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Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Mariners for the ninth straight time going back to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Tonight, the Dodgers complete the three games
Speaker 2: sweep with an eight to four victory over Scott's Service
Speaker 2: and the Seattle Mariners eight to four the final score.
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty improves his record as a Dodger to three
Speaker 2: to zero overall, He's ten and five on the season.
Speaker 2: He beats Logan Gilbert, who is now seven to ten
Speaker 2: on the year. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. I mentioned this on
Speaker 2: Monday Night. If you always have a hard time getting
Speaker 2: in when the Dodgers lose, well when they win, it's
Speaker 2: a lot more available to call in and get in
Speaker 2: touch with us. Eight six six none eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Coming up later in the show, we will
Speaker 2: hear from super reliever Evan Phillips, who has gotten his
Speaker 2: season back on track. He will let us know the
Speaker 2: reason why. Also, coming up, you will get a Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now update. Yeah, remember him, Tyler Glass now who
Speaker 2: was trying to stay in the rotation with elbow tendinitis
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis all of a sudden. Now, we'll get
Speaker 2: to that later. Eight six sixne eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. How about the Dodgers lineup?
Speaker 2: It feels like it did last year and the last
Speaker 2: ten years. Right when they're healthy. It's a very tough
Speaker 2: lineup to get through. And never before had the Dodgers
Speaker 2: had three MVPs at the top of their lineup named Shoho, Tawny,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts, and Freddy Freeman. The other night we did
Speaker 2: a Clayton Kershaw appreciation. How about a Freddy Freeman appreciation.
Speaker 2: This guy's playing with a hairline fracture in his right
Speaker 2: middle finger. He's got wrapping on it, he's throwing the baseball,
Speaker 2: he's playing good first base, and tonight he delivered a
Speaker 2: key to out double to drive in a run in
Speaker 2: the fifth inning, which turned out to be the knockout
Speaker 2: inning to get Logan Gilbert out of there. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: scored five runs. Thanks to Freddie Freeman and Company and
Speaker 2: Logan Gilbert. He found out that the lineup is just
Speaker 2: a little bit too much for him and certainly a
Speaker 2: guy that is one of the best in the American League.
Speaker 2: But this Dodger lineup one through nine is exhausting if
Speaker 2: you're a starting pitcher. And we saw that against three
Speaker 2: very good Seattle Mariners pitchers, and the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to come up with five big runs in that fifth inning.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey is more than expected coming back since not
Speaker 2: playing for a few months since May fifteenth. He now
Speaker 2: has two home runs that three run double tonight and
Speaker 2: has six RBIs so in total in three games back.
Speaker 2: Two homers, a double and six RBIs for Max Muncie.
Speaker 2: And I know Mookie Betts wants to downplay how good
Speaker 2: he is, but I'm sold on him being the number
Speaker 2: two hitter. I'm sorry he was one of and is
Speaker 2: the best leadoff hitter. But the facts are Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: is more clutch than show Hey Otani, as was evident
Speaker 2: again in the game tonight. When Otani cannot deliver all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the pitcher cannot exhale. He's got Mooki
Speaker 2: Betts to deal with even with two outs. We saw
Speaker 2: that last night in the seventh inning when Mooki picked
Speaker 2: up O'tani driving in the tying run with two outs,
Speaker 2: and then tonight again Mookie Bets with two outs in
Speaker 2: the third inning, he drove in the first two runs
Speaker 2: with a double, a two out double and Mookie Bets.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna spin this in a positive way.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to pick apart Otani with the runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position, and it's completely valid, But how about Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets with runners in scoring position. How come you never
Speaker 2: hear anybody talk about that. Well, I'm here for that.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts this year is hitting three fifty four with
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position. Don't forget before Mookie Betts unfortunately
Speaker 2: got hit by that pitch against the Royals and was
Speaker 2: out for six weeks with a broken left hand. He
Speaker 2: was the odds on favorite to win the National League
Speaker 2: MVP this year. To me, he is still the most
Speaker 2: valuable Dodger they have and it's evident with his impact
Speaker 2: since he came back on that last road trip in Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: he's had an impact on virtually every series, and tonight
Speaker 2: again had a huge impact on the game because all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, he put doubt in Logan Gilbert's mind
Speaker 2: and also got the Dodgers in early lead, a two
Speaker 2: to one lead in the third inning. So for me,
Speaker 2: Otani is one home run and one stolen base away
Speaker 2: from being a forty to forty player and probably is
Speaker 2: going to win the National League MVP. And I'm very
Speaker 2: happy for him because he has come to the Dodgers
Speaker 2: with a lot of expectations. But I will say this,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts is the MVP of the Dodgers, even if
Speaker 2: Shohei Otani is the MVP of the National League, because
Speaker 2: think about what Mooki Bets did. He moved to a
Speaker 2: shortstop after he thought he was going to play second base,
Speaker 2: He misses six weeks, loses his spot as the leadoff hitter,
Speaker 2: and then is it comes to terms with the fact
Speaker 2: that the Dodgers are better with him in right field.
Speaker 2: I mean, what's more valuable than that? And by the way,
Speaker 2: if Mookie Bets goes off the way he did before
Speaker 2: he got hurt, call me crazy. You don't know what
Speaker 2: you have until it's gone. And when you have an
Speaker 2: award called the most Valuable Player, it's not the best player.
Speaker 2: Otani is the best player in baseball, best hitter in baseball.
Speaker 2: Him and Aaron Judge, they're right there. But when you
Speaker 2: talk about value, nobody is more valuable than Mookie Betts.
Speaker 2: As far as the Dodgers going, twenty twenty four eight six, six,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones. Joey in CEO Beach, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Joey?
Speaker 3: How you doing? David?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: I just wanted to fall I actually called on Monday.
Speaker 5: How can I brought up the points?
Speaker 3: I brought up the points that win the World Series
Speaker 3: and that this lineup is deep and as you've seen
Speaker 3: the last two nights, man, this this lineup just feels
Speaker 3: it feels different. You know, all year it.
Speaker 5: Felt like we're plugging guys just because you know, all
Speaker 5: the injuries and stuff. And I just wanted to say
Speaker 5: how excited I am.
Speaker 6: It's it's great to see the Dodgers play.
Speaker 5: You know, they basically.
Speaker 2: Called in to take a victory lap, right, Joey, that's
Speaker 2: what you did.
Speaker 6: Basically Basically you're right.
Speaker 2: At least you're honest about it. Thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: the phone call. Joey and the Dodgers now are a
Speaker 2: season best twenty four games over five hundred. With their
Speaker 2: eight to four win over the Mariners. They have won
Speaker 2: four in a row, ten of their last thirteen as
Speaker 2: they head into the off day and have a four
Speaker 2: game lead in the NL West over San Diego and
Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks. Let's go out to Alan, who is
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium tonight, one of three million fans that
Speaker 2: have come to Dodgers Stadium this season. How you doing, Allen,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Alright on.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm good, David.
Speaker 7: Hey, I want to talk about Randa.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, let's get to that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know, you know, he got hit and
Speaker 4: I understand being upset about that.
Speaker 5: But you know, in between innings, Randy and Rose arena Is.
Speaker 4: I pointed out to my ten year old daughter, don't
Speaker 4: don't act like this guy acts like he walks from
Speaker 4: left field into the dugouts and yeah, I'm hoping, I'm
Speaker 4: hoping for some inside and information for you. There was
Speaker 4: a moment between him and ta Oscar. I don't know
Speaker 4: what's going on, what they were talking about, but Randy, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure ta Oscar was telling him because he was going
Speaker 2: to be coming up to start that inning, Taoscar was
Speaker 2: taking the time out to talk to him before is
Speaker 2: that bat in the sixth inning, to probably cool him
Speaker 2: down and tell him, like, hey, let's not turn this
Speaker 2: into a benches clearing, a bullpen clearing game night. There
Speaker 2: there was no intention to Jack Flaherty hitting him earlier
Speaker 2: in the game, so I'm sure Taoskar, who has the
Speaker 2: respect of so many players in the league, was just
Speaker 2: telling him, hey, cut it out.
Speaker 7: Nice, that's good to hear, and hopefully Randy took cart.
Speaker 7: I know there was a moment where there were rumors
Speaker 7: where Randy was potentially coming to Los Angeles, and I
Speaker 7: don't know, especially after today's game, I'm kind of happy.
Speaker 7: Did it didn't work out that way?
Speaker 2: Yeah. By the sounds of the stadium, it feels like
Speaker 2: you were not alone. Thanks for the phone call, Alan
Speaker 2: appreciated eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy. Look.
Speaker 2: I like Randy a rose Arenas machismo, his edge all that,
Speaker 2: but that was unwarranted tonight. And like I've told you
Speaker 2: and Petro some money, Jack Flaherty is not backing down
Speaker 2: from anybody he's got a lot of edge. He's not
Speaker 2: trying to be anybody's friend. When he's starting that day.
Speaker 2: It's reminiscent of the way Kershaw handles his day. I
Speaker 2: know some teammates when I was down on the sidelines
Speaker 2: filling in for Kirsten uh they were holding up their
Speaker 2: hands for high five. When he came into the dugout.
Speaker 2: I want to high five anybody. He was on a mission,
Speaker 2: and he's on a mission every time he starts. And
Speaker 2: I love the way he kept his composure. When Randio
Speaker 2: rose Arena was staring him down, he just laughed it
Speaker 2: off and that was the best way to handle things.
Speaker 2: And then when he beat him in the next battle
Speaker 2: in the third inning, when he flew out, I liked
Speaker 2: that he barked at him. And in Milwaukee, Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: was barking at some brewers as well. So he will
Speaker 2: do that. He will let you know he is here
Speaker 2: and Randio rose Arena is not going to intimidate him.
Speaker 2: And you heard me say this after the Phillies series
Speaker 2: that I felt like the Dodgers were a little too nice. Well,
Speaker 2: Jack Flerity is not mister nice guy, and I love
Speaker 2: that he stood his ground and it was certainly much
Speaker 2: needed for this Dodger team. Speaking of Jack Flerity, let's
Speaker 2: head downstairs right now to hear from Harvard Westlake's own
Speaker 2: after winning his third game in Dodger Blue.
Speaker 8: I think first and foremost was getting off to a
Speaker 8: better start. First sitting has been a little rough since
Speaker 8: I got here, so it's nice to get to a
Speaker 8: better start, even though fall behind a bunch of guys
Speaker 8: early on, and then you know, as the game went on,
Speaker 8: you know, once we once we got that lead, and
Speaker 8: at that point it was just about trying to get
Speaker 8: deeper into the game and try to get some quick outs,
Speaker 8: you know, and just trying to fill up his own
Speaker 8: I was it was nibbling a little bit, just kept
Speaker 8: missing just barely. So some things to clean up going
Speaker 8: to the next one, but you know, made some adjustments
Speaker 8: from the first second inning and through the rest of
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 9: Of the perks of being part of this organization is
Speaker 9: obviously the offense that you get to pitch with.
Speaker 2: What's it like, I guess, knowing the support that you
Speaker 2: had out there and just kind of seeing them do
Speaker 2: what they do.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a it's as deep a lineup as
Speaker 8: you're gonna find, and just one after the other, they
Speaker 8: just you know, what they did to uh pitching staff
Speaker 8: that Seattle has is is impressive. And what they did
Speaker 8: to Gilbert tonight. You know, there was just one after
Speaker 8: the other, relentless, and it's it's fun to watch. And
Speaker 8: sometimes you know, pitching, and you get a little like
Speaker 8: you just you just end up watch and you forget
Speaker 8: that you're throwing. So but it's just it's it's fun
Speaker 8: to watch all around.
Speaker 10: What Apple was going to be.
Speaker 8: I mean nothing, Man, I respect Randy as a player.
Speaker 8: He's been really good in this league for you know,
Speaker 8: as long as he's been here. Yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 8: no reason for me to hit him in that position,
Speaker 8: and he took exception to it. So I got nothing,
Speaker 8: got nothing from respect for guys who are really good.
Speaker 2: In this league.
Speaker 8: So we said what we had to say. Boys jumped
Speaker 8: out of the dugout and remove on.
Speaker 11: What would you say to him after the fly.
Speaker 10: Out that night?
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is it doesn't matter. I'll stay between the lines.
Speaker 8: But there was nothing. We've both said what we had
Speaker 8: to say, and it's all good. I got nothing from
Speaker 8: respect for nothing but respect for.
Speaker 12: The guy, would you just evaluate like these four starts
Speaker 12: here since the trade and then how you sell the
Speaker 12: last month.
Speaker 8: Not I mean, okay, for for me, I feel like
Speaker 8: I came over in a in a good spot and
Speaker 8: it kind of hit I don't know, probably the weirdest
Speaker 8: fun cut probably been in all year in terms of
Speaker 8: just like nibbling, not quite getting deep enough in the games,
Speaker 8: not quite being a sharp, just just missing like tonight
Speaker 8: kind of was, like was all of that was I
Speaker 8: just just missing, falling behind, getting some bad counts, still
Speaker 8: gonna get guys out, still gonna make pitches, which is good,
Speaker 8: but you know you execute some of those, you know,
Speaker 8: getting deeper in a game, so like it's it's really
Speaker 8: it's really close, and it's just a matter of just
Speaker 8: continuing to work and you know turning starts like tonight
Speaker 8: into you know, seven endings.
Speaker 2: So that's that's what we're trying to do, all right.
Speaker 2: There's Jack Flaherty after tonight's win, the Dodgers beating the
Speaker 2: Mariners eight to four. Thanks to sports at LA for
Speaker 2: bringing us Jack Flaherty, who is now ten and five
Speaker 2: on the season. He is three and zero and four
Speaker 2: starts with the Dodgers. So he is still funding a
Speaker 2: way to keep the Dodgers in the game, even though
Speaker 2: he has not pitched his best like we saw in Detroit.
Speaker 2: And I love the self evaluation right there. And if
Speaker 2: you look across the board, not just the three and
Speaker 2: a half era, but the whip, that kind of tells
Speaker 2: you that he hasn't been his sharpest. But he competes.
Speaker 2: A lot of guys can't say that that's something you
Speaker 2: cannot measure. Jack Flaherty competes, and tonight he competed. He
Speaker 2: went five and two thirds innings, only allowed one earn run,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers go on to sweep the Mariners eight
Speaker 2: to four. The Dodgers now are twenty three and twelve
Speaker 2: against American League teams. And going back to Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 2: there's lots of reasons why Jack flaherty has had some
Speaker 2: sort of renaissance to his career in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's mechanical approaches and tweaks and all that,
Speaker 2: but the one statistic that sticks out is the strikeout
Speaker 2: to walk Raceihow. In his career, the strikeout to walk
Speaker 2: ratio was three and a half to one. This year,
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty strike out to walk race show is six
Speaker 2: and a half to one. His only career season above
Speaker 2: the threes was twenty nineteen when he was, you know,
Speaker 2: four to one with the Cardinals. So he obviously has
Speaker 2: done something significant to have that type of strikeout to
Speaker 2: walk ratio. All right, we're gonna take a time out
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. We have two lines open at
Speaker 2: eight six six nine, eight seven two, five seventy. We'll
Speaker 2: get to more phone calls. We'll hear from Max Munsey
Speaker 2: and also Evan Phillips. Plus we have a Tyler Glass
Speaker 2: now update. Will he pitch against the Diamondbacks next week?
Speaker 2: We will let you know when we continue from Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium after the Dodgers defeat the Mariners eight to four
Speaker 2: on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 13: His first pitch is swung on a pelted down the
Speaker 13: right field line that's headed for the corner. Taioscar scores.
Speaker 13: Here comes lux behind them. They're gonna wave home Will Smith,
Speaker 13: here's the relaying.
Speaker 2: It's late. Will score standing up, and Max Mounsey.
Speaker 14: Breaks the new Mariners reliever with a basis clearing double
Speaker 14: with two outs. It is now eight to one Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Max Monsey delivering the knockout blow against Trent Thornton and
Speaker 2: the Mariners as the Dodgers tonight score five runs in
Speaker 2: the fifth inning with two outs to beat Seattle eight
Speaker 2: to four. David Vasse live at Dodgers Stadium with you
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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Moments after
Speaker 2: the final out tonight, we had a chance to catch
Speaker 2: up with Max Munsey, who has made his presence felt
Speaker 2: in his first three games back with the Dodgers. So
Speaker 2: one and only Max Munsey, who delivered the knockout blow
Speaker 2: in the five run fifth inning, a basis clearing double.
Speaker 2: Feels like you never left. I wish that was the case.
Speaker 11: You know, as we've talked about, it's been a long,
Speaker 11: long couple months for me, But man, it feels good
Speaker 11: to be back.
Speaker 2: Max. You've been part of a lot of really good
Speaker 2: Dodger lineups, and you've been a big reason why. It
Speaker 2: feels like this lineup with you back, with ed Men,
Speaker 2: with Mookie and Freddie back feels very similar where you're
Speaker 2: wearing down the opposing starter.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it's just some we do very well,
Speaker 11: something that I do very well, you know. I know
Speaker 11: I make a lot of else out there, but I
Speaker 11: also see a lot of pitches. It's not always an
Speaker 11: easy at bat for the pitcher, and it wears them
Speaker 11: down and it allows other guys in the line up
Speaker 11: to beat themselves and do what they want to do.
Speaker 11: And I feel like we've been seen that the last
Speaker 11: couple of days.
Speaker 2: You're not shy about really not shying away from any confrontation.
Speaker 2: Where were you with all that Randy A Rose Lorena drama.
Speaker 11: I was right there, you know, the most important thing
Speaker 11: for me in that situation is make sure Jack stays
Speaker 11: in the game. You know, if anything happens, I'll be there,
Speaker 11: you know, kind of sort things out. But we got
Speaker 11: to make sure Jack.
Speaker 2: Stays in the game.
Speaker 11: So that's my number one priority is get there, get
Speaker 11: between them and make sure that nothing's gonna happen to Jack.
Speaker 2: Great to have Max Mounsey back. The Dodgers are undefeated
Speaker 2: since Max Monsey came back. Thanks a lot for stopping
Speaker 2: sounds good. There he goes. Max Muncy, who, like I mentioned, remarkable,
Speaker 2: not playing since May fifteenth, comes back against a very
Speaker 2: good Mariner's pitching staff to have two home runs, a double,
Speaker 2: and six RBIs and delivered the knockout blow tonight with
Speaker 2: the bases loaded in two outs, three run double for
Speaker 2: Max Munsey and this Dodger lineup was outstanding again with
Speaker 2: two outs, especially Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Taaska Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Those guys delivered along with Max Munsey. Not to mention,
Speaker 2: everybody in this lineup tonight had a hit except for
Speaker 2: one guy, and that was Tommy Edman, who is going
Speaker 2: to have his share of hits. You got your first
Speaker 2: taste of Tommy Edmund wearing a Dodger uniform in this
Speaker 2: three game series against the Mariners. He's made some great
Speaker 2: plays in center field and shortstop already, and the bat
Speaker 2: will be there as well. Nowhere to breathe if you're
Speaker 2: an opposing starting pitcher, even as good as the Mariners are,
Speaker 2: let's hit out back to the phones. We have a
Speaker 2: few lines open as we go to the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour. Coming up, we'll give you a Tyler Glass
Speaker 2: now update and here from Evan Phillips. But let's go
Speaker 2: check in with our guy James in North Hollywood, a
Speaker 2: regular on the show. How you doing, James?
Speaker 5: Hey, David doing great?
Speaker 4: Was that the game last night?
Speaker 3: And I just have to say, man, the way that
Speaker 3: we have handled the Mariners all series, I mean, this
Speaker 3: is what I hope we look like in October. And
Speaker 3: as for tonight, I got to give the credit to
Speaker 3: Jack Claerty because watching the game, I watched it from
Speaker 3: start to end. He didn't have it in the first
Speaker 3: two innings, and like the pro that he is, he
Speaker 3: went and found it. And on the opposing side, you
Speaker 3: got a great picture for the Mariners. And they say
Speaker 3: that good pitching beats good hitting, and they say that
Speaker 3: for reason it's because it's true. But when you have
Speaker 3: all the pieces of the Dodgers lineup healthy and you
Speaker 3: know in the line that they're supposed to be, we
Speaker 3: actually break that rule. So when I look ahead towards October,
Speaker 3: if we can get glass Now back, and we can
Speaker 3: get Yamamoto back, and our lineup looks the way it
Speaker 3: does tonight, God help anybody that's got to face this.
Speaker 3: You say you get more calls when the Dodgers lose,
Speaker 3: But I hope that everybody that likes to call in
Speaker 3: when we lose is listening to me right now and
Speaker 3: to your positivity right now, and knows that we are
Speaker 3: the team to beat.
Speaker 2: No doubt. James. I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 2: out there are quick to poke holes in the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And I've said this before, there is no perfect team
Speaker 2: out there. But consider this. The Dodgers have gone through
Speaker 2: more adversity this year with injuries and just underperformance in
Speaker 2: the first half by a few different players and really
Speaker 2: not getting a lot of consistency out of their starting pitching.
Speaker 2: The second half of the season. They were basically a
Speaker 2: five hundred team for the better part of the last
Speaker 2: two months. All of a sudden. Now they've won ten
Speaker 2: of their last thirteen. They have gotten healthy with their
Speaker 2: lineup one through nine, and honestly, if you look at
Speaker 2: their bench one through fourteen, they have gotten contributions from
Speaker 2: a lot of different players. You would have expected from
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward's go ahead pinch hit home run last night.
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeyer has been better than advertised because the defense
Speaker 2: has been there and the offense hasn't been too bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's come up with some hits, some big
Speaker 2: hits in Saint Louis and Milwaukee. So this is a
Speaker 2: very deep team and Dave Roberts has a lot of options,
Speaker 2: and they're not a platoon team right now. They have
Speaker 2: a set lineup and Tommy Edmond is going to start,
Speaker 2: you know, fitting into this lineup as well. So the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: You know, as much as people want to poke holes
Speaker 2: in this team, the facts are they have the best
Speaker 2: record in baseball. With all that being said, they're in
Speaker 2: really good position, especially with Yoshiyamamoto on his way back
Speaker 2: for at least two or three starts before the end
Speaker 2: of the season. Tyler Glass now went from I could
Speaker 2: pitch on Saturday to going on the IL, and now
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said Glass Now is not throwing yet, which
Speaker 2: means he's not going to be active the way Glass
Speaker 2: Now said he would be twelve days or over the weekend,
Speaker 2: twelve days from his last start. Now, there's still some
Speaker 2: question about whether or not he will be active off
Speaker 2: the IL against the Arizona Diamondbacks. That's a big four
Speaker 2: game series coming up when the Dodgers conclude this homestand
Speaker 2: three with the Rays, three more with the Orioles, then
Speaker 2: a four game showdown against the Arizona Diamondbacks. It's the
Speaker 2: last four games these two teams will play against each other,
Speaker 2: even if the Dodgers split, because at this point in
Speaker 2: time in the season, if the Dodgers go into Arizona
Speaker 2: with the lead they have right now, four games, time
Speaker 2: is on the Dodgers side. Time is running out on
Speaker 2: the Padres and Diamondbacks to catch the team with the
Speaker 2: best record in baseball who just got healthy and is
Speaker 2: just about to take off. And then you look at
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' schedule in September and the final two weeks
Speaker 2: of the season. They played nine of their last twelve
Speaker 2: games against the Marlins and Rockies. Congratulations to the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and Padres, who already have gone to Miami the last
Speaker 2: two weeks and got some easy wins. The Dodgers have
Speaker 2: got some coming at the right time in the final
Speaker 2: two weeks of the regular season, nine of their last
Speaker 2: twelve against two of the worst teams in baseball, the
Speaker 2: Marlins and Rockies. Let's go back out to the phones,
Speaker 2: Ben and Canoga Park. You're on Dodger Talk with David
Speaker 2: vasse Hi Ben live from Dodgers Stadium. Who could say.
Speaker 5: That, David, thanks from taking my call. Man, I'm not
Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium. Did it say that?
Speaker 2: No, I'm at Dodgers Stadium. You're at Canoga Park.
Speaker 5: I'm in park. That's right. Hey, listen, bro, you got
Speaker 5: me feeling like a fair weather fan. Uh, you know,
Speaker 5: this might be my first time actually calling after a
Speaker 5: Dodger's victory.
Speaker 2: There we go. You don't want to be like Kenn
Speaker 2: Newport Beach. You want to call when they win too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna start doing that with him. I have.
Speaker 5: I want to hear your thoughts on this this intending
Speaker 5: roster crunch that's coming up here, and you know, looking
Speaker 5: at the all the possibilities, and I'm I'm looking at
Speaker 5: a guy like Kevin Kiermeyer. You know, he's he's acting
Speaker 5: like a guy who's been on the team for ten years.
Speaker 5: You know, he's on the top step, rooting for his teammates,
Speaker 5: you know, uh, you know, greeting them after homers and stuff.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers a way to keep Kevin Kiermeyer. Kevin
Speaker 2: Kiermeyer is not going anywhere. There is a place for
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeyer on this roster, even with Chris Taylor coming.
Speaker 2: They have got to find a way to keep Kevin
Speaker 2: Kiermeyer on this team.
Speaker 5: What's what's the other possibilities. I don't see them getting.
Speaker 2: Rid of Well, now get rid of key K. He's
Speaker 2: been one of the best players in the month of August,
Speaker 2: and since Munsey came back, he hasn't gotten in a bat.
Speaker 2: So you know, I I would Key K Hernandez is
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. They got really good players now. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we had a team that resembled the
Speaker 2: Angels surrounding Sho Heo Tani when they had all the
Speaker 2: injuries coming out of the All Star break. And now
Speaker 2: you got a real team, and you got a lot
Speaker 2: of spots, and you know, there's you got a lot
Speaker 2: of really good players and not a lot of spots.
Speaker 2: So it's a good problem to have been. But I'm
Speaker 2: very confident Andrew Friedman can get creative to have Chris Taylor,
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeyer, and Jason Hayward on this roster when September
Speaker 2: one rolls around.
Speaker 5: Awesome. Yeah, thank you so much for that. I just
Speaker 5: wanted to know the possibilities of you know, of that
Speaker 5: roster crunch. So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, Ben. Yeah, I mean, come on, can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermer cannot go anywhere. He is too much fun
Speaker 2: to watch in center field. He makes a huge difference
Speaker 2: out there defensively. He gets the balls that he doesn't
Speaker 2: have to leap against the wall, and he's able to
Speaker 2: catch fly balls in stride. He's just one of the
Speaker 2: best center fielders defensively of his generation. And when Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmund has to play shortstop like he did tonight because
Speaker 2: Miguel rojas Is right hamstring was flaring up, you have
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermer to play center field. So he's not going anywhere,
Speaker 2: and if he does, I'll still do the show. But
Speaker 2: I won't be happy. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number I wanted to
Speaker 2: share Evan Phillips with you because there have been many
Speaker 2: of you that have jumped off that Evan Phillips bandwagon.
Speaker 2: And Evan Phillips missed a month with I believe a
Speaker 2: right hamstring injury. He came back and really never was
Speaker 2: as sharp as we saw before that injury. And Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips joined us on the pregame show earlier today and
Speaker 2: explained what he was doing wrong and the right he
Speaker 2: has made to get his season back on the right track.
Speaker 2: You been able to right the ship? What's been the
Speaker 2: process for you, you.
Speaker 12: Know, coming off the hamstring injury. I think we were
Speaker 12: just a little, uh maybe too patient and too passive
Speaker 12: with getting my body completely back on track. And I
Speaker 12: think everything felt so close for you know, really about
Speaker 12: a month there, and we were just kind of towing
Speaker 12: that line for a while about how we wanted to
Speaker 12: go about it, and eventually we really just decided to
Speaker 12: challenge my lower half and and really you know, focus
Speaker 12: on getting things back in line. And you know, when
Speaker 12: we did that, you know, we get the physical side
Speaker 12: in line to mental peace right, and then an overall
Speaker 12: you know game plan in line as well. I think,
Speaker 12: you know, putting those pieces to get other has really,
Speaker 12: you know, been the reason I've seen this upswing, you know,
Speaker 12: coming off of that. That's the rough pass for me.
Speaker 2: What about the trust factor? I hear so many guys,
Speaker 2: even as recently with Gavin Lex where you just got
Speaker 2: to trust that your body's completely healthy. Was there a
Speaker 2: mental hurdle to be crossed as well?
Speaker 12: You know, it's hard to say, because something that I
Speaker 12: never felt, you know, wrong physically. I think there was
Speaker 12: just some some things mechanically that we're getting out of
Speaker 12: whack that you know, once we addressed it and you know,
Speaker 12: kind of took the chain of events that that created, right,
Speaker 12: So we kind of analyze the issue and then you know,
Speaker 12: get get it right in the weight room, get right
Speaker 12: in the training room, and then get my mental side
Speaker 12: you know, locked in as well. And then yeah, at
Speaker 12: the end of the day, you got to go out
Speaker 12: there and trust those factors and trust all that preparation,
Speaker 12: and trust your talent too. I think that was a
Speaker 12: big part of it for me, is that you know, pitching,
Speaker 12: being a reliever, those things just in general, there's gonna
Speaker 12: be some variants, right, You're gonna get You're gonna have
Speaker 12: your audience where you give up runs and the game's gonna,
Speaker 12: you know, get you here and there. But being able
Speaker 12: to trust that you can go out there and get
Speaker 12: the job done still, it's definitely a big part of it.
Speaker 2: All Right. There's Evan Phillips, who obviously is very in
Speaker 2: tune with his body and his pitching mechanics and really
Speaker 2: one of the Dodgers that or a lot of them
Speaker 2: that have a high baseball IQ. And it's good to
Speaker 2: hear himself evaluate and obviously by watching him pitch and
Speaker 2: be more aggressive in the strike zone with his fastball,
Speaker 2: you can tell that Evan Phillips is back to being
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips. Let's take one more phone call before we
Speaker 2: say good night. Brock, who is at Dodgers Stadium tonight. Hi, Brock,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodgers on Dodger Talk TV.
Speaker 10: Thank you for taking my call. It's been a long time.
Speaker 10: Last time I spoke to you was May thirty first,
Speaker 10: so I'm not calling to say I told you so,
Speaker 10: but during that time I did. I did say this
Speaker 10: right Whenever he was hurt.
Speaker 2: But let's put it into context. May thirty first, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers played the Rockies here Dodger Stadium after the Reds
Speaker 2: and Mets road trip. All right, so that's where we
Speaker 2: were on May thirty first, Brock calling into the game,
Speaker 2: it was probably eleven o seven Pacific to.
Speaker 10: That's right, that's right, you've tracked. It was a humble brag.
Speaker 10: It was military appreciation night.
Speaker 6: It was a loss, unfortunately, but it was the night
Speaker 6: that I was able to see the national anthem. It
Speaker 6: was it was a beautiful night.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember this guy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I took over the show. You know that, Dave,
Speaker 10: that you gave it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your service. But man, so what what are
Speaker 2: you calling the humble brag about tonight? That you you
Speaker 2: believe you knew they were gonna have the best record
Speaker 2: in baseball, that's right.
Speaker 10: Not the best record in baseball, but that we would
Speaker 10: come back from these injuries and the way monthsy and
Speaker 10: and being at the game tonight.
Speaker 6: Uh, being in the we're out Nousfield pavilion, just just
Speaker 6: witnessing the greatness and what Showhotani is right now in person,
Speaker 6: watching him up close, watching him steal, watching him not.
Speaker 10: Be able to do the job that he is also
Speaker 10: assigned to do and be able to equip himself to
Speaker 10: steal bases like that and be on your track. This
Speaker 10: type of it's pretty loud enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and is great, But you're right. I mean,
Speaker 2: he is a physical marvel Brock, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, and the way he steals bases for his size,
Speaker 2: it's it's really something we haven't seen. We haven't seen
Speaker 2: players do what Otani has done in a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways. But the forty forty thing is not something
Speaker 2: I believe anybody really thought would happen. And when O'tani
Speaker 2: is asked about it, whenever he makes himself available, people
Speaker 2: ask him whether or not this was a goal considering
Speaker 2: he wasn't going to pitch this year, and you know,
Speaker 2: he downplays it, but you have to believe he did
Speaker 2: set goals for himself and I feels like whatever he
Speaker 2: sets out to do, he accomplishes, and I feel like
Speaker 2: forty forty was a goal this year.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 2: All right, Brock, thanks for the phone call. Be safe
Speaker 2: making that right turn call back anytime as well. All right,
Speaker 2: that'll do it for us. On Dodger Talk, Tonight Tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: Dave Roberts is going to join us tomorrow night at
Speaker 2: six point thirty on our off day show, and we
Speaker 2: will take more of your phone calls as we get
Speaker 2: you ready for the rest of this homestand when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers resume this homestand Bobby Miller will be on the
Speaker 2: mound Friday night in the opener against the Rays. The
Speaker 2: Rays have not put out their starting rotation for this
Speaker 2: three game series, so I'm not sure if Ryan Pepio
Speaker 2: is going to pitch back at Dodger Stadium, but Johnny
Speaker 2: de Luca will be back at Dodger Stadium with that
Speaker 2: blonde mustache of his Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck begins
Speaker 2: at six o'clock with first pitch at seven ten. And
Speaker 2: by the way, there is dissension in the ranks on
Speaker 2: that Rai's team. We saw Yondi Diaz and Jose Caballero
Speaker 2: go at it tonight. A big argument in that dugout
Speaker 2: bigger than what we saw between Randia Rose Arena and
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty tonight. So keep an eye on the soap
Speaker 2: opera that is the Tampa Bay Rays. Thanks to Colin
Speaker 2: Ye back at our Burbank Studios. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald
Speaker 2: who already I think started his car, Hugh, I guess
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Speaker 2: day Dodger Talk once again. The final score from Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers sweep the Mariners with an eight to four victory.
Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. We'll talk to
Speaker 2: you tomorrow, See Yam.