Speaker 1: Now your host walking you up to first pitch. It's
Speaker 1: Tim kays.
Speaker 2: Hi everybody, and welcome in to Morongo Casino. Dodgers on Deck,
Speaker 2: Happy Jackie Robinson Day. It is April fifteenth, the day
Speaker 2: back in nineteen forty seven that Jackie Robinson broke through
Speaker 2: the color barrier in Major League Baseball, and everybody across
Speaker 2: the league were at number forty two on this historic
Speaker 2: day in baseball. As the Dodgers now twelve and six
Speaker 2: to start this season, the homestand continues. The three games
Speaker 2: set against the Colorado Rockies continues as landon Knack will
Speaker 2: till the rubber Tonight, game two of this three game series,
Speaker 2: first pitch coming up at seven to ten. Between then
Speaker 2: and now, we got a lot to get to here
Speaker 2: on Marongo Casino Dodgers on Deck, you're gonna hear from
Speaker 2: the manager Dave Roberts, who took the Dodgers team out
Speaker 2: to the Jackie Robinson Statue about three and a half
Speaker 2: hours ago to really let us soak in about what
Speaker 2: today means. We'll dive deeper into this print pitching matchup.
Speaker 2: David Veasse goes one on one with Michael Kopek. We
Speaker 2: got your Dodgers magical moment. I've got your prize picks,
Speaker 2: double play of the Day. I was a winner yesterday,
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Speaker 2: we'll visit with Kirsten Watson. In just a few minutes,
Speaker 2: we'll send it out to the Gallpi Motors broadcast booth
Speaker 2: with Tim Neffett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 3: Well, last night, it.
Speaker 2: Was May Day in April, yet Dustin May got the start.
Speaker 2: The big redhead wins six solid innings, allowed one run
Speaker 2: on three hits while punching out seven along the way,
Speaker 2: and he got some early run support. Showy Otani let
Speaker 2: off the bottom of the first with the single.
Speaker 3: Next batter Mookie.
Speaker 4: With the past history, you'd figure Mookie's gonna get some
Speaker 4: damage done here tonight. Out of the stretches, sends a
Speaker 4: Tello Tani off of first. The pitch swung hot hammer deep.
Speaker 5: Left pield way, packet goes hit. Is gone.
Speaker 4: Damage done for Mookie Betts as he's hit his four
Speaker 4: home none of the season of the Dodgers jump on
Speaker 4: top two nothing.
Speaker 2: Just like that, a Dodgers two nothing lead on the
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets to run home run. Dodgers would add to
Speaker 2: that lead in the bottom of the third, a leadoff
Speaker 2: solo shot from show Hey O Tawny four hundred and
Speaker 2: eight feet number five on the season for show Hey.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers of three to nothing.
Speaker 2: In the fifth, leadoff double from Mookie Betts. Too bad
Speaker 2: is later Will Smith.
Speaker 4: And a two to one pitch and Will hits the
Speaker 4: ground ball up the middle exit. They hit past the
Speaker 4: diving Tovar. Smith is driven in a roun. Mookie scores
Speaker 4: it is four to nothing. Will Smith is two for three.
Speaker 4: That's his eight run down.
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Speaker 2: for US. Without an RBI single in the fifth Kyle Farmer,
Speaker 2: the only bright spot is David vat Say alluded to
Speaker 2: yesterday You're on Dodgers on deck head an RBI single
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning that broke open a scoreless drought
Speaker 2: from Colorado.
Speaker 3: Dodgers up four to one.
Speaker 2: Will Smith would come back in the bottom of the
Speaker 2: inning get that run back on a sack fly scoring
Speaker 2: show Hey o Tani. The Rockies would score two on
Speaker 2: a Goodman home run in the seventh, but the Dodgers
Speaker 2: hang on and get the win five to three over
Speaker 2: the Colorado Rockies. Dustin May gets his first win in
Speaker 2: over two years. Tanner Scott gets his fifth save of
Speaker 2: the season with the win. The Dodgers now twelve and
Speaker 2: six overall on this season. Tonight, game two of this
Speaker 2: three game set, Dodgers and Rockies Landonnack on the Mountain
Speaker 2: with more. We head out to the Gallpin Motors broadcast
Speaker 2: booth as we welcome in Tim Neverett and Rick Monday.
Speaker 4: Guys, Tim, thanks very much. We get sent for Game
Speaker 4: two of this three game series. It'll be another beautiful
Speaker 4: night little on the cool side at Dodgers Stadium as
Speaker 4: the Dodgers take on the Colorado Rockies. Winning last night
Speaker 4: by a score five to three. They got off to
Speaker 4: a really good start. Things slowed a little bit offensively,
Speaker 4: but they certainly had enough and they had enough pitching
Speaker 4: from Dustin May to get it done. Who had his
Speaker 4: best doubting of the season tonight, It is Landing Knack.
Speaker 4: He's looking for win number two. One to zero is
Speaker 4: his record. He struggled a bit his last time out
Speaker 4: in Washington and Ryan Feldner no decisions for the Rockies,
Speaker 4: but looking at his numbers. He's deserved a better fate.
Speaker 4: He's probably been their best pitcher so far this season.
Speaker 4: And Moe, when you look at what today means, today
Speaker 4: is Jackie Robinson Day, number forty two, his motor of
Speaker 4: the grass and center field. The players for both teams
Speaker 4: the staff met out in the centerfield plaza earlier around
Speaker 4: the Jackie Robinson statue. That's a tradition that Dave Roberts
Speaker 4: started a few years ago, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar was
Speaker 4: there to speak and also with Kareem Sonya Panke, who
Speaker 4: is the oldest granddaughter of Jackie Robinson. It's really a
Speaker 4: special day here at Dodger Stadium, special all around Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball, but particularly here.
Speaker 6: Well, twenty five, six hundred and twenty three were on
Speaker 6: hand at Ebesfield when Jackie Robinson didn't twenty eight years
Speaker 6: of age, made his major league debut, and it was
Speaker 6: quite a debut, not only for Major League Baseball, but
Speaker 6: I think for society itself. And just talking to some
Speaker 6: of his former teammates over the years and never really
Speaker 6: had a chance to talk to Jackie Robinson. I met
Speaker 6: the gentleman and he had a presence about him. That
Speaker 6: was just different, just absolutely amazing. But talking to his
Speaker 6: fellow teammates, you know, they all went through a period
Speaker 6: of time that they relished that they were challenged also themselves,
Speaker 6: and they all felt that they had something to do
Speaker 6: with trying to make society much much better.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll be talking a lot about Jackie Robinson during
Speaker 4: the course of the broadcast tonight, of course, his meeting
Speaker 4: and his famous quote and life is not important except
Speaker 4: for the impact it has on other lives. Well, the
Speaker 4: Dodgers trying to have an impact in the standings again,
Speaker 4: twelve and six, looking for win numbers thirteen, trying to
Speaker 4: keep pace with the Giants and the Padres. At this
Speaker 4: stage of the season, it is early still, but the
Speaker 4: Dodgers right there, bunched up in the top three in
Speaker 4: the National League West. The Rockies, meantime, they are way back,
Speaker 4: ten and a half off the pace already after just
Speaker 4: sixteen games.
Speaker 6: Well, the Dogs need to just take care of their
Speaker 6: own backyard. We've heard as many many times in Major
Speaker 6: League Baseball, any sports, and any competition that you have,
Speaker 6: And they finally got the bats going, at least some
Speaker 6: of the bats going. You know, last night, if you look,
Speaker 6: and we've talked about it before, positions one through four
Speaker 6: in Dave Roberts' starting lineup, the hitters were nine for seventeen.
Speaker 6: They knocked in all five runs. Five through nine position
Speaker 6: in the lineup one for fifteen. Obviously no runs battered in,
Speaker 6: but that's kind of the story for the season. Because
Speaker 6: one through four, collectively hitting it two ninety five, they've
Speaker 6: knocked in forty nine runs. They've scored fifty five. Spots
Speaker 6: five through nine have hit the lowest of Major League
Speaker 6: Baseball collectively, just one seventy. That needs to change. Were
Speaker 6: beginning to see some better swings from some of those
Speaker 6: guys in the lower part of the lineup, and that's
Speaker 6: desperately needed right now.
Speaker 4: To Oscar Hernandez still unable to play tonight, and Key
Speaker 4: k Hernandez is out of the lineup, so Chris Taylor
Speaker 4: will be in there, batting eighth and playing center field
Speaker 4: with Andy Pies getting another night in right field.
Speaker 6: You know, you look at this lineup, I mean it's
Speaker 6: steadfast really at the top of tany bets Freeman and Smith,
Speaker 6: so you're going left, right, left, right, and then Confordo
Speaker 6: batting in the five spot, he's a left hander, Edmund
Speaker 6: the switch hitter, followed by Munsei the lefty, and they
Speaker 6: heed Bett Taylor and then pies and pies over and
Speaker 6: right field. And for Chris Taylor. Taylor needs some playing
Speaker 6: time in order to get not only from a defensive standpoint.
Speaker 6: He came in the ninth ending last night in the outfield,
Speaker 6: but he needs them at bats desperately and try and
Speaker 6: still work out that swing. It's still a work in
Speaker 6: progress for him.
Speaker 4: Land and back pitching for the Dodgers. It'll be Ryan
Speaker 4: Feldner for the Rockies. Getting closer to the first pitcher
Speaker 4: at Dodger Stadium on Jackie Robinson Day.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you guys, as we count you down
Speaker 3: to first pitch.
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Speaker 3: First pitch of seven ten. Thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: First pitch from Dodger Stadium, coming up at seventen.
Speaker 1: This is the ree why he's.
Speaker 4: Tied with his teammate Kyle Freeland for the most allowed
Speaker 4: in Major League Baseball so far, and he's just giving
Speaker 4: up another one. As Otani reached for an outside curveball,
Speaker 4: pulled it to right field.
Speaker 5: That's down for a basit.
Speaker 4: And a lead off single, and Zattila doesn't want to
Speaker 4: throw it in there again. Targets set outside. There it goes,
Speaker 4: and he hits it high and deep the center field.
Speaker 4: His PAW's back.
Speaker 7: He has gone a home run.
Speaker 4: Show, Hey Tony his fifth of the season. Oh, what
Speaker 4: a majestic blast to dead center field for show Hey
Speaker 4: Otani and the Dodgers leading.
Speaker 2: Three nothing Show Hey Otani goes three for five with
Speaker 2: the home run drives in a run. It was home
Speaker 2: run number five on this season for show Hey. As
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Speaker 2: April fifteenth, Jackie Robinson Day a special day certainly around
Speaker 2: the world of baseball and professional sports, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: today had a little gathering at his statue.
Speaker 8: Kirston, Yeah, with visiting Jackie Robinson day to day that
Speaker 8: he broke the color barrier. It means so much to
Speaker 8: society as a whole. But when you look at the
Speaker 8: Dodgers organization, the organization that Jackie played for, that he
Speaker 8: broke the color barrier with it's on a whole nother level,
Speaker 8: and so the Dodgers take a lot of pride in that.
Speaker 8: So today actually, of course we have the statue at
Speaker 8: Centerfield Plaza. So today, just like every year, the Dodgers
Speaker 8: and the visiting teams that being the Rockies, they came together.
Speaker 8: But this year they had a few special guests and
Speaker 8: one of them was Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and Kareem was
Speaker 8: someone who had a relationship with Jackie. He actually the
Speaker 8: reason he went to UCLA is because Jackie wrote him
Speaker 8: a letter saying he felt that that was the right
Speaker 8: school for him to attend. And he shared a story
Speaker 8: of just the first time he actually met him in person,
Speaker 8: the impact that he had on his basketball career, and
Speaker 8: also just the impact he's had on society and what
Speaker 8: it means to have been a man back then but
Speaker 8: also to be a man today, and so understanding that
Speaker 8: these moments in the players who are all here today
Speaker 8: in their lives, it's bigger than them and the impact
Speaker 8: they can have on society is huge, and Joe just
Speaker 8: to continue to keep that in mind. So it was
Speaker 8: a really special day. Even Dave Roberts when he spoke
Speaker 8: to the media about Jackie Robinson Day, he said, you
Speaker 8: know it, it hits you as an athlete, of course, and
Speaker 8: as a person of color and someone who was playing
Speaker 8: this game that Jackie played. But when you put on
Speaker 8: a Dodger's uniform and it has that forty two on it,
Speaker 8: and you see everything that he did to allow for
Speaker 8: people of color to be in this position, whether it's
Speaker 8: on the field or off the field. Just in society,
Speaker 8: it's it's huge. So it's a special day for all
Speaker 8: of the players who get to just wear forty two
Speaker 8: on their backs, and for the Dodgers, I think it
Speaker 8: just there's a little bit more so even today. Actually
Speaker 8: they don't be in the Brooklyn Dodgers hats, and I'll
Speaker 8: give you a lot of information there, but they will
Speaker 8: be in the Brooklyn Dodgers hats and they have yeah,
Speaker 8: Jackie signats underneath. So it's gonna be a fun one tonight.
Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Special day for the Dodgers, and certainly special day around baseball.
Speaker 2: Curious that we appreciate it still to come here on
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Speaker 3: But up next, we'll get.
Speaker 2: You an injury report and we'll hear from the manager himself,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts. It's a Dodgers and Rockies on Jackie Robinson Day,
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers have Blake Snell on the injured list with
Speaker 2: the left shoulder inflammation he threw yesterday. Throwing tomorrow in
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. Yes, Clayton Kershaw making a minor league rehab
Speaker 2: appearance in the Dodgers Triple A team, his first since
Speaker 2: returning from off season toast surgery.
Speaker 3: Its head back out.
Speaker 2: To Dodgers stated he'd been checking out the Dodgers skipper A.
Speaker 5: Questions for Dave Dave? Can you just describe Dave?
Speaker 3: Can you talk about the pressure in the dugouts?
Speaker 8: With Dave Roberts last year during the postseason, you talked
Speaker 8: about just how you were able to kind of take
Speaker 8: a step back and as you've just been around this
Speaker 8: game for even longer, learned to appreciate different moments. With
Speaker 8: Jackie Robinson day, when did you really kind of learn
Speaker 8: to appreciate what it meant to be in a Dodger's
Speaker 8: uniform to represent all that he meant just to this game.
Speaker 1: And to this moment.
Speaker 9: Wow, that's a great question. I think that's just, you know,
Speaker 9: it's one of those things that it's I don't think
Speaker 9: it really landed with me until I got to the
Speaker 9: big leagues and I got to wear number forty two.
Speaker 9: I think that I'd like to think all of us
Speaker 9: have had our moments where we realize that things are
Speaker 9: bigger than ourselves, right, And so when I got to
Speaker 9: wear forty two with the Dodgers a little bit, and
Speaker 9: he felt like I was Jackie Robinson on first base.
Speaker 9: And then I got to really appreciate, as I've gotten
Speaker 9: older and you get more wise and experience the sacrifice
Speaker 9: sacrifices that he made and how fortunate I was to
Speaker 9: play major league baseball. So it was when I got
Speaker 9: to the big leagues wearing number forty two, then really
Speaker 9: trying to do a deeper dive on Jackie Robinson, and
Speaker 9: then getting to know Sharon and Rachel and David, and
Speaker 9: then I could kind of kind of came full circle
Speaker 9: for me.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's Dave Roberts down the dug out talking
Speaker 2: about Jackie Robinson today and what it means for him.
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Speaker 2: This is Dodger insider David Bai all right, DV Jackie
Speaker 2: Robinson Day, Dave robers who heard from him. He took
Speaker 2: the team out to the statue in two thirty and
Speaker 2: you were there with him, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's always special and it's been a tradition for the
Speaker 7: last I don't know, nine Jackie Robinson days. You know,
Speaker 7: when the Dodgers first unveiled that Jackie Robinson statue, there
Speaker 7: was no center field plazis, so it was on the
Speaker 7: third base reserve entry area. And once they renovated that
Speaker 7: centerfield plas and put that Jackie Robinson statue out there
Speaker 7: as the centerpiece, it became a little bit more special
Speaker 7: of a day to not only had that statue there,
Speaker 7: but to have the Dodger players and Dave Roberts go
Speaker 7: out there and then start to invite the team the
Speaker 7: Dodgers were playing to go out there and over the years,
Speaker 7: they've had some very special speakers. Today it was the
Speaker 7: great Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who obviously carried on the legacy
Speaker 7: of Jackie Robinson by being an activist and a scholar
Speaker 7: in a lot of different ways. And I had a
Speaker 7: chance to catch up with the Basketball Hall of Famer
Speaker 7: after he addressed the Dodgers and Rockies there, Kaima, what
Speaker 7: did it mean to be here for this day and
Speaker 7: to be able to be asked to speak with how
Speaker 7: much Jackie and the Dodgers meant to you.
Speaker 10: Well, it's great to be here on this day, especially
Speaker 10: because he was a hero of mine from day one,
Speaker 10: you know, when I became aware of him, and it
Speaker 10: was a good choice for me.
Speaker 7: What did you remember about that moment where you met
Speaker 7: Jackie for the first time with Bill.
Speaker 10: I was totally surprised because it was about the dinner,
Speaker 10: was about the rookie of the year and what was
Speaker 10: he doing there? And later on I found out that
Speaker 10: he lettered in basketball at UCLA, basketball, baseball, track and field,
Speaker 10: and football. Well, it means that Jackie had an idea
Speaker 10: of what we had to confront. We had to confront segregation,
Speaker 10: and in many ways we're still confronting it, but it's
Speaker 10: worth it, and it certainly makes people respect us as
Speaker 10: a country when they see that there is some tension
Speaker 10: there and that good people are trying to do the
Speaker 10: right thing.
Speaker 7: That was the great Kareem abdul Jabbar, who was the
Speaker 7: centerpiece of the moment out there at two thirty this
Speaker 7: afternoon at the Jackie Robinson statue, Tim and can you
Speaker 7: believe Jackie Robinson made his Major league debut on April fifteenth,
Speaker 7: nineteen forty seven. Kareem abdul Jabbar, then known as Leu
Speaker 7: al Sinder, was born the day after April sixteenth, nineteen
Speaker 7: forty seven.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 2: And the two great UCLA greats, Jackie Robinson and Kareem
Speaker 2: abdul Jabbar. Thank you, David. Appreciate that. David driven by Ford.
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Speaker 2: Well, today's Jackie Robinson Day, no doubt about that. We
Speaker 2: go back to October fifteenth, though nineteen seventy two, before
Speaker 2: Game two of the World Series between the A's and
Speaker 2: the Reds, Jackie Robinson throughout the first pitch, spoke to
Speaker 2: the crowd on what was then the twenty five year
Speaker 2: anniversary of breaking the color barrier.
Speaker 11: I would just like to say that I was really
Speaker 11: just a spoke in the wheel of the success that
Speaker 11: we had some twenty five years ago, and personally want
Speaker 11: to say thank you to a great captain, a guy
Speaker 11: who was the leader of our ball club and who
Speaker 11: really set.
Speaker 5: The pace in many many areas see weee. Thanks so
Speaker 5: much for being here today.
Speaker 11: I would like to also say that I would be
Speaker 11: a real, real pleasure if mister Rickey could have been
Speaker 11: here with us today. But to the members of the family,
Speaker 11: my entire in love and gratitude for the things that
Speaker 11: he's done over the years. And I also want to
Speaker 11: say how pleased I am that my family can be
Speaker 11: here this afternoon, and to thank baseball for the tremendous
Speaker 11: opportunities that it has presented to me, and also for
Speaker 11: this thrilling afternoon. I'm extremely proud and pleased to be
Speaker 11: here this afternoon, but must admit I'm going to be
Speaker 11: tremendously more pleased and more proud when I look at
Speaker 11: that third base coaching line one day and see a
Speaker 11: black face managing in baseball.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 7: The Dodgers were back on the winning side of things
Speaker 7: last night, but certainly wanting more after last night's game
Speaker 7: and leaving ten men on base.
Speaker 6: I have to ask you this because the night before
Speaker 6: I made a comment that you normally get more phone
Speaker 6: calls oddly enough when the Dodgers lose. How are the
Speaker 6: calls last night?
Speaker 4: Rick?
Speaker 5: There were not too many people calling last night.
Speaker 6: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 7: And if they would have lost, the sky would have
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Speaker 6: Again? Yes, again, yes, as it has been well. On
Speaker 6: the road trip it fell a lot, didn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: And I guess you had that unique perspective of being
Speaker 7: a Dodger that defended a championship the following year in
Speaker 7: nineteen eighty two. Did your team feel the expectations of
Speaker 7: what you guys accomplished the year before?
Speaker 6: David, I think anytime, and regardless of the business, let's
Speaker 6: look at it from a business standpoint. You have a restaurant,
Speaker 6: a bar, a printing press, radio station, whatever it is,
Speaker 6: you're rated up there, up on top. Everybody wants a
Speaker 6: part of you because they're trying to figure out what
Speaker 6: it is that you do that's special, unique to where
Speaker 6: either you get the most attention, or you the most games,
Speaker 6: or you win the most pennants, or have postseason playing.
Speaker 6: So yes, they're being scrutinized every time they turn around.
Speaker 6: If you look at all the periodicals they were written
Speaker 6: during the off season, it was about this team. I
Speaker 6: referred to them in spring turning the very first day
Speaker 6: last year, the very first day this year as being
Speaker 6: perceived as the Goliath of baseball. And last year David
Speaker 6: did not show up to slay Goliath. And in my estimation,
Speaker 6: Goliath during the off season got bigger, stronger, and better
Speaker 6: for this year. But they still have to win on
Speaker 6: the field. And right now everybody's looking at San Diego.
Speaker 6: San Diego is not going to go away. They have
Speaker 6: a good ball club. I think the team that's in
Speaker 6: question is the San Francisco Giants. Not to take away
Speaker 6: what they've done so far, they've done a Marvel's job.
Speaker 6: I don't think the Giants will be there in the
Speaker 6: one to two spot when all the dust settles at
Speaker 6: the end of the year.
Speaker 5: So the Giants won't be slaying the Giants Goliath.
Speaker 6: No. You know what is weird today is the anniversary
Speaker 6: if you look at it for nineteen fifty eight, that
Speaker 6: the Dodgers played their first Major League game on the
Speaker 6: West Coast and it was against the Giants at Seal
Speaker 6: Stadium in San Francisco, and it was Don Drysdale and
Speaker 6: the Dodgers got shut out. So this is an anniversary,
Speaker 6: and the biggest anniversary is Jackie Robinson Day. Not just
Speaker 6: in baseball, but I think if we're looking at society,
Speaker 6: this was an impactful day, not just in the baseball world,
Speaker 6: but I think in the world itself.
Speaker 5: No doubt.
Speaker 7: And you had such a close relationship with one of
Speaker 7: Jackie's teammates, Don Newcomb. What do you remember Don and
Speaker 7: Knuwke telling you about Jackie in just that period of time.
Speaker 6: I think the strength that Jackie had and Rachel had
Speaker 6: his wife because they had to go through a lot.
Speaker 6: We will never know the depth of what they went
Speaker 6: through individually. It was also shared by his teammates and
Speaker 6: in their families too, because I know in some of
Speaker 6: the fantasy camps we would have teammates of Jackie kind
Speaker 6: of share with us the fact that they all shared
Speaker 6: in this area. This was a statement that was made
Speaker 6: not just by the Dodgers. It was made by baseball.
Speaker 6: It was made by society, and it took too long
Speaker 6: to make that statement, but it was made, and it
Speaker 6: wasn't just Jackie out there alone. He had some people
Speaker 6: around him at the time. And for Branch Ricky to
Speaker 6: understand who it was decarried the cross, if you will,
Speaker 6: for that very first game. He picked the right man,
Speaker 6: and he also picked the right family because a very
Speaker 6: gracious woman, Rachel Robinson, was right there by his side.
Speaker 5: No doubt. Without Rachel, there is no Jackie, right.
Speaker 6: Ricky, Yeah, exactly. And I think Jackie would talk about
Speaker 6: that a great deal. And we have seen over the
Speaker 6: years Rachel just continued to represent the Robinson family too
Speaker 6: at the Heights. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 7: Rick If I remember the conversations he used to have
Speaker 7: with Tommy Davis. Did Tommy tell the story that Jackie
Speaker 7: actually recruited him when he was deciding who to sign with.
Speaker 6: Ye, he was trying to figure out who he was
Speaker 6: going to sign with and if he was going to
Speaker 6: sign and the phone rang in his house and they
Speaker 6: picked it up and it was Jackie Robinson calling. He goes,
Speaker 6: as far as I'm concerned, that did it so unt
Speaker 6: sealed and delivered right there?
Speaker 5: That would do it for me too.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine that? I mean, it's amazing it's amazing
Speaker 6: what happens, and you look at it. I never really
Speaker 6: knew Jackie. I ran into him here and was introduced
Speaker 6: and shook his hands, and when he was being honored
Speaker 6: here at Dodgers Stadium many many years ago, obviously, but
Speaker 6: he had an aura about him that was just he
Speaker 6: didn't ask for it, he didn't demand it. It was there.
Speaker 5: Interesting stuff.
Speaker 7: Rick, thanks a lot for sharing, and we'll check back
Speaker 7: with you and Tim Nevertt and can't wait to hear
Speaker 7: your Jackie Robinson Day stories and experiences throughout the years.
Speaker 6: Well, if you don't get calls when the Dodgers win,
Speaker 6: I hope you don't get one call tonight.
Speaker 7: That's right, it's another win, A good day to win
Speaker 7: on Jackie Robinson Day. Thanks Rick, Tim, we'll send it
Speaker 7: back to you in the studio.
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks a lot, DV. Thank you Mo.
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Speaker 7: It is Jackie Robinson Day at Dodger Stadium. And I'm
Speaker 7: joined right now by one of those bullpen dogs that
Speaker 7: helped the Dodgers win the World Series last year. And
Speaker 7: it was his first experience wearing the forty two in
Speaker 7: a Dodger uniform on Jackie Robinson Day. And that's the
Speaker 7: great Michael Kopek. Michael, thanks a lot for the time,
Speaker 7: appreciate it.
Speaker 12: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: What was it like for you?
Speaker 7: I mean, you've been in Major League Baseball with a
Speaker 7: couple of other teams on Jackie Robinson Day, But what
Speaker 7: was it like for you to experience what you did
Speaker 7: at the statue?
Speaker 12: I mean, I think Jackie Robinson Day in general was
Speaker 12: just like a really special day to baseball. You know,
Speaker 12: it shows you know, not only the history of our
Speaker 12: country and the growth of this game all in one,
Speaker 12: but it encapsulates a great player breaking through that. But
Speaker 12: you know, wearing forty two on your back, you know,
Speaker 12: in a different uniform, it doesn't hit quite as hard
Speaker 12: as wearing it in the Dodger blue. And then it's
Speaker 12: cool we have the Brooklyn hat today. But yeah, being
Speaker 12: out there hearing how close kareem story is to Jackie,
Speaker 12: not not in similarities, but how close their their relationship
Speaker 12: actually overlapped. And then just to be able to experience,
Speaker 12: you know, the emotions of that and what it felt
Speaker 12: like to have you know, Dodger family and actually jack
Speaker 12: Robinson's family here, it was just really cool. It's really special.
Speaker 12: So I was happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 7: You have so many different backgrounds in that clubhouse. Do
Speaker 7: you believe what Kareem said and what Jackie Robinson day
Speaker 7: means resonates with everybody, no matter what their background is.
Speaker 12: Yeah. Absolutely. You know, I think that we live in
Speaker 12: a much different generation than then, but in you know,
Speaker 12: all things considered, that wasn't that long ago. Yeah, So
Speaker 12: to have you know, such a diverse clubhouse and the
Speaker 12: talents of this game being of all different nationalities, all
Speaker 12: different colors, and all different backgrounds, I think kind of
Speaker 12: you know, is a testament to what he did to
Speaker 12: you know, his bravery.
Speaker 7: How much did you know about Kareem Abdul Jabbar before
Speaker 7: today and just his connection to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Speaker 12: His connection to to to baseball in general. I didn't
Speaker 12: really know about, but to the Dodgers and too, you know,
Speaker 12: to hear that he said that Jackie actually sent him
Speaker 12: a letter, Yeah it is. You know, that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 12: And to see the impact that that he made in
Speaker 12: the world through through his platform and what he was
Speaker 12: able to do, and that stemming from from Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 12: When it seems like he had already reached so many people,
Speaker 12: he found a way to reach even more through Kareem
Speaker 12: and bil Jabbar. It's just it's it's kind of mind blowing.
Speaker 7: Michael Kopek is our guest. Once all the speeches were
Speaker 7: done at the Jackie Robinson statue, Michael got back to
Speaker 7: business of pitching and I saw you throwing. You went
Speaker 7: out to throw a bullpen session. What can you share
Speaker 7: with us about where you're at physically?
Speaker 12: I feel great. I think that it's kind of a
Speaker 12: long road back, just you know, you know, building up,
Speaker 12: you know, whether whether you want to call it stamina
Speaker 12: or what have you, like, just just building up to
Speaker 12: be able to pitch and pitching games again is kind
Speaker 12: of a long road. So it's only my second bullpen
Speaker 12: since I had a setback, but it felt great and
Speaker 12: I think there was a lot a lot of promise
Speaker 12: in what I'm doing right now. But hopefully we can
Speaker 12: build off of that and keep going forward.
Speaker 7: When you have a day like today, is there a
Speaker 7: sense of relief that your body is responding.
Speaker 12: Yeah. I think with a game in general, there's a
Speaker 12: lot of ups and downs. You know, I'm let's say
Speaker 12: I'm healthy right now and I'm pitching. I go out
Speaker 12: there and I can feel great for one game. In
Speaker 12: the next game maybe not so good, and you have
Speaker 12: to find a way. There's a little bit of that
Speaker 12: when you're doing a rehab stant too, but you don't
Speaker 12: know if you're going to bounce back when you have
Speaker 12: a bad day and rehab, so it can be this
Speaker 12: roller coaster of emotions if you if you ride every
Speaker 12: single feeling of every single day, but to have a
Speaker 12: high day makes it that a little bit easier and
Speaker 12: you get to kind of just build off of that.
Speaker 12: Like I said, I.
Speaker 7: Have so much respect for you and for all those
Speaker 7: guys in the bullpen last year that were pushed to
Speaker 7: the limits to try to win the World Series. You
Speaker 7: guys were able to do that. I haven't talked to
Speaker 7: you about this, but what you guys did as a
Speaker 7: group is unprecedented to carry a pitching staff that far.
Speaker 3: How proud are you of that?
Speaker 7: And I mean literally left your arm out on the
Speaker 7: mound last year?
Speaker 12: Uh yeah. I think the main thing is I'm I'm
Speaker 12: incredibly grateful to be a part of a group that
Speaker 12: was that was that special. You know, whether one guy
Speaker 12: did the job every single night, or you know, somebody
Speaker 12: needed to get picked up, like, we never shied away
Speaker 12: from that, and we had a group of guys that
Speaker 12: were willing to fight that battle all the way through.
Speaker 12: And to be a part of that group and a
Speaker 12: part of guys that are just so determined to win
Speaker 12: no matter you know, what the feeling is or what
Speaker 12: the situation is like. The World Series was the end
Speaker 12: goal and site and that was what we were all
Speaker 12: working towards. So to be a part of a group
Speaker 12: that worked that hard for it, I was incredibly proud.
Speaker 7: Of Michael Kopek's name will forever be part of Dodger history,
Speaker 7: part of those bullpen dogs. And it's scary to think
Speaker 7: that the bullpen's doing so well and you and Evan
Speaker 7: Phillips haven't even thrown one pitch yet.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm really proud of those guys. I'm hoping Evan's
Speaker 12: back soon and seeming like he's getting close, so to
Speaker 12: add him to that mix, it's gonna be really cool
Speaker 12: to see. Right now, I'm just kind of watching from
Speaker 12: a little bit of a distance, but hopefully I'll start
Speaker 12: working my way back and I'll get to be part
Speaker 12: of that experience again.
Speaker 5: Can't wait.
Speaker 7: It's been so great getting to know you and just
Speaker 7: who you are, and obviously that comes out in a
Speaker 7: lot of different ways. So thank you for the time
Speaker 7: and can't wait to see you back out there.
Speaker 12: Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: There he is the man, Michael Kopek. Love that guy.
Speaker 5: We'll send it back to you in the studio.
Speaker 3: Tim, all right, thanks a lot of DV. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Michael Kopek.
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Speaker 2: other four innings, gave up four runs on five hits
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Speaker 4: Tim, thanks again the key tonight for Land and Knack's
Speaker 4: going to be keeping the ball in the ballpark. He
Speaker 4: has given up twenty four percent of the hits that
Speaker 4: he's allowed in Major League Baseball have been home runs,
Speaker 4: so he's going to have to keep the ball in
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they have some guys that hit it out, and
Speaker 6: they have some guys that are a little bit mad
Speaker 6: out of the color They're three and thirteen. They desperately
Speaker 6: want to turn things around. One thing that the Dodgers
Speaker 6: did last night offensively, is you approach Ryan Feltner, who's
Speaker 6: going to be on the mound for Colorado his fourth start.
Speaker 6: Dave Roberts was saying, look, we started to really manage
Speaker 6: a batt's better last night and not expanding the zone.
Speaker 6: Hopefully that takes place again tonight.
Speaker 4: A couple of pitching notes Dave Roberts a short time
Speaker 4: ago announcing that Bobby Miller will be called up from
Speaker 4: Triple A to start tomorrow night's game opposite Herman Marquez
Speaker 4: of the Rockies in the series finale. Also, Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 4: will pitch tomorrow. It'll be morning nine am Pacific time
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Speaker 4: Landon Neck and Ryan Feltner pitching matchup tonight, Rockies and Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: Tim all right, thanks very much, guys. Landing Neck toes
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