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Speaker 3: Cats Well, bad night for the Dodgers in San Diego.
Speaker 3: What was supposed to be a great pitching match up
Speaker 3: with Clayton Kershaw and Dylan Cees turned into a one
Speaker 3: sided affair as the Padres beat the Dodgers eight to one. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 3: and welcome to Dodger Talk here on an five seventy
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Speaker 4: I got one line opened.
Speaker 3: A lot of Dodger fans already anxious to weigh in,
Speaker 3: and I don't blame you. Eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 3: seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eighty seven
Speaker 3: two five seventy. Tonight was a game in which the
Speaker 3: Dodgers were seeing one of the better pitchers in baseball,
Speaker 3: and Dylan sees it kind of had a playoff atmosphere
Speaker 3: to it. And I say that because the atmosphere at
Speaker 3: pet Go Park and the type of picture the Dodgers
Speaker 3: were facing. Now, certainly this is a different looking Dodger
Speaker 3: lineup that we're going to see in October. He got
Speaker 3: no Freddie Freeman, no Mookie Betts, no Max Montci, but
Speaker 3: still a Dodgers team that's really talented and guys that
Speaker 3: are filling in needs as they are here in the
Speaker 3: month of July, and they go up against Dylan cees
Speaker 3: a good picture, a good test. This is a playoff
Speaker 3: type atmosphere, a playoff type game in which a good
Speaker 3: pictures on the mound. You're not facing a guy who's
Speaker 3: seven and twelve with a six y ar ray who's
Speaker 3: just out there getting, you know, smacked around every five days.
Speaker 3: This is one of the better pitchers in baseball, and
Speaker 3: Dylan sees and he shoved tonight. He did five and
Speaker 3: two third innings. The Dodgers just couldn't put anything in play.
Speaker 3: He would have allowed one run on three hits, strikeout
Speaker 3: six along the way.
Speaker 4: He did get a high pitch count.
Speaker 3: Over five and two thirds innings, and that's the only
Speaker 3: reason he came out of the game. But he really
Speaker 3: had the Dodgers hitters off ballot striking out again eleven
Speaker 3: more strikeouts tonight for the Dodgers offense. They've struck it
Speaker 3: out now sixty six times on this road trip. On
Speaker 3: this road trip five games, three in Houston, two in
Speaker 3: San Diego, and the Dodgers are hitting one to eighty
Speaker 3: eight on this trip with sixty six punch outs. The
Speaker 3: defense tonight looked like a defense of a team that
Speaker 3: you know collectively hasn't played together.
Speaker 4: They looked like they were just I mean, Gavin.
Speaker 3: Lux at second base tonight looked like Gavin Lux during
Speaker 3: spring training. And Gavin Lucks has been really good during
Speaker 3: the regular season, but tonight he just didn't look He
Speaker 3: didn't look like he was in solid at all at
Speaker 3: second base.
Speaker 4: I don't even know who the best way to describe it.
Speaker 3: A ball hit towards the middle and he throws off
Speaker 3: the wrong foot and the ball goes high for an error.
Speaker 4: A ball in the in the.
Speaker 3: Middle between second and first and he boots it away.
Speaker 3: Clayton Kershaw on a bun attempt, gets rushed, can't field it,
Speaker 3: and extends it inning. These little things add up and
Speaker 3: added to runs for the Padres tonight, and a game
Speaker 3: which wasn't clean defensively, only had three hits offensively against
Speaker 3: Dylan Ceese and this Padres bullpen and Clayton Kershaw goes
Speaker 3: out there and when you need Clayton to give you five,
Speaker 3: give you six. Go out there and battle like he
Speaker 3: did in his first outing. So it's coming back from
Speaker 3: shoulder surgery, and tonight he had a rough first inning
Speaker 3: and even a rougher second inning. To his credit, he
Speaker 3: came back out after giving up four runs in the
Speaker 3: second and put up a zero in the third inning,
Speaker 3: and then the wheels fell off.
Speaker 4: In the fourth inning.
Speaker 3: He give up a home run to the second Battery,
Speaker 3: faced an RBI single later in the fourth inning, and
Speaker 3: with two outs finally gets pulled in favor of Joe
Speaker 3: Kelly to get the final out of that fourth inning.
Speaker 3: Just nothing went right for the Dodgers tonight. You know,
Speaker 3: if they if the.
Speaker 4: Jolts are the.
Speaker 3: Shot they were looking for from this trade deadline, it
Speaker 3: hasn't hasn't occurred yet, and I know only Michael Kopek
Speaker 3: has been the only one to play so far, where
Speaker 3: we haven't seen any of the other guys that they've
Speaker 3: acquired in the trade play. We'll see Jack Flaherty on
Speaker 3: Saturday in the second game of this series against the
Speaker 3: Oakland A's. But whatever shot in the arm they thought
Speaker 3: they were going to get whatever jolt they were expecting,
Speaker 3: they haven't gotten now in the two games since the
Speaker 3: trade deadline and tonight having Michael Michael Kopek come in
Speaker 3: and pitched. He pitched really well, struck out the side
Speaker 3: in the fifth inning, And if you want to hang
Speaker 3: on your head on something positive tonight, it's his outing
Speaker 3: and the fact that he was throwing ninety nine one
Speaker 3: hundred and one hundred and one miles an hour tonight,
Speaker 3: and even the Padres hitters seemed lost at the plate
Speaker 3: in those three hitters that he faced. So a little
Speaker 3: bit of a positive is maybe you found something to
Speaker 3: Mike Kopek, albeit only three batters he faced. He looked
Speaker 3: really good, got life on that fastball. He's got a
Speaker 3: four senior that kind of goes up and tails away
Speaker 3: from left handers and up and in on a right hander.
Speaker 4: He saw Jackson merrill off he struck.
Speaker 3: Out, sort of motioning to Kim as he walked by
Speaker 3: him and the on deck circle. I get that ball's rising. Lookout,
Speaker 3: it's rising. That's exactly what it does at one hundred
Speaker 3: and one miles per hour. So maybe the bright spot
Speaker 3: is they see something in Michael Kopek that moving forward,
Speaker 3: he could be that guy towards the back end of
Speaker 3: a game that can get him out of a jam
Speaker 3: in the eighth inning or coming and maybe close it
Speaker 3: to the ninth inning. We'll see what kind of role
Speaker 3: evolves from this, certainly after one outing.
Speaker 4: But uh, if I'm looking.
Speaker 3: For positives, that's certainly one to take away from this
Speaker 3: game tonight. And that's about it. The Dodgers offense is
Speaker 3: just not in rinny rhythm right now. This Dodgers' offense
Speaker 3: is completely flat. Will Smith Oh for for tonite with
Speaker 3: three punch outs, show Hey Otani Oh for three with
Speaker 3: a walk.
Speaker 4: Gavin Lux had a hit.
Speaker 3: He con seems to be the only guy consistently getting
Speaker 3: hits the Dodgers. Andy Patas Oh for three, two punch outs,
Speaker 3: key Ky Hernandez Oh for three two punch outs, hitting
Speaker 3: now one to ninety seven on this season.
Speaker 4: And what did he play tonight? Third base.
Speaker 3: Again, a third base spot that has been a glaring
Speaker 3: whole offensively since Max Monsey went down with the oblique injury.
Speaker 3: Now the one positive on the third base situation is
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts said before the game today that Max Munsey
Speaker 3: has had a positive reaction to seeing a chiropractor. Now
Speaker 3: I'm not a doctor, but going to a chiropractor, maybe
Speaker 3: he got adjusted, maybe they did something to loosen up
Speaker 3: something in his back.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, whatever they did, apparently it's.
Speaker 3: Been a positive because he's feeling a lot better with
Speaker 3: his oblique injury. So hopefully he has now turned a corner.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he's now in a situation where he can start
Speaker 3: getting more at bats in a batting practice situation and
Speaker 3: maybe go out in a minor league rehab assignment and
Speaker 3: come back sooner rather than later. Because the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: a glaring hole of third base right now, and with
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman out with the family emergency, our thoughts and
Speaker 3: prayers are with his family. That has been another hole
Speaker 3: in this Dodger's lineup, and with Mookie bet still out,
Speaker 3: another glaring hole now. Assuming all three come back at
Speaker 3: some point between now and sometime in the month of August,
Speaker 3: here hopefully this Dodger's team will look a lot different
Speaker 3: in that power that one through four that we saw
Speaker 3: the first three months of the season should be back
Speaker 3: to what they were being really good for this Dodger's
Speaker 3: offense and this Dodger's lineup as a whole. But right now,
Speaker 3: this offense is in a rut. Right now, this Dodger
Speaker 3: bullpen is gassed, and right now Clayton Kershaw couldn't get
Speaker 3: out of the fourth inning, And you gotta started wondering
Speaker 3: what kind of Clayton Kershaw are we going to see
Speaker 3: moving forward. I was so happy and so fired up
Speaker 3: in his last start at Dodger Stadium, his first this year,
Speaker 3: especially that third inning in which he battled out of
Speaker 3: a tough jam to get out and get out of
Speaker 3: the inning without any damage done, and to come back
Speaker 3: out and pitch as strong as he did tonight. Maybe
Speaker 3: a setback, maybe not, maybe a blip on the radar,
Speaker 3: maybe just a little bit of a speed bump. For
Speaker 3: the rest of the season, he could turn things around
Speaker 3: and have great starts after this, maybe, who knows, But
Speaker 3: tonight certainly one of those things in which you see
Speaker 3: Clayton Kershaw throwing ninety miles an hour, no bite on
Speaker 3: his slider, it was flat, and seeing a team like
Speaker 3: the Padre is just teeing off on what he was throwing.
Speaker 4: Eight sixty six.
Speaker 3: Nine eight seven two five seventy is our number. You
Speaker 3: heard Will Smith say he's not worried that this Dodgers
Speaker 3: team is too talented and they'll get things turned around.
Speaker 3: I think they will. But at what point the leads
Speaker 3: down now to four and a half games, You've got
Speaker 3: a red hot Diamonds Backs team and a red hot
Speaker 3: San Diego Padres team nipping on your heels in the division.
Speaker 3: And with the loss to night to the Padres, they
Speaker 3: are now seven and three against the Dodgers. Both only
Speaker 3: three more head to head meetings, So if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: win all three of those in September, the Dodgers still
Speaker 3: lose the series in the season to the Padres, so
Speaker 3: they would have the advantage in a tiebreaker if it
Speaker 3: came down to these two teams tying at the end
Speaker 3: in the NL West standings. So just something to kind
Speaker 3: of put in your back pocket towards the end of
Speaker 3: the season. Hopefully he doesn't come to that at all,
Speaker 3: but certainly the Padres get up for playing the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Certainly the Dodgers go to San Diego and struggle. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: I see, I.
Speaker 3: Hear the fans, you hear the excitement. You hear and
Speaker 3: see the passion of these players down in San Diego.
Speaker 3: They get fired up for the Dodgers, and I know
Speaker 3: what happened last time around. They did this to the
Speaker 3: Dodgers where it was a playoff atmosphere, they had a
Speaker 3: record breaking crowd, and what happened after that? They went
Speaker 3: into a slump a tailspin. The Padje did after that.
Speaker 3: I think they lost a series or two right after
Speaker 3: the Dodgers series in which they got all fired up
Speaker 3: for and all excited for and all.
Speaker 4: Jacked up for in San Diego.
Speaker 3: It's like they put all their energy and they spent
Speaker 3: it all into the Dodgers, and they do a good
Speaker 3: job doing that, but then after they've got nothing left
Speaker 3: in the tank. Whereas the Dodgers the last two nights offensively,
Speaker 3: it just kind of felt like going through the motions,
Speaker 3: whereas every at bat for the Padres, every situation, it
Speaker 3: felt like they were trying to get.
Speaker 4: A win and clinch a series.
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe you disagree, just kind of felt
Speaker 3: like they were playing for more the last two nights,
Speaker 3: and I understand it's one sixty two, it's two games
Speaker 3: with thirteen head to head I get all that, but
Speaker 3: still it is interesting to see the way this Dodgers
Speaker 3: team just as not matched the intensity or the play
Speaker 3: of the San Diego Padres. It goes back to the
Speaker 3: NLDS two years ago. In that same season, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: dominated the Padres, and that was when they went into
Speaker 3: that NLDS series with all the confidence up, more of
Speaker 3: the same we did in the regular season. We're just
Speaker 3: gonna run through them in the postseason, and they got
Speaker 3: hit in the mouth and they got stunned, and then
Speaker 3: they get eliminated by the Padres in the NLDS two
Speaker 3: years ago. Ever since then, it kind of felt like
Speaker 3: the Padres play every game like it's a playoff game,
Speaker 3: and the Dodgers just cannot match that intensity. And I know,
Speaker 3: it's a Wednesday night in San Diego and it's game
Speaker 3: two of a two game series, and they they'll play
Speaker 3: each other three more times and pump the brakes, kates.
Speaker 4: It's still July.
Speaker 3: It's going a few hours until we even get to August,
Speaker 3: and we have two more months left in the season.
Speaker 3: I understand the flip side of it that you can't
Speaker 3: get caught in the emotion of one game or one
Speaker 3: two game series in San Diego. But it feels like
Speaker 3: these series are stacking on each other now, and we're
Speaker 3: seeing when the Dodgers go to San Diego, it becomes
Speaker 3: a place in which there's a lot of Dodger fans
Speaker 3: and it's Dodger Stadiu himself, but they're not getting the results.
Speaker 3: And me I started looking at it this mentally thinking,
Speaker 3: oh no, if they get to October and they got
Speaker 3: to play him in a postseason series, I fight, the
Speaker 3: last place you want to be is San Diego playing
Speaker 3: the Padres, because that place is going to be rocking
Speaker 3: the atmosphere, and I feel like the Dodgers just don't
Speaker 3: match that atmosphere. They don't match the play of the Padres.
Speaker 3: So that's it. That's what I gotta say. I'm a
Speaker 3: little frustrated by the way the Dodgers are playing right now.
Speaker 3: I understand that Max Munci, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts aren't
Speaker 3: in the lineup, but the guys that are in the
Speaker 3: lineup just clearly aren't producing right now. Hitting one to
Speaker 3: eighty eight on this series on this road trip, and
Speaker 3: they have now struck out sixty six times in five games.
Speaker 3: That is a staggering number Dodger fans. Eleven times they
Speaker 3: struck out tonight, eight sixty six, nine eighty.
Speaker 4: Seven, two five seven.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go out to the phones, Let's go
Speaker 3: to Roda Roda and Santa Monica's first up here on
Speaker 3: Dodger Dog Roda.
Speaker 4: How you doing here?
Speaker 5: I am, I'm doing fine. I just wish that people
Speaker 5: would realize, especially athletes and so forth, that it takes
Speaker 5: two years to get over anything. The doctor tells you, you know,
Speaker 5: six weeks or whatever, and they're pullipiloni. At the cellular level,
Speaker 5: it's two years. And so the guy comes out and
Speaker 5: he did pretty good, you know, on Saturday or whatever
Speaker 5: it was. But he thinks he's there, but he's not,
Speaker 5: and that understanding only makes it worse, I mean, not
Speaker 5: understanding that, and then he the more he pitches, and
Speaker 5: the worse it gets, the worst it all gets, and
Speaker 5: he just needs to put on his big boy pants
Speaker 5: and realize that it's not going to be perfect. It's
Speaker 5: going to be a bumpy road for a while.
Speaker 3: That's a good way of putting it. I don't know
Speaker 3: about the big boy pants part, but Rhoda, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I think we maybe do need to kind of step
Speaker 3: back from Clayton Kershaw coming back now eight it is
Speaker 3: eight and a half months since offseason shoulder surgery and
Speaker 3: realized he only made a few starts in the minor leagues.
Speaker 3: And you're right, Rhoda, when we hear Tommy John surgery, oh,
Speaker 3: eighteen months you're out. And even then you got to
Speaker 3: give a picture three four months to get right.
Speaker 4: And it's really.
Speaker 3: Two seasons after the surgery in which they're back to
Speaker 3: whatever quote unquote normal is again for a picture coming
Speaker 3: off of Tommy John surgery. Now, this was a lathoscopic
Speaker 3: shoulder surgery, but still nonetheless a serious shoulder surgery. And
Speaker 3: to be back eight and a half months later says
Speaker 3: a lot about his work ethic, his ability to heal
Speaker 3: and get back, and his desire to want to get
Speaker 3: back and help out this Dodgers team. Is he going
Speaker 3: to be the same cla Sayton Kershaw that he was
Speaker 3: ten years ago?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Is he the same Clayton Kershaw that he was in
Speaker 3: seventeen eighteen. No, let's just be honest. No, But at
Speaker 3: Clayton Kershaw with a slider that's on and biting and
Speaker 3: breaking down to the foot of a right handed hitter
Speaker 3: in the back of the strike zone, and a fastball
Speaker 3: that you know he can hit ninety ninety one, but
Speaker 3: PenPoint it and get some swinging misses and maybe get
Speaker 3: some chases on pitches outside the strike zone, and that
Speaker 3: devastating curveball.
Speaker 4: If his pitches are on, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: With Clayton Kershaw out there, because that's still an effective
Speaker 3: Clayton Kershaw like we saw in his first start at
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium, a night like tonight where he's fighting to
Speaker 3: find pitches, where he is struggling with his slider, where
Speaker 3: he is grinding through the first inning and second inning,
Speaker 3: and the third inning kind of falls apart on him.
Speaker 3: Nothing goes right, some blue pits, a missfield by Gavin,
Speaker 3: you've got an air where he's trying to feel the bunt,
Speaker 3: and a run scores. Those don't help a situation at all,
Speaker 3: especially for a guy who's fighting for every out out there.
Speaker 3: But maybe this is just a blip. Maybe it's just
Speaker 3: one of those outings that he had to go through.
Speaker 3: In five or six days, when he's back out there
Speaker 3: and it's starting number three post shoulder surgery, Maybe he's
Speaker 3: out there and he gives you five plus innings, strikes
Speaker 3: out six or seven, and the slider is biting and
Speaker 3: the fastball he is getting swinging misses. So I chalk
Speaker 3: it up as hopefully this isn't what is going to
Speaker 3: be the norm now for Clayton Kershaw. Right, Hopefully this
Speaker 3: was just a blip and what we see the first
Speaker 3: start is more like that. Hey, you got to credit
Speaker 3: the Padres hitters didn't. Chase didn't have the longest swinging misses.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've heard it now a couple of times.
Speaker 3: Forty one swings on. Clayton Kershaw pitches two swinging misses,
Speaker 3: that's it. And one of them, folks, was in the
Speaker 3: fourth inning on a change up in which he's only
Speaker 3: thrown a few times this year. Probably probably surprised the
Speaker 3: hitters so much that he swung at it. Eight sixty
Speaker 3: six nine eight seven two five seventy. Matt and Woodland
Speaker 3: Hills is next up here on Dodger Talk after the
Speaker 3: Padres thumped the Dodgers eight to one in San Diego.
Speaker 6: How you doing there, Matt, Yeah, there's a going So
Speaker 6: let's say that this slide continues. They don't win the
Speaker 6: division getting wild card, Like, what's the chances Friedman and
Speaker 6: Roberts sprout next year? So this is getting a bit embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's a decision that's gonna have to be made
Speaker 3: in the offseason. Then I don't see uh, those decisions
Speaker 3: being made at any time soon. I mean, let's let's
Speaker 3: stay in the moment, Matt. It's July thirty.
Speaker 4: First.
Speaker 3: This is a team that's sixty three and forty six.
Speaker 3: This is a team that's still got a four and
Speaker 3: a half game lead in the division, and they're gonna
Speaker 3: get healthy, and they're gonna fight, and they're gonna make
Speaker 3: a postseason run. And we all hope it's a deep
Speaker 3: postseason run, and we all hope these guys come back healthy,
Speaker 3: and we all hope that Clayton Kurdishaw can be effected.
Speaker 3: A lot of hoping right now for Dodger fans, And certainly,
Speaker 3: they've put themselves in the best position going into October.
Speaker 3: They have put themselves in the best position with one
Speaker 3: of the deepest rosters in baseball. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: teams around baseball that would love to have the depth
Speaker 3: of this Dodgers team have right now. Now it's not clicking.
Speaker 3: Guys are hurt. You're asking guys to play different roles
Speaker 3: on your team, play different positions, like Calvin Biegio playing
Speaker 3: first base, Kick Arnani is.
Speaker 4: Playing a lot of third base.
Speaker 3: You're asking a lot of different guys out of the
Speaker 3: bullpen to perform three out of four nights, two out
Speaker 3: of three games in a series.
Speaker 4: And we're seeing a team.
Speaker 3: Sort of hit a wall. And again, I just got
Speaker 3: a text about this. Maybe this is that summer wall.
Speaker 3: Maybe this endto July summer wall is exactly what the
Speaker 3: Dodgers need to get to and then get over and
Speaker 3: get ready for the second stretch of the season here
Speaker 3: in August and September. I mean, there aren't points in
Speaker 3: a season where pitchers get dead arms. There are points
Speaker 3: of season in college football, high school football. In the
Speaker 3: NFL in particular, you see that jump from college to
Speaker 3: the NFL, and players hit the rookie wall because there's
Speaker 3: so many games in the attrition of the season, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you're playing year round and you're
Speaker 3: practicing into December and it's January and you're still playing
Speaker 3: a regular season NFL game. In baseball, it's attrition it's
Speaker 3: how long can you be healthy over the course of
Speaker 3: one sixty two and do it effectively? Maybe this team
Speaker 3: right now, the injuries have caught up. Guys aren't clicking
Speaker 3: at the same time, and it's the perfect storm. It's
Speaker 3: that twister, so to speak, because the movie twisters out again.
Speaker 3: It's that that twister. That's just the perfect storm for
Speaker 3: this Dodgers team right now that they just need to
Speaker 3: get over the hump. They need to get over this
Speaker 3: month of July and get ready for August and September,
Speaker 3: because it affects teams at many points of a season.
Speaker 3: You go through these stretches which you lose seven to twelve.
Speaker 3: You know, there are stretches in which you didn't go
Speaker 3: to twelve and two over two weeks play it happens,
Speaker 3: and let's just hope this this is this period right
Speaker 3: now with the Dodgers over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: going back to pre All Star Break, I mean the
Speaker 3: heck they went with five and six in the last
Speaker 3: home stand, but away from Dodger Stadium, no doubt, they
Speaker 3: are struggling.
Speaker 4: They are struggling.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six nine eight seven s Aaron next up
Speaker 3: here on Dodger Talk, welcome.
Speaker 4: Eron how you doing good?
Speaker 2: How you guys doing Dude?
Speaker 3: Okay, a little frustrated, but I'm going to stay a
Speaker 3: little bit more positive than a lot of Dodger fans
Speaker 3: who are really getting after me right.
Speaker 4: Now on Twitter.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm I'm right there with you. I
Speaker 2: was at the game tonight, and uh you know I
Speaker 2: I go back to this as a as a former
Speaker 2: athlete and coach myself. You can tell that the team
Speaker 2: right now is just missing leaders.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's missing those guys who are the stabilizing forces,
Speaker 2: the guys who right the ship.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, you look back at twenty twenty, those guys
Speaker 2: that that where's that where's the Jock Peterson in this clubhouse?
Speaker 2: You know, we're missing guys like Mookie, We're missing Max,
Speaker 2: We're missing Freddy. We're really missing the those guys that
Speaker 2: are at the core of this team, you know, the
Speaker 2: guys that bring that energy and tail can offer that
Speaker 2: at times, but the dugout is just missing that stabilizing force,
Speaker 2: the guy. And it can't come from days. It's got
Speaker 2: to come from within the locker room. It's got to
Speaker 2: come from the guys on the field. You know, we're
Speaker 2: just missing that stabilizing force right now.
Speaker 3: That's a good point eron and just to piggyback what
Speaker 3: you had to say, and I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 3: Somebody brought this up earlier today to me and talking
Speaker 3: about the Dodgers. You know, no Mookie Bets around this team. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the situation that Freddie Freeman is what it is. And
Speaker 3: you know, we continue to think and pray for his
Speaker 3: family and everything that's going on. But Mookie Bets isn't
Speaker 3: around this team. Mats months, he hasn't been around this team.
Speaker 3: This is a Dodgers team. You think of leadership, who
Speaker 3: do you think of who's the voice of the team.
Speaker 3: I mean, for years we talked about Justin Turner being
Speaker 3: the voice of the team, the guy you can go to.
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman's the guy the media goes to after a
Speaker 3: win or a loss, because he's going to give you
Speaker 3: an honest answer and he'll stand in front of his
Speaker 3: locker win or lose, good game or bad game and
Speaker 3: talk to the media because he's a professional. But he's
Speaker 3: not around Mookie Betts outside of a couple of games
Speaker 3: in the booth with sports and at LA he's not around.
Speaker 3: Last time I saw Mookie Betts he was on Twitter
Speaker 3: at rams practice over the weekend, so he's not with
Speaker 3: the team. And Aaron brings up a good point. Who's
Speaker 3: the leader of this team? Who's the emotional heartbeat right
Speaker 3: now of this Dodgers team?
Speaker 4: Is it ta Oscar? Is it Kei k?
Speaker 3: Keik is not an everyday player. He's struggling right now
Speaker 3: to even hit two hundred. You know, at one point
Speaker 3: he was that role player having fun. He was Keik
Speaker 3: the Banana Hernandez, you know, having a good time back
Speaker 3: in seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 4: But we don't see that anymore.
Speaker 3: And outside and throwing some some flower seeds and people's
Speaker 3: faces from ta Oscar.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of emotion, not a lot of you know, getting.
Speaker 3: Guys faces and let's let's turn this around, sort of
Speaker 3: an attitude. And I don't think the Dodgers quite frankly,
Speaker 3: have that voice on this team. Is it Mookie Betts?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's not really a raw rock guy, but certainly leads
Speaker 3: by example.
Speaker 4: That is definitely the case.
Speaker 3: And you look at the pieces the Cavin b Show
Speaker 3: and Andy pat has a Jason Hayward. He's a leader
Speaker 3: on this team, but not necessarily a raw rock guy,
Speaker 3: but a good veteran everybody can go to sort of
Speaker 3: that father figure, so to speak, on this Dodgers roster.
Speaker 3: But right now, those Dodgers, I just you're right, Aaron,
Speaker 3: they just don't have that emotional leader. They just kind
Speaker 3: of feel like the head of a snake has been
Speaker 3: cut off and they're just kind of flailing right now.
Speaker 3: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Bill
Speaker 3: and Ontario is next up here on Dodgers Talk. Bill Welcome,
Speaker 3: How you doing.
Speaker 9: I am doing very well, sir.
Speaker 8: How are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing little. I'm okay, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I'm a little frustrated with the way the Dodgers are playing,
Speaker 3: but I'm confident though, once they get healthy, things will
Speaker 3: be okay.
Speaker 8: I get it to him, but you know what everybody's saying,
Speaker 8: do not blame Doc, do not blame Freeman to get
Speaker 8: in the pieces, and we went out. I didn't want
Speaker 8: Crochet after what he said. You know, he wants the contract.
Speaker 8: Come on, the guy's never fished a full year, you know,
Speaker 8: full year.
Speaker 9: He's been in the bullpen.
Speaker 8: So I'm glad the pieces that we got, but you're right,
Speaker 8: we don't have the round rock guy. But I think
Speaker 8: Hayward needs to step up. He's he's Freddy for you,
Speaker 8: his best friend. He needs to get in there and
Speaker 8: say come on guys, like like uh, like Danny Cleverer
Speaker 8: did and and uh in the Angel movie, and you know,
Speaker 8: we need to get stuff done.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I can't believe he just referenced angels in the outfield.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, Bill.
Speaker 8: I had to, man, because we don't have a Dodger
Speaker 8: movie besides forty two.
Speaker 9: But yeah, no, we we we just need we got this.
Speaker 8: We're two games, we're the second best record in the
Speaker 8: National League, and people are already giving up on us.
Speaker 9: We shocked too much left, you know, stop stop giving
Speaker 9: up on us. I'm glad we're hearing the wall right
Speaker 9: now instead of in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Amen to that, Bill, work out now. Yep, appreciate a
Speaker 3: great point. I love the positivity.
Speaker 4: You're right. Look at the standings. The Phillies are sixty
Speaker 4: five and forty three. They've lost four in a row.
Speaker 3: Wow, they must be going crazy in Philadelphia right now.
Speaker 3: They've lost four straight. They've lost seven or they've lost
Speaker 3: seven of ten. Oh, my gosh, they gotta be freaking
Speaker 3: out of Philadelphia fans must be riding as citisens Big
Speaker 3: Ballpark because the Phillies have lost four in a row.
Speaker 3: There leads only six and a half in the NL East. Oh,
Speaker 3: no freak out. Dodgers are gonna be okay. Dodgers are
Speaker 3: gonna be all right. They still got the second best
Speaker 3: record in the National League. As Bill said, they're playing
Speaker 3: five hundred baseball right now with a lineup that, when
Speaker 3: in healthy, will not look like this, will not look
Speaker 3: like this at all. A couple of things they do
Speaker 3: need to clean up on, and this is to me
Speaker 3: more mental than any thing. This is more things that
Speaker 3: you can fix individually. Is the Heirs Gavin LUCKX two
Speaker 3: airs tonight clean it up. The Dodgers have been very
Speaker 3: good defensively and played well and quite frankly, Freddie Freeman's
Speaker 3: bailed him out on a lot of plays at first base.
Speaker 3: Let's be real cards on the table here, folks. Freddie
Speaker 3: Freeman is a witch with the glove. At first he
Speaker 3: should he should have already had the gold glove in
Speaker 3: the Gold Glove Award inscribed and in his house for
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four because how many throws he has saved,
Speaker 3: how many stretches he has made. It like a goaltender
Speaker 3: in hockey out there, all the all the flexing and twerkin.
Speaker 3: His body is done to catch the ball, jump up
Speaker 3: and get high, throws balls in the dirt, picking it
Speaker 3: like a witch over there with his glove, and they
Speaker 3: don't have them. Eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two,
Speaker 3: five seventies a number. We'll take a break, we'll come back,
Speaker 3: we'll get to your more of your phone calls. I
Speaker 3: know you're fired up. I know you a little bit
Speaker 3: worried about the way this Dodgers team playing. I'd like
Speaker 3: to see a little bit more fire in the belly
Speaker 3: of some of these players, no doubt. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, baseball you have to stay even keel. You
Speaker 3: can't get too high, you can't get too low. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers would have come out and been raw, raw, excited,
Speaker 3: gotta win tonight. Guess what they get on a plane
Speaker 3: they head to Oakland, and they got to play another
Speaker 3: two months of the season because there'll just be one game.
Speaker 4: On the flip side, the loss is just one.
Speaker 3: Game, just a two game series. You gotta turn the
Speaker 3: page and get ready for Oakland. And turn the page
Speaker 3: on this disastrous start to the road trip, in which
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have given away two games, one in Houston
Speaker 3: and give away the game last night at pet Go Apart.
Speaker 3: They lose tonight eight to one the final. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 3: roughed up for seven runs in three and two third innings.
Speaker 3: He gets the loss. Dodgers fall to sixty three and
Speaker 3: forty six.
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Speaker 3: Dodgers lose in San Diego tonight eight to one. Is
Speaker 3: your final, Padres win it. They win both games of
Speaker 3: this two game series. Dylan Seiz gets the win. He's
Speaker 3: eleven and eight overall. Clayton Kershaw the loss. He's now
Speaker 3: zero to one in his second game back from offseason
Speaker 3: shoulder surgery.
Speaker 4: He can't get out of the fourth inning.
Speaker 3: Gives up seven runs, three of which were earned, six hits,
Speaker 3: no strikeouts, one walk. He got only two swinging misses
Speaker 3: on forty one swings from the Padres hitters. Tonight, in
Speaker 3: two starts, he's given up nine runs, twelve hits in
Speaker 3: seven in two third innings. Dodgers now one in four
Speaker 3: on this road trip. They're leading the division down to
Speaker 3: four and a half games over the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3: They're going to wrap up the month of July with
Speaker 3: a eleven and thirteen record overall, first losing month for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers since twenty eighteen pre COVID, the last time
Speaker 3: the Dodgers had a losing month of baseball. Can only
Speaker 3: go up from here for the Dodgers, as they flipped
Speaker 3: the calendar to August eight, six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 3: two five seventy. Ronald and Elsa Gundo love Elsa Gunn.
Speaker 3: What a great little city out there, Ronald, how you doing?
Speaker 7: Welcome to Dodger Talk, Hey Tim, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 7: Sure you know I want to preface everything I'm going
Speaker 7: to say with I understand Freddie and Mookie or not
Speaker 7: on this team right now, and they're not around both
Speaker 7: of them for different reasons. And Miguel's out right, and
Speaker 7: I think people are really over, really over that. That's
Speaker 7: something that's really big on my mind, is Miguel Rojas,
Speaker 7: like the catalysts of the infield, who's not there. And
Speaker 7: I think that came two things. I just don't think
Speaker 7: and you, I'm glad you're doing this like getaway game
Speaker 7: because you know Dave can play, you know, Hector the protector,
Speaker 7: and you kind of tell it like it is in
Speaker 7: a different way. I don't think this team has that
Speaker 7: elevator to get up high, like like the Phillies or
Speaker 7: the Padres or the Diamondbacks two against us right like
Speaker 7: it is their super Bowl, and like you know what,
Speaker 7: maybe just one series. Pretend like you care, like like
Speaker 7: it does mean more because to your fan base it does.
Speaker 7: And I think that's the message that I think the
Speaker 7: organization can sell to the fan base, like, hey, it's
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty two, but man, these three games
Speaker 7: are fun to win, right Like, it doesn't feel good
Speaker 7: to that right up to five isn't gonna be great
Speaker 7: for the team, yea, And then secondly, Kershaw, you know,
Speaker 7: a big piece of right Austin Barnes is even on
Speaker 7: this roster is because he's been his Let's not pretend
Speaker 7: like it's not what it is. He's his battery mate.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 7: And in these moments where Kershaw's getting strung along in
Speaker 7: the two three four hits at a time, Will Smith
Speaker 7: isn't going to the mound.
Speaker 6: They're not.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's the sequencing, but like Barnes
Speaker 7: knows him better than Kershaw probably knows, and it might
Speaker 7: come out when Kirsha writes a book like he owes
Speaker 7: some of his career success to Barnes because navigating those
Speaker 7: innings is not easy. And this is no knock on
Speaker 7: will Smith. He's gonna get better. He's what twenty six,
Speaker 7: but man, like it's night and day when when it
Speaker 7: comes cut in time, it doesn't look the same. And
Speaker 7: then last thing I'll end with tim is, you know,
Speaker 7: you look at what we're playing like this next series
Speaker 7: with Oakland, Like how are they going to get up
Speaker 7: for that? Like that's Oakland super Bowl again, Like there's
Speaker 7: a lot of risks upcoming, and I know we're missing
Speaker 7: a ton of bodies but you know, we got to
Speaker 7: be honest as a fan base. Like we know it's
Speaker 7: a long rulings. It's a marathon, right, this is the
Speaker 7: this is the fifteen hundred meter. This isn't one hundred
Speaker 7: butterfly or whatever. But man, like, just once, I would
Speaker 7: like to be able to like call my friends and
Speaker 7: be like, hey, we got youa because it feels like
Speaker 7: every time we go to San Diego, we go to Philly,
Speaker 7: we go to Arizona, we leave a tail between our
Speaker 7: legs and we're quiet. So thanks for giving me the voice.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Ronald appreciate the phone call. Eight six seven.
Speaker 3: You're gonna face an Oakland A's team, by the way,
Speaker 3: who lost a tough one nothing game to Logan Web
Speaker 3: tonight in the San Francisco Giants. But an Oakland A's team,
Speaker 3: I understand. They're forty five and sixty five, they're twenty
Speaker 3: games under five hundred, but they've won six of their
Speaker 3: last ten and a team that can sneak up on
Speaker 3: you and though they're not playing for much, He's right.
Speaker 3: You know, the Dodgers come to town, the big lights
Speaker 3: show aotani la across their jersey. You know, teams get
Speaker 3: up for that, And it's hard to explain the raw
Speaker 3: raw effect. I don't necessarily think you need a guy
Speaker 3: like a coach Lou Brown, that for our manager Lou
Speaker 3: Brown from the movie Major League, where he's gonna yell
Speaker 3: and scream and you.
Speaker 4: Know, start getting everybody. You don't necessarily need that.
Speaker 3: You don't need somebody's gonna get in there and start
Speaker 3: kicking over stuff as a player and calling out guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think you need that, But you need somebody's
Speaker 3: gonna be a vocal leader, somebody that's gonna hold people
Speaker 3: accountable for their play on the field and sometimes mess
Speaker 3: to just get sent through the media. And you know,
Speaker 3: there's different ways of doing it, certainly, but it'd be
Speaker 3: nice to see a little bit of a spark there.
Speaker 3: And Rick Monday and David Vesta talked about it on
Speaker 3: the Club Out or the Dodgers on Deck show, you know,
Speaker 3: Showio Tin's getting thrown in a lot on you know,
Speaker 3: there's not a lot of Dodger pitchers who are making
Speaker 3: it uncomfortable for other teams in the batter's box.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Last night, Machada was just teeing off and Rick Monday
Speaker 3: said it really well you don't have to hit a guy.
Speaker 3: You know it'll be cheap, and you know, throwing at
Speaker 3: a guy and making things dangerous, you don't have to
Speaker 3: do that. But don't be afraid to throw in on
Speaker 3: the inner half of the plate. Don't be afraid to
Speaker 3: make sure you let the hitter know you're there. You
Speaker 3: don't want to get them too comfortable in the box
Speaker 3: where they're just teeing off on a fastball that's ninety
Speaker 3: and a slider that's not breaking. It's gotten a little
Speaker 3: bite to it. And I'm not pinpointing just Clayton kershed all,
Speaker 3: but in general, that's a message that could be sent. Hey,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna take any of this from anybody. Tired
Speaker 3: of our guys getting thrown in on and we're gonna
Speaker 3: make sure we'll protect our guys. You know, there's other
Speaker 3: ways to do things, necessarily just going and start yelling
Speaker 3: and being the raw rod guy.
Speaker 4: But emotion is certainly part of it. And we saw
Speaker 4: Joe Kelly getting a little chippy in Houston over the weekend.
Speaker 4: It doesn't necessarily have to be that, but just to
Speaker 4: show some emotion, you know. Jackson Merrill hits a home
Speaker 4: run last night throws his bat and had the entire
Speaker 4: Padres dugout on their feet fired up, gets the fans
Speaker 4: fired up.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: I wonder if the fans.
Speaker 3: Are the reason why the Dodgers at home or so well,
Speaker 3: because the Dodger fans know the game and are very
Speaker 3: smart and get get up on.
Speaker 4: Their feet with two strikes with two outs.
Speaker 3: You know, when they're not at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: players don't have the fans behind them.
Speaker 4: It's us against the world mentality.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe that's the mentality they need to take
Speaker 3: more of, you know, and it's us against them and
Speaker 3: let's protect ourselves where it's only us and we got
Speaker 3: to protect ourselvesselves out there.
Speaker 4: I mean, what are they going to?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's part managing, that's coaching. That's also on leadership
Speaker 3: on this team. So there's different ways of being the
Speaker 3: raw rock guy. It doesn't necessarily just like I said,
Speaker 3: have to be yelling and be emotional and being in
Speaker 3: your face type of coach.
Speaker 4: So let's go to Kenan, Newport Beach. Ken Welcome, sir, how.
Speaker 8: Are you.
Speaker 6: Now? San Diego is tough for me because I've got
Speaker 6: so many friends that are Padre fans yelling at me
Speaker 6: at the cigar store. But a couple of points, like
Speaker 6: you mentioned, the Lakers Dodgers are eleven thirteen the month
Speaker 6: of July, and now they play Oakland, who is fifteen
Speaker 6: and nine in the month of July, and Will Smith
Speaker 6: in the last thirty games is hitting one seventy one
Speaker 6: and it's really occurting the team. Yes, they're two top
Speaker 6: three players Freeman and Lookie aren't playing, but man, this
Speaker 6: roster is bad. They can't hit the ball, they can't
Speaker 6: feel the ball. And these are all players that are
Speaker 6: brought in late this year and they're just horrible. They've
Speaker 6: got to have some attitude, and really that needs to
Speaker 6: come from the manager who just seems to be too
Speaker 6: busy chewing on whatever he's chewing on. They got to
Speaker 6: make a change because then they go to Philadelphia after
Speaker 6: Oakland and it doesn't look good right now. They need
Speaker 6: those players back because the guys they got are bench
Speaker 6: players and most of them should be in the minors.
Speaker 6: I think it's going to get better for sure. Right
Speaker 6: now this is as low as it's been in a
Speaker 6: couple of years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: Kid.
Speaker 4: I mentioned it earlier. This is the first time since
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen that the Dodgers have had a losing month
Speaker 4: of baseball. You got to go back to twenty eighteen
Speaker 4: to have the Dodgers finish below five hundred and right
Speaker 4: now they're going to finish the month of July at
Speaker 4: eleven and thirteen. Unbelievable the month of July for this
Speaker 4: Dodgers team.
Speaker 3: And think about that road trip before the All Star Break,
Speaker 3: coming out red hot at home in those six games,
Speaker 3: they go five to one at home, but then then
Speaker 3: lose two to three in Houston, to blow games against
Speaker 3: the Tigers, that five run ninth inning lead, to blow
Speaker 3: a lead in Houston, to blow a lead last night
Speaker 3: to the San Diego Padres. Yeah, it's tough times and
Speaker 3: this bullpen is worn out and it's got a lot
Speaker 3: of older arms on this team. Hopefully Michael Kopek can
Speaker 3: come in and help alleviate some of that and also
Speaker 3: keep it in mind. Michael Grove, Dave Roberts said, Michael
Speaker 3: Grove is probably the first guy back. When you look
Speaker 3: at the guys on the injured list that are on
Speaker 3: minor league rehab assignments, Michael Grove is gonna be the
Speaker 3: first one back, followed by Bruce dar Graderol, and then
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are hoping they can get back Ryan Brazier
Speaker 3: after that. Certainly they're gonna get Mookie Betts back sometime
Speaker 3: probably in late August, and Yoshinobi Gaba Moto. We just
Speaker 3: don't know what the status of the young right hander
Speaker 3: is gonna be. On top of that, Max Munsey hopefully
Speaker 3: has turned the page so to positive as far as
Speaker 3: the arms are concerned. Some healthy arms in Bratall, Gradol
Speaker 3: In Brazier and Grove. Those are three guys right there.
Speaker 3: They can come in and help alleviate some of the
Speaker 3: stress on the Dodgers bullfit. Let's squeeze on one more
Speaker 3: call if we can. Let's go to James and North
Speaker 3: Hollywood be our final call to night. Thanks for being
Speaker 3: paid to James.
Speaker 9: How you doing, hey man?
Speaker 10: I mean, obviously not too good after that loss. I
Speaker 10: called in today just to you know, before it becomes
Speaker 10: Asian history, just to say that I thought that Ryan
Speaker 10: Yarborough for Kevin Kiermeyer is a bad move. We can
Speaker 10: have James Outman hit one ninety in play close to
Speaker 10: gold glove defense in center field for us, and with
Speaker 10: you know, pitching being such an uncertainty as far as
Speaker 10: guys staying healthy, I think that he has been invaluable
Speaker 10: to us. And they have two long guys, a lefty
Speaker 10: and Yarborough and a righty and Grove. When he comes back,
Speaker 10: I think is huge. But I want to talk about
Speaker 10: that raw raw factor that you said it's kind of
Speaker 10: hard to quantify. I have a theory about that. Let's
Speaker 10: get your take on it. I think when you're expected
Speaker 10: to do huge things because of the money, because of
Speaker 10: the moves that have been made by the front office,
Speaker 10: you're it's kind of like you got a vice gript
Speaker 10: around you. And I think maybe that's why we don't
Speaker 10: see as much raw rah when you're the underdog and
Speaker 10: you're chasing and you're fighting, you know, to take down
Speaker 10: the Kings, which are the Dodgers. Let's be honest. I
Speaker 10: think that we have to get that swagger back by
Speaker 10: simply saying, guys, it's an expanded postseason. The two best teams,
Speaker 10: meaning the team of the best record in each league.
Speaker 10: When have they faced off in the World Series. I
Speaker 10: think thirty percent of the time in the last ten years.
Speaker 10: So when you look at that and you know that
Speaker 10: nothing's guaranteed. You are the underdog when it goes into postseason,
Speaker 10: even if you got the best record. So I think that,
Speaker 10: you know, I don't think the Dodgers are resting on
Speaker 10: their laurels, are taking anything granted. But you got to
Speaker 10: act like you got a claw because that is what
Speaker 10: you have to do when you get into the postseason.
Speaker 4: Good point.
Speaker 10: I mean, what do you think about the raw rap
Speaker 10: factor and uh, you know that that vice gript pressure.
Speaker 4: That's that's a great point, James. I'm glad you brought
Speaker 4: that up.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get more into it on Dodger Talk tomorrow night,
Speaker 3: because that's a great point. When you are the one
Speaker 3: doing the hunting, you've got a little bit dog in
Speaker 3: you and you got a little bit of a fire
Speaker 3: in your belly to get to that person's spot, whether
Speaker 3: you're chasing them in the division or chasing them for
Speaker 3: a playoffs bot because you want to win a championship
Speaker 3: when you when you're at the top spot as often
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers are, you know, sometimes you guy to
Speaker 3: do a little extra to get up for a game
Speaker 3: just because you're so dominant.
Speaker 4: And that's that's a good problem to have, don't get
Speaker 4: me wrong.
Speaker 3: But when you're the Padres and you're chasing all the time,
Speaker 3: and you want to be the Dodgers, and you keep
Speaker 3: chasing and you're hunting, and you you want to have
Speaker 3: that dog in your belly, you know, you start catching
Speaker 3: up to the one you're chasing in the Dodgers, and
Speaker 3: you start beating them a little bit. It's time for
Speaker 3: the Dodgers to react. It's time for the Dodgers to
Speaker 3: then say uh and slap them back down, say nope, nope,
Speaker 3: this is our division. No, no, no, we're the ones
Speaker 3: they're gonna win this division. You're the ones that are hunting. No,
Speaker 3: get out of here. So that's an interesting take and
Speaker 3: I will get into it more on Dodger Talk tomorrow night,
Speaker 3: as the Dodgers are off in the Bay Area before
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Speaker 3: the Padres have owned the Dodgers the last two nights.
Speaker 3: Not to say the Dodgers can't turn things around, and
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a fun stretch in August and September
Speaker 3: as we get ready for postseason baseball. Hopefully the Dodgers
Speaker 3: get a little fire in their belly now after what
Speaker 3: happened on this road trip. Now one and four any
Speaker 3: combined one to eighty eight, sixty six strikeouts, eleven more tonight.
Speaker 3: Only three hits tonight for the Dodgers as the Padres
Speaker 3: winning by a final of eight to one. Dylan sees
Speaker 3: the wain Clayton Kershaw. The loss Dodgers a four and
Speaker 3: a half game lead in the division.
Speaker 4: Day off tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Then it's off to open for the final time ever,
Speaker 3: so they start a three game series Friday night against
Speaker 3: the A's. It'll be Gavin Stone in this series opener.
Speaker 3: Jack Flairy will make his Dodger debut on Saturday night,
Speaker 3: and then River Ryan will go on Sunday afternoon. Thanks
Speaker 3: to Colin ye, Thanks to you for listening, Thanks to
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