Speaker 1: God channeling is dinner clerk, get them dives makes the
Speaker 1: cat backhand sign, dusted off deck gold.
Speaker 2: Globe said, you want my spot, come and get it.
Speaker 3: Wanna take your shot? We're waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Think you're looking real hot, Come and get it.
Speaker 4: We're here.
Speaker 3: The road comes through La.
Speaker 5: Come get it. If you won't it, I got it.
Speaker 2: Do you think you can beat this team in a series?
Speaker 5: It best overall?
Speaker 3: Miss Dan Klass Padres. Fans can line up to kiss
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Speaker 5: You gotta do what I do if you won't my spot.
Speaker 6: Welcome to Dodgers on Deck. Now your host walking you
Speaker 6: up to first pitch. Tim Case, Hi.
Speaker 2: Everybody, and a happy Fourth of July.
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Speaker 1: pregame show. As your world champion Los Angeles Dodgers fifty
Speaker 1: six and thirty two on the season, first place atop
Speaker 1: the NL West as after a sweep of the White Sox.
Speaker 1: Rogers have now won four in a row, nine of
Speaker 1: their last ten, and tonight, the homestand continues with the
Speaker 1: start of a three game series against the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1: Ben Casparius on the mount of the series opener, first
Speaker 1: pitch from Dodger Stadium is coming up at six to ten.
Speaker 1: Between then and now, we got a lot to get to,
Speaker 1: including hearing from mister three thousand, Clayton Kershaw. Dv sits
Speaker 1: down with Clayton coming up in forty five minutes, we'll
Speaker 1: hear from the manager, Dave Roberts, the latest on the
Speaker 1: injury report. We'll dive deeper into this pitching matchup. We
Speaker 1: got your magical moment which you don't want to miss.
Speaker 1: Shortly we'll visit with Kirsten Watson and in just a few
Speaker 1: minutes we will head out to the Galpin Motors broadcast
Speaker 1: both on this fourth of July and checking with Steven
Speaker 1: Nelson and Rick Monday Well. Last night at the Ravine,
Speaker 1: somebody ordered a code red as Dustin May was dialed.
Speaker 2: In arguably his best start of this season.
Speaker 1: Seven plus innings, he allowed just two runs on four
Speaker 1: hits while striking out nine.
Speaker 2: Along the way.
Speaker 1: He had a perfect game through five innings that ended
Speaker 1: though in this six Brooks Baldwin broke it up with
Speaker 1: a single in the inning, and then Chase May in
Speaker 1: the eighth of the two run home run the Dodgers offense.
Speaker 1: They gave Dustin made plenty of run support. It was
Speaker 1: Freddy Freeman getting it going early in the first, after
Speaker 1: a leadoff walk to show Hey. Two batters later, Freddy
Speaker 1: Freeman the RBI double, Dodgers up one to nothing. In
Speaker 1: the third, again show Hey, a walk the lead off
Speaker 1: the Indian and air got Mookie bets aboard.
Speaker 2: That brought up Freddy.
Speaker 4: Now one to one, and Freeman hits it down the
Speaker 4: third baseline. Fair Oh, Tony's gonna come around and score.
Speaker 4: BET's motoring to third. He's gonna get waved around. That's
Speaker 4: to the plate. Here comes to throw, Mookie slides. Here
Speaker 4: is safe And in the second, safely is Freddy Freeman
Speaker 4: and the Dodgers lead it three and and up.
Speaker 2: It go with Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3: Folks, he's back.
Speaker 2: A two run double for Freddy, Dodgers, a three to
Speaker 2: one lead.
Speaker 1: That's the top tier play of the game, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Arco quality, top tier gas for less.
Speaker 2: Dodgers weren't done in the third.
Speaker 1: Three batters later, Michael Confordo put it one just inside
Speaker 1: the foul pull down the right field line, a two
Speaker 1: run home run, his seventh of the season. Dodgers a
Speaker 1: five to nothing lead after Dustin May was cruising. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers would add to their lead in the seventh. Mookie
Speaker 1: Bets up last the left.
Speaker 4: What's the best way to mentally approach a slump and
Speaker 4: working your way out of it? This way, Mookie Bets
Speaker 4: drills went deep till left failed head his back.
Speaker 7: That has gone home run.
Speaker 4: Number ten for Mookie Bets and the Dodgers lead at
Speaker 4: six nothing.
Speaker 3: That's how you do it.
Speaker 1: Solo blast for Mookie his tenth of the season, his
Speaker 1: first one and twenty one gamezo a solo shot off
Speaker 1: Tyler Gilbert, extending the lead to six to nothing.
Speaker 2: In the seventh.
Speaker 1: Dodgers go on and beat the White Sox last night
Speaker 1: six to two to finish off the three game sweep.
Speaker 1: Dodgers with the win, now fifty six and thirty two,
Speaker 1: nine games up on both the Giants and the Padres. Tonight,
Speaker 1: the homestead continues with the first to three against the
Speaker 1: cheat in Houston Astros, the team that stole the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen World Series from the Dodgers. Sure most of the
Speaker 1: players are gone and moved on, but we'll never forget Tonight.
Speaker 1: Bank is Sparius on the mound, first pitch at six ten,
Speaker 1: and with more we head out to the Gallpin Motors
Speaker 1: Broadcast booth on this fourth of July and say hello
Speaker 1: to Stephen Nelson and Rick Monday.
Speaker 8: Guys, Hey Tim, Happy fourth of July to you and
Speaker 8: everybody around Dodgers' Nation. Rick Monday, this is a special
Speaker 8: day in our countries, especially day in.
Speaker 5: Major League Baseball.
Speaker 8: There's just something about the fourth of July in this
Speaker 8: sport that makes it work.
Speaker 9: It goes together, and I think that everybody comes together
Speaker 9: on these days, you know, whether it be in stadiums,
Speaker 9: where to be at home, it doesn't really matter. And
Speaker 9: we're going to see a displaying of the military here today,
Speaker 9: presenting the largest flag you can possibly see. The national
Speaker 9: anthem is going to be here, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 9: really joint services will be presenting the flag on the field.
Speaker 9: And it's one of those moments that we're fortunate to
Speaker 9: live in a pretty darn good country and work.
Speaker 8: In an amazing place like Dodgers stated, where we are
Speaker 8: going to see what should be one heck of a
Speaker 8: baseball series.
Speaker 5: Malt.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers are the best record in Major League baseball.
Speaker 8: The Houston Astros tied for the third best mark in baseball,
Speaker 8: but Houston o'ver really over the last month has been
Speaker 8: the hottest team in Major League Baseball. Both teams dealing
Speaker 8: with injuries, so not one hundred percent for the Dodgers,
Speaker 8: obviously more so on the pitching side for the Astros.
Speaker 8: They've lost some key cogs in the lineup. But still
Speaker 8: when these two get together on the weekend like this.
Speaker 9: We're expecting fireworks. Yeah, and especially in the same train
Speaker 9: of fun are you talking about? If you look since
Speaker 9: the first of June, these are the top two teams
Speaker 9: in baseball as far as the records go. Astros twenty
Speaker 9: one and eight, Dodgers twenty and ten. And if we
Speaker 9: look at this Dodgers in recently, you know, nine games
Speaker 9: now in front in the Western Division, in front of
Speaker 9: both San Diego and San Francisco. And if you look
Speaker 9: at Houston, they have a seven game lead in front
Speaker 9: of the Seattle Mariners in the American League Western Division.
Speaker 9: So it is Dodger buckleb in a row, having won
Speaker 9: now fifteen to the last eighteen game.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty remarkable. They were tied to top
Speaker 2: the Nation League.
Speaker 8: In the middle of June, Dude fourteenth tiede and in
Speaker 8: less than a month nine games of separation. So look,
Speaker 8: you know the Dodgers finished at Gauntlet, and then they
Speaker 8: got to the softer spot of their schedule, right and
Speaker 8: they feasted the Nationals, the Rockies, the Royals, and sweeping
Speaker 8: the White Sox coming into this.
Speaker 5: That's what good teams do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think there's a sidelight to this series too,
Speaker 9: mostly in the minds of the fans more than the players,
Speaker 9: because if they have a history obviously in the World Series,
Speaker 9: in the history you know, the trash can routine and
Speaker 9: everything else, But there are very few players on either
Speaker 9: team that were there and up close and personal at
Speaker 9: that time. It's not out of the realm of possibility
Speaker 9: of the memory of as far as.
Speaker 3: The fans go.
Speaker 9: And we're going to hear it when jose Ol two
Speaker 9: we comes to home late, one would imagine. But let's
Speaker 9: not lose sight of the fact. These are two very
Speaker 9: talented teams and this is about who's going to win
Speaker 9: this three game series one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: Only four players, two on each side, remained for the
Speaker 8: twenty seventeen World Series and Josel to be the only
Speaker 8: position player. The other one tonight started for the Houston
Speaker 8: Nashos Lance mccullis.
Speaker 9: So those four they can growl back and forth to
Speaker 9: one another, but there's a baseball game to be.
Speaker 8: One and we can't wait for it. First pitch coming
Speaker 8: up in a little bit. We'll be back with you shortly,
Speaker 8: Tim with some keys.
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Speaker 1: We'll check in with DV throughout the show. We'll dive
Speaker 1: deeper into this pitching matchup. We'll hear from the manager
Speaker 1: as well, Dave Roberts. That's coming up in about fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: Ben Casparius goes for the Blue.
Speaker 1: Lance McCullers Junior, one of two remaining members of the
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Houston Astro's team.
Speaker 2: We all know what happened that year. First pitch, coming
Speaker 2: up to six ten.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Otani, last night zero for two at the play,
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Speaker 1: A big fireworks show after the game tonight at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the offense providing some fire works tonight as the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros are in town, Kirsten in anytime, Dodger fans here,
Speaker 1: Houston Astros, it's a bad reminder of twenty seventeen when
Speaker 1: they cheated their way to a World Series championship.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's definitely that bitter taste. How you kind of
Speaker 10: gain in your mouth when you say the Houston Astros.
Speaker 10: And I was asking, now, look, there's not many guys
Speaker 10: still on this team that were part of that twenty
Speaker 10: seventeen World Series. It's really just now Clayton Kusha and
Speaker 10: Keith ky Hernandez and of course Dave Roberts. But I
Speaker 10: was talking to Dave as well as Clayton earlier, just
Speaker 10: asking what is the feeling today. It's now twenty twenty five,
Speaker 10: so it has been some time. But ultimately, like you said,
Speaker 10: whenever we think of the Astros, you're immediately going back
Speaker 10: to that World Series, We're immediately going back to the
Speaker 10: cheating scandal, and there is that bitter feeling. And so
Speaker 10: with talking to Clayton, he was saying for him when
Speaker 10: you look at these teams today, So even on the
Speaker 10: Astros with their roster, they only have two players from
Speaker 10: that twenty seventeen World Series as well, so you can't
Speaker 10: look at them with quote like a hatreot of say,
Speaker 10: that's not a feeling, but there is just kind of
Speaker 10: that frustrating reminder of, you know, the Dodgers putting so
Speaker 10: much hard work to win the World Series that year,
Speaker 10: and unfortunately they weren't even in a position where they
Speaker 10: could have won it due to the cheating that had happened.
Speaker 10: So it's more of that feeling. And in I asked
Speaker 10: Dave Roberts, he was on the page of just it's
Speaker 10: not something they look at anymore. You know, again, the
Speaker 10: teams look so different today. It's not something they're thinking
Speaker 10: about going into this series. It's a good ball club
Speaker 10: they're looking to just of course, for the Dodgers to
Speaker 10: pick up a series win. They've been playing excellent baseball
Speaker 10: as of late, whether it's been the pitchings and the
Speaker 10: offense get going, so they want to continue with that. So,
Speaker 10: you know, look, it's something that's always going to be there.
Speaker 10: It's always going to be somewhere in the back of mine,
Speaker 10: but it is no longer top of mind for these guys.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the offense keeping it going. No Maximundsee for
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks, he had been red hot, hitting
Speaker 1: the ball on the ballpark. They need somebody or somebodies
Speaker 1: to pick up the slack. Kind of feels like Michael
Speaker 1: Confordo could be one of those guys.
Speaker 2: He absolutely could be.
Speaker 10: And that's what Dave Roberts was saying today. When you
Speaker 10: have a player like Max Munty, who you said he
Speaker 10: was getting hot at the plate, he was showing power
Speaker 10: even when you look at just the specific at bats,
Speaker 10: getting the pitch count up. He is an aggressive at bat,
Speaker 10: and so when you have a player like that, it's
Speaker 10: very challenging to replace him, even though, like you said,
Speaker 10: that's six to eight weeks timeline.
Speaker 2: So what does that.
Speaker 10: Mean the middle of the order is going to find
Speaker 10: I have to find ways to really get some things
Speaker 10: going to kind of replace that. So, whether it's Michael
Speaker 10: Conforto who for him. I spoke to him earlier. He
Speaker 10: was saying that he feels like he's really getting there.
Speaker 10: You know, he added a leg kick to a swing.
Speaker 10: He feels like he's on time and that's when he's
Speaker 10: been showing more power as of late, and for him
Speaker 10: that's a clear just connector that he is on time
Speaker 10: with his swing. So he's hoping that he can continue
Speaker 10: to just build off of that the momentum there. Andy
Speaker 10: pa Has is another name that Dave said that you
Speaker 10: know he's hoping to see kind of step up in
Speaker 10: that position as well as Taoscar Hernandez. And for Taosker,
Speaker 10: it's getting him back to that all start caliber that
Speaker 10: we know he is capable of being at. And so
Speaker 10: we did see him get his one thousandth career hit
Speaker 10: last night. So we're starting to see just the build
Speaker 10: up of different guys and so hopefully we can see
Speaker 10: the continuation because of course, like you said, with no maximunsay,
Speaker 10: that's a tough blow, but hopefully we can see these
Speaker 10: other guys really step up it kind of be the
Speaker 10: guy and be the filler that support their teammate while he's.
Speaker 1: Down, hopefully provide some fireworks on the field and then
Speaker 1: enjoy some fireworks.
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Speaker 2: We'll hear from the manager, Dave Roberts. It's the fourth
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Speaker 1: the left knee bone bruise, Michael Kopek on the i
Speaker 1: L with the right knee inflammation, Tony Gonsol on the
Speaker 1: sixty day IL. Tyler Glass, now working his way back,
Speaker 1: had another minor league rehab started in Oklahoma's city last night.
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Speaker 3: Questions for Dave Dave?
Speaker 5: Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the pressure.
Speaker 6: In the dugouts with Dave Roberts Dave.
Speaker 10: The twenty seventeen But is it something that is that
Speaker 10: world series, something that's still top of fine for you when.
Speaker 5: You see this tea things?
Speaker 11: Not at all. I think that certainly, you know, there's
Speaker 11: been some history with our organizations, but you know, if
Speaker 11: you look at in reality, you know most of those
Speaker 11: guys are gone. So I don't think that it certainly
Speaker 11: does have any bearing on this series this weekend. But
Speaker 11: I just yeah, that's a good ball club over there,
Speaker 11: and we're trying to win.
Speaker 4: We've ben today.
Speaker 3: What are you hoping to see from him?
Speaker 1: Just I know he was sick of.
Speaker 7: His last one.
Speaker 3: For him to get going and to.
Speaker 11: Have the actual start today, I think for Ben, he's
Speaker 11: back to feeling normal. What I'm looking for is just
Speaker 11: to get back to the crispness that he had, you
Speaker 11: know before the last few outings. I think that the
Speaker 11: fastball command, the cutter, the sweeper has just not been
Speaker 11: as crisp as as it was early. And so certainly, yeah,
Speaker 11: we're extending him out a little bit long or stretching
Speaker 11: them out, but getting back to being effishing and getting
Speaker 11: quick outs and it's not gonna be a pitch count thing.
Speaker 11: And just kind of give us some link today.
Speaker 9: Last year months he went out for a business Your
Speaker 9: replacements at third base did not approve your software.
Speaker 1: It was a drag on the offense.
Speaker 9: Thomas, what's the plan this Year's where going to be out?
Speaker 7: Said?
Speaker 5: At times?
Speaker 11: The plan right now is Tom He's going to start
Speaker 11: taking some grounders at third which he's done in the past.
Speaker 11: So sometime next week I'll run him out there at
Speaker 11: third base against right handed pitching to give Heysong some
Speaker 11: runway at second base verse right and then verse left.
Speaker 11: It's going to be a combo of Kik and Rojas
Speaker 11: at third base.
Speaker 1: All right, there's the manager, Dave Roberts talking about the plan.
Speaker 1: For third base moving forward. Max Monsey out with the
Speaker 1: bone bruise in the knee. Will we continue here on
Speaker 1: Dodgers on Deck. We will check in with David Vasse
Speaker 1: gets you all the latest. Don't forget Dave's going to
Speaker 1: go one on one with Clayton Kershaw. That's coming up
Speaker 1: in about twenty five minutes. As we lead up to
Speaker 1: first pitch on this fourth of July, Dodgers and the
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Speaker 2: The pitching matchup, first pitch set for six.
Speaker 6: Ten, joining Tim Kates on Dodgers on Deck.
Speaker 3: I accept everybody for who they are.
Speaker 5: This is Dodger inside there, David Basse.
Speaker 1: All right, DVI, we just heard from the manager, Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1: What's the feeling you're getting as far as the plan
Speaker 1: now with third base and Tommy Edmund how much starts
Speaker 1: he's gonna get there?
Speaker 3: Yeah. I talked to the Dodgers GM earlier today Brandan Gomes,
Speaker 3: and they're very comfortable with the trio that they're going
Speaker 3: to have over there at the hot corner. While Max
Speaker 3: Munsey is coming back from a left knee bone bruise today,
Speaker 3: Keith a Hernandez yesterday, Miguel Rojas, and you're going to
Speaker 3: see a lot of Tommy Edmond at third base, especially
Speaker 3: against right handed pitching. And look, I don't know when
Speaker 3: his first day is going to be at third base.
Speaker 3: That plan may change between now and the time that
Speaker 3: it happens. But today was the first day that Tommy
Speaker 3: Edmund took ground balls at third base, and he wasn't
Speaker 3: just taking the normal easy grounders. He was having Pete
Speaker 3: Montero hit him some choppers, some in between balls, and
Speaker 3: he told me today those are the ones that he
Speaker 3: has to get used to. And he hasn't flinched. When
Speaker 3: I was talking to him after he was done today,
Speaker 3: he didn't flinch about playing there. He's pretty confident he
Speaker 3: can handle it.
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Speaker 1: for America from a Mayria. Ben Casparius gets the start tonight, David,
Speaker 1: is this a legitimate start or is he an opener?
Speaker 2: What's the plan?
Speaker 3: Last night after the game, Dave Roberts said, there's no
Speaker 3: pitch limit. They're gonna just read and react. But you
Speaker 3: have to imagine there are certain limits on how many
Speaker 3: pitches he'll be able to throw, because I know he's
Speaker 3: come in to throw bulk innings after Otani, but I
Speaker 3: can't see him throwing more than eighty pitches tonight. And
Speaker 3: here's something that I'm not sure we all appreciate. Ben
Speaker 3: Casparius has been outstanding, whether it has been pitching multiple
Speaker 3: innings at the back end of a game, pitching middle
Speaker 3: relief coming in after Otani. But here he is now
Speaker 3: in a different type of setting, starting a game, and
Speaker 3: that's something that he really wanted an opportunity to do
Speaker 3: at this level. But I've talked to some people around
Speaker 3: the game and even on the team that have said
Speaker 3: he might be the most valuable for the Dodgers being
Speaker 3: a high leverage late inning reliever. And once you get
Speaker 3: Snell back and Glass now back, and maybe Roki Sazaki,
Speaker 3: You're not going to have a spot in the rotation
Speaker 3: for him, so eventually in the second half of the
Speaker 3: season he may turn out to be that Evan Phillips
Speaker 3: type of guy for the Dodgers down the stretch and
Speaker 3: into the postseason.
Speaker 1: I love that. Recently, Kirby Yates caught a home run
Speaker 1: ball from show Hey Otani on the Last Road Show.
Speaker 2: What did he do with the baseball?
Speaker 3: David, Yeah, he caught it. When Otani hit that home
Speaker 3: run into the Dodger bullpen at Corp's Field. He caught
Speaker 3: it clean, and I had a fan ask me, Tim,
Speaker 3: what does he do with the baseball? Does he get
Speaker 3: it signed by Otani? Does he get it authenticated? What
Speaker 3: does he do with it? He said, All I did
Speaker 3: was give it to our bullpen coach, Josh Bard and
Speaker 3: get a brand new one so I could start warming
Speaker 3: up to come into the game. Though, he gave away
Speaker 3: an Otani home run ball to his bullpen coach, and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure where that baseball is now.
Speaker 1: Somebody needs to update him on the memorabilia market, David,
Speaker 1: and how much of otani baseball could be worth out
Speaker 1: there or just for a personal collection of course as
Speaker 1: a teammate of show. Hey O TONI, David, we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: We'll check back with you in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: David's gonna go one on one with Clayton Kershaw. That's
Speaker 1: coming up at about sixteen minutes. Don't go anywhere, Dodger
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Speaker 1: Is we honor the birthday of our great country, the
Speaker 1: United States of America and a great American himself, our
Speaker 1: own Rick Monday. On April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 1: he was a member of the Chicago Cubs at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium taking on the Dodgers when two knuckleheads came out
Speaker 1: of the pavilion and tried to light the American flag
Speaker 1: on fire. Rick Monday, American hero, wasn't gonna let it happen.
Speaker 7: Sie Moore fouled out in the first inning. He's over
Speaker 7: one and the first one outside bow one And wait
Speaker 7: a minute, there's an animal loose. Two of them all right,
Speaker 7: I'm not sure what he's doing out there. It looks
Speaker 7: like he's gonna burn a flag. And Rick Monday runs
Speaker 7: and takes it away from him. And so Monday, I
Speaker 7: think a guy was gonna set fire to the American plague.
Speaker 7: Can you imagine that? So they better lose him in
Speaker 7: a hurry. And Monday, when he realized what he was
Speaker 7: gonna do, race comer and took the flag away from him.
Speaker 7: And now the crowd is doing what they want to
Speaker 7: do all the time. Who one of these characters for
Speaker 7: this guy was gonna try and perform the indignity of
Speaker 7: shutting fire to the American flag. And Rick we'll get
Speaker 7: an ovation and properly so.
Speaker 1: The great Van Scully with the play by play of
Speaker 1: Rick Monday. He was an outfielder, but right there it
Speaker 1: made a great save of the American flag from being burned.
Speaker 1: At Dodger Stadium, April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six. Moe's
Speaker 1: gonna throw out the first pitch here coming up in
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Speaker 3: Well, we got mister first pitch in the house, and
Speaker 3: rightfully so, the Dodgers picked the right man on fourth
Speaker 3: of July to throw out today's ceremonial first pitch, and
Speaker 3: that is our one and only Rick Monday. What an
Speaker 3: honor on fourth of July.
Speaker 9: Rick, do you have the ice bucket ready?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: You know, I'm gonna have to ice down afterwards.
Speaker 3: I think you've got something left in the town.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, I have not thrown a baseball in what
Speaker 9: six years? Something like that.
Speaker 3: We could have played catch.
Speaker 9: What position did you play in high school?
Speaker 3: Right field?
Speaker 9: Right field? Yeah, no, I heard it was left out.
Speaker 3: I was a defensive replacement. I'll put it that way.
Speaker 9: Happy fourth of July. Also, you know, this is a
Speaker 9: time that I think we can kind of get together
Speaker 9: and we can use that right now, I think in
Speaker 9: our country and you start to look at it. I
Speaker 9: talked to a couple of Marines coming in today here
Speaker 9: at the stadium to have you. One hundred and fifty
Speaker 9: Joint Services would be presenting the extra large American flag
Speaker 9: for the national anthem. This is a time for all
Speaker 9: of us kind of reflect on how how lucky we
Speaker 9: are to be be in this country. There's a lot
Speaker 9: of things that we can improve upon, and that's the
Speaker 9: goal to improve upon things. But you know, thank goodness,
Speaker 9: we're here and we can do something about it.
Speaker 3: Rick, you've thrown out a lot of ceremonial first pitches.
Speaker 3: Have you ever thrown one out on fourth of July?
Speaker 9: Not that I recall, no, No, I have yet to
Speaker 9: throw strike also all the time. It's kind of net
Speaker 9: when they contacted me to the day asad s you're out,
Speaker 9: I'll do it. You know, it's really kind of strange,
Speaker 9: be totally honest. Here played nineteen years of the Big leagues,
Speaker 9: played over two thousand games. Right, Throwing out first pitch
Speaker 9: is tough, and you can feel the palpitation is going
Speaker 9: because the expectations are there. And the one thing that
Speaker 9: they always tell us and we tell other people too,
Speaker 9: don't bounce it. You can throw it ten feet over
Speaker 9: the catcher's head, but don't bounce it.
Speaker 3: And that's why it's okay to go to the bottom
Speaker 3: of the hill, right rick the very very bottom. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's okay.
Speaker 9: Well I look at it this way. I look at
Speaker 9: it since you have pictures that are on the injured
Speaker 9: list and they're rehabbing, they throw off a flat ground. Yeah,
Speaker 9: well that's what little Ricky's going to do tonight, throw
Speaker 9: off a flat ground.
Speaker 3: I love that. Get the hill, perfect, perfect pick on
Speaker 3: fourth of July. A lot of times they don't get
Speaker 3: it right. Tonight they got it right here at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 3: And the Dodgers have been doing a lot of things
Speaker 3: right lately, and.
Speaker 9: I think that that's the big mood. I mean, having
Speaker 9: won fifteen of the last eighteen, they really turned it on.
Speaker 9: If you're looking back, you know, if you say June first,
Speaker 9: I mean both of these ball clubs. For a matter
Speaker 9: of fact, because since the first of June, these are
Speaker 9: the top two teams David in Major League Baseball. As
Speaker 9: far as the records. The Astros are twenty one to eight,
Speaker 9: Dodgers are twenty and ten and Dodgers having one now
Speaker 9: fifteen of eighteen. I mean there's a lot going on. Yes,
Speaker 9: there's a history between these two organizations. In the World
Speaker 9: Series a number of years ago. There's only four players,
Speaker 9: two on one side, two on the other that were
Speaker 9: even part of that. So remember it. The players, it's
Speaker 9: a Bowl game to win, and that's that's their goal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird how the Yankees bring something out of
Speaker 3: Dodger fans, but the Astros now moving forward, will always
Speaker 3: have that stigma attached to that.
Speaker 9: Well, the Yankees don't always just bring it out of
Speaker 9: the fans either. Pouthflet me tell you something. Yeah, we've
Speaker 9: already talked about this. It gets uh, yeah, it gets
Speaker 9: the hard to be going on this end too.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, still does.
Speaker 3: It feels like you got the edge for this first pitch.
Speaker 9: Rick, Well, you have to. You have to, So get
Speaker 9: the ice bucket ready. I'll brib what we need the
Speaker 9: ice down afterwards.
Speaker 3: Sounds good. I'll get some icy hot for you too.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 3: Hey, there's the man right there save the American flag
Speaker 3: here at Dodgers Stadium in nineteen seventy six, playing for
Speaker 3: the Chicago Cubs. Our very own number sixteen, Rick Monday
Speaker 3: throwing out the fourth of July ceremonial first pitch. We'll
Speaker 3: send it back to you in the studio.
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Speaker 3: And tight, Happy fourth of July. And what says fourth
Speaker 3: of July more than a man that has spent eighteen
Speaker 3: fourth of July's with the Dodgers. That's mister three thousand
Speaker 3: to himself, Clayton Kershaw with this dad bucket hat the
Speaker 3: players will be wearing today. Thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 3: Happy fourth.
Speaker 12: It's kind of like a dad bucket hat.
Speaker 3: Huh, yeah, this is very you. Why just because I'm
Speaker 3: a dad. Yeah, you wear these type of things with
Speaker 3: the rope on it too.
Speaker 12: I don't know about the rope thing, but it is
Speaker 12: definitely a dad hat.
Speaker 2: So I'll rock it.
Speaker 4: I'll rock it.
Speaker 3: I did like the Rams hat you were sporting after
Speaker 3: the start in Denver.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm a Rams guy now. So ever since Matthew
Speaker 12: got there. You know, they won a Super Bowl, so
Speaker 12: it looks like bandwagon. But yeah, ever since Matthew got there,
Speaker 12: I'm a Ram fan.
Speaker 3: I've never heard the connection between you and Stafford before.
Speaker 3: Oh you want that story? Hey two days later, now
Speaker 3: you've been celebrated so much around baseball in LA. How
Speaker 3: does it feel after you've been able to get through
Speaker 3: all that? Oh, it's so special.
Speaker 12: I mean I think that night, you know, obviously I'd
Speaker 12: like to have given up a few less runs and
Speaker 12: strike out the guy a little sooner. But you know,
Speaker 12: looking back on the whole night and everything that happened,
Speaker 12: it was so special, such a great night for my family,
Speaker 12: for me, and you know, obviously the fans reaction that
Speaker 12: whole night and just how they you know, you kind
Speaker 12: of just felt the tension that they had for me
Speaker 12: to figure this thing out get a strikeout finally, So
Speaker 12: just wouldn't have changed it for the world, just to
Speaker 12: blast so grateful for the night. And you know, I
Speaker 12: think you're slowly starting to move on, get past it
Speaker 12: and try to look forward to facing the Brewers and
Speaker 12: get that three thousand and first one.
Speaker 3: You don't really show any sort of self importance. Were
Speaker 3: you surprised by how much the fans cared about you
Speaker 3: reaching that milestone? Yeah?
Speaker 12: I think so. I mean I think, you know, from
Speaker 12: even just the warm ups before the game to you know,
Speaker 12: running back out for the sixth inning. There it was.
Speaker 12: It was definitely more than I expected it was. It
Speaker 12: was a very unique experience. It was awesome, awesome.
Speaker 3: I was doing Dodger talk upstairs while you came out
Speaker 3: after the game and the grounds crew started to dig
Speaker 3: up the pitching rubber. Was that on your request or
Speaker 3: did they do that as a gift to you?
Speaker 12: No, I didn't know they were doing that, So yeah,
Speaker 12: really nice of Jordan and all the guys to dig
Speaker 12: that up for me, and thanks heavy man. It's it's
Speaker 12: it's no small feet to get that thing out. It
Speaker 12: took them five hours the next day to put the
Speaker 12: next one down, So labor of love for sure, but
Speaker 12: thankful to have it. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: What do you do with the pitching rubber? Where were
Speaker 3: you put that in the trophy case?
Speaker 12: Great question. I'm not sure yet. I don't know, but
Speaker 12: it's a great story, so I'll keep it somewhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clayton Kershaw is our guest on fourth of July.
Speaker 3: You know, Clayton, when you look at this team, you
Speaker 3: guys have the best record again by two games over
Speaker 3: the Tigers. Do you feel like there's a lot more
Speaker 3: room to go as far as playing your best baseball?
Speaker 12: You know, I think it's probably twofold. I think we
Speaker 12: are playing good baseball right now, I really do. You know,
Speaker 12: we're winning games we're supposed to. We're getting great comebacks,
Speaker 12: playing like clean baseball. You know, starters are getting some
Speaker 12: length into the games and so it kind of sets
Speaker 12: up the bullpen to do their role as well. And
Speaker 12: guys are getting big hits.
Speaker 3: But to your point.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think when we get some more guys back,
Speaker 12: you know, obviously months going down for you know, the
Speaker 12: six weeks or whatever is a tough blow. But you know,
Speaker 12: when when Snell's back, when Glasses back, when Trina's back,
Speaker 12: and get that pitching staff to one hundred percent or
Speaker 12: close to it, it's, uh, we should be able to
Speaker 12: keep winning games. And that's uh, that's an exciting thing
Speaker 12: to think about.
Speaker 3: The bullpen has already pitched those innings. Is there any
Speaker 3: way to compensate in the second half for the load
Speaker 3: they have shouldered the first half? Yes?
Speaker 12: And no, I mean I think, you know, I think
Speaker 12: with the opener situation, the bullpen innings get skewed a
Speaker 12: little bit, right because the bullpen, you know, the bulk
Speaker 12: guys are getting five or six six innings. That looks
Speaker 12: like it's the bullpen innings. But you know, the guys
Speaker 12: that have been healthy for the whole year, like Tanner,
Speaker 12: Vest some of these guys, Jack and Benny, some of
Speaker 12: the guys that have had big workloads. I think, I
Speaker 12: think there's ways to manage it. And but no, I mean,
Speaker 12: at the end of the day, they're gonna throw in
Speaker 12: big situations because those are our guys. It's just a
Speaker 12: matter of you know, getting a little more consistency in
Speaker 12: the starting rotation. And I think you're starting to see
Speaker 12: that too. I think guys are going, you know, six
Speaker 12: seven innings recently, which has been nice. And that's the
Speaker 12: biggest way to reset the pen is just for guys
Speaker 12: to get a little bit deeper in the games.
Speaker 3: How much do we take for granted this offense best
Speaker 3: in baseball, but it still feels like there might be
Speaker 3: a little bit more, which is kind of scary.
Speaker 12: Yeah, best, I think you said it the right way.
Speaker 12: I think there's a there's room for let me say
Speaker 12: it this way. Our offense is doing well and everybody
Speaker 12: swung the bat well at times, but I don't know
Speaker 12: if everybody swung the bat well at.
Speaker 3: The same time.
Speaker 12: So once that happens, that's a scary thing. And that's
Speaker 12: hard to do throughout the rhythms of a season, to
Speaker 12: have everybody swinging the bats well at the same time.
Speaker 12: But you know, once once everybody gets going, which you
Speaker 12: know they will, it's a it's a scary thing to
Speaker 12: think about.
Speaker 3: You've taken a lot of pride out of being consistent
Speaker 3: in your career. How much do we take for granted
Speaker 3: how consistent Freddie Freeman has been for the Dodgers, not
Speaker 3: only this year, but in his career. Does he get
Speaker 3: lost in the shuffle because he's so consistent? Yeah? Maybe so.
Speaker 12: I mean I think you know, at the beginning of
Speaker 12: the season, you know, you pencil Freddy in first base
Speaker 12: every day and say, oh, he's going to hit three hundred,
Speaker 12: his ops is going to be nine hundred, He's going
Speaker 12: to do all this play every day, and you just
Speaker 12: kind of pencil that in and expect it, like you
Speaker 12: don't realize that that elite level of play.
Speaker 3: Is not easy to do every day.
Speaker 12: So yeah, I mean, I think I think you expected
Speaker 12: out of Freddy, And that's why the expectations make it
Speaker 12: seem that like, hey, this is just kind of home
Speaker 12: home what he does. But for him to continue to
Speaker 12: do it at the level that he is is it's
Speaker 12: an elite thing. It's a special thing that very few
Speaker 12: people can do in the game, and so it's nice
Speaker 12: to have.
Speaker 8: For sure.
Speaker 3: Since he was counting down to three thousand for you,
Speaker 3: can I be your sirra Ando here to help you
Speaker 3: count down as far as doubles go because he's climbed
Speaker 3: a lot of Hall of Famers this year and he's
Speaker 3: just four away from passing Lou Garrick for the forty
Speaker 3: second most doubles in baseball history. Should I feed you
Speaker 3: the doubles stats as we go through the season.
Speaker 12: And if we start playing that game with hits and
Speaker 12: doubles with Freddy, we might be doing that every day
Speaker 12: with something. So it's just a testament to him. But
Speaker 12: that's a big name, lu Garry, that's special.
Speaker 3: Hey Clayton, it's been a pleasure to be with you
Speaker 3: for fourteen fourth of July's and just see how much
Speaker 3: work you put in. I feel like that's the reason
Speaker 3: why everybody was so happy for you, because you respect
Speaker 3: the game. You put in so much work, and you
Speaker 3: treat everybody really well. So you even treat slubs like
Speaker 3: me pretty well on the radio. So thank you.
Speaker 12: Well, you forced me to do this one today, so
Speaker 12: I had no choice.
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Speaker 3: We'll do that later. I'll sign you up, all right,
Speaker 3: Happy fourth day. There he goes Clayton Kershaw. It's been
Speaker 3: our guest, Tim. We'll send it back to you in
Speaker 3: the studio.
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you DV. Great to hear Clayton Kershaw.
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Speaker 1: All right, back out to the booth, Steven Nelson, Rick Monday, guys.
Speaker 8: All right, TC, back here with Rick Monday getting ready
Speaker 8: for Game one of three for the Dodgers and Houston Astros.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers rolling right now. They've won seven series in
Speaker 8: a row. They have taken nine of the last ten
Speaker 8: fifteen of eighteen, eighteen to twenty three. You can go
Speaker 8: on or on. They've been playing good baseball, but they're
Speaker 8: running into one of the hottest teams, or the hottest
Speaker 8: team rather in the American League in Houston. Somehow, some way,
Speaker 8: despite all the roster turnover between these two organizations since
Speaker 8: they met in the World Series back in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 8: they have found ways to stay atop.
Speaker 9: Their respective division. Yeah, and both these organizations have expectations
Speaker 9: to win there. There's just now to you know, collect
Speaker 9: the base hits and they do well in their division. No,
Speaker 9: they want to get to the big dance that being
Speaker 9: the World Series. So the Dodgers have been Casparius. The
Speaker 9: big thing about Casparius, you know, when we saw him
Speaker 9: Saturday in Kansas City, he was really under the weather.
Speaker 9: He went four innings. Yes, he gave up six runs
Speaker 9: on eight hits, including a home run. But Dave Robbers
Speaker 9: asked about Casparius little earlier, said, look, he's healthy today.
Speaker 9: They want him to be more efficient, in particular with
Speaker 9: the breaking stuff, and there is not a pitch count
Speaker 9: on Casparius today. They want to lengthen him out a
Speaker 9: little bit more if they can.
Speaker 8: What are another key or two that are on your mind?
Speaker 9: Well, I think against the mcculors. The Dodgers have seen
Speaker 9: him in postseason play, that's it the best. And mcculors
Speaker 9: have been really good on the road three starts. He's
Speaker 9: making his ninth start overall tonight. Three of those had
Speaker 9: been on the road. He does not have an ERA
Speaker 9: at all, is not allowed to run on the road.
Speaker 9: One and zero with a very low banning average against
Speaker 9: away from his own ballpark.
Speaker 8: So what we'll give two hot teams and two pitchers
Speaker 8: coming off clunkers. We will find out in a matter
Speaker 8: of moments. Game one in pitch one for the Dodgers
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