Speaker 1: One thing about this gene is the invisible and tangibles
Speaker 1: that they have. This team is really becoming a family.
Speaker 2: Let's not play one on Tom. Let's wind it.
Speaker 3: I love letting these guys after the show. So just
Speaker 3: thank you, give me are.
Speaker 4: Your attention, your fire and not a pisson.
Speaker 5: This is world champion, Dodger, world champion.
Speaker 6: Put a small soft.
Speaker 4: Time they get up people.
Speaker 6: What they want to.
Speaker 4: Die in a row two is special. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not a headache one of them. This ball's gone.
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Speaker 7: Kershaw looking like vintage Clayton Kershaw as he is one
Speaker 7: step closer to three thousand strikeouts. Hi, everybody, and welcome
Speaker 7: to postgame Dodger Talk here on a five seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 7: The phone lines are wide open. Eight sixty six, nine
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Speaker 7: Let's talk from Dodger Baseball eight sixty six, nine eighty
Speaker 7: seven to two five seventy Dodgers salvage the finale of
Speaker 7: this three game series in Saint Louis with a seven
Speaker 7: to three win. They scored early, gave Clayton Kershaw elite
Speaker 7: to work with, and he was fantastic for five innings,
Speaker 7: one run, six hits, seven strikeouts, no walks, eighty two
Speaker 7: pitches fifty two for strikes. He got first pitch strikes
Speaker 7: on thirteen of the twenty one batters that he faced.
Speaker 4: He has now got two thousand, nine hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: three strikeouts in his Hall of Fame career.
Speaker 7: Wasn't a math major at UCLA, but I can tell
Speaker 7: you that is seventeen strikeouts away from three thousand in
Speaker 7: his career today, passing his former teammate Zach Grank for
Speaker 7: twentieth all time on the strikeout list. John Smoltz is
Speaker 7: the next guy in front of him. It's gonna be
Speaker 7: hard to catch Smoltze. He is ninety nine strikeouts away
Speaker 7: from John Smoltz. First things first, he's got to get
Speaker 7: to three thousand, which he is on track to do
Speaker 7: this season. But today, overall, his performance was fantastic. Five innings,
Speaker 7: the one run, the six hits that he scattered. He
Speaker 7: had a great third inning in which he came out
Speaker 7: with a one two three inning of Paris strikeouts. That's
Speaker 7: where he passed Zach Ranking to get into the twentieth
Speaker 7: spot all time.
Speaker 4: Had some traffic on.
Speaker 7: The bass pass in the fourth and fifth inning, give
Speaker 7: up a run with a two out double in the
Speaker 7: fifth to Mason win. But overall was very effective, and
Speaker 7: he was effective because he was able to get his
Speaker 7: austby pitches over for strikes and get swinging misses from
Speaker 7: the Saint Louis Cardinals. Today, you know, if there was
Speaker 7: ever an example in Major League Baseball for not having
Speaker 7: to throw one hundred miles an hour and v low
Speaker 7: and what what is a guy gonna do? How hard
Speaker 7: he can throw to get a past the guy and
Speaker 7: just go out there and chuck and be a thrower
Speaker 7: rather than a pitcher.
Speaker 4: Well we saw that for years.
Speaker 7: Greg Maddox the ultimate example of a sitting ninety one,
Speaker 7: ninety two, ninety three painting the quarters using your offspeed pitches,
Speaker 7: your change up to keep guys off balanced. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 7: has evolved into the second half of his career as
Speaker 7: a different pitcher and today when everything working, it was
Speaker 7: fantastic to see. It was like an artist on the
Speaker 7: mound today. In Clayton Kershaw one time he threw ninety
Speaker 7: one and a half miles per hour, he was averaging
Speaker 7: eighty nine and a half.
Speaker 4: Miles per hour on his fastball.
Speaker 7: That was It wasn't pumping at past guys didn't have
Speaker 7: the v low, didn't have this spin raid. He just
Speaker 7: went out there and carved dudes up with his offspeed pitches.
Speaker 7: He had fifteen called strikes, twelve swinging strikes in this game.
Speaker 7: He was fantastic with his curveball and his slider. As
Speaker 7: they say, he had bite on his off speed pitches.
Speaker 7: He had that old Clayton Kershaw twelve to six curveball
Speaker 7: that was so vintage ten years ago that he got
Speaker 7: guys just to swing and miss with and punch them out.
Speaker 7: Today throwing eighty nine ninety miles an hour paint in
Speaker 7: the corners, and when you're throwing eighty nine to ninety
Speaker 7: it looks faster when you're throwing your offspeed pitches for
Speaker 7: strikes and you're getting swinging missus from pitches out of
Speaker 7: the strike zone. The Cardinals didn't do themselves any favors
Speaker 7: by swinging at pitches, lowing the strike zone out of
Speaker 7: the strike zone and helping out Clayton Kershaw. But his
Speaker 7: stuff was on point today for the Dodgers. And you
Speaker 7: heard him in the postgame. You heard Dave Roberts in
Speaker 7: the postgame, you heard Will Smith in the postgame with
Speaker 7: David Vasse on the field. All three of them said
Speaker 7: the same thing. The command was there, his off speed
Speaker 7: pitches were there, and when he pitches like it he
Speaker 7: did today five solid innings, gives up one run, scatters
Speaker 7: six hits, a little bit of traffic on the base pass,
Speaker 7: but he can get punch outs and swinging misses.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what the Dodgers need in this rotation.
Speaker 7: You can have your one hundred mile an hour chucker
Speaker 7: out there, you can take your ninety nine mile an
Speaker 7: hour thrower out there who get to give you three
Speaker 7: innings and just throw as hard as he can for
Speaker 7: as long as the arm's gonna last. I'll take Clayton
Speaker 7: Kershaw and an artist, a pitcher, a guy who can
Speaker 7: go out there and work hitters and give you five
Speaker 7: solid any day of the week. And that's what he
Speaker 7: gave the Dodgers today. And that's exactly what they needed,
Speaker 7: the bullpen came in. Lu Trevino gave up a run.
Speaker 7: Jack Dryer gave up a run. But how about the
Speaker 7: back end of the bullpen. This is what we thought
Speaker 7: when the Dodgers this offseason went out and acquired Tanner,
Speaker 7: Scott and Kirby Yates, that this back end the bullpen
Speaker 7: high leverage or leivers would look like. Now, certainly, Evan Phillips,
Speaker 7: we thought we'd be part of the pitcher But having Yates,
Speaker 7: Scott Kopek to pitch the final two and a third
Speaker 7: innings for you is basically how in my mind I
Speaker 7: thought the Dodgers back end the bullpen would look like
Speaker 7: from the seventh inning on or the eighth inning on.
Speaker 4: And today that's what we saw.
Speaker 7: Kirby Yates coming in getting the final out, Tanner Scott
Speaker 7: pitching the eighth, Michael Kopek needing nine pitches including a
Speaker 7: strikeout to get the final three outs of the game.
Speaker 7: That's how I envisioned this Dodgers' bullpen. And as we
Speaker 7: sit here on June the eighth, David June the eighth,
Speaker 7: finally we're seeing a healthy bullpen and these veteran high
Speaker 7: leverage relievers ready to go for the Dodgers, and you
Speaker 7: add in a Jack Dryer, an emerging Luke Trevino of
Speaker 7: ben Kisparius with an Alex Vesia look out, because this bullpen,
Speaker 7: this bullpen's now ready to go knock on wood. They
Speaker 7: can stay healthy and these arms can stay fresh and
Speaker 7: not be overused and taxed. This bullpen is ready and primed.
Speaker 7: Here on June the eighth, David, as they get ready
Speaker 7: to go into San Diego, And oh yeah, how fired
Speaker 7: up are you Dodger fans for this three game series
Speaker 7: against the Padres. Don't think that it doesn't mean anything,
Speaker 7: this three game series. It means a lot, because the
Speaker 7: Dodgers have a one game lead over the Padres and
Speaker 7: the Giants in the NL West. And to go into
Speaker 7: San Diego, get some separation, get to a three heck,
Speaker 7: to sweep a three game series would be tremendous. But
Speaker 7: to get a little separation, a little confidence, and just
Speaker 7: a little reminder to the guys in San Diego that
Speaker 7: the Dodgers are the best team in the NL West,
Speaker 7: that would be fantastic. This is a little reminder to
Speaker 7: guys like Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network and the
Speaker 7: Charger broadcast who will probably be at those games because
Speaker 7: he's a Padre season ticket holder. How big this series
Speaker 7: is gonna be. Yeah, I'll go ahead and say it.
Speaker 7: It's a rivalry. It has turned into a twenty first
Speaker 7: century rivalry. Sure, it doesn't have the history of New
Speaker 7: York and coming out West at the same time with
Speaker 7: the Giants, But this is a rivalry. This isn't the
Speaker 7: Diamondbacks who are trying to create a rivalry. Dodgers Padres,
Speaker 7: in my mind, is a current, present day rivalry. And
Speaker 7: they've played each other for many years in the Western
Speaker 7: Division of the National League, but with the emergence of
Speaker 7: what Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Junior and the winning
Speaker 7: culture down in San Diego which they have built absolutely
Speaker 7: in Petco Park, and spending money in off seasons and
Speaker 7: all those off season trophies they have for winning the
Speaker 7: off season, which are just starting to collect, aren't they,
Speaker 7: Daniel Huh. The Dodgers and Padres is a fantastic rivalry
Speaker 7: in current day baseball, current day baseball, and I'm here
Speaker 7: for it because I can't wait for the next three days.
Speaker 7: And while the Dodgers go in with a healthy bullpen
Speaker 7: now and a roster that is pretty much healthy. Their
Speaker 7: starting rotation is anything but healthy going into San Diego
Speaker 7: with Tony Gonsolin now back on the injured list, it's
Speaker 7: Dustin May, TBD, and Justin Robleski pitching for the Dodge Now.
Speaker 7: Just a reminder for all those Padre fans when you
Speaker 7: look at who you've got set up, and thanks to
Speaker 7: DJ for sending me the three starting pitchers in this series,
Speaker 7: Nick Pavetta, Dylan Ceese, and Randy Vasquez Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Speaker 7: at Petco Park for the Padres.
Speaker 4: Oh, they set it up so Pavetta would start against
Speaker 4: the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: They set this up a week ago plus with their rotation,
Speaker 7: to set it up that their best three pitchers would
Speaker 7: be ready to go. And they're banged up as well
Speaker 7: their rotation, No you, Darvish, Michael.
Speaker 4: King is out.
Speaker 7: They're banged up as well. The Dodgers' rotations banged up.
Speaker 7: So it's equal footing in my mind going into this
Speaker 7: series as much as it can be. I guess with
Speaker 7: Dustin May, Justin Robleski and a TBD set to go
Speaker 7: for the Dodgers, you think about the Dodgers' rotation right now,
Speaker 7: three fifths of their starter are out.
Speaker 4: I just like to remind everybody of that.
Speaker 7: When you panic in the Dodgers lost two to three
Speaker 7: to the Saint Louis Cardinals, keep in mind Rokie, Sasaki,
Speaker 7: Tyler Glass Now, and Blake Snell are all hurt. Three
Speaker 7: fifth year rotation are hurt right now. You're relying on
Speaker 7: Justin Robleski, You're relying on Land and Knack, You're relying
Speaker 7: on bullpen games to get you through this. And a
Speaker 7: thirty seven year old Clayton Kershaw who shouldn't be one
Speaker 7: of your one to two starters in this rotation. He
Speaker 7: is a four or five starter in a healthy Dodgers rotation,
Speaker 7: and there's no shame in that for what he can
Speaker 7: then bring on the back end of a rotation when
Speaker 7: you have Snell, Sasaki, Yamamoto, Glass now all ahead of you.
Speaker 7: But as it is, the Dodgers banged up and they're
Speaker 7: relying on bullpens and guys who are taxing back and
Speaker 7: forth on Southwest airlines between LA in Oklahoma City. Eight
Speaker 7: sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number.
Speaker 7: Let's get out to the phones. Thanks for being very patient.
Speaker 7: I appreciate that. Dodgers get the win on this Sunday,
Speaker 7: a seven to three victory over the Saint Louis Cardinals
Speaker 7: as Tommy Edmond drives in three. Dodgers get the victory
Speaker 7: and Clayton Kershaw well one step closer to punching his
Speaker 7: ticket to Cooper sound, Greg and Corona start things off
Speaker 7: here on this Sunday edition to Dodgers talk.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Greg?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 6: Case?
Speaker 8: You didn't leave much of us much for us to
Speaker 8: talk about.
Speaker 7: There's still some meat on that bone, Greg, There's still
Speaker 7: some meat there to get.
Speaker 8: Hey, And do you ever get a day off? Because
Speaker 8: I'm an avid AM five seventy listener and every time
Speaker 8: I turn on you're on.
Speaker 4: I do not take days off. Greg. If there was
Speaker 4: an eighth day, my wife would make me work it.
Speaker 8: Yep. I feel you, Hey, quickly, I'll try to run
Speaker 8: through this Kerseh. I'm so happy for him today, like
Speaker 8: this should have been his second win at least, and
Speaker 8: he's it's super cool. And what you said about I
Speaker 8: mean you were you were a ballplayer, you know, I mean,
Speaker 8: obviously Vlow is huge, but the great pictures when you
Speaker 8: were in the box, if you knew Vilo was coming,
Speaker 8: you're setting up for that and you're and that's what
Speaker 8: that's what you're concentrating on. But if you start, if
Speaker 8: you went up because a picture a picture like a
Speaker 8: like a like a glavin or those type of guys,
Speaker 8: you're it's it's it's a mystery. So and curtis figuring
Speaker 8: that out. He's he's transformed himself, which is amazing. Ye,
Speaker 8: and I hope he just continues to do that this year.
Speaker 8: And you know, however, many years beyond San Diego, I
Speaker 8: guess it is a rivalry. And credit to them, they
Speaker 8: finally made it a rivalry because they got the players
Speaker 8: and the team to do it, and their their fans
Speaker 8: are you know, all into it, and the the atmosphere
Speaker 8: and obviously San Diego is a beautiful, you know place,
Speaker 8: So it's it's become a rivalry in that sort. And
Speaker 8: they got the guys that back in Earth. So but
Speaker 8: I think I think we'll be fine. But I've actually
Speaker 8: call it in because the sustainability of the Dodgers, not
Speaker 8: just of the way things have been going, but I
Speaker 8: mean it's like they going it's it's a playoff atmosphere
Speaker 8: every single day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was on once before this this season with Dave.
Speaker 8: He's stilling daughter talk at night. But and it's just
Speaker 8: it's these guys are it's it's a playoff. It's like
Speaker 8: a world series every night that they go into somewheer.
Speaker 8: It's just that they're on the road, yeah, everywhere, and
Speaker 8: they know that.
Speaker 4: Greg and I appreciate the phone call that they know that,
Speaker 4: and that's expected.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 7: You have got to target on your back when you're
Speaker 7: the defending champs in any sport.
Speaker 4: You add to that you're the Dodgers. You add to
Speaker 4: that even more.
Speaker 7: You're the Dodgers who spend a lot of money and
Speaker 7: go out and land all these big time free agents,
Speaker 7: including show Heyo Tani. That's a big target on your back.
Speaker 7: That's not just the defending champions target on your back.
Speaker 7: You've now got a huge bullseye on your back if
Speaker 7: you're the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: So whether you're playing host.
Speaker 7: To a team or you're on the road for three
Speaker 7: in Saint Louis or going back east to Miami, you've
Speaker 7: got a target on your back and teams are coming
Speaker 7: to hunt.
Speaker 4: They want to knock you off.
Speaker 7: They want to get to you and they want to
Speaker 7: be the team that wins the series and say, hey,
Speaker 7: we took two or three from the defending champs. We
Speaker 7: held Otani to one for fourteen. You know, we held
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts this weekend to one for the series in
Speaker 7: Saint Louis. That's what they want to be able to say,
Speaker 7: because those are wins for those kind of teams to
Speaker 7: their season.
Speaker 4: A quick update on Show Hey.
Speaker 7: Otani got hit on the left foot late in the
Speaker 7: game with a pitch appeared to be okay he is,
Speaker 7: and Dave Roberts said that Show Hey will go ahead
Speaker 7: and throw his simulated game in San.
Speaker 4: Diego on Tuesday on Tuesday.
Speaker 7: Now, he's not going to throw on Monday, but we'll
Speaker 7: throw on Tuesday his simulated a game he was scheduled
Speaker 7: to throw this weekend, but he will now throw that
Speaker 7: sim game at Petco Park on Tuesday, again a sim
Speaker 7: game for show Heyo Tani as he continues to build
Speaker 7: himself back up and get ready to return post All
Speaker 7: Star Break to the mound for the Dodgers, having already
Speaker 7: been an MVP at the plate now for a year
Speaker 7: and two months. That's go to Daryl and Palmdale checking
Speaker 7: in here on this Sunday afternoon after a Dodger win
Speaker 7: in San Louis.
Speaker 4: HOI you doing, Darryl.
Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Seeming like the Dodgers are doing better.
Speaker 3: They did exactly what they were supposed to do. It
Speaker 3: looked like the pigeon is coming together. Mostly they hit
Speaker 3: in Saint Louis. Bit they didn't get the timely yet,
Speaker 3: but they were hitting. Hitting. They got ten dicks, they
Speaker 3: got Russ today. But I liked what I saw. I
Speaker 3: really did. Mostly, like I say, the pitcheon get real good.
Speaker 3: They the Picchure had really coming along. And Harry, you
Speaker 3: know everything of a picky t you know, I feel
Speaker 3: good about him. Yeah, don't get the Dodgers.
Speaker 7: They know what to do, absolutely, dar David d it
Speaker 7: the other day that they're veteran club and they know
Speaker 7: what to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna be okay, Daryl. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: And they getting now held to Southern California to take
Speaker 7: on the Padres for the next three games. You mentioned
Speaker 7: the offense, Yeah, it's runners of scoring position. Those timely
Speaker 7: hits they just couldn't get the first two games against
Speaker 7: the Cardinals. It was one for twenty five in the
Speaker 7: first two games. With runners in scoring position, they out
Speaker 7: hit the Cardinals in the first game. They had nine
Speaker 7: hits equal to the Cardinals in Game two of this
Speaker 7: series yesterday and what turned out to be a really
Speaker 7: good pitching matchup and then a defensive miss queue and
Speaker 7: some good base running from the Cardinals and they walk
Speaker 7: off the Dodgers yesterday. Today, the Dodgers a much better
Speaker 7: job scoring early, taking advantage with runners on base to
Speaker 7: get those runs in and to deliver with runners in
Speaker 7: scoring position. They were three for fourteen today, a big
Speaker 7: hit from Tommy Evan twice, Hayes on Kim the two
Speaker 7: run triple. So yeah, a difference for the Dodgers today
Speaker 7: and what they didn't do the first two games delivering
Speaker 7: with runners on base. They had the opportunities. The Ducks
Speaker 7: were on the pawn, as the old saying was, the
Speaker 7: first two games, they just couldn't bring them in. But
Speaker 7: they did today and they got some really good pitching
Speaker 7: from Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers get the victory. Now
Speaker 7: thirty nine and twenty seven on this season, as they
Speaker 7: remained one game up in the NL West over the
Speaker 7: San Diego Padres, who won earlier today the Giants in
Speaker 7: action and that game is that gone final calling as
Speaker 7: your Giants won the game, yep to call. The San
Speaker 7: Francisco Giants have beat in the Atlanta Braves four to three,
Speaker 7: so that is a final as well on this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 7: So the Dodgers remained one game up in the Western
Speaker 7: Division of the National League. One game up on the
Speaker 7: Padres and the Giants. We'll take a time out, we'll
Speaker 7: come back, we'll get to more of your phone calls
Speaker 7: and wrap things up here on this Sunday edition of
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk. A good flight for the Dodgers now as
Speaker 7: they get ready to head back to the West Coast.
Speaker 7: A happy flight, as Dave robertsice to say. They'll pack
Speaker 7: up from Saint Louis head to San Diego as they'll
Speaker 7: take on the Padres for a three games series Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 4: By the way, what a week. It's gonna be. Three
Speaker 4: games against the Padres, and then the.
Speaker 7: Giants come to town Friday, Saturday and Sunday, followed by
Speaker 7: a four game series again against the Padres.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: Things heating up here in the wild wild NL.
Speaker 7: West Dodgers win today and say Louis seventy three victory
Speaker 7: over the Cardinals. Here on A five seventy LA Sports
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Speaker 8: Nice day in the booths today, good visitors here in
Speaker 8: recent innings, pomp In say hi, Bookie swings.
Speaker 4: He drives one deep to left. This ball's back and
Speaker 4: it is gone.
Speaker 6: That's a home run for Bets, and Mookie with his
Speaker 6: ninth home run of the season, gets a.
Speaker 4: Run back for the Dodgers. It is five to two.
Speaker 7: Mookie Betts with his solo home run and the seventh
Speaker 7: inning his ninth of the season. That was a big
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Speaker 7: the win in Saint Louis. They remain one game up
Speaker 7: over the Padres and the Giants in the NL West
Speaker 7: as they head to Petco Park Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
Speaker 7: for a three game series against the Padres. Dustin mate
Speaker 7: Nick Pavetta is the pitching matchup in the series opener tomorrow,
Speaker 7: first pitch at six four Showyotani will throw a SIM
Speaker 7: game on Tuesday before the game at Petco Park. And
Speaker 7: if in case you missed the injury news before the
Speaker 7: game today, Dave Roberts said that Tony Gonsolin's UCL in
Speaker 7: his right elbow is intact, so that is good Remember
Speaker 7: he had Tommy John surgery at the end of twenty
Speaker 7: twenty three. There's no damage and it is still intact,
Speaker 7: but Dave Roberts says it's gonna be a while before
Speaker 7: Tony Gonsolin starts to throw again, so that is good news.
Speaker 7: The UCL is intact, there's no need for Tommy John
Speaker 7: surgery for a second time for Tony Gonsolin, So go out.
Speaker 7: I got to the phones, Andy and Lake Elsinore. Thanks
Speaker 7: for waiting patiently here on a five seventy.
Speaker 4: How you doing Andy?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 1: Tim?
Speaker 2: I have three things to touch on. The first one is,
Speaker 2: you know, I know that we're only one game first place,
Speaker 2: but it's early and I love that we're, you know,
Speaker 2: just running a tight race because it's early in the
Speaker 2: season and I just think that if we were to
Speaker 2: be pulling away, it's just no competition and that just
Speaker 2: leaves as cold playoff time. The other thing is the pitching.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, okay, so we need pitching. They're are
Speaker 2: coming back the ones we need. The relieving team is
Speaker 2: starting to get intacked. And then the last thing that
Speaker 2: I want to touch on is I honestly believe that
Speaker 2: it's time to put us on Kim on left field
Speaker 2: and take Conforto out. It's it's he he has a
Speaker 2: higher upside. What do you think?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon. I
Speaker 7: think they're gonna give the runway a little bit more
Speaker 7: run here for Michael Confordo especially in the left field spot.
Speaker 7: I Hayson Kim is going to be a center fielder
Speaker 7: in a second base, but I don't think left field
Speaker 7: is where they're going to start experimenting with him out
Speaker 7: there in left field where he's still learning center.
Speaker 4: Field on the go at the major league level. So
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a problem.
Speaker 7: So Michael Confordo is going to give a lot more
Speaker 7: runways we said, in left field, and we'll be playing
Speaker 7: when there's a right handed starting pitcher. When there's a
Speaker 7: left handed starting pitcher, he won't be in the lineup,
Speaker 7: and you'll see a different looking outfield arrangement for the
Speaker 7: Dodgers as they would face the Padres Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 7: It'll be all right headed pitchers Nick Poveta, Dilan Sees,
Speaker 7: and Randy Vasquez. Diane in Seemi Valley is next up
Speaker 7: here on Dodger Talk on AFI seventy.
Speaker 4: How you doing, Dan, Thank you for taking my call, Tim.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the work you do, and I want
Speaker 1: to get back to what you were saying that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers have that, you know, that giant target on their back.
Speaker 1: You know, I follow a lot of sports and I
Speaker 1: see a lot of dynasties with a lot of hate
Speaker 1: going towards the winners, and we see it in our
Speaker 1: division of the AFC West. I am a Raiders fan
Speaker 1: like you are, and I hate the Chiefs and I
Speaker 1: always look forward to when the Raiders get a chance
Speaker 1: to beat them.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the way.
Speaker 1: The fans look at when their team faces the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Their players play the best against the I mean I would,
Speaker 1: I would play my best against the greatest team of
Speaker 1: this decade. And uh and and to and to close
Speaker 1: out with that, I'm not worried about it. This is
Speaker 1: the Dodgers go through this kind of stuff almost every year.
Speaker 1: We go through these trials and tribulations, with our pitching staff,
Speaker 1: with our you know, some of our hitters not hitting,
Speaker 1: and our getting runs in when the traffics on the base,
Speaker 1: but we always pull through when it comes time for
Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm looking forward to our newest rivals of
Speaker 1: Padres and I'm looking forward to that series. And give
Speaker 1: a compass and and and just show how talented this
Speaker 1: and now West is because it is the toughest division
Speaker 1: to be in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about it. Dan appreciate the phone call,
Speaker 4: Thanks for checking in.
Speaker 7: It is the best overall division, not just in the
Speaker 7: National League, but in baseball, and you can look at
Speaker 7: the records, you can look at the overall competition.
Speaker 4: It is really good.
Speaker 7: The Padres, the Giants all looking up at the Dodgers
Speaker 7: and the Arison, the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 4: It's interesting.
Speaker 7: Listen to MLB Radio earlier today with our buddy Jim Boden,
Speaker 7: and he was talking about it. The Diamondbacks. They're run
Speaker 7: with Corbyn Burns injury and the way they have not
Speaker 7: played well lately. They've lost three in a row, they've
Speaker 7: lost six of ten. If they continue this trend for
Speaker 7: the next few weeks, they're gonna become sellers at the
Speaker 7: trade deadline. And they've got Zach Gallen, They've got some
Speaker 7: other guys who are at the end of the year
Speaker 7: contracts that they're gonna look to deal here this offseason
Speaker 7: or at the trade deadline before the offseason. So it'll
Speaker 7: be interesting to see if they are sellers at the
Speaker 7: deadline because of where they're at.
Speaker 4: But it's starting to shape up right now.
Speaker 7: And what was a four team race in the NL
Speaker 7: West because the Rockies are terrible, it is now turned
Speaker 7: into a three team race in the NL West and
Speaker 7: three really good teams. And when you look at the
Speaker 7: overall pitcher I look at the Dodgers roster as a whole,
Speaker 7: what they have now, what's out there, what's coming back?
Speaker 7: And you have to look at the Dodgers and say, Wow,
Speaker 7: Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, and Tyler Glass now all out there,
Speaker 7: all coming back at some point from the injured list,
Speaker 7: and you throw in a show, hey, Otani, They're gonna
Speaker 7: get four starting pitchers back from what they don't have
Speaker 7: right now, either.
Speaker 4: Before the All Star break or after the All Star break.
Speaker 4: That's four.
Speaker 7: Three proven starting pitchers and Roki Sasaki coming back to
Speaker 7: help out this Dodgers rotation, either before or after the
Speaker 7: All Star break.
Speaker 4: So that's something to keep in mind.
Speaker 7: Is how much better this Dodgers team is going to
Speaker 7: continue to get with that influx of starting pitching?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 4: We got to wrap things up real quick before we
Speaker 4: say goodbye?
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 4: How you doing?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 9: Hey Kim? How are you? I'm good? I did it.
Speaker 9: I did one wait, kat least k two hours three,
Speaker 9: But I'll take it, I guess. But anyway, I'm looking
Speaker 9: forward with TV Candy Ago series. I thought, I I
Speaker 9: hate your card race the wor's THEE? What happens is
Speaker 9: this series?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Ah is good series. It's really I'm really looking forward
Speaker 9: with you and yeah, probably have their home pitching problem too,
Speaker 9: So what's the how it goes?
Speaker 7: It's gonna be fun three days, Azie. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Great to hear from you as always. Have a great
Speaker 7: rest of your Sunday afternoon. That's gonna do it for
Speaker 7: Dodger Talk here on a FI seventy LA Sports. Many
Speaker 7: thanks to Daniel West, Many thanks to Colin and Eye
Speaker 7: for all their help today. Hanging out with the guys
Speaker 7: has been a lot of fun as the Dodgers get
Speaker 7: the win makes even better as the Dodgers pick up
Speaker 7: a victory over the Cardinals seventy three Clayton Kershaw five innings,
Speaker 7: seven strikeouts. He gets his first win here in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five, and with those seven strikeouts, he passes Zach
Speaker 7: Granky for twentieth on the all time strikeout list, and
Speaker 7: now Clayton Kershaw twenty nine and eighty three, he is
Speaker 7: seventeen strikeouts away from three thousand.
Speaker 4: Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Back at it.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, let's go. It's the Padres.
Speaker 7: Been waiting for two months for the first meeting between
Speaker 7: the Dodgers and the Padres and a rematch of last
Speaker 7: year's NLDS. Dodgers heading to Petgo Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Speaker 7: for a showdown against the Padres lt Moroco Casino Dodgers
Speaker 7: on Decade.
Speaker 4: It all started at five thirty.
Speaker 7: First pitch is at six forty by the Way one
Speaker 7: out of Way UCLA Baseball. The Boys are buzzing right
Speaker 7: now in Westwood as they lead UTSA seven to nothing
Speaker 7: in the ninth INNY one out of Way. John Savage
Speaker 7: and the Bruins from punching their ticket in the Super
Speaker 7: Regional and going to Omaha for the College Baseball World Series,
Speaker 7: have a great rest here.
Speaker 4: Sunday afternoon saw everybody results