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Speaker 2: Tim Kates with you here on postgame Dodger Talk on
Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
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Speaker 2: San Francisco Giants. As they keep on rolling after the
Speaker 2: All Star Break. They've won six of seven and now
Speaker 2: they hit the road for an eight game road trip
Speaker 2: beginning tomorrow in Houston. But what a day out at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium. Nick Ahmed and Showey O'tani with back to
Speaker 2: back home runs in the eighth inning give the Dodgers
Speaker 2: the lead and the win today, though Clayton Kershaw the
Speaker 2: first time he has taking the mound in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four his long awaited day. Four innings, he allowed two runs,
Speaker 2: six hits, walked to struck out six. This is a
Speaker 2: thirty six year old future Hall of Famer who with
Speaker 2: a way The season ended last October seventh against the
Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS, hanging his head, his arm
Speaker 2: and shoulder, not doing what he had hoped going to
Speaker 2: an offseason of where he didn't know what his future
Speaker 2: was going to entail, what his shoulder was going to
Speaker 2: entail as far as surgery, no surgery. Could he pitch
Speaker 2: again in the big leagues? Would he be a Dodger again?
Speaker 2: Would he be somewhere else? He re signs with the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: has off season shoulder surgery, the first time ever, he
Speaker 2: goes under the knife in his professional career, and here
Speaker 2: he is, seven plus months later after his surgery, goes
Speaker 2: back out on the mound, makes his major league debut
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty four with four really good innings
Speaker 2: eight six, nine eighty seven to two five seventy. What
Speaker 2: did you think of that performance from the future Hall
Speaker 2: of famer? Is it what you thought we'd get out
Speaker 2: of Clayton Kershawn his first game back. I'll be honest
Speaker 2: with you. It was that plus more, and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why. Yeah, the innings for seventy two pitches kind
Speaker 2: of right around where they wanted him to get in
Speaker 2: his first star back. You weren't gonna see him go
Speaker 2: deep into this game unless he had seven or eight
Speaker 2: pitch innings and the pitch count allowed him to get
Speaker 2: deep into a game, but realistically he was going to
Speaker 2: be about four maybe five innings and get around seventy
Speaker 2: to seventy five pitches, and that's exactly where he got.
Speaker 2: And the first inning he gives up a double with
Speaker 2: two outs, walks a batter, get out of it with
Speaker 2: the strikeout. Fourteen pitches. First inning. All right, he's back.
Speaker 2: He's Clayton Kershaw. The fastball sitting low nineties, curveball, slider.
Speaker 2: He was on point. Felt like he had a good
Speaker 2: command of his pitches. Goes back out in the second inning, leadoff, strikeout,
Speaker 2: line drive out, two out, single again and just like
Speaker 2: in the first inning, gets out of it, no damage done.
Speaker 2: Ten pitch second inning. The third inning is where the
Speaker 2: things well kind of got away from Clayton Kershaw. Initially,
Speaker 2: the lineup turned over the second time. Now the Giants
Speaker 2: hitters were seeing Clayton Kershaw and he was doing a
Speaker 2: good job in his pitch mix with the slider, the curveball,
Speaker 2: pitching backwards with ausby pitches to lead off the guys
Speaker 2: in their bats, doing a really good job. Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 2: gives up a leadoff single, an RBI triple, an RBI single,
Speaker 2: and then another single. The first four batters reached base
Speaker 2: and all four Giants hitters hit the ball hard off
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw. And I'm I'm curious how many of you
Speaker 2: Dodger fans at that point in the third inning one nothing,
Speaker 2: lead's gone, it's a two to one San Francisco advantage,
Speaker 2: runners on first and second, nobody out, and everybody's hitting
Speaker 2: the ball hard against Clayton Kershaw. How many of you thought,
Speaker 2: Oh no, I've seen this movie before. I don't like
Speaker 2: the ending. I'm not into horror films. This is not
Speaker 2: gonna end well. And this is his first start back
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four What does this mean? I know
Speaker 2: some of you thought, Oh no, is he gonna be
Speaker 2: able to pitch in October? Oh no? What does this
Speaker 2: mean for the playoffs? I thought, we're getting Kershaw back?
Speaker 2: Where's Kershaw from twenty fourteen? I know that was going
Speaker 2: through your mind because I saw social media. But during
Speaker 2: that same inning in which the first four batters hit
Speaker 2: the ball hard against Clayton Kershaw, he comes back with
Speaker 2: runners on first and second. The lead is gone, and
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw buckles down. Layton Kershaw in that third inning,
Speaker 2: gets Patrick Bailey after it again, first and second, nobody out,
Speaker 2: two to one lead, facing Patrick Bailey, ball one, ball two,
Speaker 2: ball three. Oh no, I know you guys were panicking
Speaker 2: Dodger fans. I saw it on social media. I can
Speaker 2: literally hear it with the windows were open here in Burbank,
Speaker 2: the size of Dodger fan Oh no, the groans of
Speaker 2: oh not again. Three to zero count to Patrick Bailey.
Speaker 2: Runners on first and second, Nobody out. The walls are
Speaker 2: caving in for Clayton Kershaw throws a four seam fastball
Speaker 2: for a strike, a slider for a swinging strike. Patrick
Speaker 2: Bailey fouls off another slider, and then a three to
Speaker 2: two pitch slider down and in gets Patrick Bailey swing
Speaker 2: and missing strike three. To me, that was one hell
Speaker 2: of it at bat for Clayton Kershaw, facing Patrick Bailey
Speaker 2: to fall behind three and zero, battle back, attack the
Speaker 2: strike zone, not afraid to throw his slider, and there
Speaker 2: weren't sliders that they got guys lucky to chase. They
Speaker 2: were down to the zone and the guys were swinging
Speaker 2: over the top of them. He was getting swinging missus
Speaker 2: which was big for the first out. All right, still
Speaker 2: possible damage out there. You have a lard. You got
Speaker 2: a Strata up first and second, one out. He's still
Speaker 2: on the ropes. Okay, it's a heavyweight fight. He saw
Speaker 2: on the ropes. But he's protected himself a little bit.
Speaker 2: His hands are up. He's not getting the referee to
Speaker 2: step in here. Billard comes up ball one, falls behind
Speaker 2: two to one in the count, gets it two to
Speaker 2: two fouls off a slider over the middle of the plate,
Speaker 2: got away with one, and then a strike three, looking
Speaker 2: on a nasty, nasty seventy three mile an hour curveball,
Speaker 2: the old twelve to six Clayton Kershaw good night curveball
Speaker 2: for the second out of the inning. Dieter rule plays
Speaker 2: the organ dout dot d second out of the inning.
Speaker 2: You're starting to feel a little bit better. I can
Speaker 2: see the social media hits. Oh maybe maybe we're okay.
Speaker 2: Then he faces Estrata two out, lead off ball to
Speaker 2: Estrada two, two count, three to two count, and then
Speaker 2: on a three to two eighth pitch of the at
Speaker 2: bat gets a slider right the bottom of the zone
Speaker 2: and Estrada swings over it. Strike three. Amazing third inning
Speaker 2: for Clayton Kershaw. It started awful. First, four batters tattooing him,
Speaker 2: two runs scored, first and second, nobody out. He's on
Speaker 2: the ropes, taking body shots, taking hits to the head.
Speaker 2: And what does Clayton Kershaw do? Strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, thank you,
Speaker 2: good night. Goes back to the dugout damage. Not bad,
Speaker 2: two runs could have been worse. Pitch count was up
Speaker 2: after a thirty two pitch third inning, so you knew
Speaker 2: he wasn't destined to go five six, seven innings because
Speaker 2: the pitch count was already up. Goes back out there
Speaker 2: for the fourth inning, puts up a zero. Four innings,
Speaker 2: two runs, six hits, six strikeouts, two walks, seventy two pitches.
Speaker 2: Now the fastball is not gonna blow anybody away anymore.
Speaker 2: He is now a pitcher if he ever wasn't one before,
Speaker 2: which he was. He's always been masterful with this stuff.
Speaker 2: He's Clayton Kershaw. He's a Hall of Famer. It's one
Speaker 2: of the best that ever played. He's on the mount
Speaker 2: Rush of the Dodgers. He's always been a really good pitcher,
Speaker 2: but even more so now with the fastball. He's very
Speaker 2: good at where he's throwing in and out up in
Speaker 2: the zone and then getting that slider where it looks
Speaker 2: the same arm slot that all of a sudden the
Speaker 2: ball just drops and guys are swinging over the top
Speaker 2: of it. The curveball, which comes out of the same
Speaker 2: arm slot as the fastball, the slider. You think it's
Speaker 2: a slider and it's not gonna have much of a
Speaker 2: bite on it, then all of a sudden it drops
Speaker 2: two feet. It's nasty. When he has that curveball working
Speaker 2: like he did today. He did a fantastic job in
Speaker 2: his return and to me, that third inning, when you're
Speaker 2: coming back from an injury, and even he admitted it
Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect physically mentally to be on
Speaker 2: the ropes like he was in the third and to
Speaker 2: fight his way out of it in the third inning,
Speaker 2: to me, that was all the confidence he needs now
Speaker 2: moving forward. One he knows he can pitch still, and
Speaker 2: two he knows he can be a really good pitcher
Speaker 2: out there and get himself out of jams and be efficient.
Speaker 2: So to me, I know he's emotionally and mentally back,
Speaker 2: and physically he's checked off boxes, and I'm excited now
Speaker 2: to see what Clayton Kershaw can do building on this. No,
Speaker 2: he's not gonna throw seven, eight to nine inning complete
Speaker 2: games for you and throw one hundred and ten pitches.
Speaker 2: Those days aren't there anymore. But if he can give
Speaker 2: you five to six, get into the seventh inning, keep
Speaker 2: the runs down, keep the traffic off the base pass,
Speaker 2: limit the damage. It says exactly what the Dodgers need
Speaker 2: every five days. Is Clayton Kershaw building on what he
Speaker 2: did today moving forward. I'm excited about it. I really am.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two, five seventy.
Speaker 2: He gets a no decision, went the four innings, turned
Speaker 2: it over to the bullpen. Who was gonna have to
Speaker 2: come in and get the final eighteen outs. They were
Speaker 2: gonna have to come in and get the final five
Speaker 2: innings of work done collectively. Is that what they had
Speaker 2: hoped for? Probably not, But as it is, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were able to retake the lead in the fifth, work
Speaker 2: that lead in the sixth, the seventh, take it back
Speaker 2: out there in the eighth until Alex Vessi had give
Speaker 2: up an RBI double, then Blake trying and give up
Speaker 2: a two out single to Solaire on an O two
Speaker 2: pitch in which the power of Solaire all jacked up.
Speaker 2: Solaire hits the ball flares out into the infield. Anybody
Speaker 2: else makes contact, by the way, that's an out to
Speaker 2: the infield. But Jorge Silaire is so muscular and jacked up,
Speaker 2: he gets a little flair and that ball just goes
Speaker 2: into no man's land there. It's like a pitching wedge.
Speaker 2: He just shoots it out there into no man's land
Speaker 2: in the outfield, and it brings him the tye and run.
Speaker 2: And there were some booze at Dodger Stadium. Yes, we
Speaker 2: heard you, Dodger fans. If you were leaving Dodger Stadium early,
Speaker 2: shame on you. If you were upset and getting out
Speaker 2: of your seat and frustrated, shame on you. It was
Speaker 2: a tie game, four to four, Dodgers had their lineup
Speaker 2: about to turn over eight nine to one. And what
Speaker 2: happened in that bottom half of the eighth inning, Well,
Speaker 2: if your nick I met it's pretty special. Would the
Speaker 2: last twenty four hours have been free agent sitting at home,
Speaker 2: probably hitting his local batting cage, local high school, maybe
Speaker 2: taking soft toss, maybe doing VR in his garage with
Speaker 2: the goggles on. I don't know what he does. I
Speaker 2: don't know what do they do anymore, just to keep
Speaker 2: themselves hot when they're not playing. But whatever he was doing,
Speaker 2: he was staying ready. The Dodgers called him because of
Speaker 2: the injury to Miguel Rojas. Gets on a flight, heads
Speaker 2: to Burbank Lands. Yesterday at Dodger Stadium on the field,
Speaker 2: our own David Vasse had complete surprise on his face
Speaker 2: when he saw nick I met at a Dodger uniform.
Speaker 2: He's starting for them last night and today he comes
Speaker 2: up at a tie game with one out in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, and let's get weird, as Stephen Nelson says.
Speaker 2: A solo home run to left field nearly four hundred feet,
Speaker 2: his second of his season, first as a Dodger, and
Speaker 2: it's nick on Met who it's the home run to
Speaker 2: give the Dodgers eight five to four lead, and before
Speaker 2: the crowd at Dodgers damn those of you who didn't
Speaker 2: leave in an angry, tough showay Otani, the very first
Speaker 2: pitch he sees from Tyler Rodgers boom down the right
Speaker 2: field line, home run number thirty one, insurance run to
Speaker 2: give the Dodgers a six to four lead, and then
Speaker 2: the ninth that he belonged to. You guessed it, Brent Honeywell.
Speaker 2: If you had, Brent Honeywell, get in the same today
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers on your Bengo card Bingo. You win
Speaker 2: because nobody else did. Brent Honeywell pitches the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: gets a double playball, great pick by Freddie Freeman at
Speaker 2: first base. By the way, Freddie Freeman, give him the
Speaker 2: gold glove right now. I don't know anybody else in
Speaker 2: baseball who saves the rear ends of more of his
Speaker 2: fellow infielders than Freddie Freeman from Japan to the opening
Speaker 2: weekend Dodgers Stadium to today in the ninth inning, stretching
Speaker 2: like he's a goalie between the pipes at Staples Center
Speaker 2: for the Kings, making saves, making picks, putting his body
Speaker 2: on the line. Freddie Freeman, give him a gold glove
Speaker 2: right now. Start putting his name into the medal because
Speaker 2: he will win it without a doubt. With the big
Speaker 2: save today and the ninth that he defensively, Dodgers get
Speaker 2: to win six ' four over the Giants. What a
Speaker 2: day starts with Clayton Kershaw. He's back, looking forward to
Speaker 2: what he's gonna do here in the final two months
Speaker 2: and postseason. Here in twenty twenty four, Brent Honeywell and
Speaker 2: his turtleneck gets to save Dodgers get to win, take
Speaker 2: three or four from Colin Ye's Giants. Dodgers go six
Speaker 2: and one on the homestand Dodgers maintaining their seven and
Speaker 2: a half game lead in the division. And real quick,
Speaker 2: we'll get to your phone calls just a second. But
Speaker 2: that's important because when you look in your rear of
Speaker 2: your mirror and you see the San Diego Padres behind you,
Speaker 2: they're the next closest team. They're seven and a half
Speaker 2: games back. They're on fire right now. They've won five
Speaker 2: in a row. They got a no no thrown today
Speaker 2: by Dylan Cease, who they picked up from the White Sox.
Speaker 2: He throw it no hitter today against the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: They get the win again. They've won five straight. The
Speaker 2: only problem is if you're in San Diego, like our
Speaker 2: buddy Daniel Jeremiah in the NFL network and the Chargers broadcast,
Speaker 2: and you're texting me how excited you are about Dylan
Speaker 2: Ceases no no, Well, let's wait two more hours because
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get the win, and I'm looking right now,
Speaker 2: and you didn't gain any ground in the division. It
Speaker 2: is still sitting at seven and a half in the
Speaker 2: NL West, and the Dodgers and Padres will square off
Speaker 2: for a two game series next Tuesday and Wednesday at
Speaker 2: Dodgers stated, as you can tell, I have fired up.
Speaker 2: Dodgers get the win dramatic fashion, two runs in the
Speaker 2: eighth inning, back to back home runs. Clayton Hershaw's back.
Speaker 2: Loved what I saw from him the third inning, the fire,
Speaker 2: the fight, the grit that he had out there in
Speaker 2: the third inning. His wife's crying, Ellen and the kids
Speaker 2: are in the load section, crying seeing their dad and
Speaker 2: husband out there making his debut in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a given. That's the important part. You just thought, oh, surgery,
Speaker 2: he'll be back in a few months. Write it down July.
Speaker 2: He'll be back pitching for the Dodge folks. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a given at all that he'd be back. Had no
Speaker 2: idea what was wrong with that arm, elbow, shoulder, what
Speaker 2: was it? Thirty six year old goes into the offseason.
Speaker 2: Neil Elatrosh who David Vasse had on Dodgers on decks
Speaker 2: earlier today, performed the surgery. He admitted it with arthroscopic surgery. Okay,
Speaker 2: they put three holes in you. It's the least evasive
Speaker 2: surgery you could have, rather than cutting you open, old
Speaker 2: school style and repairing. And he said, if it was
Speaker 2: an old school cut you open surgery, he wouldn't be
Speaker 2: back right now based on this timetable, and quite frankly
Speaker 2: didn't know his future. But it with an arthroscopic surgery,
Speaker 2: it went well, least invasive kind of surgery you can have.
Speaker 2: And here he is back seven and a half months later,
Speaker 2: almost eight months from the surgery. Pretty remarkable. And to
Speaker 2: see what he did out there today in front of
Speaker 2: fifty two thousand the Dodger Stadium was impressive. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five. Say well, take a
Speaker 2: quick break, we'll come back and your phone calls if
Speaker 2: you're on hold outside of eazy, we'll get to you.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two fights. And I'm
Speaker 2: not being mean to Izzy?
Speaker 3: Is he? Is?
Speaker 2: He standing by the launching pad with Petros. Some money
Speaker 2: is set to orbit in like twenty minutes when they
Speaker 2: get on the air. So she's being put in the
Speaker 2: cockpit and locked and loaded, ready to go for the
Speaker 2: launching pad with petros of money. So everybody else, we
Speaker 2: will get you. At eight six, six ninety seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy Todgers get the win six to four over
Speaker 2: the Giants as they finish off this homestand six and one. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Now the two two pitch. I'm in left center field,
Speaker 2: fly ball carrying back toward the.
Speaker 1: Wall and.
Speaker 2: Thank comment, did you his second home run of the year.
Speaker 2: His first is a Dodger, so get back against his
Speaker 2: old club. The Dodgers lead at five to four. Nick
Speaker 2: I'm in with a home run against his former teammates
Speaker 2: in San Francisco Giants DFAD two and a half weeks ago,
Speaker 2: sitting at home signs with the Dodgers in the last
Speaker 2: twenty four hours, and it hits the go ahead home
Speaker 2: run on the eighth inning show. He O Tani followed
Speaker 2: that up with the back to back home runs his
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Speaker 2: own the dream. Let's go out to the phones. Danny
Speaker 2: and Palmdale is first up here on Dodgers Talk. How
Speaker 2: you doing, Danny, I'm doing good, man, I could. I'm
Speaker 2: doing fantastic. Big day for the Dodgers. They get to win.
Speaker 2: Nick got Met goes deep, showy O Tani goes deep
Speaker 2: and Clayton Kershaw's back.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, then you fired me up, dude, You fired
Speaker 3: me up. Hearing you get off fired up? I was
Speaker 3: listening to that that Diurney and I'm like, oh, here
Speaker 3: we go. Get but Michin and pattick Man Chrisha's a
Speaker 3: veteran pop kind of get some these dub time, you know.
Speaker 4: And big, big acquisition.
Speaker 1: I'm in.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe he shook some replacement just for now,
Speaker 3: but hey, it's all right. The team with the team
Speaker 3: game and show hey, always what he does comes through
Speaker 3: in the clitch of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, show is show Hey. I appreciate the phone call, Danny,
Speaker 2: Glad you're fired up as well, because to me that
Speaker 2: thirty inning was big and I think that was a
Speaker 2: moment moving forward this season that Clayton Kershaw is going
Speaker 2: to look at and realize, Yeah, mentally, emotionally, physically, he
Speaker 2: is back. He can do this. He can pitch at an
Speaker 2: elite level again like he did before. Maybe not the
Speaker 2: same type of pitcher, but certainly he can go out
Speaker 2: there and get out for the Dodgers and be a
Speaker 2: really good front of the rotation guy for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Maybe not an ace anymore, but certainly a guy that
Speaker 2: Dodgers can throw out there in October. Certainly a lot
Speaker 2: of baseball between now and then. We want to see
Speaker 2: some more innings and starts underneath his belt, but certainly
Speaker 2: after one start today, the four innings, the way he
Speaker 2: pitched out of that jam with nobody out first and
Speaker 2: second in the thirty to get strikeout, strikeout, strikeout to
Speaker 2: end the inning was fantastic. Let's go to Andy and
Speaker 2: Lake Elson or down the nine to five or nine
Speaker 2: or nine area code.
Speaker 1: Andy.
Speaker 4: How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great, tim And you
Speaker 4: know what, it just sounds good here.
Speaker 5: You're so fired up because you know what I was thinking, Kershaw.
Speaker 4: Look, he's the leader of this team.
Speaker 5: I don't care that he's just coming back and that
Speaker 5: he's not the ace anymore. I saw everybody trying to
Speaker 5: get this win just for him. I know he doesn't
Speaker 5: qualify for the win, but you know what, I love
Speaker 5: the way he passed, and I love the way he
Speaker 5: just put himself out there, and you know what, he
Speaker 5: just has that work ethic. And I love the way
Speaker 5: everybody just comes out and plays to try to just
Speaker 5: win this game. Just just just I just loved it.
Speaker 5: But I do have one question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly, look, I was high on pie Is,
Speaker 4: but look I'm looking, I'm looking big picture, and I'm
Speaker 4: seeing playoffs, and I'm seeing, honestly, just I don't think
Speaker 4: he's gonna be able to perform in the playoffs. They're gonna.
Speaker 2: They're gonna need an Andy. I appreciate it, my man,
Speaker 2: thank you for the nice words. They are gonna need
Speaker 2: him in October because him or James Autman is gonna
Speaker 2: have to be out there in the infield. Then don't
Speaker 2: give me that. You know, it's a circus every time
Speaker 2: he's out there in center field. I'm getting those tweets.
Speaker 2: I got confidence in Andy Pajez. Still, I think James
Speaker 2: Autman gonna come back and get some starts. We'll see
Speaker 2: what he can do. And is now third stentting back
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers this season. They're gonna need these guys.
Speaker 2: You can't just ride off somebody and say on to
Speaker 2: the next. You gotta get this guy an opportunity to
Speaker 2: work out his defensive issues and hope that he's gonna
Speaker 2: turn things around offense. I mean the keep in mind,
Speaker 2: Andy pa Has is not a cleanup hitter for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He was batting clean up today. Andy pai Has is
Speaker 2: more like a six ' seven hitter in this Dodgers lineup.
Speaker 2: Maybe a five spot, but it's certainly not a cleanup
Speaker 2: hitter in this Dodgers line up again when they get healthy,
Speaker 2: and the first one back as far as the everyday players,
Speaker 2: looks like it's gonna be Mookie Betts because I don't
Speaker 2: think Max Munsey's gonna be back anytime soon. And that's
Speaker 2: something to keep in mind. Max Munsey may not return
Speaker 2: until September. I mean, we're about to flip the calendar
Speaker 2: here in a few days to August, folks, And when
Speaker 2: it does, we start getting less and less of the
Speaker 2: season to play before we get to October. And how
Speaker 2: much time is he going to have before October when
Speaker 2: he hasn't really played in three months? So are they
Speaker 2: gonna go out and make a move and get another
Speaker 2: third basement? Are the Cavin Biegio's, Keiky Hernandez Chris Taylor's
Speaker 2: of the world going to be starting at a third base?
Speaker 2: We'll we'll find out eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy ish and Riverside is next up on
Speaker 2: Dodge Talk. What's up? Ish?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 6: Shit?
Speaker 3: What's come on?
Speaker 6: Man? How are you going?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm fired up today, Ish, Big game for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: Big inning for Clayton Kursh. I love what I saw
Speaker 2: out of him.
Speaker 6: Oh man, I could not agree more. Man, honestly, it's
Speaker 6: just great having him back kind of piggyback on previous
Speaker 6: colors there from Lson or like having curshed off back. Yeah,
Speaker 6: he's got to be the leader.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: Guys are you know, uh, you know, doing their best
Speaker 6: obviously to to get that win for Kershaw. So that
Speaker 6: was really cool, cool scene. You know, his family just
Speaker 6: uh you know up in the stands, you know, really
Speaker 6: really happy for them. And it's like when the Kershaws
Speaker 6: are there, to me, they seem to kind of you know,
Speaker 6: restore some to decency in class with with with our
Speaker 6: our team.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: So I really enjoyed that. But I want to also
Speaker 6: give a couple of their shout outs. Man, this is
Speaker 6: this is probably not the most popular opinion in my
Speaker 6: personal opinion though, I mean, you know, you really got
Speaker 6: to give some kudos to in my personal opinion, the
Speaker 6: best catcher, uh defensive catcher on the team, you know,
Speaker 6: Austin Barnes.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: They were working out there. I think you had mentioned
Speaker 6: before some type of ballets, some type of you know,
Speaker 6: symphony whenever they're they're there the battery and it was
Speaker 6: looking great, man. So I really it was really a
Speaker 6: treat to see that. But uh, I did have one
Speaker 6: other ad.
Speaker 8: So just I think it does kind of expose some
Speaker 8: of the you know, some of the defense lasses that
Speaker 8: we're definitely gonna have to keep working on obviously, you know,
Speaker 8: going into the playoffs here, you know, as see when
Speaker 8: we do make it.
Speaker 6: So definitely, you know, tying up a lot of the
Speaker 6: play especially like you know how Kershaw mixes it up
Speaker 6: quite a bit, you're going to get different plays on
Speaker 6: the ball. So I think that's something that we definitely
Speaker 6: need to work on. Something. Go Dodgers and go ahead
Speaker 6: and get this road chip under a dark dot, you guys, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I just appreciate the phone call. Andy Pott has
Speaker 2: took a different break on the ball early in the
Speaker 2: game that was in the center field. He went to
Speaker 2: his right and the ball coming off the bat sort
Speaker 2: of had a tail, like if you had a slice
Speaker 2: in a golf game was slicing right and he read
Speaker 2: it wrong off the bat, and that could be fixed.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the day game at Dodger Stadium. It's
Speaker 2: the blue sky, it's hard to see out there at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium here, Rick Monday talk about that all the time.
Speaker 2: And I take Rick's opinion greatly because he played it
Speaker 2: for a long time and was out in that outfield
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium for many a game, so he would know.
Speaker 2: And he talks about how hard it is, especially when
Speaker 2: the balls hit off the bat to pick it up
Speaker 2: in a day game. So, yeah, we saw that today
Speaker 2: early on for Andy Potters. But I still think you
Speaker 2: bought him lower in the lineup he's gonna produce. I
Speaker 2: just don't think he's a cleanup hitter and ask him
Speaker 2: to be a cleanup hitter, especially this lineup, in this talent,
Speaker 2: it's just not where he's gonna be. Come October, let's
Speaker 2: go to Charles and San Diego, your next up here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Charles, Oh good? Great?
Speaker 7: Actually, when that was an awesome game, I partially watched
Speaker 7: it when I was working, you know, I wanted to
Speaker 7: point out that, you know, I'm really inspired by the
Speaker 7: production we've been getting from the bottom half of our lineup.
Speaker 6: Guys.
Speaker 7: I Luxe is on fire. You got Austin Barnes, you
Speaker 7: mentioned Potheads, just about everybody in that about even Chris
Speaker 7: Taylor before you got hurt yesterday. I'm wondering if that's
Speaker 7: gonna affect or change our capitalist how we approach the
Speaker 7: traded deadline.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a great question, because you've seen Gavin Lux heat
Speaker 2: up here since the All Star Break, National League Player
Speaker 2: of the Week for the three game series over the weekend. Today,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned the bottom of the lineup, and I'll
Speaker 2: give you the numbers five through nine, they all had
Speaker 2: hits us apt for Jason Hayward who was zero for four,
Speaker 2: Gavin Lux had a pair of hits. Keithy aar Nandez
Speaker 2: was three for four, Austin Barnes was two for four,
Speaker 2: nick onmed was two for fourth. The home run five
Speaker 2: through nine in the lineup today, which we talk about
Speaker 2: a lot for their lock of production and they're not
Speaker 2: carrying their weight at the bottom of the lineup. Well,
Speaker 2: they went to combined nine for nineteen with a home
Speaker 2: run in four ribies. So yeah, they did produce today
Speaker 2: and they have been producing, and you're seeing guys rise
Speaker 2: to the occasion like keythy a Hernandez, who probably could
Speaker 2: be making a case now to play third base every
Speaker 2: day if he keeps us up offensively, having two or
Speaker 2: three hits in the game and playing really good defense
Speaker 2: as well. Over at the hot bag there, let's keep
Speaker 2: things going with Gabe in Westchester. Gabe, Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: After the Dodgers beat the Giants today six to four.
Speaker 2: How you doing. Oh no, he lost, Gabe, that could
Speaker 2: have been my fault. Sorry about that, Angelo La Angelo,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 9: Yeah, great series wins against the hated Northern California San
Speaker 9: Francisco Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Always nice to be colin the East San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I call Clayton Kershaw killiek.
Speaker 6: That's my firsonal nickname for him.
Speaker 9: He really looked good today the twelve six Uncle Charlie
Speaker 9: would really.
Speaker 2: Working the slider.
Speaker 9: I like how he dealt with the adversity in that
Speaker 9: third inning. A couple of times he did some fake
Speaker 9: pulses to second base. Has to throw off the timing
Speaker 9: to help gather himself back in the control.
Speaker 2: And I was very impressed with him today.
Speaker 6: I'm proud of him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he pitched well. I really saw a lot from
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw. Not that he has to meet anybody's expectation.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that at all, and it's certainly not mine,
Speaker 2: but I think for him personally mentally to have question
Speaker 2: marks if can I still be effective? Can I still
Speaker 2: be a dominant left hander at the major league level?
Speaker 2: Can I still be a guy that can go out
Speaker 2: there every five days and pitch and get people out?
Speaker 2: And I think today he checked those boxes. And to me,
Speaker 2: the third inning is probably the last hurdle that he
Speaker 2: needed to get it over was of adversity. He had
Speaker 2: to be put into a situation where he had some
Speaker 2: guys on, there was traffic, he was behind the count.
Speaker 2: All that happened four straight hits, behind three to zero
Speaker 2: in the count, and comes back and gets Patrick Bailly
Speaker 2: to strike out, and then gets to another strikeout and
Speaker 2: gets a third strikeout to end the third inning. To me,
Speaker 2: that was a huge hurdle and it showed a lot
Speaker 2: about the makeup of Clayton Kershel, which we already know
Speaker 2: what he's made up, like what an intense warrior, hard
Speaker 2: worker that he is out there on the mound, and
Speaker 2: today he showed that again at the age of thirty six.
Speaker 2: Ken in Newport wrap things up here on donjitalk Ken.
Speaker 2: Usually you only check in when things don't go well
Speaker 2: for the boys in Blue, but today they win.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I'm excited. At the bottom of
Speaker 3: the lineup, he just said. Nine hits was great. They're
Speaker 3: over five hundred from the month of July with all
Speaker 3: the problems. But here's why I'm excited. Kurseshaw to me,
Speaker 3: was unbelievable. That curveball was phenomenal, The slider was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: To see him bat makes a complete change in that
Speaker 3: rotation because he's the smartest guy out there. And if
Speaker 3: he continues to do this, nobody's beating the Dodgers. And
Speaker 3: that's what I'm excited about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can he keep this up? Can Clayton Kershaw you
Speaker 2: think can be this kind of style of pitcher and
Speaker 2: continue to go out there and be effective moving forward?
Speaker 2: I think he can. I think this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3: I agree. You know, he's just he's smart. He knows
Speaker 3: what to do. He knows he can't throw that fastball
Speaker 3: too much. Yeah, but that curveball and that's slider that's unhittable,
Speaker 3: and that's how you win games. He's going to be
Speaker 3: the stud in this rotation.
Speaker 2: Again, all right, can appreciate it. Great to hear from you,
Speaker 2: especially after a Dodgers w So, yeah, appreciate all your
Speaker 2: phone calls. That's going to do it for a postgame
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Speaker 2: Houston against the cheating Astros. Dodgers an eight game road
Speaker 2: trip Houston, San Diego, and then Oakland for the final
Speaker 2: time ever at the Memorial Coliseum to face the A's.
Speaker 2: Dodgers finish off this seven game homestand with the win
Speaker 2: over the Giants six to four, Nick on met and
Speaker 2: show Hey Otani with back to back home runs in
Speaker 2: the eighth Dodgers win at six to four. They go
Speaker 2: six and one on the homestand as they are now
Speaker 2: twenty games over five hundred and a seven and a
Speaker 2: half game leads still in the Division over the Patres.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, our buddies, Petros and Matt Bunny Smith
Speaker 2: until seven o'clock. Thanks for being with us on this
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