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Speaker 6: Rough day for the Dodgers in Kansas City. It was hot,
Speaker 6: it was muggy, and the Royals offense went to work
Speaker 6: early and often. Meanwhile, the Dodgers bats were quiet until
Speaker 6: the seventh inning when Freddie Freeman connected on his tenth
Speaker 6: home run of this season as a Dodger see their
Speaker 6: five game winning streak come to an end on this Saturday. Hi, everybody,
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Speaker 6: A lot to digest from today's nine to five lost
Speaker 6: with the Kansas City Royals. First and foremost, show hey
Speaker 6: o tany two shutout innings today? He allowed one hit
Speaker 6: that came to Bobby Witt Junior on a flare out
Speaker 6: into left center field, a cheapy as they used to
Speaker 6: call it back in my day, a cheapya to left
Speaker 6: center field on a ball in which he was on
Speaker 6: his front foot, completely fooled, hit it off the end
Speaker 6: of the bat, but just kind of fell into no
Speaker 6: man's land in left center field for a base hit.
Speaker 6: A nice double play ball on a pitch that was
Speaker 6: one hundred and two miles an hour from sho heyo Tani.
Speaker 6: Pascatino hit into a double play to get out of
Speaker 6: the first inning on fourteen pitches that first inning, little
Speaker 6: ify on the command from sho Heyo Tani, especially on
Speaker 6: the sweeper and off speed pitches. The fastball velocity was there.
Speaker 6: He got some swinging missus, which was great. The second ining,
Speaker 6: he was dialed in show Hao Tani in that second
Speaker 6: inning thirteen pitches a one two three inning, sandwiched with
Speaker 6: a strikeout in the middle after a couple of fly
Speaker 6: ball outs, including one to the catcher Dalton rushing to
Speaker 6: end the inning. It was masterful to see him with
Speaker 6: his split finger, to see him with his off speed
Speaker 6: pitches get swinging missus, to see his fastball electric up
Speaker 6: in the zone when he wanted to get guys to
Speaker 6: chase it. He landed seventy four percent strikes in these
Speaker 6: two innings that he pitched. Today again, Bobby Witch Junior's
Speaker 6: flair cheapy hit was eighty six miles an hour off
Speaker 6: the bat into left center field soft contact. Every time
Speaker 6: there was contact off the bat of the Kansas City
Speaker 6: Royals in those first two innings that he pitched, and
Speaker 6: he only faced a seven batters in two innings of work.
Speaker 6: Really nice to see Shoeyotani on top of the mountain
Speaker 6: today and doing what he did, getting better and evolving
Speaker 6: from inning one to inning two, and you kind of
Speaker 6: felt like, if this were late season Showyotani.
Speaker 3: He was just getting into form.
Speaker 6: He was really getting into a rhythm with his pitch
Speaker 6: on the mound, the offspeed pitches, the swing and misses
Speaker 6: on the fastball up and out of the zone. He
Speaker 6: was throwing glove side and getting contact. He looked I
Speaker 6: can't say enough. He looked dominant in that second inning
Speaker 6: of work in which he threw thirteen pitches. And if
Speaker 6: this were later in the season again, he would have
Speaker 6: built on that, I feel, and we would have seen
Speaker 6: Shoeyotani be really good for multiple innings. As it is,
Speaker 6: it's late June and we're only getting limited work right
Speaker 6: now out of show ay Otani as he continues to
Speaker 6: look at the end goal, the finish line of the
Speaker 6: end of the season and the playoffs when it counts
Speaker 6: most eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seventy,
Speaker 6: that was the really good the not so good today, Well,
Speaker 6: let's continue with the positives. Freddie Freeman three for three,
Speaker 6: a home run, two walks, on base five times. Freddie
Speaker 6: Freeman hits his first home run since Mother's Day. A
Speaker 6: streak of forty one games without a home run ended
Speaker 6: today with the solo home run of the seventh inning
Speaker 6: by the Dodger first baseman. He continued to grind. You
Speaker 6: can see the frustration on his face. You heard him
Speaker 6: in the postgame with David Vesse and the media, smile
Speaker 6: on his face from ear to ear. But it's just today.
Speaker 6: Baseball is a game of what have you done for
Speaker 6: me lately? And there's the next day to do it again.
Speaker 6: So we'll see if he's in the live tomorrow. There
Speaker 6: have been a lot of talk that he going to
Speaker 6: be off no matter what. So if that's the case,
Speaker 6: we won't see Freddie Freeman back in the lineup as
Speaker 6: it started until Tuesday, when the Dodgers return home to
Speaker 6: face the Chicago White Sox to start off the next
Speaker 6: Homestand but today one of those get right games.
Speaker 3: Phil's good.
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman days three for three, on base five times,
Speaker 6: hit it out of the park, seeing the ball really well,
Speaker 6: tracking it well, hitting it well, spraining around the field.
Speaker 6: That is really good for the Dodgers. Otani's two shot editings,
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman's five at bats today on base five times
Speaker 6: three for three to two walks. The not so good
Speaker 6: The Dodgers rest of the offense was pretty anemic. They
Speaker 6: had runners on, they get a base run around with
Speaker 6: two outs, they get a base run around with one out,
Speaker 6: but they couldn't strain together hits. It was one of
Speaker 6: those frustrating days, at least for the first six innings
Speaker 6: for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Runner on base in five of the first six innings,
Speaker 3: but did nothing with it.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, the Kansas City Royals two strike, two outs, scoring runs,
Speaker 6: Vinnie Pascantino an ah to one pitch from Ben Casparius
Speaker 6: in the fifth inning with two outs, hits, a three
Speaker 6: run home run, and what was a three to nothing
Speaker 6: game quickly was a six to nothing game. You go
Speaker 6: back to the third inning, Michale Garcia with a two
Speaker 6: run double with two outs, and he was ahead in
Speaker 6: the count O two before even in and out two
Speaker 6: to two, and Garcia connects on a two run double.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers usually are the teams that attack their opponents
Speaker 6: with two strikes, two outs and just sort of pay
Speaker 6: per clip.
Speaker 3: You you to death. That's what they do so well.
Speaker 6: They slug and they pay per clip you to death
Speaker 6: with their two strikes two out hits.
Speaker 3: Today they were the victim to that.
Speaker 6: Today there wasn't enough band aids to be put on
Speaker 6: the Dodger pitching as they saw the Dodgers give up
Speaker 6: two strike hits, two out hits. In the first two
Speaker 6: games of this series, nine of the thirteen runs by
Speaker 6: the camp To City Royals have been scored with two outs.
Speaker 6: That's what the Dodgers do two opponents, and that's what
Speaker 6: the Royals have done to the Dodgers in the first
Speaker 6: two games. Dodgers last night out hit eleven to four,
Speaker 6: but win the game five to four. Today, the Dodgers
Speaker 6: out hit by the Kansas City Royals fourteen to ten
Speaker 6: and lose nine to five. The ten hits by the
Speaker 6: Dodgers a little misleading, seeing is that what at least
Speaker 6: three of those hits came in the ninth inning, four
Speaker 6: of them total in the ninth inning. They were pretty
Speaker 6: anemic the first six innings. Freddie Freeman's home run got
Speaker 6: him on the board, and then they pushed four across
Speaker 6: in the ninth inning with two outs too little too late.
Speaker 6: It would have taken americal comeback for the Dodgers to
Speaker 6: be down eight to come back and tie it or
Speaker 6: take the lead in the ninth inning that was squashed
Speaker 6: with Michael Conforto's groundball out to end the game, and
Speaker 6: the Royals in the Dodgers five game winning streak. You
Speaker 6: hope it's just one of those days and you flip
Speaker 6: it and you move to tomorrow and get the series win. Now,
Speaker 6: albeit Dodgers had four hits last night, won the game
Speaker 6: wasn't a ton of offense. But as we kept talking
Speaker 6: about after the game last night pregame, today, they scored
Speaker 6: four runs, two of which on a Max Munsey or
Speaker 6: five runs last night on four hits, So every hit
Speaker 6: they had produced runs. It's not a great recipe on
Speaker 6: a continual basis, but they'll take it. Last night, today
Speaker 6: the offense wasn't there again. Meanwhile, the Royals just kept
Speaker 6: tacking on runs against Ben Casparius and then against Luis Garcia,
Speaker 6: who struggled in a third of an inning today. Now,
Speaker 6: I'm not going to put all the blame on Ben Casparius.
Speaker 6: Why Ben Casparius is sick, Ben Casparius is not feeling well.
Speaker 6: David Vasse said it on Sports and at LA during
Speaker 6: the game. Davi's doing TV, I'm doing all radio this weekend.
Speaker 6: Dave said it during the TV broadcast, and I'm pretty
Speaker 6: sure he mentioned it in the pregame show. Maybe he
Speaker 6: did off the air bank. Casparius last night sent home
Speaker 6: by the Dodger coaching staff because he wasn't feeling well
Speaker 6: and knew knowing that he was going to pitch today
Speaker 6: piggybacking show.
Speaker 3: Hey, O Tani.
Speaker 6: No need for him to be at the ballpark, especially
Speaker 6: if he's gonna get guys sick standing around in the dugout.
Speaker 3: Just go back to the hotel.
Speaker 6: So they sent him back to get hydrated, to get
Speaker 6: some fluids and get ready for today's game where he's
Speaker 6: going to piggyback show. Heyo Tani in the hot, humid
Speaker 6: sun of Kansas City. So now that you kind of
Speaker 6: have a backstory, he wasn't feeling.
Speaker 3: Well last night.
Speaker 6: Can't imagine he woke up today like, oh that's gone.
Speaker 6: I feel better all of a sudden. Probably not feeling
Speaker 6: well today, but he goes out there and goes four
Speaker 6: innings and he's asked to be the bulk inning guy.
Speaker 6: He got roughed up. He didn't finish off hitters. There
Speaker 6: was too many two counts in which he let the
Speaker 6: hitter back into account and then gave up a hit.
Speaker 6: The Michale Garcia two run double a prime example, getting
Speaker 6: ahead oh one on Vinnie Pascentino and then he hits
Speaker 6: a three run home run. You get ahead in the count,
Speaker 6: you got to finish him off. He just wasn't finishooting
Speaker 6: off hitters in his four innings of work. Let's go
Speaker 6: back out to Kansas City. Let's hit her from Ben Casperius.
Speaker 6: We can call it post game today. He was sick
Speaker 6: last night, not feeling good this morning. Let's hear from
Speaker 6: the young right hander and how he's feeling after the
Speaker 6: Dodgers nine to five loss.
Speaker 7: He's kind of you know, chills, whole body aches and everything,
Speaker 7: kind of swam it all out last night. I got
Speaker 7: to the art today, told him I wanted the ball
Speaker 7: and I felt good.
Speaker 3: Enough to compete enough.
Speaker 7: Did you feel it in the heat and everything?
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7: I don't think I've fitched in the heat like this
Speaker 7: in a long time, especially you know, day game with
Speaker 7: the humidity like that. But I felt good enough to
Speaker 7: take the ball today. And you know, dank a our
Speaker 7: away didn't really execute the game plan as well as
Speaker 7: I would have liked to. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 7: chiming from the page and you know, on the.
Speaker 3: Next one, because there been.
Speaker 4: Something about either following show Hay or just.
Speaker 7: Kind of pitch him longer in the last three that's been.
Speaker 3: An adjustment for you.
Speaker 7: I mean not too much in terms of like mental
Speaker 7: prep and listen that. I just think, you know, game planning.
Speaker 7: I haven't been a sharp for you know, executing what
Speaker 7: I want to do. But I don't think it has
Speaker 7: anything to do with the situation.
Speaker 6: All right, there's Ben Casparius post game, had the chills
Speaker 6: last night, not feeling well, sweated it out, woke up
Speaker 6: this morning. As you heard him say, there, told Dave
Speaker 6: Roberts and Mark Pryor he was good to go to
Speaker 6: piggyback showy Otani and he just didn't execute.
Speaker 3: And he's right, he didn't.
Speaker 6: He didn't finish off hitters, and they came back to
Speaker 6: bite him, and they scored four runs against him. Make
Speaker 6: that six runs against him in four inings of work.
Speaker 6: I tip a cap to him and say, hey, great, job,
Speaker 6: going out there, even not out one hundred percent and
Speaker 6: battling for four innings when the team needed you.
Speaker 3: Again, this isn't a team that's loaded with pitching.
Speaker 6: They can just say, all right, Ben, you're not feeling well,
Speaker 6: we're gonna we're gonna push you to another day, or
Speaker 6: you know, we got somebody else that can take over
Speaker 6: for you. They have a bullpen game tomorrow with Justin
Speaker 6: Robleski scheduled to be the long inning guy. Tyler Glass
Speaker 6: now pitched last night in oklah Aloma City. He can't
Speaker 6: be called up, immit. Sheen pitched today, I believe in
Speaker 6: Oklahoma City, so he wasn't available. So they needed Ben Casparius,
Speaker 6: whether he was one hundred percent or not, get some
Speaker 6: fluids in him.
Speaker 3: Go out there.
Speaker 6: And he said the heat, the humidity got to him
Speaker 6: and in the end he just didn't execute like he
Speaker 6: was supposed to. And he's exactly right, and he'll get
Speaker 6: the ball next time. Shoeyotani pitches. And the question for
Speaker 6: Bill Plunkett's interesting. I mentioned the stat to Jose Mode
Speaker 6: in the Clubout Show, and I'm gonna repeat it again here.
Speaker 6: Since Ben Casparius has now been the follow guy for
Speaker 6: Shoeyotani piggybacking each other. This is the third start for Shoeotani,
Speaker 6: one inning against the Padres, one inning against the Nationals,
Speaker 6: and today he went two innings against the Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 6: Ben Casparius has been the piggyback guy behind Otani in
Speaker 6: all three of these starts, and that was the plan
Speaker 6: before all this. Forty innings of work a sub three
Speaker 6: ERRA for Ben Casparius in different roles, and he's been
Speaker 6: really good this year now in three games where he's
Speaker 6: had this role as the piggyback to show Heyotani in
Speaker 6: right near eight, and he's given up eleven runs and
Speaker 6: eleven and two third innings. Again, eleven runs and eleven
Speaker 6: and two third innings in three times piggybacking show Heyotani
Speaker 6: with an ERA near eight as opposed to a sub
Speaker 6: three r and forty innings pitched before this assignment.
Speaker 3: So he says there's nothing to it. He says he'll
Speaker 3: be back and good to go next time out. I
Speaker 3: believe he will.
Speaker 6: But it's interesting to look at the numbers, and again
Speaker 6: we do that all the time, good and bad.
Speaker 3: Look at the numbers.
Speaker 6: How guys are performing, what they're doing right, what they're
Speaker 6: doing wrong. We try to find the answers and try
Speaker 6: to dig deep into analyzing every little thing. It is
Speaker 6: worth noting three times he's piggybacked Totani and it just
Speaker 6: hasn't worked out for him, giving up eleven runs in
Speaker 6: those three times, including six runs today in four innings
Speaker 6: of work being under the weather. Eight sixty six nine
Speaker 6: eight seven seventies a number. Let's go out to the phones,
Speaker 6: thank you for being patient. Let's start off with David
Speaker 6: in Westlake Village. It's gonna start things off here on
Speaker 6: postgame Dodger Talk after the Royals beat the Dodgers nine
Speaker 6: to five on this Saturday.
Speaker 2: How you doing, David, I'm doing okay. Tim, Thanks for
Speaker 2: taking my call. You know, I just got back from
Speaker 2: New York having open heart surgery, and I'll tell you
Speaker 2: I was watching the Dodger games in the hospital and
Speaker 2: it really helped me keep my spirits up. So thank
Speaker 2: you Dodgers for that for me personally. You know, I'm greedy.
Speaker 2: I want that second World championship. I've waited a long
Speaker 2: time for them to get great, and they're amazing. But
Speaker 2: at first I thought pitching was gonna be the biggest issue.
Speaker 2: I don't think so anymore. I think once you know
Speaker 2: Snell and Glass now and they they they go deeper
Speaker 2: in games with Oshani eventually, I think we're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: But to me, Tim, the biggest weakness of this team
Speaker 2: is defense. And I'm actually kind of surprised that Friedman
Speaker 2: put a worst detensive team on the field this year
Speaker 2: than last. And I know how they can fix it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's the obvious choice is to put Mookie
Speaker 2: out and right and put you know, uh Tayo in left.
Speaker 2: I know that I can tell you that till I'm
Speaker 2: Dodger blue in the face. That's never gonna happen. But
Speaker 2: what can happen. What can happen is that they put
Speaker 2: Tao in left and put Pahes in right. Uh uh no,
Speaker 2: put yeah, Ptao in and left and put pas and
Speaker 2: right and put Edmund when his ankle is healthy in center.
Speaker 2: That is a championship caliber outfield. It's faster than the
Speaker 2: outfield we have now. Roberts even admitted that we have
Speaker 2: a slow outfield today and it's going to cost us.
Speaker 2: And you know, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 2: Watching the World Series last year, that defense can lose
Speaker 2: you playoff games. And I just really hope that Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts and Andrew Freeman understand that Tao belongs in left
Speaker 2: and Paz, who has the best armed on the team
Speaker 2: belongs in the right, and some more speed in center field.
Speaker 2: Tell me that that is going to happen. Eventually, we'll
Speaker 2: find out if it happened.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 6: I appreciate the phone call David, and thinking of you.
Speaker 6: I'm praying for you for a speedy recovery after that
Speaker 6: open heart surgery that you had in New York.
Speaker 3: Glad to hear your back and you.
Speaker 6: Arrested and the Dodgers got you through it and good
Speaker 6: enough to give us a call here on Dodger talking
Speaker 6: healthy enough. So thinking of you and your continued recovery
Speaker 6: from that. With that being said, it was interesting to
Speaker 6: see today Taoscar Hernandez a ball down the right field line,
Speaker 6: come up just short from getting it and it kind
Speaker 6: of falls in down the right field line.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 6: Last night we saw the same thing happen against the
Speaker 6: Dodgers in today's game. It was a situation where Freddie
Speaker 6: Freeman was in on the grass. You had Haysan Kim
Speaker 6: at second but closer to the second base bag to
Speaker 6: hold the runner on and the ball falls in down
Speaker 6: the right field line, just out of the reach of
Speaker 6: ta Oscar Hernandez who didn't die for the ball and
Speaker 6: came up, you know, short of catching it and it
Speaker 6: falls in for a RBI single. So again it's it
Speaker 6: is what it is. Right now, we'll see juggling in
Speaker 6: the lineups moving forward. Ta Oskar's not right health wise.
Speaker 6: Remember back last month he went on the injured list
Speaker 6: with the groin injury, the adductor, the left adductor groin
Speaker 6: area okay, and he came back pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Was it? What? Ten games? That was it?
Speaker 6: It was a minimum stint on the injured list and
Speaker 6: he came back. And remember when he first heard it,
Speaker 6: we kept thinking, no, man, this looks bad. This feels
Speaker 6: like a lengthy stint on the injured list. This is
Speaker 6: not gonna be good. This could be a six to
Speaker 6: eight weeker. This could be something he doesn't come back
Speaker 6: until after the All Star break because of how tender
Speaker 6: the groin area adductor is and the way he was
Speaker 6: grimacing in pain. As it turns out, wasn't as severe
Speaker 6: of a strain, and he was back after one round
Speaker 6: on the injured list and comes back back in the lineup.
Speaker 6: Now certainly hasn't been the same tail since then, especially
Speaker 6: out in the outfield. I think he's bothered by it.
Speaker 6: I think he came back wanting to help out this
Speaker 6: Dodgers team, not one hundred percent, but hoping it'll get
Speaker 6: better as time goes on. And he plays through it.
Speaker 6: And just like we've seen guys do Freddy Freeman with
Speaker 6: the ankle injury. Guys play through injuries all the time,
Speaker 6: and they're not gonna sit there and tell you about it.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna stand in front of their locker and say,
Speaker 6: I'm hurt, I can't play every day, but I'm trying
Speaker 6: to give my best for you. No, these guys don't
Speaker 6: let in how bad maybe they're hurting. You know, we
Speaker 6: found out after the case last year in October how
Speaker 6: bad the ribs were for Freddie Freeman and really how
Speaker 6: bad the ankle was. He had to have surgery in October.
Speaker 6: They're not gonna let on. They're not gonna let on
Speaker 6: because they're tough. They're they want to let on because
Speaker 6: they don't want to come out of the lineup, and
Speaker 6: they don't want to let on because they don't want
Speaker 6: to give the opponent any advantage to what may be
Speaker 6: an alien part of their body, and they can take
Speaker 6: advantage of that as a pitcher. I just don't think
Speaker 6: he's right. I don't think he's one hundred percent. And
Speaker 6: maybe he needs a couple of days off. Maybe he
Speaker 6: came back quicker than he should have.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: That's not up to me, it's not up to you.
Speaker 6: It's up to ta Oscar Hernandez and how he feels.
Speaker 6: But looking at the way those two fly balls, especially
Speaker 6: the last couple of times out last night and today,
Speaker 6: you know, an extra beat on the ball, a dive.
Speaker 6: Maybe he makes that play today. Maybe he makes that
Speaker 6: play last night. As it is, he pulls up, ball
Speaker 6: falls in both last night and today, And a lot
Speaker 6: of people, the social media fans, people who are texting me, say,
Speaker 6: what's going on? Why didn't tail lay out for that ball?
Speaker 6: What's going on? How can you make a better effort
Speaker 6: for that ball? You know, he made a running effort
Speaker 6: for it, comes up short, pulls up on it. I
Speaker 6: gotta believe that that left adductor groin area is still
Speaker 6: bothering him and he's playing through it. Eight sixty six
Speaker 6: nine eight seven two five seven. We'll take a time out.
Speaker 6: We'll come back. We'll get to more of your phone
Speaker 6: calls when we continue here on post game Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: As the Dodgers win it to or lose today nine
Speaker 6: to five to the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City,
Speaker 6: they fall to the Royals. Seth Lugo gets the win,
Speaker 6: Ben Casparius gets the loss as the Dodgers have their
Speaker 6: five game winning streak come to and end. They fall
Speaker 6: to fifty two and thirty two on this season. Back
Speaker 6: at it tomorrow, the rubber game of this three game
Speaker 6: set with Chester Robleski. You gonna be the bulk inning
Speaker 6: guy for the Dodgers. They'll go with an opener to
Speaker 6: lead into it. Dodgers looking to bounce back tomorrow. We'll
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Speaker 1: To one, and Freddie swings and hammers won to center
Speaker 1: field his bell.
Speaker 2: Heading back to the.
Speaker 3: Wall, he looks up.
Speaker 5: It is gone.
Speaker 3: A home run for Freeman.
Speaker 4: Freddie's got a solo homer, his first home run since
Speaker 4: May eleventh at Arizona, and the Dodgers get on the
Speaker 4: board at six to one.
Speaker 6: Freddie Freeman goes deep, his tenth told run of this season,
Speaker 6: in his first in forty one games. He needed it,
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Speaker 6: no runs in five and two thirty innings of work
Speaker 6: today against the Dodgers, struck out eight. Ben Casparius gets
Speaker 6: tagged with the loss. He gave up six runs over
Speaker 6: four innings. Despite being sick, went home to the hotel
Speaker 6: last night early with chills and a fever. Pitched today
Speaker 6: the bulk innings for the Dodgers after Shohio Tani went
Speaker 6: two shutout innings in his third start for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Logan
Speaker 6: and east La is next up here on Dodge Talk. Welcome, Logan.
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm good. How are you doing?
Speaker 5: Tim?
Speaker 3: Doing good?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, so my question and again I'm not trying
Speaker 4: to say this is the main issue with you know,
Speaker 4: what's going on right now. And obviously we're still the
Speaker 4: best team, uh in in the NLS least, and I'm
Speaker 4: so happy about that. Something I've kind of noticed this
Speaker 4: season though, is, you know Mookie obviously had hasn't really
Speaker 4: been the same this season. You know, he's you know,
Speaker 4: I know this last month he's he hasn't had the
Speaker 4: bada bats, but in general, you know, he still gets
Speaker 4: on base you know, he still gets some hits, but
Speaker 4: the main thing is there hasn't been as much power
Speaker 4: on the bat. So with that in mind, I'm wondering
Speaker 4: if it would be smart to kind of rearrange the
Speaker 4: lineup this This would kind of start help, you know,
Speaker 4: commence the talk of maybe rearranging that top third, maybe
Speaker 4: switching some pieces around, maybe not having Otani lead off,
Speaker 4: maybe having someone like Mokie who can still get on Dase,
Speaker 4: just doesn't have as much power to get on Das,
Speaker 4: and then having someone like Otani or Freemant back that second.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting. I don't think they're gonna change it
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 6: I appreciate the phone call, Logan, It's something to think
Speaker 6: about moving forward. If the struggles continue for Mookie today
Speaker 6: all for fourth, the strikeout now, just hitting over two
Speaker 6: fifty on the season. I think the every day shortstop
Speaker 6: position for Mookie Betts is something that takes a toll
Speaker 6: on him. And he's not gonna say it again. He may,
Speaker 6: you know, he's he's alluded to the fact that mentally
Speaker 6: it's it's tough because you're dialed in pitch after pitch
Speaker 6: after pitch, whereas in right field maybe you can take
Speaker 6: a little time off and you don't have to think
Speaker 6: as much out there as you do as a middle
Speaker 6: infielder every single pitch of every single inning. So I
Speaker 6: do think there is something to that. Absolutely, does it
Speaker 6: mean you shake.
Speaker 3: Up the lineup?
Speaker 6: Does it mean show Heyo Tani when he pitches doesn't
Speaker 6: lead off games? You know what, there's an argument that's
Speaker 6: starting to be made that the Dodgers do switch up
Speaker 6: the lineup when show Hay starts games. I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 6: Shoeyotani's had four at bats now in three games. He
Speaker 6: had two of them today against Seth Legal in the
Speaker 6: first and then the third, in which he let off
Speaker 6: an inning after pitching, he's zerover fourth for strikeouts. Now,
Speaker 6: he won't say it's an issue. He did it in
Speaker 6: Anaheim for six years being a two way player. So
Speaker 6: he's done it before, and he's done it for a
Speaker 6: long time. This isn't just something he's trying. This isn't
Speaker 6: an experiment that all of a sudden, Eh, let's not
Speaker 6: go with it anymore. I mean, he's done it before
Speaker 6: for years. It's new to Dodger fans and new to
Speaker 6: the Dodgers now with that being said, maybe the day
Speaker 6: he pitches, he doesn't lead off and he drops down
Speaker 6: to third or fourth in the lineup, just on those
Speaker 6: days and to give him a break.
Speaker 3: And to switch up with the lineup.
Speaker 6: I know, guys are all about routine and getting into
Speaker 6: a daily grind of what's happening in baseball.
Speaker 3: They don't like change. They want the same thing. They
Speaker 3: want repetition.
Speaker 6: They want to see their lineup every day, and they're
Speaker 6: naming the same spot in the same position.
Speaker 3: I get all that.
Speaker 6: But with months he's starting to heat up, with pot
Speaker 6: has springing the bat the way he is, maybe you
Speaker 6: can tink in the lineup a little bit more. Maybe
Speaker 6: you put Hay Sun Kim up higher in the lineup
Speaker 6: that second for speed, and you drop a guy's down
Speaker 6: a spot in the lineup.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of baseball people in that front office,
Speaker 6: that coaching staff, way smarter than us that can figure
Speaker 6: this out, look at the numbers and figure out what
Speaker 6: would be the best combination moving things around.
Speaker 3: But maybe it is something.
Speaker 6: At least on days that Otani's pitching, they switched up
Speaker 6: the lineup just a little bit to help out show Hey,
Speaker 6: when he does to go out there and pitch and
Speaker 6: then run off the bet the field and hit because
Speaker 6: he's leading off for the Dodgers eight six, six, nine
Speaker 6: eighty seven two five seventy. Let's go back out to
Speaker 6: Kansas City. Let's hear from Dodger manager Dave Roberts. A
Speaker 6: lot to weigh in on a little tough loss today
Speaker 6: to the Royals. Some positives with Otani and Freeman, but
Speaker 6: certainly not the outcome the Dodgers wanted.
Speaker 3: Let's hear from the Dodger skipper dating the context of
Speaker 3: a loss.
Speaker 7: Was it encouraging to see the way Otani pitched and
Speaker 7: the way Freddy came out of his slump?
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I think I think in the context of
Speaker 8: the loss, getting show Hey through two innings, throwing the
Speaker 8: baseball the way he did certainly a positive. And then
Speaker 8: you look at what Freddy did today on base five times,
Speaker 8: stayed the big part of the field, took some walks,
Speaker 8: so that was a big plus, big boost for us.
Speaker 8: You know, never feels good to lose a game, but
Speaker 8: I think those are a couple of silver linings.
Speaker 7: In the first two starts you talked about how a
Speaker 7: show Now.
Speaker 8: I think so and I think you can't take the
Speaker 8: competitor out of the player, right, you know, there's some
Speaker 8: a little bit of stress. And then that's when you
Speaker 8: started seeing the hundreds and trying to bully guys. And
Speaker 8: I still thought the sweeper was good, the sinker was good.
Speaker 8: But you know, no one knows himself better than he does.
Speaker 8: And so again today I thought he was still in control.
Speaker 8: And it was still good to see triple digits.
Speaker 3: He has expected one O two to be there coming
Speaker 3: off the second TJ.
Speaker 8: I didn't know two, so no, I didn't. I just
Speaker 8: saw one hundreds, So one O two I didn't expect that.
Speaker 8: So now I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that
Speaker 8: he feels good coming out of today.
Speaker 3: It was the fastest pitch of his career.
Speaker 8: Do you think do you think that was due to
Speaker 8: the adrenaline in that moment. I think there was some adrenaline.
Speaker 8: There was some knowing that you're only going to go
Speaker 8: two innings, knowing that you don't want to give up
Speaker 8: any runs. So I think all that combined, I guess,
Speaker 8: brought us to one O two.
Speaker 7: Did you mention to Freddy that he might have a
Speaker 7: day off tomorrow?
Speaker 3: And did that trigger him.
Speaker 8: I did mention it. I don't know if it triggered
Speaker 8: triggered that he looked really good today, back to being
Speaker 8: who he is. But he'll be down.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow yet anyway, even after.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna we're going to stay the course. I
Speaker 8: think that I talked to him, and I think that
Speaker 8: having two days to still, you know, even tonight, to
Speaker 8: be able to sit on a good night, watch a
Speaker 8: ball game like we talked about before the game, and
Speaker 8: then you know, cheer on his teammates, be ready late
Speaker 8: if needed, and you know, get to the off day
Speaker 8: and then be ready to get home.
Speaker 4: Some of those fly balls that have dropped in and
Speaker 4: both these games kind of contributed to some of the
Speaker 4: innings they've been able to build.
Speaker 8: It's it's fair, you know. I think that it's as
Speaker 8: a as a defender, we can't be everywhere, you know.
Speaker 8: I think that if you look at our outfield construction,
Speaker 8: we're not fleet of foot, and we knew that as
Speaker 8: we built the roster, and so there's going to be
Speaker 8: some cost. And so when balls have some hang time
Speaker 8: but on the line or in the gap and we
Speaker 8: can't you know, get to them, that's part of it,
Speaker 8: and so we got to make the place that we're
Speaker 8: supposed to make. But you know, there's not a bunch
Speaker 8: of you know, sprinders on the OUTFHA. That's just kind
Speaker 8: of how we're constructed.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 6: There's a manager, Dave Roberts, Hey, he's honest, you know.
Speaker 6: Taskar Hernandez not the fastest guy in the world. Eddie
Speaker 6: Poe has not the fastest guy in the world. As
Speaker 6: he said, they're not the fleetest of foot out there
Speaker 6: in the outfield. And he's referring to a couple of
Speaker 6: balls down the right field line last night and today
Speaker 6: that just kind of dwinked in there for base hits.
Speaker 6: Taskar Hernandez tracked and down came up short trying to
Speaker 6: get them down the right field line. They fell in
Speaker 6: for a hits and they would extend innings for the
Speaker 6: Kansas City Royals today as they jumped out to a
Speaker 6: two to ninhering the lead in the third. They attacked
Speaker 6: on three more in the fifth before opening it up
Speaker 6: in the seventh inning with three runs, including a two
Speaker 6: run double for Vinnie Pascentino, who drove in five runs
Speaker 6: today for the Kansas City Royals, part of a nine
Speaker 6: to five win over the Dodgers. Seth Lugo, Yeah, the
Speaker 6: record doesn't reflect what he's done this year. And keep
Speaker 6: in mind, Seth Lugo last year is one of the
Speaker 6: top ten pitchers in baseball. Yeah, he's turned his career
Speaker 6: around after eight okay seasons in the big leagues, last
Speaker 6: two years, he's been really good in Kansas City. Five
Speaker 6: and five now on the season, lowers is Erra and
Speaker 6: it goes into the sixth inning, five and two third
Speaker 6: shutout innings, eight strikeouts today for the Royal starter as
Speaker 6: they went a nine to five show. Aotani two shutout innings,
Speaker 6: twenty seven pitches hit one hundred and two miles an
Speaker 6: hour on the radar gun, officially one on one point
Speaker 6: seven and that is the fastest pitch that he has
Speaker 6: thrown in his big league career. Ben Asparius, when four
Speaker 6: innings after Otani he gets tagged with a loss, let's
Speaker 6: wrap things up with is he and Anaheim? Is he
Speaker 6: tough loss for the Dodgers today?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh, but I was hoping you take me tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: I'll call him tomorrow. Yeah, it was tough, but you
Speaker 1: know what, can I can look at this this way?
Speaker 1: I ride them leave today. You know that's kind of
Speaker 1: pall come back a pretty glomle rerecord. Wait, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was tough to win. Leave this game. I would
Speaker 1: like dising this league, but you can win them all.
Speaker 1: So when they did so, I kind look at this
Speaker 1: if they can lead. When tomorrow, Dad, we'll come back
Speaker 1: with the role fift away, all right, is what happens.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we'll talk tomorrow, all.
Speaker 6: Right, is he We will talk tomorrow. I appreciate the
Speaker 6: phone call. All right, thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, bye bye? Is he called, but apparently didn't
Speaker 3: want me to put her on the air.
Speaker 6: Just wanted to listen and check in tomorrow after the
Speaker 6: series finale in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: But we spoke anyways.
Speaker 6: Dodgers with the loss don't lose too much ground in
Speaker 6: the division. The San Francisco Giants lost, so they remained
Speaker 6: six and a half games back, but they dropped a
Speaker 6: third in the division. The Padres move up a half game.
Speaker 6: They won in Cincinnati, coming from behind a win over
Speaker 6: the Red so they move up a slot now second
Speaker 6: in the standings at six games back. By the way,
Speaker 6: the Arizona Diaebacks have now lost three in a road
Speaker 6: They're playing five hundred baseball. They are a five hundred
Speaker 6: team overall. At forty one and forty one, they're ten
Speaker 6: games back in the division. Man, they continue to free fall.
Speaker 6: The Rockies continue to free fall, thirty three and a
Speaker 6: half games back.
Speaker 3: In the division.
Speaker 6: We want, you know what, I'll do everybody a favor.
Speaker 6: We are not going to mention the Rockies and the
Speaker 6: standings anymore. Let's just assume we know they're in the
Speaker 6: last place because they are so bad. Dodgers lose today
Speaker 6: in Kansas City. That's gonna do it for postgame Dodger
Speaker 6: Talk Mini. Thanks to Colin Ye, Thanks to you. Thank
Speaker 6: you for listening to be a part of the show
Speaker 6: as you make your way around town here in southern
Speaker 6: California on this Saturday afternoon early evening.
Speaker 3: Hope you enjoy your Saturday night. Wherever you're going out,
Speaker 3: whatever you're doing, be safe. Please.
Speaker 6: Dodgers will be back at it tomorrow, wrapping up this
Speaker 6: three game series. Wrapping up this six game road trip
Speaker 6: that started off with three straight wins and a sweep
Speaker 6: of the Rockies.
Speaker 3: Now the Dodgers going for the series win after.
Speaker 6: Splitting the first two games against the Royals at the
Speaker 6: KA and Kansas City Kaufman Stadium. Seth Lugo the win,
Speaker 6: Benksparius the loss. Dodgers tomorrow going with an opener, and
Speaker 6: then Justin Robleski you'll get the bulk of the innings.
Speaker 6: Chris Bubick will go for Kansas City while Morongo Casino
Speaker 6: Dodgers on Decade at All started at ten AM tomorrow
Speaker 6: on Sunday, first pitch at eleven ten till then have
Speaker 6: a great safe rest of your Saturday night. So long,
Speaker 6: everybody say