WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.680 Dodger Talk is sponsored by LA Care Health Plan, providing 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.360 affordable healthcare insurance to millions of Angelinos for over twenty 3 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:11.199 five years. And now your voice for Dodger Talk. 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.000 Like back, damn. 5 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:18.679 Cats Well, bad night for the Dodgers in San Diego. 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:21.399 What was supposed to be a great pitching match up 7 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:26.079 with Clayton Kershaw and Dylan Cees turned into a one 8 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:30.960 sided affair as the Padres beat the Dodgers eight to one. Hi, everybody, 9 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:33.320 and welcome to Dodger Talk here on an five seventy 10 00:00:33.359 --> 00:00:37.119 ELA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. 11 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:38.399 I got one line opened. 12 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:41.719 A lot of Dodger fans already anxious to weigh in, 13 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:44.520 and I don't blame you. Eight six six nine eighty 14 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.079 seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eighty seven 15 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:51.399 two five seventy. Tonight was a game in which the 16 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:54.159 Dodgers were seeing one of the better pitchers in baseball, 17 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.520 and Dylan sees it kind of had a playoff atmosphere 18 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.479 to it. And I say that because the atmosphere at 19 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.439 pet Go Park and the type of picture the Dodgers 20 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:06.719 were facing. Now, certainly this is a different looking Dodger 21 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.079 lineup that we're going to see in October. He got 22 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.519 no Freddie Freeman, no Mookie Betts, no Max Montci, but 23 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.760 still a Dodgers team that's really talented and guys that 24 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.799 are filling in needs as they are here in the 25 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.719 month of July, and they go up against Dylan cees 26 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.920 a good picture, a good test. This is a playoff 27 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.040 type atmosphere, a playoff type game in which a good 28 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:30.400 pictures on the mound. You're not facing a guy who's 29 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.319 seven and twelve with a six y ar ray who's 30 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.280 just out there getting, you know, smacked around every five days. 31 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:38.439 This is one of the better pitchers in baseball, and 32 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:43.840 Dylan sees and he shoved tonight. He did five and 33 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.599 two third innings. The Dodgers just couldn't put anything in play. 34 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.159 He would have allowed one run on three hits, strikeout 35 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:52.400 six along the way. 36 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:54.680 He did get a high pitch count. 37 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:56.400 Over five and two thirds innings, and that's the only 38 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.480 reason he came out of the game. But he really 39 00:01:58.519 --> 00:02:01.400 had the Dodgers hitters off ballot striking out again eleven 40 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.760 more strikeouts tonight for the Dodgers offense. They've struck it 41 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:09.080 out now sixty six times on this road trip. On 42 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.000 this road trip five games, three in Houston, two in 43 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.240 San Diego, and the Dodgers are hitting one to eighty 44 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.479 eight on this trip with sixty six punch outs. The 45 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.840 defense tonight looked like a defense of a team that 46 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.240 you know collectively hasn't played together. 47 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:29.120 They looked like they were just I mean, Gavin. 48 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.759 Lux at second base tonight looked like Gavin Lux during 49 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.360 spring training. And Gavin Lucks has been really good during 50 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.159 the regular season, but tonight he just didn't look He 51 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.319 didn't look like he was in solid at all at 52 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:44.840 second base. 53 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.599 I don't even know who the best way to describe it. 54 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.159 A ball hit towards the middle and he throws off 55 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:53.919 the wrong foot and the ball goes high for an error. 56 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:55.639 A ball in the in the. 57 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:59.840 Middle between second and first and he boots it away. 58 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.120 Clayton Kershaw on a bun attempt, gets rushed, can't field it, 59 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.439 and extends it inning. These little things add up and 60 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:13.479 added to runs for the Padres tonight, and a game 61 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:18.479 which wasn't clean defensively, only had three hits offensively against 62 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:23.240 Dylan Ceese and this Padres bullpen and Clayton Kershaw goes 63 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.680 out there and when you need Clayton to give you five, 64 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.840 give you six. Go out there and battle like he 65 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:32.080 did in his first outing. So it's coming back from 66 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.319 shoulder surgery, and tonight he had a rough first inning 67 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:38.759 and even a rougher second inning. To his credit, he 68 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.319 came back out after giving up four runs in the 69 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.039 second and put up a zero in the third inning, 70 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.280 and then the wheels fell off. 71 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.000 In the fourth inning. 72 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:47.680 He give up a home run to the second Battery, 73 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:51.000 faced an RBI single later in the fourth inning, and 74 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.439 with two outs finally gets pulled in favor of Joe 75 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.120 Kelly to get the final out of that fourth inning. 76 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.599 Just nothing went right for the Dodgers tonight. You know, 77 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:00.400 if they if the. 78 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.240 Jolts are the. 79 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:07.280 Shot they were looking for from this trade deadline, it 80 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.719 hasn't hasn't occurred yet, and I know only Michael Kopek 81 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.319 has been the only one to play so far, where 82 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.680 we haven't seen any of the other guys that they've 83 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:21.240 acquired in the trade play. We'll see Jack Flaherty on 84 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.240 Saturday in the second game of this series against the 85 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.399 Oakland A's. But whatever shot in the arm they thought 86 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.399 they were going to get whatever jolt they were expecting, 87 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.879 they haven't gotten now in the two games since the 88 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:37.120 trade deadline and tonight having Michael Michael Kopek come in 89 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:39.959 and pitched. He pitched really well, struck out the side 90 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.519 in the fifth inning, And if you want to hang 91 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.079 on your head on something positive tonight, it's his outing 92 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.399 and the fact that he was throwing ninety nine one 93 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:50.399 hundred and one hundred and one miles an hour tonight, 94 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.600 and even the Padres hitters seemed lost at the plate 95 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.639 in those three hitters that he faced. So a little 96 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.720 bit of a positive is maybe you found something to 97 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:03.480 Mike Kopek, albeit only three batters he faced. He looked 98 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.399 really good, got life on that fastball. He's got a 99 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:08.720 four senior that kind of goes up and tails away 100 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.839 from left handers and up and in on a right hander. 101 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:13.399 He saw Jackson merrill off he struck. 102 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.600 Out, sort of motioning to Kim as he walked by 103 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.639 him and the on deck circle. I get that ball's rising. Lookout, 104 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.000 it's rising. That's exactly what it does at one hundred 105 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.680 and one miles per hour. So maybe the bright spot 106 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.319 is they see something in Michael Kopek that moving forward, 107 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.800 he could be that guy towards the back end of 108 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:33.000 a game that can get him out of a jam 109 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:34.959 in the eighth inning or coming and maybe close it 110 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:36.519 to the ninth inning. We'll see what kind of role 111 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:39.160 evolves from this, certainly after one outing. 112 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:41.480 But uh, if I'm looking. 113 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.639 For positives, that's certainly one to take away from this 114 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:48.360 game tonight. And that's about it. The Dodgers offense is 115 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.920 just not in rinny rhythm right now. This Dodgers' offense 116 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.360 is completely flat. Will Smith Oh for for tonite with 117 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.720 three punch outs, show Hey Otani Oh for three with 118 00:05:58.879 --> 00:05:59.399 a walk. 119 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:01.199 Gavin Lux had a hit. 120 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.920 He con seems to be the only guy consistently getting 121 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:08.720 hits the Dodgers. Andy Patas Oh for three, two punch outs, 122 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.240 key Ky Hernandez Oh for three two punch outs, hitting 123 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:15.160 now one to ninety seven on this season. 124 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:17.879 And what did he play tonight? Third base. 125 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.079 Again, a third base spot that has been a glaring 126 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.279 whole offensively since Max Monsey went down with the oblique injury. 127 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.360 Now the one positive on the third base situation is 128 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:33.600 Dave Roberts said before the game today that Max Munsey 129 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:38.519 has had a positive reaction to seeing a chiropractor. Now 130 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:41.720 I'm not a doctor, but going to a chiropractor, maybe 131 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:44.120 he got adjusted, maybe they did something to loosen up 132 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:44.920 something in his back. 133 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:47.920 I don't know. Well, whatever they did, apparently it's. 134 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:50.040 Been a positive because he's feeling a lot better with 135 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:53.680 his oblique injury. So hopefully he has now turned a corner. 136 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.160 Hopefully he's now in a situation where he can start 137 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.120 getting more at bats in a batting practice situation and 138 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.399 maybe go out in a minor league rehab assignment and 139 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:06.040 come back sooner rather than later. Because the Dodgers have 140 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.360 a glaring hole of third base right now, and with 141 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.680 Freddie Freeman out with the family emergency, our thoughts and 142 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:13.680 prayers are with his family. That has been another hole 143 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.439 in this Dodger's lineup, and with Mookie bet still out, 144 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.839 another glaring hole now. Assuming all three come back at 145 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.160 some point between now and sometime in the month of August, 146 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.519 here hopefully this Dodger's team will look a lot different 147 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.720 in that power that one through four that we saw 148 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.560 the first three months of the season should be back 149 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.879 to what they were being really good for this Dodger's 150 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:40.399 offense and this Dodger's lineup as a whole. But right now, 151 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.319 this offense is in a rut. Right now, this Dodger 152 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:49.240 bullpen is gassed, and right now Clayton Kershaw couldn't get 153 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.560 out of the fourth inning, And you gotta started wondering 154 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.000 what kind of Clayton Kershaw are we going to see 155 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.399 moving forward. I was so happy and so fired up 156 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:00.560 in his last start at Dodger Stadium, his first this year, 157 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.399 especially that third inning in which he battled out of 158 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.079 a tough jam to get out and get out of 159 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.680 the inning without any damage done, and to come back 160 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:12.720 out and pitch as strong as he did tonight. Maybe 161 00:08:12.759 --> 00:08:15.360 a setback, maybe not, maybe a blip on the radar, 162 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:17.800 maybe just a little bit of a speed bump. For 163 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.759 the rest of the season, he could turn things around 164 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:23.519 and have great starts after this, maybe, who knows, But 165 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.639 tonight certainly one of those things in which you see 166 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.040 Clayton Kershaw throwing ninety miles an hour, no bite on 167 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:33.159 his slider, it was flat, and seeing a team like 168 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.399 the Padre is just teeing off on what he was throwing. 169 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:38.360 Eight sixty six. 170 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.440 Nine eight seven two five seventy is our number. You 171 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.120 heard Will Smith say he's not worried that this Dodgers 172 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.480 team is too talented and they'll get things turned around. 173 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.919 I think they will. But at what point the leads 174 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.840 down now to four and a half games, You've got 175 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.000 a red hot Diamonds Backs team and a red hot 176 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.559 San Diego Padres team nipping on your heels in the division. 177 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.080 And with the loss to night to the Padres, they 178 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:05.240 are now seven and three against the Dodgers. Both only 179 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.200 three more head to head meetings, So if the Dodgers 180 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.759 win all three of those in September, the Dodgers still 181 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.600 lose the series in the season to the Padres, so 182 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.480 they would have the advantage in a tiebreaker if it 183 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.200 came down to these two teams tying at the end 184 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.039 in the NL West standings. So just something to kind 185 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.600 of put in your back pocket towards the end of 186 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.519 the season. Hopefully he doesn't come to that at all, 187 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:29.960 but certainly the Padres get up for playing the Dodgers. 188 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:35.559 Certainly the Dodgers go to San Diego and struggle. I 189 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:36.440 don't know what it is. 190 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.080 I see, I. 191 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:42.480 Hear the fans, you hear the excitement. You hear and 192 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.080 see the passion of these players down in San Diego. 193 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:49.519 They get fired up for the Dodgers, and I know 194 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.000 what happened last time around. They did this to the 195 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:55.480 Dodgers where it was a playoff atmosphere, they had a 196 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:57.919 record breaking crowd, and what happened after that? They went 197 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.720 into a slump a tailspin. The Padje did after that. 198 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:02.919 I think they lost a series or two right after 199 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.519 the Dodgers series in which they got all fired up 200 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:07.120 for and all excited for and all. 201 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:08.799 Jacked up for in San Diego. 202 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:10.960 It's like they put all their energy and they spent 203 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.000 it all into the Dodgers, and they do a good 204 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:18.039 job doing that, but then after they've got nothing left 205 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:23.639 in the tank. Whereas the Dodgers the last two nights offensively, 206 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:25.600 it just kind of felt like going through the motions, 207 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.720 whereas every at bat for the Padres, every situation, it 208 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.399 felt like they were trying to get. 209 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.240 A win and clinch a series. 210 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.240 I don't know, maybe you disagree, just kind of felt 211 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.120 like they were playing for more the last two nights, 212 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:44.080 and I understand it's one sixty two, it's two games 213 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:48.279 with thirteen head to head I get all that, but 214 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:52.000 still it is interesting to see the way this Dodgers 215 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.879 team just as not matched the intensity or the play 216 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:00.720 of the San Diego Padres. It goes back to the 217 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:06.039 NLDS two years ago. In that same season, the Dodgers 218 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:10.559 dominated the Padres, and that was when they went into 219 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.519 that NLDS series with all the confidence up, more of 220 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:16.799 the same we did in the regular season. We're just 221 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.759 gonna run through them in the postseason, and they got 222 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.919 hit in the mouth and they got stunned, and then 223 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.840 they get eliminated by the Padres in the NLDS two 224 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:29.240 years ago. Ever since then, it kind of felt like 225 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.879 the Padres play every game like it's a playoff game, 226 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:37.039 and the Dodgers just cannot match that intensity. And I know, 227 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.200 it's a Wednesday night in San Diego and it's game 228 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.480 two of a two game series, and they they'll play 229 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.679 each other three more times and pump the brakes, kates. 230 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:46.879 It's still July. 231 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.759 It's going a few hours until we even get to August, 232 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:52.360 and we have two more months left in the season. 233 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:55.240 I understand the flip side of it that you can't 234 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:57.679 get caught in the emotion of one game or one 235 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.559 two game series in San Diego. But it feels like 236 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.279 these series are stacking on each other now, and we're 237 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.080 seeing when the Dodgers go to San Diego, it becomes 238 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.960 a place in which there's a lot of Dodger fans 239 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.919 and it's Dodger Stadiu himself, but they're not getting the results. 240 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.919 And me I started looking at it this mentally thinking, 241 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.480 oh no, if they get to October and they got 242 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:22.679 to play him in a postseason series, I fight, the 243 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.200 last place you want to be is San Diego playing 244 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.679 the Padres, because that place is going to be rocking 245 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:30.799 the atmosphere, and I feel like the Dodgers just don't 246 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:34.279 match that atmosphere. They don't match the play of the Padres. 247 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.000 So that's it. That's what I gotta say. I'm a 248 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.519 little frustrated by the way the Dodgers are playing right now. 249 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.720 I understand that Max Munci, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts aren't 250 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:48.799 in the lineup, but the guys that are in the 251 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.279 lineup just clearly aren't producing right now. Hitting one to 252 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.919 eighty eight on this series on this road trip, and 253 00:12:54.960 --> 00:13:01.480 they have now struck out sixty six times in five games. 254 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:06.559 That is a staggering number Dodger fans. Eleven times they 255 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.799 struck out tonight, eight sixty six, nine eighty. 256 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:10.600 Seven, two five seven. 257 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.600 All right, let's go out to the phones, Let's go 258 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.919 to Roda Roda and Santa Monica's first up here on 259 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:17.679 Dodger Dog Roda. 260 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.080 How you doing here? 261 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:24.679 I am, I'm doing fine. I just wish that people 262 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:27.799 would realize, especially athletes and so forth, that it takes 263 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.759 two years to get over anything. The doctor tells you, you know, 264 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:34.039 six weeks or whatever, and they're pullipiloni. At the cellular level, 265 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.759 it's two years. And so the guy comes out and 266 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.759 he did pretty good, you know, on Saturday or whatever 267 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.480 it was. But he thinks he's there, but he's not, 268 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:46.120 and that understanding only makes it worse, I mean, not 269 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:49.639 understanding that, and then he the more he pitches, and 270 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.519 the worse it gets, the worst it all gets, and 271 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:54.519 he just needs to put on his big boy pants 272 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.080 and realize that it's not going to be perfect. It's 273 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:58.480 going to be a bumpy road for a while. 274 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:00.279 That's a good way of putting it. I don't know 275 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:02.559 about the big boy pants part, but Rhoda, I appreciate it. 276 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.960 I think we maybe do need to kind of step 277 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:11.039 back from Clayton Kershaw coming back now eight it is 278 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.600 eight and a half months since offseason shoulder surgery and 279 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.159 realized he only made a few starts in the minor leagues. 280 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:24.399 And you're right, Rhoda, when we hear Tommy John surgery, oh, 281 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:27.320 eighteen months you're out. And even then you got to 282 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.559 give a picture three four months to get right. 283 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:31.480 And it's really. 284 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.919 Two seasons after the surgery in which they're back to 285 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:39.000 whatever quote unquote normal is again for a picture coming 286 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:41.600 off of Tommy John surgery. Now, this was a lathoscopic 287 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:47.039 shoulder surgery, but still nonetheless a serious shoulder surgery. And 288 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.840 to be back eight and a half months later says 289 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.600 a lot about his work ethic, his ability to heal 290 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.559 and get back, and his desire to want to get 291 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.240 back and help out this Dodgers team. Is he going 292 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.679 to be the same cla Sayton Kershaw that he was 293 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:02.559 ten years ago? 294 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:02.960 No? 295 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.799 Is he the same Clayton Kershaw that he was in 296 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:12.039 seventeen eighteen. No, let's just be honest. No, But at 297 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:17.360 Clayton Kershaw with a slider that's on and biting and 298 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.399 breaking down to the foot of a right handed hitter 299 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.519 in the back of the strike zone, and a fastball 300 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.840 that you know he can hit ninety ninety one, but 301 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.879 PenPoint it and get some swinging misses and maybe get 302 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.360 some chases on pitches outside the strike zone, and that 303 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:31.639 devastating curveball. 304 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.679 If his pitches are on, I'm okay. 305 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.480 With Clayton Kershaw out there, because that's still an effective 306 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.480 Clayton Kershaw like we saw in his first start at 307 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.679 Dodger Stadium, a night like tonight where he's fighting to 308 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.840 find pitches, where he is struggling with his slider, where 309 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.320 he is grinding through the first inning and second inning, 310 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:56.720 and the third inning kind of falls apart on him. 311 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:59.840 Nothing goes right, some blue pits, a missfield by Gavin, 312 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.360 you've got an air where he's trying to feel the bunt, 313 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:06.639 and a run scores. Those don't help a situation at all, 314 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:09.759 especially for a guy who's fighting for every out out there. 315 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.720 But maybe this is just a blip. Maybe it's just 316 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.759 one of those outings that he had to go through. 317 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:17.360 In five or six days, when he's back out there 318 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.960 and it's starting number three post shoulder surgery, Maybe he's 319 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.519 out there and he gives you five plus innings, strikes 320 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:26.440 out six or seven, and the slider is biting and 321 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:31.399 the fastball he is getting swinging misses. So I chalk 322 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:34.799 it up as hopefully this isn't what is going to 323 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.320 be the norm now for Clayton Kershaw. Right, Hopefully this 324 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.240 was just a blip and what we see the first 325 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.960 start is more like that. Hey, you got to credit 326 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.440 the Padres hitters didn't. Chase didn't have the longest swinging misses. 327 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:49.120 I mean, you've heard it now a couple of times. 328 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.720 Forty one swings on. Clayton Kershaw pitches two swinging misses, 329 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:56.919 that's it. And one of them, folks, was in the 330 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.000 fourth inning on a change up in which he's only 331 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.559 thrown a few times this year. Probably probably surprised the 332 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:07.759 hitters so much that he swung at it. Eight sixty 333 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:10.359 six nine eight seven two five seventy. Matt and Woodland 334 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.279 Hills is next up here on Dodger Talk after the 335 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.039 Padres thumped the Dodgers eight to one in San Diego. 336 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:18.000 How you doing there, Matt, Yeah, there's a going So 337 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.640 let's say that this slide continues. They don't win the 338 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.559 division getting wild card, Like, what's the chances Friedman and 339 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.920 Roberts sprout next year? So this is getting a bit embarrassing. 340 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.160 Uh, that's a decision that's gonna have to be made 341 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.480 in the offseason. Then I don't see uh, those decisions 342 00:17:35.559 --> 00:17:38.960 being made at any time soon. I mean, let's let's 343 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.519 stay in the moment, Matt. It's July thirty. 344 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:41.920 First. 345 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:44.680 This is a team that's sixty three and forty six. 346 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.000 This is a team that's still got a four and 347 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.960 a half game lead in the division, and they're gonna 348 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.279 get healthy, and they're gonna fight, and they're gonna make 349 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.160 a postseason run. And we all hope it's a deep 350 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.680 postseason run, and we all hope these guys come back healthy, 351 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.000 and we all hope that Clayton Kurdishaw can be effected. 352 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:03.759 A lot of hoping right now for Dodger fans, And certainly, 353 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.599 they've put themselves in the best position going into October. 354 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.200 They have put themselves in the best position with one 355 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:12.880 of the deepest rosters in baseball. There's a lot of 356 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.400 teams around baseball that would love to have the depth 357 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.480 of this Dodgers team have right now. Now it's not clicking. 358 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.079 Guys are hurt. You're asking guys to play different roles 359 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.079 on your team, play different positions, like Calvin Biegio playing 360 00:18:24.119 --> 00:18:25.799 first base, Kick Arnani is. 361 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:26.759 Playing a lot of third base. 362 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:28.759 You're asking a lot of different guys out of the 363 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:32.319 bullpen to perform three out of four nights, two out 364 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:33.640 of three games in a series. 365 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.559 And we're seeing a team. 366 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:39.640 Sort of hit a wall. And again, I just got 367 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:42.279 a text about this. Maybe this is that summer wall. 368 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:46.200 Maybe this endto July summer wall is exactly what the 369 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.400 Dodgers need to get to and then get over and 370 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:51.640 get ready for the second stretch of the season here 371 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.079 in August and September. I mean, there aren't points in 372 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:57.839 a season where pitchers get dead arms. There are points 373 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:00.519 of season in college football, high school football. In the 374 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:03.119 NFL in particular, you see that jump from college to 375 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.559 the NFL, and players hit the rookie wall because there's 376 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.480 so many games in the attrition of the season, and 377 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:10.799 all of a sudden, you're playing year round and you're 378 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.519 practicing into December and it's January and you're still playing 379 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:18.680 a regular season NFL game. In baseball, it's attrition it's 380 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.240 how long can you be healthy over the course of 381 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:24.759 one sixty two and do it effectively? Maybe this team 382 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:28.200 right now, the injuries have caught up. Guys aren't clicking 383 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:30.400 at the same time, and it's the perfect storm. It's 384 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.240 that twister, so to speak, because the movie twisters out again. 385 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:37.480 It's that that twister. That's just the perfect storm for 386 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:39.759 this Dodgers team right now that they just need to 387 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:42.279 get over the hump. They need to get over this 388 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.680 month of July and get ready for August and September, 389 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:49.039 because it affects teams at many points of a season. 390 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:52.440 You go through these stretches which you lose seven to twelve. 391 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.640 You know, there are stretches in which you didn't go 392 00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:58.319 to twelve and two over two weeks play it happens, 393 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.839 and let's just hope this this is this period right 394 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.039 now with the Dodgers over the last couple of weeks, 395 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:04.920 going back to pre All Star Break, I mean the 396 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.480 heck they went with five and six in the last 397 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.960 home stand, but away from Dodger Stadium, no doubt, they 398 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:10.599 are struggling. 399 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:12.359 They are struggling. 400 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:16.279 Eight sixty six nine eight seven s Aaron next up 401 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:17.599