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Speaker 3: It five in a row for the good guys.
Speaker 2: Dodgers win again.
Speaker 3: They beat the Brewers tonight m Milwaukee seven to two
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Speaker 2: That they're rolling. Yeah, I'm old enough.
Speaker 3: To remember when Dodger fans were panicking. I remember the
Speaker 3: old days on which Dodger fans were worrying about what
Speaker 3: was happening to this team and we're falling apart. They
Speaker 3: need to make all these trades, and they need to
Speaker 3: break it up, and they need to figure out what
Speaker 3: they're gonna do moving forward. I'm old enough to remember
Speaker 3: that because it was just a month ago. Well, here
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are now getting healthy. Hookie Betts is back,
Speaker 3: getting guys back in the rotation. Clayton Kershaw looks like
Speaker 3: he has hopefully turned the corner and his recovery coming
Speaker 3: back from shoulder surgery in the offseason. Some of the
Speaker 3: guys that they acquired at the deadline have been big,
Speaker 3: like Michael Kopek. We're gonna see Tommy Edmond and Max
Speaker 3: Muntsey make their debuts coming up next home stand, Walker
Speaker 3: Buehler's coming back. Yeah, things are turning out to be
Speaker 3: okay for the Dodgers after the trade deadline and after
Speaker 3: a few weeks of some baseball in which they played
Speaker 3: five hundred. There's no doubt the Dodgers were struggling a
Speaker 3: bit in the dog days of summer. Were biting the
Speaker 3: Dodgers in July and they got hit by the injury
Speaker 3: bug as well. And now that they're getting healthy, I
Speaker 3: don't think it's a coincidence you're starting to see them
Speaker 3: get w's because this Dodgers' offense is now back to
Speaker 3: having a line up that is really tough.
Speaker 2: To navigate through.
Speaker 3: If you're an opposing pitcher like Colin ray tonight and
Speaker 3: you're having to navigate your way through Otani, Betts, Freeman,
Speaker 3: ta Oscar, Gavin Lux and that's just the first five hitters.
Speaker 3: And then oh yeah, Will Smith, who has been really
Speaker 3: struggling offensively in June July in the first two weeks
Speaker 3: of August, all of a sudden has a three for
Speaker 3: four night as the sixth hitter, and Miguel Ross as
Speaker 3: a base knock Keicky Hernandez has a base knock and
Speaker 3: drives in a run. Andy Potter has hits a home run.
Speaker 3: So that lineup that a few weeks ago didn't look
Speaker 3: tremendous didn't necessarily have the murderers row, so.
Speaker 2: To speak, in that lineup.
Speaker 3: Now, all of a sudden win healthy, and you plug
Speaker 3: back in guys like Mookie Betts, and you get Will Smith,
Speaker 3: hopefully turned the corner here offensively, and you're gonna get
Speaker 3: Max Munsey back. All of a sudden, the lineup that
Speaker 3: looked really good for a few batters is back to
Speaker 3: looking darn right tough. One through nine, Andy Pott has
Speaker 3: hitting nine okay, power hitting guy that can hit it
Speaker 3: out of the ballpark, can find the gap as a
Speaker 3: slug hitter.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Key Ky Hernandez right behind right in front of him
Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas, two guys who can get on base, manufacture runs,
Speaker 3: put the ball in play.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 3: And right in front of him batting sixth is an
Speaker 3: all star catcher who is batting cleanup for you to
Speaker 3: start the season.
Speaker 2: Sign me up, please.
Speaker 3: This lineup is going to be nasty when everybody's healthy
Speaker 3: and knock on wood, God willing and they stay healthy
Speaker 3: in September and more importantly into October, because I'm telling
Speaker 3: you look at this lineup, where is there going to
Speaker 3: be a break when guys are hitting producing. We're not
Speaker 3: talking right now. I don't have full phone lines of
Speaker 3: people saying the bottom of the lineups not producing.
Speaker 2: What can six through nine carry their weight?
Speaker 3: Every Dodger starter had a hit tonight, Andy Poi has
Speaker 3: did a two run home run. Key Hernandez had an
Speaker 3: RBI's sack fly Okay, bobom My lineup produced and now
Speaker 3: six through nine includes an all.
Speaker 2: Star former cleanup hitter and Will Smith.
Speaker 3: And quite frankly, if Max Munsey comes back and you
Speaker 3: drop him into the six or seven spot and Will
Speaker 3: gets whatever, Max is not in the lineup, so right now,
Speaker 3: then You're gonna have a lineup that one through seven
Speaker 3: is nasty and with guys that can hit it out
Speaker 3: of the park anytime they're up. And then you add
Speaker 3: eight to nine hitters like a Kik a Piz, a
Speaker 3: Tommy Edmond. This lineup is gonna look tough. For all
Speaker 3: those that were panicking a month ago, we told you
Speaker 3: to pump the brakes, we told you hang on, get healthy,
Speaker 3: this team will be all right. Well, here they are
Speaker 3: now the middle of August, and they're getting right. They're
Speaker 3: getting healthy, and they're getting ready for a stretch run. Now,
Speaker 3: certainly they have not run away with the division right
Speaker 3: now up only three and a half games going into
Speaker 3: play tonight. Padres winning right now laid down at Petco
Speaker 3: Park is they take on the Pirates. The Arizona Diamondbacks
Speaker 3: losing at home to the Rockies and the eighth inning,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean anything. The diamond Bass came back
Speaker 3: and won last night over the Rockies. This race is
Speaker 3: going to stay tight. And I think with this Dodger
Speaker 3: team getting healthy and everything I just talked about for
Speaker 3: the last seven minutes, this team getting right at this
Speaker 3: point of the season is perfect because now you've got
Speaker 3: a team healthy and need a little dog in them.
Speaker 3: You have a healthy team full of veterans that now
Speaker 3: have themselves a fight, and what was before a runaway
Speaker 3: laugher of a division in l West, the worst vision
Speaker 3: in the National League, has all of a sudden flipped
Speaker 3: itself and now the National League West is the best
Speaker 3: division in the National League. And you can make an
Speaker 3: argument the best division right now in all baseball for
Speaker 3: all these teams that are competing in Kiloudi in the
Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants, who are now over five hundred on
Speaker 3: the season. So the fact that the Dodgers are healthy
Speaker 3: and gotten right and hopefully over this injury hump here
Speaker 3: in the next week or so with all the additions
Speaker 3: that are coming back, including more bullpen arms, and then
Speaker 3: PLoP them right in the middle of a playoff race
Speaker 3: in September, going into October and asking these guys to
Speaker 3: compete at a high level because they're playing for something.
Speaker 3: This is sort of what you want, Dodger fans. Competitive
Speaker 3: games late in the season with a healthy Dodger team.
Speaker 3: This is what you ask for. This is what you
Speaker 3: want going into October, because for like six of the
Speaker 3: last seven years it's been a runaway division outside of
Speaker 3: the year in which the Dodgers lost to the Giants
Speaker 3: because they won one hundred and what eight games, one
Speaker 3: hundred and ten games, one hundred eleven games, whatever it was,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers finished runner up but still beat him.
Speaker 3: In the NLDS, the Dodgers will pretty much run away
Speaker 3: with the division every other year. A little competition late
Speaker 3: in the season, a little fight for your life. What
Speaker 3: are you gonna do with your backup against the wall?
Speaker 3: Fighting for October baseball. I want to see a little toughness.
Speaker 3: I want to see a little grid. I want to
Speaker 3: see some ninety nine up and in on guys. I
Speaker 3: want to see Gavin Stone making sure these guys don't
Speaker 3: get too dug into the box tonight. I want to
Speaker 3: see the Dodgers bullpen not afraid to go inside with
Speaker 3: ninety nine and one hundred from Michael Kopek and a
Speaker 3: Dodger lineup that is long and dangerous. I like where
Speaker 3: they're at right now. Nine eight seven, two five seventy
Speaker 3: eight six six nine eighty seven to two five seventy
Speaker 3: We're gonna hear from the manager Dave Roberts coming up
Speaker 3: in just a couple of minutes, Real quick, Gavin Stone.
Speaker 3: I thought he pitched great tonight. I mentioned it in
Speaker 3: the Clubout Show, and I'll repeat it real quick again.
Speaker 3: Five innings, one run, three hit, six strikeouts, no walks,
Speaker 3: eighty six pitches.
Speaker 2: He has had an issue with the long ball.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone hadn't won a game since June twenty sixth.
Speaker 3: He has given up fifteen home runs going into tonight's game.
Speaker 3: Seven of the fifteen have come with two strikes, and
Speaker 3: he did it again tonight to Wilson Contreres, who hit
Speaker 3: a home run in the third inning, but it was
Speaker 3: a solo shot and it was one of only three
Speaker 3: hits that Gavin Stone gave up tonight in a winning effort.
Speaker 3: And there was a moment in the second inning. I
Speaker 3: want to get him.
Speaker 2: Touch upon.
Speaker 3: Leadoff strikeout, hit by pitch in a single wild pitch
Speaker 3: puts runners at second and third with one out, one nothing,
Speaker 3: Dodger lead in the bottom of the second inning. We've
Speaker 3: seen it, okay several times this year where a game
Speaker 3: can get away from the Dodgers early and they're playing
Speaker 3: ketchup and this Dodgers' offense is asked to do a
Speaker 3: lot to get back into a game and to bail
Speaker 3: out of a starting pitcher. Well tonight, in the bottom
Speaker 3: of the second ing, Dodgers up one to nothing, Will
Speaker 3: Smith game to lead. In the top of the inning,
Speaker 3: runners on second and third, wild pitch from Gavin Stone.
Speaker 3: Frelick comes up to bat and he falls behind two
Speaker 3: to one in the count, but throws a cutter on
Speaker 3: a two to one pitch and gets Frelick to pop
Speaker 3: out a huge out. None of the runners are able
Speaker 3: to advance and there's two down. A fly ball to
Speaker 3: the outfield runner tags we have a tie game, a
Speaker 3: base hit. Dodgers are down two to one, instead to
Speaker 3: pop out to short second out of the inning, and
Speaker 3: then facing Ortiz gets ahead O two, throws a change
Speaker 3: up away to seefield Chase, he doesn't and then throws
Speaker 3: a change up loan the zone gets him to miss
Speaker 3: inning over no damage, no runs from the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 3: That was a pivotal moment tonight for Gavin Stone, and
Speaker 3: maybe something you circle and put in the old memory bank.
Speaker 3: At least I'm going to moving forward for Gavin Stone
Speaker 3: this year. That second inning, how he got out of
Speaker 3: it with his back up against the wall and fought
Speaker 3: his way out of a tough situation on the road,
Speaker 3: because he comes back out and gives up home run
Speaker 3: the third okay, the fourth inning, strikes out the side
Speaker 3: in order, fighting clawn scratching to get to five innings,
Speaker 3: and then as a one two three fifth inning, all
Speaker 3: flyball outs to the outfield five innings from Gavin Stone
Speaker 3: to get the win.
Speaker 2: He shaw, he saw and showed a.
Speaker 3: Lot of fight in that second inning, which I absolutely
Speaker 3: loved and something I'm gonna remember now moving forward, and
Speaker 3: I think you should two next time Gavin Stone's out there,
Speaker 3: Gavenstone in September. If we see Gavin Stone in October,
Speaker 3: that moment in which he fought his way out of
Speaker 3: a tough jam on the road in Milwaukee, in a
Speaker 3: tough game against a first place Milwaukee Brewers team, Let's
Speaker 3: keep this in mind. This is not a Brewers team
Speaker 3: that's twenty games under five hundred and at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the NL Central. Pick up a paper, Well, they
Speaker 3: don't make him anymore. Look online, check out the standings.
Speaker 3: The Brewers are in first place and have a seven
Speaker 3: and a half game lead in the NL Central and
Speaker 3: now have lost three straight, including two straight to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: The win last night and the win tonight are good
Speaker 3: wins for the Dodgers. They're not beating cupcakes. They're not
Speaker 3: in a stretch where they're beating under five hundred teams.
Speaker 3: They're in a stretch right now in which they're playing
Speaker 3: five hundred teams. The Cardinals next up this weekend, and
Speaker 3: right now four games against the Brewers. Thirteen games in
Speaker 3: thirteen days. Pivotal stretch for the Dodgers here in the
Speaker 3: middle of August, and they're checking boxes as they go.
Speaker 2: Eight six six. All right, let's go to Trey in
Speaker 2: West of LA.
Speaker 3: Start things off here on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers
Speaker 3: get a seven to two win in Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Tray go ahead, Oh Tim, thank you Sarah for taking
Speaker 4: my call on a pleasure to start off Dodger Talk tonight.
Speaker 4: I couldn't agree with you more. I'm very enthusiastic, as
Speaker 4: you say, you know, going down the stretch. Let's see
Speaker 4: some grit. It's hot, it's August. We want some chin music.
Speaker 4: We got to, you know, tough it out. You know,
Speaker 4: earlier this season, Rick talked about generally during the season,
Speaker 4: you're gonna win sixty games, You're gonna lose sixty games.
Speaker 4: It's what you do with the other forty two. Here
Speaker 4: we are right at one twenty and this Los Angeles
Speaker 4: team is fired up the grill and it's cooking with
Speaker 4: deep hot Dodger blue gas. And I couldn't agree with
Speaker 4: you more and we should be enthusiastic. It's been great.
Speaker 4: Like you said, we just played a hell of a
Speaker 4: team in the Brewers and we looked good. Offense is popping,
Speaker 4: we're getting guys back, defense tight, and let's look forward
Speaker 4: to month. He coming back and hopefully we get Nobu
Speaker 4: and the rotations looking good and the bullpen's been solid,
Speaker 4: So no.
Speaker 3: Doubt, no doubt. I think tonight was huge. I appreciate
Speaker 3: the phone call, Tray. I think it was huge for
Speaker 3: Landon Nac as well. And I don't want to over
Speaker 3: overstate that what he did tonight was big for them,
Speaker 3: because it really was Landon that comes in in a
Speaker 3: seven to one game and the Dodgers get five out
Speaker 3: of Gavin Stone, but the pitch count is up at
Speaker 3: eighty six, so they need the Dodgers bullpen to get
Speaker 3: the final twelve outs. They need the Dodgers bullpen to
Speaker 3: go four innings. And this is again a stretch of
Speaker 3: thirteen games in thirteen days, and you're winning seven to
Speaker 3: one in the second game of a four game series
Speaker 3: against another divisional leader. The last thing Dave Roberts wants
Speaker 3: to do is have to go to his bullpen and
Speaker 3: use somebody in the sixth, somebody in the seventh, somebody
Speaker 3: in the eighth, and somebody.
Speaker 2: In the ninth.
Speaker 3: That's four arms. You had to go to the bullpen
Speaker 3: in a seven to one lead.
Speaker 2: You don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 3: This is where Ryan Yarborough would have came in and
Speaker 3: helped out the Dodgers team, but instead it's Landon Nack
Speaker 3: and a guy who's a starter comes into piggyback Gavin
Speaker 3: Stone and gets four innings out of the bullpen for you.
Speaker 3: You don't have to go to the bullpen phone the
Speaker 3: rest of the game. After Landon Nack comes in to
Speaker 3: pitch the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, somebody buy that
Speaker 3: guy at steak tonight and some brats and some cheese
Speaker 3: curds and a beer in Milwaukee for giving that bullpen
Speaker 3: a night off, for not even getting these guys to
Speaker 3: have to get up. I mean, Michael Grove got in
Speaker 3: the ninth inning just to get hot, but nobody else
Speaker 3: had to get up and get loose. A night off
Speaker 3: for the Dodgers' bullpen thanks to Landon Nack pitching four
Speaker 3: innings out of the bullpen, and by the way, he
Speaker 3: gets credit with the save for a four inning save,
Speaker 3: even though it was a seven two Dodgers win, eight
Speaker 3: six six seventy.
Speaker 2: Ralph Laguna beach your next up on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hi, Ralph yep, Hello, thank you. I want to make
Speaker 5: a couple of comments. You're right about Gavin Stone. Prior
Speaker 5: to this game. In my opinion, he was, as you
Speaker 5: well know, he's pitching really bad. I'm a lifelong Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: Gavin Stone shouldn't even be in the major leagues. He's
Speaker 5: been back in the minor leagues and Rableski should have been.
Speaker 5: He gives the Dodgers a better five inning chance. I
Speaker 5: pitched a five in solid game for Beski's the better
Speaker 5: pitcher than Gavin Stone right now. Michael Grove is a
Speaker 5: run giving up machine. The boy he was injured yet
Speaker 5: runs every time he was in the game. The Dodger
Speaker 5: bullpen is not as strong as you might think it is.
Speaker 5: When when the Brazer comes back, Michael Grove wouldn't even
Speaker 5: mean in the major leagues right now, all right, Ralph.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna jump in right there because I'm gonna completely
Speaker 3: disagree with you about Gavin Stone. Gavin Stone, you can
Speaker 3: make an argument could have been an All Star the
Speaker 3: first half of the season. Nine wins before the All
Speaker 3: Star break, nine wins before they flipped the calendar to July.
Speaker 3: He struggled in July, certainly, he also hit that wall,
Speaker 3: so to speak. Innings started to mount up for Gavin Stone,
Speaker 3: who on June twenty sixth pitched a complete game, four
Speaker 3: hitter in Chicago to get to nine and two. After that,
Speaker 3: he went zero to two in four starts with a
Speaker 3: six twenty seven ERA in June. Gave up four runs
Speaker 3: in three of those four outings. He also had an
Speaker 3: outing by the way, and against the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 3: he gave up one run and got zero run support
Speaker 3: until late in the game and once the Dodgers got
Speaker 3: went on a win, he got a no decision. In
Speaker 3: the month of August, going into tonight. He struggled, no doubt,
Speaker 3: you know what. He struggled both with the home run ball,
Speaker 3: giving up multiple home runs in two of his last
Speaker 3: three starts. I mentioned how many home runs he's given
Speaker 3: up with two strikes of the fifteen seven not finishing
Speaker 3: it off, guys not getting swinging missus. Tonight Gavin Stone
Speaker 3: looked like at Gavin Stone in the first half of
Speaker 3: the season. I'm gonna completely disagree with our last caller.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone was fantastic the first half of the season,
Speaker 3: went into a rut. Has figured it out hopefully and
Speaker 3: moving forward. If he can get more of this out
Speaker 3: of Gavin Stone, sign me up for this. Five innings,
Speaker 3: one run, three hits. He made a mistake tonight with
Speaker 3: to Wilson Contreras with two strikes. All right, you tip
Speaker 3: a captain Contreras. He got Clershaw last night, he got
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone tonight. It's a good player. They don't give
Speaker 3: you this. Michael Grove one being the Michael Grove is
Speaker 3: a good reliever for the Dodgers. It's helped him out
Speaker 3: big time this year. All the guys who they've called upon,
Speaker 3: Ryan Brasier coming back, we don't know what kind of
Speaker 3: pitcher Ryan bras is gonna be.
Speaker 2: Ryan Brasier is not a spring Chicken anymore.
Speaker 3: Ryan Brasier may not be the Ryan Brazier that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers got. What a year ago, year and a half ago,
Speaker 3: and everybody thought, why are we picking up Ryan Brasier
Speaker 3: off the scrap heaps and getting them from the Red Sox?
Speaker 2: And what do they do?
Speaker 3: They work their magic, they develop some good pitches. He
Speaker 3: comes out. It looks like a completely different pitcher, Ryan Brasier,
Speaker 3: like an Evan Phillips freefo that, like a Joe Blanton
Speaker 3: ten years ago, like a Brandon Morrow twelve years ago.
Speaker 3: They find guys, they get the most out of them,
Speaker 3: and they know what works and what doesn't work as
Speaker 3: far as their pitch mix. But who's to say Ryan
Speaker 3: Brasier comes back and is the Ryan Brasier of old.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 3: Blake Tryon's been heard, Bruce Dark gradolol can't stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Michael Grove may be called upon this October to help
Speaker 3: out this Dodgers team. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 3: two five say we'll take a break, we'll come back.
Speaker 3: We'll get to know of your phone calls and we'll
Speaker 3: hear from the manager. Dave Roberts get his postgame thoughts.
Speaker 3: Dodgers win. Dodgers get a big win in Milwaukee. Two
Speaker 3: straight now over the Brewers, man negativity all over the place,
Speaker 3: Dodger's best record in the National League, Dodgers tied with
Speaker 3: Cleveland for the best record in baseball, and all people
Speaker 3: want to do is talk about this guy can't do this,
Speaker 3: This guy can't do that.
Speaker 2: He won't be here in October. We can't win with
Speaker 2: that guy.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: They's seventy one and forty nine. They went through a
Speaker 3: rough stretch with the lineup that they were mixing and
Speaker 3: matching and putting guys in the lineup that weren't with
Speaker 3: the roster opening day and aren't here now, may not
Speaker 3: be here in a month, may not be here next
Speaker 3: week when they all get healthy and come back like
Speaker 3: Max Muncie, pump the brakes on the negativity, getting tired
Speaker 3: of it. Dodgers win tonight in Milwaukee. Four home runs
Speaker 3: not enough for you, you want a five? Didn't hit
Speaker 3: it far enough for you? Not enough offense? Seven runs,
Speaker 3: thirteen hit Sorry, Sorry they win again.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Gavin Stone gets the ten wins on the season. Sorry,
Speaker 3: Landonax saved the bullpen tonight with four innings. Sorry not
Speaker 3: sorry eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy ten.
Speaker 2: Kates, I'm fired up here on Dodger.
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Speaker 6: Wt't you both here watching him?
Speaker 1: This very swings and hits a drive deep to right,
Speaker 1: failed way back, It goes uper deck home run for
Speaker 1: Cavin Lucks. Oh looks just Rushton.
Speaker 3: Gavin Luck sits a ball to the moon as he
Speaker 3: returns to Wisconsin from Kenosha. Family of twenty friends in attendance,
Speaker 3: and he goes deep part of a Dodgers seven to
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Speaker 3: Own the Dream. Gavin Stone gets the win landon Nacho's
Speaker 3: four innings for the save. Dodgers scores seven runs on
Speaker 3: thirteen hits. They have four home runs, three doubles in
Speaker 3: the game. Will Smith gets out of his slump, goes
Speaker 3: three for four, double, home run and RBI. I will
Speaker 3: go back and check the tape for the podcast. Pretty
Speaker 3: sure last night on Dodger Talk on Monday Night, I said,
Speaker 3: maybe this is something Will Smith's gonna start turning the corner.
Speaker 3: Hit the ball hard last night, put some good contact
Speaker 3: out there, and he kind of felt like he was
Speaker 3: just about ready to get out of whatever slump he's
Speaker 3: been in. And he hits a home run for the
Speaker 3: first time since July six against the Milwaukee Brewers. He
Speaker 3: had hit three home runs the night before. Hits a
Speaker 3: fourth home run on that Sunday, July sixth. As the
Speaker 3: Dodgers catcher struggled in August, struggled in July for the
Speaker 3: most part, but tonight goes three for four double a
Speaker 3: home run in RBI as the Dodgers get the win.
Speaker 3: There now seventy one and forty nine. Oh, just the
Speaker 3: best record in baseball along with the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Jonesy. Jonesy and Roland Heights is next
Speaker 2: up here on Dodger Talk. Hi Jonesy, Hey, how.
Speaker 7: You doing man? Thank you for having me Sure, I
Speaker 7: just wanted to say that I'm in a very positive
Speaker 7: mood right now. I think not enough callers on here.
Speaker 7: I've talked about how this is the best the Dodgers
Speaker 7: have booked since before Mookie's injury. And mine's not even
Speaker 7: a negative comment. I'm just saying that right now they're
Speaker 7: playing this good and their best player or their superstar
Speaker 7: O Tawny, he's still kind of in a slump. He's
Speaker 7: still right now kind of it either seems like its
Speaker 7: home runn or bus. So just imagine how unstoppable this
Speaker 7: offense will be once he kind of figures it out
Speaker 7: and starts hitting like he was in the first half
Speaker 7: of the season. I believe in him. I mean, he's
Speaker 7: a superstar. He's the best player in the MLB. So
Speaker 7: I'm just really excited to see the full potential of
Speaker 7: what this offense can do once these superstars are all
Speaker 7: clicking at once.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, dounin appreciate it. JONESI, you're right.
Speaker 3: This is a Dodgers team that last night put it
Speaker 3: together to win a game with Otani and Bookie Betts
Speaker 3: carrying him offensively. Tonight, every Dodger player in the lineup
Speaker 3: had a hit. Four of them hit home runs, thirteen
Speaker 3: hits in all, and you score seven runs top to bottom.
Speaker 3: The offense was really good. And as Jones he mentioned,
Speaker 3: one night it's Mookie, one night it's Otani, it's a
Speaker 3: Gavin luck. Since the All Star break, they're gonna get
Speaker 3: back Max Munsey, who hope is going to get back
Speaker 3: to that home run form where he can hit the
Speaker 3: home run eight time he's up. But think about Otani.
Speaker 3: As Jones he mentioned one ninety batting average in the
Speaker 3: month of August with five home runs and ten rbi.
Speaker 3: Hitting one ninety, we know what he's not doing with
Speaker 3: runners in scoring position. Yeah, he's a thirty to thirty guy,
Speaker 3: gonna be a forty to forty player, the sixth all
Speaker 3: time in baseball. But he's hitting one ninety and the
Speaker 3: Dodgers still have won five in a row and eight
Speaker 3: of their last ten here in the month of August,
Speaker 3: and now they're in this stretch of thirteen games in
Speaker 3: thirteen days against good opponents light the Milwaukee Brewers, and
Speaker 3: they'll get the Cardinals, who are a five hundred team
Speaker 3: coming up this weekend in Saint Louis. David in la
Speaker 3: Is next up here on Dodger Talk after the Dodgers
Speaker 3: wins seven to two.
Speaker 5: How you doing, David, Oh good, That's just what my
Speaker 5: question is.
Speaker 7: I can't understand why everyone wants month feed back. I mean,
Speaker 7: he can't hit.
Speaker 5: I guess he can hit home runs. You say he
Speaker 5: hits a few home runs. He can't hit. He has
Speaker 5: a little batting.
Speaker 2: Average, he's got a great on base percentage.
Speaker 3: He takes walks, he takes a lot of pitches deep
Speaker 3: into counts. He's a guy at the bottom of the lineup,
Speaker 3: and I say bottom bottom third in the lineup. But
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, David, You're not gonna I don't think
Speaker 3: when Max Monty comes back next homestand I don't think
Speaker 3: he gets inserted back into the four or five spot.
Speaker 3: I think he's hitting six or seven in this Dodger lineup.
Speaker 3: Take the pressure off of Max Munsey so he doesn't
Speaker 3: have to come back and be right there in the
Speaker 3: middle of the heart of the lineup. Put him six
Speaker 3: or seventh, let him see some pitches, let him elongate
Speaker 3: that lineup for the Dodgers. He's really good at getting
Speaker 3: on base. He is really good at taking pitches. He
Speaker 3: is really good at working the count. Yes, he's a
Speaker 3: home runner, bus guy. The average it shows that he's
Speaker 3: a slug He's a slug hitter from five years ago. Certainly,
Speaker 3: the game is changing back to being more complete players.
Speaker 3: The run game is now back involved in this. Games
Speaker 3: are quicker. I get that. But having a Max Muncie
Speaker 3: with the capability of hitting thirty home runs hitting six
Speaker 3: or seven for you, absolutely, I'll take that. Let's go
Speaker 3: back out to Milwaukee. Let's hear from the Dodger manager
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. After a Dodger seven to two went over
Speaker 3: the Brewers.
Speaker 8: Dave, it seemed like Gavin Stone got back on track tonight.
Speaker 8: What was he doing well from your point of view.
Speaker 6: He was getting strike one, like we talked about before
Speaker 6: the game. He mixed really well, I thought, will tonight
Speaker 6: fingers were great. Curveball was good, change up good, and
Speaker 6: the cutter was good. So I think with Gavin is
Speaker 6: just getting ahead of hitters and then helping his way
Speaker 6: with him.
Speaker 8: He's been giving up a lot of home runs lately,
Speaker 8: gave up one tonight, but it didn't seem to hurt him.
Speaker 8: Was that the biggest thing getting the change up to
Speaker 8: appear like a strike and not be get them to chase.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. I mean, I think that if you can kind of,
Speaker 6: you know, have these guys onto the change up, onto
Speaker 6: the fastball, keep the change up on plate presented as
Speaker 6: a strike, then good things happen. He was getting some
Speaker 6: early contact, some quick outs, and when you need to
Speaker 6: strike out, he got that, which tonight you know, there
Speaker 6: were more strikeouts than he's gotten in a while. So
Speaker 6: just overall, just a really good performance from Gavin. He
Speaker 6: needed it. He's been grinding, man, and you just don't
Speaker 6: show it from his demeanor, but he's been working really hard.
Speaker 6: And for him to square some balls up, keep a
Speaker 6: ball fair that was in, another ball that was in
Speaker 6: and he lined it to left field. So, uh, getting
Speaker 6: to that pitch which he wasn't getting to for the
Speaker 6: last few weeks, and just to throw out some hits.
Speaker 2: Was was a good thing, all right. There's David Roberts.
Speaker 3: You can hear in his voice how happy he is
Speaker 3: for his Dodger catcher Will Smith, who goes three for
Speaker 3: fortnight with a double, a home run in an RBI
Speaker 3: wing guy saying, what's wrong?
Speaker 4: Is he? No?
Speaker 9: Nothing, I was just yawning.
Speaker 3: You're just is he? I'm gonna take this personal. You're
Speaker 3: yawning on Dodger talking.
Speaker 2: I go to you. Am I putting you to sleep?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no no. It's been a hot day,
Speaker 9: been a long day. I just yoned up, and don't
Speaker 9: take your Are the.
Speaker 2: Dodgers boring you? With another seventy two win? Oh ho hum?
Speaker 3: Just their fifth in a row, eight of ten. We're
Speaker 3: only the best team in baseball right now.
Speaker 9: Now they are now borning, trust me, not much. The
Speaker 9: Giants up, but that's beside the point we got. We
Speaker 9: got much more bigger problem. No what yeah, well, I'm
Speaker 9: really I know that Will. We'll be lying. He's he's
Speaker 9: now with coming down to So they're totally bummed me.
Speaker 9: They're totally bum Yeah, bum me out too, is he?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do your favorite I'm gonna I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: good night to you so you can go to sleep.
Speaker 3: I know you're tired obviously of not making it easy
Speaker 3: for you to stay up, which is really insulting.
Speaker 2: But it's okay. Is he have a great night. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, but listen, I am happy. What's going what's
Speaker 9: gonna go home with Bobby Millie and I'll take you
Speaker 9: into it off They okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Is he appreciated? I I just if I'm putting easy
Speaker 3: to sleep. We got problems, you got problems?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 5: Is he?
Speaker 2: Dodgers win again?
Speaker 3: Nothing boring about that, Nothing tiring about getting another win
Speaker 3: five straight now eight to ten, best record in the
Speaker 3: National League, tye with Sleeping for the best record in baseball.
Speaker 3: Dodgers winning Milwaukee seventy two. Kevin Stone, congratulations, a tenth
Speaker 3: win this season, landing Nat picks up to save four
Speaker 3: innings out of the bullpen, saving the arms down there
Speaker 3: for the rest of this series and the road trip,
Speaker 3: and four different Dodgers go deep tonight, Will Smith Show,
Speaker 3: Hey Otani, Gavin Lux and Andy pod Has thanks to.
Speaker 2: Being a part of the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening, Thanks for staying up late with us,
Speaker 3: is he? Thanks to Colin Ye appreciate it, and thanks
Speaker 3: to everybody podcasting the show as well. Dodgers win it
Speaker 3: tonight in Milwaukee seven to two. Is your final the
Speaker 3: now seventy one and forty We're back at it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Dodgers looking to make it six straight, three straight against
Speaker 3: the Brewers.
Speaker 2: Game three of.
Speaker 3: This four game set Walker Rueler on the Mount Frankie Montes.
Speaker 3: We'll go for the Milwaukee Brewers first pitch at five
Speaker 3: to ten. We got Moroco Casino Dodgers on deck starting
Speaker 3: at four. Until then, have a great save, sleepy rest
Speaker 3: of your Tuesday night, So long, everybody,