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Speaker 2: Dodgers sixty three and forty six on this season. The
Speaker 2: road trip continues after three in Houston, two and San Diego.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers are now in Oakland for a three.
Speaker 2: Game weekend series against the EA's Tonight, Gavin Stone gets
Speaker 2: the ball for the Dodgers first pitch, and the Oakland
Speaker 2: Coliseum is coming up at six point forty. Between then
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Speaker 2: David vatsagoes one on one with Kevin Kiermeyer, one of
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Speaker 2: at LA's Kirsten Watson down on the field. In just
Speaker 2: a few minutes, we'll check in with our broadcast. Grew
Speaker 2: out at the Galpinmotors broad cast booth. Well, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were off yesterday, a much needed day off after a
Speaker 2: rough two games in San Diego, as the Dodgers dropped
Speaker 2: both game to the Padres. In the game on Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: it was a rough outing for Clayton Kershaw three and
Speaker 2: two third innings, gave up seven runs on six hits.
Speaker 2: The scoring started in the second inning. Already up three
Speaker 2: to nothing, Jackson Profar added to the Padre lead.
Speaker 4: Here's the pitch, swing on and slice to the right.
Speaker 5: That's a base hit on a three to two pitch
Speaker 5: coming into scores Bryce Johnson.
Speaker 4: It is fod to nothing San Diego.
Speaker 2: Hey, four nothing, Padres lead and the Dodgers were down big.
Speaker 2: Gavin Luzo would cut into that lead in the top
Speaker 2: half of the third.
Speaker 4: The word that Dave Roberts used was breakthrough.
Speaker 5: There's a shot to the right field corner that's gonna
Speaker 5: bounce fair and off the wall around third. As I'm
Speaker 5: at he will score. They'll hold old Tony and into second.
Speaker 5: Bay O'tan's gonna come to the play and he's.
Speaker 2: Out now showing o'tan he got thrown out trying to score.
Speaker 2: Gavin lucks with the RBI double. Dodgers down four to one,
Speaker 2: and that was it offensively. The Dodgers had three hits
Speaker 2: in the game, they could not fill it finish out.
Speaker 2: Dylan Seez, who win five and two third innings, allowed
Speaker 2: the three hits. The Padres bullpen came in and put
Speaker 2: up zero's the rest of the way, while the Padres
Speaker 2: offense chipped away with another run in the seventh inning.
Speaker 3: They had three in the.
Speaker 2: Fourth and they go on and beat the Dodgers Wednesday
Speaker 2: night by a final of eight to one.
Speaker 3: Dylan sees the win.
Speaker 2: The loss goes to Clayton Kershaw, who went three and
Speaker 2: two third innings. He falls to zero to one. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers having a rough time away from the Ravine, they
Speaker 2: lose two to three in Houston, dropped both games at
Speaker 2: Petco Park. The Good News New Day New Series and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers well. They are in Oakland for the start
Speaker 2: of a three game series against the A's, the final
Speaker 2: time ever. The Dodgers will play at the Oakland Memorial Coliseum,
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone on the mount in the series open first
Speaker 2: pitch at six forty With more, Let's head up to
Speaker 2: the Galban Motors broadcast booth as we say hello to
Speaker 2: Rick Monday and Tim Neffrick, guys.
Speaker 4: Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Greetings from the Oakland Coliseum, where the guys are a
Speaker 5: bit overcast right now, but expecting pleasant temperatures for this
Speaker 5: ball game tonight, the first of three against the Oakland
Speaker 5: Athletics and the last time the Dodgers will play a
Speaker 5: series here in Oakland, as the Athletics will be out
Speaker 5: of here after this year. They'll play the next three,
Speaker 5: possibly four, maybe more seasons in Sacramento at the Triple
Speaker 5: A Park there. But for now, it's time to get
Speaker 5: after the Oakland A's. The Dodgers sixty three and forty six.
Speaker 5: They've got their slimmest lead in the division since the
Speaker 5: fifth of May, just four and a half games over
Speaker 5: the Padres. Meantime, the A's forty five and sixty five.
Speaker 5: They are twelve back in the American League West, in
Speaker 5: last place.
Speaker 4: And mope.
Speaker 5: This is the place you know very well, the Oakland Coliseum.
Speaker 5: You hit the very first home run here for the A's.
Speaker 5: I know that you're not so melancholy about being here though.
Speaker 6: No, well, in most instances.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 8: The one thing that has I think been sad is
Speaker 8: the fact that the A's throughout their existence really has
Speaker 8: not been embraced as well as you might have thought,
Speaker 8: especially you start to look at the success that they
Speaker 8: had earlier on moving out from Kansas City in nineteen
Speaker 8: sixty eight. I mean, there's no way fans and bunts
Speaker 8: San Francisco Giants owned the Bay area. All of a
Speaker 8: sudden boom, this team with green and Gold came into
Speaker 8: the area and they took part of that existence that
Speaker 8: the Giants had had really a foothold in this particular area.
Speaker 8: But it has been kind of strange, including when you
Speaker 8: look at the very first game that the A's played
Speaker 8: here in the existence of the Coliseum. It was against
Speaker 8: the Baltimore Orioles. Oh, they drew well, fifty thousand, one
Speaker 8: hundred and sixty four. What happened the next night five
Speaker 8: three hundred and four and everybody came out, we said,
Speaker 8: where did they go? Well, we didn't really have much
Speaker 8: to just talk about. The next night, only sixty two
Speaker 8: hundred rin in the ballpark. So it's been kind of
Speaker 8: a mixed match. But it's kind of sad that this
Speaker 8: organization has not been more embraced in the area. But
Speaker 8: the last number of years they haven't really helped themselves.
Speaker 4: Eventually I grow on people here.
Speaker 5: They do have a good fan base, but they have
Speaker 5: not been supporting the current ownership here. Six World Series
Speaker 5: have been played in this ballpark. Has been a ton
Speaker 5: of baseball history. Major Yeah, for the as you start
Speaker 5: to look at them. Also, right now, they're playing very
Speaker 5: good baseball when you start to put in perspective. They
Speaker 5: won six of the last ten. Meanwhile, the Dodgers have
Speaker 5: to take care of their own cause because the month
Speaker 5: of July they went eleven and thirteen. That's the worst
Speaker 5: month that they've had since twenty eleven. The Dodgers from
Speaker 5: an offensive standpoint, from a pitching standpoint, and I think
Speaker 5: overall performance July they'd like to forget about. But if
Speaker 5: nothing else learned from the mistakes that they made or
Speaker 5: shortcomings from July, and they can't just look at this
Speaker 5: Oakland Athletic ball club and go, oh, they're a last
Speaker 5: place team. No, the Oakland A's were one of the
Speaker 5: better teams in Major League Baseball acts in July. They
Speaker 5: had more home runs than any major league team with
Speaker 5: forty five, and they had the most runs per game
Speaker 5: scored in the American League at six point two runs
Speaker 5: a game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're going to be hungry and understand is it
Speaker 8: a young team? And that's exactly what the A's are,
Speaker 8: a young team with a with a bannered team comeing
Speaker 8: in being the Dodgers. This is all about Hey, look,
Speaker 8: they'll put it into a different level. And one thing
Speaker 8: about this A's team, if you look at it in
Speaker 8: particular recently, they're very aggressive, not only at home plate
Speaker 8: when they get on base.
Speaker 5: On top of it, Dodgers and A's. It's Gavin Stone
Speaker 5: throwing for the Dodgers. He's nine and four. Joey Estus
Speaker 5: out of Lancaster, California pitching for Oakland. He is four
Speaker 5: and four Dodgers A's coming up from the coliseum.
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Speaker 3: We will check in with David Vasse.
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Speaker 3: Dodgers starting a three game weekend series against the A's.
Speaker 3: First pitch coming up at six forty.
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Speaker 2: Hey Kirson now joins us from the Oakland Coliseum. Is
Speaker 2: the start of a three game series against the Oakland
Speaker 2: A's and Kirsen a Dodgers team. Right now, they need wins.
Speaker 2: They need to get back on track.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's and that's the biggest focus for this weekend.
Speaker 9: I mean, look, even when you look at kind of
Speaker 9: if you break down individuals, Gavin Stone, he's had an
Speaker 9: amazing first half of the season, and so the last
Speaker 9: couple of them, not that they've been bad or anything,
Speaker 9: just they haven't been the usual performance we've been seeing
Speaker 9: from him this year. So this is an important start
Speaker 9: for him to get back on track. The division. The
Speaker 9: Padres are now only four and a half games back.
Speaker 9: It's the tightest it's been since early May. So now
Speaker 9: it's time to kind of lock in this road trip.
Speaker 9: As much as you know they've played, there have been
Speaker 9: moments of success overall that strikeout rates fit incredibly high,
Speaker 9: and so now it's kind of you're like, let's kind
Speaker 9: of shake off some of those cob webs and get
Speaker 9: back on track. And so hopefully the guys can do
Speaker 9: that here. But as much as I think there's often
Speaker 9: the thought with the Oakland A's, you know, are they
Speaker 9: even not good at a team? They're coming off of their
Speaker 9: best months of baseball, so they're a good team coming
Speaker 9: into this one. And the Dodgers are coming off a
Speaker 9: not a strong month of baseball in July, so it's
Speaker 9: it's a new month as August's kind of turned the page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, their first losing month since twenty and eighteen, and
Speaker 2: the calendar has flipped to August and the Dodgers are
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so today at both Kevin Kiermeyer as well as
Speaker 9: I'm in Manzario, they are now with the team and
Speaker 9: so you can see them all. It's kind of funny
Speaker 9: because obviously we are used to seeing on the Bazario
Speaker 9: and Dodger BLUSA. He's now returned. But Kevin just spoke
Speaker 9: with the media and he talked about he's in there
Speaker 9: at center field tonight, are in center field tonight, and
Speaker 9: so he says, look, he just wants to give him
Speaker 9: the opportunities he guided to be a part of a
Speaker 9: winning team. He's gone from a team that was not
Speaker 9: in playoff contention with the Blue Jays now to one
Speaker 9: that's tops in the division, and so he just wants
Speaker 9: to contribute. So hopefully he can do that tonight and
Speaker 9: his Dodger debut, but if not. Dave Roberts was saying,
Speaker 9: how they're gonna kind of share center field at the
Speaker 9: moment is essentially like every other day. So tonight is
Speaker 9: Kevin Kiermyer. Tomorrow is gonna be Andy PAHs and they'll
Speaker 9: kind of go back and forth. There will be some
Speaker 9: like matchup related here and there, but for the most part,
Speaker 9: every other day. So yeah, so you'll see things like that.
Speaker 9: And he said he didn't really have a role just yet.
Speaker 9: For Ahmed Wazario, I can decide how he wants to
Speaker 9: kind of run him out there, could potentially play right field,
Speaker 9: you can see that, but I think it will tarily
Speaker 9: be focused on the infield, about off the bench things
Speaker 9: like that. But there are so there are still some
Speaker 9: up in the air questions. Just ask to how all
Speaker 9: of these new players, what the roles are actually going
Speaker 9: to look like, and that also depends on, you know,
Speaker 9: guys get it healthy and then working their way back.
Speaker 9: So I think give it by the end of maybe August,
Speaker 9: you'll really have an understanding as to what this team
Speaker 9: is really going to look like.
Speaker 2: We'll find out game one tonight with these new guys
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Speaker 1: Questions for Dave. Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 6: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 1: The dugouts with Dave Robbers?
Speaker 10: You know, I just think just to go out there
Speaker 10: and play good baseball, not to get ahead of it.
Speaker 10: But I'm looking forward to seeing Jack pitch tomorrow. But
Speaker 10: I think Gavin, you know, coming off, you know, to
Speaker 10: kind of fine ish outings, I think that I think
Speaker 10: he's looking forward to getting back out there and bone
Speaker 10: the way he's capable of and just kind of offensively,
Speaker 10: We're gonna see some arms that we haven't seen before
Speaker 10: as far as starters, Uh, some guys we're familiar with
Speaker 10: out of their bullpen. But just to keep taking it
Speaker 10: at bats and you know, get untracked and and build
Speaker 10: some momentum with Gavin.
Speaker 3: Is an important starting for him, just.
Speaker 6: To get back on top of you I think.
Speaker 10: So he had a tremendous first half and he's gonna
Speaker 10: pitch more than he's ever pitched in his career, and so,
Speaker 10: you know, just to kind of get it back to
Speaker 10: you know, getting some strikeouts, being efficient, getting ahead of hitters,
Speaker 10: and then try to get some traction, you know, for
Speaker 10: the next for the finishing of.
Speaker 11: The season match up against this team that slugs. I
Speaker 11: think they've only hit four less home runs than you
Speaker 11: guys this year.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, it's I wouldn't even say it's an
Speaker 10: all or nothing ball club there. They've got some athleticism,
Speaker 10: They've got some guys that can hit the ball of
Speaker 10: the ballpark. I think for me, it's strike one like
Speaker 10: it always seems to be, but also being able to
Speaker 10: put these guys away when you have count leverage and
Speaker 10: if you make mistakes up in the zone, you know
Speaker 10: they're gonna hit it hard somewhere where.
Speaker 11: You guys were taking the division for granted at any point,
Speaker 11: But does it feel like more of a proper division
Speaker 11: race right now with just where.
Speaker 6: The standings are at.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, And we certainly weren't taking anything for granted.
Speaker 10: You know, the Padres certainly have played really good baseball
Speaker 10: and got themselves back into the division race. So you know,
Speaker 10: right now, certainly that's a part of it, But we
Speaker 10: just got to get back to winning baseball games.
Speaker 2: Is a big enough part for you influences your in
Speaker 2: game decisions at all or just kind of ord is
Speaker 2: you're trying to win each night any different.
Speaker 10: Well, I think, given where our pen is at, given
Speaker 10: where Gavin's Gavin's at, as far as build up and
Speaker 10: all this stuff, I'm gonna use whatever I lever I
Speaker 10: can to win tonight's game, because, yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 10: very important game for us.
Speaker 7: Here Meyer and Rosario or here how are you planning
Speaker 7: to use them?
Speaker 10: Yeah? I think for Kevin, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 10: essentially and every other day with Pahes in centerfield obviously,
Speaker 10: and you will take down a left handed starter, but
Speaker 10: he's gonna play centerfield tomorrow, and then my expectation is
Speaker 10: for KK to play centerfield on Sunday, and then as
Speaker 10: far as I'm at Rosario, he's gonna play versus lefties
Speaker 10: I'm not sure where, and he'll be ready off the
Speaker 10: bench and a pinch it at bat situations in the outfield.
Speaker 10: And I do I do. I think that, you know,
Speaker 10: it wouldn't be crazy to think about him hitting for
Speaker 10: Jason and to slip out to right field.
Speaker 2: I can see that your marriage sort of play is
Speaker 2: the guy that's like a defensive replacement option.
Speaker 3: Also on days where he doesn't start league games at center.
Speaker 10: You know, it's got to make sense I think Andy's
Speaker 10: been very good out there, but Kevin is a plus
Speaker 10: plus defender in center field, so in the right situation,
Speaker 10: but I don't want to just defense to replace the
Speaker 10: centerfield or just do it, especially when I feel he's
Speaker 10: done a really nice job out there.
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Speaker 2: All right, DV A lot to get to here if
Speaker 2: you leave up to first pitch. First off, let's get
Speaker 2: an update on Mooki Betts and Max Mounsey. Are they
Speaker 2: any closer to coming back to this lineup?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Good news.
Speaker 11: Max Munsey continues to trend in the right direction after
Speaker 11: being stalled for so many months in his comeback from
Speaker 11: an oblique strain that has kept him out.
Speaker 6: Since May fifteen.
Speaker 11: Max Monsey now is swinging the bat, taking batting practice
Speaker 11: from a coach he Mookie Betts, and newly acquired Tommy
Speaker 11: Edmund will participate in a simulated game one day next
Speaker 11: week at Dodgers Stadium. No word on what day exactly,
Speaker 11: but those three will participate in the same simulated game.
Speaker 11: The expectation is Tommy Edmund will go out on a
Speaker 11: rehab assignment. Max Munsey likely to follow but Dave Roberts
Speaker 11: said Mookie Bets more than likely won't have to go
Speaker 11: out on a rehab assignment a couple of simulated games,
Speaker 11: and he believes the Dodgers superstar will be back in
Speaker 11: the lineup. So I feel consistent with my bold prediction
Speaker 11: that Mookie Bets will be back in the Dodger lineup
Speaker 11: before Max month's see, and that feels like it is imminent.
Speaker 3: What about Walker Bueller?
Speaker 2: David last ninety pitching okay, see, it was okay.
Speaker 3: What's the latest?
Speaker 11: Yeah, both starts in Oklahoma City since he returned from
Speaker 11: a month in Florida to try to get things straight
Speaker 11: with his hip, and his pitching mechanics have been okay
Speaker 11: and the Dodgers acknowledged that.
Speaker 6: So he'll make one more.
Speaker 11: Start and be back for the Dodgers probably next week
Speaker 11: on the Homestand it's now or never for Walker Buehler
Speaker 11: and the Dodgers to decide whether or not this is
Speaker 11: going to work out this season or whether or not
Speaker 11: they cannot count on him moving forward.
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Speaker 2: arms in the bullpen is and be closer by committee.
Speaker 11: Now moving forward, well, the last day in San Diego,
Speaker 11: I asked Dave Roberts about that and he basically said yes.
Speaker 11: And he basically said yes, he believes closer by committee
Speaker 11: can work.
Speaker 6: Now we have.
Speaker 11: Seen across Major League Baseball the ninth inning is not
Speaker 11: for everybody. The good news for the Dodgers is they've
Speaker 11: have three relief pitchers that have been able to get
Speaker 11: it done in the ninth inning over the course of
Speaker 11: their careers. Blake Trinan who had forty nine saves here
Speaker 11: in Oakland before signing with the Dodgers, Daniel Hudson was
Speaker 11: the closer of the twenty nineteen clinching World Series game
Speaker 11: for the Nationals, and Evan Phillips has done it as well.
Speaker 6: So they have guys to do it.
Speaker 11: They just need to pitch better, and unfortunately for the Dodgers,
Speaker 11: all three have not been pitching their best at the
Speaker 11: same time. So I was talking to Will Smith about
Speaker 11: this earlier. It just needs to be a better execution
Speaker 11: of pitches and he is standing by his pitch calling.
Speaker 11: He just feels like the pitchers have to execute the
Speaker 11: pitches better.
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Speaker 1: And now joined by David Basse. Here's LA Dodgers broadcast
Speaker 1: there and World Series champion Dodger Rick Monday.
Speaker 11: We're joined right now by Charlie Finley's favorite son, Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Hi, Rick, I wouldn't go that far pout. In fact,
Speaker 8: I knew I was going to get traded, and the
Speaker 8: reason was because I had a lawsuit pending against Charlie Finley,
Speaker 8: and it was over the signing bonus that I had
Speaker 8: received out of Arizona State. He represented one thing, it
Speaker 8: turned out to be another, and I was just on
Speaker 8: the verge of filing a lawsuit against him. We're going
Speaker 8: into very heated arguments, and he tried to make amends
Speaker 8: and he actually had to dig into his po could
Speaker 8: and make things right. So I knew my time here
Speaker 8: was limited, and quite frankly, I was happy about it.
Speaker 8: I mean, you could see that this organization coming from
Speaker 8: Kandas City and then in nineteen sixty eight coming to Oakland,
Speaker 8: you could see that this was a very talented young
Speaker 8: ball club. One of the things that Finley did exceptionally
Speaker 8: well back in that area was he believed in scouting,
Speaker 8: and he had very good scouts, and he'd start to
Speaker 8: look at the roster, even from beginning in nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 8: if you will, a couple of years even before then,
Speaker 8: acquiring a catfish hunter, Luke Krause, and then some of
Speaker 8: the other guys that were coming in Dick Green the
Speaker 8: second Basement camping, Kapernaris, the shortstop. There was really a
Speaker 8: plethora of talent because he went out and really kind
Speaker 8: of beat the bushes and found very good talent. Course,
Speaker 8: the draft came in nineteen sixty five. We had three
Speaker 8: guys that came on from Arizona State, myself, so Bando,
Speaker 8: and Reggie Jackson coming from ASU within a two year
Speaker 8: period being drafted. But he could tell that this was
Speaker 8: a ball club. It was going to win sometime soon.
Speaker 8: I was on the back end of that sometime soon
Speaker 8: and they were to Chicago and watch them work three
Speaker 8: consecutive World Series. But for me, I was happy. I
Speaker 8: went to the National League and I did not have
Speaker 8: a pleasant experience with Charlie Finley, along with a few
Speaker 8: other players.
Speaker 11: So how would you describe your feelings when you walked
Speaker 11: into the ballpark today, the last time the Dodgers will
Speaker 11: play here? How did you feel this being your last
Speaker 11: time coming here?
Speaker 8: It'll be the last time, and it's one of those
Speaker 8: things I will not ever say. Hey, let's drive by
Speaker 8: where Oakland Coliseum used to be right now, this is
Speaker 8: a wonderful collection of reinforced concrete, and that's just about it.
Speaker 11: I love how everybody in the booth is hanging on
Speaker 11: every word that you have today because they all want
Speaker 11: to know how you feel well.
Speaker 8: It's one of those things I'm anxious to see. We
Speaker 8: were talking about this, anxious to see who it is
Speaker 8: that hits the last as home run in this ballpark,
Speaker 8: because I know who hit the first a's home run
Speaker 8: in this ballpark.
Speaker 6: He's my good friend Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly left field off at Dave McNally's. The Baltimore
Speaker 8: Orioles were in town. So there's a lot of memories
Speaker 8: that are here. But yeah, I think the unpleasant part
Speaker 8: of it was how Charlie Finley kind of reacted because,
Speaker 8: quite frankly, when they first moved out from Kansas City,
Speaker 8: there were this many people in the front office.
Speaker 6: I'm holding up.
Speaker 8: My right hand that you can count five digits, and
Speaker 8: I hold have one finger in my left hand. There
Speaker 8: was a total of six people, and the executive secretary
Speaker 8: for Charlie Finley, Carolyn Kaufman, who was basically the acting
Speaker 8: general manager, if you will, under the guidance of Charlie Finley,
Speaker 8: who would listen to games if he was not here,
Speaker 8: would listen to the games from his office on Michigan
Speaker 8: Avenue in Chicago. So it was one of the in fact,
Speaker 8: Charlie's he had a seat right behind home plate. It
Speaker 8: had a phone, you know where the phone went to
Speaker 8: the dugout There was only two feet in front of him,
Speaker 8: and from time to time he would even call the
Speaker 8: manager during a game.
Speaker 6: All right, Rick.
Speaker 11: Besides Mount Davis, which was built for the Raiders to
Speaker 11: come back here, how different does the oak and call
Speaker 11: a CM look and appear from when you hit your
Speaker 11: first home run here?
Speaker 8: Well, it appears different because of the mausoleum that they
Speaker 8: built out there for Al Davis from left center to
Speaker 8: right center. But if you're looking the overall the field itself,
Speaker 8: the difference is it was very symmetrical at the outfield.
Speaker 8: Now there's a couple of different angles. I'm thinking of
Speaker 8: right center field. At three sixty seven, it cuts at
Speaker 8: an angle, then it goes to three sixty two, goes
Speaker 8: to a slightly different angle distance of the same down
Speaker 8: the line, same to center field. It's in left center,
Speaker 8: right center. There's change, one big change that I'm finding
Speaker 8: out from talking to the players. The playing surface has
Speaker 8: really improved since the Raiders no longer play their games
Speaker 8: in this stadium, And that's a compliment to the ground
Speaker 8: screw because they have something to work with on a
Speaker 8: yearly basis instead of trying to piece things together because
Speaker 8: one of the problems they ran into in the past.
Speaker 8: You think back, they would play in the playoffs and
Speaker 8: or World Series with a chopped up field because football
Speaker 8: games had already started to be.
Speaker 11: Yeah, now we can remember seeing the twenty yard line,
Speaker 11: the thirty yard line of going.
Speaker 6: Across the word.
Speaker 8: I remember the first rain delay we ever had in
Speaker 8: this wallparty nineteen sixty eight. We only had at that
Speaker 8: time six members of the grounds crew. Well, they had
Speaker 8: two different tarps. One was on the first baseline, the
Speaker 8: other one was on the third baseline. They had to
Speaker 8: get some of the ushers in to do it. They
Speaker 8: had not really trained to do it. They put the
Speaker 8: first base tarp on the third base side of the infield.
Speaker 8: They put the third base tarp on the right side
Speaker 8: of the infield, and the third of the infield was
Speaker 8: not even covered, including home plates, so they had to
Speaker 8: work on that.
Speaker 6: Hey, so the circus was in town even when you played.
Speaker 8: Yeah, que up the caliope music.
Speaker 11: Great to be back here with you, Rick, and certainly
Speaker 11: we'll enjoy hearing the stories.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's one of those things that they had great
Speaker 8: success here for a number of years and it is
Speaker 8: disappointing to see what it has turned in to be.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that's how the city feels for sure.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Thanks, Rick.
Speaker 11: We'll check back in with you and Tim Neverett as
Speaker 11: you're on the call tonight Dodgers a's final time in
Speaker 11: Oakland as far as we know, we'll send it back
Speaker 11: to you in the studio.
Speaker 3: Tim, all right, thanks a lot, guys.
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Speaker 11: Kevin Kirmar be making his Dodger debut tonight, starting in
Speaker 11: center field. Kevin, Welcome to the Dodgers and thank you
Speaker 11: for the time.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thanks for having me. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 11: I'm sure it's been a while, last forty eight hours.
Speaker 11: How have you handled all this?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is the first time I've ever been traded
Speaker 7: middle of the season, with a ton of stuff all
Speaker 7: over the map right now, but it's a great opportunity,
Speaker 7: so I don't really care about the other stuff. I
Speaker 7: care about winning here and doing whatever I can to
Speaker 7: help these guys win. And I can't wait to show
Speaker 7: them when I'm about and you know, hopefully get off
Speaker 7: to a good start. Let them see what kind of
Speaker 7: player I can be when I'm going good. And I'm
Speaker 7: gonna do everything in my power to to do just that.
Speaker 11: Kevin, When do you look around this clubhouse? A few
Speaker 11: of them just walk by. What's it like to be
Speaker 11: part of this team?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's it's amazing. I never uh they
Speaker 7: were interested me, uh last couple of years in free agency,
Speaker 7: but me, uh, you know, wearing the Dodger stuff across
Speaker 7: my chest on the head, It's it's amazing. It's really cool.
Speaker 7: I feel honored. I'm privileged to be here in this
Speaker 7: great situation. And uh, you know, it's a it's a
Speaker 7: star studded roster and a lot of guys can play
Speaker 7: and the resumes speak for themselves, and I'm just happy
Speaker 7: to be a part of it.
Speaker 11: Kevin, I read last week that you're planning on retiring
Speaker 11: at the end of this season.
Speaker 6: Can anything change your mind? I don't know.
Speaker 7: We'll see I uh, you know, playing on turf all
Speaker 7: these years is really taking a toll on my body
Speaker 7: and and uh, I know the product I put on
Speaker 7: the field is a little different than seasons past, but uh,
Speaker 7: you know, this opportunity right here, I've even moving around
Speaker 7: in the outfield already, I feel like I already have
Speaker 7: like an extra gear and adrenaline and you know, good
Speaker 7: situations like this will pump life into you. And I
Speaker 7: feel like that's what I have so far. And I
Speaker 7: can't wait to take the field these guys and just
Speaker 7: try to win as many games as we can.
Speaker 11: You know, Carl Crawford came to the Dodgers after playing
Speaker 11: a lot of years like you did at Tropicana Field.
Speaker 11: You just gave me flashbacks to how he said this
Speaker 11: could maybe give you a little bit more life to
Speaker 11: your career.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I've never I've never been on grass more
Speaker 7: than two weeks at a time. I mean, spring training
Speaker 7: is the most everget but throughout the season being with
Speaker 7: the Blue Jays and the Rays my career, I always
Speaker 7: look forward to road trips just to be on grass.
Speaker 7: So now for me to have my home field on
Speaker 7: grass and be on a lot more, I think it's
Speaker 7: gonna pay huge dividends for my body. And when I'm
Speaker 7: fresh and I'm moving good. I can be a very
Speaker 7: efficient player, and you know I can do some damage.
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna do everything in my power to do
Speaker 7: just that.
Speaker 11: Hey, before I let you go, Oakland's a big outfield.
Speaker 11: You're one of those guys that could cover a lot
Speaker 11: of ground. What do you know about this outfield and
Speaker 11: how different is it from others?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is my favorite surface in the big leagues.
Speaker 7: I love the grass here. Everything's it's amazing. I've always
Speaker 7: loved it, but especially years as of late. But usually,
Speaker 7: you know, the only time I ever have trouble is
Speaker 7: it's a high sky here with the sun. So I'm
Speaker 7: sure Sunday will probably be a little test, but you know,
Speaker 7: nothing I can't handle.
Speaker 11: Hey, go feel that grass. You're gonna have a lot
Speaker 11: of it with the Dodgers and at Dodgers Stadium. Thanks
Speaker 11: a lot for the time, and we're all very excited
Speaker 11: to have Kevin Kiermeyer finally patrolling center field for the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: Thank you, thanks for having me. Let's go there, he
Speaker 11: goes the man, Kevin Kiermeyer. He can't wear thirty nine.
Speaker 11: That's Roy Campanella's so he's got a new number in
Speaker 11: the nineties. We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 2: Tim number ninety three, Kevin Kiermeyer. Glad to have him
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Speaker 2: He's a twenty two year old out of Palmdale Yes
Speaker 2: Paraclet High School. Sixteenth round of the Braves in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: he was all set to go to Long Beach State. Instead,
Speaker 2: he signed with the Atlanta Braves. He was then traded
Speaker 2: in the Matt Olson blockbuster deal in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: and he's now in his second season in the big
Speaker 2: League's been up and down this year from TRIPAA to
Speaker 2: the big leagues. With the A's last time out two
Speaker 2: and two third innings out at the bullpen, no runs,
Speaker 2: two hits or two walks. He has made fourteen starts
Speaker 2: fifteen appearances this year. He is two and oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, in five starts at the Coliseum there in Oakland,
Speaker 2: with a two.
Speaker 3: To twelve ERA.
Speaker 2: He is going up against Gavin Stone nine and four
Speaker 2: on this season, three three four ERA. Twenty five year
Speaker 2: old right hander, fifth round pick of the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, making his twentiest start already. This season, he
Speaker 2: has been mister reliable for the Dodgers. He's gone six
Speaker 2: plus innings in ten of his nineteen starts. Last time
Speaker 2: out six innings against the Houston Astros, he gave up
Speaker 2: four runs on nine hits, a couple of home runs,
Speaker 2: a couple of walk struck out three by goat tag
Speaker 2: with the loss. He is facing the Oakland A's for
Speaker 2: the first time in his career, and he's getting an
Speaker 2: A's team coming off one of their better months in July.
Speaker 2: They're only forty five and sixty five, but they have
Speaker 2: won six of their last ten. It's the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: the A's. Gavin Stone Joey estens the pitching matchup. We
Speaker 2: are fifteen minutes away from first pitch from the coliseum.
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Speaker 2: After dropping two and three in Houston losing two straight
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Speaker 2: let's head back out to the booth Rick Monday, Tim Nevert, guys.
Speaker 5: Tim, thanks again as we count you down to the
Speaker 5: first pitch at the Oakland College and first of three
Speaker 5: this weekend. Dodgers and the A's Gavin Stone has the
Speaker 5: ball Tonight nine and four A three three four ERA
Speaker 5: makes his twentieth start. July was not a good month
Speaker 5: for him in terms of earned run average. Over his
Speaker 5: four starts in July, his ERA was more than six
Speaker 5: and a quarter.
Speaker 8: A couple of things i'body looking at with the Stone tonight,
Speaker 8: obviously the control, but the changeup the aufspeed pitch. I
Speaker 8: think that's a must really at the top of the lineup.
Speaker 8: And here's why. First pitch against well four to fourteen
Speaker 8: banning average, he's he's given up also leading off an
Speaker 8: inning that's a three thirty banning average, and I think
Speaker 8: most of those have been against the fastballs has been
Speaker 8: at a high rate. The change up has to come
Speaker 8: into play better.
Speaker 5: Gavin Stall against Joey Estes. Estes was coming out of
Speaker 5: the bullpen, but back in the rotation after the trading deadline.
Speaker 5: Once the Athletics traded Paul Blackburn to the match, so
Speaker 5: a spot in rotation opened up and Estes is there.
Speaker 4: He makes his fifteenth appearance, his fourteenth.
Speaker 5: Start, the game of the year in triple A, so
Speaker 5: he gets a chance against his home state Dodgers. He
Speaker 5: grew up about seventy miles north of Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 8: And get ready for strikes. He throws a high percentage
Speaker 8: of strike seventy percent to be exact. The other part too,
Speaker 8: he is a different pitcher, much better pitcher at home
Speaker 8: than he is on the road. Where is era away
Speaker 8: from this stadium is almost seven and a half runs
Speaker 8: every nine innings.
Speaker 5: Kevin Kiermeyer in the starting lineup for the Dodgers. He
Speaker 5: and am ed Rosario are here. They're active, and they
Speaker 5: are ready to go. So the Dodgers and A's played
Speaker 5: game one of this three game weekend set.
Speaker 2: Tim all Right, Dodgers start the night sixty three and
Speaker 2: forty six. They are four and a half games up
Speaker 2: on the San Diego Padres, five up on the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: nine and a half games buck up on San Francisco
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers going to play tonight against an Oakland
Speaker 2: A's team. Yes, it's twenty games under five hundred and
Speaker 2: twelve games back in the AL West, but they had
Speaker 2: one of their better months in recent years in the
Speaker 2: month of July, having won six of their last ten.
Speaker 2: So it's the Dodgers and the A's the start of
Speaker 2: a three game series final trip to Oakland before the
Speaker 2: team moves to Sacramento and then to Las Vegas. First
Speaker 2: pitch is next. Enjoy the game, everybody. I'm Tim Kase.
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