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Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers eighty seven and sixty on this season, first place,
Speaker 2: the top the NL West, the lead in the Division
Speaker 2: four and a half games with fifteen games remaining in
Speaker 2: the regular season. After dropping the series opening game to
Speaker 2: the Braves last night in Atlanta, the Dodgers look to
Speaker 2: bounce back tonight. You know what is a great pitching
Speaker 2: matchup with Jack Flaherty going for the Dodgers, Chris Saale
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Speaker 2: gonna hear from Dodger manager Dave Roberts. Got a lot
Speaker 2: to get to from him, the latest on Tyler Glass now,
Speaker 2: who is being shut down for the rest of the
Speaker 2: regular season. More on that throughout the pregame. Will dive
Speaker 2: deeper into this pitch sheeet matchup. David Vassa goes one
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Speaker 2: minutes we'll head out to the Galpin Motors broadcast booth
Speaker 2: with Rick Monday and Tim nehert Well. Yesterday in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: it was a rough one for the young lunk Landon Knack,
Speaker 2: the Dodger right hander, got into trouble early in the first,
Speaker 2: back to back singles, then Matt Olsen in RBI double
Speaker 2: Braves with a one nothing lead in the second.
Speaker 3: More problems for Nack.
Speaker 2: A lead off walk, Gie or Schello two run home run,
Speaker 2: Braves up three to nothing. Very next batter infield single.
Speaker 2: Two batters later, another mistake from Nakis, jorgees Hilaire took
Speaker 2: him deep to left for a two run home run.
Speaker 2: The second in the inning for the Braves is they
Speaker 2: were up five to nothing. Land and Knack would last
Speaker 2: just the two innings, five run, seven hits. The six
Speaker 2: outs that he got two of them deep fly balls
Speaker 2: to the wall in center field. He got out of
Speaker 2: there down five to nothing. The Dodgers' offense meanwhile struggled
Speaker 2: against Braves young right hander Spencer Schwellenbach. Finally, in the third,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers got on the board. Miguel Rojas with the
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Speaker 4: run number five on the season, and the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: Dodgers down five to one, they get a little closer
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Speaker 4: Dodgers pick up another run here with two down on
Speaker 4: a single by Tommy Edmund, scoring to Oscar Hernandez, it
Speaker 4: is five to two.
Speaker 2: RBI's single Dodgers cut the deficit to three. However, they'd
Speaker 2: get no closer. In fact, Michael Harris the second and
Speaker 2: RBI double in the eighth. Braves go on and beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers yesterday in the series opener six to two.
Speaker 2: Spencer Schwellenbach out pitches Land and Nag. That didn't help
Speaker 2: that Otani, Betts, Freeman, and Muncie were combined zero for
Speaker 2: fifteen with five strikeouts of the plate. With the lost
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to eighty seven and sixty, they hook the
Speaker 2: bounce back to night Jack Flerty on the mound first
Speaker 2: pitch of Atlanta's coming up at four twenty and with
Speaker 2: more we head out to the Gallpit Motors Broadcast booth
Speaker 2: and say good afternoon to Rick Monday and Tim Neffert.
Speaker 4: Guys, Hi, Tim, thank you very much as we get
Speaker 4: set for baseball tonight here in Atlanta, still overcast skies.
Speaker 4: Some weather might be hanging around the area, and we
Speaker 4: are hopeful that mother Nature will not interfere with this
Speaker 4: one tonight. The Dodgers start tonight eighty seven and sixty,
Speaker 4: four and a half games up on San Diego, five
Speaker 4: games up on Arizona. The Braves meantime third place in
Speaker 4: the National League East eighty and sixty seven. They're a
Speaker 4: game back in the wild card race to the Mets.
Speaker 4: Good pitching matchup tonight. Jack Flairty goes for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: He's twelve and six with a two eighty six ERA,
Speaker 4: five and one since joining the Dodgers. This will be
Speaker 4: his eighth start for Los Angeles, his twenty sixth start
Speaker 4: overall this year. In the meantime, Chris Sayle, who is
Speaker 4: vying for the Cy Young Award and the Triple Crown,
Speaker 4: is sixteen and three to thirty eight his ERA. He
Speaker 4: leads the National League in both wins in ERA and
Speaker 4: his second in strikeouts with two hundred and thirteen chasing
Speaker 4: only Dylan Siso the Padres who has two hundred fifty drikeouts.
Speaker 4: Speaking of pitching, that's the big news today where Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts a little while ago announced to the media that
Speaker 4: there is a chance, a good chance, that Tyler Glasnow's
Speaker 4: season is perhaps at an end.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was scheduled to have a sim game yesterday
Speaker 5: here in Atlanta. He was warming up in the bullpens
Speaker 5: and he still felt discomfort in the elbow, So it
Speaker 5: looks as if he is going to be shut down
Speaker 5: and tim the situation continues with big question marks and
Speaker 5: the Dodgers starting pitching. If glass Now is there, kershump,
Speaker 5: that's the kind of day to day updates we're getting.
Speaker 5: What about Walker Buehller, What about Bobby Miller? Both ber
Speaker 5: Miller and Bueller are back and throwing, but they're not
Speaker 5: really up to snuff. Is they would like to have
Speaker 5: it to this particular point And in the meantime, this
Speaker 5: Dodger offense needs to get it going and get back
Speaker 5: on track. Two runs, only five hits in last night's ballgame,
Speaker 5: and you figure base hits are going to be at
Speaker 5: a premium for both teams tonight with a.
Speaker 4: Pitching absolutely Freddy Freeman has had great success in the
Speaker 4: ballpark in terms of home runs and on base percentage
Speaker 4: and and OPS as well. He owns a nine thirty
Speaker 4: seven OPS at Truest Park. Has been flipped in the
Speaker 4: order from the third spot into the fourth spot. So
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are going to have Freeman, a left handed batter,
Speaker 4: bat clean up against the left hander.
Speaker 5: Chris said, yeah, I saw that it came out a
Speaker 5: little bit earlier, and in my mind, what Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: is attempting to do sail a left handed pitcher and
Speaker 5: a very good win trying to break up Otani, and
Speaker 5: then two batters later having Freeman. So you've got Bett's second,
Speaker 5: the Oscar Hernandez batting third, Den Freeman. The one guy
Speaker 5: that has moved back up was Will Smith, who was
Speaker 5: dropped down to the sebath spot last night, but he
Speaker 5: had a couple of base hits, two hits and three
Speaker 5: at bats. Hopefully that's a sign some very good things
Speaker 5: to go, because the Dodgers really need Will Smith's batt
Speaker 5: to come alive.
Speaker 4: So Otani, Betts and Freeman oh four last night Otani's
Speaker 4: been oh for the last two games, same with bats
Speaker 4: and Freddie Freeman OH for twelve in his last three.
Speaker 4: So all three of them are due.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're due. And the Dodgers only had four bats
Speaker 5: last night a total of ford bets would runners in
Speaker 5: scoring positions, so the offense it has been challenged. They've
Speaker 5: lost three of the last four games in the last ten. Well,
Speaker 5: they've been a five hundred team. They're a better team
Speaker 5: than that. In knocking on the doors San Diego trying
Speaker 5: to close the gap. They start four and a half
Speaker 5: back Arizona, five games behind the Dodgers leading the Western Division.
Speaker 4: Magic number is eleven to clinch the division. In the
Speaker 4: scenario is if the Dodgers go seven and eight, one
Speaker 4: game under five hundred the rest of the way, they'll
Speaker 4: finish ninety four and sixty eight, But the Padres would
Speaker 4: have to go eleven and three to tie the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: They owned the tiebreaker, so they just need to tie.
Speaker 4: The Diamondbacks would have to go thirteen and two to
Speaker 4: pass the Dodgers. The Dodgers on the tiebreaker over Arizona,
Speaker 4: so the earliest mathematically the Dodgers could clinch the division
Speaker 4: would be the last day of this road trip Thursday
Speaker 4: in Miami, but it's probably more likely they'll clinch it
Speaker 4: at home against either Colorado or the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 4: But again, the dictations aren't that high, and they are
Speaker 4: for the Padres and Diamondbacks. But the Dodgers, they can
Speaker 4: still play a game under five hundred and clench the
Speaker 4: division without a problem.
Speaker 5: And why not wrap it up at home with their
Speaker 5: fans right there and they can enjoy the celebration themselves.
Speaker 4: Gotta win here tonight, try to even this series up
Speaker 4: with a game apiece. Dodgers Braves Jack Flaherty against Chris Sale.
Speaker 6: That's the pitching matchup, tim.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Kirston now joins us from Atlanta on the field
Speaker 2: and Kirsten whether we knew was going to be an
Speaker 2: issue all weekend there in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: How are we looking right now as we get closer
Speaker 3: to first pitch.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the turf is still on the field, but seems
Speaker 7: like the weather was kind of passed.
Speaker 8: I mean it was raining and drizzling this morning, a
Speaker 8: little bit this afternoon, even a little.
Speaker 7: Bit while some of the guys are playing pitch.
Speaker 8: But it seems like looking at the forecast, we're in
Speaker 8: the clear.
Speaker 7: The turf is still on.
Speaker 9: But I think they're going to remove it pretty soon.
Speaker 8: So yeah, it's looking like on time first pitch.
Speaker 7: They often talk about the window. I don't even think
Speaker 7: it's the window.
Speaker 9: I think we're just in the clear for this evening.
Speaker 3: That's certainly great news.
Speaker 2: Forecast for Tyler Glass now though doesn't look good for
Speaker 2: the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it doesn't.
Speaker 7: So yesterday he was schedule to take part in a
Speaker 7: Sam game. Everyone was looking forward to it. He threw
Speaker 7: a little in the bullpen and then kind of felt
Speaker 7: something so decided that it it just wasn't the right decision.
Speaker 9: Ended up going back into the club house.
Speaker 8: Dave Robert said that they had some scan done it.
Speaker 8: He is feeling now with an elbow sprain. So originally
Speaker 8: it seems like it was more elbow than the nighted.
Speaker 8: Maybe it hinted out of sprain, but now it's truly
Speaker 8: showing that sprain there in his elbow. So it's unfortunate news.
Speaker 8: They're of course, it's going to have to shut them down,
Speaker 8: considering what the season now looks like, considering that eighties
Speaker 8: date in September and October is going to be in
Speaker 8: about fifteen days. His return now is it's Dave Roberts
Speaker 8: said that it's highly unlikely, so you know that it's
Speaker 8: a big glow.
Speaker 9: The rotation is a big blow to his team.
Speaker 7: Obviously, they signed him in the off season with the
Speaker 7: intentions of, you know what he could bring to this
Speaker 7: team come October. Now, that's not going to be the
Speaker 7: key score this year. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you what the mood is
Speaker 2: around this team with this injury. But you know what,
Speaker 2: they've been hit by injuries all season long, and this
Speaker 2: rotation is right now currently been hit by injuries. I
Speaker 2: imagine these guys, this is just another day, another arm
Speaker 2: going down.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, I honestly I think that's fair. Really does
Speaker 8: feel like that, and it's another reminder of that next
Speaker 8: man out mentality and who is going to be the
Speaker 8: ones who set up We've seen and I can't even
Speaker 8: say step up for jact Clarity.
Speaker 7: We've seen him come to this organization and he's been
Speaker 7: everything they could.
Speaker 8: Have asked for and more being acquired at the trade deadline.
Speaker 9: Govin Stone obviously has been lighted out all year.
Speaker 7: Because he's down with injury.
Speaker 9: He's hopefully going to be playing catch this weekend.
Speaker 7: In Miami, so we'll see what that means for him.
Speaker 7: And there's someone like Clayton Kershaw, they got to kind
Speaker 7: of see what the next time they're going to look
Speaker 7: like for him. He's been kind of chingering and kind
Speaker 7: of doing a few things in the bullpen, not necessarily
Speaker 7: really getting off the mound just yet. His return for
Speaker 7: the regular season, I think there's still a question mark.
Speaker 7: Doesn't feel too likely, but they're hoping for October he
Speaker 7: could potentially be available. So it's now and I talk
Speaker 7: about those guys stepping up, it's Walker Bueller.
Speaker 8: It's what Bobby Miller.
Speaker 9: Kind of figure out. What can layman that potentially do.
Speaker 9: So if some of those other guys they're cool or
Speaker 9: who's going to be the ones who can really up
Speaker 9: to the troops right now?
Speaker 7: So we're gonna kind of all find out together. But
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts good say that he still feels he feels
Speaker 7: confident that with the talent that they have, they can
Speaker 7: make a really solid and a really.
Speaker 9: Good time come off to us. That's ultimately what they're
Speaker 9: hoping to.
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Speaker 2: For a long time, you could have put the Dodgers
Speaker 2: front three hitters in sharpie every single day with Otani,
Speaker 2: Betts and Freeman. But I looked at the lineup. It's
Speaker 2: a little different tonight, Kirsten.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I'll tell you Dave Roberts about that. So
Speaker 7: he's split payofsk Hernandez and Freddie Freeman's a Payosk, a
Speaker 7: batting third, Freddie batting clean up. And what are you
Speaker 7: looking to do with that is they're facing a very
Speaker 7: talented letty with Chris Dale today on the mound, and
Speaker 7: then they're going to be facing another like talented ustee
Speaker 7: with Max Freed on Monday. So he's just saying, when
Speaker 7: you're going up again, just whether it's top pictures, let's
Speaker 7: be pictures putting essentially a leftie killer and chaofscer in
Speaker 7: there to break out Mookie and Freddy. It's forcing you
Speaker 7: to tack the picture. So realistically, you know Chris is
Speaker 7: going to go three times through the order, and so
Speaker 7: when he gets that third time to the order and
Speaker 7: say he's at about one hundred or so pitches by
Speaker 7: the time that he gets too chaos, well they're going
Speaker 7: to keep him in there to praise another leftie and
Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 9: So that's going to get Freddy a really good chance
Speaker 9: to get to him. So it's just about adding a
Speaker 9: little excess pass to the starting the picture.
Speaker 7: And so Dave was saying that we're going to see
Speaker 7: that like I mentioned today and then again on Monday
Speaker 7: against the Free and then there is chances that.
Speaker 9: We could be seeing it again the Talented.
Speaker 7: Pictures on October, so we could be seeing more of
Speaker 7: what the call of the order looks like right now.
Speaker 2: Interesting. We'll see how it works tonight, Christen. We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you after the game. Still to come
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Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers. As we've been talking about Tyler Glass now
Speaker 2: right elbow tendonitis. Looks like he's done for the least
Speaker 2: the rest of the regulars season and possibly beyond. Clayton
Speaker 2: Kershaw still has the left turf toe in his big
Speaker 2: left toe. Looks like he won't be ready until at
Speaker 2: least October. Joe Kelly on the eye eel at the
Speaker 2: right shoulder inflammation, Gavin Stone on the I L with
Speaker 2: the elbow inflammation. All right, let's hear from the skipper
Speaker 2: as you go back to Atlanta. Here from Dave robert
Speaker 2: anything else?
Speaker 10: The questions for Dave, Dave, can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 10: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 1: The dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 11: I think all along that's sort of been what it is,
Speaker 11: I mean without getting too specific, and I don't know
Speaker 11: all the specifics, and I think that saying it's the
Speaker 11: spraying sort of encompasses a lot. And right now, he can't.
Speaker 11: He's not going to be phone in baseball for a while.
Speaker 10: I mean unlikely any.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't, I don't. I mean, you know, if
Speaker 11: something drastically changes. But from what I understand, you know,
Speaker 11: you're talking about a shutdown of any time of throwing
Speaker 11: right now cuts into you know, how much time we
Speaker 11: have left to play in the season. So, like I said,
Speaker 11: I think it's very unlikely.
Speaker 6: They give a blow. Is this tier rotation you signed
Speaker 6: him to be able to help you guys in October?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a big blow, you know, looking at you know,
Speaker 11: what he meant for our ball club, what he's done
Speaker 11: for us, what we expected him to do, certainly is
Speaker 11: going to be a cost. But we've got to move
Speaker 11: on and we will, and we have a lot of
Speaker 11: capable people. And I feel bad for Tyler because he
Speaker 11: did everything, you know, to stay healthy and to get
Speaker 11: back and it just wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Is that mean a spring pretty confident that they won't
Speaker 2: need anything in the off seasons.
Speaker 11: I don't think that we're thinking that far ahead. I
Speaker 11: think that right now we're just gonna shut him down
Speaker 11: for a little bit and see where we go from there.
Speaker 7: How much does that then add to the importance of
Speaker 7: with Gadenstone playing catch next week and then even with
Speaker 7: Clayt Kirch, I believe he was in the bullton today.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Clayton has continued to do what he does and
Speaker 11: trying to get back and so I'm hopeful that, you know,
Speaker 11: we feel confident that he can take the mound for
Speaker 11: us this year. As far as Gavin, We're not going
Speaker 11: to know until he starts playing catch, and then we'll
Speaker 11: know more once he does that.
Speaker 7: With the bullpen today, was it a traditional bullpen for
Speaker 7: Clayton kersha are still kind of one that he's been
Speaker 7: kind of doing the last couple of days.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't think it was a normal convention. It
Speaker 11: was a little makeshift pen for.
Speaker 1: Any chance for him to kind of come back, Like
Speaker 1: when I was given where we are in the calendar,
Speaker 1: like when do you want him to get off the
Speaker 1: mountain and see how you can kind of progress from there?
Speaker 11: Well, I just for the for the regular season. I
Speaker 11: just don't see that as a possibility. So you know,
Speaker 11: when you start talking about down the road that I
Speaker 11: don't think anyone can answer right now, but I think
Speaker 11: you know it's safe to say that the regular season
Speaker 11: is not going to be on the table.
Speaker 6: Years power.
Speaker 11: It's difficult, it's manageable. We're doing it. I think the
Speaker 11: main thing is that we have to just continue to
Speaker 11: stay focused on the players that are available to us
Speaker 11: and winning a baseball game that night. And to the
Speaker 11: guys credit, that's what they've done. And we've put ourselves
Speaker 11: in a good spot, you know, given all that we've
Speaker 11: gone through this year, but still got a pretty good
Speaker 11: ball club.
Speaker 12: Confident argue, and how the staff might look, you know,
Speaker 12: to be able to make the kind of running out
Speaker 12: over you guys want to kind of as it's shaping up.
Speaker 11: Now, I'm still confident. I don't think that there's one
Speaker 11: way to win a championship. I think you can look
Speaker 11: back at the teams recently and how their staffs came
Speaker 11: together and who stepped up for each team's you know, staff,
Speaker 11: and so you know, we're gonna have the guys that
Speaker 11: we have, and I feel confident whoever we run out there,
Speaker 11: But certainly, you know, losing Tyler for any length of time,
Speaker 11: Clayton for any length of time, Gavin Stone, what he's done,
Speaker 11: it's certainly a hit, no.
Speaker 10: Doubt, Kevin still expected to start throwing the screen.
Speaker 11: Kim, I think that's the plan.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 2: It kind of feels like Dave Roberts has been hinting
Speaker 2: that Glassnew may not be as healthy as we thought
Speaker 2: and may not come back, and today we find out
Speaker 2: he's not coming back.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, obviously it was a big red flag when
Speaker 6: he felt something in his right elbow warming up in
Speaker 6: the bullpen yesterday for a simulated game. And it's been
Speaker 6: mixed messages from glass Now himself ever since he went
Speaker 6: on the I Allen Saint Louis remember the day that
Speaker 6: he went on the IL. He was fighting up until
Speaker 6: a half hour before first pitch to try to make
Speaker 6: that start and avoid the IL. And here we are
Speaker 6: now where Dave Roberts said, the scans that he took
Speaker 6: yesterday show a sprained right elbow. I'm not sure what
Speaker 6: the details of that scan were, because when you say sprain,
Speaker 6: that's essentially a tear. How significant is the tear? We
Speaker 6: don't know all those answers yet, and certainly a lot
Speaker 6: of mystery surrounding glass Noow's injury and just exactly what
Speaker 6: has been the issue. But nonetheless, his season is likely
Speaker 6: over according to his manager, and that's a big blow
Speaker 6: to the Dodgers, who traded Ryan Pepio and Johnny de
Speaker 6: Luca for Tyler Glass now and gave him a five year,
Speaker 6: one hundred and thirty six and a half million dollar
Speaker 6: extension in the process as they made that trade, and
Speaker 6: they made that trade to solidify their October rotation, and
Speaker 6: they're not going to have one of their big horses
Speaker 6: to try to win the World Series.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 2: With that being said, David, what does this pitching staff,
Speaker 2: the rotation look like down the stretch of the last
Speaker 2: fifteen games getting into October.
Speaker 6: The only certainty right now is tonight's starter, Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 6: And you know you have to go off Yamamoto's last start.
Speaker 6: Right now, it's Flarity and Yamamoto and maybe Gavin Stone.
Speaker 6: He's gonna start throwing on Monday, and we'll see where
Speaker 6: that goes. But right now, those are the only two
Speaker 6: starting pitchers that you can count on when the NLDS
Speaker 6: starts or the Wildcard Series starts. Tim because the Dodgers
Speaker 6: are only two games ahead of the Brewers for that
Speaker 6: number two seed to earn them a bye in the
Speaker 6: first round.
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Speaker 2: talking about possibly pitching for the Dodgers in October. David
Speaker 2: is Shoey Otani and he threw again today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, another bullpen session today. The last one was twenty pitches.
Speaker 6: Today was twenty five pitches. I walked myself all the
Speaker 6: way to the Dodger bullpen in the left field corner
Speaker 6: to get a first glance at Otani. This was his
Speaker 6: sixth bullpen session. No word on when Otani is going
Speaker 6: to throw to hitters, but in the plan rehab from
Speaker 6: his second elbow surgery, the word was that he was
Speaker 6: going to face hitters in the month of September. What
Speaker 6: I can also tell you as far as the plan
Speaker 6: for Otani right now, the plan is for him to
Speaker 6: shut down his throwing program when the regular season ends
Speaker 6: so he could focus on the playoffs, his first ever
Speaker 6: opportunity to play in the postseason here in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 6: But my understanding is the Dodgers are going to have
Speaker 6: a meeting when they return home to determine whether or
Speaker 6: not that is still going to be the plan. Look,
Speaker 6: the chances of Otani pitching in the postseason, I was told,
Speaker 6: is at one percent. Nobody is saying absolutely not, but
Speaker 6: the chances are a long shot tim that O'tani would
Speaker 6: throw a pitch in the postseason. Talking to some Japanese
Speaker 6: reporters that have followed O'tani throughout his career, they feel
Speaker 6: like if the Dodgers did reach the World Series, Otani
Speaker 6: certainly would entertain that idea.
Speaker 3: We shall see a lot of decisions still to come.
Speaker 2: David appreciate it. We'll check back in with you, Dodger fans.
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Speaker 6: Rick, the Dodgers and Braves got a marquee pitching matchup tonight,
Speaker 6: Chris Sale going up against Jack Flaherty. Run should be
Speaker 6: at a premium tonight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And do you go ahead and run your defense
Speaker 5: differently with you get the runners on base? Do you
Speaker 5: think about the offense a little differently? And these are
Speaker 5: one of the games that you look at and you
Speaker 5: say this is something special and you're looking at I
Speaker 5: mean for Sale, no question about it. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: he's basically the fore runner for the nationallygue Cy Young Award.
Speaker 5: And if you look at what Flaherty has done since
Speaker 5: he has joined this Dodger buclub, and especially now in
Speaker 5: light of all the injuries with the starting pitchers, Flarerty
Speaker 5: has really been a breath of fresh air for this bunklock.
Speaker 6: You talk about thinking through the game and when there
Speaker 6: are two really good pitchers on the mound and thinking
Speaker 6: runs are gonna be hard to come by. Dodger third
Speaker 6: base coach Dino E Bowl was taking me through a
Speaker 6: couple of things and looking at the braves dh that
Speaker 6: is playing right field, and that's rage sol Laire. He
Speaker 6: said he's going to be aggressive, especially with the wet grass,
Speaker 6: if Soilaire gets the ball.
Speaker 5: I was just going to bring up, you know, there's
Speaker 5: a possibility. Neither team took batting practice. The infield was
Speaker 5: covered up with the tarp. We've had light rain on
Speaker 5: and off. The rain is supposed to hold off for
Speaker 5: the most part until about nine or ten o'clock local time,
Speaker 5: but in between, yes, challenge the throws, especially right down.
Speaker 5: And as you brought up, it could if everything comes
Speaker 5: to fruition, it could be a low scoring game. So
Speaker 5: the premium of trying to stretch things out, which also
Speaker 5: includes another thing. I think you have to be aggressive
Speaker 5: on the bases if you're the runner to be able
Speaker 5: to hey, make sure you get that good secondary lead.
Speaker 5: This could be a ballgame. The difference in maybe one
Speaker 5: stride safer out into a base or home plate.
Speaker 7: Rick.
Speaker 6: We got the news from Dave Roberts earlier today that
Speaker 6: Tyler Glass now season is likely over with the sprained
Speaker 6: right elbow. How big of a blow is this for
Speaker 6: the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: I think is very big. I don't know what the
Speaker 5: percentage was to him possibly being healthy, but the fact
Speaker 5: that he was on this trip, he started warming up
Speaker 5: in the bullpen yesterday afternoon early going and was going
Speaker 5: to throw the simulated game, but did not come out
Speaker 5: and throw that sim game. It's a big, big blow
Speaker 5: to this Dodger block club because you look at Okay,
Speaker 5: he's injured. We don't know what's happening with Clayton Kersham.
Speaker 5: Which Walker Buehller are we going to be able to
Speaker 5: see and which Bobby Miller are we going to be
Speaker 5: able to see? Because both Bueller and Miller have struggled
Speaker 5: in recent times. This is a situation. I think it's
Speaker 5: concerning as far as the Dodgers arting.
Speaker 6: Pitching, and in that Dodger clubhouse, those players are not
Speaker 6: blind to what's going on. The names that you mentioned,
Speaker 6: they're very aware of how much the Dodgers need you.
Speaker 5: Because these are not guys that just happened to full
Speaker 5: off the turner truck. And say, hey, you have them.
Speaker 5: I mean, these are guys that you understand what they've
Speaker 5: been able to do in their ability, and that is
Speaker 5: a huge void at the present time. But then you
Speaker 5: start to look at things. Landon Ak did not have
Speaker 5: a good game last night, and I thought Dave Roberts
Speaker 5: kind of put in perspective. He goes, look, that's really
Speaker 5: the first time that he's he's not had a presentable
Speaker 5: type of a game since he's come up in big,
Speaker 5: big situations. I look for him to rebound nicely as
Speaker 5: next outing.
Speaker 6: And the Dodgers only scored two runs last night. Rick
Speaker 6: and a lot of people were talking about some of
Speaker 6: the bad show. Hey o Tani was having. Do you
Speaker 6: feel like he's pressing the chase fifty home runs?
Speaker 5: It might be, but here's the other part. Other people
Speaker 5: are understanding what's happening and listening to the television reports,
Speaker 5: picking up the paper, going on social media. They know
Speaker 5: what a monster, as far as an offensive threat Otani
Speaker 5: has been. How many guys want their names associated with Hey,
Speaker 5: I'm the guy that through the forty ninth home run,
Speaker 5: I'm the guy that through the fiftieth home run or
Speaker 5: allowed even a stolen base clubs, especially Atlanta Braves. Braves
Speaker 5: don't have any wiggle room right now. They're trying desperately
Speaker 5: to get the postseason playoff berth somehow, some way, and
Speaker 5: they're not going to give an inch at all.
Speaker 6: No doubt. And the Dodgers certainly don't have things wrapped
Speaker 6: up in the NL West either, Rick, I feel like
Speaker 6: we can't take that for granted.
Speaker 5: And Dave Roberts said that a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: So look, we had not nailed down a playoff berth
Speaker 5: exactly yet, not right now. That's still at some point
Speaker 5: in time. You can talk magic numbers all you want
Speaker 5: until you get there. It's something out of hit. Dodgers
Speaker 5: have to look at this ballgame right here tonight, and
Speaker 5: they look at two more before they go down to Miami,
Speaker 5: and don't take the Marlins for granted either when they're
Speaker 5: down there for the three game series in the back
Speaker 5: end to this road trip.
Speaker 6: That's what they call a trap series.
Speaker 5: Rick, No, this was a trap segment.
Speaker 6: Every day it is. I trap you into this, Rick.
Speaker 5: I told Dwayne McDonald locked the door to the boost
Speaker 5: and he didn't do it again.
Speaker 6: I know, I know you, hey, you are really popular.
Speaker 6: By the way in Atlanta, I have not seen these
Speaker 6: many people come into the booth to really kiss the
Speaker 6: ring of Rick Monday.
Speaker 5: No, they were into seed dlamee.
Speaker 6: Thanks Rick. We'll check back in with you a little
Speaker 6: bit da all right, thanks, and we'll send it back
Speaker 6: to you in the studio. Tim from right now a
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Speaker 6: It's a college football Saturday. But the Dodgers have a
Speaker 6: game to play tonight here in Atlanta. And I'm joined
Speaker 6: right now by a man that went to a college
Speaker 6: in Champagne, Illinois, and no, not the University of Illinois.
Speaker 6: That is the one and only Kevin Kiermeyer. Thanks a
Speaker 6: lot for the time appreciated.
Speaker 10: Thank you. David.
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm trying to figure you out. On Saturdays, you
Speaker 6: get really into college football. Last week you were pumped
Speaker 6: for Central Illinois or some school that beat Notre Dame,
Speaker 6: and today you're watching Oklahoma Northern Illinois. So I'm trying
Speaker 6: to figure out where your loyalties lie.
Speaker 12: My loyalty lies with the Purdue Bulletmakers, who are getting
Speaker 12: trounced right now by Notre Dame.
Speaker 10: So a lot of ball left.
Speaker 12: But yeah, I'm a Purdue Bulletmaker fan. But they're backs
Speaker 12: against the wall right now. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 6: See in Tampa Bay, they know all about you, but
Speaker 6: in LA we don't know a lot about you. You're
Speaker 6: an Indiana kids, So why did college take you to Champagne, Illinois.
Speaker 12: Well, I didn't have any offers hardy for I wanted.
Speaker 10: I knew it. I was going to play baseball or football.
Speaker 12: Had a gross spurt my senior year, and none of
Speaker 12: those were looking really good. But I grew and had
Speaker 12: a really good senior year football and then baseball as well.
Speaker 10: We won state championships in both.
Speaker 12: And where I got scouted by my junior college, I
Speaker 12: was in Champan, Illinois park on junior college is what
Speaker 12: they're called, and I took a visit there and I
Speaker 12: said Okay, I'm going to do the baseball route and
Speaker 12: made a good choice. But yeah, I didn't really have
Speaker 12: many offers at all and made the best of junior college,
Speaker 12: and two years later I was drafted.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, you mentioned football and baseball but not basketball.
Speaker 6: How could that be for a kid from the Hoosier State.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I was. I was small.
Speaker 12: I was really small, and our high school was very talented,
Speaker 12: really good players, and playing time wasn't going to be
Speaker 12: really a thing. And it got to the point my
Speaker 12: senior year. I played all the way up until my
Speaker 12: senior year, and then it got to the point where
Speaker 12: I'm okay, I'm gonna be on a college campus somewhere
Speaker 12: next year. I gotta start getting some things figured out.
Speaker 12: So I decided not to play basketball and devote all
Speaker 12: my time to baseball and to try to have the
Speaker 12: best senior year I could.
Speaker 10: And you know, everything worked out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I did, no doubt a great career for Kevin Kiirmeier.
Speaker 6: But when you talk about not being scouted, going to
Speaker 6: a junior college, and then being drafted, do you feel
Speaker 6: like you've played with a chip on your shoulder, Maybe
Speaker 6: not in a bad way, but in a good way.
Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 12: I was selected in the thirty first round. I was
Speaker 12: a nine hundred and forty first pick overall in the
Speaker 12: twenty ten draft, and for me, I was a little
Speaker 12: upset with how late I went, but at the same time,
Speaker 12: like you just said, it motivated me and all I
Speaker 12: needed was an opportunity, and I said that from the
Speaker 12: get go, and I knew I had to play good
Speaker 12: quick and got off to a good start and rookie ball,
Speaker 12: and then I feel like I solidified myself and showed
Speaker 12: everyone the raised what I could do, and then they
Speaker 12: gave me more leave and then made a steady climb
Speaker 12: through the miners and and got to the big leagues
Speaker 12: in thirteen for my debut.
Speaker 10: So it's u and you know, here we are towards
Speaker 10: the end of it. Now.
Speaker 12: It's been a heck of a ride, but I will
Speaker 12: always go back and just knowing, you know how hard
Speaker 12: I worked and junior college, you get that opportunity and
Speaker 12: throughout my whole career. Now I'm proud of what I accomplish,
Speaker 12: and I look back and you know, being the nine
Speaker 12: hundred and forty first pick, I'm very appreciative because I
Speaker 12: feel like I had to do all the right things
Speaker 12: to get where I am today and then some And
Speaker 12: I've said here, I am proud, proud as can be
Speaker 12: of what I accomplished being a late round pick and
Speaker 12: defied the odds.
Speaker 6: I guess when you're in the grind, you can't really
Speaker 6: reflect on your accomplishments as a baseball player. But at
Speaker 6: this stage of the of your career, even though you're
Speaker 6: in a pennant race and you're going to the postseason
Speaker 6: with the Dodgers, have you had more time to reflect
Speaker 6: on the way your career has gone.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this whole year has.
Speaker 12: I feel like I've done a lot of reflecting and
Speaker 12: just know and that you know, every time I go
Speaker 12: to certain ballparks it's most likely going to be my
Speaker 12: last time going there. So I've taken so many things
Speaker 12: in and uh, just a lot of a lot of
Speaker 12: memories replaying throughout this whole year, but thankful, grateful for
Speaker 12: everything thrown my way, and I just I want to
Speaker 12: have fun going out the best way I could. And
Speaker 12: and I'm you know, with the perfect team, perfect organization
Speaker 12: to to finish out the season strong and try to,
Speaker 12: you know, make that that October postseason push and uh,
Speaker 12: That's what it's all about. So yeah, a lot of
Speaker 12: a lot of nostalgic fields throughout this whole year. But
Speaker 12: once again, more than anything, just the appreciation and gratefulness
Speaker 12: that I've had for everything that has come my way
Speaker 12: has been my favorite part about my career.
Speaker 6: Kevin Kiirmeier is our guest just in front of first
Speaker 6: pitch between the Dodgers and Braves. Since you brought up
Speaker 6: all these different ballparks that you feel a little nostalgic about,
Speaker 6: are there some that you enjoyed playing center field in
Speaker 6: more than others? And we you know, we always hear
Speaker 6: about in field dirt, how about the warning tracks and
Speaker 6: just the dimensions of some of these stadiums.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there is different and unique in its own different way.
Speaker 12: But for me, you know, I uh, you know, the
Speaker 12: Rays obviously, I love playing at Tropicana Field, Uh, played
Speaker 12: there more in anywhere. Roger Center awesome in Toronto as well.
Speaker 12: I mean, I just I appreciate when when fans appreciate me,
Speaker 12: especially at your home place, and even going out to
Speaker 12: Dodger Stadium is amazing. That grass and that surface out there,
Speaker 12: it's incredible and just how good it feels to play
Speaker 12: out there is amazing, But I I like, I like
Speaker 12: places where I can go make a play at the wall,
Speaker 12: So any any place with like an eight football in
Speaker 12: center field Baltimore, I love playing there.
Speaker 10: I made some really good catches there over the years.
Speaker 10: But uh, I liked. I like thinking I could run
Speaker 10: them down anywhere.
Speaker 12: So for me, that's kind of a tough question because
Speaker 12: I enjoy playing everywhere. But for me just Detroit, Kansas City.
Speaker 12: I like the big, the big outfields where I can
Speaker 12: run around and show everybody what I can do. As
Speaker 12: I've gotten older, I appreciate the smaller ones a little
Speaker 12: bit more.
Speaker 10: But you know, I love going out there.
Speaker 12: Making plays in defense has been what I've been best
Speaker 12: at throughout my whole career, not even close.
Speaker 10: And I like making plays no matter where I'm playing.
Speaker 6: Kevin, I feel like your validation for another center fielder
Speaker 6: means a lot. Are there other center fielders in the
Speaker 6: game right now that you are impressed by the way
Speaker 6: they handle center field?
Speaker 10: Yeah? The first thing that comes to mind is Pete
Speaker 10: crow Armstrong.
Speaker 12: We just we just saw him with the Cubs and
Speaker 12: I knew he was good, but watching him in person,
Speaker 12: he's elite and he's he's gonna be elite for years
Speaker 12: to come. He he's impressed me. A ton Byron Buxton
Speaker 12: when he's healthy, is very special out there. But Pete
Speaker 12: Kroh Armstrong, I mean, he put on a show against
Speaker 12: us this past week, and me and all the other
Speaker 12: guys had tip our hats to him because he was
Speaker 12: he was special out there. And I I always appreciate
Speaker 12: good defense, whether you're on my team or not.
Speaker 6: When you're special as an elite defender like yourself, it's
Speaker 6: got to be a compliment. When a guy like pie
Speaker 6: Crow Armstrong, he's compared to Kevin Kiermeyer. People are saying
Speaker 6: that was a Cure Myer type of play or plays
Speaker 6: that he made in that series.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, just thankful that my name is even
Speaker 12: you know, thrown to to be in the uppression lot
Speaker 12: of centerfielder type of guys out there. But uh, you know,
Speaker 12: if I were to tell him something, I would have said, hey,
Speaker 12: I had the last ten years, you can you can
Speaker 12: have the next ten because he's he's unreal. And I
Speaker 12: just said when I when I talk about that solely
Speaker 12: centerfield defense, and I love defense more than anything, So
Speaker 12: I appreciate and I uh, you know, game recognized his
Speaker 12: game and he is. He's unreal out there. So he's
Speaker 12: got a long career ahead of him, but he he's
Speaker 12: the guy who who's stood out for me so far,
Speaker 12: and he's one of the best center fields I've seen
Speaker 12: in person in a long time.
Speaker 6: Well for this generation, Kevin, you're the bar. You set
Speaker 6: the bar for the way center field can be played,
Speaker 6: how elite it can be played. And certainly you're in
Speaker 6: that conversation when somebody makes a play, they say that
Speaker 6: was a keer Meyer type play. So thanks a lot
Speaker 6: for the time, and this will not be our last conversation.
Speaker 6: I look forward to talking to you when you got
Speaker 6: champagne all over your face.
Speaker 10: There we go. I can't wait. Thanks David.
Speaker 6: There he is the man. Kevin Kiermeyer will send it
Speaker 6: back to you in the studio, all right.
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Speaker 2: we make it easy. Chris Sale has made it look
Speaker 2: easy over the years. The thirty five year old left
Speaker 2: hander who came up with the White Sox in twenty ten,
Speaker 2: then went to the Red Sox been with the Braves
Speaker 2: in his first year. He's an eight time All Star,
Speaker 2: two time all strikeout leader in twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen,
Speaker 2: a World Series champ back in twenty eighteen with the
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Making his twenty eight start this season.
Speaker 2: He hasn't lost the start this June twenty seventh against
Speaker 2: the White Sox of ball Teams. Since then, he's six
Speaker 2: and oh in twelve starts. Last timeout, six shutout innings,
Speaker 2: two hit, seven strikeouts, and a no decision against the
Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays. It's his third career start, fourth appearance
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers. He has zero to one with a
Speaker 2: ten to thirteen R. Jack Flaherty on the mound for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers twelve and six with the two eighty six Erora,
Speaker 2: twenty eight year old right hander out of Burbank, former
Speaker 2: first round pick in twenty fourteen out of Harvard Westlake
Speaker 2: High School, making his twenty fifth start of the season,
Speaker 2: his eighth since joining the Dodgers. He's five and one
Speaker 2: with a two to sixty one ERA, forty seven strikeouts
Speaker 2: since putting on a Dodger uniform. Last time out, seven
Speaker 2: and a third shutout innings, four hits, six strikeouts. That
Speaker 2: wasn't a win over the Guardians. He's facing the Atlanta
Speaker 2: Braves with a fourth time in his career. He has
Speaker 2: one in one with a four to thirty two ERA
Speaker 2: and nineteen strikeouts. He last faced him about five years ago.
Speaker 2: A little bit more than that May twenty six, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: when he was with the salo As Cardinals. He went
Speaker 2: six score list innings. He gave up three hits, struck
Speaker 2: out seven in a no decision. So it's Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: and Chris Sail the pitching matchup Dodgers and Braves.
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Speaker 2: Keys to the game are coming up next. I'm Tim
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Speaker 2: Dodgers and Braves from Atlanta for a game wrap around.
Speaker 2: Series started last night with the Braves win the series opener.
Speaker 2: We'll finish up on Monday afternoon before the Dodgers head
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Speaker 2: road trip, Flarity and Chris Saale. The pitching matchup Dodgers
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Speaker 3: All right, before first.
Speaker 2: Pitch, we head back out to the booth one final time,
Speaker 2: Rick Monday, Tim, Never guess.
Speaker 4: Tim, Thanks again. We're counting it down to the first
Speaker 4: pitch here at Truest Park in Atlanta. Overcast skies, some
Speaker 4: weather in the area. Hopefully it will hold off and
Speaker 4: this game will be played without delay. We'll see Jack
Speaker 4: Flaherty on the hill for the Dodgers twelve and six
Speaker 4: overall five and one since joining the Dodgers with an
Speaker 4: ERA of two to sixty one. He will oppose left
Speaker 4: handed Chris Sale. Saale making a bid for the Cy
Speaker 4: Young Award in the National League, also the Triple Crown.
Speaker 4: He leads in two of the three categories in terms
Speaker 4: of wins, in terms of ERA, and he's second in
Speaker 4: strikeouts right now, so Chris Sale has really had an
Speaker 4: incredible bounce back year now that he's.
Speaker 5: A brave Yeah, he's had just a remarkable season. One
Speaker 5: of the things that de look four for Sale they
Speaker 5: had a no decision his last outing. That was on
Speaker 5: Sunday against Toronto, where threw one hundred and thirteen pitches.
Speaker 5: The reason I bring that up he's had a slight
Speaker 5: drop in velocity if you look at a couple of
Speaker 5: starts in he's hands so far in the month of August.
Speaker 5: Is that a sign to look at Don't really know,
Speaker 5: but it caught the attention to someone to basically put
Speaker 5: it in pen and paper and put it out there
Speaker 5: for people to understand something we'll be watching as this
Speaker 5: game goes along. The other part, too, is you're a
Speaker 5: hitter against Chris Sale, get ready for a lot of sliders.
Speaker 5: And it's not your ordinary dime store slider either.
Speaker 4: It's a good one and the delivery is a little
Speaker 4: bit different. I asked a few hitters in the past
Speaker 4: what it's like to face Sale. They said, it's like
Speaker 4: the first basement's throwing the pitch. I mean, he comes
Speaker 4: from Laredo and the slider and the fastball are almost
Speaker 4: indiscernible when they come out of the hand.
Speaker 5: Initial yeah, I asked a hitter. I said, what's more
Speaker 5: uncomfortable facing Sale or hitting your finger with a hammer
Speaker 5: on purpose? He goes, well, maybe hitting your finger well.
Speaker 4: Sale sixteen and three against Jack Flaherty twelve and six.
Speaker 4: Rific pitching matchup here in Atlanta. First pitch just around
Speaker 4: the corner. Dodgers Braves Game two Jim.
Speaker 3: Should be a good one. Great pitching matchup coming up.
Speaker 2: Dodgers started the night eighty seven and sixty the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres four and a half games back in the division.
Speaker 2: The Arizona Diabacks five games back of the Dodgers Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: They'll be hosting the Brewers coming up in about an
Speaker 2: hour two hours from now. Up north in San Francisco,
Speaker 2: it'll be the Giants taking on the Padres Dodgers with
Speaker 2: fifteen games to go. Up next Dodgers and Braves from
Speaker 2: Truest Park in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: all the postgame festivities, including Dodger talk as well. First
Speaker 2: pitch when we return. I'm Tim Katson's been Wrongo Casino
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