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Speaker 2: We are live at Truest Park in Atlanta. After the
Speaker 2: Braves defeat the Dodgers tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: six to two. Welcome the Dodger Talk. We have phone
Speaker 2: lines open at eight sixty six nine to eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. The tarp is on the field here
Speaker 2: at Truest Park as this game basically was played through
Speaker 2: light rain, and tomorrow there is expected to be heavier
Speaker 2: showers in the forecast here in downtown Atlanta, so we'll
Speaker 2: see whether or not that game gets played. But nonetheless,
Speaker 2: as far as tonight Tonight's game goes, it's pretty simple.
Speaker 2: You can't win games when your starting pitcher only goes
Speaker 2: two innings. That's really hard to do. And unfortunately, we
Speaker 2: have seen limited starts from a few different starting pitchers
Speaker 2: over the course of the last month, and Landon Nack
Speaker 2: was the latest in that line where he only went
Speaker 2: two innings tonight gave up five runs, four of them
Speaker 2: in the second inning on a pair of two run
Speaker 2: home runs, the first one by Geo Urshella, the second
Speaker 2: one by Jorge Solaire. And I still can't get over
Speaker 2: the fact that Nack was on the mound for eighteen
Speaker 2: minutes in that top of the second or bottom of
Speaker 2: the second inning and threw forty four pitches. And that
Speaker 2: was all she wrote. As far as Landon Nack goes,
Speaker 2: he just was not effective tonight, maybe pressing because he
Speaker 2: knows the Dodgers really need him to perform. Well, I'll
Speaker 2: say this, and I don't believe he's ever scared on
Speaker 2: the mound. I just feel like maybe he was pressing
Speaker 2: and also was frustrated with the fact that he did
Speaker 2: not have fastball command and also the fact he did
Speaker 2: not have a feel for his secondary pitches. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: didn't make this a game. Miguel Rojas Howard in the
Speaker 2: third inning, and then Tommy Edmond continues to swing the
Speaker 2: bat really well. He drove, he doubled home a run,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers were within three runs, but they really
Speaker 2: didn't muster any offense outside of those two innings. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman is struggling right now. He's three for his last
Speaker 2: twenty six after going oh for three tonight, and Shoe
Speaker 2: ha Otani was oh for for tonight with two strikeouts,
Speaker 2: So not a lot of offense from the Dodgers. The
Speaker 2: bigger news today was not so much this game, but
Speaker 2: just the Dodgers starting pitching in general. Today. Tyler Glasnow
Speaker 2: was supposed to throw a simulated game. It was maybe
Speaker 2: the last step before he returned to the Dodger rotation. Remember,
Speaker 2: there are own only fifteen games left in the regular season,
Speaker 2: so this was a big deal for the Dodgers to
Speaker 2: have glass Now on the road trip and going to
Speaker 2: throw a simulated game. Well that never happened because glass
Speaker 2: Now felt something in his elbow. Not sure if it
Speaker 2: was big or small, but he felt something, and the
Speaker 2: hitters were ready and he pie Has was supposed to
Speaker 2: be one of them. I believe Kermeier was another one
Speaker 2: that had helmet on ready to go, and they had
Speaker 2: the screens up, they had the iPads out ready to
Speaker 2: track all his great data, and he just was not
Speaker 2: feeling it. After throwing in the bullpen to warm up
Speaker 2: for that simulated game. And here's what Dave Roberts had
Speaker 2: to say earlier today about the simulated game that never
Speaker 2: was for Tyler glassnew.
Speaker 3: The concern is that he has discomfort and he doesn't
Speaker 3: feel that he can do what he's capable of doing
Speaker 3: it the baseball So that plays too, you know a
Speaker 3: lot of different things.
Speaker 2: Okay, So Dave Roberts just basically alluded to the fact
Speaker 2: that he felt discomfort. They're not sure the extent of
Speaker 2: that discomfort or the pain. Doesn't sound like they were
Speaker 2: going to do any additional testing. If they did or
Speaker 2: are going to, we'll find out tomorrow. But nonetheless, that
Speaker 2: kind of eliminates Tyler Glass now from pitching the rest
Speaker 2: of this regular season. Like I said, there's only fifteen
Speaker 2: games to go. An outside shot with the five days
Speaker 2: of rest, if the Dodgers do secure one of the
Speaker 2: top two seeds, that maybe there's an outside chance if
Speaker 2: the nlds were to go four or five games, he
Speaker 2: could pitch. But do you really want that to be
Speaker 2: the first time he's on the mound. That's not ideal.
Speaker 2: So this is a very interesting quandary the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: in with their starting pitching. They thought they had solved
Speaker 2: it during the offseason, but so many guys have gotten injured,
Speaker 2: including the two big acquisitions in Tyler Glass Now and
Speaker 2: Yoshi Yamamoto. Thankfully, Yamamoto has found his way back and
Speaker 2: can hopefully can stay healthy because right now he's basically
Speaker 2: the number two starter in a playoff series. The way
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now, it's Jack Flaherty, It's
Speaker 2: Yoshi Yamamoto, and draw a name out of the hat
Speaker 2: from Landon Nak to Walker Buehler to maybe even Tony Gonsolin.
Speaker 2: That is the state of the Dodgers starting pitching rotation
Speaker 2: right now and just being around Walker Buehler today, he's
Speaker 2: searching for answers. Clayton Kershaw, He's searching for answers on
Speaker 2: how to get his left big toe to cooperate. So
Speaker 2: this is not ideal for a team that is close
Speaker 2: to having baseball's best record. They're going to have to
Speaker 2: score a lot of runs in the postseason, and I
Speaker 2: feel like it's not going to be just the classic
Speaker 2: oral Hersheiser carry you to the finish line type of
Speaker 2: Dodger postseason or a Kershaw or Granky and a renew
Speaker 2: one two three going into the postseason. This is Jack
Speaker 2: Flaherty and Yamamoto and then the rest of it. You're
Speaker 2: going to have to throw a lot of different arms
Speaker 2: at teams to try to keep them at bay because
Speaker 2: you are going up against really good pitchers. As you
Speaker 2: know in the postseason, you cannot afford to give up
Speaker 2: three or four runs in the first two innings of
Speaker 2: a postseason game and expect your offense to climb out
Speaker 2: of that hole. That's just exhausting mentally and not realistic
Speaker 2: in a playoffs series. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number we'll get to the
Speaker 2: whole Otani possibility of pitching in the playoffs. I feel
Speaker 2: like that's a long shot, and I'm not sure Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts realized how much attention his answer on a satellite
Speaker 2: radio show is going to get. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Newport Beach, ken You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse
Speaker 2: Hi Ken Hi.
Speaker 4: David. First off, I want to congratulate you for mentioning
Speaker 4: the two things that are very obvious. Starting pitching is
Speaker 4: a big problem.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: What's really really got me worried, and you brought it up.
Speaker 4: Three for twenty six. I think it's a one to
Speaker 4: ten average. That's the worst on the team over the
Speaker 4: last eight games, and that's Freeman. His thumb clearly is
Speaker 4: a problem. I've never seen him go through a streak
Speaker 4: this pa. He's got the single worst average on the
Speaker 4: entire team over the last eight games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you saw in the homestand there were three
Speaker 2: or four different games where he just let the baseball
Speaker 2: play him at first base. It feels like he's a
Speaker 2: little gun shy to stick his right hand and in
Speaker 2: the glove because he's concerned about aggravating that middle finger
Speaker 2: on his right hand.
Speaker 4: Don't you think maybe a couple of days off because
Speaker 4: he's getting worse.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Ken, I don't feel like the two
Speaker 2: days off are going to heal that right middle finger.
Speaker 2: From what I understand, it's still going to take another
Speaker 2: three to four weeks for it to heal. So even
Speaker 2: if you give him a couple of days off, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how big of a difference that's going to
Speaker 2: make for his finger.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a concern, and so it is the starting pitching.
Speaker 4: But it stuck up the best record or close to it,
Speaker 4: and San Diego is winning right now.
Speaker 2: So is Arizona. So the Dodgers may lose a game
Speaker 2: in the standings tonight. Thanks for the phone call, Ken
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Yeah, Freddie Freeman, you know I saw him today.
Speaker 2: Yesterday was his birthday. He had a big birthday dinner
Speaker 2: last night. Eighteen family members were in town to celebrate
Speaker 2: with Freddie and his son. Charlie's got a birthday coming
Speaker 2: up this weekend as well. But I didn't ask him
Speaker 2: about the right middle finger and how much that's affecting him.
Speaker 2: But you have to imagine some days are better than others,
Speaker 2: and recently just hasn't been there for Freddy, And more importantly,
Speaker 2: when he fields ground balls at first base, kind of
Speaker 2: feels like he's a little gun shy to stick his
Speaker 2: right hand in the pocket there. So hopefully he can
Speaker 2: manage this. He's pretty good at doing that and certainly
Speaker 2: has done a great job of finding a way to
Speaker 2: be out there every day. And like I said, the
Speaker 2: first first two seeds get five days off, and I
Speaker 2: know the Dodgers have had that the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: and some say that's too much time off. Well, I
Speaker 2: feel at this stage and where the Dodgers are with
Speaker 2: their starting pitching, and where Freddy's at and who knows
Speaker 2: who else that are battling aches and pains. Those five
Speaker 2: days are going to be very beneficial for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: to reset. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. By the way, Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: told me earlier today he is planning on throwing for
Speaker 2: the first time since going on the il with right
Speaker 2: shoulder inflammation on Monday or Tuesday, So that will be
Speaker 2: a big test for Gavin Stone. If he is pain free,
Speaker 2: just throwing from a limited amount of distance, then we
Speaker 2: then he can move on to a further distance. And
Speaker 2: you just keep your fingers crossed that everything responds, because
Speaker 2: not only are we thinking about the Dodgers and their
Speaker 2: postseason rotation, but Gavin Stone's a great kid and he
Speaker 2: showed a lot of guts this season, making more starts
Speaker 2: than anybody else on the team. So keeping my fingers
Speaker 2: crossed for Gavin Stone for all of that to go. Well,
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: When we continue, we have phone lot two phone lines
Speaker 2: open at eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll let you hear from Day Roberts about show, Hey
Speaker 2: Otani and the questions that have been brought up in
Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours about Otani being a possibility
Speaker 2: to pitch in some capacity in the postseason. I'll give
Speaker 2: you my thoughts on that as well as we continue
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Speaker 1: Comes the pitch on the way from Spencer Swelling backers
Speaker 1: watch it well in left field, heading back to the wall.
Speaker 2: It is gone home Raun.
Speaker 7: Miguel rojash por Miguel home run number.
Speaker 2: Five on the season, and the Dodgers get on the board.
Speaker 2: It is five to one. David Massey live at Truest
Speaker 2: Park in Atlanta, after the Braves beat the Dodgers tonight
Speaker 2: by a final score of six to two. But Miguel
Speaker 2: Rojas continues to swing a hot bat. I mentioned this
Speaker 2: during the Clubhouse show and at bears repeating, do you
Speaker 2: know Miguel Rojas is hitting three thirty. Ever since Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts came back and went to right field and Rojas
Speaker 2: now is the everyday shortstop. He has swung a hot
Speaker 2: bat and also has played great defense, as we know,
Speaker 2: but don't sleep on Miguel Rojas. And also Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: in forty three September games has really taken it to
Speaker 2: another level. Remember Tommy Edmund, before he came back with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, had not played all season long due to
Speaker 2: a wrist surgery and then a right ankle a severe sprain.
Speaker 2: And here he is in September, you know, slugging close
Speaker 2: to seven hundred. He had two home runs in each
Speaker 2: of the last two games at Dodger Stadium. So offense
Speaker 2: and the Dodger lineup is not a problem. The big
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Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number we have a one phone line open
Speaker 2: at eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We will get to you in just a moment, but
Speaker 2: I want you to hear from Dave Roberts. Bill Plashki
Speaker 2: of the La Times made a column out of Otani
Speaker 2: possibly pitching in the postseason. Dave Roberts was asked about
Speaker 2: it on a satellite radio show. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now everybody has their hopes up high that Otani is
Speaker 2: going to pitch in some capacity in the playoffs. That
Speaker 2: would be wonderful, But realistically, are the Dodgers really going
Speaker 2: to push Otani's throwing program at at a risk to
Speaker 2: not only possibly set him back with his elbow for
Speaker 2: next year and moving forward? And then what if he
Speaker 2: does tweak something, whether it's his hamstring or his elbow
Speaker 2: or his shoulder, then all of a sudden, you don't
Speaker 2: have your best hitter, your dh your fifty to fifty guy.
Speaker 2: Is it really worth the risk to push a guy
Speaker 2: that is only going to pitch maybe an inning in
Speaker 2: a postseason game. To me, that just doesn't add up.
Speaker 2: And here's what Dave Roberts had to say about his
Speaker 2: comments on a satellite radio show that left the door
Speaker 2: open for that possibility.
Speaker 3: And the question I was asked, is it a possibility.
Speaker 3: Anything's possible, and so this is something that is a
Speaker 3: long ter play. We still got a lot of work
Speaker 3: to get to October and through October. So I hope
Speaker 3: that's on his mind as far as motivation for his rehab.
Speaker 3: But the odds of it come in to pass are
Speaker 3: very slim, but they're not zero. And that was just
Speaker 3: my only point.
Speaker 2: That's fine. Dave Roberts is not going to say absolutely not.
Speaker 2: But realistically, like I said, is it worth pushing Otani
Speaker 2: to throw an inning or two innings in a game
Speaker 2: just to have the dramatics of the romanticism that Bill
Speaker 2: Plashki so eloquently laid out in his column yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if this was Disneyland, that sounds like a great ending
Speaker 2: at the end of a ride. But this is reality.
Speaker 2: You cannot risk injuring Otani or him tweaking something that
Speaker 2: would take him out of a playoff game. As your
Speaker 2: DH I'm sorry, it's not worth the risk. And if
Speaker 2: you follow me on social media at a fit vassay
Speaker 2: on Instagram at the Real Underscore dv on X, you'll
Speaker 2: see that I posted his latest bullpen session. It was
Speaker 2: his fifth bullpen session at Dodger Stadium, and he threw
Speaker 2: twenty pitches. Twenty pitches doesn't sound like a guy that's
Speaker 2: ready to come into a playoff game. But you know,
Speaker 2: I've said this many times before about guys like Kershaw
Speaker 2: and Mookie Betts. You don't count out the great ones.
Speaker 2: And that's what Dave Roberts is doing by leaving the
Speaker 2: door open. He's not counting out a great one, one
Speaker 2: of the greats. If there is a scenario where possibly
Speaker 2: he can come out of the bullpen for an inning,
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Dodgers would not rule that out. I
Speaker 2: feel like the scenario would be none of us would know,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, in the sixth or
Speaker 2: seventh inning, we would see Otani walk out to the bullpen,
Speaker 2: and everybody would start freaking out that Otani's in the
Speaker 2: bullpen and might try to close out a playoff game.
Speaker 2: That's the only scenario I see happen. Eight six, six, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: willand Hills. John, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 4: John, Yeah, David.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm concerned about the Dodgers. You report incredible news,
Speaker 8: especially on the Petros and Money Show. Shout out to
Speaker 8: the Petros and Money Show.
Speaker 9: But I have to.
Speaker 8: Tell you, I'm really concerned because Otani is an amazing player,
Speaker 8: but he can't do it alone. And if they don't
Speaker 8: have Kershaw and they don't have the Stardi pitching, Bueler
Speaker 8: and Miller have been horrible, and now the setback with
Speaker 8: Gas now, this is this is a huge concern. I
Speaker 8: mean years ago, I was pissed off because I felt
Speaker 8: that the Dodgers needed Erlander and instead they got Darvish
Speaker 8: and Darbish was terrible in twenty seventeen. I think that
Speaker 8: setback from twenty seventeen led to the moment that we're
Speaker 8: in right now, and that's on the margins. I mean,
Speaker 8: Freeman is all about the margins. It's all like, are
Speaker 8: we on the margins? Whatever, Clarity is amazing, that's great,
Speaker 8: but tomorrow Clarity is going against sales sales cy Young.
Speaker 8: I mean, today needed to be a statement game from Freeman.
Speaker 8: Freeman was a no show, you know, against his old team,
Speaker 8: and Otani went over or whatever. This is not I
Speaker 8: mean this is not okay the Dodgers needs.
Speaker 2: This wasn't an ideal offensive night for the Dodgers, John,
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. A statement game. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I would go that far. It's a four game series.
Speaker 2: The Braves are fighting for their playoff lives. Their offense
Speaker 2: is ane mix, so I was surprised they scored five
Speaker 2: runs off of land and Knack. But that's where it starts,
Speaker 2: John starts with the Dodgers starting pitching. That you started
Speaker 2: to talk about you can't only get two innings from
Speaker 2: your starter and expect to win.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I thank you for confirming the truth, which
Speaker 7: is the Braves have been terrible up until tonight. This
Speaker 7: is this is what's concerning is that the Braves hit
Speaker 7: the Dodgers like mad tonight.
Speaker 8: And that's the case.
Speaker 2: What did they do after Landon Nak came out of
Speaker 2: the game, John, They were and you make the rest
Speaker 2: of the game. They took advantage of a wobbly Landon
Speaker 2: Knack and then only scored one more run after the
Speaker 2: second inning tonight. So you know, I wouldn't panic over that.
Speaker 2: The bigger concern is the big picture of who is
Speaker 2: going to start for the Dodgers in the playoffs after
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty. I think that's the bigger concern. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Got to take more calls, George and Compton.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. Hi, George, Hi, how you doing there?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 9: I agree with you and agree with Jitimate just car.
Speaker 9: I agree, but and I'm concerning myself that I'm a
Speaker 9: Dodger for neatic. But my main concern, and I got
Speaker 9: two main quick. The number one is the Dodgers hitters,
Speaker 9: those that don't hit many home runs. They are trying
Speaker 9: to swing for the field and over the fence, and
Speaker 9: they're swinging at pitchers in the dirt and they got
Speaker 9: the first two or three pitches coming to them is
Speaker 9: straight down the middle. They're looking at the ball. And
Speaker 9: I've seen this four five game. I've seen this in
Speaker 9: forty games, fifty games, and they're not doing it. And
Speaker 9: then I think that, uh, attorney Dave Robertson, he needs
Speaker 9: to just rest him for a couple of games. Freeman's
Speaker 9: not showing up, Mookie Best not showing up. Let's swift
Speaker 9: the lineup. You got men that got fifty home runs,
Speaker 9: got twenty thirty on runs, and they hit one and two,
Speaker 9: change the lineup. And this is what my problem is.
Speaker 9: The Dodgers is not doing it consistently, and this will
Speaker 9: give me a problem. I know, I pictured it is hurting.
Speaker 9: I understand that. But our hitters is not hitting the ball.
Speaker 9: They are swinging for the field and that's over the fence.
Speaker 2: George, hitting is a lot is really hard and it's
Speaker 2: unrealistic to expect these guys to go three for four
Speaker 2: every night or two for four every night. Their lineup
Speaker 2: is really good the Dodgers. That's the least of my
Speaker 2: concerns right now. They just scored ten runs last or
Speaker 2: two nights ago to beat the Cubs. Their lineup is
Speaker 2: not my concern. Their pitching is a greater concern for me.
Speaker 9: I agree with you. I agree with you.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 9: We got some great all right, but all it hurting?
Speaker 2: Well, who's starting? Who's your top three starters for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the playoffs? Maybe you could give us some ideas.
Speaker 2: Who if the NLDS was starting tomorrow, who's starting for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers games one, two and three?
Speaker 9: Okay, one two and three, yak girth, Yakimodi, I'll give
Speaker 9: him a chance.
Speaker 2: Yamamoto Yamamoto.
Speaker 9: Yamamoto after him. I got to bring Kershaw on there.
Speaker 2: Kershaw, he hasn't pitched in three weeks because of a
Speaker 2: bad big toe, but.
Speaker 9: That token go down. I got to bring them in.
Speaker 9: I ain't got nobody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, that's my point. You're going after Otani, Mooki
Speaker 2: and Freddie. Yeah. Sorry, no, I agree with you. Thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call, and I would go flaarty Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: and then hopefully Kershaw can get this turf toe under control,
Speaker 2: because if he was healthy, he would be my number
Speaker 2: three starter. He's still throwing. I saw him throwing today
Speaker 2: with some artificial like pitchers mound ramp, but he's still
Speaker 2: trying to figure out this left big toe that has
Speaker 2: cost him a lot of pain and a lot of frustration.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Oscar, who was actually here in Atlanta. Oscar,
Speaker 2: were you at Truest Park tonight, Yes, sir, mister DV
Speaker 2: And holy crap, Holy crap, what a pleasure to finally
Speaker 2: talk to you. Hey, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 9: Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Oscar, I appreciate it. Speaking of holy crap,
Speaker 2: they have a zip line out there in center field
Speaker 2: in the kids zone. Heidi Watney showed me. She went
Speaker 2: on it. It's given me some ideas, Oscar.
Speaker 9: Please don't David. We need you for the rest of
Speaker 9: the season.
Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, they have a good time.
Speaker 10: Much much love.
Speaker 9: Yes, it was a great well, not a great.
Speaker 8: Game, tough loss, but just wanted to let you know.
Speaker 11: I'm a transplant from Fontana out here in Atlanta and
Speaker 11: I'm here to stay true to the blue.
Speaker 2: Love it, Oscar, love it. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Awesome to hear from somebody that's a
Speaker 2: transplant that is still keeping their ties with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and it was I'm sure a great experience to come
Speaker 2: see them in person. It was awesome man.
Speaker 9: To make it better, we're gonna go to waffle house.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know where that is, right across from the battery.
Speaker 2: I know that place. That's where I got my umbers
Speaker 2: after the twenty one NLCS.
Speaker 10: That's awesome, David, much love, man, and nice.
Speaker 9: To hear from you.
Speaker 2: Hey, great to hear from you too, Oscar. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Braves beat the Dodgers tonight six to two at Truest Park.
Speaker 2: And in case you ever have a chance to come
Speaker 2: see the Dodgers here in Atlanta, I'll give you a
Speaker 2: scouting report on where this stadium is. This new stadium,
Speaker 2: it's in the suburbs of Atlanta. They call it the
Speaker 2: Battery Area. It's an interesting setup because when you make
Speaker 2: a right turn into this Battery Area, they have condos,
Speaker 2: they have restaurants, and they have a few shops leading
Speaker 2: up to the ballpark of Truest Park. And if you
Speaker 2: have a chance to come to Truest Park, they have
Speaker 2: a great sort of Braves Hall of Fame on the
Speaker 2: field level concourse with a wonderful statue honoring Hank Aaron.
Speaker 2: And if you ever have a chance to come to
Speaker 2: Truest Park, you have to go check that out. That's
Speaker 2: probably the highlight of this stadium outside of the game,
Speaker 2: if you want to check out some old Braves memorabilia
Speaker 2: and a lot of Hank Aaron stuff. And they also
Speaker 2: have sid Breams knee brace when he slid in safely
Speaker 2: ahead of a throw from Barry Bonds in the ninety
Speaker 2: one NLCS. So that's the kind of stuff you'll see there.
Speaker 2: Eight six six two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to see me, Valley, Kevin, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi. Kevin, Hey, d V.
Speaker 9: Good to talk with you.
Speaker 10: Disappointing though tonight, but I wanted to to agree with
Speaker 10: you on the Otani pitching experiment. I think we've seen
Speaker 10: enough of this with the Dodgers over the last decade.
Speaker 10: Max Scherzer was was it a fine example of how
Speaker 10: not to do it with him coming in to close
Speaker 10: out one of those early playoff games, and whether it
Speaker 10: was his excuse or whatever, but you know, it's like
Speaker 10: bringing It's like bringing Neil Elatrons into do brain surgery.
Speaker 10: You know he's a gifted guy, but he's a specialist.
Speaker 10: You don't want him to break his routine and start
Speaker 10: doing something different. We've seen the same thing. They've done
Speaker 10: it with Kershaw and it hasn't really panned out very
Speaker 10: well for them. So the only pitcher I don't want
Speaker 10: to see in the postseason day Key K. Please don't
Speaker 10: have the K pitch in the postseason.
Speaker 2: If Key K's pitching in the postseason, it's not a
Speaker 2: good sign, no doubt. Kevin. Thanks for the phone call. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm all up for Otani pitching, but if he was ahead,
Speaker 2: let's say things were different as far as where he's
Speaker 2: at in his rehab from his second elbow surgery. Let's
Speaker 2: say he was throwing the hitters right now. It would
Speaker 2: be more realistic to believe that he could come in
Speaker 2: and pitch an anywhere to in a couple of postseason
Speaker 2: games when necessary to cover some innings. But he's not there.
Speaker 2: He's only throwing twenty pitches in a bullpen session. So unfortunately,
Speaker 2: like I said, it would be great if this was
Speaker 2: a ride at Disneyland, and at the end of the ride,
Speaker 2: O'tani is striking out Aaron Judge to win the World
Speaker 2: Series for the Dodgers or Alex Bregman of the Astros
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers, and it is doing what Bill Plashki suggested,
Speaker 2: duplicating striking out Mike Trout in the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: But the reality is O'tani is nowhere near where he
Speaker 2: should be if you wanted him to pitch in the postseason.
Speaker 2: He's throwing twenty pitches in a bullpen session. Like I said,
Speaker 2: if he was throwing to hitters, there would be more
Speaker 2: of a realistic chance to believe that he could do
Speaker 2: what Plashki is suggesting. I just don't see it happening
Speaker 2: at the risk of not only Otani's pitching career, but
Speaker 2: also risking losing Otani for a period of time at
Speaker 2: the most critical juncture of the season when you need
Speaker 2: him to be your fifty to fifty hitter. If he
Speaker 2: hurts himself pitching or ramping up his throwing progressions in October,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, now you're risking losing him in
Speaker 2: games as one of the more feared hitters in baseball.
Speaker 2: That's why two months ago Dave robertson the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: saying he was pausing his throwing program because they don't
Speaker 2: want to take away from what is the main focus,
Speaker 2: and that's him being healthy and ready to help the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in a playoff game or a playoff series. So
Speaker 2: that's the reason why it's great for us on this
Speaker 2: show to talk about it. It really did help us
Speaker 2: tonight on a night the Dodgers lost in Atlanta. But
Speaker 2: realistically those are huge cons and that's the reason why
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have not entertained it, and Dave Roberts kind
Speaker 2: of got put in a corner and he's not going
Speaker 2: to rule anything out, but the facts are it is
Speaker 2: a huge long shot. Let's go out to Santa Maria Rubin.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi Rubin.
Speaker 5: Good even, Dave. How are you doing? I got a
Speaker 5: question for you? Yeah, what is the do you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I mean, I'm sure I can't find it, but I'm
Speaker 11: looking for Dodger hitting stats versus teams number one and
Speaker 11: number two pitcher. And my second question is, uh, do
Speaker 11: you know uh like Otwani?
Speaker 2: Okay, number one Ruben To answer that question, I would
Speaker 2: try to find that, but I also would try to
Speaker 2: find let's say, the Phillies record against number ones and
Speaker 2: number twos, because you have to put it into context. Uh,
Speaker 2: ones and twos don't give up a lot of runs.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 11: Yeah, But I'm not worried about Philly. I'm worried about
Speaker 11: the Dodgers facing number one and two because that's what
Speaker 11: you see in the playoffs, is number one, number two.
Speaker 11: And then my second question was Otani, do you know
Speaker 11: his batting average with runners and scoring positions here?
Speaker 2: I do. It's a rhetorical question, is that what you're
Speaker 2: trying to say, are you trying.
Speaker 5: To No, No, I'm just I can't find it.
Speaker 11: I'm I'm you're, you're the Dodger guy, You're I mean you're,
Speaker 11: You're in the clubhouse, You're there. I can't find that
Speaker 11: stat what it is.
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting to eighteen this season with runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position.
Speaker 5: Okay, there you go. I don't know why I can't
Speaker 5: find it, but yeah, okay, and it's it's weird. I
Speaker 5: know you don't. You don't talk a lot of.
Speaker 11: About betting on this show. But it's funny how I'm
Speaker 11: a lifetime Dodger fan. How Vegas still has the Dodgers
Speaker 11: favor to win the World Series is as much as
Speaker 11: their their pitching staffs banged up. To me, it don't
Speaker 11: make sense. I'm scared as a Dodger fan.
Speaker 5: That we don't we don't go deep into this playoff.
Speaker 11: But Vegas ain't in the business of losing money. I'm
Speaker 11: surprised there's still still big one of the top one.
Speaker 5: Or two favors to win the World Series.
Speaker 11: But I think something something's wrong there.
Speaker 5: But you know, maybe.
Speaker 2: Beyeve the reason. Name another team that's dominant, Rubin, there
Speaker 2: is no dominant team. The Dodgers could beat any team,
Speaker 2: and even with their pitching staff in the shape that
Speaker 2: it's in, there's no clear dominant team. And if you
Speaker 2: had to stack them up, it would be the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: the Astros, and the Phillies to me, that are the best.
Speaker 2: And the Mets might be the Cinderella team this year
Speaker 2: the way they're playing. Nobody counted them in and they
Speaker 2: were under five hundred. They remind me a lot of
Speaker 2: the twenty nineteen Nationals. So those would be my top four.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but if you look at the last two, the
Speaker 11: last two three years, you look at Philly head to
Speaker 11: head versus the Dodgers, they kicked our butt. San Diego's
Speaker 11: kicked our butt, and those are I mean, those are
Speaker 11: the top two teams that come to my mind that
Speaker 11: you know, you know, I'm a little bit afraid of.
Speaker 5: But I mean, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 11: But thanks for getting that stat and I appreciate it.
Speaker 11: And yeah, and then if you throw it out later
Speaker 11: on in the show, I just wanted to see what
Speaker 11: how we do against teams number one and number two.
Speaker 5: Thank you, David, and have a good evening, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Ruben. Thank you for the phone call. I will
Speaker 2: not be able to get that record for you. As
Speaker 2: far as number ones and number twos go, I don't
Speaker 2: have that at my fingertips. And it is the end
Speaker 2: of the show right now. Tomorrow night there is rain
Speaker 2: in the forecast, so hopefully we get this marquee pitching
Speaker 2: matchup that will have Jack Flaherty going up against Chris Sale.
Speaker 2: Chris Saale is having an incredible comeback year. He is
Speaker 2: the leading candidate to win the National League Cy Young Award.
Speaker 2: He's sixteen and three with an ERA of two thirty eight.
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Speaker 2: once again. The final score tonight from Truest Park in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers fall to the Braves six to two. Have
Speaker 2: a great rest of your night here you have four
Speaker 2: years