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Speaker 2: We are live at Truest Park in Atlanta. After the
Speaker 2: Braves route the Dodgers by a final score of ten
Speaker 2: to one. Welcome the Dodger Talk David Vasse with you
Speaker 2: until eight thirty tonight at eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We'll get into Tyler Glass Now
Speaker 2: season likely over in a moment. That will be a
Speaker 2: big part of the show tonight because big picture wise,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have to figure out who's going to pitch
Speaker 2: for them in the postseason. They will be there, but
Speaker 2: now the only question is what seed will they have
Speaker 2: in the postseason because they will wrap up this division.
Speaker 2: I have no doubts about that. But they have to
Speaker 2: start playing better. As jose Motis said, you want to
Speaker 2: see more competitive at bats, and they've also got to
Speaker 2: find a way to overcome some poor starting pitching. They
Speaker 2: have Walker Bueller tomorrow. I'm not sure what you can
Speaker 2: expect from him. You had Nalanda Nak yesterday he only
Speaker 2: went two innings. Tonight Jack Flaherty only went three innings.
Speaker 2: So all of this is putting into a lot of
Speaker 2: questions whether or not the Dodgers are going to have
Speaker 2: a bye in the first round of the National League playoffs.
Speaker 2: You do not want to have to play in the
Speaker 2: best of three wildcard series with your pitching staff as
Speaker 2: thin as it is right now, the Brewers won or
Speaker 2: are on their way to winning. In Arizona. The Padres
Speaker 2: are beating the Giants right now five to nothing in
Speaker 2: the sixth innings, so they're going to win tonight. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers' lead is I want to get shrunk by the
Speaker 2: Brewers and the Padres. They will remain five games head
Speaker 2: ahead of the Diamondbacks, but the Brewers are only one
Speaker 2: game back of the Dodgers for the second seed in
Speaker 2: the National League playoff picture. And the Phillies won today
Speaker 2: they beat the Mets, and they are two games ahead
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers for the top spot in the National League,
Speaker 2: and essentially it's three games because the Phillies hold the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: So with the news that Tyler Glass now has likely
Speaker 2: done for the season, a spring ride elbow, I just
Speaker 2: don't see how he's pitching again this year. So I
Speaker 2: will say likely, but it is a very strong possibility
Speaker 2: that he's not pitching again this year. And the Dodgers
Speaker 2: knew what they were getting into. Tyler glass Now has
Speaker 2: had a track record of arm issues. He's had some
Speaker 2: inies that have kind of trailed him during his career,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers thought after his Tommy John surgery that
Speaker 2: things were behind him as far as the injury bug goes.
Speaker 2: And certainly, if you spoke to people around Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball last offseason, the Dodgers were not the only ones
Speaker 2: that were interested in Glass Now. There were other teams
Speaker 2: that wanted to trade for him and were willing to
Speaker 2: give him a five year, one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 2: million dollar extension to be able to pull off that trade.
Speaker 2: But for the Dodgers, they're in a tough spot because
Speaker 2: they traded for glass Now. They signed Yamamoto to have
Speaker 2: those two guys anchor their rotation down the stretch and
Speaker 2: into October, and right now all they have is Yoshi Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: who pitched for the first time since June fifteenth, and
Speaker 2: all has gone well since then for Yamamoto, so as
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said he must have known something a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago when he was asked who had a
Speaker 2: better chance of pitching in October, and he said flat
Speaker 2: out it was Yamamoto. Eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. As far as
Speaker 2: tonight's game goes, I thought the first inning was pivotal.
Speaker 2: Chris Sale, who has been outstanding all year long, is
Speaker 2: on his way to winning the National League Cy Young Award.
Speaker 2: They kind of had him on the ropes. Sale was
Speaker 2: a erratic in the strike zone. He only threw four strikes,
Speaker 2: including the leadoff walk to Otani, but the double play
Speaker 2: killed what could have been a bigger inning. And also
Speaker 2: ta Oscar Hernandez trying to stretch a double to a triple,
Speaker 2: trying to do too much in that situation. And then
Speaker 2: Mooki Bets in right field. We have not seen Mooki
Speaker 2: misjudge two or three fly balls the way we signed
Speaker 2: misjudge those tonight, starting with the double by Matt Olsen,
Speaker 2: which was in the first inning, and then the other
Speaker 2: double by Jorge Solaire in the third inning. Bets did
Speaker 2: not have to jump for that double by Solaire, but
Speaker 2: he did and he couldn't catch it. So off night
Speaker 2: for Mookie Bets and it happens to the best of them,
Speaker 2: and tonight it was one of those nights for Mookie
Speaker 2: in right field. Let's head downstairs right now to hear
Speaker 2: from Mookie Bets.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's kind of first in the league for
Speaker 3: the sat young so you know it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: tough battle. But I mean he's just I just saw
Speaker 3: him being Chris Ale making it tough and just didn't
Speaker 3: couldn't really apply much pressure on him. He was just
Speaker 3: continuously just getting out of innings and making pitches.
Speaker 4: You see a Sale at his best, Like how close
Speaker 4: is this to sort of what you saw from Gloster?
Speaker 3: I mean it's the same. You know, that's a kind
Speaker 3: of what you expect out of Chris Sale, especially.
Speaker 5: When he's healthy.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think this is something new to anybody,
Speaker 3: And if it is, you probably didn't know who Chris l.
Speaker 5: Was enough playing redfield, Like what kind of happened.
Speaker 6: There where they?
Speaker 3: No, I just missed it, man, I just went after
Speaker 3: it and I missed it. Now I misjudged. It didn't matter.
Speaker 2: I missed it all right, there's Mookie bets short and
Speaker 2: sweet on sports net LA after misjudging a couple of
Speaker 2: doubles out there in right field. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers have only gotten a combined five innings from their
Speaker 2: starters in the first two games of this series. Last
Speaker 2: night a disappointing one for Landon Nack, and tonight equally
Speaker 2: as disappointing for Jack Flaherty, who threw eighty three pitches
Speaker 2: in three innings and the fastball velocity was a mile
Speaker 2: mile and a half lower than what we have seen
Speaker 2: from him all season long. And you have to wonder
Speaker 2: if there are certain nights, or this night in particular,
Speaker 2: where the back wasn't feeling that great, because, as you
Speaker 2: heard Jose Mota observe, he was not finishing his pitches
Speaker 2: and he was struggling with his breaking ball. When you
Speaker 2: talk about a pitcher not feeling great physically well, the
Speaker 2: breaking ball is usually the first sign that things are
Speaker 2: not going great with your mechanics because it takes more
Speaker 2: effort to get over your front leg to execute a curveball,
Speaker 2: and we did not see a great curveball from Flerity.
Speaker 2: We saw a ninety two fastball from Flarity, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden midway through the third inning, it
Speaker 2: felt like he was overthrowing to try to get more velocity,
Speaker 2: and that really did not help him. So bad defense
Speaker 2: behind him. There's a bad play by Rojas, a couple
Speaker 2: of bad plays by Mookie Betts, but nonetheless, something seemed
Speaker 2: off about Jack Flaherty. Tonight, let's head downstairs again to
Speaker 2: the Dodger Clubhouse to hear from young Jack trying to compete.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, I just I just you know
Speaker 4: around the zone, wasn't really attacking guys, wasn't wasn't doing
Speaker 4: little things right when you look at it, and I'll
Speaker 4: walk for guys. Didn't really get ahead and I got
Speaker 4: any good accounts. Was they don't put guys away quickly.
Speaker 4: The accounts ran long. You know, they put some good
Speaker 4: of ads together.
Speaker 7: So you just.
Speaker 4: Move on from this one. We want to the next one,
Speaker 4: you know, as quickly as you can. And you know,
Speaker 4: you you just make the adjustments. You come in tomorrow
Speaker 4: and you you start working on things getting ready for
Speaker 4: the next one.
Speaker 7: A lot like that is it, because like mechanical things
Speaker 7: aren't saying does is.
Speaker 4: Like, I we'll we'll figure it out as as we go.
Speaker 4: I don't have the answer sitting here right now, but
Speaker 4: come in tomorrow, look at some things tonight, and look
Speaker 4: at some things tomorrow, and figure it out.
Speaker 5: Over the week.
Speaker 4: It's not like if I had the answers right now.
Speaker 4: I you know, I you you like to make those
Speaker 4: adjustments in game. You know, you know what it is,
Speaker 4: you know what it takes, and you know what you
Speaker 4: need to do. And you know, I just wasn't even
Speaker 4: making as quickly as I would would have liked to.
Speaker 4: I had a couple instances there where things started to
Speaker 4: go in right direction, and then uh, you know, I
Speaker 4: just put myself in that spots.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that side.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at at the starting rotation. You know
Speaker 5: the injuries that have kind of hit it pretty hard,
Speaker 5: and how much they're gonna be relying on you get
Speaker 5: a potential October run. Do you feel that pressure? Do
Speaker 5: you think about those expectations at all?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: I mean our jobs go out and give the team
Speaker 4: a chance to win. If you look at tonight, I
Speaker 4: didn't really didn't do a good job of that. And
Speaker 4: even there when we get a one to one they
Speaker 4: put up. You know, we tie the ball game against Sale,
Speaker 4: who's been really really good all year, and you wanna
Speaker 4: go out and put up a shut down inning, and
Speaker 4: I didn't do that and give up three runs there on. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know, RCA put a good swing on the ball,
Speaker 4: So you know that that's frustrating. When when they when
Speaker 4: they put up another run and you got a chance
Speaker 4: to go out put a shut down and get those
Speaker 4: guys back into the dugout, that's frustrating. And then you know,
Speaker 4: looking forward, you just keep keep making starts to keep
Speaker 4: h you make pitches, and that's all about the game
Speaker 4: of adjustments.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: You just chalk this one up and move on to
Speaker 4: the next one.
Speaker 2: All right. There's Jack Flaherty on sports net LA after
Speaker 2: a disappointing night for him and the Dodgers as the
Speaker 2: Braves beat Flaherty ten to one, and in that sixth inning,
Speaker 2: more concern over Evan Phillips, who has looked very ordinary recently.
Speaker 2: It's been an up and down season for Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: and he's in the valley again loading the bases with
Speaker 2: two outs and Ryan Brasier was not able to limit
Speaker 2: the damage. Matt Olsen with a basis clearing double to
Speaker 2: blow this game open. Eight six six, seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Queens,
Speaker 2: New York. Joe. We're on the same time zone. You're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: How you doing, David, good to speak to you.
Speaker 9: A long time Dodger fans love.
Speaker 2: Talking to somebody in Queens, lets you are.
Speaker 9: Look, I got a few points.
Speaker 10: First of well, why does Dave Roberts put Freeman in
Speaker 10: the fourth position when he's he's in a sump?
Speaker 2: Well, tonight he was going up against the toughest left
Speaker 2: hander in the National League and ta Oscar Hernandez is
Speaker 2: hitting three h four coming into tonight's game against lefty,
Speaker 2: so he wanted to have ta Oscar hitting third, and
Speaker 2: it looked like he was paying off in the first
Speaker 2: inning before ta Oscar tried to stretch a double into
Speaker 2: a triple.
Speaker 10: Yes, that's another I mean, why would you even think
Speaker 10: of going to third Dase in that situation.
Speaker 2: That's a guy that's trying to do too much with
Speaker 2: an offense that is struggling in its last nine games.
Speaker 2: That's all I could come up with. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: that type of base running mistake from taoscar all season long.
Speaker 8: He took us out of the inning.
Speaker 9: You know, it could have changed I don't think it
Speaker 9: would have changed the game because the way the pitching went,
Speaker 9: but you know, to make up a base running one
Speaker 9: like that is just unforgivable.
Speaker 8: And then Mookie bitch, he he misplayed two five walls
Speaker 8: in thewfield.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mookie did not look like himself either out there
Speaker 2: in right field, and the arm looked kind of weak
Speaker 2: as well as he was trying to hit the cutoff man.
Speaker 2: So it was one of those nights. As I said, Joe,
Speaker 2: it was one of those nights. But the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: got to wake themselves up. They've got to get back
Speaker 2: on track.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the phone call. Call back anytime.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Ken in Newport Beach. Let's just
Speaker 2: get Ken out of the way right now after a
Speaker 2: bad loss. How you doing, Ken? Just kidding? Ken? You
Speaker 2: can call anytime.
Speaker 7: I tell I know you're kidding.
Speaker 10: I think I've got a couple of statistics, A couple
Speaker 10: of statistics for you. Dodgers are one four in their
Speaker 10: last five. In those five games, they've made six errors. Tonight,
Speaker 10: they have four hits. They have four of the five
Speaker 10: starters with e ers over ten in those four games,
Speaker 10: and actually the best Eks pitch today it was Kik.
Speaker 6: In addition, they are okay seven games Ross, I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: last seven games Dodgers have four guys hitting under two
Speaker 6: hundred Freeman, Lux, DK, Muncie.
Speaker 10: And you're not getting much from Oh.
Speaker 2: We lost Ken. What happened the negativity line cut out
Speaker 2: on him? Well, I understand what he was getting at,
Speaker 2: and that was my point. The Dodgers have got to
Speaker 2: shake themselves and get back on track here to finish
Speaker 2: out the stretch run on a high note. It's not
Speaker 2: so much about winning the division. They are going to
Speaker 2: do that, I have no doubts about that. But they
Speaker 2: have got to start playing better baseball. Yes, the starting
Speaker 2: pitching has not been great. Yes, they are very thin
Speaker 2: with starting pitching, especially now that we know Glass now
Speaker 2: is not coming back. But what you can do is
Speaker 2: try to minimize damage and help your starters by playing
Speaker 2: good defense behind them. Tonight, again we did not see that.
Speaker 2: You go back to the last homestand against the Cubs, sloppy,
Speaker 2: sloppy play, and as far as the starters go, it
Speaker 2: has not been pretty for the Dodgers, as they have
Speaker 2: lost for their last five and during that five game stretch,
Speaker 2: the bullpen has thrown more innings than the starters. The
Speaker 2: bullpen has thrown twenty four and two thirds innings while
Speaker 2: starters have only thrown eighteen and a third innings. And
Speaker 2: I appreciate Bill Plunkett's help with the math on that,
Speaker 2: but that is not a winning recipe to have your
Speaker 2: relievers throwing more innings than your starters. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be so to see a fresh arm tomorrow
Speaker 2: behind Walker Buehler, because Honeywell threw a lot of pitches yesterday.
Speaker 2: Again today, the Dodgers had to go to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: They had to use two position players to mop up
Speaker 2: the last two innings. They just sent down Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: But if there's a reliever that has to go on
Speaker 2: the il, then Robleski can be called up and be
Speaker 2: available tomorrow. So we'll see how guys are feeling moving forward.
Speaker 2: But there's a good chance you'll see a fresh arm
Speaker 2: tomorrow because they have used so many reliever innings in
Speaker 2: the first two games of this series. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: a time out here on Dodger Talk. When we come
Speaker 2: back more of your phone calls. We have two lines
Speaker 2: open at eight six six nine, eight seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 2: We'll let you know what I saw from Otani's bullpen
Speaker 2: session today and also Clayton Kershaw continues to strive to
Speaker 2: come back. We'll fill you in on all of that.
Speaker 2: As the Dodgers fall to the Braves ten to one
Speaker 2: on AM five seventy LA Sports.
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Speaker 11: Dodger Talk with Dodger insider David Basse.
Speaker 2: We are live at Truis Park in Atlanta. After the
Speaker 2: Braves put one on the Dodgers tonight in a big way,
Speaker 2: ten to one the final score. Welcome the Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: with you until eight thirty tonight on AM five to
Speaker 2: seventy LA Sports Live from Atlanta. We have two lines
Speaker 2: open at eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have got to find a way to get
Speaker 2: back on track. But tonight it was all Chris Sale,
Speaker 2: who improved his record over the course of the last
Speaker 2: thirteen games to seven and oh with an ERA of
Speaker 2: one eighty two, whose sales record this season is seventeen
Speaker 2: and three. He's on his way to a National League
Speaker 2: Cy Young Award. He beat Jack Flaherty, who only lasted
Speaker 2: three innings tonight. It was the shortest outing by Jack
Speaker 2: Flaherty since last August, where he only went three innings.
Speaker 2: Flarity with the Dodgers is five and two. His record
Speaker 2: overall this season is twelve and seven. The Dodgers in
Speaker 2: the first two games of this series have been outscored
Speaker 2: sixteen to three, and their three MVPs of Otani, Betts,
Speaker 2: and Freeman are combined two for twenty. Let's go back
Speaker 2: out to the phones. Lou in Huntington Beach. You're on
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 8: Lou Hi, Dave Pour are you?
Speaker 12: I love your show and I'm gonna try to keep
Speaker 12: it short. I just wanted to mention why is no
Speaker 12: one mentioning the fact I know that Mokis made those
Speaker 12: I consider the errors, but maybe he just missed the balls.
Speaker 12: But you know this. This extends the innings. This, this
Speaker 12: puts more pressure on the pitchers and they have to
Speaker 12: throw more balls. That puts their pitch count higher. He
Speaker 12: would have been out of it had Mooki made those plays.
Speaker 12: I think Claerty's pitch count.
Speaker 8: Would have been low.
Speaker 12: Then Rojas made an.
Speaker 13: Error which caused it to go, which.
Speaker 12: Caused the inning to go keep going because it would
Speaker 12: have been a double play, ending inning ending play which
Speaker 12: would have ended the inning.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'm just a little nervous.
Speaker 2: No, No, you're on point, You're on point.
Speaker 12: Yes, I just think the pitchers are absolute stress and
Speaker 12: pressure put on them because they don't know what the
Speaker 12: what the defense is going to be like, and it.
Speaker 2: Just well has heard of you know, we hear about
Speaker 2: offensive slumps. I've heard about defensive slumps. And it feels
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers right now are in a defensive slump
Speaker 2: and they've got to find a way to try to
Speaker 2: not do too much. That's the tricky thing about baseball.
Speaker 2: Right in life, we're always told to try harder, try
Speaker 2: harder to fix our mistakes. But in baseball, if you
Speaker 2: try harder and try to do too much, it's snowballs
Speaker 2: and more mistakes occur. So the Dodgers have got to
Speaker 2: find a way to just relax and find a way
Speaker 2: to have that engagement, that focus and be in the
Speaker 2: moment to not make mistakes that they usually don't make.
Speaker 12: Yes, And don't you think that puts more pressure on
Speaker 12: the pictures here? They would be out of the inning
Speaker 12: but for the fact that their defense is just struggling
Speaker 12: and making and then the pitchers have got to make
Speaker 12: more pitches and their pitchcount goes up, and then they're
Speaker 12: out of the game because they've got their pitchcount too high.
Speaker 2: And Okay, okay, that's part of it. How about on
Speaker 2: the flip side, these Dodger pitchers that you're talking about
Speaker 2: being victimized by bad plays behind them, don't you think
Speaker 2: the Dodger pitchers need to throw strikes and get their
Speaker 2: infield fielders out of that game, out of that inning,
Speaker 2: any particular inning quicker because it feels like these guys
Speaker 2: are standing out there for a long time because Dodger
Speaker 2: pitchers are not throwing strike one, and they're not throwing
Speaker 2: strikes a lot these days loose, So I feel like
Speaker 2: it's not just one sided, it's they all play together.
Speaker 2: It's an ecosystem, right. If a pitcher's throwing strikes, guys
Speaker 2: are more engaged, there's more of a chance to stay
Speaker 2: on your feet and not lose focused. To me, Dodger
Speaker 2: pitchers recently have not been very good relievers starters at
Speaker 2: throwing strike one right.
Speaker 12: Right on the offense, like you said, is not helping.
Speaker 12: They're just all of it, all the way, all of it.
Speaker 2: It's not going great the last ten games or so.
Speaker 2: They've got to figure it out. Lou you are great.
Speaker 2: Call back any.
Speaker 12: Time, Thanks, Dave, Take care, Bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Look outfielders, infielders, they don't want to
Speaker 2: stand behind pitchers that are not throwing strikes. These guys
Speaker 2: are human too, right. You want to keep your infielders
Speaker 2: and outfielders engaged by throwing strikes and keeping the inning moving.
Speaker 2: And I'm not seeing a lot of strikes being thrown.
Speaker 2: Not by Jack Flaherty tonight, not by Evan Phillips in
Speaker 2: the sixth inning. And that's problematic. It's not an excuse
Speaker 2: for lack of focus or misplays or errors. But that's
Speaker 2: also another layer to why the Dodgers have lost six
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Speaker 2: we get back out to the phone calls, I just
Speaker 2: want to relay to you again about Sho Haotani and
Speaker 2: the possibility of him pitching in October. Today he threw
Speaker 2: a twenty five pitch bullpen session before the game. It
Speaker 2: was his sixth bullpen session since his second elbow surgery.
Speaker 2: He is starting to get closer to do what the
Speaker 2: Dodgers already had planned for him, and that's to face hitters.
Speaker 2: That's not because they're planning on using him in October.
Speaker 2: And in fact, today I was told by somebody with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers that they believe that it's a one percent
Speaker 2: chance of Otani pitching in October. And Dave Roberts even
Speaker 2: walked it back a little bit yesterday where he said
Speaker 2: he is not going to completely rule it out, but
Speaker 2: it is a long shot, and I feel like we're
Speaker 2: all It feels like some people are taking that and
Speaker 2: running with it as if you're going to see Otani
Speaker 2: pitch in the first round of the playoffs. I do
Speaker 2: not see that happening. The only scenario I could see
Speaker 2: Otani pitching is if the Dodgers did make the World
Speaker 2: Series and they needed an inning or two and we're
Speaker 2: desperate for that. Otani definitely would rise to the occasion,
Speaker 2: and probably talking to the Japanese media, they believe that
Speaker 2: he would want that type of stage to make his
Speaker 2: first pitching appearance. They don't believe that Otani wants to.
Speaker 2: They don't believe that the stage is big enough for
Speaker 2: Otani to pitch in an NLDS or an NLCS. That's
Speaker 2: the Japanese media's opinion that I'm speaking to, and like
Speaker 2: I said, it's a long shot for Otani to pitch
Speaker 2: this year. The Dodgers are more than likely, from my understanding,
Speaker 2: going to have another meeting about this when they return
Speaker 2: back to Los Angeles. But as of now, the plan is,
Speaker 2: and the plan has been since the beginning of the season,
Speaker 2: to shut down the throwing program once the regular season ends,
Speaker 2: so Otani can focus on the playoffs. So that's where
Speaker 2: things stand with Otani and pitching. It's a long shot,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers are not going to rule it out.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's go back out to New York, home
Speaker 2: of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Al, you're on Dodger Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing, al great?
Speaker 13: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. He's talking baseball. What do we got.
Speaker 13: My brother Joe from Queens called earlier and I had
Speaker 13: it get on the because my brother, he's a negative
Speaker 13: Nancy on the on the Dodgers all the time, even
Speaker 13: though he's a big Dodger fan life, while he's one
Speaker 13: who got me into the Dodgers in the first place.
Speaker 13: But I've got to say what I've been telling my
Speaker 13: brother and everyone else. I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 13: you can really prepare for October baseball. That's that, that's
Speaker 13: the feeling I'm getting. I mean, we're talking about Otani.
Speaker 13: I mean some people are talking about Otani.
Speaker 7: I just heard what you said.
Speaker 13: It reminds me of last year when they were talking
Speaker 13: about Beulah. We've we've got to stop, you know, Look,
Speaker 13: have pipe dreams and get this team together and just
Speaker 13: you know, like, I don't know what the answer is,
Speaker 13: but I know that none of this is gonna have
Speaker 13: anything to do with what happens in October when we're
Speaker 13: playing in the playoffs. Do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You're right, nobody's going to be talking about this game tonight.
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers run the table, that's for sure. Al
Speaker 2: But the reality is, I'm not talking so much about tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm talking big picture with their pitching. Right now, they
Speaker 2: have two starters that they can count on, Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: and Yoshi Yamamoto, and that's a fragile thing. So if
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to run the table and get
Speaker 2: to the World Series, they're going to need a whole
Speaker 2: pitching staff to get there because they only have two starters.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Kershaw may be able to get things going by the
Speaker 2: time the NLDS rolls around, but he's not going to
Speaker 2: pitch any more regular season games, according to Dave Roberts.
Speaker 2: So that's my thing. You could say all you want
Speaker 2: that this game means nothing, and I'm with you. It
Speaker 2: does mean something to a certain extent. Because the Dodgers
Speaker 2: need to play for advantageous playoffs seating right now, with
Speaker 2: how thin their starting pitching is, that's my only concern
Speaker 2: they're going to make the playoffs. But if you're in
Speaker 2: a wildcard series and you need to go not only
Speaker 2: three rounds to win the World Series, now you're adding
Speaker 2: another round with the thinnest pitching they have had in
Speaker 2: the last twelve years, that's going to be a tall order.
Speaker 2: And that's why they need that first round by more
Speaker 2: than ever.
Speaker 13: Oh, I agree one hundred percent on that level.
Speaker 2: But all right, now I gotta run. I got a
Speaker 2: full border calls. Thank you for the phone call. Handle
Speaker 2: it with your brother out there in Queens. Let's go
Speaker 2: out to uh Rex into Mechula. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Rex?
Speaker 8: Hey, Gabe, how are you tough loss tonight? You enjoying
Speaker 8: that weather there in Atlanta?
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm just happy it wasn't rained outer there were
Speaker 2: no rain delays, so I think we got past the
Speaker 2: worst of it.
Speaker 8: Yes, I lived there for seventeen years and was there
Speaker 8: when the Braves won the World Series in ninety five,
Speaker 8: and I told your screener, I see a little similarity.
Speaker 8: I feel like that the Braves of that era I
Speaker 8: should have won at least three or four World Series.
Speaker 8: Of course they only won one. I'm starting to see
Speaker 8: that with the Dodgers. Of course, Ballinger made us pay
Speaker 8: the other day. Corey Seeger ends up being like an MVP,
Speaker 8: and I just feel like this Dodgers era, I feel
Speaker 8: like we should have three or four World Series and
Speaker 8: to get it done this year. I just starting to
Speaker 8: feel a little bit desperate, and like, I heard what
Speaker 8: you said about Otani. What other options do we have
Speaker 8: for pitching besides besides what you've already mentioned. What other
Speaker 8: options do.
Speaker 7: You want to know?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do you want to know the sleeper? Do you want
Speaker 2: to know the sleeper name?
Speaker 8: Lay it on me.
Speaker 2: Tony Gonsolin. Tony Gonsolin will come, and I believe will
Speaker 2: at least make one start before the end of the
Speaker 2: regular season. He made one starter ready for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: He went two scoreless innings. He's pitching again tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: I assume he's going to up it to at least
Speaker 2: three innings. If he's throwing three innings in a triple
Speaker 2: A game and the Dodgers needs starting pitching, it feels
Speaker 2: like if all goes well tomorrow with Gonsolin. It feels
Speaker 2: like Tony Gonsolin now is in the fold. Nobody's talking
Speaker 2: about him. But that's more of a reality than Otani
Speaker 2: pitching in the postseason.
Speaker 8: When would be the soonest he could show up to
Speaker 8: pitch well.
Speaker 2: If he's pitching tomorrow, then probably six days after that.
Speaker 2: All right, gosh, thank you for the phone call. You go,
Speaker 2: there's the sleeper name. Eight six six nine seven two
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Look desperate times, call for desperate measures.
Speaker 2: Tony Gonsolin is feeling good in his recovery from Tommy
Speaker 2: John surgery. He's twelve months removed, and look, he's pitching
Speaker 2: Triple A games. So if he's pitching Triple A games,
Speaker 2: he can pitch major league games. And the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: need his help. Eight six six ninety seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Jonas
Speaker 2: in La. You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 9: Hi, Jonas, Hey, Dave, A big fan of your work.
Speaker 9: Really enjoy it the way you cover the Dodgers. I
Speaker 9: really wanted to get your take on this that I've
Speaker 9: been concerned about the podres, specifically creeping up on the
Speaker 9: Dodgers as we head into the final stretch of the season.
Speaker 9: We've got two games with Atlanta, then I think we
Speaker 9: have a Colorado Miami, then the Podreys come into town.
Speaker 9: Do you see any scenario that the Dodgers could slip
Speaker 9: out of first place and the Podres or the Diamondbacks
Speaker 9: take to the should the Dodgers go to a wild card?
Speaker 2: I don't see. The Diamondbacks. They lost today and the
Speaker 2: calendar is working against them. The Dodgers also hold the tiebreaker. Now,
Speaker 2: as far as the Padres go, they're playing good baseball
Speaker 2: right now. They're going to win tonight if they already
Speaker 2: haven't won against the Giants, and they're making it interesting,
Speaker 2: no doubt about it, because the Dodgers are not winning games.
Speaker 2: They've lost six of their last nine, and the Padres
Speaker 2: are winning eight to nothing in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: eighth inning. So they're going to cut the Dodger lead
Speaker 2: by another game before it's all said and done. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that three game series against the Padres at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: is trying to look like a bigger series. You know,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers pitching is not in a good place right now.
Speaker 2: I don't believe the Dodgers are going to lose this
Speaker 2: division to the Padres or the Diamondbacks. My only concern
Speaker 2: is if they don't start winning enough games, the Brewers
Speaker 2: are going to overtake them for the second spot in
Speaker 2: the National League playoff picture. That's my greater concern.
Speaker 9: Okay, now, I don't know. There's been some talk. I
Speaker 9: listened to you. I listened to you on Petras, some money,
Speaker 9: and obviously a lot of your your comments. Bigger picture.
Speaker 9: The recent article by Jack Harrison the LA Times regarding
Speaker 9: the Dodger pitching injuries.
Speaker 6: Do you think it.
Speaker 9: Looks like the Dodgers have more pitching injuries than any
Speaker 9: other team by far? What do you have a take
Speaker 9: on that? I mean, is there a larger problem with
Speaker 9: how the Dodgers manage their talent versus other teams.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it's just a Dodger problem, But I'll
Speaker 2: say this, talking to some veteran pitchers that have a
Speaker 2: great grasp on what it takes to go deep into
Speaker 2: games and to last a full season, they believe and
Speaker 2: even talking to the Hall of Famer Jim Palmer at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium, they believe this. This data, they call it
Speaker 2: track Man, which tracks spin, rate, velocity, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what it's called track Man. These guys believe you've
Speaker 2: got to take that out of the bullpen sessions because
Speaker 2: these younger pitchers feel the pressure of competing for their
Speaker 2: spot and in the process, in these bullpen sessions are
Speaker 2: not just a light touch and feel bullpen for thirty pitches. Instead,
Speaker 2: they're trying to compete with the pitch they just threw
Speaker 2: and looking at the iPad. It's great if the evaluators
Speaker 2: want to see that, but these pitchers are telling me
Speaker 2: they've got to take that out of the bullpen for
Speaker 2: the pitchers to see and just let them know, hey,
Speaker 2: you don't have to approve your stuff right here in
Speaker 2: the bullpen. We will judge you in games the bullpen.
Speaker 2: As you know, bullpen sessions are meant to kind of
Speaker 2: get a feel for the pitches or if you're working
Speaker 2: on something, it's not to throw ninety eight and try
Speaker 2: to compete with the pitch that you just threw. So
Speaker 2: that seems to be something that a lot of people
Speaker 2: agree upon that these young guys in these bullpen sessions
Speaker 2: are trying to compete against the numbers of what they
Speaker 2: just threw because they feel like they have to or
Speaker 2: they're not going to keep their job in the rotation.
Speaker 9: All right, well, thanks very much, have a good night.
Speaker 9: It's getting late there for you, so we'll get some
Speaker 9: sleep and we'll be listening down the road.
Speaker 2: Take care, all right, thanks for the phone call, Jonas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that seems to be the consensus from pitchers that are
Speaker 2: very good at going deep into games and lasting for
Speaker 2: twenty five to thirty starts. Number One, have these young
Speaker 2: pitchers throw more in the minor leagues. Sandy Kofax is
Speaker 2: famous for saying you don't train for a marathon by
Speaker 2: running sprints, meaning he's a big believer in throwing more
Speaker 2: will help pitchers be more durable in their careers and
Speaker 2: during a particular season. I know in every walk of
Speaker 2: life that we always say to try to protect, whether
Speaker 2: it's your eyes or your knee, rest it more, don't
Speaker 2: try to do too much with it. Stop looking at
Speaker 2: the screen if your eyes are hurting. But in pitching,
Speaker 2: it sounds like to stay healthier. Throwing more helps, you know,
Speaker 2: you go back twenty years or so, young pitchers were
Speaker 2: being time fifteen minutes at a time and saying to throw,
Speaker 2: throw for fifteen minutes, play catch for fifteen minutes, and
Speaker 2: that helped build endurance. So hopefully things start to go
Speaker 2: back in that direction where pitchers are throwing more and
Speaker 2: being allowed to go deeper into games in the minor league.
Speaker 2: So that's a whole different show for the offseason. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's my take on it. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Braves beat the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight ten to one. Let's go out to Lewis
Speaker 2: in the Bay Air. Hi, Lewis, you're a Dodger talk.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dave, good program. You're getting a lot in tonight.
Speaker 7: And I got to say to just compliment you. I
Speaker 7: heard that interview with Jim Palmer and it was great.
Speaker 7: He's spot on. And if you listen to a buster
Speaker 7: on the interview earlier this week when he had Smolts on,
Speaker 7: he adds to it. But we can talk about that
Speaker 7: in the off season. My question to you, it's hard
Speaker 7: to gauge, but I just do wonder about the morale
Speaker 7: with the Dodgers top pitchers going down and all the
Speaker 7: questions if that doesn't at some point hit the team
Speaker 7: as a whole and that's why you're seeing such a
Speaker 7: bad stretch from both the bullpen and the defense, which
Speaker 7: if you look at the defense throughout the year, has
Speaker 7: actually been quite good, even with some of the position
Speaker 7: shifts that say Mookie had to go through. And I
Speaker 7: guess the final point, I'm really encouraged what you said
Speaker 7: about Gonsolin, and my only caveat to add, and I'd
Speaker 7: love to hear your take, is whether you have to
Speaker 7: bring in somebody like Casparius who's not a pro for
Speaker 7: the playoffs yet. I don't think he's ready, but to
Speaker 7: just give the bullpen some help because another arm for
Speaker 7: one inning isn't going to do the trick. And you
Speaker 7: still are dealing with starting pitchers who, as you say,
Speaker 7: are fragile.
Speaker 2: I'm aldo Sperius has a Yeah, Caspirius has been here
Speaker 2: to give coverage to starters. The Dodgers are concerned about
Speaker 2: how deep they might get into a game. It's been him,
Speaker 2: it's been Robleski, it's been Brent honeywell, so definitely he's
Speaker 2: in the mix. And thanks for the phone call, lewis appreciated.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number, Hey, yesterday, speaking of pregame interviews, we
Speaker 2: ran into a former Dodger, Carl Crawford, who was part
Speaker 2: of that Adrian Gonzalez nick punto Josh Beckett trade. As
Speaker 2: you know, the Dodgers took Crawford's dollars to be able
Speaker 2: to pull off the trade for Adrian Gonzalez. And here's
Speaker 2: what Carl Crawford had to say about the memories he
Speaker 2: had playing for the Dodgers. We with one of the.
Speaker 14: Cool little ones, you know, him and Jack Peterson used
Speaker 14: to be side by side, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 14: So yeah, man, well those guys, yeah, man, Like I said,
Speaker 14: it's nice to see him and see him actually doing well.
Speaker 14: You know what I'm saying. Those were some good clips
Speaker 14: and I always thought they was gonna be really good
Speaker 14: clip and to see how they how they turn out,
Speaker 14: is great.
Speaker 2: Carl, you brought back some great memories. I do remember
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse, Jack Peterson looking up to you just
Speaker 2: wanna leave your side. The player that he's become. Did
Speaker 2: you see that when he was a rookie? Yes, I
Speaker 2: saw it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 14: With rookie and then you know, like I said, I
Speaker 14: to go down for a couple of things in the
Speaker 14: minor league. So I saw him when he was going
Speaker 14: thirty to thirty in the minors, so I already knew
Speaker 14: he had to tell it to do what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, he's I'm.
Speaker 14: Glad his personality is still the same. He still has
Speaker 14: fun to go about the game in a great way.
Speaker 14: So you know, it's good to see that he's doing well.
Speaker 14: One of my low Yeah.
Speaker 2: What they say, photos as and whatnot little bros.
Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, man, you little bro for real though, So
Speaker 14: now I'm glad to see he's doing well.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Carl Crawford. And to hear the full conversation,
Speaker 2: you could see it on or listen to it on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. It was great to see Carl yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was unexpected, but he splits time between Atlanta and Houston,
Speaker 2: and he certainly was a character. I'll say that, never
Speaker 2: a dull moment when Carl Crawford was around, and when
Speaker 2: he was on the team, guys would be asked, who's
Speaker 2: the funniest guy on the team, and they would all
Speaker 2: say Carl Crawford unintentionally the funniest guy out there. So
Speaker 2: it was great to see carl for sure. Right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for us. On Dodger Talk tonight Tomorrow, Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Baseball, Walker Buehler will be on the mound going
Speaker 2: up against former Ray and veteran Charlie Morton, who's eight
Speaker 2: and eight this year for the Braves with an era
Speaker 2: of four to eleven. Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck begins
Speaker 2: at three o'clock, with first pitch at four to ten.
Speaker 2: You know, one year I talked to Charlie Morton when
Speaker 2: he was going to be a free agent, and I said, Hey,
Speaker 2: any interest to pitching for the Dodgers. He said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I would love to pitch for the Dodgers, but my
Speaker 2: family's on the East coast. I'm not crossing the Mississippi.
Speaker 2: So that's the reason why Charlie Morton never entertained coming
Speaker 2: to the West coast. Thanks to Colinie back at our
Speaker 2: Burbanks Studios, Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out here at Truest
Speaker 2: Truest Park out here in Atlanta, and thanks to you
Speaker 2: for listening. In case you missed any of the show,
Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio apps. Once again,
Speaker 2: the final score from Truest Park in Atlanta. The Braives
Speaker 2: defeat the Dodgers. Tend to one, have a great rest
Speaker 2: of your night. See you on sticking. Stop just don't