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Speaker 2: We are live at Chasefield after the Dodgers hold on
Speaker 2: to beat the Diamondbacks tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: eight to six, in front of the largest crowd of
Speaker 2: the season at Chase Field, fifty thousand plus to watch
Speaker 2: the Dodgers take a six game lead over the Arizona
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and for that matter, the Padres as well, who
Speaker 2: lost to the Rays earlier tonight. So the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: a six game lead over both Arizona and the Padres
Speaker 2: after winning the first two games of this series. We
Speaker 2: have phone lines open at eight six six, nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. It was playoff atmosphere here in Arizona.
Speaker 2: It should be playoff like atmosphere here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: We want to hear from you. Between now and nine thirty,
Speaker 2: we will hear from Tommy Edmund. We will hear from
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone. Also coming up later in the show at
Speaker 2: about nine point fifteen, I'll share with you part of
Speaker 2: my conversation with Tom with Tyler Glass now who gave
Speaker 2: us the latest update on whether or not he is
Speaker 2: going to be able to pitch in the regular season
Speaker 2: and if he'll be ready for the postseason. So a
Speaker 2: lot to get to between now and nine thirty right
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk Live from Chase Field, as a
Speaker 2: postgame concert is going on right now. Feels like Arozeto
Speaker 2: concert is going on, and there are a lot of
Speaker 2: fans still here at the stadium dancing in the aisle.
Speaker 2: So a very festive atmosphere here at Chase Field as
Speaker 2: mostly Dodger fans have stuck around to celebrate an eight
Speaker 2: to six win. And what a first inning it was
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. Three consecutive home runs against Mary Kelly.
Speaker 2: It was show hay O'tani with his forty fourth of
Speaker 2: the season, followed by Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. That
Speaker 2: was one of three hits for Freddy Freeman. No Dodger
Speaker 2: team has ever hit three consecutive home runs to start
Speaker 2: a game, and in fact, there were only five other
Speaker 2: teams or four other teams that have ever had three
Speaker 2: players lead off.
Speaker 3: The game with home runs.
Speaker 2: The last team to do it was the twenty twelve
Speaker 2: Baltimore Orioles, Ryan Flaherty, JJ Hardy and Nick Markikis did
Speaker 2: it against the Rangers. Tonight it was Otani Betson Freeman
Speaker 2: against Mary Kelly, and then after the Dodgers gave Gavin
Speaker 2: Stone an early three to nothing lead, he gave it
Speaker 2: back and then some. The Diamondbacks scored four runs, including
Speaker 2: an inside the park home run by corbing Carol and
Speaker 2: from there ta Oscar Hernandez may have misplayed a ball
Speaker 2: in left field to allow a couple of more runs
Speaker 2: to score. So the Dodgers certainly felt good after the
Speaker 2: top of the first inning, but knew they were going
Speaker 2: to be in another fight tonight after the Diamondbacks did
Speaker 2: not go away, And that seems to be this Division
Speaker 2: race in the second half of the year, where the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks have not gone away and last night did not
Speaker 2: go away, and tonight still hung in there and gave
Speaker 2: the Dodgers everything they could handle. But luckily the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were able to get Tommy Edmund's big, two out, two
Speaker 2: strike base hit in the top of the ninth inning
Speaker 2: off of Justin Martinez to give the Dodgers two runs.
Speaker 2: They needed for Evan Phillips to slam the door for
Speaker 2: his eighteenth save of the season. And how about Ben Casparius,
Speaker 2: our pregame guest, made his major league debut tonight, pitching
Speaker 2: a scoreless eighth inning and is rewarded with his first
Speaker 2: first ever major league win. Eight six six eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's sit down,
Speaker 2: toy Kirsten Watson, who was on sports net LA with
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 4: Tommy, your go ahead single there late in the game,
Speaker 4: the game was on the line.
Speaker 1: What were you.
Speaker 4: Looking for when you're facing a pitcher who's high velocity
Speaker 4: pitching one hundred and three months per hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy's nasty.
Speaker 5: I was just trying to put something to play, to
Speaker 5: be honest, guys did a good job early, you getting
Speaker 5: on base, and you know, just trying to give.
Speaker 3: Us a chance.
Speaker 4: You came into a situation two outs, two strikes. Your
Speaker 4: team has been fantastic in the situation. So what is
Speaker 4: your mindset in that moment? Yeah, just battling.
Speaker 5: You know, these guys have some really good pictures and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, just trying to outcompete them. You know, put
Speaker 5: something in play there, and we did a really good job.
Speaker 4: That throughout this series so far, You've been with this
Speaker 4: team for a month now, but you've only been active
Speaker 4: for a handful of weeks. When you think about just
Speaker 4: coming in the clutch, how special was.
Speaker 3: That for you in that moment?
Speaker 5: It was fun, really fun. I've seen these guys have
Speaker 5: some huge hits in just a couple of weeks I've
Speaker 5: been here, you know, a lot of big home runs.
Speaker 5: So I'm just happy to be part of it.
Speaker 4: This is your first taste of Dodgers, diamond Back says, right,
Speaker 4: read that's been coming.
Speaker 1: The intensity of it.
Speaker 4: How would you describe what the series has been like
Speaker 4: so far?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been intense. You know, every game has been
Speaker 5: a battle so far. You know, great crowds here and
Speaker 5: so you can kind of feel the intensity from the
Speaker 5: outside and I'll beat on the inside.
Speaker 1: It's that much cooler.
Speaker 4: Seen the reaction we saw from you on the field,
Speaker 4: from your teammates, How would you described as how it
Speaker 4: was being able to share this moment with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just so excited, you know. It was an
Speaker 5: amazing feeling out there and hoppy. We got the win.
Speaker 4: Congratulations on this one tonight, Tommy thank.
Speaker 3: You appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund with his biggest hit as a Dodger yet,
Speaker 2: a two run single in the ninth inning off of
Speaker 2: Justin Martinez. He was down one two in the count
Speaker 2: with two outs in that inning, and Tommy Edmund did
Speaker 2: not even start the game. Kevin Kiermyer did. Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: brought Edmund in as a pinch hitter in the sixth
Speaker 2: inning and it paid off late in this game. Not
Speaker 2: to mention, Edmund made a great diving catch in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning on Lordis Guriel, who had a great game
Speaker 2: as well a home run, a double, and three RBIs
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks eight to six
Speaker 2: tonight and now have a six game lead over Arizona
Speaker 2: in the NL West. And with the win tonight for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, who won their eighty second game of the season,
Speaker 2: they clinched the fourteenth consecutive winning season.
Speaker 3: For this ball club.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have not finished below five hundred since twenty ten,
Speaker 2: when they were eighty to eighty two. They are now
Speaker 2: going to have fourteen straight winning seasons, which is the
Speaker 2: second longest current streak in baseball, to only the Yankees,
Speaker 2: who have had thirty one consecutive winning seasons in the
Speaker 2: regular season. So the Dodgers continue to put it together,
Speaker 2: and as they have gotten healthier, it seems like games
Speaker 2: are just a little bit too long for the opposition,
Speaker 2: and it feels like the regular season might be just
Speaker 2: a little too long for their opposition as well. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to the phones for the first time, John,
Speaker 2: who was here at Chase Field. How you doing, John,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, David. It was amazing. There were so
Speaker 6: many Dodger fans that Chase to that it was full
Speaker 6: of Dodgers. There was literally you could literally hear whippers
Speaker 6: when Otani came to the plate. Everyone was cheering, even
Speaker 6: the idiot Diamondback fans. It was amazing. It was crazy.
Speaker 6: It was pandemonium, like Victor Brick always says, I mean
Speaker 6: absolute pandemonium. It was incredible. The problem I have is
Speaker 6: why does Dave Roberts have to pinch hit for Mounsie
Speaker 6: in that situation? Monthsy is having an incredible series and
Speaker 6: basses are loaded, you gotta have Mounsey have to play.
Speaker 6: I don't care about KEI k how great he was.
Speaker 6: He had a great bunch and you know the ending
Speaker 6: after that. But it doesn't it matter, like like Monthly
Speaker 6: has to have that AB. He has to have that AB.
Speaker 6: It's it's crucial. And I'm on my way now to
Speaker 6: temp to try to get Petros his autograph because you're
Speaker 6: doing the you know the game.
Speaker 3: On it right, one little secret here.
Speaker 6: And again his autograph.
Speaker 3: Here's a secret. He's not in Tempe.
Speaker 2: He calls the games from a studio in La Okay.
Speaker 2: So don't break your back for that.
Speaker 6: So are you calling Petros lazy or what? I don't
Speaker 6: understand Hen'.
Speaker 3: Saying it's the magic of TV.
Speaker 2: He's the nightcap game in college football and that's the
Speaker 2: way they do it, and he does it better than most.
Speaker 2: And by the way, left handers against Joe manniply this season,
Speaker 2: hitting two five.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you agree that Months he deserved that AB, right,
Speaker 6: I mean you have to agree as a baseball love,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't agree. I wouldn't be opposed to Months having
Speaker 3: that at bat.
Speaker 2: But the facts are, before he got hurt, he was
Speaker 2: not very good against left handers and mantiplies pretty good
Speaker 2: against lefty. So that's the reason why Dave Roberts decided
Speaker 2: to go with the guy that was filling in for
Speaker 2: a Monthsie all these months and in the month of
Speaker 2: August hitting close to three hundred John.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but the results were okay, the results.
Speaker 2: You can't just base it off the results. You got
Speaker 2: to base it off what is the right decision as
Speaker 2: a manager. And I'm not going to be up in
Speaker 2: arms about that. What I will say is and thank
Speaker 2: you for the phone call. I was a little surprised
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts took out Gavin Stone after five innings of
Speaker 2: work because Stone retired eight to the last or retired
Speaker 2: his last eight in a row and twelve of the
Speaker 2: last thirteen after a rocky fourth inning or first inning.
Speaker 2: And for me, Gavin Stone was at eighty four pitches
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers activated Brent Honeywell and Ben Casparrius because
Speaker 2: they had to seven relievers last night. You can't tell
Speaker 2: us on one side that your bullpen is extra thin
Speaker 2: and you need to get length out of your starter,
Speaker 2: and then your starter retires the last eight in a
Speaker 2: row and twelve of his last thirteen, and you pull
Speaker 2: the plug because you know, the run of hitters are
Speaker 2: coming up at that point in time in the game.
Speaker 2: I mean at that at that point, you got to
Speaker 2: try to find a way to get one more inning
Speaker 2: out of Gavin Stone.
Speaker 3: And you know, it was a gamble.
Speaker 2: Let's just say that it was a gamble and it
Speaker 2: did not come back to hurt the Dodgers that badly.
Speaker 2: But to me, I would have let Gavin Stone go
Speaker 2: out for one more inning for those reasons. Eight six six,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Manuel and Guardina. You're on Dodger talk
Speaker 2: him any TV?
Speaker 7: Hello, how are you doing to night, sir?
Speaker 3: Tremendous?
Speaker 7: Absolutely what a game man history, you know what I
Speaker 7: mean with the three home runs? And uh, I have
Speaker 7: to eat a little crow once again with Freedman and
Speaker 7: the genius of Freedman, Tommy Edmunds looks like he fits
Speaker 7: in like a glove with this offense, like he's the
Speaker 7: exact thing that we were missing the last couple of years.
Speaker 7: I already love this guy.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: Uh and uh, it seems like he makes the offense
Speaker 7: just say it gives it another whole nother angle and
Speaker 7: I'm really.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 7: And and the guy I heard you talking to him,
Speaker 7: well yesterday right pregame. I mean, I just which guy
Speaker 7: his head is on his shoulders, Edmunds. Didn't you talk
Speaker 7: to Edman a day or two ago? All right?
Speaker 3: He was on Rogan and Rodney Actually okay, Well, I
Speaker 3: just like his attitude.
Speaker 7: I like every like the way he was answering things.
Speaker 7: Apparently like he was kind of a back in fourth
Speaker 7: with the switch hitting in high school, but then went
Speaker 7: head on with it. It was all good man anyway,
Speaker 7: I'm just hyped up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Edmund's great, Manuell, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it. And it was a big win. Always great
Speaker 3: hearing from you. Manny. There he goes Manuel and Gardena. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Tommy Edmund.
Speaker 2: He's a baseball player and he has great bat toball skills.
Speaker 2: And for all of you that don't love the strikeouts,
Speaker 2: he's not that type of player. And you saw him
Speaker 2: battle and I love what he told Kirston after the game.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to outcompete that guy on the mound.
Speaker 2: When was the last time you heard a Dodger hitter
Speaker 2: say that? We hear pitchers say that but I love
Speaker 2: hearing that from a hitter, and you hear what Gavin
Speaker 2: Lux told us the Dodgers had more of a savage
Speaker 2: attitude coming into this series than what they've had recently.
Speaker 2: So I love all the things I'm hearing, and I
Speaker 2: love that the actions are speaking just as loud as
Speaker 2: the words, because that's what you need to beat a
Speaker 2: team like the Diamondbacks were very hungry even after being
Speaker 2: the National League champions a year ago. Eight six six,
Speaker 2: nine seven two five seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
Speaker 2: beat the Diamondbacks eight to six. Let's head back downstairs
Speaker 2: to the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from tonight starting pitcher
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think just being more precise with the off
Speaker 9: speed that was really it first, and then left to
Speaker 9: change up up to Corbin and then a couple other pitches.
Speaker 9: But yeah, just you know, being more precise with the
Speaker 9: off speed.
Speaker 4: Really what tech is kind of just like your thought
Speaker 4: process though, when you are in a situation where you're
Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, the hope is to give
Speaker 4: the team some length, but obviously things started off a
Speaker 4: little bit trickier, and then you would have probably hoped.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean my job was to go out there
Speaker 9: and ate up as many innings as they came, and
Speaker 9: then really the thought process every time. You know, we
Speaker 9: were in a situation where I could have gone deeper
Speaker 9: and probably needed to, but you know, the bullpene was
Speaker 9: huge and they picked us up after.
Speaker 10: That first I think, though, did you think you were
Speaker 10: going to be able to give them what they wanted? Yeah,
Speaker 10: I still a relatively low pitch count. They just were
Speaker 10: swinging early in so yeah, still still felt good.
Speaker 11: So they were saying, he felt like you were just
Speaker 11: kind of h beat your tank by the end of
Speaker 11: the fifth. It's like that eighty five ninety pitch range
Speaker 11: right now. Kind of what your max is or is
Speaker 11: part of that. Also, just the intensity of the game
Speaker 11: and the intensity of the pitches tonight.
Speaker 10: Maybe.
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know, I want to throw one
Speaker 9: hundred plus every time I'm out there, so you know,
Speaker 9: it's just up to him whether he takes the ball
Speaker 9: from me or not.
Speaker 4: Would you describe just kind of how they were attacking
Speaker 4: you in this outing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like I said, they were, they were swinging a lot,
Speaker 9: swinging early, and so you know, recognizing that and then
Speaker 9: going through the second third, fourth, fifth. Uh, you know
Speaker 9: those had to make a huge adjustment.
Speaker 10: What do you make for the first two games?
Speaker 4: We're watching?
Speaker 9: This good baseball? I mean, yeah, really good, really good baseball.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone very guarded after games and certainly a very
Speaker 2: humble kid that probably want to pitch better in that
Speaker 2: first inning, But give him a lot of credit for
Speaker 2: not giving up much more after that, retiring the last
Speaker 2: eight batters he faced and only gave up one more
Speaker 2: run after that four run first inning by the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 2: which was aided a little bit by the defense. When
Speaker 2: Corby and Carroll hit that inside the park home run,
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets and Taoscar Hernandez were nowhere to be found
Speaker 2: as Kevin Kiermeier was gambling trying to make the catch
Speaker 2: before it hit the wall. I've seen that play a
Speaker 2: few different times here, and I've seen runners held to
Speaker 2: a double, sometimes a triple because either the right fielder
Speaker 2: or the left fielder has got to converge behind the
Speaker 2: center fielder when he's going to the wall to be
Speaker 2: able to get the rebound. If the center fielder is
Speaker 2: going to gamble that much like Kiermeier did, especially with
Speaker 2: a speedy Corb and Carrol Taascar Hernandez and Mookie Betts
Speaker 2: were kind of spectating on that play, and then taoscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: who made three great catches last night, allowed a sinking
Speaker 2: line drive to get behind.
Speaker 3: Him to allow two more runs to score.
Speaker 2: So Stone did get hit hard, but defense kind of
Speaker 2: was a problem in that first inning as well, But
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were able to regroup and get the win
Speaker 2: tonight eight to six over the Diamondbacks. When we continue
Speaker 2: from Chase Field in Arizona, we'll get to more of
Speaker 2: your phone calls.
Speaker 3: At eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from Dave Roberts, and also we'll share our
Speaker 2: conversation with Tyler Glass Now, who gave us an update
Speaker 2: on where he stands as far as the rest of
Speaker 2: the regular season and heading into October with him being
Speaker 2: on the IL. Don't go anywhere more Dodger Talk live
Speaker 2: from the Desert after the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks eight
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Speaker 1: more Dodger Talk with Dodger insider, David.
Speaker 3: Vasse, Breddy Freeman up. Now these swings have a drive,
Speaker 3: Dave Bright Center. Could it be it is three.
Speaker 4: Homers in a row to start the ball game?
Speaker 3: Otani, Bets and now Freeman.
Speaker 4: Absolutely incredible here in Arizona.
Speaker 3: Can you believe this? Three patters, three home runs, three nothing.
Speaker 2: Dodgers want to start to the second game of this
Speaker 2: four game series. Show Hey, Otani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman start the game off with home runs against Merrill Kelly,
Speaker 2: the first time in Dodger history that has happened where
Speaker 2: the first three Dodgers hit home runs to start a game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers would go on to beat Arizona tonight by
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Speaker 2: David Vasse live at Chase Field with you until nine
Speaker 2: thirty tonight here on a five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 2: Ben Casparius who was our pregame guest today, came into
Speaker 2: the eighth inning as in his major league debut, pitched
Speaker 2: a scoreless eighth inning and picks up his first major
Speaker 2: league win. Ryan Thompson the losing pitcher for Arizona, and
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips with his eighteenth save of the season. Let's
Speaker 2: go back out to the phones, Mike and see me Valley.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi, Mike.
Speaker 12: Hey, what's up, Dave?
Speaker 6: How you doing well?
Speaker 2: There's fans dancing in the in the aisles over here
Speaker 2: for the postgame concert, and they're all Dodger fans.
Speaker 3: Mike.
Speaker 12: Yes, there, that's how we roll in the az We
Speaker 12: take over that stadium every year. I love it.
Speaker 3: It was quite an atmosphere here.
Speaker 2: This was even louder, and there was more buzz around
Speaker 2: tonight's game than I felt in last year's NLDS fifty
Speaker 2: thousand plus Here, Mike, where did you watch the game?
Speaker 3: Where were you listening?
Speaker 12: I was up in Ventura, but I'm from seem Me
Speaker 12: and we were watching it up top of Ventura. And
Speaker 12: I love, you know, the team and the heart right
Speaker 12: now in the fight we have and the bats that
Speaker 12: are going on But my question leads into why I
Speaker 12: was calling in and how's the pitching gonna play out now?
Speaker 12: With the starters, especially with possible September call ups and
Speaker 12: people on the IL. Still, what's the starting rotation is
Speaker 12: going to look like?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, good question, because reinforcements are on their
Speaker 2: way in the form of the two top acquisitions this offseason,
Speaker 2: and Tyler glass Now and Yoshi Yamamoto. It looks like
Speaker 2: both are going to be able to pitch at least
Speaker 2: twice before the end of the regular season, Mike, and
Speaker 2: that would bode well for glass Now and Yamamoto to
Speaker 2: be available for October. They need those guys to make
Speaker 2: a run. It would make things a lot easier for
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts to.
Speaker 6: Navigate, right, I love it.
Speaker 12: And then beyond that, where it's going to be our
Speaker 12: next two and three starters?
Speaker 2: After that, I mean it would be Jack Flarity, Jack Flaherty,
Speaker 2: and I would I would venture to say, Gavin Stone Right,
Speaker 2: those are your four best starters with Kershaw being on
Speaker 2: the IL, and we'll see where that goes with the
Speaker 2: bone spur and his big left toe.
Speaker 12: Right right, I love it, and hopefully all these injuries
Speaker 12: go to bed and we can move on and get
Speaker 12: ready for the playoffs and get ready what we do well.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are getting healthy at the right time. Mike,
Speaker 2: thanks for the phone.
Speaker 3: Call, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And we had a chance to catch up with Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now before today's game.
Speaker 3: He threw off a flat round for the second straight.
Speaker 2: Day, and after he was done doing that, he gave
Speaker 2: us an update on where he's at with his right elbow.
Speaker 13: I think, like, if there is any silver lining, I
Speaker 13: think taking the time off, like you kind of get
Speaker 13: your body like resets back to normal, and then as
Speaker 13: you get going and like I'm working those guys in
Speaker 13: the weight room and the training stuff like patterning correctly.
Speaker 13: I think before that, before I got hurt in a
Speaker 13: while there, like I don't think I was mechanically in
Speaker 13: a very good spot, Like I wasn't moving how I
Speaker 13: used to move. And then now kind of going back
Speaker 13: to zero and then ramping back off, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 13: that's the feeling I'm trying to feel. And I think
Speaker 13: once I iron out a lot of that stuff, a
Speaker 13: lot of the other issues kind of go away and
Speaker 13: I can get my direction back to home plate. And
Speaker 13: I think like the progression becomes like shorter and more efficient.
Speaker 2: All right, that's Tyler Glass now on what's going on
Speaker 2: while he's been on the il, and he told us
Speaker 2: that he's not sure what the road back is going
Speaker 2: to be, whether it's going to be rehab games or
Speaker 2: maybe just throw the hitters at Dodgers before he dives
Speaker 2: back in. But one thing he made very clear is
Speaker 2: he is going to be ready for the postseason.
Speaker 13: No, I mean, I just I think I'm just more
Speaker 13: concerned it's being healthy for the postseason. So any type
Speaker 13: of little thing it's just not worth it to you
Speaker 13: know what I mean. I think like collectively understanding, like
Speaker 13: the postseason is the most important thing. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 13: So I think just any type of like like get
Speaker 13: back super quick in the regular season just didn't really
Speaker 13: make a ton of sense. So I just want to
Speaker 13: feel good, have a really good progression, and then just
Speaker 13: be ready for postseason.
Speaker 2: Well that's easy for him to say, considering that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers kind of needed him in this four game series.
Speaker 2: It's great to be ready for the postseason, but you
Speaker 2: have to get there first, and luckily for Tyler Glass,
Speaker 2: now the Dodgers are handling business while he's on the
Speaker 2: IL for the second time this season, and I asked
Speaker 2: him whether or not this has been frustrating not being
Speaker 2: able to be part of this four game series because
Speaker 2: before you get to the playoffs, you got to take
Speaker 2: care of business in your own division. And it would
Speaker 2: be great if the Dodgers would have had Yama, Moto
Speaker 2: and glass Now available for this four game series, but
Speaker 2: that hasn't happened.
Speaker 3: And here's what Glass Now had to say about missing
Speaker 3: this series.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it sucks for sure. I think to a lot
Speaker 13: of it, Like it was always kind of frustrating, like
Speaker 13: being at home, but I think series like this it
Speaker 13: kind of hits a little harder, just being I was
Speaker 13: supposed to come back and throw at the beginning yesterday
Speaker 13: and stuff, you know. So it's just like it sucks.
Speaker 13: I'm glad we pulled out a win, and I just think,
Speaker 13: like with other people dealing with injuries and stuff, it
Speaker 13: it sucks. So I think it's just even more important
Speaker 13: for me to just try to like keep my head
Speaker 13: and focused and just get back and stay healthy.
Speaker 2: So what you're trying to say, it sucks, right, Tyler.
Speaker 2: I mean you said it like three times right there.
Speaker 2: So obviously he's a little frustrated, but hopefully he can
Speaker 2: feel right when he comes back and not look back
Speaker 2: in October eight six, six, nine, eighty seven, two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Dodgers have held it down
Speaker 2: yet again tonight without Glass, now without Yama Moto. Gavin Stone,
Speaker 2: who has made twenty five starts now on the season,
Speaker 2: leads the Dodgers and starts innings and wins. Even though
Speaker 2: he did not get a decision tonight, he has eleven
Speaker 2: wins on the season. I ask again, where would the
Speaker 2: Dodgers pitching staff be without the emergence of Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: this year, who was not even supposed to make the
Speaker 2: opening day roster coming into spring training, but he came
Speaker 2: in after a very productive offseason to get bigger, stronger,
Speaker 2: and to have more pitches in his repertoire, and he
Speaker 2: proved out to be a huge addition to this Dodger rotation.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones, Bob and Malibu.
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk after an eight to six win
Speaker 2: at Chase Field.
Speaker 8: Hi, Bob, David bathse Dodger Bob out here in Malibu, Buddy,
Speaker 8: how you doing.
Speaker 3: Ah, I'm doing great, Bob. Where'd you watch the game
Speaker 3: at Dukes? Where'd you go?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you I wish I was a Duke. I
Speaker 8: was out of Marmalade to Malibu watching the game. But
Speaker 8: I gotta tell you, David, first and foremost, your work
Speaker 8: with Cameo is excellent. I received a birthday message from
Speaker 8: you back in November. Buddy. That made my day, made
Speaker 8: my week, made my year. I'll tell you, man, that
Speaker 8: was a special treat. Thank you for that.
Speaker 6: Man, I appreciate you are a sick man.
Speaker 3: Bob, you're a sick man. If that's what made your day,
Speaker 3: I really.
Speaker 8: Bring it home for me, baby, Come on, bring it
Speaker 8: home days. Listen. Question this series and related to this
Speaker 8: series and related to the Diamondbacks in postseason. Obviously, tell
Speaker 8: me your thoughts on where a healthy Diamondbacks look with
Speaker 8: Christian Walker and Marte back in that lineup compared to
Speaker 8: what we're seeing now.
Speaker 2: And don't forget about Gabriel Moreno, who is their starting
Speaker 2: catcher and since he's been on the IL teams are
Speaker 2: running like rabbits on the Diamondbacks catchers and pitchers. So yes,
Speaker 2: I think we all have to keep that in mind,
Speaker 2: they're missing three big time players Dodger killer, Christian Walker,
Speaker 2: MVP candidate to tell Marte and Gabrielle more. But to me, Bob,
Speaker 2: when I mentioned earlier, and I'm not sure if you
Speaker 2: heard this, if things stay the way they are right now,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers having the top seed in the National League,
Speaker 2: they would play the winner of a Padres Diamondbacks wildcard series.
Speaker 2: And for me, I would say the Padres might be
Speaker 2: a tougher matchup only for the mere fact is their
Speaker 2: bullpen is better than Arizona's. Everything else, Arizona gets the edge,
Speaker 2: and I would say the Padres edge out because of
Speaker 2: their bullpen.
Speaker 8: Makes sense. I hear what you're saying loud and clear,
Speaker 8: and I agree with you. I'll follow your lead on
Speaker 8: this one as I always do.
Speaker 6: Day.
Speaker 8: My last part of my question is, obviously, we saw
Speaker 8: Will Smith get a little rest. You've seen Freddy get
Speaker 8: a couple of days rest. How important? And I heard
Speaker 8: you talking to Freddy about it the other day. How
Speaker 8: important do you think it is to these guys to
Speaker 8: get a couple of days just to catch their breath.
Speaker 2: Well, for Freddy especially, Bob, I think it was I
Speaker 2: think we all believe that. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of attention on his son, Max Freeman in the seven
Speaker 2: days that Freddy had to miss because of how serious
Speaker 2: the situation was.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't just go away, right.
Speaker 2: He's still dealing with it, his wife is still dealing
Speaker 2: with it, and little Max Freeman is still going through
Speaker 2: physical therapy, so that's.
Speaker 3: Still part of his daily life. So that takes a
Speaker 3: toll on him.
Speaker 2: And then Jason Hayward is no longer his teammate, and
Speaker 2: then he has a microfracture on his right middle fingers.
Speaker 2: So all of those things compounded the fact that he
Speaker 2: probably did need three physical days, but just as important
Speaker 2: three mental days. It was four with the day off
Speaker 2: on Monday, So I think we all take that for granted.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't go away.
Speaker 8: Well, these guys were called heart all year. Kudos to him.
Speaker 8: Put a cake on the candle for our boys. Stone
Speaker 8: came through for us man, Dave, What a pleasure always
Speaker 8: talking to you, and thanks again for that cameo, Buddy.
Speaker 8: I hope I could return that favor to another someday
Speaker 8: and send another one for him.
Speaker 2: All right, Bob, thanks a lot for the phone call.
Speaker 2: We'll see you out there one day at Zooma Beach.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks eight to six
Speaker 2: here at Chase Field and are looking to expand their
Speaker 2: lead even more tomorrow, when Justin Robleski is expected to
Speaker 2: take the mound. The Dodgers will not have to make
Speaker 2: a roster move tomorrow to activate Robleski to make the
Speaker 2: start because tomorrow is September first, and the rosters are
Speaker 2: expanding for every major League team to twenty eight, but
Speaker 2: there has been a cap on pitchers. It's only going
Speaker 2: to be one pitcher and one position player. And the
Speaker 2: position player to me, from what I'm gathering, is going
Speaker 2: to be Andy pa Has for the Dodgers. And look,
Speaker 2: I know many of you are clamoring for Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: I would love to see what Dalton Rushing has to offer,
Speaker 2: because he is crushing the baseball.
Speaker 3: At Oklahoma City as well.
Speaker 2: I'm not rule out that fact that he is doing that,
Speaker 2: but to start September, it feels like Paez is going
Speaker 2: to be that guy. And from what I'm gathering as well,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are not ruling out the possibility of Dalton
Speaker 2: Rushing being called up sometime in the middle of September
Speaker 2: if they feel that there are opportunities for him to
Speaker 2: get at bats in left field, maybe I would say
Speaker 2: he's not going to catch a game, but if he
Speaker 2: does come up, it's going to be as a left
Speaker 2: handed hitting, power hitter in the outfield and off the
Speaker 2: bench specifically.
Speaker 3: So that's the way the Dodgers are looking at it.
Speaker 2: If they do in fact call up Dalton Rushing at
Speaker 2: some point in time during the month of September, but
Speaker 2: Robleski will be up, and all indications are pointing to
Speaker 2: Andy Piez being the position player called up tomorrow. Eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's take one more phone call in Rancho kucka manga. Gilbert,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Hi Gilbert, Hi David.
Speaker 2: How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great? What's up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, David?
Speaker 8: So, what do you think the outcome with Clayton Kershaw?
Speaker 8: Is he gonna finish the season or do you think
Speaker 8: this is the last we've seen of him and he's
Speaker 8: headed forward his retirement now.
Speaker 2: No chance, Gilbert. Everybody at every turn wants to say
Speaker 2: that's it for Kershaw. This the bone spur in his
Speaker 2: big left toe is not ideal, but he's been managing
Speaker 2: it on and off for a number of years and
Speaker 2: it just popped up maybe two or three starts ago.
Speaker 2: But he'll be able to get through this like he
Speaker 2: has all these years, Gilbert, And no, it's not the
Speaker 2: end for Kershaw.
Speaker 6: Okay, I appreciate David. I hope so I'll hope you
Speaker 6: see him in the World Series.
Speaker 3: See you then, all right, Gilbert, love that, Love that.
Speaker 2: And look, I believe this series for the Dodgers is
Speaker 2: going to help propel them through at least the first
Speaker 2: two rounds of the postseason, because the dog have not
Speaker 2: had to play meaningful games like this in this type
Speaker 2: of environment against the team that's chasing them this late
Speaker 2: in the season since twenty twenty one. And what happened
Speaker 2: that year, The Dodgers went all the way to the NLCS,
Speaker 2: unfortunately losing to the eventual champion Atlanta Braves. So to me,
Speaker 2: this series against this team is a good thing for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in the long run. All Right, that'll do
Speaker 2: it for us. On Dodger Talk tonight, coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned, Justin Robleski will be on the mound
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers going up against Brandon Fott Morongo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on Deck begins at noon with first pitch from
Speaker 2: Chase Field at one ten with Rick Monday and Tim
Speaker 2: Nevertt on the call for Game three of this four
Speaker 2: game series between the.
Speaker 3: Dodgers and Snakes.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have won the first two games of this series,
Speaker 2: last night ten to nine, tonight eight to six. They
Speaker 2: have a six game lead over the Diamondbacks a six
Speaker 2: game lead over the Padres. So right now they are
Speaker 2: in the driver's seat for the NL West and to
Speaker 2: reclaim their title or continue their streak of dominance since
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, only missing out on the NL West Crown
Speaker 2: one season by one game to those Miracle Giants in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Thanks to Colin Ee back at our
Speaker 2: Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at a
Speaker 2: festive Chase Field where the concert continues, and thanks to
Speaker 2: you for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Once again, the final score from Chase.
Speaker 2: Field in Arizona the Dodgers defeat the Diamondbacks eight to six.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your Saturday. Be safe. We'll
Speaker 3: talk to you tomorrow. See Yam.