Speaker 1: One thing about this team is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have.
Speaker 2: This team is really becoming a family. Let's not play
Speaker 2: one on Tom.
Speaker 3: Let's wind it.
Speaker 4: I love writing these guys after the show, just thank you,
Speaker 4: give me are.
Speaker 5: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 6: This is world champion, Dodgers, world champion.
Speaker 7: For a small soft time they get a people what
Speaker 7: they want to die to?
Speaker 5: A two is special. I'm like, yeah, it's not a headache.
Speaker 5: One of the con This ball's gone. You ready to go?
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Speaker 6: on the show called eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 6: two five seven and go to the show, and now
Speaker 6: your host of Dodger Talk, Tim Kats.
Speaker 7: Dodgers do what they're supposed to do, go into Denver
Speaker 7: and beat up on a bad Rockies team. And that's
Speaker 7: exactly what they did today. A little bit of offense,
Speaker 7: a little bit of defense, and a lot of great
Speaker 7: pitching today from Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers' bullpen, holding
Speaker 7: the Rockies to just one run today and the Dodgers
Speaker 7: get a three to one victory in coors Field. Eight
Speaker 7: six six nine eight seven two five seventy is a
Speaker 7: number we're here for about the next forty five minutes
Speaker 7: or so, so light up the phones, Dodger fans, eight
Speaker 7: sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. I'm sure
Speaker 7: something has been weighing on you for the last few hours,
Speaker 7: ever since Clayton Kershaw left the game after six innings
Speaker 7: of work today, and boy was he good.
Speaker 5: Six innings.
Speaker 7: Just the one run, a Brenton Doyle solo home run
Speaker 7: with two outs in the second, the only damage all day.
Speaker 7: You have a single in the third with one out,
Speaker 7: but didn't affect him. Six innings, one run, two hit,
Speaker 7: five strikeouts. He was eight strikeouts away from three thousand
Speaker 7: going in. He gets five strikeouts today, so now he's
Speaker 7: sitting on two thousand, nine hundred and nine, so he's
Speaker 7: three shy going into his next start. And Dave Roberts
Speaker 7: did say it will be next Wednesday against the Chicago
Speaker 7: White Sox at Dodgers Stadium. So a good time if
Speaker 7: you're listening, if you're driving, don't do it right now
Speaker 7: while you're driving, Bud. If you're listening, you're podcasting, you're
Speaker 7: at a place where maybe you can pull over. I
Speaker 7: would suggest you go to Dodgers dot Com and get
Speaker 7: some tickets while they last for next Wednesday, when Clayton
Speaker 7: Kershaw will take them out against the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 7: Three strikeouts away from three thousand in his Hall of
Speaker 7: Fame career, certainly a moment that you would want to
Speaker 7: be at if you're a Dodger fan at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 7: next Wednesday. For Clayton Kershaw and his next start, he
Speaker 7: was fantastic today. He had a one two three first,
Speaker 7: He worked around that home run in the second inning.
Speaker 7: He had a single in the third inning. He got
Speaker 7: out of the first four thinning with the double playball
Speaker 7: after a leadoff walk. He had a one two three fifth.
Speaker 7: He had a one two three sixth sandwich about the
Speaker 7: strikeout his fifth of the day. His longest out inning
Speaker 7: was the third, in which he threw sixteen pitches. Other
Speaker 7: than that, he had an eight pitch inning, a ten
Speaker 7: pitch inning, a ten pitch inning, the twelve pitch inning,
Speaker 7: up and down five different times to get to the
Speaker 7: sixth inning. I felt just listening and watching the game man,
Speaker 7: and I really wanted Clayton Kershaw to go back out
Speaker 7: there for a seventh inning. Eight, six, sixth nine eighty
Speaker 7: seven to two, five seventy. That's what I wanted. That's
Speaker 7: what I would have loved to see him go back
Speaker 7: out there in the seventh inning, especially with a low
Speaker 7: pitch count sixty nine pitches, second fewest pitches he's thrown
Speaker 7: in the start this year other than the rain delayed
Speaker 7: game in New York back on May twenty third. To
Speaker 7: go back out there three strikeouts away from three strike
Speaker 7: from three thousand.
Speaker 5: That's me. I would have loved to have seen it.
Speaker 7: But I understand the decision not to go back out
Speaker 7: there in the seventh, And I say that for this reason.
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw could go out there and things could go
Speaker 7: drastically wrong in a two to one game. What you
Speaker 7: just did for six solid innings could all unravel and
Speaker 7: be undone in the seventh inning. Another spinner around the
Speaker 7: lineup for the Colorado Rockies. You're working on a thirty
Speaker 7: seven year old in the six innings of high altitude
Speaker 7: of Denver. I get it, it's only sixty nine pitches,
Speaker 7: But Dave Roberts, Clayton Kershaw, Mark Pryor, I'm sure was
Speaker 7: part of it. Will Smith was asked about it well
Speaker 7: here from will come up in a few minutes about
Speaker 7: the decision to end the day for Clayton Kershaw or
Speaker 7: to send it back out there in the seventh. It
Speaker 7: could have gone drastically wrong. Things could have unraveled in
Speaker 7: the seventh inning. You know, you start to wear and
Speaker 7: tear a little bit, especially a thirty seven year old
Speaker 7: in Denver. What you did for six innings, you applaud them,
Speaker 7: You tell them, great job, slap them on the behind,
Speaker 7: and say, next time out, you're gonna get to three thousand.
Speaker 5: Next time out at home.
Speaker 7: At Dodger Stadium, in front of Dodger Nation, you are
Speaker 7: gonna get.
Speaker 5: Your three thousand strikeout.
Speaker 7: But what he did today is exactly what they needed.
Speaker 7: Six innings, one run, two hits, five strikeouts. I think
Speaker 7: he kind of have to put aside the milestone in
Speaker 7: which he was getting close to for the game itself.
Speaker 7: You have to put aside him getting to three thousand
Speaker 7: strikeouts for the nine inning game today on June twenty sixth,
Speaker 7: and what it means as a whole. Certainly he's gonna
Speaker 7: get to three thousand strikeouts. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 7: Next time out most likely, but no need to go
Speaker 7: out there force a seventh inning. Things could get away
Speaker 7: from Clayton Kershaw. All the good that just happened over
Speaker 7: six innings comes apart, and you lose a ballgame to
Speaker 7: a Rockies team you have no business losing to. You
Speaker 7: beat him three to one, You bang out eight hits,
Speaker 7: including a solo home run from Otani. You hold the
Speaker 7: Rockies to two hits. Folks holding a team to two
Speaker 7: hits at Coors Field in the late part of June
Speaker 7: when it's hot, that's tough to do. There hasn't been
Speaker 7: very many no hitters there. I mean, dll Nomo did it, certainly,
Speaker 7: but you don't see a lot of great pitching performances
Speaker 7: in the Mile High City. So the longer and longer
Speaker 7: you go, the more and more the odds are things
Speaker 7: are gonna maybe fall apart.
Speaker 5: You're gonna lose a little bit. Guys are gonna tee
Speaker 5: off on you.
Speaker 7: That's why I thought the decision for him to come
Speaker 7: out after six innings. I'm alright with five strikeouts, one run,
Speaker 7: two hits, six innings, great, great outing for Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 7: a thirty seven year old Clayton Krushaw hitting eighty eight
Speaker 7: and eighty nine on the radar gun. Not blowing it
Speaker 7: by guys, but just pitching. I mean, it was artwork
Speaker 7: out there. What he was doing, Peyton the corners, getting
Speaker 7: a couple of called strike threes. Let's see, out of
Speaker 7: his five strikeouts, he had one, two, three called third strikes,
Speaker 7: one of the fifth and then his final strikeout of
Speaker 7: the game in the sixth inning. It was a great outing.
Speaker 7: No need for him to push it in the seventh
Speaker 7: inning just to get three more strikeouts, just to chase
Speaker 7: this milestone.
Speaker 5: He's gonna get there.
Speaker 7: If this was the last game of the season, If
Speaker 7: this were September twenty sixth, and the Dodgers had no
Speaker 7: shot at the playoffs, and this was the last start
Speaker 7: for thirty seven year old Clayton Kershaw, what could be
Speaker 7: It could be it forever for Clayton Kershaw. Then yes,
Speaker 7: he is going back out there and chasing three more strikeouts.
Speaker 5: We could all agree on that.
Speaker 7: But with so much more of the season to go,
Speaker 7: hopefully more of his career to go, chasing three strikeouts
Speaker 7: just for the sake of doing it, and a chance
Speaker 7: to lose a game to the Rockies just doesn't add up.
Speaker 7: And the more and more I talked through it, the
Speaker 7: more and more I've actually convinced myself it was a
Speaker 7: really good idea not to send him back out there
Speaker 7: for the seventh, because, hey, full disclosure cards on the table, Gamm,
Speaker 7: I'll pull back the curtain here. When it happened and
Speaker 7: Kirby Yates was warming up and we find out Yates
Speaker 7: has taken over after six innings, I said to Colin Yee,
Speaker 7: I said to Matt de Mecki. I even said to Petros,
Speaker 7: who is here, I said, I don't like this. Let
Speaker 7: him go back out there for the seventh. Sixty nine pitches,
Speaker 7: that's it. He's got twenty more in the tank, twenty
Speaker 7: more pitches. That could be another inning and inning in
Speaker 7: a third ainything. In two thirds, maybe two plus more innings.
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw can get to Heck, if we really want
Speaker 7: to push him, get to one hundred pitches, maybe he
Speaker 7: throws a complet game at Coursefield.
Speaker 5: But why the now?
Speaker 7: The more and more I think about it and talk
Speaker 7: about it here on Dodger Talk, the more and more
Speaker 7: I literally talk myself into this being a really good
Speaker 7: decision don't chase three strikeouts for the sake of maybe
Speaker 7: losing the game, or Kershaw getting hurt, or Kershaw going
Speaker 7: out there and leading with a bad taste in his
Speaker 7: mouth and losing a two to one lead at the time.
Speaker 7: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five to seventy.
Speaker 7: Maybe you disagree. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 7: five seventy. Initially I was like, yeah, why I want
Speaker 7: to hear this. This dive got some explaining to do.
Speaker 7: They gotta tell me why he just came out after
Speaker 7: six innings, especially after the perfect game he had in
Speaker 7: Minnesota a few years ago in early April at Target Field,
Speaker 7: and they.
Speaker 5: Pulled him out of the game.
Speaker 7: Now you gotta explain why did they pull him out
Speaker 7: after six innings, just one run, two hits, five strikeouts,
Speaker 7: and only say, sixty nine pitches.
Speaker 5: I just I just told you why.
Speaker 7: I just explained why, And in doing so, I've not
Speaker 7: convinced myself that was a really good decision. Eight sixty
Speaker 7: six nine eight seven two five seventy. The game itself,
Speaker 7: all right, the game itself the Dodgers, if you could
Speaker 7: draw it up anyway, and you can look at a
Speaker 7: box score, you can look at a game recap. You
Speaker 7: can go on to TikTok or Instagram or uh Facebook
Speaker 7: or Twitter and look at a recap of a game.
Speaker 7: This is how you would draw it up. This would
Speaker 7: be the art of the day. This would be yes ah.
Speaker 7: If this were to be a perfect Dodger scenario and
Speaker 7: a Dodger win, This is how I would predict it
Speaker 7: to go. This is how I would script it to go.
Speaker 7: A starter going six innings, just one run, check, turn
Speaker 7: it over to a bullpen one inning for a high
Speaker 7: leverage reliever Kirby hs Check, Michael Kopek, Oh another closer,
Speaker 7: high leverage reliever for the eighth check.
Speaker 5: Ninth inning.
Speaker 7: We bring in our third high leverage closer, Tanner Scott
Speaker 7: check for the save. Starter six innings won in a
Speaker 7: piece for your three high leverage relievers Yates, Kopek Scott,
Speaker 7: you just painted a perfect pitcher for me.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 7: And on top of that, on offense, the big three
Speaker 7: all drive in runs in a win. Bets an infield single,
Speaker 7: scoring in rojas Freddie Freeman and RBI single, and show
Speaker 7: hey Otani his twenty eighth home run. Your big three
Speaker 7: provide the offense. Your starter go six and your high
Speaker 7: leverage relievers.
Speaker 5: Bing bang boom, seventh eighth.
Speaker 7: Ninth ball game. Can you draw it up any better
Speaker 7: than that? And the Dodgers get the win? Now, fifty
Speaker 7: one and thirty one on this season tied for the
Speaker 7: best record in baseball.
Speaker 5: Now, don't spit out your drink or your food.
Speaker 7: I don't want anybody choking right here if you're having
Speaker 7: a late afternoon snack. Yes, the Dodgers, at fifty one
Speaker 7: and thirty one have tied this team for the best
Speaker 7: record in baseball. Again, I'm gonna let you chew your foods,
Speaker 7: spit out your gum, finished drinking your late afternoon coffee
Speaker 7: or whatever. The Detroit Tigers, Yes, those Detroit Tigers, who
Speaker 7: are fifty one and thirty one. I didn't say the Yankees.
Speaker 7: I didn't say the Red Socks. I didn't say the
Speaker 7: Mets or the Cubs, who've got forty eight wins. The
Speaker 7: Dodgers and Tigers. Just feels weird saying that the Tigers
Speaker 7: tied for the best record in baseball at fifty one
Speaker 7: and thirty one. Dodgers winners of four in a row,
Speaker 7: eight of their last ten. Again, today is how you
Speaker 7: draw it up? When you wake up in the morning,
Speaker 7: if you're a Dodger manager or a coach or the
Speaker 7: front office, how do we want today to go? Starter, sick, bullpen,
Speaker 7: high leverage guys each going inning.
Speaker 5: Get the final nine.
Speaker 7: Now, Dan, let's see the heart of the order, the
Speaker 7: big three, your MVP's bets, Freeman Otani, check check, check,
Speaker 7: all drive in runs, and you win a game. That's
Speaker 7: what happened today, Dodgers three to one win over the
Speaker 7: Colorado Rockies. And in case you missed it in the
Speaker 7: clubhouse show, I told you what the latest standings are.
Speaker 7: And by the way, the Giants have lost. The Giants
Speaker 7: have lost to the Miami Marlins in San Francisco. So
Speaker 7: as we sit right now, the updated standings look like this.
Speaker 7: The Dodgers first place of the NL West. The San
Speaker 7: Diego Padres, who I believe are not playing today, they
Speaker 7: are off. Padres are off. The Dodgers six games up
Speaker 7: in the division on the Padres, six and a half
Speaker 7: games up on the San Francisco Giants, nine games up
Speaker 7: on the Diamondbacks. And as we sit right now on
Speaker 7: June twenty sixth, now eighty two games into the season,
Speaker 7: just past the halfway point of the twenty twenty five
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball season, with in essence, a half of
Speaker 7: a season still to play.
Speaker 5: Your Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 7: Are thirty two and a half games up on the
Speaker 7: Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 5: I I'm looking at it.
Speaker 7: I'm hitting refreshed, thinking maybe somebody threw it an extra number,
Speaker 7: just like to be funny or as an air. Thirty
Speaker 7: two and a half games out of the division, not
Speaker 7: even the All Star break, and we've just passed the
Speaker 7: halfway point of one hundred and sixty two game season.
Speaker 7: That's gross, that's disgusting. Oh, to be a Rockies fan.
Speaker 5: What do you have? What do you have to look
Speaker 5: forward to the rest of the summer?
Speaker 7: The fourth of July fireworks, Dion Sanders and Colorado football,
Speaker 7: the Broncos training camp, the Nuggets draft tonight, AH, thirty
Speaker 7: two and a half games back.
Speaker 5: Hey, count your blessings. You're a Dodgers fan, and you've.
Speaker 7: Got ownership like Mark Walter in this group, and a
Speaker 7: front office like Andrew Freeman, and a coaching staff and
Speaker 7: manager led by Dave Roberts that put a winning product
Speaker 7: on the field and win and are competitive and make
Speaker 7: sure that this team is competitive with the players on
Speaker 7: the field. It could be Colorado, you could be the A's,
Speaker 7: you could be the White Sox.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 7: Do not take for granted what this ownership does and
Speaker 7: make sure with this front office and coaching staff has
Speaker 7: to work with a winning product, winning players, successful successful players.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 7: It is mind boggling that a team could be thirty
Speaker 7: two and a half games back in the division and
Speaker 7: it's not even July first.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 7: Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five seventy. Let's
Speaker 7: take a quick call and then we'll take a break.
Speaker 7: Let's go to Will in Long Beach. Start things off
Speaker 7: here on this Thursday after the Dodgers finish off the
Speaker 7: sweep of the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Will Good? Sir?
Speaker 8: Good, sir doing?
Speaker 4: Bro Will eating my food.
Speaker 9: Right now in the afternoon, my ticket Mollet hey check
Speaker 9: this out.
Speaker 4: The pitching that real quick.
Speaker 10: I have a question that maybe you can just answer
Speaker 10: it for me.
Speaker 9: Back in the sixties when Sandy Kofex was pitching, why
Speaker 9: were they pitching so many innings? And nowadays these pictures,
Speaker 9: you know, they really don't get too much, you know,
Speaker 9: the pitch counts, not that I think they're not pitching enough.
Speaker 5: Well, you can make an argument.
Speaker 7: It's that is a long loaded question. Will and I
Speaker 7: appreciate it. If we had, I don't know, another four hours,
Speaker 7: we can sit here and debate that and talk about
Speaker 7: what is wrong with the game. Why is it different?
Speaker 7: Why are pitchers not able to go more than seventy
Speaker 7: five eightyen pitches? Why is it that two times through
Speaker 7: the lineup do we not see a starting pitcher back
Speaker 7: out there. It is a long question with a long answer. Okay,
Speaker 7: we'll have.
Speaker 5: A lot of time to get into it. But the
Speaker 5: game is evolved.
Speaker 7: There's more money involved with pitchers, there's more money invested
Speaker 7: with arms, and being that you're investing two hundred million
Speaker 7: dollars three hundred million dollars one hundred and fifty million
Speaker 7: dollars in pitching in an arm, the last thing you
Speaker 7: want to do is have a breakdown, and what, unfortunately
Speaker 7: is happening is arms are breaking down. Usage is at
Speaker 7: an all time high for bullpens because starters just don't
Speaker 7: go past two times in the lineup. Because analytics then
Speaker 7: tell you the third time a pitcher and a hitter
Speaker 7: face off in a game, the hitter gets more of
Speaker 7: an advantage having now seen the picture and in what
Speaker 7: he's throwing two times a third time through maybe he's
Speaker 7: oh for two. Maybe he's now seen a curve ball
Speaker 7: again for the third time and he hits it for
Speaker 7: a home run. So you limit that chance by bringing
Speaker 7: it a different arm. Analytics, money have changed the game
Speaker 7: of baseball. That is the simple answer to It is
Speaker 7: a loaded question and what could be a very long
Speaker 7: answer and debate as far as why starting pitchers don't
Speaker 7: go long anymore into games, But I will throw this
Speaker 7: out you. Dwayne McDonald, our engineer producer on the broadcast
Speaker 7: in the booth along with the great Colony of course,
Speaker 7: Dwayne McDonald had this nugget for Colin and I off air,
Speaker 7: and he said, as many starting pitchers as the Dodgers
Speaker 7: have used, he said, I'm looking down south in Anaheim.
Speaker 7: As just an example, he said, do you know how
Speaker 7: many starting pitchers the Anaheim Angels have.
Speaker 5: Used in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 7: Okay, how many starting pitchers have the Anaheim Angels used
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty five because the Dodgers. The Dodgers have
Speaker 7: used one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 7: sixteen seventeen. If I'm adding up correctly and I got
Speaker 7: my glasses on, I think I counted seventeen starting pitchers
Speaker 7: already the Dodgers have used. The Anaheim Angels have used five.
Speaker 7: Five starting pitchers.
Speaker 5: That they've used. Well that hold up.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but it's interesting to see that in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five. And this question you bring up about
Speaker 7: why starting pitchers don't go longer, why they don't throw
Speaker 7: as many pitches in games, why there's a shorter leash
Speaker 7: for them and there's such a quick trigger to go
Speaker 7: the bullpen. There is a team in baseball, the Anaheim Angels.
Speaker 7: Five starting pitchers they have used this year.
Speaker 5: That is it.
Speaker 7: That's that's interesting. That's a crazy nugget of a stat.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's gonna stay that way. I
Speaker 7: don't see how it maintains over the course of one
Speaker 7: hundred and sixty two game season, but we shall see.
Speaker 7: And what has it got the Angels five hundred record
Speaker 7: in the American League eight six, six nine eighty seven
Speaker 7: two five seventy. Peter and Corona is next up here
Speaker 7: on Dodger Talk after a three to one win over
Speaker 7: the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 11: Hi doing Peter, Hey, I'm doing great, a great series.
Speaker 11: Kershaw was great. But my big question is hess on Kim.
Speaker 11: He didn't get a single abat in this series and
Speaker 11: we got when we got them.
Speaker 8: We let Gavin Lux go.
Speaker 11: He should be getting the advats that Gavin Luck said.
Speaker 5: So what is your question, Why isn't Kim plain more?
Speaker 11: That's my question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a good question for Dave Roberts.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure Michael Confordo is getting an opportunity still
Speaker 7: to see what he can do, and they're riding out
Speaker 7: that as long as possible. And look what he did
Speaker 7: over the weekend in Colorado. Hopefully that translates into Kansas
Speaker 7: City and beyond, because certainly you go to Colorado, things
Speaker 7: could be elevated as far as their stats are concerned.
Speaker 7: But maybe jump starts him. I mean, he had a
Speaker 7: hit in the finale against the Nationals on Sunday. He
Speaker 7: goes into Colorado on Tuesday, hits a home run, has
Speaker 7: a double, three RBIs last night two for four, a
Speaker 7: home run, and a Ribby did not play today because
Speaker 7: of the left hander Austin gomer So maybe when he's
Speaker 7: back out in Kansas City, and I'm looking at what
Speaker 7: Kansas City's thrown out there. Noah Cameron, left hander on Friday,
Speaker 7: Seth Lugo the right hander on Saturday, and then Chris Bubick,
Speaker 7: the left hander, will go on Sunday. So they'll see
Speaker 7: two left handers in this series. I don't know how
Speaker 7: that affects the lineup as far as Conforto's concerned and
Speaker 7: left Maybe Keky Hernandez gets more playing time in two
Speaker 7: of these next three games. Hayes on Kim. I'm not sure,
Speaker 7: but it is a good question. Why isn't Kim getting
Speaker 7: more at bats when he's playing well and maybe deserving
Speaker 7: of more at bats.
Speaker 5: Blake Blake checks.
Speaker 7: In, and for those just asking Blake, I'm gonna say
Speaker 7: this real quick, Blake, then I'll let you speak.
Speaker 5: Blake checked in with us over the weekend. Blake is
Speaker 5: in Colorado.
Speaker 7: Blake told this last time he checked in over the
Speaker 7: weekend here on Dodger Talk that Blake was going to
Speaker 7: go to the Dodgers Rockies game in Colorado and that
Speaker 7: was going to be I think number sixteen of his
Speaker 7: tour of ballparks in Major League Baseball, and then he
Speaker 7: was going to go to Kansas City this weekend and
Speaker 7: see the Dodgers at Kaufman Stadium there in Kansas City.
Speaker 7: Let's check in with Blake, Blake. Did you go to
Speaker 7: the game in this series in Denver? And are you
Speaker 7: going to Kansas City?
Speaker 5: Blake?
Speaker 12: Here?
Speaker 7: They am under one right now?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 11: City?
Speaker 7: White?
Speaker 9: Now and I go to all two games in Colorado?
Speaker 12: You did?
Speaker 3: Fine?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 7: Did you wait out? Did you wait through the rain
Speaker 7: delay last night? That was like an hour and a
Speaker 7: half long?
Speaker 1: Was that?
Speaker 5: Did you wait through it?
Speaker 3: Psij?
Speaker 7: Nice? Now you're on your way to Kansas City and
Speaker 7: this is going to be what number ballpark?
Speaker 5: Again? Blake? For you that you're gonna on.
Speaker 7: To Wow, Wow, that is awesome, Blake. Congratulations, congratulates. Now
Speaker 7: are you are you going to all three games in
Speaker 7: Kansas City? Are you just going to one or two?
Speaker 7: What's the plan this weekend? As you drive out there?
Speaker 5: You're going to all three games? Nice? Nice?
Speaker 7: Now we gotta get you in touch with David Vassa. Blake,
Speaker 7: and I know they don't get very big crowds in
Speaker 7: Kansas City. Maybe they will this weekend with the Dodgers
Speaker 7: in Tanda face the Royals and a lot of Dodger
Speaker 7: fans in the Midwest. But we gotta somehow get you
Speaker 7: in contact with David Vass. Get a picture with dv
Speaker 7: and say hello to David Vasse. How about that, Blake, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that would be cool. We will we will try to
Speaker 7: get you in touch with with David Vass. If you
Speaker 7: see him on the on the on the the field
Speaker 7: there he's out in the field before the games. If
Speaker 7: you get there for batting practice early and you're out there,
Speaker 7: look for David Vass if you can find a picture.
Speaker 5: What he looks like. He's the tall, good looking guy.
Speaker 5: Find him.
Speaker 7: He's got a microphone usually in his hand that says
Speaker 7: A five seventy and then then say hello and get
Speaker 7: his attention and we'll tell him to be on the
Speaker 7: lookout for you.
Speaker 5: Okay, Blake, Okay, awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go to Milwaukee teams too.
Speaker 5: What you're going to?
Speaker 7: That's right, you told this you're going. That's number seventeen.
Speaker 7: That's number seventeen. Blake, man, you are having yourself a
Speaker 7: summer to remember, You're going to Denver, Kansas City, and Milwaukee.
Speaker 7: What a summer? Don't ever forget this? How lucky are you?
Speaker 7: Blake Man, be safe, all right, it save travels to
Speaker 7: you and your family.
Speaker 11: Thank you bye.
Speaker 5: All right, there he.
Speaker 7: Goes Blake, our young fan from Colorado heading to Kansas City.
Speaker 5: That's what it's all about. That is what it's all about.
Speaker 7: Summertime away from school, a chance to go see ballparks
Speaker 7: across the country. He lives in Colorado, able to go
Speaker 7: see the Dodgers in Denver and then follow them to
Speaker 7: Kansas City.
Speaker 5: He's gonna go see a game at Miller Park. Hopefully,
Speaker 5: hopefully he doesn't.
Speaker 7: Go down the slide like David Vasse and get us
Speaker 7: a chance to see.
Speaker 5: Now his sixteenth and seventeenth ballpark. How cool is that?
Speaker 7: Thirty ballparks in baseball and young Blake's gonna be seen
Speaker 7: seventeen of them at his young age.
Speaker 5: Very cool. That is something I wish all.
Speaker 7: Baseball fans were able to experience, whether you're young or old,
Speaker 7: whether you're retired, and have a chance to go see
Speaker 7: the country, go see ballparks. A father, an uncle, a grandfather,
Speaker 7: Go out and do that, experience baseball and other ballparks,
Speaker 7: see your favorite team in another city, see the Dodgers
Speaker 7: on the road.
Speaker 5: It's a cool experience going and see him in different parts.
Speaker 7: It's one thing to go to San Diego or Anaheim,
Speaker 7: San Francisco. Those are relatively short trips. Go see him
Speaker 7: in Colorado, go to Arizona Dodger fans. If you haven't,
Speaker 7: it's a quick drive over to Phoenix. It's fun to
Speaker 7: see him at Chase Field in Arizona. Very cool that
Speaker 7: Blake gets to do that. Le'squeeze another phone call before
Speaker 7: we get to the top of the hour. Let's go
Speaker 7: to Dan and Camillo. Your next up. Thanks for being patient.
Speaker 1: Dan.
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 8: Hey, doing well? Thanks for taking my call. Sure, okay,
Speaker 8: real quick. I've got the perfect scenario. I just bought tickets.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers are America's team. What better scenario than for
Speaker 8: Tight and Cursha to get three thousand strikeouts. Then, on
Speaker 8: the part of July, I J's take in Houston Astros.
Speaker 8: Do you think about that, Mike Dan?
Speaker 5: I would love that. Dan.
Speaker 7: Nothing more patriotic than red, white and blue and strikeouts
Speaker 7: against the Houston Astros. I appreciate the phone call. I
Speaker 7: just don't see it up right now. I just don't
Speaker 7: feel like you can push another two days to a
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw start. He's scheduled to go on Wednesday, July second.
Speaker 7: You can get your tickets at Dodgers dot Com. Tickets,
Speaker 7: by the way, are off for Yoshinobu Yamamodo Bobblehead Night
Speaker 7: for the first forty thousand ticketed fans against the White
Speaker 7: Sox next Wednesday, July seventh or July second, July second,
Speaker 7: at seven to ten pm.
Speaker 5: I think it would be cool.
Speaker 7: I would love it if they can set it up
Speaker 7: where he goes on the fourth of July against the
Speaker 7: stink and cheat in Houston Astros. But I just don't
Speaker 7: see that in the cards. I don't see that as
Speaker 7: a viable option. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 7: five seventy Eric, and you kaipa, and then we'll take
Speaker 7: a break.
Speaker 5: Eric. How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, my friend? Thanks?
Speaker 10: Tim? You're also hey, Tim?
Speaker 3: Yes, I I want to say, dude, I.
Speaker 10: Love Tim Neverett. The way he calls the game, just
Speaker 10: say his enthusiasm and like when something good happened. It's
Speaker 10: just so, it just comes out natural.
Speaker 2: It's not fake.
Speaker 5: So I don't think they are fake. I think they're
Speaker 5: all natural.
Speaker 1: Eric.
Speaker 7: I appreciate the phone call. I'm sure Tim never appreciates
Speaker 7: some nice words.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he does.
Speaker 7: I think they're all great. I don't think there's anything
Speaker 7: fake about a play by but it's hard. You cannot
Speaker 7: fake play by play.
Speaker 5: It just can't.
Speaker 7: It's somebody who wanted to do it so many years ago.
Speaker 7: There there's no way to fake it. I mean, if
Speaker 7: there's a monumental moment coming up, sure you can jot
Speaker 7: down some notes, maybe a little saying or something, but.
Speaker 5: You can't script or fake live.
Speaker 7: Sports in front of you, whether it's basketball, football, baseball,
Speaker 7: whatever the sport is in front of you, hockey, it's
Speaker 7: happening in the moment in front of you. There's nothing
Speaker 7: fake about it. Again, you can jot down maybe something
Speaker 7: that when that monumental moment or historic moment happens, you
Speaker 7: can refer to it and make sure you don't forget
Speaker 7: it if you want to say something.
Speaker 5: But yeah, play by play, that's natural, man.
Speaker 7: I mean, a pitch happens, you gotta describe it, talk
Speaker 7: about in the moment. You don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 7: be a ball or a strike, or a home run
Speaker 7: or a strikeout. There's no way to predict that. So yeah,
Speaker 7: there's nothing scripted about that as far as the play
Speaker 7: on the field and what's happening. We'll take a quick
Speaker 7: time out, we'll come back. We'll get some more of
Speaker 7: your phone calls. Petros some money with Jonas Knox coming
Speaker 7: in and just a little bit, I see the guys
Speaker 7: doing some high knee exercises down the hall. Petros of course,
Speaker 7: racing towards the vending machine. So the guys will be
Speaker 7: on coming up in just a little bit. Dodgers win
Speaker 7: again ten straight over the Colorado Rockies as they finish
Speaker 7: off this swee get three games sweep in Denver, a
Speaker 7: three to one come from behind win, the thirty fifth
Speaker 7: come back win of the season. A three to one
Speaker 7: win over the Rockies in Denver. Are on A five
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Speaker 7: own the dream. The All Star voting is happening around
Speaker 7: Major League Baseball and they are moving on to Phase
Speaker 7: two of the voting, where the number of players shrink,
Speaker 7: so you can vote for all the position players for
Speaker 7: your favorite team in the initial round, and then the
Speaker 7: top vote getters at those positions move on to Phase
Speaker 7: two of the voting, and the two top vote getters
Speaker 7: in each respective lead automatically move on without having to
Speaker 7: go to a round two sho Heotani congratulation, has already
Speaker 7: now been voted in as the starting designated hitter for
Speaker 7: the National League as their top vote getter. The Dodgers
Speaker 7: have seven players who advanced to the final round of
Speaker 7: the All Star voting, which the All Star Game Will
Speaker 7: You played in Atlanta coming up in just a few weeks.
Speaker 7: Show Heyo Tani is officially in moving on to the
Speaker 7: second round of voting. In the National League, Will Smith,
Speaker 7: Dodger catcher, moving on. He'll go up against Carson Kelly,
Speaker 7: who moves on. As far as National League catchers, Freddie
Speaker 7: Freeman moves on. He and Pete Alonso fighting it out
Speaker 7: for top vote getter and starter at first base in.
Speaker 5: The National League.
Speaker 7: Tommy Edmond and Kotel Marte of the Diamondbacks move on
Speaker 7: to the second round and to see who will be
Speaker 7: the starting second baseman in the National League. Mookie Betts
Speaker 7: along with Francisco Lindor move on as the top two
Speaker 7: vote getters at shortstop. They'll square off in voting to
Speaker 7: see who will be named starter in the All Star Game.
Speaker 7: Max Muncie and Manny Machado move on to square off
Speaker 7: to see who will be the starter at third base
Speaker 7: in the National League All Star Game, and not one
Speaker 7: but two Dodger outfielders are a lunks the six finalists
Speaker 7: for the National League All Star vote getting Wan Soto
Speaker 7: made it, Ronald Acunya, Junior Pete Crow, Armstrong, Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 7: ta Oscar Hernandez, and Andy Pi has a finalist.
Speaker 5: Is one of the top six outfielders to advance to
Speaker 5: Phase two.
Speaker 7: Andy Pas, congratulations, moves on to the second round of
Speaker 7: voting for the All Star Game. Very cool that many
Speaker 7: Dodger players and that's all you Dodger fans, that's all
Speaker 7: you're voting in phase one, round one of voting.
Speaker 5: Now you need to do it again. It comes down
Speaker 5: to this.
Speaker 7: Now the All Star Game ballot finalists are out, you
Speaker 7: can go to Dodgers dot com slash vote and start
Speaker 7: voting again for Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edmond, Mookie Betts, Max Munsey,
Speaker 7: Andy Pie his and tay Oscar Hernanez and Will Smith.
Speaker 7: Don't want to leave him out there as well, So
Speaker 7: get out there at Dodgers dot Com slash vote. Speaking
Speaker 7: to Will Smith, he was behind the plate today catching
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers. He was there for Clayton Kershaw's six innings,
Speaker 7: five strikeouts. Clayton Kershaw now three shy of three thousand.
Speaker 7: Let's go back out to Denver and here from Will Smith.
Speaker 14: All right, well, obviously Clayton Kershaw chasing wins and strikeouts today?
Speaker 12: Why was he so good? Yeah, he's just you know,
Speaker 12: has stuff going today. He was execute pitches, getting ahead
Speaker 12: of guys, you get some soft contact early, punching guys
Speaker 12: out with two strikes pitcherly.
Speaker 14: Well, even at this stage of his career and you
Speaker 14: catching him so many times, are you amazed by how
Speaker 14: good he still is in the different ways he finds
Speaker 14: to be good.
Speaker 12: Uh yeah, I mean he knows what he's doing out there,
Speaker 12: he knows how to find out, he knows how to
Speaker 12: he knows how to pitch. So it's it's fun being
Speaker 12: back there with him, you know, seeing him works, Younia,
Speaker 12: go out there and give us you know all you
Speaker 12: start after quality start, you know we need that.
Speaker 14: So Freddie's been keeping count for him. How many he's
Speaker 14: away from three thousand? Were you keeping count behind the
Speaker 14: play today?
Speaker 12: Yeah? I knew today. So hopefully next start he you know,
Speaker 12: gets the three thousand and can celebrate.
Speaker 14: He credited the biggest play of the game today to
Speaker 14: Miguel Rojas on that ball down the line by totally.
Speaker 14: How big of a play was that to get you
Speaker 14: guys out of the inning.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that was huge, tough play, tough Hobs still made it,
Speaker 12: doubled them up. Then later, you know, the little slow
Speaker 12: roller with Kirby on the mount get out of that inning.
Speaker 12: He made two huge plays. You know, It's just no
Speaker 12: question how good he is defensively over there. So it's
Speaker 12: good to see him out there.
Speaker 7: All right, there's Will Smith again. He and Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 7: A lot of praise for Miguel Rojas who played third
Speaker 7: base today with Austin Gomber on the mount of day
Speaker 7: off for Max Muncie and Miguel Rojas scored a run
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers, had a double in this game. And
Speaker 7: as you heard just Will Smith talking about it, we
Speaker 7: heard from Clayton Kershaw earlier talked about it. His defense
Speaker 7: at third base today. A couple of great plays from
Speaker 7: Miguel Rojas at the hot corner, helping out Kirby Yates
Speaker 7: late in the game and helping out Clayton Kershaw, who
Speaker 7: went the six innings one run, two hits five strikeouts.
Speaker 7: He is now three away from three thousand. A Joy
Speaker 7: in Alpine is next up here on Dodger Talk. Hi Joy,
Speaker 7: how are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Jim, how are you doing? Man?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great.
Speaker 7: Dodgers finish off the suite now, the Dodgers heading to
Speaker 7: Kansas City, and I imagine a lot of barbecue being
Speaker 7: eat tonight, including David Vasse enjoying little Kansas City barbecue.
Speaker 2: There you go, man, there you go. He deserves it
Speaker 2: after the dead fish. Henshake, I guess there you go.
Speaker 5: He saved Michael Conforto season.
Speaker 2: Right, That's what it seems like so far right right.
Speaker 2: I don't know if if Rick Monday was so.
Speaker 5: I think he's buying it.
Speaker 2: Anyways, you know, I had a quick question and you
Speaker 2: just kind of touched on it with Migi Ro. You know,
Speaker 2: I know the early season, with how we were kind
Speaker 2: of limping into games, a lot of people had him
Speaker 2: on that nme was the next dsad, right, But I've
Speaker 2: always appreciated what he does defensively. Do you think he's
Speaker 2: obviously a long way to go, but kind of solidified
Speaker 2: a little bit more of that today with what he
Speaker 2: showed that he gives us off the bench, and you know,
Speaker 2: I just want to say, hey, now, what a team
Speaker 2: right to limp their way into the top record and
Speaker 2: all of them wob But that's all I got for you, man,
Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call, all.
Speaker 5: Right, A joy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I like how you said they limped in to a
Speaker 7: fifty one and thirty one record. I mean, you still
Speaker 7: got MVPs in this lineup. You still got a really
Speaker 7: talented ball club out there. Yes, the injuries have hit
Speaker 7: them hard, and there's no doubt about it. They have
Speaker 7: at times patched their way through outings with openers bulkeeting
Speaker 7: guys and the inability in some games of the starters
Speaker 7: to get past a second or third inning in some starts.
Speaker 7: So no doubt I'd say the pitching staff, yes, has
Speaker 7: limped their way through the first eighty two games of
Speaker 7: the season with all the injuries that have hitting them.
Speaker 7: Darryl in Palmdale the sixty six to one checks in
Speaker 7: here on dot did you talk on this Thursday afternoon?
Speaker 5: What are you doing, Darryl?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 3: How you doing? Tim? Great gameyly, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: But when they took Kirshall out in the sixth I
Speaker 3: had more of a positive thing. I was saying, he
Speaker 3: might go out there and strike out the side, or
Speaker 3: what if he got two strikeouts and you know they
Speaker 3: betther want him come out again. But the thing about
Speaker 3: it is this, I got one question that I really
Speaker 3: want to ask you, and I really want to find out.
Speaker 3: When there's a run on third base with less than
Speaker 3: two outs, whatever happened to guys choking up on the
Speaker 3: bat putting the ball in play. I mean, you don't
Speaker 3: see it anymore. It's a lot uard too big to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a lost art, Darryl, I appreciate it. It is
Speaker 7: a lost art choking up on the bat, hitting the
Speaker 7: other way. Now, runner on third lesson two outs. I'll
Speaker 7: give you a word, slug drive the ball of the outfield.
Speaker 7: That's what's more important. If you hit it out, great,
Speaker 7: If you hit a deep fly ball, runner of scores,
Speaker 7: you've done your job just as much. The days of
Speaker 7: choking up and small ball. It's it's come back a
Speaker 7: little bit with the base running. That's because the game
Speaker 7: has changed with the bigger bags and the pitch clock,
Speaker 7: and the pitch clock now speeding up the pitchers and
Speaker 7: maybe some of the focuses off the base runners, and
Speaker 7: so base running has become an art again. I do
Speaker 7: think that we're seeing more and more of it, the
Speaker 7: Dodgers getting a little bit more speed.
Speaker 5: But you're right, the days of choking up.
Speaker 7: Hitting the other way small ball, yeah, those those are
Speaker 7: long gone, unfortunately. Daryl Mark and Carl's Bet our final
Speaker 7: call here on Dodger Talk after a three to one
Speaker 7: win over the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 5: How you doing Mark?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 4: Thanks Tim for taking my call. I thought it would
Speaker 4: take a minute after that seven to six zero area code,
Speaker 4: but I just want to talk about the schedule real quick.
Speaker 4: You know, going back a few two out of three
Speaker 4: in San Diego, three out of four in LA against
Speaker 4: the Giants, we got the Rockies. You know, we have
Speaker 4: a couple more series where I think we can win too,
Speaker 4: out of three. I really think that this is kind
Speaker 4: of the part of the season where we can stretch
Speaker 4: out that lead. I know it's as robust right now,
Speaker 4: but I really think that going forward the next two series,
Speaker 4: we could stretch it out even more and let those
Speaker 4: other teams in the West know what we're about. They're
Speaker 4: going to be down with you games going into the
Speaker 4: All Star break. Now, think about that.
Speaker 5: I'm with you. I'm glad you brought that up. Mark.
Speaker 7: That's a great point about where this Dodgers team is
Speaker 7: right now and this stretch of games. Take care of business.
Speaker 5: Handle it.
Speaker 7: Beat the Rockies like you're supposed to, and they did
Speaker 7: that a three game sweep. Now you go to Kansas City,
Speaker 7: don't take your foot off the gas, don't ease up,
Speaker 7: don't get comatose by the Kansas City barbecue. Take care
Speaker 7: of business against a bad Royals team that lost again
Speaker 7: today and is now falling into fourth place in the
Speaker 7: National or the American Central.
Speaker 5: You had Dustin May on the mound.
Speaker 7: Pretty sure, showy Otani is gonna go on Saturday TBD
Speaker 7: on Sunday for the Dodgers. Take care business, and then
Speaker 7: you get the White Sox next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's
Speaker 7: just a stretch of nine games. Heck, twelve games. You
Speaker 7: go back against the two of three they took from
Speaker 7: the Nationals. Pick up more games. You're six games up
Speaker 7: in the standings right now. Get that to eight, get
Speaker 7: that to minimum seven. Pick up at least a game
Speaker 7: over the weekend in the standings. Pick up two would
Speaker 7: be ideal. Get that bad boy up to eight going
Speaker 7: into the White Sox series, and then you got a
Speaker 7: shot to maybe get up to eight or nine, depending
Speaker 7: on where you're at. Build that lead up, because you're
Speaker 7: gonna go into the All Star Break with three against
Speaker 7: the Houston Astros, three against the Milwaukee Brewers are fighting
Speaker 7: in the NL Central, and three against the San Francisco Giants,
Speaker 7: who just added devers and are looking to stay afloat
Speaker 7: and fight in the NL West. It'd be nice to
Speaker 7: go into that series against San Francisco with a balloon
Speaker 7: lead and then really just take it to the Giants,
Speaker 7: just absolutely put them out of their misery. Going into
Speaker 7: the All Star Break, double digit lead over the Giants,
Speaker 7: That's what I would love to see.
Speaker 5: Now, got take care of business.
Speaker 7: That means winning series, That means sweeping the Royals, that
Speaker 7: means taking care of business against these bottom feeders in
Speaker 7: baseball this season.
Speaker 5: All right, that's gonna do it.
Speaker 7: Coming up next here on an FI seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 7: We've got the Petrose Money Show. Petros papadekas Jonas knocks
Speaker 7: in for Matt money Smith Today Great Sports Talk until
Speaker 7: seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 5: I'm sure a lot to talk about. Get into this
Speaker 5: Dodgers game.
Speaker 7: Clayton Kershaw three strikeouts away from three thousand. I know
Speaker 7: David Vasse is hoping to hop on later on the
Speaker 7: show with the guys. Great sports talk coming up, Nock next.
Speaker 7: But a great win for the Dodgers today they beat
Speaker 7: the Rockies three to one. Thanks to Coliny, they saw
Speaker 7: you for being a part of the show. Thanks for
Speaker 7: listening on this Thursday afternoon. Thanks for podcasting as well.
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