speaker 5: for the Braves. The Dodgers that had been able to
Speaker 5: get to him. Tonight, you kind of had him on
Speaker 5: the ropes with the tye run at second and nobody
Speaker 5: out and a speedy runner out there. You know, he
Speaker 5: gets a strike out with the runner advances to third.
Speaker 5: He's dancing off third ninety feet away potentially to tie
Speaker 5: the game. You had him rattled a little bit. You
Speaker 5: had him kind of on the ropes and back to
Speaker 5: back punch outs. You lose the game four to three.
Speaker 5: To the final, they fall to the Atlanta Braves eight
Speaker 5: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. We'll take
Speaker 5: a break, we'll come back. We'll get some more of
Speaker 5: your phone calls. We'll hear from Dave Roberts and his
Speaker 5: postgame thoughts, and I'll tell you what's happening with Dalton,
Speaker 5: Russian and TRIPLEA. Oklahoma City Dodgers lose tonight in Atlanta
Speaker 5: on Sunday night in baseball. They fall to the Braves
Speaker 5: four to three. We'll come back and get to that
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Speaker 4: Bill and Lee set to go his pitch and Rojas
Speaker 4: swings hits a drive to left field and is back
Speaker 4: toward the pullpen.
Speaker 7: It is gone.
Speaker 5: A home run, a pinch hit home run for.
Speaker 4: Miguel Rojas, and he brings the Dodgers to within a run.
Speaker 5: It is four to three.
Speaker 3: Rojas with his first home run of the season.
Speaker 1: Oh how do you like that?
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Speaker 5: Dodgers lose in Atlanta four to three, Bryce Elder to win.
Speaker 5: Dustin May the loss. Rice ell Iglesias gets the save.
Speaker 5: Dustin May gave up not one, but two two run
Speaker 5: home runs to Austin Reiley, one of the first one
Speaker 5: of the third. Dodgers down four to nothing, chip their
Speaker 5: way back, had to tie run at third base with
Speaker 5: one out in the ninth inning, only to see Miguel
Speaker 5: Rojas an Austin Barnes strikeout to end the game. Dodgers
Speaker 5: still take two or three in Atlanta. It's still twenty
Speaker 5: three and eleven on the season and still in first
Speaker 5: place in the nl wes IS. They now head to
Speaker 5: Miami for a three game series. Well here for the manager,
Speaker 5: Dave Roberts coming up in just a couple of minutes
Speaker 5: to go back out to the phones. Let's go to
Speaker 5: Charlie and Valencia's next up here on Dodgers Talk. How
Speaker 5: you doing, Charlie, Hey, how's it going today?
Speaker 11: Just wanted to say, I really was hoping to see
Speaker 11: Hey Sung in the starting lineup today. I thought it
Speaker 11: was a great opportunity for you know, you have a
Speaker 11: right handed pitcher who does not overpower you at all.
Speaker 3: I thought it would have been good.
Speaker 4: I think maybe they wanted Keek in there because you
Speaker 4: know he's got some pop. The reality is, though k
Speaker 4: as a starter, jess if not the same guy. He's
Speaker 4: just not the same guy.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 4: As far as Dalton Rushing playing left field, that's really
Speaker 4: good to hear because mat Comforto is letting this thing
Speaker 4: slip away man. He's in a great situation and in
Speaker 4: a lineup that doesn't really need him to have, you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of pop. He just needs to you know,
Speaker 4: gout there and make contact. And he's he's letting a
Speaker 4: slip away man. Is a great opportunity for him to
Speaker 4: make himself a lot of money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like Taoscar Hernandez did a year ago signing a
Speaker 5: one year deal. Bet on yourself, surround yourself in a
Speaker 5: lineup that's full of all stars and MVPs, don't have
Speaker 5: to do too much and make yourself a lot of money. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: just has not been a good start to the season
Speaker 5: offensively for Michael Conforto. I get why Keiky Hernanda's got
Speaker 5: the start. I would have loved to send hast On
Speaker 5: Kim get the start as well. Maybe you know Michael
Speaker 5: Conforto doesn't get the start and you put kek in
Speaker 5: the left and let Kim get the start as a
Speaker 5: left handed hitter and second baseman. I'd did okay with that.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have you know, have been fine. But Kim
Speaker 5: comes off the bench, steals a couple of bases and
Speaker 5: is in great opportunity for the Dodgers to tie the
Speaker 5: game with one out at third base, but the Dodger
Speaker 5: is unable to move them across. Don In City of
Speaker 5: Industry is next up? The best pipes in sports talk radio?
Speaker 5: Don In Industry? How you doing, buddy, Kim Kate?
Speaker 1: How the heck are you? Great to hear your voice?
Speaker 5: Great to hear yours? More importantly?
Speaker 1: Oh right, what a team? We're the one two punch,
Speaker 1: you know, so chanalizingly close. But I was so excited
Speaker 1: to see this young fella, Kim. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see more human in the future. But I got a
Speaker 1: quick question. You know, usually I listened to the games
Speaker 1: on the radio in five seven, but the other night
Speaker 1: I was walking somebody had it on the TV. I
Speaker 1: walked by, and I see this other team playing the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in blue, and I said, wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: thought they were playing Atlanta. What happened to the red
Speaker 1: and black. Is that, like a have they totally flipped
Speaker 1: their colors or was that just one of those We're
Speaker 1: gonna try a different.
Speaker 5: No, it's their City Connects uniforms, which have a little
Speaker 5: bit of a throwback flavored to it with the lowercase
Speaker 5: A back from the seventies. So it's I like it.
Speaker 5: I'd like to look. I think it's it's a cool
Speaker 5: look that they, you know, should use more often. It's
Speaker 5: got an old throwback feel to it, which I'm okay with. Don.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just threw me off. I thought, yeah, the
Speaker 1: university don't what happened? Okay, thanks for assuaging my fears,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good to hear from you, Don, I appreciated. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the throwback City Connect uniforms for the Atlanta Braves, I'm
Speaker 5: on board. I think them in the Colorado Rockies have
Speaker 5: some of the best City Connect uniforms. I mean, the
Speaker 5: Rockies to me probably the number one. Atlanta's got that
Speaker 5: throwback feeling with the lower case A, as I mentioned,
Speaker 5: So I'm on board with those. Some of them I
Speaker 5: don't like. I'm not a big fan of Padres One
Speaker 5: certainly do not like the San Francisco Giants City Connect uniforms.
Speaker 5: I just they completely missed it with those absolutely missed
Speaker 5: it eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 5: Dodgers missed it tonight in the ninth and had a
Speaker 5: runner at third base with one out. Miguel Rojas strikes out,
Speaker 5: and then it is Austin Barnes striking out as Rozilla
Speaker 5: Glacias gets the same for the Atlanta Braves. Is sixth
Speaker 5: of the season. Dodgers lutha finale this three game set
Speaker 5: in Atlanta, but they still take two or three from
Speaker 5: the Braves, still at twenty three and eleven, first place
Speaker 5: atop the NL West. All right, let's get back to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Let's get the postgame thoughts of the Dodger manager name Roberts.
Speaker 7: Dave, you pulled the lever in the ninth inning on
Speaker 7: Kim and he nearly tied the game for you. How
Speaker 7: big of a difference maker was he for you in
Speaker 7: that last inning?
Speaker 12: That was great, That was exciting. You know, Iglesias is
Speaker 12: a hard guy to steal a base on, and Kim
Speaker 12: got a tremendous jump, close play and then for him
Speaker 12: to get the third base on that throw to first
Speaker 12: was huge and set up a situation on that. But
Speaker 12: you know, that's just some of the things that speed
Speaker 12: and what you know, hay Song brings to the table.
Speaker 7: What were you thinking when you broke for third when
Speaker 7: the catcher Baldwin was throwing the first base.
Speaker 12: You know, I was just he would get there, and
Speaker 12: I think that, you know, that's an instinctual play and
Speaker 12: for him to get the jump that he did and
Speaker 12: then to get over to third base, those those are
Speaker 12: things that as he plays more, we start to learn more,
Speaker 12: and that just shows that he's got really good instincts.
Speaker 7: You're probably the one manager that pulls the trigger on
Speaker 7: a squeeze play more than most. Was there any consideration
Speaker 7: there with Rojas and Barnes on deck to possibly force
Speaker 7: the issue there?
Speaker 12: You know, I think that the true suicide squeeze is
Speaker 12: something that we don't do, the safety squeeze, where you
Speaker 12: have a chance to potentially not have to bunt anything
Speaker 12: that's in play, and it's something we don't do very often.
Speaker 12: And I just felt with the drawn and infield, I
Speaker 12: just thought that Miguel could put the ball in play
Speaker 12: and give us a chance to you know, tie the
Speaker 12: game up. But yeah, the traditional suicide squeeze. Certainly with
Speaker 12: a guy like that that's got such high end stuff,
Speaker 12: I didn't feel comfortable doing it.
Speaker 5: The often it's just fairly sluggish for the first five
Speaker 5: or so in he's Does last night the late night
Speaker 5: have anything to.
Speaker 12: Do with them, I don't know, you know, I thought,
Speaker 12: you know, those guys I thought came and swung the bat. Well,
Speaker 12: certainly Riley did, and they squared a lot of balls up.
Speaker 12: You know, we so both had the same circumstances, and
Speaker 12: I think you got to give older credit. The slider
Speaker 12: was really good, and we did come to life later
Speaker 12: with the bout, But yeah, the first few warnings were pretty,
Speaker 12: uh lackluster.
Speaker 5: In the first place. Is that's what's.
Speaker 7: In the first place. That's kind of indicated where.
Speaker 12: He's yeah, you know, I mean, he's grinding. But I
Speaker 12: just felt that, you know, we needed a spark, and
Speaker 12: I just felt that Maggie had a had a better
Speaker 12: chance in that moment. And you know, I think that,
Speaker 12: you know, I'm not I didn't come into the season
Speaker 12: expecting to hit for Michael very often. But I just
Speaker 12: think right now, where he's at, he's scuffling. I think
Speaker 12: Maggie's taken some pretty good baths than Riley.
Speaker 5: It seemed like Dustin actually had a pretty decent outing
Speaker 5: settled in there too.
Speaker 12: Home runs he did, he did, and I thought for
Speaker 12: him to get into the sixth inning was certainly helpful
Speaker 12: for tomorrow in the coming days. And yeah, just a
Speaker 12: couple of sliders I didn't get glove side. We also
Speaker 12: made some really nice plays too. I thought k K
Speaker 12: made some really nice plays. I thought Mickey Road made
Speaker 12: a really nice play. But again, Dustin to to not
Speaker 12: run from it, to keep going was big.
Speaker 8: How would you evaluate those first month, you know, within
Speaker 8: it being back after a year.
Speaker 12: I think the first month him being back, I would
Speaker 12: have banked. It couldn't be more pleased. And there's just
Speaker 12: a lot more in there. But as far as the
Speaker 12: first month where he's at, he's doing great and it's
Speaker 12: just kind of you know, getting that first pitch strike,
Speaker 12: being able to you know, put hitters away when you
Speaker 12: have count levers. Those are little things that I think
Speaker 12: that he's gonna get.
Speaker 5: All right, There's Dave Roberts talking about Dustin May, talking
Speaker 5: about Michael confordo and talking about Haysung Kim, who the
Speaker 5: great question from David Vassa about a possible squeeze play
Speaker 5: there and getting that tie and run in, especially with
Speaker 5: Miguel Rojas and Austin Barnes up and with Miguel Rojas
Speaker 5: one out runner at third base, maybe get a bunt down.
Speaker 5: He's right, the infield was playing in a closer that's
Speaker 5: got a fastball that can elevate and get up on
Speaker 5: you on a four seemer. Tough to get a bunt down.
Speaker 5: But if that's the case, so you're not gonna bunt
Speaker 5: with the suicide squeeze, You've got to put the ball
Speaker 5: in play. You've got to somehow punch the ball out
Speaker 5: into the outfield. You got to somehow get the ball
Speaker 5: past the infield. You've got to do something other than
Speaker 5: a strikeout. And unfortunately, back to back strikeouts to end
Speaker 5: the game and keep Kim at third base is not
Speaker 5: ideal for the Dodgers, a game which you know they
Speaker 5: fought back to their credit down for nothing in almost
Speaker 5: one tonight, but they lose to the Braves four to three.
Speaker 5: Michael Confordo continues to struggle in left field. He was
Speaker 5: pulled for a pinch hitter. Miguel rohas and the seventh
Speaker 5: through homeward. Michael conforda zero for two tonight with two
Speaker 5: strikes houts, now hitting one forty one on this season.
Speaker 5: Michael Conforto is struggling on offense. I'm looking to see
Speaker 5: you when the last time Michael Conforto had a base hit.
Speaker 5: Got to go back to April twenty third. Before that,
Speaker 5: April nineteenth. He's got two hits since the middle of April.
Speaker 5: That is it. And we're on May fourth now. The
Speaker 5: Dodgers left fielder tonight made a great play defensively. He's
Speaker 5: a veteran presence, no doubt about it, but he is struggling.
Speaker 5: And one possible ball option for the Dodgers is somebody
Speaker 5: we discussed on Friday night, and when we talked about
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing, the Dodgers' top minor league prospect, the catcher,
Speaker 5: designated hitter, first baseman, I said the experimented with him
Speaker 5: in left field last year and for whatever reason, decided
Speaker 5: not to pursue it anymore. Well, today I woke up,
Speaker 5: looked at the old Twitter machine, and I saw the
Speaker 5: Oklahoma City Commets lineup for the Triple A team for
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, and Lo and behold who was getting this
Speaker 5: start in left field today. Dalton Rushing. So I went
Speaker 5: and looked up his stats. Dalton Rushing a year ago
Speaker 5: played thirty one times in left field. He made thirty
Speaker 5: one appearances and from all accounts was okay, was getting better.
Speaker 5: But the Dodger organization, for whatever reason, did not have
Speaker 5: him pursue that during spring training and went back to catching.
Speaker 5: And if you look at what he's played for the
Speaker 5: first month of the season in Triple A, primarily catcher,
Speaker 5: designated hitter, and a little bit of first base. He
Speaker 5: came off the bench in the eighth inning of a
Speaker 5: game a few weeks ago and played left field for
Speaker 5: defensive purposes. That was it. He didn't start the game.
Speaker 5: He came off the bench. I don't know the situation,
Speaker 5: but he came off the bench in the eighth inning
Speaker 5: to play left field. That's the only time he played
Speaker 5: left field this season till today when he got his
Speaker 5: first start back out in left field. I bring it
Speaker 5: up because the comparisons is Kyle Schwarber, an outfielder that
Speaker 5: has been around and is a power hitting, left handed hitting,
Speaker 5: home run hitter. Kyle Schwarber, short squatty, big legs, lots
Speaker 5: of power plays the outfield can DH for you kind
Speaker 5: of fits the Dalton rushing. Look, now, there is a
Speaker 5: logjam at catcher. Will Smith as a ten year deal
Speaker 5: that he is nowhere near completing. He is just getting
Speaker 5: started on that decade long contract. Last time I looked,
Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman's under contract for a few more years. The
Speaker 5: designated hitter for the Dodgers is show Hey Otani. And
Speaker 5: even when show Hey is pitching the second half of
Speaker 5: this season, there really isn't going to be an opportunity
Speaker 5: for an everyday designated hitter because it'll be show Hey.
Speaker 5: So where does Will Where does Dalton rushing fit in
Speaker 5: to this puzzle? He's twenty four years old, hitting over
Speaker 5: three hundred the first month of the season in Triple
Speaker 5: A Oklahoma City. You're getting to a point where you
Speaker 5: got to do something with him. He's broken through the
Speaker 5: minor leagues and is now you got to make a decision,
Speaker 5: I believe, is he a major league player on your
Speaker 5: roster or is he somebody that you can turn in
Speaker 5: to a trade to help your current roster. But you
Speaker 5: have to say goodbye to him in a trade. We've
Speaker 5: seen Caber Ruiz. We've seen the Dodgers trade away other prospects.
Speaker 5: I think Dalton Rushing is gonna be a major league
Speaker 5: player for a long time. He's got a great swing,
Speaker 5: and he is a great left headed, hitted, power hitting guy.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's a catcher every day at
Speaker 5: the big league level. Certainly not gonna be with the
Speaker 5: Dodgers unless there's an injury. Certainly not gonna be the
Speaker 5: first basement for the Dodgers anytime soon. Unless there's an injury.
Speaker 5: It makes sense to put Dalton Rushing the left field
Speaker 5: in Triple A Oklahoma City. I kind of wish they'd
Speaker 5: started it earlier, but now I'm connecting the dots. I
Speaker 5: don't know anything. I'm just looking from the outside end,
Speaker 5: connecting the dots. A struggling left handed hitting left fielder
Speaker 5: and Michael Confordo continues to struggle. You've got a left
Speaker 5: handed hitting guy who can play left field but has
Speaker 5: been catching for you in Triple A Olama City, and
Speaker 5: Dalton Rushing. You move him to left field, and he
Speaker 5: got to start today. I hope it's the start of
Speaker 5: an everyday opportunity for him in left field, so he
Speaker 5: can get his feet wet, so he can get opportunities,
Speaker 5: get innings underneath his belt, figure out the position, and
Speaker 5: then if necessary, you go to Dalton Rushing and give
Speaker 5: him a shot. We'll see, we'll see if that's the plan.
Speaker 5: I hope I don't wake up tomorrow and look at
Speaker 5: the Twitter machine and say, oh, it was just a
Speaker 5: Sunday opportunity to give the left field their day off
Speaker 5: and get Dalton Rushing some abs, and that was the
Speaker 5: only thing. I hope this is the start of something new,
Speaker 5: as they said in high school musical with Troy Bolton.
Speaker 5: I hope it's the start of something new for Dalton
Speaker 5: Rushing and left field, because he would fit at the
Speaker 5: major league level on this Dodger roster in left field.
Speaker 5: There could be a spot for him. Michael Conforto's struggles
Speaker 5: have opened the door for somebody else to play left
Speaker 5: field every day while producing offensively. That could be Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 5: So we'll see, we shall see if they ultimately continue
Speaker 5: to put him out there in left field. I hope so.
Speaker 5: I hope that he gets that opportunity again. I didn't
Speaker 5: see him when he played the thirty one appearances last year,
Speaker 5: but from written accounts on MLB dot com said he
Speaker 5: impressed with his athleticism making those thirty one appearances left
Speaker 5: last year in left field. So we'll see again if
Speaker 5: this is the start of the Dalton rushing in left
Speaker 5: field in Triple A Oklahoma City. Let's wrap things up
Speaker 5: quickly with Isabelle in Buena Park. Hi, is he happy birthday? Weekend?
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Speaker 5: All right, is the happy birthday to you coming up?
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Speaker 5: A five seven d LA Sports and surely here on
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk, I think she asked when the opener first
Speaker 5: started in baseball. That's more of a new thing. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's the tip of the cap to Andrew Freeman and
Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay Rays, going back to Joe Madden's days
Speaker 5: with the old opener in Tampa twelve thirteen years ago,
Speaker 5: and now it is part of everyday baseball. And just
Speaker 5: look at what the Dodgers' rotation is now this week
Speaker 5: against Miami Monday TBD, with Ben Casparius expected to get
Speaker 5: a lot of innings at some point Tuesday, Tony Gonslin
Speaker 5: Wednesday TBD. So TBD is going to be getting a
Speaker 5: lot of starts here for the Dodgers moving forward because
Speaker 5: of injuries and because Yamamoto pitches on Fridays and Roki
Speaker 5: Sasaki has become the Saturday pitcher college baseball now at
Speaker 5: the professional level, with a Friday starter and Saturday starter
Speaker 5: for the Dodgers, and plug in Dustin May, Tony Gonsolin
Speaker 5: and TBD around those starters for the Dodgers, that's going
Speaker 5: to do it for Dodger Talk on this SA Sunday night.
Speaker 5: It's been a long weekend, folks, man the thing. The
Speaker 5: Dodger spent three days in Atlanta, an hour and thirteen
Speaker 5: minute rain delay on Friday night, finally got that thing completed. Yesterday.
Speaker 5: They hunkered down for three hours before starting a game
Speaker 5: at ten to fifteen Eastern Time, didn't finish until after
Speaker 5: one o'clock in the morning. They come back today, clear
Speaker 5: skies in Atlanta on Sunday Night baseball, and they fall short.
Speaker 5: So a quick weekend series in Atlanta wasn't so quick.
Speaker 5: But now the road trip continues tomorrow in Miami. A
Speaker 5: quick turnaround down in South Beach against the Marlins while
Speaker 5: Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck. Getting it all started at
Speaker 5: two thirty in the afternoon after Petros some money and
Speaker 5: then first pitch at three forty thanks to Colin Ye.
Speaker 5: Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being a part
Speaker 5: of the show. So wait for that. Follow Brad Paisley
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Speaker 5: until tomorrow. I'll have a safe rest of your Sunday night, everybody,
Speaker 5: so long.
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