Speaker 1: Now your host walking you up to first pitch. It's
Speaker 1: Tim kas Hi.
Speaker 2: Everybody, welcome in to this Friday edition of Marongo Casino
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck. I hope you're enjoining this beautiful afternoon
Speaker 2: here in Southern California. You're world champion Los Angeles Dodgers
Speaker 2: twenty one and ten on the season, a five and
Speaker 2: one homestand that included a sweep of the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 2: Now sees the Dodgers hit the road for their longest
Speaker 2: roadie of the year. First stop Atlanta, Georgia in a
Speaker 2: three game series against the Braves. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the
Speaker 2: mount of the series opener, first pitch from Truest Park
Speaker 2: is coming up at four fifteen. Coming up over the
Speaker 2: next hour here on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, you're
Speaker 2: gonna hear from the manager himself, Dave Roberts. We'll dive
Speaker 2: deeper into this Friday pitching matchup. David Vase, our Dodger insider,
Speaker 2: will join this throughout the show. He's doing double duty
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Speaker 2: of the day and in just a few minutes we'll
Speaker 2: head out to Truest Park in the Gallpin Motors broadcast
Speaker 2: booth with Tim Neverett and Rick monday Well. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: on Wednesday had a nooner as Tony Gonsolin made his return.
Speaker 2: That catman back on the mound after six hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty one days away from baseball. Tommy John surgery his
Speaker 2: first start since August of twenty twenty three, and Tony
Speaker 2: Gonsoll was really good.
Speaker 3: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: Six innings, three runs, six hits, nine strikeouts, did not
Speaker 2: walk a batter, and he got plenty of run supported.
Speaker 3: Starting the second with Max Munsey.
Speaker 4: Here's a two ball and one strike pitch and this
Speaker 4: one is hit welldes center failed and is heading back
Speaker 4: toward the wall of this god hold on number one
Speaker 4: as Maxwell gets the swim Mis Solber hammer for the
Speaker 4: first time this season, and the Dodgers on the board
Speaker 4: won nothing.
Speaker 3: Max Munsey with his first home run.
Speaker 2: Max Hall goes deep four hundred and thirty three feet
Speaker 2: in the dodge, just getting started. Mookie Betts then with
Speaker 2: a two run single in the third. Andy Paie has
Speaker 2: with an RBI single the third Dodgers up four to nothing.
Speaker 2: After the Marlin Zone chipped away with a two run
Speaker 2: home running the top of the fourth and then an
Speaker 2: RBI double on the top of the six. Dodgers' lead
Speaker 2: was just four to three when the bottom of the six,
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts came up and extended the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Lead one to one.
Speaker 4: And Mookie hits the ball high in the air in
Speaker 4: a center field over toward left center and deep back.
Speaker 6: It goes to the wall that's off the warning.
Speaker 4: Tracking off the wall, Barnes around third, he scores. Here
Speaker 4: comes Otani in the score Bets around second, and he
Speaker 4: is into third with a two to half two run triple.
Speaker 6: Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 4: Mookie Bets makes it six to three, four runs batted
Speaker 4: in this afternoon for Mookie Bets.
Speaker 2: Have yourself a day, Mookie Bets. He goes two for
Speaker 2: four of the triple four ribbies. The Dodgers would tack
Speaker 2: on two more the very next batter, f Freeman a
Speaker 2: two run home run to right center. Dodgers up eight
Speaker 2: to three, and they just kept tacking on runs. Key
Speaker 2: k Hernandez an RBI single in the seventh. Otani scored
Speaker 2: on a wild pitch in the eight te Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 2: hit a ground rule double, scoring Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 3: In the eighth innings, Key.
Speaker 2: K Hernandez again back at it with an RBI single
Speaker 2: in the eighth. Dodgers go on and route the Marlins
Speaker 2: twelve to seven to final Tony Gonslin his first win
Speaker 2: in nearly two years. He goes six innings nine punchouts
Speaker 2: for the victory. The Dodgers were on fire twelve runs
Speaker 2: on seventeen hits. They scored thirty four runs in the
Speaker 2: three game series against the Miami Marlins. Outside of losing
Speaker 2: to Paul Skeins in the opener against the Pirates last Friday,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers then have won five in a row. They
Speaker 2: go five to one on the homestand the Dodgers sit
Speaker 2: at twenty one and ten on this season hottest team
Speaker 2: in baseball. Their lead in the division now a game
Speaker 2: and a half over the San Diego Padres. They're two
Speaker 2: and a half games up on the Giants, who continue
Speaker 2: to fade away, and their four games up on the
Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West. So they'll see on
Speaker 2: the back end of this ten game road trip. But
Speaker 2: first things first. After a day off yesterday, Dodgers in
Speaker 2: Atlanta to take on the Braves in the start of
Speaker 2: a three game series. Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mount in
Speaker 2: the series.
Speaker 3: Opener with more.
Speaker 2: We head out to the Kalpin Motors broadcast booth as
Speaker 2: we say good afternoon to Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 6: Guys, Tim, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Pretty nice evening here in Atlanta, a little bit on
Speaker 4: the breezy side, with the Dodgers and Braves getting set
Speaker 4: for their first game of the three games set here
Speaker 4: this weekend. Yoshanovo Yamamoto pitches tonight. He comes in with
Speaker 4: the bench era in Major League Baseball for a starting
Speaker 4: pitcher at one zero six, a three and two record,
Speaker 4: and the right hander goes opposite Grant Holmes, the right
Speaker 4: hander two and one and in the ra of four
Speaker 4: and a half. Dodgers start the night in first place,
Speaker 4: game and a half up. Twenty one and ten is
Speaker 4: the overall record. Meantime, the Braves, we've been laying much
Speaker 4: better lately, are fourteen and sixteen, and they are in
Speaker 4: third place in the National League East, six games off
Speaker 4: the pace, and mo it'll be another night without Tommy
Speaker 4: Edmund in the lineup, still nursing a tweaked ankle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And Dave Robertson said, hey, look, there's nothing to
Speaker 7: be overly concerned about. And Dave was saying before is look,
Speaker 7: if he's started the lineup Friday in Atlanta, Well, here
Speaker 7: we are on Friday in Atlanta. He would be in
Speaker 7: the lineup on Saturday. So I'm not overly concerned with it.
Speaker 7: In the meantime, it allows really Miguel Rojas to start
Speaker 7: at second base today, and as we've been saying really
Speaker 7: the last few days, the bottom part offensively of this
Speaker 7: Dodger lineup now beginning to catch fire. Of course, Max
Speaker 7: Munsey hit his first home run of the season. That'say
Speaker 7: pausive sight. And he PAHs is batting in the seventh spot.
Speaker 7: He has an eighth game hitting street going Taskar Hernanez
Speaker 7: has hit a nine in a row. Freddie Freeman, returning
Speaker 7: to Atlanta, is hitting sixth straight. So we're seeing really
Speaker 7: a lot of different balance and better balance off.
Speaker 4: Dodgers have won five straight and during that time, winning
Speaker 4: two against Pittsburgh three against Miami. They outscored those two teams.
Speaker 6: By thirty runs.
Speaker 4: Fifty one to twenty one during that stretch, and as
Speaker 4: a team hit three eighty three, walking more times than
Speaker 4: they struck out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're having some very good approaches.
Speaker 7: The other part, too, is this is a different Atlanta
Speaker 7: Braves team than what the Dodgers saw in the early
Speaker 7: part of April. Why well, they won seven of ten.
Speaker 7: They're not only hitting better, but once they get to
Speaker 7: the bullpen, you know they're bullpen. The last seven games
Speaker 7: has an ERA of just one seventy one. They've been
Speaker 7: able to shut down opposing teams, besides beginning now to
Speaker 7: score some runs.
Speaker 4: One thing offensively about the Braves. Former Dodger Alex Verdugo
Speaker 4: is now the starting left fielder and leadoff hitter, and
Speaker 4: in the ten games he's played in for the Braves,
Speaker 4: the Braves are.
Speaker 5: Eight and two.
Speaker 7: Yeah, isn't it amazing when a player gets cut from
Speaker 7: one team they signed him to minor league contract, they
Speaker 7: call him up and say, where's this guy been? All
Speaker 7: of a sudden, he jumps on top of it. And
Speaker 7: Atlanta has some guys too, swinging the band successionally well,
Speaker 7: and especially two. You look at this road trip. You
Speaker 7: know they went to Colorado in Arizona. They won four
Speaker 7: of the six games, and for Brian Snecker's ball club,
Speaker 7: they're beginning to feel very good about themselves. They're trying
Speaker 7: to get back to five hundreds, still two games below,
Speaker 7: but they seem to be on an upswing.
Speaker 4: Again, winning seven of the last ten. The Braves showing
Speaker 4: their fans that they have something going right now and
Speaker 4: doing it without Ronald Acuna Junior, who they expect to
Speaker 4: return sometime in the middle of this month. He's at
Speaker 4: a torn left ACL he's been out and when he
Speaker 4: comes back, the Dodgers will be done playing them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and good luck to him at that particular point.
Speaker 7: And for the Dodgers and Braves. Okay, finishing up the
Speaker 7: season series here on this weekend, but will we have
Speaker 7: kind of a look to maybe postseason play between these
Speaker 7: two teams.
Speaker 4: Dodgers swept the Braves at Dodgers Stadium earlier in the season.
Speaker 6: They hope to continue.
Speaker 4: They're winning ways against Atlanta here in Atlanta. Yoshanova Yamamoto
Speaker 4: three and two, Grant Holmes two and one. Those are
Speaker 4: your pitchers as we get you ready for the first
Speaker 4: pitch of this one tonight at Truest Park.
Speaker 6: Tim, All right, let's.
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Speaker 2: You will hear from our own David Vaz say, we'll
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Speaker 2: hear from Max Munsey, who hit his first home run
Speaker 2: of the year on Wednesday, hopefully jump thing and jump
Speaker 2: starting things for him offensively as the Dodgers hit the
Speaker 2: road for the start of a ten game roadie first
Speaker 2: stop Atlanta, three games set against the Braves. First pitch
Speaker 2: coming up at four fifteen. Thanks for being with us
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Speaker 1: This is the Otani rewinde and.
Speaker 4: There goes show Hey down to second base. They'll throw
Speaker 4: down there for a no reason because he swiped that
Speaker 4: easily stolen base number nine for sho He Otani. Otani
Speaker 4: hits the ball to center fielding deep. This ball heading
Speaker 4: back to the wall. It is over the glove of
Speaker 4: Sanchez and off the wall. Otani burning around second. He's
Speaker 4: on his way to third and Otani with a pop
Speaker 4: up slide safe at third. Otani leads at third and
Speaker 4: here comes an O two pitch way outside and missed everything.
Speaker 4: Here comes Otani to the plate, he slides, He's safe.
Speaker 2: Show Otani does a little bit of everything for four
Speaker 2: to play on base two times after a triple and
Speaker 2: a walk. He had a stolen base number nine on
Speaker 2: this season, and also scoring on a wild pitch part
Speaker 2: of a Dodger's twelve seven win over the Marlins. Dodgers
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Speaker 2: run onslaught of the Marlins on Wednesday months he going
Speaker 2: deep for the first time this season, a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure off of his shoulders, and afterwards talked to David
Speaker 2: Vasse in the media.
Speaker 8: Max, it looked like ta Oscar Hernandez didn't just give
Speaker 8: you a handful of seats.
Speaker 6: He gave you the whole bag today.
Speaker 5: Yeah he did.
Speaker 9: He got me pretty good and I felt really good
Speaker 9: to have that happen.
Speaker 6: And you know, I just hope that today something you
Speaker 6: can go down.
Speaker 8: Did you feel like on this homestand you were getting
Speaker 8: closer to hitting your first home run?
Speaker 6: Did you feel better at the plate?
Speaker 9: I don't know about home run, but just you know,
Speaker 9: the swing keeps feeling like it's getting closer and closer.
Speaker 6: I still have to clean something.
Speaker 9: You know, it's a work in progress, and like I said,
Speaker 9: today is the day you hope you can just build
Speaker 9: upon and you know, you just keep moving forward.
Speaker 8: Did you have a moment in the cage where you
Speaker 8: found something we haven't noticed really the step back yet?
Speaker 6: What have you worked on it?
Speaker 9: Just you know, we keep rewatching my bats and rewatching
Speaker 9: the swings, and you know, the abbat quality has been good.
Speaker 6: It's just getting the ball to go.
Speaker 9: Forward and you know, trying to figure out why it's
Speaker 9: not going forward.
Speaker 6: And so you just tinker with a little.
Speaker 9: Mechanics here and there, and you just feel keep getting
Speaker 9: closer and closer, but you know, we still got ways
Speaker 9: to go.
Speaker 8: So you felt like you were fouling pitches off that
Speaker 8: you should have hit. Yeah, it's been that way for
Speaker 8: about a week or two. And you know, like I said,
Speaker 8: I felt really comfortable in the box.
Speaker 9: There's still just one or two things that are just
Speaker 9: a little bit off. And you know, today was a
Speaker 9: lot closer. Obviously the ball went forward today, so that
Speaker 9: was a good thing. And you know, it's like I said,
Speaker 9: the abbat quality has been good, it's just getting the
Speaker 9: ball to move forward.
Speaker 10: How much of a grind has this one been for you?
Speaker 5: Mentally?
Speaker 6: Especially?
Speaker 9: Not easy, not easy on me, not easy on my family.
Speaker 9: You know, playing in la Is it's not easy. But
Speaker 9: you know it's a it's a privilege and it's a
Speaker 9: privilege to play under this pressure and it's uh you know,
Speaker 9: something that I've always throbbed upon. But it doesn't mean
Speaker 9: that it's easy. And you know, for me and my
Speaker 9: family it's been it's been a rough month.
Speaker 5: The greeting you've got, the dug out.
Speaker 8: How nice is it that they're kind of invested in
Speaker 8: your success as well?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 9: It was huge for me, almost a little emotional, but uh,
Speaker 9: you know, this clubhouse is very tight, it's very close.
Speaker 9: Everyone cares about each other here. We all just want
Speaker 9: to win, and for us to win, everyone needs to
Speaker 9: be clicking. And that's something that you know, this this
Speaker 9: whole clubhouse bies into and just to get that kind
Speaker 9: of greeting it felt.
Speaker 6: Amazing after these many games.
Speaker 8: Would you what would you have thought if we told
Speaker 8: you you would have had the same amount of home
Speaker 8: runs as triples?
Speaker 6: No response to that day?
Speaker 3: All right, there's Max months.
Speaker 2: He's certainly feeling a lot better now that he got
Speaker 2: his first home run of the season, and hopefully that
Speaker 2: gets some jump started here with the power. The rest
Speaker 2: of twenty to twenty five still to come. Here on
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck, we'll hear from David Vat day. He'll
Speaker 2: go one on one with tay Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 3: But up next, we'll get.
Speaker 2: To an injury report and we'll get the pregame thoughts
Speaker 2: of Dodger manager Dave Roberts. We're leading up to first
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Speaker 2: of pitchers on the injured list. Tyler Glastow on the
Speaker 2: IL with the shoulder inflammation. Blake trying it on the
Speaker 2: sixty day IL now with the right form, tightness, Blake
Speaker 2: Snell on the IL with the left shoulder soreness, Michael
Speaker 2: Kopek he was extended to the sixty day IL with
Speaker 2: the right shoulder impingement. Bruce Dark Gratorolt trying to work
Speaker 2: his way back. Clayton Kershaw also on the sixty day IL.
Speaker 2: He actually pitched in Triple A Oklahoma City just a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago and in minor league rehabs. Star Remember,
Speaker 2: he cannot be eligible to come off the IL until
Speaker 2: the middle of May, so he's got a few more
Speaker 2: weeks to go, but he is ramping up and that
Speaker 2: is certainly good news and fingers crossed that he can
Speaker 2: stay healthy in his return. All right, speaking of return,
Speaker 2: let's return back out to Atlanta and check you with
Speaker 2: the Dodger discover any.
Speaker 6: Questions for Dave.
Speaker 5: Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 6: Can you talk about the pressure in.
Speaker 1: The dugouts with Dave Roberts.
Speaker 8: Tommy Edmund not in the starting lineup again today. You
Speaker 8: said on Wednesday that if he wasn't in the lineup today,
Speaker 8: you were optimistic about tomorrow. Do you feel the same way.
Speaker 11: He is gonna go take some grounders right now? As
Speaker 11: I as I see look out, I think it's a
Speaker 11: day to day thing. I don't want to put us
Speaker 11: for him in a position where you know, there's much expectation.
Speaker 11: I think that that's just being driven on how he's feeling.
Speaker 11: So I don't even know his availability tonight. My expectation
Speaker 11: is he'd be available off the bench to pinch hit.
Speaker 11: But as far as starting tomorrow, I guess we'll see
Speaker 11: how today goes.
Speaker 6: At what point would it trigger a consideration for the I.
Speaker 11: Well, I think you know, if there's a couple two,
Speaker 11: three days that we don't feel he can start where
Speaker 11: you're talking about three or four days, it just wouldn't
Speaker 11: seem much of a cost. So I think that today
Speaker 11: we'll be telling and fortunately, because of the position player,
Speaker 11: it's only ten days versus the fifteen.
Speaker 2: All right, there is Dave Roberts talking about Tommy Edmond
Speaker 2: not in the lineup again today. We'll see what his
Speaker 2: status is as far as the injured list is concerned.
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Speaker 2: their five game winning streak after a five to one
Speaker 2: homestand that saw them sweep the Marlins. Dodgers first place
Speaker 2: atop the NL West. Yoshi Yamamoto on the mount in
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Speaker 6: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 1: This is Dodger insider David Basse DV.
Speaker 2: Now joins us from Truest Park in Atlanta, as did
Speaker 2: Dodgers take on the Braves. And it's not the first
Speaker 2: time he's back in Atlanta, DV.
Speaker 3: But Freddy Freeman is back taking on his former team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he told me after the game at Dodgers
Speaker 8: Stadium that closed out that homestand that it's a different
Speaker 8: feeling obviously coming back. And Freddie has done pretty well
Speaker 8: here at Truest Park as a Dodger. He's nine for
Speaker 8: twenty five with two doubles, a home run, and four RBIs.
Speaker 8: He flew ahead on the player plane after the game
Speaker 8: at Dodgers Stadium and had a full day here to
Speaker 8: catch up with family and friends. He's got a lot
Speaker 8: of them with him here back in Atlanta.
Speaker 12: That's different obviously. Now I'm just excited. I got my
Speaker 12: whole family there.
Speaker 5: They've been there for a.
Speaker 12: Couple of days, so obviously the same oldest brother who
Speaker 12: lives there, my sister in law and brother in law
Speaker 12: and their four kids, so I got a lot of
Speaker 12: people going to be there. My dad's that, my mom, cousins,
Speaker 12: aunt in law is They're all going to be there,
Speaker 12: So no, I look forward to it. It's fun now.
Speaker 12: It's good to see familiar faces. I do love playing
Speaker 12: in that stadium. I got to play there a lot,
Speaker 12: so I'm excited to go back and see everybody in play.
Speaker 8: I remember the first year that Freddy came back here
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty two, obviously emotional. He had an on
Speaker 8: field interview before first pitch. He had a press conference.
Speaker 6: Today.
Speaker 8: Tim Hoham came out here to do his regular routine
Speaker 8: with Chris Woodward. Nobody came around us say hi to
Speaker 8: Freddie Freeman. There was no fanfare, so I'm sure again
Speaker 8: he will have a loud ovation. This will be the
Speaker 8: first time, by the way, Freddie Freeman comes back to
Speaker 8: Atlanta as a World Series MVP.
Speaker 3: David is driven by Ford.
Speaker 2: If there's one thing we like, it's choices, fine yours
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Speaker 2: tough this mark, it can only be called the F
Speaker 2: one fifty. Tommy Edmund didn't play in that last game
Speaker 2: against the Marlins on Wednesday, David a little banged up.
Speaker 3: What's the latest with Tommy Tanks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously not in the starting lineup today.
Speaker 8: Dave Roberts said after the game against the Marlins the
Speaker 8: series finale that he was hoping Tommy Edman would be
Speaker 8: ready to go on the starting lineup tonight, but he
Speaker 8: did kind of leave it open and did by saying
Speaker 8: that if he's not in there tonight, that he certainly
Speaker 8: would be in there tomorrow. Now there is a chance
Speaker 8: of rain and the game being washed out tomorrow, So
Speaker 8: if that was the case, that gives Tommy Edman another
Speaker 8: extra day to get that soreness out of his right ankle.
Speaker 8: I talked to Tommy at his locker after that serious
Speaker 8: finale against the Marlins at Dodger Stadium, and he didn't
Speaker 8: have any wrapping on it. He said he was fine
Speaker 8: and certainly reassured me that this is not an injured
Speaker 8: Liss situation. So he and the Dodgers certainly dodged a bullet.
Speaker 8: We always talk about the Dodgers thinking big picture and
Speaker 8: taking things extra slow because of how much talent they
Speaker 8: have on this roster, not only with pitchers but with
Speaker 8: position players. So that's the reason why I'm sure the
Speaker 8: Dodgers are playing it's safe, David.
Speaker 2: Last year we saw Showy Otanio run for a fifty
Speaker 2: to fifty season, the fifty plus dole in bases. How
Speaker 2: is he helping with base running well?
Speaker 8: Being so close to the dugout, I've picked up on
Speaker 8: a few different things. I picked up on how smart
Speaker 8: Otani is and prepared Otani is because if you remember
Speaker 8: the middle game of that series, in the sixth inning,
Speaker 8: the Dodgers stole three bases, and in the top half
Speaker 8: of that inning, I distinctly remember seeing Otani going to
Speaker 8: Chris Woodward, the Dodgers first base coach, and giving him
Speaker 8: details of what he was seeing from the pitcher as
Speaker 8: far as.
Speaker 6: His moves, his times. It's not a coincidence.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers went out the next half inning and we're
Speaker 8: running like race horses from first base to second base.
Speaker 6: They stole three bases.
Speaker 8: Obviously the Marlins are not very good at holding runners,
Speaker 8: but they stole three base is in the bottom half
Speaker 8: of that sixth inning, and I am convinced sho Hee
Speaker 8: Otani had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 2: More horse talk coming up in just a minute, David
Speaker 2: but Yoshi Yamamoto coming off his least impressive outing on
Speaker 2: this season back on the mounta tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know it wasn't a horrible outing.
Speaker 8: He just got out pitched by Paul Skeens and he
Speaker 8: walked more guys than what we have seen him so
Speaker 8: far this season. So you know, there's just something different
Speaker 8: about Yamamoto this year than there was last year. At
Speaker 8: this time, he has a lot more confidence, a lot
Speaker 8: more swagger, and my understanding is he has a new
Speaker 8: wrinkle too. He's throwing cutters to left handed hitters, and
Speaker 8: he's gone back to what made him a decorated pitcher
Speaker 8: in Japan. He's throwing his fastballs down in the strike
Speaker 8: zone and that makes his split fingered fastball that much
Speaker 8: more effective because it looks like his fastball but drops
Speaker 8: off the table. So Yamamoto, going back to last year's postseason,
Speaker 8: went back to being true to himself as a pitcher.
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Speaker 8: Rick, the weather is considerably different here in Atlanta than
Speaker 8: what we left in Los Angeles, a little warmer temperatures.
Speaker 7: For the Dodgers, it's a little bit warmer, and it
Speaker 7: could get a little bit wetter, especially maybe tomorrow, but
Speaker 7: we'll deal with that in tomorrow's game. Meanwhile, the Dodgers
Speaker 7: are going to be I think a big question is, Okay,
Speaker 7: what about Tommy Edmund. I mentioned that because he was
Speaker 7: not playing the final game is a series at Dodger
Speaker 7: Stadium because of an ankle that he tweaked the night before,
Speaker 7: not in the lineup today? And is that anything to
Speaker 7: be concerned about?
Speaker 6: I guess to a certain extent.
Speaker 8: But after the game, before the Dodgers left for this
Speaker 8: road trip, Tommy Edmund reassured me he was fine. He
Speaker 8: did not have any wrapping or swelling on that right ankle,
Speaker 8: and Dave Roberts even said and wanted to warn everybody
Speaker 8: he may not be in the starting lineup tonight, but
Speaker 8: he expects him to be back tomorrow if there is
Speaker 8: a game.
Speaker 7: See in depth recording folks from David Vase. Of course
Speaker 7: he's a coat and tie guy. Again tonight, that tile
Speaker 7: looks very good. By the way, I have to compliment
Speaker 7: you on the fact that you're doing your tie is
Speaker 7: much much better over the last year.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that you kind of put me on the
Speaker 6: right track.
Speaker 5: Well, and you're using a full windsor too. By the way,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 8: My father in law deserve some credit as well. Okay,
Speaker 8: he helped me out with that as well.
Speaker 7: See a lot of people out there, they ended stand
Speaker 7: a full windsor versus a half windsor.
Speaker 8: It takes a village, Rick, you understand that all it
Speaker 8: does with you. Rick Yamamoto's back on the mound today
Speaker 8: and it feels like just being on the field with
Speaker 8: just a handful of players.
Speaker 5: Already.
Speaker 8: They told me that they're hoping that tonight's not the
Speaker 8: night that the Braves get hot, because the Dodgers are
Speaker 8: catching a Brave's team that's starting to get its bearing.
Speaker 7: Well, I got news for him. The Braves are already
Speaker 7: hot because they've won seven of lance ten to.
Speaker 5: Fourteen of nineteen.
Speaker 7: It's a different team than what the Dodgers saw early
Speaker 7: in the season at Dodger Stadium. They're getting some offense. Now,
Speaker 7: they're getting some pitching a little bit better, and everybody
Speaker 7: was saying, oh my goodness, the sky is falling initially,
Speaker 7: but Brian Sitker, the manager of the Atlanta Braves, didn't
Speaker 7: push the panic button. He says, look, we're gonna come around.
Speaker 5: They were not hitting at all in that series in LA.
Speaker 7: And they're doing a much better job. Speaking of hitting,
Speaker 7: the Dodgers have some very hot hitters coming into this series.
Speaker 7: Freeman six in a row, and if you look at
Speaker 7: taskar her Nana's nine straight. Andy Pa has eight consecutive
Speaker 7: games he's hit in, So hopefully that's his sign. You're
Speaker 7: going to see it from top to bottom a little
Speaker 7: bit more support.
Speaker 8: You know, it's interesting bringing up Freddie Freeman bringing coming
Speaker 8: back to Atlanta. I feel like Freddy is the microcosm
Speaker 8: of the perception of the Dodgers. Quietly, Freddy's sitting over
Speaker 8: three hundred now, he has no ps of over one thousand.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers have the second best record in baseball, and
Speaker 8: everybody keeps on asking what's wrong with Freddy? What's wrong
Speaker 8: with the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: You know, you go over to the TV side, and
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, we get these big words from you,
Speaker 7: right microcosm. You know, before it was you know, he
Speaker 7: and they and and that was just about it. So
Speaker 7: it's nice to see the improvement not only with Tai
Speaker 7: but also in the vocabulary.
Speaker 6: I didn't know we were keeping score on that risk.
Speaker 7: Well we're beginning to, by the way, keeping score on
Speaker 7: this date, and it's appropriate since Gamamoto is pitching. It
Speaker 7: was on this date in nineteen ninety five that the
Speaker 7: day on Noomo became the first Japanese native to play
Speaker 7: in the Majors since Marikama appear with the Giants in
Speaker 7: nineteen sixty four. So it was on this date Adeo
Speaker 7: Nomo that came on and went to five scoreless innings
Speaker 7: in a game against the Giants at Candlestick Park, and.
Speaker 6: The Dodgers lost that game in fifteen innings.
Speaker 5: Yes you remember the score four to three?
Speaker 8: Yes, correct, and all seven runs were scored in the
Speaker 8: fifteenth inning.
Speaker 7: Okay, fine, see you're starting to pick things up. You
Speaker 7: were there, Yes, you were too.
Speaker 6: I was not. Oh no, I was a freshman in
Speaker 6: college watching your broadcast.
Speaker 7: Oh, but you were there in spirit because I happen
Speaker 7: to know what a big Dodger fan you were growing up.
Speaker 8: Big Dodger fan, big Dodger fan still are still are
Speaker 8: still care about the team, but in a different way.
Speaker 8: I going back to Nomo, you have the distinction of
Speaker 8: not only calling his major league debut, but you have
Speaker 8: the distinction of calling Yamamoto's major league debut. In Sazaki's
Speaker 8: major league debut. What do you remember the most about
Speaker 8: no Mo Mania.
Speaker 7: Here's what initially I thought of when I saw this
Speaker 7: on the same site that you did on this date
Speaker 7: in baseball about Nomo. I remember the first year that
Speaker 7: Hidea was with the ball club in spring training at Dodgertown.
Speaker 7: How many photographers we saw outside of his room because
Speaker 7: he stayed on campus at Dodger Town, and every morning
Speaker 7: he would come out of his room and there would
Speaker 7: be twenty photographers. That pales in comparison to what we
Speaker 7: see with Otani. Every time Otani turns around and even
Speaker 7: takes the field to warm up, it is amazing. Same
Speaker 7: way with Yamamoto, in particular, one of the Dodgers went
Speaker 7: to Japan. So this is kind of a revisitation, if
Speaker 7: you will, of what it was like when Nomo came
Speaker 7: on because it caught everybody's attention.
Speaker 8: And Hideo Nomo brought back that number sixteen that Rick
Speaker 8: Monday used to wear.
Speaker 7: And surprise everybody by throwing a no hitter at Cruise
Speaker 7: Field in Denver. First of all, they didn't think that
Speaker 7: maybe a no hitter could be thrown up there, much
Speaker 7: less he threw it. And there was a rain delay
Speaker 7: that he had to set out a considerable period of
Speaker 7: time and came back and still pitched after the deslay.
Speaker 8: I was mentioning this to one of the Japanese reporters.
Speaker 8: You have to put that as one of the great
Speaker 8: pitching accomplishments in the last thirty years.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and especially too since the game was interrupted. I
Speaker 7: remember the exact amount of time. I think it was
Speaker 7: at least forty forty five minutes. There was a rain delay,
Speaker 7: and he did not cash in the chips and say hey,
Speaker 7: I'm done.
Speaker 5: He came back out finished the no hitter.
Speaker 6: Tough on bray Hdayoomo. Thanks Rick.
Speaker 8: We'll check in with you and Tim Nevers a little
Speaker 8: bit time, will all right, We're keeping score on the
Speaker 8: tie and the dictionary, the thesaurus.
Speaker 6: We'll send it back to you in the studio.
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Speaker 3: It's an engagement of endearment.
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Speaker 8: Taoscar Hernandez is the most in demand Dodger in Atlanta.
Speaker 8: Who knows he is worldwide? Like Pitbull said, the one
Speaker 8: and only tail joins us man. Everybody loves you, La
Speaker 8: to Atlanta to Miami. Everybody loves that smile.
Speaker 10: Well, I appreciate everybody love. You know, I'm trying to
Speaker 10: be nice there, Laddie, trying to make everybody feels good
Speaker 10: and just you know, have a great time.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 8: So the Dodgers are here in Atlanta, first of ten
Speaker 8: games on this ten day road trip. What's the routine
Speaker 8: of taoscar Hernandez. Are you eating as well as you
Speaker 8: would in La? Are you looking forward to Miami getting
Speaker 8: some real Dominican food?
Speaker 6: How are you living?
Speaker 10: I mean, I always tried to find that Latin food
Speaker 10: and it doesn't have to be Dominican. But you know,
Speaker 10: I'm trying to enjoy every city that I go, get
Speaker 10: some rest and be ready for the game.
Speaker 8: Are you a guy that likes to go out to
Speaker 8: eat or are you like the younger guys that want
Speaker 8: to just get delivered to the hotel room.
Speaker 10: It depends depends how my body is feeling. If I'm
Speaker 10: really tired, I might to stay at the hotel, order
Speaker 10: some food and have a great time in there. If not,
Speaker 10: just col Pahes and Garcia and then more of the
Speaker 10: guys and just go out and have a great time.
Speaker 8: When I was in the clubhouse at home, I heard
Speaker 8: you a few times invite Andy Pa has to come
Speaker 8: to dinner with you. Have you opened his horizons as
Speaker 8: far as showing him the good life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to you know, used to be to play
Speaker 10: good the very spot and just you know, I'm trying
Speaker 10: to take him out, making make him put his mind
Speaker 10: in something else. You know, this is a hard game.
Speaker 10: Sometimes it can get you in a place that you
Speaker 10: don't want to be in there, But trying to make
Speaker 10: everything easier for him and for the rest of the guys.
Speaker 8: He gives you a lot of credit for turning his
Speaker 8: season around. Do you believe that was part of him
Speaker 8: playing better?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 10: I man, everybody needs somebody that is there every time
Speaker 10: you're going through a bad moment or to a good moment,
Speaker 10: giving you the support that you need to get out
Speaker 10: of the struggles and to keep doing the things that
Speaker 10: you are doing. Great, So he knows I'm always going
Speaker 10: to be there for him, make him trying to make
Speaker 10: him feel better and have the better mindset to go
Speaker 10: into the game and just have to assess.
Speaker 8: We see who you are now at this stage of
Speaker 8: your career, A great teammate and inclusive teammate, who was
Speaker 8: the veteran that showed you the way when you were
Speaker 8: coming up to help you lead now in your career.
Speaker 10: Well, that's the thing, and I didn't have anybody playing
Speaker 10: that role in my career. I had it for a
Speaker 10: little bit with Kendrew's morales when I was in Toronto,
Speaker 10: but I think that was it. I didn't have anybody
Speaker 10: else take me into his wins and just show me
Speaker 10: the way. I learned that on my own, and I'm
Speaker 10: trying to make a difference, just trying to be different
Speaker 10: for the other guys.
Speaker 8: That tells me you have a great family and that
Speaker 8: was a great upbringing by you to have this type
Speaker 8: of spirit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I always trying to be a nice guy,
Speaker 10: a family guy, a great teammate, great person. And yes,
Speaker 10: I learned that from my family. My wife played a
Speaker 10: good role into that too. She's the one that always
Speaker 10: is there when the good ones and the moments are
Speaker 10: obviously my family, my parents, my brother, everybody, but my
Speaker 10: wife is the one that I was in there.
Speaker 6: Just go to Miami. How many family and friends will
Speaker 6: you have there?
Speaker 1: Not many?
Speaker 5: Not many.
Speaker 10: I don't have a lot of family in Miami. It's
Speaker 10: more up North New York and all the area over there.
Speaker 5: But not in Miami.
Speaker 8: But during the off season, that's where you put in
Speaker 8: a lot of your preparation, right in Miami.
Speaker 10: Tampa. Yeah, I live in Tampa. That's that's where I train.
Speaker 10: Between Tamba and Theminican Republic, that's where I can get
Speaker 10: ready for the season.
Speaker 6: Okay, I never knew that Florida's a big state. Tail
Speaker 6: I don't know where you are.
Speaker 10: It is big, it is big, yeah, but I'm in Tamba.
Speaker 6: How long have you had the beard for.
Speaker 10: It's been a couple of years now, maybe ten.
Speaker 6: That's the magic beard.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's the power. There is the power.
Speaker 8: So hey, Tayo, before I let you go, there's always
Speaker 8: that debate. You know, the game that's being played on
Speaker 8: the field, you have a heartbeat as a human being.
Speaker 6: What's it like to be.
Speaker 8: At the plate taking an at bat with a runner
Speaker 8: at second base or third base compared to nobody on base?
Speaker 6: Does it change thing for you as a hitter?
Speaker 10: It's obviously different. They're not going to pitch you the same.
Speaker 10: But what I do is just go there thinking there's
Speaker 10: nobody on uh and just a regular at bad don't
Speaker 10: think about driving the runner or move the runner to
Speaker 10: third base. Just just just being normal. Uh, just go
Speaker 10: through your plan and then take your regular swings, not
Speaker 10: over swinging, not trying to do too much. And uh,
Speaker 10: that's that's the way I approach it.
Speaker 8: It feels like you have situational hitting inside of you.
Speaker 8: You're not trying to do the home run derby every
Speaker 8: at bat. You know you go the other way with
Speaker 8: two outs. Is that something you've learned recently or was
Speaker 8: that always in you?
Speaker 10: No, I learned that in my career. Obviously, in my
Speaker 10: last three years, I was trying to get better with
Speaker 10: two strikes, so implementing my two strike approach. Uh, they
Speaker 10: play me pool, so it's a big space between first
Speaker 10: and second, and I know if I shoot the ball
Speaker 10: over there with the power with that I had, I
Speaker 10: had a big better chance to get ahead over there.
Speaker 8: All right, Tayo, thanks a lot for the time. Always
Speaker 8: love catching up with you. Hopefully we have more ice
Speaker 8: buckets throughout the year.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, it's a pleasure. Oh it's a pleasure to
Speaker 10: talk to us. Say so thank you.
Speaker 8: This guy is one of the best people you'll ever meet.
Speaker 8: If you see him in LA, don't be intimidated. He'll
Speaker 8: give you a big hug and maybe maybe even let
Speaker 8: you touch that beautiful beard of his. Maybe maybe Oh,
Speaker 8: there he is the man ta Oscar Hernandez.
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Speaker 2: twenty nine year old right hander two and one with
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers in twenty fourteen, never played in the big
Speaker 2: leagues for the Dodgers. Was traded to the A's and
Speaker 2: the rich Hill deal in twenty sixteen. Made his way
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. Made his major League debut in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four making his six start this year. The Dodgers have
Speaker 2: seen him already. He allowed four runs on four hits,
Speaker 2: four walks. Back on March thirty, first to Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 2: Yoshinobu Yama Modo on the mound for the Dodgers three
Speaker 2: two one O six rray. He was named the National
Speaker 2: League Pitcher of the Month for March and April after
Speaker 2: starting the season three and two that one six ERA
Speaker 2: and six starts. He leads the Major League in er
Speaker 2: ray and ranks among the National League leaders in opponent's
Speaker 2: batting average, strikeouts, and whip last time out five innings,
Speaker 2: three runs, five hits five strikeouts in a loss to
Speaker 2: Paul Schmes and the Pirates. Dodgers and Braves were fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes away from first pitch. Keys to the game. Our
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Speaker 2: Dodgers and Braves. Yoshi Amamoto and Grant Holmes have pitching matchup.
Speaker 2: First pitch coming up at four fifteen. Before that, one
Speaker 2: final check from the booth. Tim neffert Rick Monday, guys.
Speaker 4: Tim, thanks again very much. Really nice night here at
Speaker 4: Truest Park in Atlanta. Big crowd expected on this Friday
Speaker 4: night at Truest Park, and the battery outside Truest Park
Speaker 4: just packed with people with restaurants and bars and shot
Speaker 4: and all kinds of things right around the ballpark here.
Speaker 4: It's a real neat environment here in Atlanta. Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Speaker 4: will start tonight a one oh six ERA, and well
Speaker 4: that's the best er amongst starting pitchers to have at
Speaker 4: least thirty innings pitch now in this season. But he
Speaker 4: has been very good. The record three and two, but
Speaker 4: consider his last start was against Pittsburgh and Paul Skeins.
Speaker 4: He only gave up one earned run over five innings
Speaker 4: and took a tough luck loss.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he did walk four in that outing over the
Speaker 7: five innings. But for Yamamoto, he just seems to be
Speaker 7: more relaxed, more in tune, and maybe a better advanced
Speaker 7: knowledge of the guys that he's pitching again. So he
Speaker 7: gets another start here tonight, And if the Dodgers are
Speaker 7: going to figure out Grant Holmes, he's pitching a little
Speaker 7: differently than what they saw him at Dodger Stadium back
Speaker 7: on March thirty. First he got tagged with a loss.
Speaker 7: He went four innings, threw a lot of pitches, but
Speaker 7: four runs, only four hints. The Oscar Hernanez had the
Speaker 7: big blast. That was a two run home run in
Speaker 7: the very first inning. But our understanding is Holmes, who
Speaker 7: throws a lot of curve balls, now is throwing a
Speaker 7: little bit more higher percentage of fastballs, trying to keep
Speaker 7: that pitch away from a lot of hitters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Grant Holmes, over a decade ago, was a first
Speaker 4: round pick by the Dodgers out of Conway, South Carolina.
Speaker 4: That was back in twenty fourteen when he was the
Speaker 4: twenty second pick overall. So Grant Holmes against Yoshinobu yama Moto.
Speaker 4: A couple of things to look for for keys tonight.
Speaker 4: For Yamamoto, see how many ground balls get hit. He's
Speaker 4: got a fifteen point increase in his ground ball percentage
Speaker 4: already from last year, so sixty two point eight percent
Speaker 4: of the time the opposition will hit the ball on
Speaker 4: the ground, largely because.
Speaker 6: Of the splitter. The splitter low.
Speaker 4: He's throwing more splitters than he is fastballs right now,
Speaker 4: so that's been effective for him. So we'll see what
Speaker 4: happens with the Yama Moto and his pitch repertoire tonight
Speaker 4: against Grant Holmes. Game one Dodgers and Braves, coming up
Speaker 4: from Truest Park in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: First pitch is next.
Speaker 2: Yeah, afterwards, I'll have all the postgame festivity, including Dodger
Speaker 2: talk as well. Dodgers, Braves, Dodgers looking to extend that
Speaker 2: five game of winning streak.
Speaker 3: Next, Enjoy everybody
Speaker 2: I'm Tim Kason's world champion Los Angeles Dodgers audio note