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Speaker 1: Tim kase.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, and welcome in to Morongo Casino Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 2: You're world champion Los Angeles Dodgers six and O Tos
Speaker 2: Darth this season. After a win over the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 2: and the series opener last night, the Dodgers still undefeated,
Speaker 2: and tonight they look to make it seven in a
Speaker 2: row as Dustin May takes the mound for the first
Speaker 2: time in a long time. As the Dodgers and Braves
Speaker 2: get ready to go out at first pitch from Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium is coming up at seven to ten. Between then
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Speaker 2: the manager, Dave Roberts. We'll dive deeper into this game
Speaker 2: two pitching matchup. David Vessey, we'll check in. We got
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Speaker 2: In just a few minutes, we'll head out to the
Speaker 2: Kalpumotors broadcast with Steven Nelson and Rick Monday. Well, last
Speaker 2: night at the Ravine Glass now was really good. Five
Speaker 2: shutout inning, scattered just two hits along the way, struck
Speaker 2: out eight seventy nine pitches before turning it over to
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' bullpen, who did their thing. The Dodgers offense, yep,
Speaker 2: they did their thing. In the first inning, tay Oscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez got the offense going.
Speaker 3: Here's the pitch.
Speaker 4: Ty Oscar hits it high in the ear deep center field,
Speaker 4: carrying back toward the wall and gone into the netting below.
Speaker 1: The batter's side.
Speaker 4: Tayot's off then gift the Dodgers in early two nothing lead.
Speaker 2: That's the top tier play of the game, brought to
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Speaker 2: Oscar Hernandez with the two run home run off Grant
Speaker 2: Holmes in the first and the Dodgers jumped out to
Speaker 2: the early two nothing late and then the third got
Speaker 2: some base runners on for the newest Dodger, Michael Confordo.
Speaker 4: Left Tanny Confordo calm and cool in the batner's box
Speaker 4: waiting for this two to zero pitch, the sixtieth of
Speaker 4: the night for Holmes. Plordo charges up left center field.
Speaker 4: This will get off the top of the wall, a
Speaker 4: laser for Michael Conforto, Mookie scores, ta Oscar held up
Speaker 4: at third and RBI double for Michael Confordo, and it's
Speaker 4: now free and up the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Michael Confordo with one off the wall, bringing in Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: Dodgers a three to nothing lead. Then Tommy Edmund a
Speaker 2: sack fly scoring ta Oscar Hernandez, and the Dodgers were
Speaker 2: up four to nothing. They weren't done. In the fifth
Speaker 2: Will Smith with a single descenter of that scored te
Speaker 2: Oscar and the Dodgers were up five to nothing. Then
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning, keithk Hernandez with a deep four
Speaker 2: hundred and twelve foot home run into the pavilion in
Speaker 2: left field. Last night as the hit, Hernandez brothers Keith
Speaker 2: K and tay Oscar both go deep last night, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers go on and beat the Braves six to one.
Speaker 2: Ta Oscar Hernandez drives in a pair RBIs for Key K,
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund, Will Smith, Michael Confordo. The Dodgers line up
Speaker 2: getting a don showy Otani didn't have a hit, but
Speaker 2: on base twice with a couple of walks. Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: had a hit last night in the game. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: win again as Tyler Glass now gets to the w
Speaker 2: He's now one to oh on this season. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: bullpen pitch well despite giving up just a run in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, as the Dodgers improved to six and
Speaker 2: zero on this season, and tonight's they're back at it,
Speaker 2: game two of this three game set against the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2: Dustin May on the mound code read for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: with more. We head out to the gallupin Motors Broadcast
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Speaker 4: Guys, Thank you Tim. The Dodgers have started six and zero.
Speaker 4: That matches the best start in La Dodger history. Rick
Speaker 4: Monday's club in nineteen eighty one did it, and tonight
Speaker 4: they have a chance to match the nineteen thirty three
Speaker 4: Yankees by the best start by defending champion Mode. And
Speaker 4: I think what is most noteworthy to me in this
Speaker 4: six and oh start is that this team really hasn't
Speaker 4: fired on all cylinders yet, but they have found a
Speaker 4: way in every game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you can even accentuate that war
Speaker 3: by saying the opposing teams have not come even close
Speaker 3: though firing on half of the cylinders. And I mentioned
Speaker 3: that because doing some math early this morning, the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: for example, when they'd had runners in scoring position so
Speaker 3: far and being six and zero, have hit three hundred.
Speaker 3: The opposing teams if you look at the Coms and
Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers, and then last night too with the Atlanta Braves, collectively,
Speaker 3: they're six for fifty two. That's only a one fifteen
Speaker 3: batting average. Again, so I mean that it has not done.
Speaker 3: But there's a couple of reasons for that. The dodge
Speaker 3: of pitching has been absolutely marvelous, in particular out of
Speaker 3: the bullpen, and the dodge is what they have done
Speaker 3: has gotten very timely hints, but you can't knock in
Speaker 3: runs that are not on base. They're getting on base
Speaker 3: and they're not expanding the strength zone. The reason I
Speaker 3: say that is that they're facing a guy tonight in
Speaker 3: Chris Sale, a very tough left handed He has a
Speaker 3: very high percentage of chase rate. So the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: to be selective tonight and not chase and go fishing.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers haven't seen Sale at Dodgers Stadium since the
Speaker 4: ninth inning of Game five to the twenty eighteen World
Speaker 4: Series when he was with the Boston Red Sox. Now
Speaker 4: he's the rating National League Say Young Award winner. But
Speaker 4: to your point about the Dodger offense, last night, they
Speaker 4: showed just how difficult and pesky they are. I mean,
Speaker 4: seven of the nine hits they had in the game
Speaker 4: came with two strikes. Eleven two strike base runners. So
Speaker 4: this is just and we're talking about not firing on
Speaker 4: all similars. They haven't even been running on all sooners.
Speaker 4: We've seen Mookie Betts for three games. Freddy Freeman was
Speaker 4: out again last night. He is going to be out
Speaker 4: again to start tonight. He's still day to day. Dave
Speaker 4: Roberts said before tonight's contest he is hopeful to have
Speaker 4: Freddie back in there for the series finale against Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Key k Hernandezmit it's time with that stomach bug too.
Speaker 4: So all in all, it is just illustrated and underscored
Speaker 4: how deep this team is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when they walked six times and they also
Speaker 3: struck out only six times, so they're getting on base
Speaker 3: and they're basically putting the ball into play, you have
Speaker 3: a chance to it to get base hits. If you
Speaker 3: put in a play. You know what's really been overlooked.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers defensively have also been right on the money too,
Speaker 3: and that kind of gets overlooked. Their cutoffs and relays,
Speaker 3: awareness of what's happening on the field. Don't discount that
Speaker 3: defense because it'll get you out a lot of jams.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're catching the ball, they're throwing the ball to
Speaker 4: doing a lot of the little things well, which great
Speaker 4: teams do. And the Dodgers, of course, the defending and
Speaker 4: reigning World Series champions, they know.
Speaker 3: They are just that.
Speaker 4: They have also hit fourteen home runs this season, at
Speaker 4: least two home runs in five straight games. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be tough to keep that streak alive against the Cy
Speaker 4: Young Award winner Chris Sale, who is gonna be opposite
Speaker 4: Dustin May. Can't wait to dive into the this pitching matchup.
Speaker 4: Tim will do that with Mo the next time we chat.
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Speaker 1: This is the Otani.
Speaker 4: Rewide, but entering this series, he's really not expanding too much.
Speaker 4: He's on first, he takes off for second. The pitch
Speaker 4: Tabooki's in the dirt. The throw is not gonna matter.
Speaker 4: Another stolen base for Sho Hey Otani, he gets into
Speaker 4: scoring position here in the sixth.
Speaker 2: Shoey Otani can do it all. Didn't have a hit
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not in the lineup. They're hoping he was
Speaker 5: going to be back out there, but as you mentioned,
Speaker 5: he slipped in the shower on Sunday morning, and he
Speaker 5: when he spoke to the media today he explained just
Speaker 5: kind of how everything happened. He actually was kind of
Speaker 5: using one of the guest rooms in his home because
Speaker 5: they were dealing with a leak in their master bathroom
Speaker 5: and it's a bathtub, so how he stepped in, he
Speaker 5: kind of just lost his footing and it happened to
Speaker 5: be on that ankle that is surgically repaired, and so
Speaker 5: he ended up tweaking it. He immediately came in for treatment,
Speaker 5: and as much as you know, this is an ankle
Speaker 5: as we've talked about to have surgery this offseason, was
Speaker 5: able to get back still undergoing treatment. Had pretty much
Speaker 5: gotten to like his treatment scheduled down to like fifty minutes,
Speaker 5: but now it's brought back up to about three hours,
Speaker 5: so it's something that it's going to take a little
Speaker 5: bit more time. He did have an X ray it
Speaker 5: was clear no bone tips or anything like that, so
Speaker 5: that's a really good sign. He's able to get through
Speaker 5: a full workout today, So the hope is that maybe
Speaker 5: he'll be in the lineup tomorrow. But there's also the
Speaker 5: thought of, Okay, they're about to travel across the country
Speaker 5: and play in Philly and then DC where it is
Speaker 5: chili and rainy at the moment, so it might make
Speaker 5: sense to give him the additional day off for that travel.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 5: So he wants to be back out there, as we
Speaker 5: all know, and we'll kind of see how things play
Speaker 5: out tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Speaking of being back out there, Dustin may back out
Speaker 2: there for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the first time in a long time. And he
Speaker 5: is someone who it's been a very challenging few years
Speaker 5: for him, whether it was the tendon surgery then the
Speaker 5: extreme scare with esophagus surgery and life threatening and you realize,
Speaker 5: you know, this game in the in this career, you
Speaker 5: can't take it for granted. So he comes into this
Speaker 5: one with a different mindset, a different just a maturity
Speaker 5: and understanding about who he is as a man. So
Speaker 5: this one, he's been very adamant and very transparent with
Speaker 5: us that this is going to be an emotional day
Speaker 5: for him, for his family. Uh, and it's going to
Speaker 5: be a special one. So I think we're going to
Speaker 5: see that from him on the mound. We're going to
Speaker 5: see some of those emotions are going to see I
Speaker 5: hope we see the excitement in the gratitude at the
Speaker 5: end of his outing. I think we will. He's of course,
Speaker 5: of competitor, so I'll say that as well. But everyone
Speaker 5: I know, they've talked about him, is the stuff looks
Speaker 5: really good and they're just excited for him to be
Speaker 5: back out on a big league mound in a big
Speaker 5: league game. Because it'll be special.
Speaker 2: It will be special. Hopefully you can follow in the footsteps.
Speaker 2: So what the other starters have done so far the
Speaker 2: first six games, scaristn. We appreciate it. We will check
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Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman, not in the lineup again, says he feels
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Speaker 2: he slipped in the shower tub on Sunday morning. Let's
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Speaker 1: Can you just describe Dave? Can you talk about the
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Speaker 6: This is going to be a special and I think
Speaker 6: that it's been a nice progression for Dustin with spring
Speaker 6: training than to pitch in the Freeway Series, be able
Speaker 6: to pitch in a big league stadium, and now now
Speaker 6: ultimately pitching in a big league stadium in a meaningful game.
Speaker 6: So I think that this is sort of the final
Speaker 6: hurdle for him on the I think on the emotional side,
Speaker 6: so I know he's fired up. Our first four guys
Speaker 6: have made their starts and this is his debut for
Speaker 6: twenty five and expecting to be amped up in.
Speaker 1: Time and matter points. So your reflect on him a
Speaker 1: few years ago to who he has amped the meaner
Speaker 1: on the mound?
Speaker 5: What stands out to you the growth and especially coming
Speaker 5: onto that sad he's scared.
Speaker 6: I think perspective is a word that comes to mind,
Speaker 6: in the sense that he's had some injuries that he's
Speaker 6: had to deal with, so it's kind of really made
Speaker 6: him appreciate being able to take them out being active
Speaker 6: in the big leagues. I think that early on there
Speaker 6: was a lot of youthful enthusiasm emotion. I think now
Speaker 6: that he's understanding how to channel it better, how to
Speaker 6: conserve energy into his starts. So I think that's certainly growth.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think that it's just like all things.
Speaker 6: As you get experience different experiences, you kind of have
Speaker 6: a different perspective on things.
Speaker 7: He started the growth for the fuse that are hopefully
Speaker 7: to talk to much stressure with so straight start figure.
Speaker 4: Will work with us.
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, he needs it, he needs it, and
Speaker 6: so yeah, obviously he looks great. He's throwing the baseball well,
Speaker 6: but for any pitcher, but certainly a guy that's missed
Speaker 6: a lot of time just to kind of be able
Speaker 6: to make consistent starts and to get some type of momentum,
Speaker 6: that's something we just really haven't had, or Dustin hasn't
Speaker 6: had in quite some time.
Speaker 2: Good to have Dustin May back on the mount. He
Speaker 2: was off to a great start a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: but hurt his arm after nine outings and was pitching well,
Speaker 2: and then of course had the throat injury last year.
Speaker 2: Was able to come back from that and the arm injury,
Speaker 2: but miss all of twenty twenty four, and here he
Speaker 2: is started twenty twenty five, hopefully a big season for
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Speaker 2: All right, DV the shower at the tub give you
Speaker 2: a dangerous spot, and they got Freddie Freeman. But thankfully
Speaker 2: he's on the men.
Speaker 8: Not an ideal situation, Tim, but Freddie Freeman has a
Speaker 8: good sense of humor about things. Because the right ankle
Speaker 8: was not set back too far. Obviously not ideal, but
Speaker 8: it could have been a lot worse. We had a
Speaker 8: chance to catch up with Freddie Freeman earlier today.
Speaker 7: You know, you slipping bathtub showers all the time, and
Speaker 7: when you're healthy, you just catch yourself. And when you're not,
Speaker 7: when you got a little surgically repaired ankle. It's it
Speaker 7: just it mostly. I think it just flared. Everything kind
Speaker 7: of back up, and I was a little sore and
Speaker 7: sore on the inside still, but I'm feeling much better.
Speaker 7: So yesterday was a good day. I treated like from
Speaker 7: when I got here Sunday morning around eleven fifteen, because
Speaker 7: I came immediately. I called Thomas. I was like, all
Speaker 7: hands on deck.
Speaker 1: I just fell.
Speaker 7: And by the time I left daughter Stadium on Sunday
Speaker 7: afternoon around two, I could drive home like Chelsea drove
Speaker 7: me to the field Sunday morning, and then I was
Speaker 7: able to drive home, so big that was a big progress,
Speaker 7: big relief. Really, I've had an X ray. There's no
Speaker 7: little chips or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Good news for the Dodgers, and they're all Star and
Speaker 8: World Series MVP. One thing to just clarify, you heard
Speaker 8: Freddy Freeman talk about Sunday morning coming to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 8: That makes a lot more sense than what we heard
Speaker 8: yesterday from Dave Roberts, where he said Freddy slipped and
Speaker 8: fell in the shower on Saturday night. The Dodgers played
Speaker 8: a game on Saturday night. That would have meant Freddie
Speaker 8: Freeman was taking two showers after the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he's a guy likes his hygiene. David is
Speaker 2: driven by Ford. There's one thing we like. His choices
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Speaker 2: worked his way back from a couple of incidents and injuries.
Speaker 8: A lot of family and friends here at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 8: tim for Dustin May to make his first major league
Speaker 8: start since May of twenty twenty three. He was already
Speaker 8: feeling those emotions when he pitched during the Freeway Series
Speaker 8: in Anaheims.
Speaker 9: I feel like there's gonna be a lot more emotions
Speaker 9: for me because of all the time that I've had
Speaker 9: to think about it. When I first got called up
Speaker 9: for my debut, I mean it was like a four
Speaker 9: day thing, so it was like kind of right on it.
Speaker 9: But for this, I mean, I've been I was waiting
Speaker 9: for I don't know, thirteen months, and then the esophagus
Speaker 9: thing happened, and then that changed my perspective on a
Speaker 9: lot of things in life. And it's gonna it's I'm excited,
Speaker 9: just gonna put it that way, I'm excited.
Speaker 8: A big night for Dustin May, looking to help the
Speaker 8: Dodgers improve. Their record is seven and zero, but obviously
Speaker 8: for him a very personal gratifying moment, even taking the
Speaker 8: mountain night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: Dam of the Dodgers have a lot of superstars and
Speaker 2: all stars on their team and on that lineup every
Speaker 2: single night. Will Smith kind of one of those forgotten guys,
Speaker 2: if you will. But what a start he's having.
Speaker 8: Yeah, really an unbelievable start for Will Smith. And it
Speaker 8: goes back to the Tokyo Series in Japan where he
Speaker 8: was on base virtually every time at the plate. He's
Speaker 8: six for fourteen to start the year. Last night he
Speaker 8: had two hits with two strikes on him, including an
Speaker 8: RBI base hit to score te Oscar Hernandez in the
Speaker 8: fifth thinning last night.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, he has.
Speaker 8: Six walks to start the season in his first twenty
Speaker 8: plate appearances. He's picked up where he left off in
Speaker 8: the first half of last year. And don't forget the
Speaker 8: majority of the season he was dealing with a right
Speaker 8: ankle bone bruise that he never mentioned that anybody, even
Speaker 8: on the staff outside of the training staff and just
Speaker 8: continue to play through it. So Will Smith certainly a
Speaker 8: guy that you want to have on your side.
Speaker 2: No doubt about it. DV appreciate well. Check back in
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Speaker 3: It is, and I was reading about it again today
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of people that have a misconception.
Speaker 3: First of all, it's not an illegal bat. And if
Speaker 3: you look at the rule book, it's rule three point
Speaker 3: zero two, and three point zero two says basically, the
Speaker 3: wood has to be the bat has to be made
Speaker 3: of one piece of wood. It cannot be laminated, and
Speaker 3: it cannot be more than two point six to one
Speaker 3: inches in diameter at any point on the bat. It
Speaker 3: can also not be more than forty two inches in length. Well,
Speaker 3: this bat that they're talking about falls under the category
Speaker 3: of rule three point zero two. I happen to have
Speaker 3: a different thought on this thing. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 3: totally a mental placebo, but I don't think it's far
Speaker 3: from it. And here's one Volpi is the New York
Speaker 3: Yankees hitter that they talked about to begin with, and
Speaker 3: this physicist came up with an idea. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's a bad idea, first of all. And if it
Speaker 3: works for you and you feel comfortable with it, that's
Speaker 3: the biggest thing with the bat. The bat that they're
Speaker 3: talking about, to me, resembles if you're looking at Louisville
Speaker 3: Sluggers an R one sixty one, which is the model
Speaker 3: that Frank Robinson used. And the reason that I mentioned
Speaker 3: the one yar Win sixty one is that the barrel
Speaker 3: of the bat came closer to the trademark. It was
Speaker 3: a bigger, bigger barrel. It fell within the auspices of
Speaker 3: two point sixty one inches in diameter or less. But
Speaker 3: VOLTEI was saying is that if you look at the bat,
Speaker 3: and you can take batting practice, and you will actually
Speaker 3: see little blue marks on the bat where you foul
Speaker 3: the ball off where it is snamped on the baseball itself,
Speaker 3: it just leaves that pattern or there's marks left on
Speaker 3: the bat. So they're saying that his was too close
Speaker 3: to the label. Well, why don't you back off the
Speaker 3: plate two inches? I mean, that's one way if you're
Speaker 3: using the same bat. The other part, too, is if
Speaker 3: you look at this torpedo bat that they're talking about. Okay,
Speaker 3: they move the biggest part of the barrel closer to
Speaker 3: the trademark, correct, but it also is smaller towards the
Speaker 3: end of the bat. So you're rectifying maybe one area
Speaker 3: that you can foul a ball off if it's inside
Speaker 3: where the barrel is theoretically bigger. But then you've got
Speaker 3: a smaller part of the barrel on the outer two
Speaker 3: or three inches of the bat. So now you're not
Speaker 3: going to foul off those pitches by a sixteenth of
Speaker 3: an etcher an eighth them an inch. So it's a
Speaker 3: trade off and if it works for you and you
Speaker 3: feel good about it, I think the biggest thing with
Speaker 3: the bat is, first of all, what's the weight of
Speaker 3: the bat? Is it too heavy for you? Is it
Speaker 3: too light for you? And the other important part is
Speaker 3: what's the balance of the bat. Myself, I preferred a
Speaker 3: thin handle and a big barrel, and a lot of
Speaker 3: hitters are kind of in that same category, so it's
Speaker 3: a trade off. You can pick up a bat, David,
Speaker 3: you can also tell this is kind of weird. I
Speaker 3: can order a dozen bats when I was playing, and
Speaker 3: out of those dozen bats, when you go through them
Speaker 3: ahead of time to figure out which ones are going
Speaker 3: to be batting practice of bats and which ones you
Speaker 3: like the wood consistent crane is it ballanced? The same way,
Speaker 3: I could pick up a bat and tell if it
Speaker 3: was a half ounce off of what I ordered, and
Speaker 3: normally I ordered like thirty two or thirty three and
Speaker 3: a half ounces, which is a lot lighter, it seems
Speaker 3: than two plus pounds. But that's how you can pick
Speaker 3: up a bat and tell if it's an ounce or
Speaker 3: two off. So it's particular selection. I don't buy into
Speaker 3: all of a sudden this is an absolute breakthrough in baseball. No,
Speaker 3: there have been different bats that have been made over
Speaker 3: the years and over the years. If it works for you, fine,
Speaker 3: if the ballance is right, the weight is right, and
Speaker 3: the mental approach is right, go ahead and use it.
Speaker 3: It's not a big deal.
Speaker 8: Isn't it an indictment on a hitter that can't make
Speaker 8: the adjustments you're talking about and are so obsessed with
Speaker 8: that uppercut swing, and that's the reason why they have
Speaker 8: to go to this type of bat.
Speaker 3: Well, if I'm looking at my bat as Volpi and
Speaker 3: I keep getting jammed and jammed and jammed, why don't
Speaker 3: I back off the plate by two inches? That's the
Speaker 3: difference on how much the barrel of the bat, of
Speaker 3: the biggest part has been moved towards the trademark on
Speaker 3: the bat about you know about two inches maybe three
Speaker 3: inches at most. Why don't you just back off the
Speaker 3: plate two inches or three inches whatever works for you.
Speaker 3: And there's a comfort level, And a lot of this
Speaker 3: game is mental. Oh, it takes physical attributes. There's no
Speaker 3: question about that. Hitting a baseball, in my mind is
Speaker 3: the most difficult thing to do in professional sports. Other
Speaker 3: people may have different ideas, and what I know personally
Speaker 3: how difficult it was on a daily basis to do that.
Speaker 3: This is tough. You have to be mentally just right there.
Speaker 3: Not every Bouy's not everybody buys into this. Aaron Judges
Speaker 3: is still hitting home runs he's not going with a
Speaker 3: torpedo bat, no doubt.
Speaker 8: We'll see how many Dodgers go to the torpedo bat
Speaker 8: in the next day.
Speaker 3: Robertson, some of the guys have ordered just to check
Speaker 3: it out. Fine, check it out. It may suit you
Speaker 3: from a balance standpoint and be kind of the same way,
Speaker 3: but you're just transferring the biggest part of the barrel
Speaker 3: to a different position on the bat.
Speaker 8: Makes sense, too much sense, Rick, Thanks a lot for
Speaker 8: explaining that all to us, and we'll check in with
Speaker 8: you and Steven Nelson a torpedo man. Hey, this segment's
Speaker 8: torpedoed right now. We're sending it back to Tim in
Speaker 8: the studio.
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Speaker 8: The Dodgers made it back from Tokyo, returned home to
Speaker 8: Dodger Stadium, and are just two days away from embarking
Speaker 8: on their first road trip in North America. The man
Speaker 8: that puts it all together is the director of travel
Speaker 8: for the Dodgers, Scott Akasaki. Scott, thanks a lot for
Speaker 8: the time, and what a whirlwind of a time it's been.
Speaker 10: Well, it's been absolutely awesome, Dave. Going back to last year,
Speaker 10: what a great year, obviously October. You can't ever duplicate that.
Speaker 10: Maybe we can. I don't know, but you know, it's
Speaker 10: been It's been a lot of fun, certainly to go
Speaker 10: back to Japan, come back to La have these great
Speaker 10: couple of days here to start the season. So looking
Speaker 10: forward to what this year has for us.
Speaker 8: And you have Japanese blood in that Akasaki name, what
Speaker 8: was it like for you to go back to Tokyo
Speaker 8: with Shoho Tani and the Dodgers.
Speaker 10: Dave, I appreciate you asking that question, and I don't
Speaker 10: want to get too deep here, but there was a
Speaker 10: time when in our nation's history when Japanese Americans weren't
Speaker 10: really viewed in the same level, especially during World War Two.
Speaker 10: So my parents, my grandparents were involved in that, my
Speaker 10: aunts and uncles, so certainly that's never been lost upon
Speaker 10: me and my family's history. So to be able to
Speaker 10: go back to Japan and with the Dodgers and having
Speaker 10: the collection of stars that we have Japanese and otherwise
Speaker 10: was absolutely amazing. And to go from like the World
Speaker 10: War Two experience to the modern day has been for
Speaker 10: me personally tremendously moving.
Speaker 8: How did you get a group of two hundred people
Speaker 8: traveling players, coaches, front office from Arizona to Tokyo, get
Speaker 8: them seamlessly as acclimated, and then also find a way
Speaker 8: to get them back after a game was played in Tokyo, Japan.
Speaker 8: Take us through what an undertaking that was?
Speaker 10: Well, you know, I think Dave, a lot of the
Speaker 10: folks who went to Tokyo went to Seoul last year,
Speaker 10: so they knew the schedule, how to adjust to sleep,
Speaker 10: what they were going to feel like, the visa process,
Speaker 10: sort of the different nature of everything, the food, the
Speaker 10: gaps in time. So I think having the Sole experience
Speaker 10: was really great as an orientation for the Tokyo experience.
Speaker 10: So I think everyone who went to Seoul was very
Speaker 10: well prepared for Tokyo and they knew exactly what they
Speaker 10: wanted to do, And I hope everybody who went on
Speaker 10: the trip maximized their time and had a great experience
Speaker 10: over there.
Speaker 8: But for Scott Akasaki, who's organizing this trip to get
Speaker 8: the world champion Dodgers to Tokyo seamlessly through customs and
Speaker 8: a foreign airport, there is the variable of the unknown
Speaker 8: for you. How did you make it so smooth for everybody?
Speaker 10: Well, Dave, you asked that question, and you're giving me
Speaker 10: a lot of credit, but I certainly can't take that credit. Certainly,
Speaker 10: the folks at Major League Baseball, who organized the trip
Speaker 10: for the Dodgers and Cubs, played a huge role. The
Speaker 10: team that we have here, al garciaan security, Alex Torres
Speaker 10: the equipment side, and Markazai and Baseball Operations really were
Speaker 10: instrumental in getting this trip off the ground. Patricia Romero
Speaker 10: and family programs, everybody was all syncd up. Of course,
Speaker 10: our front office is aligned, so Andrew Brandon, their leadership,
Speaker 10: of course, the coaching staff, everybody is. When we needed
Speaker 10: information to get all the stuff we needed to get
Speaker 10: like it came very quickly because everyone wanted to have
Speaker 10: a great time in Japan.
Speaker 8: You've been part of the Dodger organization for over twenty
Speaker 8: years now, You've seen a lot. What's it like in
Speaker 8: twenty twenty five for you to be where you're at
Speaker 8: right now, and not just being with a baseball team,
Speaker 8: but basically being with a rock band going around the
Speaker 8: country and the world. Was sho heyo Tani.
Speaker 10: You know, Dave, not only is it the time with
Speaker 10: the Dodgers, but you know, I was born and raised
Speaker 10: in Los Angeles, so to see the city and how
Speaker 10: energized the city is and how energy, how people are
Speaker 10: excited about the Dodgers is absolutely fantastic. And so yes,
Speaker 10: Shohil Tani, the best player on the planet. To be
Speaker 10: able to travel the United States and internationally with him
Speaker 10: is certainly amazing. But what a great group of guys,
Speaker 10: you know, show hey, everybody is absolutely awesome.
Speaker 8: All right, Scott, thanks a lot for the time, Congratulations
Speaker 8: on being able to get the Dodgers to and from Tokyo,
Speaker 8: Japan with a lot of help, and congratulations on being
Speaker 8: the Dodgers director of travel for a second World Series championship.
Speaker 10: Thank you very much, Dave, appreciate the opportunity.
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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen with Boston. An eight time All Star, he
Speaker 2: won the Cy Young Award last year. Twenty nine starts
Speaker 2: eighteen to three, two thirty eight ERA with two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five strikeouts. He made the opening day start
Speaker 2: for the Braves in San Diego. Five innings, three runs,
Speaker 2: six hit, seven strikeouts. G had a no decision, making
Speaker 2: just his second career start in the regular season at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium, his first since twenty twelve. He was a
Speaker 2: member of the White Sox, last outing the Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: the World Series in twenty eighteen. Dustin may On the Mound,
Speaker 2: twenty seven year old right hander made his major League
Speaker 2: debut in twenty nineteen, but it's been a bumpy ride
Speaker 2: ever since. He hasn't pitched in the big league game
Speaker 2: since May of twenty twenty three with a throat injury
Speaker 2: to Tommy John surgery. He made nine starts back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. It was off to a really good
Speaker 2: year before getting hurt. Making that first start today after
Speaker 2: four spring training starts where he went two with twelve
Speaker 2: strikeouts and held batting batters to a one point twenty
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Speaker 4: All right, mo, this is a really intriguing and exciting
Speaker 4: pitching matchup for a number of different reasons. Let's start
Speaker 4: with the Dodgers starter in Dustin May. This is going
Speaker 4: to be his first start in gosh, nearly two calendar years.
Speaker 4: Just think of everything that this young man has gone
Speaker 4: through in his major league career to date, a few
Speaker 4: different elbow surgeries, and then last year a life threatening
Speaker 4: emergency surgery to repair the torn esophagus right when he
Speaker 4: was on the cusp of returning to the major league roster.
Speaker 4: He's doing that here tonight.
Speaker 3: Six hundred and eighty five days wow. From his last
Speaker 3: start at the big league level on the seventeenth of
Speaker 3: May twenty twenty three, I'm excited for Dustin May. We
Speaker 3: saw him in spring training. In those four starts, he
Speaker 3: worked only the ten innings, trying to stretch things out
Speaker 3: and everything else. But every time he took them mount
Speaker 3: in those four outings, you could tell that he was
Speaker 3: gaining more and more confidence and settling back into a
Speaker 3: rhythm that a year ago he didn't know if he
Speaker 3: would ever be back on this field. That's really a big,
Speaker 3: big deal. On the flip side of the coin mentioned earlier,
Speaker 3: for Chris Sale, one of the really tough guys to
Speaker 3: hit against, eighteen wins, only three losses last year, a
Speaker 3: very high strikeout rate, and a very high chase rate.
Speaker 3: So for the Dodgers, they've been patient with hittings so far.
Speaker 3: Make sure you're not expanding the strike zone too much
Speaker 3: tonight for.
Speaker 4: Dustin Made the last time we saw him in spring,
Speaker 4: he was really spectacular during the Freeway Series exhibition.
Speaker 3: Down in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: He pitched five innings, just one run on one hit.
Speaker 4: The walks in the hit batters. Those two things were
Speaker 4: issues during the spring. The control, he had six free
Speaker 4: passes and hit three guys. The hits though those have
Speaker 4: been tough to come by against Dustin May, so hopefully
Speaker 4: you can build on that tonight against Atlanta and then
Speaker 4: with Chris Sailed. This is the first time that we
Speaker 4: have seen him here at Dodger Stadium since he closed
Speaker 4: out Game five of the twenty eighteen World Series for
Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox. He struck out the side in
Speaker 4: that one. We saw him last year in his siong campaign,
Speaker 4: his first year with Atlanta Moo, and they could hardly
Speaker 4: touch him when they saw him at Truce Parkinson dam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he's on, he's really a tough customer. His
Speaker 3: nickname the Conductor, and he may be punching some tickets tonight.
Speaker 4: One thing that the Dodgers can try to lean on
Speaker 4: as they get ready for this game. Tim kates their
Speaker 4: record against left handed pitchers last year the second best
Speaker 4: market all of baseball, thirty six and seventeen, and to
Speaker 4: start this year three to zero, and not just against
Speaker 4: any lefties, Chute Imanaga, Justin Steele and Trek Scooble. Can
Speaker 4: they continue this run against Chris Sale. We'll find out
Speaker 4: in a matter of hours.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good one. Chris Sale two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five strikeouts, won the Cy Young Award last year.
Speaker 2: Dodgers got their handfuls tonight. If they want to stay
Speaker 2: undefeated on this season, first pitch is next. It's the
Speaker 2: return to Code Red justin May. When we come back,
Speaker 2: I'm Tim Kates. This's the world champion of Los Angeles
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