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Speaker 2: Hey mixed night for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Good they get the win.
Speaker 2: Good they pick up a game on the Padres and
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: Bad.
Speaker 2: Tyler Klass now goes on the injured list with right elbow.
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Speaker 2: as well. As the Dodgers get to win in Saint
Speaker 2: Louis seven to six over the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: It wasn't easy.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers jumped out to a two zhen lead, saw
Speaker 2: that lead disappear on a Paul Goldsmith to run home run.
Speaker 2: The Cardinals would take the lead in the third out
Speaker 2: of run in the fifth and the Dodgers down four
Speaker 2: to two in the sixth inning, put together a five
Speaker 2: run inning capped off by a Kevin Kiermyer three run
Speaker 2: home run to give the Dodgers the lead. They go
Speaker 2: on and win it by a final of seven to six.
Speaker 2: Justin Robluski, he gets the win. The left hander gets
Speaker 2: called back up, makes his fifth start in the major leagues,
Speaker 2: goes five innings, Dodgers give the run support in the sixth,
Speaker 2: they give him his first win in the big leagues.
Speaker 2: He was happy after the game talking to David Vasse
Speaker 2: and the rest of the assembled media, as Michael Kopek
Speaker 2: also got a first, his first save in a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: The hard throwing right hender picked up his tenth save
Speaker 2: of the season, his first in a Dodger uniform. And
Speaker 2: the Dodgers just had the right recipe tonight, timely hitting,
Speaker 2: home run ball, good pitching, and a lockdown closer in
Speaker 2: the ninth inning to get the win. And they do
Speaker 2: just that, seven to six over the Cardinals, and with
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks and Padres both losing, the Dodgers pick up
Speaker 2: a game in the division, now three games up over
Speaker 2: Arizona and San Diego. Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is our number. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy. That's all good. The Dodgers win.
Speaker 2: They come back and do it. They get good pitching,
Speaker 2: three home runs. Mookie Betts goes team, Michael Kopek comes in,
Speaker 2: closes it out in the ninth inning with a pair
Speaker 2: of strikeouts.
Speaker 3: They pick up a game in the Division. The bad again.
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass Now, right before first pitch, we find out
Speaker 2: the move that he was placed on the injured list
Speaker 2: with right elbow tendon. Nightis quite frankly in his last start.
Speaker 2: Didn't see anything that was out of the ordinary. Didn't
Speaker 2: hear anything the last couple of days as far as
Speaker 2: he wasn't feeling right. The elbow was barking, he felt
Speaker 2: some soreness. This kind of came out of left field.
Speaker 2: Tyler glasnow has made twenty two starts for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 2: He's got that one short stint on the injured list.
Speaker 2: He last pitched on Sunday in the final game of
Speaker 2: this home stand before the road started. Win seven innings,
Speaker 2: a lot, two runs, five hits. Dodgers winded up winning
Speaker 2: the game in next r innings in ten innings against
Speaker 2: the Pirates, but he pitched his tailoff. Didn't hear anything
Speaker 2: on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, And here we are on
Speaker 2: Friday and find out that Tyler Glass Now's elbow he's
Speaker 2: got some tendonitis in it, some inflammation in his right elbow,
Speaker 2: and right there is a red flag as we sit
Speaker 2: here now on August.
Speaker 3: Sixteenth, one Dodger pitcher.
Speaker 2: Who you can count on and hope for in the
Speaker 2: postseason is now got tendonitis in Tyler Glass now. And
Speaker 2: we know that he's coming off an arm injury a
Speaker 2: year and a half ago. He has pitched really well.
Speaker 2: He's been durable this year. He's given now almost a
Speaker 2: career high and number innings pitched and outings, and he's
Speaker 2: been everything the Dodgers that hoped for when they traded
Speaker 2: for him and signed him to that extension this past offseason.
Speaker 2: And to now find out he's got tendonitis in the elbow,
Speaker 2: it's starting to worry me. And that twenty second start
Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Pirates officially puts him at a
Speaker 2: new career high as far as starts in a season.
Speaker 2: Also now one hundred and thirty four innings pitched, he
Speaker 2: has surpassed his career high there as well. So he
Speaker 2: is into uncharted territory as far as pitching. So when
Speaker 2: you hear that and now is elbows barking, I start
Speaker 2: to worry. And I worry because we've seen so many
Speaker 2: Dodger pitchers, starters, relievers get hit by the injury bug.
Speaker 2: And I'm not counting Tony Gonsolid, and I'm not counting
Speaker 2: Dustin May, who the Dodgers weren't really counting on this
Speaker 2: year anyways. But Emma Shean, Kyle Hurt, the injury to Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: Bruce dark Ratterol Blake trying to on and off the
Speaker 2: il Ryan Brazier bio by a calf injury, non throwing
Speaker 2: arm situation. It's been a problem in Kurtin Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: coming off shoulder surgery. To hear Tyler Glass now's arm
Speaker 2: is barking with ten tonight, is is now worrisome for
Speaker 2: me as he is now career high in innings end
Speaker 2: games started, all right, Dave Roberts speaking to the media,
Speaker 2: We've been waiting for him. He is the fact is
Speaker 2: talking to the media. David Vassay is there. Let's head
Speaker 2: back to Saint Louis, hopefully find out more about Tyler
Speaker 2: Glassnow's elbow. Find out more about this game tonight. Let's
Speaker 2: check in back in Saint Louis with the Dodger manager.
Speaker 2: Here's Dave Roberts with the media.
Speaker 5: All right, Dave, considering everything that's going on with the team,
Speaker 5: how big of a win was this tonight?
Speaker 6: Huge win? You know, tonight we got contributions from from everyone,
Speaker 6: and you know, it wasn't the best pitch game, but
Speaker 6: offensively we we uh can't through. Kim had a huge hit,
Speaker 6: you know, migey Row had another big hit for us
Speaker 6: and played a really good defense, and so we got
Speaker 6: to win. And the back end guys were fantastic tonight
Speaker 6: and much needed. It was good playing against the playoff
Speaker 6: contending team. It's hard to win games here.
Speaker 5: Can you tell guys like Kopek and kier Maier that
Speaker 5: their careers have been rejuvenated coming to a winning team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can. And players want to play, but players
Speaker 6: want to win. And so now you put those two
Speaker 6: guys that are you know, veteran, veteran type players certainly
Speaker 6: on the Kermeyer side in a winning environment and they're
Speaker 6: ready when called upon, and the teammates feed off there
Speaker 6: kind of their gratitude to be here, and you know
Speaker 6: they come with a vengeance and we need that edginess certainly,
Speaker 6: you know where we're at in the calendar and certainly
Speaker 6: in the standings with.
Speaker 5: As dominant as Kopek has been, not just tonight you
Speaker 5: pitched him in the ninth him getting to say, the
Speaker 5: questions are going to be is he your closer?
Speaker 6: You know, we'll see. I don't want to kind of
Speaker 6: annoying him yet, but he's certainly, you know, making a
Speaker 6: strong case for that. And I also, you know, feel
Speaker 6: that you know, we've got some other guys that can
Speaker 6: finish games, and you know there's other times that the
Speaker 6: eighth inning is typically the top of the top of
Speaker 6: the order, and so you know that matters to so well,
Speaker 6: we'll see how it goes. But Cope, still in the
Speaker 6: heck out of the baseball, what can.
Speaker 5: You tell us about Tyler's injury that you announced before
Speaker 5: first pitch.
Speaker 6: He's got some elbow tendonitis and so this came about
Speaker 6: after his bullpen and so after his pen I forgot
Speaker 6: which day it was he felt good. The next day
Speaker 6: in catch play it flared up a little bit. So
Speaker 6: right now it's ten to nine ers. We took scans
Speaker 6: and that's what it came. That's what came of it. So,
Speaker 6: you know, our expectation is that it's going to be
Speaker 6: the two week. We backdate a few days and then
Speaker 6: you know, when his time is up, he'll be ready
Speaker 6: to make a start and we'll plug him in.
Speaker 4: Somewhere considered is the elbow though how much does that
Speaker 4: sort of in the back of your mind as you're
Speaker 4: sort of managing him going forward.
Speaker 6: I think that's more of, you know, the impetus of
Speaker 6: putting him on the il so we don't have to
Speaker 6: worry about, you know, how we manage him. And he
Speaker 6: was fighting tooth and nail to make the start tomorrow.
Speaker 6: But you know, we've been we've been very consistent as
Speaker 6: far as you know, the stretch run, getting guys ready
Speaker 6: for the stretch run. And he's a big part of,
Speaker 6: you know, finishing the season out the right way. And
Speaker 6: so if he were to make the start tomorrow, I
Speaker 6: would have been on pins and needles from the first throw,
Speaker 6: and I don't think that's good for him, good for
Speaker 6: the team, and so we made the right decision. Again,
Speaker 6: Tyler was really disappointed because he feels like he wants
Speaker 6: to take the baseball. But I think as an organization,
Speaker 6: this something we had to.
Speaker 2: Do for first fishers. I just were waiting back on
Speaker 2: the scans.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just kind of trying to you know, he's
Speaker 6: already had a surgery and so just trying to line
Speaker 6: up with you know, stuff and getting it gathering as
Speaker 6: much information and symptomatically there's still something in there. But
Speaker 6: feels that he can still pitch. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: it's the right decision, even.
Speaker 2: If it is kind of a minimum on the eye out.
Speaker 7: How about you have to manage him, kind of moving
Speaker 7: forward him and.
Speaker 6: That he has you know, some history or you know.
Speaker 6: I think once he comes back, I think the Governor's off,
Speaker 6: you know, where we're going to be at. And that's
Speaker 6: the point of going through this process. And so he's
Speaker 6: not going to come back until we feel that we
Speaker 6: can use him the way he's supposed to be used
Speaker 6: as a major league you know, Ace and Bobby will
Speaker 6: start tomorrow.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Dave Roberts, so we can exhale a
Speaker 2: little bit for the news that we just found out
Speaker 2: from Dave Roberts about Tyler Glass. Now, it started after
Speaker 2: a bullpen session and then playing catch here during the
Speaker 2: week in between starts. He was scheduled to start tomorrow
Speaker 2: there in St.
Speaker 3: Louis.
Speaker 2: Mri showed no structural damage, just tendonitis. That is good news,
Speaker 2: but still something you want to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2: As he said that Tyler fought to try and pitch tomorrow,
Speaker 2: but they didn't want to.
Speaker 3: Take that risk.
Speaker 2: And I don't blame him if you need to shut
Speaker 2: him down for fifteen days. And I read into that
Speaker 2: that sounds like it's probably gonna be the extent of it.
Speaker 2: Fifteen days on the il miss two turns through the rotation,
Speaker 2: let him heal, let him get right, let the elbow
Speaker 2: stop barking, the inflammation go down, and get ready for
Speaker 2: the stretch run. Nothing wrong with that. Certainly, when you
Speaker 2: have a three game lead in the division, it's a
Speaker 2: little it's not great timing.
Speaker 3: Let's be honest with you.
Speaker 2: If this were a Dodger team that was nine and
Speaker 2: a half games up in the division, they had some
Speaker 2: cushion there, I'd feel a lot better giving him some
Speaker 2: time off to rest and get that elbow for the
Speaker 2: stretch run in October. But you gotta do what you
Speaker 2: gotta do, whether you got a nine and a half
Speaker 2: game lead or you got a three game lead in
Speaker 2: the division. If that elbow's not right, he's got some
Speaker 2: tendonitis in there. You got to get the inflammation down. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: as doc said, no structural damage. So they will put
Speaker 2: him on the fifteen day IL and it sounds like
Speaker 2: he'll be ready to go when that fifteen day stint
Speaker 2: is over. So whew, some good news finally on the
Speaker 2: injury front. You'd rather have no injuries, obviously, but if
Speaker 2: that's the results of the MRI and test done on
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass, now that is certainly good news. So Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller gets to start tomorrow. Hey, let's hope Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: can come out and figure out whatever his problem has been,
Speaker 2: whether it's mechanics or between the years or whatever. He's
Speaker 2: physically right or else he wouldn't be out there. But
Speaker 2: let's hope he can go back out there and get
Speaker 2: back to that level that Bobby Miller was pitching out
Speaker 2: a year ago.
Speaker 3: How great would that be?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm rooting for that young man to go
Speaker 2: back out there and figure it out again.
Speaker 3: He's got all the talent in the world.
Speaker 2: He just needs to go out there and, you know,
Speaker 2: start pitching and just stop throwing one hundred miles an
Speaker 2: hour all the time and try to blow gas by
Speaker 2: guys lost his command.
Speaker 3: Start going out.
Speaker 2: And pitching, mixing it up and being more consistent with
Speaker 2: your pitches. And if he can figure it out, which
Speaker 2: a lot of young pitchers they come in, they ask
Speaker 2: him success with the fastball. When the league catches up
Speaker 2: to it figures you out. You have to adjust. And
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller's have trouble adjusting here in his second year
Speaker 2: in the big leagues, and that's why he's been up
Speaker 2: and down with the Dodgers. And hopefully, you know, he
Speaker 2: didn't go back down to Triple A and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden there's rave reviews and oh my gosh, he's
Speaker 2: figured it out. There was a mechanical issue. They fix this,
Speaker 2: They fix that. He's ready to go. It just hasn't
Speaker 2: been the case in his three starts down in the
Speaker 2: minor leagues. I told you what he's done in Triple A.
Speaker 2: He's allowed nine runs, eleven walks in thirteen innings in
Speaker 2: three starts down in Triple A, Oklahoma. See those aren't
Speaker 2: great numbers. That is somebody still trying to work through
Speaker 2: whatever he has going on. So let's hope he can
Speaker 2: come back tomorrow and get going in the right direction
Speaker 2: and help out the Dodgers team because they need starting
Speaker 2: pitching to go deep. Justin Robleski went five innings today.
Speaker 2: He got hit around a little bit, wasn't pretty. He
Speaker 2: got the win, and the Dodger's bullpen had to cover
Speaker 2: for four innings and get twelve outs.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: They can't keep doing this, Dodger fans. We talked about
Speaker 2: it yesterday, the need for starting pitching to go six
Speaker 2: and to help out the bullpen and take some pressure
Speaker 2: and strain off of the arms down the bullpen because
Speaker 2: they are getting worked and they are getting a lot
Speaker 2: of innings on their belts this year and that needs
Speaker 2: to change here. If these guys want to be healthy,
Speaker 2: ready to go and have somewhat fresh arms in October
Speaker 2: eight six, six ninety seven to two five, say we'll
Speaker 2: take a break, we'll come back. We'll get to your phone.
Speaker 2: Calls you hear from Dave Roberts I el sent for
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass. Now the tendonitis, that's the extent of it.
Speaker 2: That is good, and they hope to have him back
Speaker 2: when the fifteen days are over rested and ready to go.
Speaker 3: Eight ninety seven two.
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Speaker 2: to the phones. Thanks for being patient with us. Justin
Speaker 2: and Santa Monica start things off here on this Friday night.
Speaker 2: Dodgers win and get some good news. Nothing and hopefully
Speaker 2: nothing's affair with Justin.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Justin, Hey, that does makes you think of
Speaker 8: my call?
Speaker 4: You know what, listen, it's good to get to win.
Speaker 4: I mean it is being as you as we all know,
Speaker 4: a rough.
Speaker 8: Week with all the injuries that we're still sustaining.
Speaker 4: As you probably also know, the.
Speaker 8: Dodgers a number one team in MLB as the most
Speaker 8: injured team in baseball. We lost our number three top
Speaker 8: prowest pit pitching prospect.
Speaker 9: We're losing our eighth in pitching.
Speaker 4: And I called last week.
Speaker 8: And mentioned Thomas Albert on.
Speaker 4: The training staff.
Speaker 8: And it's not just me. If you go out of
Speaker 8: a social media of own, many many Dodgers fans, this
Speaker 8: training staff has a big problem. And I'm grateful that
Speaker 8: glasnow only has ten to nights, but I gotta say,
Speaker 8: we need somebody else to be keeping his eyes on him.
Speaker 8: As you all know, he has a tendencies, he's at
Speaker 8: his top amount pitch load, and it's just like it's
Speaker 8: the biggest failure we have with his team.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to stop you right there, justin I
Speaker 2: appreciate the phone call. If if this Dodger pitching staff, starters,
Speaker 2: relievers all had elbow or shoulder injuries, I would be
Speaker 2: right there with you saying, hmm, what's going on? Why
Speaker 2: are so many Dodger pitchers getting hit with arm injuries?
Speaker 2: But we've seen calf injuries, the abductor injuries, hamstrings, ribs.
Speaker 3: It's more than just shoulder and elbow.
Speaker 2: And it's in the guys who are getting affected by soreness, tendonitis,
Speaker 2: forearm strains. Eventually Tommy John surgery. That's part of the game.
Speaker 2: It is we're caught in the world that this is
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, but this is happening across baseball, Dodger pitchers
Speaker 2: getting hit or Majorlely pitchers getting hit with injuries to
Speaker 2: elbows and shoulders. But keep in mind, not everything is
Speaker 2: an arm and shoulder issue. Brasier Grattarol trying, calf injuries,
Speaker 2: hamstring injuries, so it's not just always the arm and shoulder.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna sit and start pointing fingers at it.
Speaker 2: It's an epidemic in baseball and it's happening more and
Speaker 2: getting magnified now more because people want to blame it
Speaker 2: on something, and if they're not blaming training stats, which
Speaker 2: is ridiculous, we're blaming the pitch claw and maybe speeding
Speaker 2: up guys and not letting them take forty five seconds
Speaker 2: in between pitches is an inconvenience and is forcing these
Speaker 2: guys to work quicker. But also there's a problem at
Speaker 2: the lower level. And I'm gonna give you a prime example.
Speaker 2: Somebody on social media this last weekend retweeted like under thirteen,
Speaker 2: under fifteen, these national teams being put together and these
Speaker 2: peage what is a perfect game is one of these
Speaker 2: But they wasn't from them, It was from a different outlet,
Speaker 2: and it was the top performers at this tournament over
Speaker 2: the weekend, and it talked about what they did, and
Speaker 2: it also had a stat about the hardest throwing like
Speaker 2: under fifteen kid at the tournament. It broke down how
Speaker 2: hard they were throwing miles per hour. What what are
Speaker 2: we doing this? This is the problem. One of them,
Speaker 2: I think is I'm watching MLB right network. Right now,
Speaker 2: they're showing the hardest throw in baseball, Ben Joyce right
Speaker 2: of the Angels. He just threw a pitch. They're showing
Speaker 2: one hundred and four point seven miles per hour. They
Speaker 2: just sold a Raalda's Chapman I believe right before that
Speaker 2: at one hundred and five miles an hour. This is
Speaker 2: what we're glorifying. Here is how hard you can throw.
Speaker 2: And it's getting down to under thirteen teams, under fifteen teams.
Speaker 3: We certainly see it.
Speaker 2: At the high school level, how hard you can throw.
Speaker 2: This is what the problem is. Guys are throwers nowadays
Speaker 2: in baseball. You are taught to throw hard. You are
Speaker 2: taught to be a chucker out there. You're not taught
Speaker 2: how to pitch. You're not taught how to pitch backwards
Speaker 2: in account, you're not taught how to use your ospeed
Speaker 2: pitch first to lead off in a bat. You're not
Speaker 2: taught how to mix it in and out. You're taught
Speaker 2: at the young age, how fast can you throw? Let
Speaker 2: spotlight this kid for throwing seventy nine miles an hour
Speaker 2: at the age of twelve.
Speaker 3: Watch the Little League World Series.
Speaker 2: There was a kid from one of the international teams
Speaker 2: I believe, I think it might've been Puerto Rico that
Speaker 2: they were talking about. His fastball at the Little League
Speaker 2: World Series happen right now, clocked in at like seventy
Speaker 2: two miles an hour, which is the equivalent at sixty
Speaker 2: feet six inches of like one hundred and four or whatever,
Speaker 2: one hundred and three something like that. That's what they're
Speaker 2: focusing on, not the kid who goes out there and
Speaker 2: pitched five innings and allowed two hits and got nine
Speaker 2: ground balls and doesn't throw one hundred miles an hour equivalent,
Speaker 2: because that's not what we want to see on you know,
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 3: That's the problem.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm not gonna say your point fingers at
Speaker 2: anything else that right, there's the start of it, and
Speaker 2: there may be tentacles kind of leaning out other issues.
Speaker 2: As far as why all the rats of injuries, certainly,
Speaker 2: but it starts right there. That's where you can just
Speaker 2: start the focus, I believe with all these arm injuries,
Speaker 2: as somebody who has seen it years ago, continues to
Speaker 2: follow high school baseball here in southern California and watching
Speaker 2: these kids and their arm injuries at a young age.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of you have kids out there
Speaker 2: baseball and coach or you're watching your kids go through
Speaker 2: all this travel ball and you know, going across the
Speaker 2: country playing tournaments.
Speaker 3: That's all they do every weekend.
Speaker 2: They go to Arizona or they go out to Palm
Speaker 2: Springs or a Covina Complex or Corona and playing tournaments
Speaker 2: three games in a weekend and pitch every weekend order
Speaker 2: those games. And they're pitching for their high school team,
Speaker 2: pitching for their whatever team the area code teams. Now
Speaker 2: in the summertime, it's it's NonStop. So not to get
Speaker 2: on a rant there, but he got me going. As
Speaker 2: far as we're not pointing the finger at training staffs
Speaker 2: at the major league level, you think they wanted their
Speaker 2: their property. That's what they are that this is their investment.
Speaker 2: You know, you're paying these players millions of dollars as investment.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna go in your car that you invested
Speaker 2: and paid a lot of money for. Are you gonna
Speaker 2: go and try to get it to not run? Are
Speaker 2: you gonna try to put diesel in in a in
Speaker 2: an engine and know that it's gonna completely destroy the
Speaker 2: engine just so what it could go faster?
Speaker 3: For a second?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna try to spruce up your car knowing
Speaker 2: that you're gonna get a bunch of tickets or something's
Speaker 2: gonna go wrong. It's not right? Why that's that's the
Speaker 2: same thing. You're gonna invest in one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: in a picture. You're gonna invest three hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: in a picture and want them to get hurt.
Speaker 3: Why do you think they'd limit pitchings.
Speaker 2: Why do you think they have video cameras and stats
Speaker 2: and three D graphics and all this analytics on every
Speaker 2: spin rate? Why do you think they have all this
Speaker 2: so they can monitor and best keep an eye on
Speaker 2: preventing injuries and best maximize their investments, but not hurt them.
Speaker 2: So to say, athletic training staffs in any sport want
Speaker 2: their players and push their players to get hurt is asenine.
Speaker 2: It's just that that's that's completely asinine. Why would they
Speaker 2: do that. It's an investment. You want the investment for
Speaker 2: the short term and the long term. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: push somebody so up. Hey, all right, sorry about that, Colin.
Speaker 2: Ye we workeship too hard. Tommy John surgery seeing eighteen months,
Speaker 2: young man, what does that do for the team. You
Speaker 2: just lost the guy for eighteen months. Come on, that's
Speaker 2: not the answer that. That's not what's happening. It's an
Speaker 2: epidemic in baseball. It goes to the youth. It talks
Speaker 2: about it's all about, like I just said for the
Speaker 2: last ten minutes, it's all about teaching kids to throw
Speaker 2: as hard as they can and do it all the time,
Speaker 2: and throw their arms out and put that straight ut
Speaker 2: of their arms at such a young age. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Sorry
Speaker 2: to go on a rant there, but the more and
Speaker 2: more I thought about that, come on, come on, Mike Irwindale,
Speaker 2: Mike your next up on Dodger Talk. Dodgers beat the
Speaker 2: Cardinals seven to six. They pick a game up on
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks in the padres so both lost the night
Speaker 2: for the first time since July twenty eighth.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Mike, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: Uh finally, but is it time this to flip flop
Speaker 1: Mookie back to the light spot?
Speaker 2: It's Uh, it's something that they should maybe start thinking
Speaker 2: about because you look at the production or lock thereof
Speaker 2: from mister shohey Otani. You gotta wonder if maybe it
Speaker 2: changes is something that would be good for him, because
Speaker 2: what did he go again tonight? U zero for five
Speaker 2: with two punch outs. He's now hitting closer to two
Speaker 2: ninety than he is three hundred.
Speaker 9: And then as much as I'm pulling, we know Bobby
Speaker 9: Miller is going to be great eventually. But was there
Speaker 9: a reason maybe they should have called up land and
Speaker 9: Knack back up.
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: I don't think they could. They Well, I appreciate the
Speaker 3: phone call, Mike.
Speaker 2: They couldn't call Landing NAC backup, Uh, because well it's
Speaker 2: because of injuries. I guess you could call person back up,
Speaker 2: but no, he got sent back down, so he has
Speaker 2: to weight to come back up. Bobby Miller Also, he
Speaker 2: could just pitch two days ago, so he couldn't pitch tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So there's the real reason.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Bobby Miller was supposed to pitch last night
Speaker 2: for Oklahoma City. It had been his fourth start since
Speaker 2: he got option back down again. He's battled through a
Speaker 2: little bit of an abductor issue and was shut down
Speaker 2: for a brief amount of time, and his come back,
Speaker 2: we're playing the training staff on his adductor issue. I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, But I think more for Bobby Miller, it's
Speaker 2: him fine tuning himself as the pitcher. The guy can
Speaker 2: blow gas, he can throw ninety eight, ninety nine, one hundred,
Speaker 2: but he needs to figure out how to hone in
Speaker 2: that fastball, inside out, work in his offspeed pitches and
Speaker 2: become more of a pitcher if you understand.
Speaker 3: What that means.
Speaker 2: Somebody can go out there, get out, get contact, but
Speaker 2: the contact is to guys ground balls, fly balls, and
Speaker 2: get swinging. Missus and Bobby Miller this year is just
Speaker 2: not getting that done at the major league level.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: Hopefully whatever he's been working on that hasn't necessarily showed
Speaker 2: results in TRIPAA the last three audience that he's had,
Speaker 2: Hopefully something clicks and something changes tomorrow, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: certainly need that. They can't afford to have another outing
Speaker 2: tomorrow where a starter goes three and two thirds. They
Speaker 2: just can't. They need Bobby Miller to go out there
Speaker 2: and be a dog. They need Bobby Miller to go
Speaker 2: out there and he's got what the lion and the
Speaker 2: tiger or whatever it is on the chest. They need
Speaker 2: him to to find that inner tiger and lion and
Speaker 2: get after it tomorrow on the mound and just be
Speaker 2: relentless and go out there and deal and give them
Speaker 2: six innings and they'll let the bullpen get the final
Speaker 2: nine outs or whatever.
Speaker 3: John, and Woodland Hills is next up here on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 3: How you doing, John?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have to tell you the other night. The
Speaker 9: other night you had Eric on, and Eric said that
Speaker 9: it was a shoe in that the Dodgers were going
Speaker 9: to win the division.
Speaker 4: OK.
Speaker 9: And he's not only wrong, he does not understand what
Speaker 9: baseball is about. Baseball is about runs. Who scores the
Speaker 9: most runs. Tonight was a lucky victory for the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: They were lucky to escape with a seven to sixth victory.
Speaker 9: And the fact that Tyler Glasna, who's been terrible the
Speaker 9: last two months, is now on the DL on the
Speaker 9: il for fifteen days. That's bs because we know that
Speaker 9: he's not been right for two months. We've been watching
Speaker 9: him for two months and knowing that he's not strike,
Speaker 9: he has not gotten out of innings the way that
Speaker 9: he used to get out of innings. So we know
Speaker 9: that the pitching staff is in shambles. We know that
Speaker 9: Shohy should not be batting one. He should be batting three,
Speaker 9: four or seven in the lineup. I want to look
Speaker 9: at Julio Rodriguez. Julio Rodriguez was in a slump and
Speaker 9: Seattle moved him to seventh in the lineup. He was
Speaker 9: in seventh in the lineup for three to seven days,
Speaker 9: and he broke out of that because they put him
Speaker 9: at seventh in the lineup. Then he he unfortunately got
Speaker 9: hurt and he couldn't go back to second in the lineup.
Speaker 9: But that's beside the point. The point is is that
Speaker 9: you have to make adjustments as a manager, and the
Speaker 9: Dodgers have not done that. They have not made the
Speaker 9: adjustments needed to not only win the division, but to
Speaker 9: be a front runner for the World Series. And the
Speaker 9: only thing that matters for this Dodgers team and for
Speaker 9: the fans is a World Series period, and where is
Speaker 9: batting right now? Is not enough?
Speaker 3: We'll find out enough.
Speaker 2: We'll find out if they tinker with the John I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I'll let you get you what you wanted
Speaker 2: to say. I'll push back on the Glass now situation,
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass. Now, if he's been hurt and not the
Speaker 2: same as you mentioned, I'm gonna go back to his
Speaker 2: last start seven innings to earn runs. Start before that
Speaker 2: six innings against the Phillies, by the way, picks up win,
Speaker 2: goes six innings, allows three runs and at nine punch outs.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the start before that against the Padres,
Speaker 2: no decision. Seven innings, three runs, eight punch outs. Okay,
Speaker 2: his last three starts, he's gone six or seven innings
Speaker 2: and loud no more than three ear in runs with
Speaker 2: twenty one punch outs. It's pretty good to me. Doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like a guy who's lingering, hurt or banged up,
Speaker 2: but out there dealing two of those starts against two
Speaker 2: of the better teams in baseball. Now with show heo Tani,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to pop to do something and adjust
Speaker 2: him in the lineup if he continues to struggle, Show hey,
Speaker 2: goes zero for five tonight with two punch outs. Show
Speaker 2: he had one hit yesterday he was one for four
Speaker 2: or zero for four the day before. He hasn't had
Speaker 2: a multi hit game this entire roach. He hasn't had
Speaker 2: a multi hit game going back to August fifth against Phillies,
Speaker 2: so he's now three series without multi hits. He's of
Speaker 2: course hitting his home runs, and he's still in his
Speaker 2: stolen bases, and he's gonna be a forty four guy,
Speaker 2: and I love that about him. But as a leadoff hitter,
Speaker 2: he's coming up five times every game. And that's one
Speaker 2: of the things that they mentioned about Sho Heo Tani.
Speaker 2: Why do we want him lead off? His power, his speed,
Speaker 2: his ability to hit the ball in all parts of
Speaker 2: the field, and we want to give him as many
Speaker 2: at bats as possible. We want to give him five
Speaker 2: at bats. Okay, he's getting five at bats, he's getting
Speaker 2: four at the minimum in every game, and he's not
Speaker 2: getting on base, and with runners in the scoring position,
Speaker 2: he's not producing. Guys in front of him are and
Speaker 2: guys behind him are in the lineup. So I'm not
Speaker 2: opposed to having show Yo Tani and Mookie Betts flip flop.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pose at all because it worked for the
Speaker 2: first I don't know what three and a half once
Speaker 2: of the season. But now that show Hey is cooled
Speaker 2: off here the last what three series? So the last
Speaker 2: nine games, Yeah, I'm okay, and I think show he
Speaker 2: will be okay with it. Let's let's move him back
Speaker 2: to the two spot. Let's flip flop that there. I'm
Speaker 2: all right with it. You still got some time to
Speaker 2: get right and get used to that order again, seeing
Speaker 2: as you got a month and a half of regular
Speaker 2: season to play. So I I pushed back a little
Speaker 2: bit with you there, but I understand what you're saying
Speaker 2: as far as changing him in the lineup. But certainly
Speaker 2: I don't think Tyler Glass now has been been lingering,
Speaker 2: as you said the last few starts. The numbers just
Speaker 2: don't show that. And I to see his power and
Speaker 2: and I should say.
Speaker 8: His.
Speaker 2: Ability to go out there and want to get the
Speaker 2: ball every every time he's out. You don't see him lingering.
Speaker 2: You don't see him out there huffing and puffing and
Speaker 2: like gas and he's he looks like a guy who
Speaker 2: wants to get He wants the ball every time he
Speaker 2: gets it, and Dave Roberts said tonight they had to
Speaker 2: tell him, no, no, you are not starting tomorrow. We
Speaker 2: can't let that happen. As Dave said, he'd be on
Speaker 2: pins and needles every pitch he threw, and instead they
Speaker 2: had to put him on the injured list. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: got to save yourself, save somebody by putting them on
Speaker 2: the injured lists there so they don't damage it too much.
Speaker 2: And I think for Tyler Glass now an il stint here,
Speaker 2: while not ideal with a three game leading the division,
Speaker 2: it's certainly better to do it now than to do
Speaker 2: it in September, right before the postseason. So you shut
Speaker 2: him down now August sixteenth, fifteen days, it's the end
Speaker 2: of the month, his first start, what maybe the first,
Speaker 2: the second, I don't know. Look at the schedule right now,
Speaker 2: Dodger fans, if you don't have in front of you,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who they're playing at the end of
Speaker 2: the month, Labor Day weekend, the Arizona Diamondbacks in Arizona.
Speaker 2: He could return for the final two games of that series,
Speaker 2: which is that four game wrap round series in Arizona,
Speaker 2: the final time those two teams will meet in the
Speaker 2: regular season. Let's squeeze an Aaron and Van Eyes. You
Speaker 2: are our final call tonight, erin how you.
Speaker 4: Doing Thank you Sam for taking my call.
Speaker 9: I'm good.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Skinner their teeth win tonight, I gotta say,
Speaker 4: but I mean, a win is a win.
Speaker 3: A win is a win, no doubt about it, Aeron.
Speaker 2: But sometimes you win by nine, Sometimes you win by three,
Speaker 2: Sometimes you win by one, Sometimes you win an extra inning.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you both race the team. There's all kinds of
Speaker 2: wins in baseball. The only thing that matters is when
Speaker 2: the game is over and you're in the win column
Speaker 2: and you're not in.
Speaker 3: The lost call. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: We want when we look back at the record, we're
Speaker 2: not gonna sit there and say, wow, they barely beat
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Cardinals back on August sixteenth, for that
Speaker 2: one win out of one hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 4: No, very true, very true. But the reason I wanted
Speaker 4: to call was in regards to tomorrow starter. Mister Bobby
Speaker 4: Miller got to say, after hearing you read off his
Speaker 4: triple A stats recently, I am feeling very less incompetent
Speaker 4: of a Dodger win tomorrow or him going very long.
Speaker 10: And I'm curious if, because last year was his first
Speaker 10: season in the Major leagues, correct it was, yes, yes,
Speaker 10: So I'm wondering if now like sophomore slump itis, I
Speaker 10: guess is with him. And maybe now there's a lot
Speaker 10: more video of him, and teams have kind of figured
Speaker 10: him out and analyzed him and made the adjustments as
Speaker 10: far as hitting goes. But Bobby, being a young freshman
Speaker 10: Major leaguer, hasn't made the adjustments in his pitching.
Speaker 2: You're right, I think that's sort of where I was
Speaker 2: saying earlier. I appreciate the phone call. Here is you
Speaker 2: hear all the time? Baseball is a game of adjustments.
Speaker 2: Andi paie has as an example we can use in
Speaker 2: the most recent right, Andy paie has comes up from
Speaker 2: Triple A Oklahoma City. There's not a lot on him.
Speaker 2: He comes up, he burst onto the scene. He's in
Speaker 2: fuego no pun intended his first ten games in the
Speaker 2: Major leagues, and then he cooled off and he's been
Speaker 2: up and down as far as his production since then.
Speaker 2: Because teams got more tape on you, they can you
Speaker 2: know what Hey, they got computers, just like the Dodgers do.
Speaker 2: There's analytical departments. They're scouting in every department in front
Speaker 2: office across baseball. They can figure you out better than
Speaker 2: you know yourself by looking at the numbers and spitting
Speaker 2: them all out of a computer, which is scary, by
Speaker 2: the way, but they know more about you than you
Speaker 2: know about yourself. And it's a game of adjustments. It's
Speaker 2: a cat and mouse game between a pitcher and hitters.
Speaker 2: And for hitters you got to go out there and
Speaker 2: do it on a daily basis. For a starting pitcher
Speaker 2: you get it every five days. And that's why the
Speaker 2: side work your bullpins are so important, and sim games
Speaker 2: when you're coming back from an injury is so important,
Speaker 2: so they can see how you're doing. What kind of
Speaker 2: mechanical issues are you having. Did you change something because
Speaker 2: maybe something sore this outing, Maybe you're a little you
Speaker 2: got some dead legs, or you got a sore side
Speaker 2: or a back, and so you're adjusting your wind up
Speaker 2: and it's affecting the way you're pitching, and you're missing
Speaker 2: on pitches you're usually thrown for strikes. Little things like that.
Speaker 2: They tweak in between starts. It's also a mental game.
Speaker 2: As a pitcher out there, you face this battery be
Speaker 2: fort you had success. Well, I'm gonna throw that same
Speaker 2: pitch I threw to get you out last time for
Speaker 2: strike three. I'm gonna do that again. Well, the hitter's thinking, Ah,
Speaker 2: he struck me out on a slider. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: swing anything below the knees on as far as the
Speaker 2: slider coming. But if he hangs it, I'm gonna bang it.
Speaker 2: And he hits it out of the ballpark, You're like, wait,
Speaker 2: a second slider worked last time. Well, the hitter adjusted,
Speaker 2: and the game adjusted, and teams adjusted against pitchers, you
Speaker 2: gotta be able to adjust. So it's a lot between
Speaker 2: the years. It's a lot mechanical, and certainly it's physical
Speaker 2: as well. It's all three of them, and you have
Speaker 2: to have all of them working if you're a pitcher
Speaker 2: in baseball, and if one of them is off, you're
Speaker 2: not gonna have success. And I think for Bobby Miller,
Speaker 2: he's got to find those three combinations, put them all together,
Speaker 2: and when he does, he'll be back to the Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller that he was last year. And I'm confident he
Speaker 2: can do it. It's just a matter of when, not if
Speaker 2: he could do it. When he does it, all right,
Speaker 2: that's gonna do it for Dodger Talk, Mini thanks to Coliny.
Speaker 2: He's one of the good guys out there, folks. Colin
Speaker 2: he the best of the best. We appreciate him. We
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Speaker 2: Dodgers eleven games in of their thirteen games in thirteen days.
Speaker 2: They win tonight in Saint Louis, they beating the Cardinals
Speaker 2: seven to six. Justin Robleski, congratulations. He gets the winners
Speaker 2: first of the major leagues. Michael Kopek pitches a one, two,
Speaker 2: three ninth. He gets to save his first of the
Speaker 2: Dodger uniform. Dodgers seventy two and fifty one, now.
Speaker 3: Three games up in the nls IS.
Speaker 2: Both the Padres and the Diamondbacks lost tonight. Dodgers winners.
Speaker 2: They win in Saint Louis back at it tomorrow. Bobby Miller,
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Speaker 2: first pitch of four to fifteen until tomorrow. Have a
Speaker 2: safe rest of your Friday night, Stay cool out there,
Speaker 2: so everybody
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