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Speaker 2: We are live at Dodgers Stadium after the Dodgers defeat
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Guardians by a final score of seven to two.
Speaker 2: Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vase with you until ten
Speaker 2: o'clock on this beautiful Saturday night in Los Angeles. I
Speaker 2: know a little hot today, I know a little hot lately,
Speaker 2: but still the best city in America, Beautiful Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: and no better place to be than at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: watching the Dodgers score six runs in the first inning
Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Guardians and their starting pitcher Gavin Williams.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edman, who was hitting fifth tonight, came up with
Speaker 2: the bases loaded and he had a two run double.
Speaker 2: It did not stopped there. Andy Pajs capped off the
Speaker 2: six run first st inning with a two run home run,
Speaker 2: and that was perfect to the Dodgers game plan of
Speaker 2: having a bullpen game where they used seven different pitchers tonight,
Speaker 2: starting with Ryan Brasier. And ending with Brent Honeywell, who
Speaker 2: only won his third major league game of his career.
Speaker 2: I could not believe that when I checked to see
Speaker 2: how many wins he had in his career, it was
Speaker 2: only his third and it was the first of this season,
Speaker 2: the first since early last year when he was pitching
Speaker 2: for the Padres. So I guess, as we do in
Speaker 2: football with offensive lineman roll call, let's do a bullpen
Speaker 2: roll call of the pitchers that got the Dodgers a
Speaker 2: seven to two win. Ryan Brasier, Michael Grove, Justin Robleski,
Speaker 2: Blake Trinen, Alex Vesia, Michael Kopek, and Brent Honeywell. Those
Speaker 2: are are your seven Dodger pitchers roll call that threw
Speaker 2: in the game tonight that helped the Dodgers secure a
Speaker 2: seven to two win over the Guardians. Mookie Betts continues
Speaker 2: to roll. He hit a solo home run tonight in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the fourth inning. He was on base
Speaker 2: in the first inning, part of three consecutive walks by
Speaker 2: Gavin Williams, when Tommy Edmund doubled two runs in, including Mookie.
Speaker 2: Let's head downstairs right now to hear from Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean patter who was against didn't get out
Speaker 3: and score six. That's always going to be a good
Speaker 3: rest reciped winning game.
Speaker 4: Could you tell their start of the struggle in there with.
Speaker 5: His control first time?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I mean going through it not didn't really pay much
Speaker 3: attention to it until the PitchCom got high. But you
Speaker 3: know he was still a pitcher two away from getting
Speaker 3: out of it.
Speaker 1: But we.
Speaker 3: When we stood firm.
Speaker 6: Sixteen runs since we came back, you know, just the
Speaker 6: hand injury twenty I.
Speaker 2: Think it's twenty three.
Speaker 3: Garb guys in twenty fourteen, you kind of hit the
Speaker 3: ground running since you came back.
Speaker 5: As does that surprise you?
Speaker 3: What all for?
Speaker 2: Shit?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, I don't care about none of that. As long
Speaker 3: as you win. Well, I guess that's all I care about. Again,
Speaker 3: like I've always said, I gotta do when it matters.
Speaker 4: Some of you guys come back to the hand injuries,
Speaker 4: to the powers of philoscopy.
Speaker 7: Come back though.
Speaker 2: That's why I sort of back in your mind.
Speaker 4: They want to make sure that that was still kind
Speaker 4: of better right off the back.
Speaker 3: Fee you No, absolutely not.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 3: Uh, I mean, we just wanted to make sure I
Speaker 3: was healthy and being the best.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Put the best Smookie out there and been doing okay
Speaker 3: so far. With the rotation as thin as it is,
Speaker 3: it is important to maybe take the heat off the
Speaker 3: pitching staff in general. Uh, women anying like that they started. Uh,
Speaker 3: it didn't matter if we were fully healthy. Man, we
Speaker 3: gotta Uh, anytime we can put together a beginning, it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it'd be a good recipe to win,
Speaker 3: but especially with the short there, I mean, it's good
Speaker 3: to I mean, really, guess ahead. We still had to
Speaker 3: go and kind of go through the bullpen, but those
Speaker 3: of the cars were dope.
Speaker 5: Is there a conversation amongst you guys when I guess
Speaker 5: the offense kind of cools off like it has the
Speaker 5: last we'll say, a couple of games, and especially when
Speaker 5: you do have a damn you guys can get things
Speaker 5: going again.
Speaker 2: Is there a conversation amongst you guys?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean then we got like fifteen hits for
Speaker 3: four or five games in a row, so I can't
Speaker 3: really expect that to last. But you can't expect us
Speaker 3: to go out there and put in the work and
Speaker 3: do what it takes to win ball games. And so
Speaker 3: luckily we did today.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts has been putting in work all season long
Speaker 2: since coming back from the injured list and missing six
Speaker 2: weeks after getting hit by a pitch on his left wrist.
Speaker 2: He is hitting three eleven with home runs twenty three RBIs,
Speaker 2: and he has scored fifteen times. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: he's hitting over three point eighty with runners in scoring position.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm still a firm believer that Otani,
Speaker 2: who is on his way to becoming the first player
Speaker 2: in baseball history to hit fifty home runs and steal
Speaker 2: fifty bases, should be the National League MVP. But to me,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts is still the MVP of the Dodgers. We
Speaker 2: saw how much they missed him while he was out
Speaker 2: for those six weeks. He comes back, He's not the
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter anymore. He says, okay, I'll hit second. He
Speaker 2: has thrived and embraced it. And when he came back,
Speaker 2: they said, or he actually acknowledged, you know what, shortstops
Speaker 2: not for me. I'm headed back to right field. It's
Speaker 2: time for Miguel Rojas to take over the rest of
Speaker 2: the way. And without Mooki Betts playing moving around, hitting
Speaker 2: at an MVP level before he got hurt, and did
Speaker 2: he got hurt? The Dodgers would not be in this
Speaker 2: position to be able to say they have a magic
Speaker 2: number of fifteen with only twenty games to go. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine, eight, seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat Cleveland tonight seven to two. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Huntington Beach. Rob, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing? Rob?
Speaker 6: Hello? David. Personally, I believe that Hotani, as gray as
Speaker 6: he is, he should be batting fourth. The Dodger lineup
Speaker 6: should be Dutch Freeman, Hernandez, Hotani, Smith, Munsey, Edmunds, Lux
Speaker 6: and Rojas. They should never Platune Munsey. He needs too
Speaker 6: many reps, too few games left in the season. He
Speaker 6: should be playing every day, and Hotani disappears in a
Speaker 6: lot of games he goes, and a lot of games.
Speaker 6: As grazy is, you should never be batten first. With
Speaker 6: twenty games left, the Dodgers are in jeopardy of losing
Speaker 6: the box and a home field advantage.
Speaker 2: They're not in jeopardy of losing the buy. There are
Speaker 2: three games ahead of the Brewers. No, if you will,
Speaker 2: you're spouting off a lot of things that's not accurate.
Speaker 2: Number one, It's worked out really well with Otani leading off.
Speaker 2: Number two, Are you trying to tell all of us
Speaker 2: you don't want Otani hitting in the top three so
Speaker 2: we get hit in the first inning and get more
Speaker 2: at bats than anybody else sitting four, five, or six.
Speaker 2: Number two, you just gave misinformation by saying they're in
Speaker 2: danger of losing the bye. Not only are they tied
Speaker 2: with the Phillies for the best record in the National
Speaker 2: League the top seed, but they are three games ahead
Speaker 2: of the Brewers in the lost column for the number
Speaker 2: two seed, which would still ensure them the first round.
Speaker 2: By I'm not saying, there's twenty games left in the
Speaker 2: season and they're playing pretty well and they're going to
Speaker 2: get back their two top pitchers.
Speaker 6: What what are you saying that hotan he would have
Speaker 6: more opportunities with men on base if he batted fourth.
Speaker 2: You know, but they or may not there. It's a
Speaker 2: fair argument, Rob, But if you were to tell me
Speaker 2: Otani hitting third, I might be more open to it
Speaker 2: than hitting fourth. I understand what you're saying. You want
Speaker 2: the big dog to eat and have more runners on base,
Speaker 2: But uh, for a guy that's stealing fifty bases. He's
Speaker 2: getting in scoring position for Freddy and Mookie. So it's
Speaker 2: worked out better than I imagine it working out.
Speaker 6: You have to concede that, Yes, that's true, but you
Speaker 6: go left right, left, right, left right. That's why Tani
Speaker 6: would be batt and fourth. You can put Hernande's third,
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 2: Don't want I don't want Hernandez hitting third. He strikes
Speaker 2: out too much well, and he does. He clogs the
Speaker 2: bases too. I don't want him hitting third. I don't
Speaker 2: want him having more at bats in the game than show.
Speaker 6: Hey, Otani, what about what about allowing Monkey to play
Speaker 6: every single He might he.
Speaker 2: Might work into that, but honestly, Rob, he has been
Speaker 2: basically playing virtually every day Keiky. Hernandez has only had
Speaker 2: one or two starts since Munsey's come back, and he
Speaker 2: played against the He was in the starting lineup against
Speaker 2: a lefty couple of days ago. All right, gotta run, Rob,
Speaker 2: Thank you. That was enough misinformation right there? Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Look,
Speaker 2: I'm all good with you calling in with different ideas,
Speaker 2: but don't try to convince us of things that aren't true.
Speaker 2: Like the Dodgers are in danger of losing a first
Speaker 2: round by I mentioned during the Clubhouse Show, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: gained a game on both San Diego and Arizona, so
Speaker 2: they're five games ahead of the Padres. They're six and
Speaker 2: a half games ahead of the Diamondbacks and own the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: Their magic number is fifteen with twenty games to go.
Speaker 2: They are as much as everybody that covers this team
Speaker 2: wants to make you believe it Panic City at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 2: It's really not the case. It really isn't now. If
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now was not throwing the baseball, then I
Speaker 2: might be a little concerned. If Yamamoto was not starting
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, I would be even more concerned. And look,
Speaker 2: between now and the end of the regular season, they
Speaker 2: could have a setback, and then we might have a
Speaker 2: different conversation. But the Dodgers are in great position to
Speaker 2: be the number one or number two seed in the
Speaker 2: National League and have those five days off. And when
Speaker 2: you get those five days off, that's beneficial to glass
Speaker 2: Now and Yamamoto and Kershaw and everybody else that is
Speaker 2: on the shelf. Right now, let's go out to Lance
Speaker 2: who is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Hi, Lance, you're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Hi, first time caller. I actually called probably ten years ago.
Speaker 7: The family's been Dodger fans for seventy five years. My
Speaker 7: dad used to go watch him in Brooklyn and I'm
Speaker 7: taking him to the game on Tuesday. Good friends with
Speaker 7: Laura and the chef Marito Queen.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's the best.
Speaker 7: To her and my daughter. She was in my daughter's
Speaker 7: wedding so well. Diehard Dodger fan, go to sixty games,
Speaker 7: seventy games a year, and even went and watched them
Speaker 7: play in Saint Louis. But my Clifton, I want to
Speaker 7: comment on the last caller. I totally agree with you
Speaker 7: that the Dodgers have had horrible luck with injuries and
Speaker 7: to their pigeon staff. But we're getting healthy at the
Speaker 7: right time, and I think we're going to make a
Speaker 7: good playoff run and this is our year. I just
Speaker 7: wanted to give you my comments and and appreciate everything
Speaker 7: you do. When I go to Milwaukee this year, I
Speaker 7: won't go down the slide. I'm gonna make that mistake.
Speaker 2: The slide to me today. Oh oh, Now, I appreciate it, Lance,
Speaker 2: and thank you for the phone call, and thanks for
Speaker 2: being big Dodger fans, and any friend of Lorn from
Speaker 2: Chef Merito is a friend of mine. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: By the way, I tried those Joe Kelly Tinga nachos.
Speaker 2: Those are solid Joe Kelly, I hate to admit it.
Speaker 2: He knows how to pitch, he knows how to talk,
Speaker 2: and he knows how to come up with good nacho recipes.
Speaker 2: And by the way, as I said last night, Joe
Speaker 2: Kelly still has eight more days to go on the
Speaker 2: injured list. When Joe Kelly returns, you are going to
Speaker 2: see vintage Joe Kelly. I've been watching his catch play
Speaker 2: out there. It's a different sound popping out of that
Speaker 2: catcher's mitt when he's throwing, and the way he's throwing
Speaker 2: is the way he was throwing for the Red Sox
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. There's gonna be a lot of apologies
Speaker 2: to me and Mariachi Joe when he returns. Trust me.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez. It seemed like he was done for the
Speaker 2: season last year as he was walking out of the
Speaker 2: stadium with a walking boot on his left foot after
Speaker 2: being hit by a pitch. He did undergo CT scans.
Speaker 2: They came back negative. He did come back to Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium without a walking boot. He was limping slightly, but
Speaker 2: he seemed to be in great spirits and very relieved
Speaker 2: that it wasn't worse. And Dave Roberts said, Taoscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: is not going on the IL and he plans to
Speaker 2: have him back in the starting lineup Monday or Tuesday
Speaker 2: against the Chicago Cubs. Here's what Taoscar Hernandez had to
Speaker 2: say earlier today at his locker.
Speaker 4: Ah, yeah, it's definitely better today. You know, naivel to
Speaker 4: well normal, but it's way better than last night. MRIs
Speaker 4: and CT scan we're negative. Thank god, it was nothing broke.
Speaker 4: Just take the day today, lose some on TIV tomorrow
Speaker 4: to see how it's going. Maybe Monday or Tuesday. Good
Speaker 4: back in the field. I thought it was worse, honestly
Speaker 4: when I got hit, and like after a couple hours,
Speaker 4: I feel like the pay wasn't going away. So today
Speaker 4: I was expecting really back moves, but thank got it.
Speaker 4: It was nothing too worry about it, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be ready.
Speaker 2: All right, there's ta Oscar Hernandez and his mere presence
Speaker 2: in the lineup behind the three MVPs this season with
Speaker 2: twenty eight home runs and eighty seven RBIs has been
Speaker 2: huge to help those three guys really make the picture.
Speaker 2: Have some pause that. Okay, you get through those three
Speaker 2: guys if one of them or two of them are
Speaker 2: on base. Now you have to deal with Taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: who is having a great season and certainly should be
Speaker 2: considered for Comeback Player of the Year. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers beat
Speaker 2: the Guardians tonight seventy two. Ta Oscar's replacement, his little brother,
Speaker 2: Andy pa Hez, got the starting left field and he
Speaker 2: hit a two run home run in that six run
Speaker 2: first inning. Let's go out to Cammy. Who is that
Speaker 2: Dodgers stadium tonight? Hi? Cammy, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 8: How are you guys?
Speaker 2: We're doing great?
Speaker 5: That's great.
Speaker 8: I was just fun to say that. Tonight was pretty
Speaker 8: electrifying game to watch, you know. Dot two run home
Speaker 8: run from pahes was really really cool, really good for
Speaker 8: him on his part, But I feel like Otani didn't
Speaker 8: really live up to the standards tonight in person like
Speaker 8: he usually does.
Speaker 2: Oh, Cammy, how many games have you been to this year? Cammy?
Speaker 5: Like seven?
Speaker 2: How many times has Otani delivered in those other games
Speaker 2: that you've been to?
Speaker 8: Sure, you're right, You're right, You're right. Maybe he's just
Speaker 8: off to night baseball.
Speaker 2: It's not. It's not the NBA where Lebron James is
Speaker 2: going to score thirty five and dish out ten assists
Speaker 2: every night. It's baseball. Yeah, he did almost hit a
Speaker 2: home run to left field. He just got underneath it.
Speaker 2: But I think Mookie Bets uh, I think Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: put on the show tonight, and so did Tommy Edmund
Speaker 2: definitely did.
Speaker 8: He definitely did great job tonight. Really really showed off tonight.
Speaker 2: Don't sleep on Mookie, CAMMI tell your friends in the car.
Speaker 1: You're sleeping on movie right now?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Than, why aren't you calling about MOOKI? Why are you
Speaker 2: calling about Otani?
Speaker 8: Because is a star player.
Speaker 2: And Mookie's not.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's got two rings.
Speaker 2: Mookie's got two rings. He's trying to get O'tani.
Speaker 6: His first Yeah, well, he's.
Speaker 2: Trying to get o'tani's his first. You know, that's how
Speaker 2: it goes, all right, Cammy, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Glad you had a great time tonight. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: when we continue more of your phone calls. And also
Speaker 2: we will check in with Jose Mota and get you
Speaker 2: some pitcher updates. Tyler Glass now Clayton Kershaw, Roostar graderol
Speaker 2: We'll let you know where they are in their recovery.
Speaker 2: So good things are coming for the Dodgers and their
Speaker 2: pitching staff. Tonight they defeat the Guardians by using seven
Speaker 2: different pitchers in a bullpen game, seven to two the
Speaker 2: final score. As we roll on on Dodger Talk right
Speaker 2: here on a five to seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 2: Too O pitch swang on well, hit to left, going
Speaker 2: back on to this Kwan, He's to the track, here's
Speaker 2: to the wall. It's gone home.
Speaker 9: Run Promookay his sixteen to the season Tama Dodgers wait
Speaker 9: at seven to two.
Speaker 2: Ah, you know, Tim whatever, it was happy to be
Speaker 2: in the saddle for that one A Mookie moment in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the fourth inning. Mookie Bets continues to
Speaker 2: roll for the Dodgers, no matter where he's hitting, no
Speaker 2: matter where he's playing, and the Dodgers defeat the Guardians
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers, winning tonight, now have a five game lead
Speaker 2: on the Padres, six and a half games over the
Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks. And if you're looking at the playoff picture,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Phillies are tied for the best record
Speaker 2: in the National League as it stands right now. If
Speaker 2: the postseason started tomorrow, If the regular season ended tonight
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers and Phillies were tied with the same record,
Speaker 2: the Phillies would get the number one seed because they
Speaker 2: owned the tiebreaker winning the season series over the Dodgers
Speaker 2: this year. So the Phillies, the number one seed, would
Speaker 2: play the winner of a Padres Diamondbacks wildcard series, and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers currently would play the winner of a Brewers
Speaker 2: Mets wild card series. That's right. The New York Metropolitans
Speaker 2: have overtaken the Atlanta Braves for the final National League
Speaker 2: wildcard spot with a four to nothing win against the Reds.
Speaker 2: They have won nine in a row, and America's dh JD.
Speaker 2: Martinez had a two run double to lead the way
Speaker 2: for the mets ninth consecutive victory. So that's how it
Speaker 2: lays out right now, if the Dodgers and Phillies finish
Speaker 2: with the same record, the Dodgers would be the number
Speaker 2: two seed. All right, we got that all settled. Now,
Speaker 2: let's head out to jose Mota.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Hosean Mota.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose Mota. The Dodgers bounced back with a
Speaker 2: seven to two win. I'm sure it certainly helps to
Speaker 2: score six runs when you're doing a bullpen game.
Speaker 5: Well, a great plan by the guys at home play,
Speaker 5: considering that they had the number of the Gavin Williams
Speaker 5: even last season. Will they faced them over in Cleveland
Speaker 5: late August, and they just did not allow them to
Speaker 5: go out there and brief guy that averages ninety seven
Speaker 5: miles an hour. Secondary pictures are just okay for the
Speaker 5: big league level. A very nice job and bouncing back
Speaker 5: and know that you cannot be helping a guy like
Speaker 5: this out with a big arm by spreading the zone
Speaker 5: and opening it up. And they forced them into the
Speaker 5: zone and something we haven't seen there with all the
Speaker 5: you know, all the knocking around the Dodgers have done
Speaker 5: in some of their latest wins, taking advantage of the
Speaker 5: watts for lounging innings and then forcing Pictures to make
Speaker 5: more mistakes. It was good to see that early today,
Speaker 5: it really was.
Speaker 2: They were passing the batons. Three consecutive walks set up
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmonds two run double in the first inning, and
Speaker 2: Andy piz Jose got a rare start since being called
Speaker 2: up in September because of ta Oscar being out number one.
Speaker 2: I think we're all relieved Taoscar the most that it
Speaker 2: is not a season ending injury to his left foot
Speaker 2: that he will be back in the lineup Monday or tuesday.
Speaker 5: Oh, he is so big. I had a chance to
Speaker 5: talk to him this morning. He sounded relieved. Obviously a
Speaker 5: good news for everybody around in to Oscar is a
Speaker 5: guy that, as we know, is the lineup gets longer
Speaker 5: and deeper. He's a big part of that. And obviously,
Speaker 5: you know we're talking about Andy Pius. This is a
Speaker 5: different version of Andy. Payus Dave say, for sure, you
Speaker 5: see the urgency Indi outfield, all the work he's been
Speaker 5: putting in before he got demoted, you know, a few
Speaker 5: weeks ago. It's just he played in the left field
Speaker 5: today that you said, that's gold club caliber and the
Speaker 5: jumps being on top of his feet, following the ball
Speaker 5: in trajectory quite well and taking those good routes and
Speaker 5: on top of that, all right, million is there? So Bord?
Speaker 2: All right, why don't we get Jose's phone settled there
Speaker 2: and we'll see if we could reconnect with him. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Dodgers beat the Guardian seventy two. It was
Speaker 2: a great baseball day here at Dodgers Stadium. I got
Speaker 2: to meet some fancy baseball people that I don't usually
Speaker 2: come in contact with. It was great to see John
Speaker 2: Schuerholds Junior, who is the son of the great GM
Speaker 2: of the Atlanta Braves dynasty in the nineties, John Schuerholds Senior.
Speaker 2: And I also got to meet the director of player
Speaker 2: personnel for the Chicago White Sox, Gene Watson, who says
Speaker 2: he listens as he is living here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: so appreciate that. And I also got to go down
Speaker 2: into the umpire room to meet this umpiring crew in
Speaker 2: all Italian umpiring crew here at Dodgers ste Phil Couzy
Speaker 2: who was on the off season show, Dan Bellino, Alex
Speaker 2: Toci and Tony Randazzo. It was great meeting the umpiring
Speaker 2: crew and they are all Italians, and Phil Couzy certainly
Speaker 2: a great one, and they did a great job again tonight.
Speaker 2: All right, let's try to reconnect with Jose Mota. Jose.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Justin Robleski. He only went two innings,
Speaker 2: he did not give up a run, but it didn't
Speaker 2: seem like Dave Roberts was that happy with his outing.
Speaker 9: Dave Roberts wards the last couple of times you've seen
Speaker 9: were blessed on the mound. It's all about the fact
Speaker 9: that he's not ready yet. The stuff is there at
Speaker 9: times that there's some flashes, velocity is there, but you know,
Speaker 9: it's not just about throwing, man, it's about executing pitches
Speaker 9: and being able to control capts and at this point
Speaker 9: so far mechanically, I think there's some pieces missing to
Speaker 9: put it all together. We know the drive is there
Speaker 9: because this guy really wants a really bad, very smart,
Speaker 9: analytical kid, but certainty for a guy that we're blessed,
Speaker 9: I was hoping to see him go a little bit longer, honestly,
Speaker 9: just to go out there and give him a longer
Speaker 9: leach today. But Dave Roberts knows better than all of
Speaker 9: us when it comes down to how he wanted to
Speaker 9: manage his bullpen today. But for Roblesky, it comes down
Speaker 9: to the basics of pitching, not just velocity, but location,
Speaker 9: strike on strike too, and then the those thing two
Speaker 9: Dave is in this around baseball, he doesn't He does
Speaker 9: not make a lot of left ended hitters look bad,
Speaker 9: and that's a sign sometimes of sometimes people seeing the
Speaker 9: ball well off of his hand, and this ladder not
Speaker 9: have enough bite to put left ended hitters away who
Speaker 9: came into this game today hitting over three hundred and
Speaker 9: then only like four strakos and thirty eight bas which
Speaker 9: is something that you don't see very offera with somebody
Speaker 9: throwing that hard.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, thanks a lot for breaking it down.
Speaker 2: We will connect with you again tomorrow after the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have Jack Flaherty on the mound against the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 5: Black Jack Day, baby, Oh, I like that, Jose.
Speaker 2: Twenty one for the Dodgers tomorrow with Jack Flaherty on
Speaker 2: the mound. He's wearing number zero because Russell Westbrook is
Speaker 2: one of his favorite guys. So looking forward to Jack
Speaker 2: Flaherty on the mound for the Dodgers tomorrow. I mentioned
Speaker 2: Tyler glass Now. He did throw his bullpen session. I
Speaker 2: counted twenty five plus pitches in the bullpen and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said they were all fastballs. On Tuesday, when Yamamoto
Speaker 2: comes back off the il, glass Now is also going
Speaker 2: to have a big day. He's going to throw, as
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts characterized it, an aggressive bullpen on Tuesday where
Speaker 2: he's going to throw his entire pitch mix. So that's
Speaker 2: good news. And with the Dodgers using seven different relievers tonight,
Speaker 2: that may be a signal that they are going to
Speaker 2: activate Bruce Starr Graderol off the IL for a second
Speaker 2: time this season. Remember, Grattarol made a season debut three
Speaker 2: or four weeks ago. On his ninth pitch, he felt
Speaker 2: something in his hamstring and it looked like he may
Speaker 2: have blown out his right hand string, but it turned
Speaker 2: out it was only a Grade one hand string strain
Speaker 2: and I ran into the Bazuka as he was coming
Speaker 2: back down the elevator with his luggage at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: and he is going to be activated, if not tomorrow,
Speaker 2: then on Monday for the CUB Series. So that is
Speaker 2: going to be a big boost for this Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: to have Bruce Star Gretterol back there and at the
Speaker 2: perfect timing because a lot of these guys have been
Speaker 2: used a lot this season. They need a fresh arm
Speaker 2: that is as good as Bruce Star Grattarol down there.
Speaker 2: And like I mentioned, Joe Kelly, he has thrown that
Speaker 2: tinga down there. He is going to come back better
Speaker 2: than ever, trust me. All right, that'll do it for
Speaker 2: us on Dodger talk tonight tomorrow. As Jose mentioned, Jack
Speaker 2: Flaherty will be on the mound to try to win
Speaker 2: the series. He's eleven and six this season with an
Speaker 2: ERA of three to zero one, going up against Tanner
Speaker 2: Bibbi who's eleven and six with an ERA of three
Speaker 2: point fifty six. Morongoo. Dodgers on deck is at noon
Speaker 2: tomorrow with first pitch at one ten, And as you
Speaker 2: saw last night, it's vital for the Dodgers to get
Speaker 2: an early lead so they do not have to see
Speaker 2: the great relievers, the high leverage relievers that Steven Vote
Speaker 2: has in his bullpen, led by the closer and Manuel
Speaker 2: Classe who earned his forty second save of the season
Speaker 2: last night. So if the Dodgers have a lead going
Speaker 2: into the later innings tomorrow afternoon, there's a good chance
Speaker 2: they're going to win it. So looking for the series win,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers are in great position as their magic
Speaker 2: number to clinch the NL last is at fifteen with
Speaker 2: only twenty games to go after a seven to two
Speaker 2: win tonight over the Guardians. Thanks to Colin Yee, thanks
Speaker 2: to Dwayne McDonald, and thanks to you for listening in
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