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Speaker 7: And now your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kakes.
Speaker 8: Dodgers put together just enough offense, some great defense, and
Speaker 8: they get the win in Kansas City, five to four
Speaker 8: over the Kansas City Royals. Hi, everybody, and welcome in
Speaker 8: to Dodger Talk here on an FI seventy LA Sports
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Speaker 8: us here on this Friday night, wherever you may be,
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Speaker 4: Let's talk about it.
Speaker 8: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 8: six six nine eight seven two five seventy Dustin made tonight,
Speaker 8: came out and just did not have the control that
Speaker 8: we thought we would see out of him tonight. He
Speaker 8: battled for four innings, four runs, six hits, three strikeouts,
Speaker 8: three walks. He threw thirty pitches in the first inning
Speaker 8: after getting two quick outs, a double, a walk, and
Speaker 8: RBI single, and just like that, the game was tied
Speaker 8: back up a one after showy Otani gave them the
Speaker 8: lead on a solo home run, his eighth leadoff home
Speaker 8: run of the season. Dustin made twenty three more pitches
Speaker 8: in the second inning. He got some help on defense
Speaker 8: with the cott stealing in the fourth inning. The defense
Speaker 8: was a big story line tonight, a miss cue from
Speaker 8: tay Oscar and but some overall great plays by the
Speaker 8: Dodgers defensively, none better than the play at Freddie Freeman
Speaker 8: in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, one out
Speaker 8: at four to six to three double play. The one
Speaker 8: hop throw from Mookie Beds as he swipes the bag
Speaker 8: at second throws the first to get the second out
Speaker 8: and in the game one hops Freddie Freeman, who was
Speaker 8: stretched out with his left foot forward, makes a backhanded
Speaker 8: swipe and snow cones it falls and hangs on with
Speaker 8: the ball in his first baseman's glove and the ballgame
Speaker 8: is over. It was a remarkable defensive play from Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8: We shouldn't be surprised. He does it all the time,
Speaker 8: but it's just surprising to me. And I'll say it again.
Speaker 8: He has one gold glove.
Speaker 4: To his name in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 8: I mean I could count many times the last two
Speaker 8: plus season just in my head how many times he
Speaker 8: has saved bad throws. And it won't necessarily show up
Speaker 8: in the traditional scorebook, but I know they keep stats
Speaker 8: of this saving runs defensive, you know statistics, They keep
Speaker 8: track of this stuff. How is he not won more
Speaker 8: than just one goal glove? He is a witch with
Speaker 8: that first baseman's mid He is the plays he makes,
Speaker 8: the stretching, whether it's backhanded, going up and getting a ball.
Speaker 8: Go back to the playoffs Leeer in San Diego in
Speaker 8: the NLDS, he had to go up and make a
Speaker 8: play on a bad ankle and use the bag to
Speaker 8: kind of jump up and come down and retweet the ankle.
Speaker 8: He is so good at first base, and I don't
Speaker 8: think we'd take him for granted, but maybe we do,
Speaker 8: because you just assume he's gonna make every play.
Speaker 4: He's gonna make.
Speaker 8: Every pick, every wide throw, he jumps, makes a tag
Speaker 8: on the runner they go by, jumps up, comes back,
Speaker 8: finds the bag and gets the out. He just gets everything.
Speaker 8: He just is able to stop everything. And that's not
Speaker 8: just him at first making a play on a bad
Speaker 8: throw in Colorado over the last three games, there was
Speaker 8: a play in which the ball went to him. He
Speaker 8: made the stop, but his webbing on his first basement's
Speaker 8: mid broke and the ball went right through it.
Speaker 4: He is a really good first baseman. It is fun
Speaker 4: to see him over at first base.
Speaker 8: He puts a lot of makeup on bad throws, if
Speaker 8: you know what I mean, some ugly throws, some bad
Speaker 8: defensive plays. He covers him up. He's the makeup. He
Speaker 8: covers up the blemishes. He makes the pick for you
Speaker 8: when you one hop him from third, when you want
Speaker 8: to hop him from shortstop on a double play ball
Speaker 8: where you make a wide throw. He's able to stretch
Speaker 8: and still have a foot on the bag and make
Speaker 8: the out. He is so good at first base. He
Speaker 8: is so good eight six, six, nine, seven, two, five
Speaker 8: to seventy. He literally saved the game tonight for the
Speaker 8: Dodgers and Tanner Scott bases loaded one out. Jack cagleone,
Speaker 8: the stud rookie for the Royals, hits a double play
Speaker 8: ball four.
Speaker 4: To six to three.
Speaker 8: Turn should be an easy throw from short to first,
Speaker 8: Mookie short hops him and Freddie makes the stretch the
Speaker 8: pick the out ballgame over. Dodgers win five to four,
Speaker 8: and they've now won five straight overall, four to zero
Speaker 8: on this road trip. And again I mentioned in the
Speaker 8: Clubhouse show, the Padres lost again in Cincinnati. They got
Speaker 8: beat eight to one. The Giants won three to one.
Speaker 8: So the Dodgers maintain a six and a half game
Speaker 8: lead over the Giants in the division, and now the
Speaker 8: Padres dropped to seven games back in the NL West.
Speaker 8: This is that time of the schedule we mentioned it yesterday.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna repeat it right now. I'm gonna repeat it tomorrow,
Speaker 8: and repeat it on Sunday. Heck, we're gonna repeat it
Speaker 8: next week. This is the time of the schedule where
Speaker 8: the Dodgers need to be feasting. This is the time
Speaker 8: of this schedule where the Dodgers need to be separating
Speaker 8: themselves as much as possible in the division because of
Speaker 8: the caliber of the opponents. And I know Max Bunsky
Speaker 8: told David Vesse a few minutes ago. We heard the audio. Oh,
Speaker 8: everybody's a big leaguer. I don't care about the record. Yeah,
Speaker 8: there are some teams just aren't very good, and they'll
Speaker 8: they can't go twenty seven outs without hurting themselves, without
Speaker 8: making mistakes, without causing self damage on offense or on
Speaker 8: the mound or defensively, and the better team will usually
Speaker 8: win in most cases. In most cases, the Dodgers against
Speaker 8: the Nationals take two or three. Against the Rockies, they sweep.
Speaker 8: It's imperative they win this series at least taking two
Speaker 8: of three, if not a sweep. Against the Kansas Soity
Speaker 8: Royals day off and then the White Sox Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 8: with kersh on the mound going for three thousand strikeouts.
Speaker 8: I'm excited also for tomorrow. Not only do the Dodgers
Speaker 8: need to go out and get a win in the hot,
Speaker 8: humid air of Kansas City. Tomorrow it's gonna be a
Speaker 8: little roasty, but I'm excited to see show. Hey Otani
Speaker 8: make his third appearance, in which we hope he goes
Speaker 8: more than one inning. Don't expect him to go much
Speaker 8: longer than that, Dodger fans, as he continues to ramp up,
Speaker 8: But keep in mind the master plan, what they have
Speaker 8: in the mine, and the goal is to be ready
Speaker 8: and ramped up the second half of the season going
Speaker 8: into October. So you don't need to be going five inning,
Speaker 8: seventy five pitches on what tomorrow is, June twenty eighth.
Speaker 8: Why don't need it? Ramp up? Go two innings tomorrow,
Speaker 8: Go two innings the next start, three innings before the
Speaker 8: All Star break, and then post All Star break, you
Speaker 8: continue to wrap it up even more in the final
Speaker 8: eight to nine starts going into October eight six, six, nine, eight,
Speaker 8: seven to two, five seventy. You don't win a lot
Speaker 8: of baseball games with just four hits, and when, especially
Speaker 8: when you get out hit by your opponent eleven to four,
Speaker 8: you just don't see it very often the team that's
Speaker 8: got out hit eleven to four win a game. But
Speaker 8: tonight the Dodgers did great defense, good bullpen work, and
Speaker 8: those four hits you did get.
Speaker 4: All of them drove in runs.
Speaker 8: O Tani solo home run, Max Monty to run home run,
Speaker 8: O Tani, RBI triple, Mookie Betts go ahead RBI single,
Speaker 8: four hits, all of them drove in the Dodger runs,
Speaker 8: and the Dodgers get the win five to four, eight
Speaker 8: ninety seven two five seventy. To go out to the phones,
Speaker 8: and we're gonna go to Blake first. Blake has been
Speaker 8: on hold the longest. Blake checked in yesterday driving to
Speaker 8: Kansas City from Colorado. Blake called in a few days
Speaker 8: ago and told us he was going to a game
Speaker 8: in Denver to see the Dodgers, and then told us
Speaker 8: he was going to his sixteenth Major League baseball stadium
Speaker 8: in Kansas City for this series, and then he's going
Speaker 8: to Milwaukee in a few weeks, and I believe, I
Speaker 8: believe that's going to be his seventeenth major league stadium there.
Speaker 4: He's going to be in.
Speaker 8: Young Blake now joins us from Kansas City. Blake, did
Speaker 8: you go to the game tonight?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Say did nice?
Speaker 8: How was it You'd never been to Kaufman Stadium before?
Speaker 8: I know it was hot and humid. But what was
Speaker 8: the experience like? Did you have fun at a new
Speaker 8: ballpark for the first time?
Speaker 9: Yes? I did, I really did.
Speaker 8: Did you have your Dodger gear on, Blake during the
Speaker 8: game and if so, were the fans nice to you?
Speaker 9: Yeah? And I met you did?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: Can you tell us how you met him, Blake, because
Speaker 8: we gave him the heads up? Did you see him
Speaker 8: on the field? Did you yell and get his attention?
Speaker 8: How did that play out?
Speaker 4: Blake? Can you tell us how it worked out? Seeing
Speaker 4: David Vassay.
Speaker 9: My dad's got it to Chenston and he and he
Speaker 9: ought to me for a very long time and I
Speaker 9: got a picture of him.
Speaker 4: Awesome. He is a good guy. Believe it or not.
Speaker 8: He can be uh, he can be something, But David
Speaker 8: Vassay is really a good guy. I'm so happy you
Speaker 8: got to meet him and see him out there in
Speaker 8: Kansas City and you had a great experience. Now you
Speaker 8: guys are staying for the weekend, right, you're going to
Speaker 8: the other games there at Coffin Stadium.
Speaker 9: Yes, I am.
Speaker 4: That is awesome.
Speaker 8: So you got to see showey Otani Blake hit a
Speaker 8: home run. You got to see Max Munsey hit another
Speaker 8: home run in the game. Tonight you saw show ay
Speaker 8: Otani get the RBI triple, and then you saw Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman's great defensive playing the ninth Any what a night
Speaker 8: for you?
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, Hi, how Alex that? Yeah, he remembered me
Speaker 9: from Pittsbug at La in Pittbug last year and good
Speaker 9: fwends ever since. And now Daddy has his Instagram and.
Speaker 4: So oh that is awesome.
Speaker 8: So you got to see Alex Vessi again and he
Speaker 8: remembered you, and you got to say hello to him.
Speaker 4: You got to say hello to David Vesse.
Speaker 8: You gotta you got a fun weekend ahead of you still,
Speaker 8: and you got to go to the first game of
Speaker 8: this series. Still two more to go, Blake, you get
Speaker 8: show Hey Otani pitching tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is gonna be awesome. That is gonna be
Speaker 4: an awesome We'll have a fantastic time.
Speaker 8: Please check in with us tomorrow, Blake, after Otie's appearance.
Speaker 8: We'll talk about it. I want to get your thoughts
Speaker 8: on what you saw from show. Hey, o Tani, it
Speaker 8: was good, bad whatever, however he he pitches tomorrow, you
Speaker 8: and I are going to talk about it, right here
Speaker 8: on Dodger Talk tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, let's go Dodge Hilly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go Dodgers. Gosh. I love Blake.
Speaker 8: Thank you Blake for checking in from Kaufman Stadium there
Speaker 8: in Kansas City.
Speaker 4: That is what it's all about.
Speaker 8: A young baseball fan enjoying the game and loving his
Speaker 8: Dodgers and following them around on the road. It's it's
Speaker 8: awesome to see him be able to go to games
Speaker 8: in Denver, Kansas City. He's gonna go to games in
Speaker 8: Milwaukee and the Dodgers go back on the road.
Speaker 4: That is awesome. What an experience, What an.
Speaker 8: Opportunity for that young man to go out there with
Speaker 8: his family and drive around and see baseball in the
Speaker 8: heartland of America and be at the game tonight watch
Speaker 8: the Dodgers beat the Royals five to four.
Speaker 4: That is awesome.
Speaker 8: Thank you Blake for checking in eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 8: eighty seven to two. Five said he's gonna be our
Speaker 8: correspondent in Kansas City tomorrow after shoey Otani's appearance again
Speaker 8: of us his eyes on view, you know, eyes on
Speaker 8: the spot view from Kansas City tomorrow.
Speaker 4: In his thoughts all right, speaking of thoughts Ken Newport Beach.
Speaker 8: We get his thoughts after this Dodgers five to four win.
Speaker 8: It wasn't pretty, Ken, but good teams find a.
Speaker 4: Way to win well.
Speaker 1: First of all, that is one lucky kid man. I
Speaker 1: wish I was in. It's phenomenal for the for the good,
Speaker 1: really good stuff. The bullpen was great. I think that
Speaker 1: might be the last start for me. He's got a
Speaker 1: six cra and the other thing that's just amazing. And
Speaker 1: he needs to patent those glasses that he's got because
Speaker 1: Muncy has been unbelievable since he put those classes on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. And you know, again, four hits and you
Speaker 1: win this game, you really deserve it. In the bullpen
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Now let's get to Freeman. Incredible play, save
Speaker 1: the game. You've got to give the guy credit. Defensively,
Speaker 1: he's phenomenal. My concern is for the month of June,
Speaker 1: the entire month of June, he is hitting one eighty two.
Speaker 1: That's the lowest month he's ever had when he was
Speaker 1: with the Dodgers. Something is not right. How can that guy,
Speaker 1: one of the great hitters of all time and maybe
Speaker 1: one of the best first basemen I've ever seen only
Speaker 1: be hitting one eighty two for the month. There's something
Speaker 1: not right. What is it?
Speaker 8: It's I think it's everything. I think the ankle still
Speaker 8: bother him. There's got to be something else that he's not,
Speaker 8: you know, letting onto ken because you're right, the way
Speaker 8: he runs, he still kind of runs gingerly down the field.
Speaker 8: But there's no arguing that his defense is fantastic and
Speaker 8: he's able to still do that even if he's hobbling
Speaker 8: around and the offense has struggled in June. You mentioned
Speaker 8: it was on two going into the Knight's game and
Speaker 8: he was zero for four at the plate with a
Speaker 8: couple of strikeouts.
Speaker 4: So he's still hitting over three hundred can. But yeah,
Speaker 4: there's right.
Speaker 8: I think we're gonna find out at some point there
Speaker 8: there's more hurting Freddie Freeman that we know right now.
Speaker 8: And it's obviously not at the point where he's gonna
Speaker 8: take himself out of the game where the Dodgers feel
Speaker 8: like they need to take him out. He's still getting
Speaker 8: some hits every so often, but he'll turn things around.
Speaker 1: Can.
Speaker 4: He's too good of a player to have another month
Speaker 4: like he had in the month of June.
Speaker 1: Right breakouts this month. He doesn't do that right. Something's
Speaker 1: not right. But you know what, great win, Yeah, great
Speaker 1: play by Raeman, Munci and Otani are phenomenal. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it going because so hot as heck and they're crushing
Speaker 1: the other two teams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're starting to separate themselves.
Speaker 9: Ken.
Speaker 8: Great to hear from you is always my friend after
Speaker 8: a Dodger win, especially eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 8: two five seventy is the number. Eight six six nine
Speaker 8: eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers get. The win over
Speaker 8: the Kansas City was five to four. They jumped out
Speaker 8: to a one to nothing lead on the lead off
Speaker 8: home run from shoey Otani. Max Munsey's two run home
Speaker 8: running the second gave him the lead again three to one.
Speaker 8: The Royals would score three runs in the second off
Speaker 8: Dustin made to take a four to three lead. It
Speaker 8: was back and forth until the fifth, when schoey Otani
Speaker 8: and RBI triple made it four to four. Then Mookie
Speaker 8: Betts a single up the middle an RBI single made
Speaker 8: it a five to four Dodgers lead. Dustin May went
Speaker 8: the four innings. He struggled, but the bullpen took over
Speaker 8: and they had traffic on every single inning. Luis Garcia,
Speaker 8: lu Trevino, Anthony Banda, Alex.
Speaker 4: Vesia, and even Tanner Scott.
Speaker 8: All the relievers had traffic on the bass pass, but
Speaker 8: worked around the traffic on the bass pass to hang
Speaker 8: on to a.
Speaker 4: Five to four lead.
Speaker 8: Got a little got a little dicey there in the
Speaker 8: ninth bases loaded one out, but the double play ball
Speaker 8: that Tanner Scott was able to induce four to six
Speaker 8: three double play. Freddie Freeman saving Rookie Bets's throw from
Speaker 8: second base on the double play wins it for the
Speaker 8: Dodgers as they beat the Royals five to four. Let's
Speaker 8: go to Mike and Irwin Dale has been very patient.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mike. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: Good kid, Thanks with the game for taking my call.
Speaker 2: And yeah, kudos to Max Monthy. H never get bored Washington.
Speaker 2: Tannie do his thing. But with Freddy, you know, I
Speaker 2: wonder if he said he had a swore quad. That
Speaker 2: probably has a lot to do with his swing right
Speaker 2: now too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 2: And then uh yeah, say, I know we're short on
Speaker 2: starting pitching, but hopefully Snell and Glassdale get back. And
Speaker 2: I don't know what put Dustin in the bullpen. He
Speaker 2: hasn't had a shutdown inning forever.
Speaker 8: It seems like now he has struggled in the era,
Speaker 8: is starting to climb a little bit.
Speaker 4: Mike.
Speaker 8: I appreciate the phone call, Thanks for checking in tonight.
Speaker 8: He did have one two three third inning. After all
Speaker 8: the traffic on the base bass in the first and
Speaker 8: giving up the runs and then giving up the three
Speaker 8: runs of the second, he did come back in the
Speaker 8: third and have a one to two three inning, and
Speaker 8: the fourth started off with the strikeout, a single cot stealing.
Speaker 8: He just has to get ahead of the count and
Speaker 8: he's got to have pitches that are in the zone
Speaker 8: more and Rick Monday talked about that you're throwing your
Speaker 8: sweeper out of the zone and you're not getting chases,
Speaker 8: and these some of these pitches are so far out
Speaker 8: of the zone that there's no way guys are gonna.
Speaker 4: Swing at it. They're just they're not good pitches. They're
Speaker 4: not pitches that you need to be throwing.
Speaker 8: Their wasted pitches in essence, throwing pitches way out of
Speaker 8: the strike zone like he.
Speaker 4: Was throwing this evening against the Royals.
Speaker 8: Now you mentioned Tyler Glass. Now Tyler Glass now Tonight
Speaker 8: had a second rehab start in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City. Tyler
Speaker 8: Glass now Tonight went two in a third innings in
Speaker 8: Oka See in his second rehab appearance, throw the.
Speaker 4: Fastball through the slider.
Speaker 8: Had a goodlocity, sitting ninety six ninety seven on the fastball.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem. They're hitting them around pretty hard.
Speaker 8: Two in the third innings, five runs, seven hits, three strikeouts,
Speaker 8: a walk, sixty six pitches only thirty seven for strikes. Okay,
Speaker 8: he had eleven called strikes nine whiffs. Again to hit
Speaker 8: the ball hard against him, And it's a little misleading
Speaker 8: because he's out there rehabbing, working on stuff. Maybe he's
Speaker 8: leaving pitches in the zone, you know, and they're getting
Speaker 8: hit around because he's working on stuff and he's just
Speaker 8: working on getting the pitch count up and he's not
Speaker 8: necessarily worrying about results. That happens on minor league rehab starts. Right,
Speaker 8: the guy can go down there, give U a bunch
Speaker 8: of runs, but he's working on things, trying to get
Speaker 8: control of things, trying to get his mechanics right.
Speaker 4: It's a little misleading, but.
Speaker 8: Five runs on seven hits, three strikeouts, two and a
Speaker 8: third innings, sixty six pitches, only thirty seven for strikes.
Speaker 8: I imagine, well, probab, I'll see him again. I mean,
Speaker 8: we'll hear from Dave Roberts here coming up in a
Speaker 8: few minutes. Maybe he'll address Tyler Glass now. Maybe he
Speaker 8: won't make another start. Maybe that was it built up
Speaker 8: to three plus innings and he'll be good to go
Speaker 8: before the All Star break. My guess, without having known
Speaker 8: what Dave Roberts has said yet, my guess is Tyler
Speaker 8: Glastow is going to get one more in the minor leagues.
Speaker 8: Let him build up to maybe five innings, maybe build
Speaker 8: out to seventy plus pitches.
Speaker 4: And he went sixty six pitches tonight.
Speaker 8: Maybe get over the seventy mark and then bring him
Speaker 8: back into the rotation eight six, six, nine, eighty seven,
Speaker 8: two five seven. He will take a break, we'll come back,
Speaker 8: we'll get to your phone calls, we'll hear from the manager,
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts, and then we'll put a bow on this
Speaker 8: Friday night edition of Dodger Talk. Dodgers win in Kansas City.
Speaker 8: They come back with two runs in the fifth and
Speaker 8: hang on with the bases loaded in one out. A
Speaker 8: double play ball saved by Freddie Freeman on the throw
Speaker 8: from Mookie Betts. Tanner Scott gets out of it and
Speaker 8: the Dodgers get out of it with a five to
Speaker 8: four win over the Royals. Right here on AI seventy
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Speaker 8: Twenty ninth home run of the season for show Hey Otani,
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Speaker 8: the Dream Dodgers four to zero on this road trip,
Speaker 8: five straight wins overall. Luke Trevino the winning relief Tanner
Speaker 8: Scott his eighteenth save of the season as the Dodgers
Speaker 8: had the bases loaded one out. Tanner Scott, though, induces
Speaker 8: a ground ball double play. Freddie Freeman saves the throw
Speaker 8: for Mookie Betts on a one hop. He picks it
Speaker 8: for the out at first and the Dodgers get the win.
Speaker 8: They're now fifty two to thirty one, best record in
Speaker 8: all of baseball. Jodell and Kenyon Country is next time.
Speaker 8: Welcome Jodell.
Speaker 4: How you doing? Hey?
Speaker 11: Hi, Hey, I've been a fan since nineteen what sixty
Speaker 11: eight and I watch every single game. Answer me this,
Speaker 11: Why is Kim not playing? He earned his positions, He
Speaker 11: earned starting in every game. We could one that we
Speaker 11: lost because certain people came to bad either ground it
Speaker 11: out to a double play or struck out when Kim
Speaker 11: should have been playing well.
Speaker 8: He wasn't in the lineup tonight because of the left hander,
Speaker 8: and I appreciate the phone call. He wasn't in the
Speaker 8: lineup tonight again because of the lefty, and that was
Speaker 8: the case in Colorado against Austin Gomber. We'll see if
Speaker 8: tomorrow it's different with Seth Lugo on the mound, or
Speaker 8: if the Dodgers go with Michael Conforto. So I'm not
Speaker 8: sure which way Dave Roberts is leading. I can't imagine
Speaker 8: Confordo will be off again tomorrow. So is Kim going
Speaker 8: to be in center? Is it going to be a
Speaker 8: day off for Tay Oscar or Pajz.
Speaker 4: We'll see. I mean they are playing now, what they're
Speaker 4: fifth straight game home. You go back to the weekend.
Speaker 8: They had Monday off, in Monday off, so yeah, the
Speaker 8: day game after a night game, and they play an
Speaker 8: even earlier game on Sunday, one of those guys may
Speaker 8: get the day off hot day in Kansas City.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 8: We'll see how the lineup, We'll see what Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: likes to go do. We'll hear from him in just
Speaker 8: a minute. Barry and Bakersfield. Welcome to Dodge Talk. Barry,
Speaker 8: how you doing.
Speaker 10: I'm good, I'm good, man. I just wanted to talk
Speaker 10: about Dustin may Man. I mean, I love the guy,
Speaker 10: you know, but his inconsistency just makes me nervous every
Speaker 10: time I see him.
Speaker 2: So I get it.
Speaker 10: You know, he has to be out there because our
Speaker 10: pitching staff is depleted right now. But I'm really ready
Speaker 10: to just see that guy in the booping man. I mean,
Speaker 10: luckily we have a stolid offense that brings us back
Speaker 10: a lot, but yeah, I'm just I'm just ready to
Speaker 10: see him in the bullpen. Man, I'm nervous every time
Speaker 10: I see him.
Speaker 4: Being a starter. You want Dustin made to go down
Speaker 4: to the bullpen?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Man, As a starter, he just hasn't been consistent. I
Speaker 10: mean he's inconsistent in games, he's inconsistent in innings. So
Speaker 10: I'm just ready to see him in the booping man.
Speaker 8: All Right, we'll see what they do and everybody gets healthy.
Speaker 8: Because you only have five six guys in the rotation.
Speaker 8: If they'd like to go to that six man, rotation,
Speaker 8: So we'll see what ultimately happens and.
Speaker 4: Where some of these roles may change.
Speaker 8: For Dodger pitchers, guys going to the bullpen. I mean,
Speaker 8: what is gonna happen with a guy like Ben Caspirius
Speaker 8: when you assume everybody gets back healthy when the Dodgers
Speaker 8: get back.
Speaker 4: Tyler Glass.
Speaker 8: Now when the Dodgers get back a Rokie Sasaki, when
Speaker 8: the Dodgers get back a Blake Snell, and add those
Speaker 8: three pitchers into the starting rotation, and a healthy Show
Speaker 8: ay Otani, who's now back in the rotation even though
Speaker 8: he's just pitched one inning and two starts, We'll see
Speaker 8: you only have so many spots in the rotation, only
Speaker 8: got so many spots in the bullpen. Who will be
Speaker 8: the odd man out? It's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 8: when everybody's healthy, and we just haven't seen that yet
Speaker 8: this year. Everybody healthy at the same time. All right,
Speaker 8: let's go back out to Kansas City. Let's hear what
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts had to say postgame after the win tonight.
Speaker 8: Maybe looking ahead to show, Hey start tomorrow.
Speaker 12: Dave, can you just talk about early on in this
Speaker 12: game how it seemed like show Hay and Max for
Speaker 12: your offense early on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they showy obviously got us off to a good start,
Speaker 6: and you know, Max with the big homer, got off
Speaker 6: to a good start, and you know, I think so
Speaker 6: that was big. Obviously tonight Dustin was in sharp. We
Speaker 6: certainly didn't help him out defensively. You know, having to
Speaker 6: get four outs in a couple of innings is obviously difficult,
Speaker 6: especially when you don't have your best stuff. And I
Speaker 6: thought dust did a nice job competing and at times
Speaker 6: I felt, you know, it was right to push him. Tonight,
Speaker 6: I didn't feel it was the right time, but again
Speaker 6: I thought, you know, he didn't quit on us and
Speaker 6: kept competing and gave us a chance to win a
Speaker 6: ball game.
Speaker 12: His tenor, Scott gotten better with the way that you're
Speaker 12: using him more and more often, the opportunities presenting themselves
Speaker 12: to be able to pitch three in a row, three
Speaker 12: out of four and all that has he gotten better
Speaker 12: that way?
Speaker 6: You know, I think that he's always going to be
Speaker 6: one to say that he's better when he pitches more,
Speaker 6: which is fair. But I also think that there's a
Speaker 6: point that we still got to manage his usage. And
Speaker 6: he's a max effort guy, But yeah, you look at
Speaker 6: the last you know, forty forty five days since you
Speaker 6: kind of clean up the delivery, he's been fantastic for us.
Speaker 6: And whether it's an up down, whether it's in the eighth,
Speaker 6: whether it's in the ninth, he's been very good. So
Speaker 6: you know, we needed it.
Speaker 7: And today big.
Speaker 6: Double play and Freddy obviously scuffling with the bat, but
Speaker 6: a big pick right there to close out that game
Speaker 6: you talked about.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys still not playing your best?
Speaker 8: Has it just kind of felt like tonight another example
Speaker 8: just kind of finding a way to win a game
Speaker 8: even with things going wrong.
Speaker 6: I think that's yeah, I think that's right. You know,
Speaker 6: they think offensively, we threw out four hits tonight and
Speaker 6: still found a way to score enough runs to win
Speaker 6: with not playing clean defense. So yeah, well but I
Speaker 6: think overarching, we're still finding ways to win baseball games,
Speaker 6: which is most important.
Speaker 3: Since giving you beginnings, he or he's creeping up to
Speaker 3: of course five, as as healthy as he going to
Speaker 3: find himself. Pitch him for a job in that rotation
Speaker 3: on the bubble or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know, I think that you know,
Speaker 6: you know, tonight he could have went not without giving
Speaker 6: a run, you know, through four innings. But I really
Speaker 6: personally don't look at Era too much. I do appreciate
Speaker 6: the value of being able to take the baseball go
Speaker 6: deeper in games. There are some pitches here and there that,
Speaker 6: you know, some bad walks or things like that, but
Speaker 6: that's not really I'm not thinking about that right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's set a point right now in this season,
Speaker 8: Dustin May's going out.
Speaker 4: The every five days.
Speaker 8: He has been a horse for you. He and Yoshi
Speaker 8: Yamamoto have been the two guys you can rely upon
Speaker 8: all season long. Haven't been heard, have gone got out
Speaker 8: there and pitched for you. And you know, sometimes it's
Speaker 8: been good, sometimes it's not been good. But he has
Speaker 8: given you a chance every five days, Dustin May, And
Speaker 8: that says a lot, especially for a guy who's battled
Speaker 8: injuries the last two years, only twenty seven years old. Certainly,
Speaker 8: when guys get healthy, they're gonna have to evaluate everybody
Speaker 8: on this roster and this rotation in this bullpen and
Speaker 8: see where guys are at, where the health is of everybody,
Speaker 8: and assuming these guys all come back healthy in the rotation.
Speaker 8: It's a good problem to have. But when we get there,
Speaker 8: let's worry about it. Let's not worry about it right now.
Speaker 8: Let's not even talk about it right now, because honestly,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers haven't been healthy, they haven't had everybody ready
Speaker 8: to go in the rotation. And to think all of
Speaker 8: a sudden, guys are gonna come back and mage like
Speaker 8: they're gonna have eight starters and what do we do
Speaker 8: with eight starters now? Well, the way it plays out,
Speaker 8: as Ned Coledie used to say, you never have enough
Speaker 8: starting pitching.
Speaker 4: Just when you think you do, you don't. So we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens.
Speaker 8: All right, that's gonna do it for Dodger to talk tonight.
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Speaker 4: How long he goes.
Speaker 8: He's gone one inning at his first two starts.
Speaker 4: Will you do the same? Will you build on that?
Speaker 4: We'll find out.
Speaker 8: Dodger's looking to build on their five game winning streak
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