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Speaker 2: We are live from Angels Stadium for the final time
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Speaker 2: Phone lines are open at eight six six nine, eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. A disappointing night for Bobby Miller.
Speaker 2: No way to slice it, giving up five runs before
Speaker 2: he got the first out in the first inning, and
Speaker 2: that is an issue, and him giving up three more
Speaker 2: home runs also an issue, something that he has been
Speaker 2: trying to stop from happening, but hasn't had a lot
Speaker 2: of success.
Speaker 3: In doing so this season.
Speaker 2: And you know, for Bobby Miller, you felt somewhat encouraged
Speaker 2: after his outing against the Orioles, a very good hitting
Speaker 2: team at Dodger Stadium, despite battling a sore left knee.
Speaker 2: But tonight was definitely a step backwards for Bobby Miller,
Speaker 2: who got beat by an offense that is not very
Speaker 2: good number one and even worse against right handed pitching.
Speaker 3: And he gave up seven runs to that lineup.
Speaker 2: And like I mentioned last night, Walker Buehler coming out
Speaker 2: doing his thing giving up two solo home runs was encouraging,
Speaker 2: especially against a lineup like this, But for Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: to give up seven runs to a lineup like this
Speaker 2: is even more disappointing. Bobby Miller now has surrendered fifteen
Speaker 2: home runs and only fifty innings pitched.
Speaker 3: That will not get it done.
Speaker 2: Bobby knows that, the Dodgers know that, and it's been
Speaker 2: a disappointing season. It's been a season marred with injury.
Speaker 2: It's been a season marred with him battling a left
Speaker 2: knee issue that you know, Who's to say it wasn't
Speaker 2: bothering him tonight.
Speaker 3: Who's to say he's not.
Speaker 2: Following through on his pitches because he's concerned about putting
Speaker 2: too much pressure on that left knee. That's not an excuse,
Speaker 2: that's reality. And the question has to be asked, how
Speaker 2: many more starts is Bobby Miller going to make the
Speaker 2: rest of this season. You heard Dave Roberts say it
Speaker 2: he's going to make another one, but it feels like
Speaker 2: he's making that next one out of necessity because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers don't have anybody else as they try to protect
Speaker 2: Yamamoto and also try to, you know, protect Jack Flaherty
Speaker 2: and also the rest of this rotation to be as
Speaker 2: fresh as possible for the postseason. You got Gavin Stone
Speaker 2: going into uncharted arrt throwing more games and innings than
Speaker 2: anyone thought he would and the most he has ever
Speaker 2: done in his season. So that is the reason why
Speaker 2: Bobby Miller is going to start next Wednesday against the Cubs.
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers had a healthy glass Now or a
Speaker 2: built up Yamamoto, or if Clayton Kershaw did not have
Speaker 2: turf toew, I don't believe you would see Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: next week, and I'm not sure you would see Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller the rest of the season. And I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that just because of performance that's at the top of
Speaker 2: the list. But like I said, do we know how
Speaker 2: healthy Bobby Miller is feeling when he takes the mound.
Speaker 2: I know he's out there, and I know the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are always super cautious with their players, but maybe he's
Speaker 2: not being as transparent as he should be with the
Speaker 2: Dodgers on how he's feeling out there, and maybe you know,
Speaker 2: he feels well enough to go out there, but it's
Speaker 2: affecting his mechanics if he's trying to protect that left me.
Speaker 2: So all of those things are in play on why
Speaker 2: I believe the Dodgers may consider shutting down Bobby Miller
Speaker 2: if things don't go well next Wednesday night against the Cubs,
Speaker 2: or if his left knee is still giving him issues.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. Let's head downstairs to the Dodger clubhouse to
Speaker 2: hear from Bobby Miller on sports at LA.
Speaker 4: It's kind of hard to put into words, but you know, recently,
Speaker 4: I've been feeling really good, and I still felt really
Speaker 4: good today. That's the first inning. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: good in there, a couple of good fastball hitters, just
Speaker 4: a couple of bad pitch selections.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I could go back and look and be like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I threw those balls in the corner. But you know,
Speaker 4: there are some good fastball hitters and just through the
Speaker 4: wrong pitch at the wrong time. They just put some
Speaker 4: good swings on some not really bad.
Speaker 1: Pitches, you Loo conches.
Speaker 6: I guess after the two innings you're finding some more
Speaker 6: success really efficient what I guess adjustments did you make
Speaker 6: there in the moment to get those results?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really, just after the three run homer, I seem to
Speaker 4: really lock it back in. I wush it wouldn't take
Speaker 4: a home run to get locked back in each time.
Speaker 4: It really just they couldn't adjust it to chain up today,
Speaker 4: and I just started using it a little bit too late.
Speaker 4: And if I used a little bit earlier, I think
Speaker 4: things would have gone a lot differently, and I would
Speaker 4: have gone really really deep into the game. But right
Speaker 4: now I just got to focus sound the good. Really
Speaker 4: just watched that because at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: after that three on homer, there there was a lot
Speaker 4: of good besides just a couple of really good swings.
Speaker 3: What do you think it was much?
Speaker 5: Prescribe?
Speaker 2: It was it just sort of being so fastball alive
Speaker 2: earlier or a little bit.
Speaker 4: You know, a couple of hitters obviously fell behind the
Speaker 4: account and they're obviously looking for a fastball, So it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter where I throw, they're gonna put a good
Speaker 4: swing on it. And just unfortunately it went over the fence.
Speaker 4: That seems to be the story lately. Yeah, didn't put
Speaker 4: it in a really bad spot, but at the same
Speaker 4: time as kind of in their nitro zone where they
Speaker 4: hit the fastballs right right through it. I was aiming
Speaker 4: somewhere else and just missed my spot.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Bobby Miller, and I think Bobby needs
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more honest with himself. You
Speaker 2: can't stay on one hand, you made good pitches and
Speaker 2: then you say, well, I threw it in their nitro
Speaker 2: zone and couldn't command the pitch.
Speaker 3: That just doesn't add up.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and nobody loves Bobby Miller more than me,
Speaker 2: but that just doesn't add up.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you could.
Speaker 2: Say you locked it in after the three run home
Speaker 2: run a Mickey moniac, but by that time it's five nothing,
Speaker 2: and then he gave up another home run to the
Speaker 2: number nine hitter who was hitting OH seventy nine coming
Speaker 2: into the game tonight, Nico Cavadas, and I can feel
Speaker 2: very confident in saying I've never heard of him before tonight.
Speaker 2: He was the Angel's DH hitting ninth, hitting O seventy nine,
Speaker 2: and Bobby Miller gave up a home run to him.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you justify that or really find
Speaker 2: a way to justify it to yourself.
Speaker 3: So, look, I disagree with Bobby.
Speaker 2: He made bad pitches in that inning, and look, he
Speaker 2: walked the first hitter, then he hit the second batter.
Speaker 2: A lot of times you hear pitchers that have a
Speaker 2: lot of experience talk about it's not so much the
Speaker 2: home run, but what took place before. So instead of
Speaker 2: a solo home run, it's a three run home run
Speaker 2: and you're.
Speaker 3: Down five to nothing.
Speaker 2: I just feel like Bobby and the Dodgers need to
Speaker 2: really take some inventory on which direction the rest of
Speaker 2: the season is going to go for him. And I
Speaker 2: know we have talked about this and others have said this,
Speaker 2: but I really do believe Wednesday is a big start
Speaker 2: for Bobby Miller because after Wednesday, the Dodgers should be
Speaker 2: getting Tyler Glass now back sooner rather than later, and
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller is only getting better and Landon Nak is
Speaker 2: now in the So you know, I want to see
Speaker 2: Bobby do well, but I don't want to see Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller go out there if he feels like his lower
Speaker 2: half is not cooperating.
Speaker 3: And it's compromising.
Speaker 2: Uh, the execution of his pitches eight six six nine,
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Tim and plush Centsha. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Tim, Hey, Dave always, I'm doing well. What do you
Speaker 7: got awesome? I kind of had a two party regarding
Speaker 7: Bobby Miller. You know, one, obviously, the the start was
Speaker 7: pretty horrific, but it just kind of felt like Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts had no choice but to kind of keep going
Speaker 7: it back out there just so he didn't have to
Speaker 7: you know that early again like the Arizona series, go
Speaker 7: to the bullten and tax a bunch of guys that
Speaker 7: can use some rest.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the.
Speaker 2: One thing I agree with with Bobby is that he
Speaker 2: did kind of stabilize the game and not let it
Speaker 2: get two out of hand early, so he was able
Speaker 2: to go at least through five. So I will agree
Speaker 2: with him on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: True. The other part, though, from like a catcher's perspective
Speaker 7: for Austin Barnes, would be like, you know, it kind
Speaker 7: of puts him in the buyd as far as pitch selection,
Speaker 7: you know, trying to keep hitters off balance, knowing that
Speaker 7: your starters just kind of serving up meatballs there in
Speaker 7: the beginning. I just kind of wanted your thoughts on,
Speaker 7: just maybe from Austin Barnes perspective, kind of how difficult
Speaker 7: it get trying to keep guys off balance, pitch selection
Speaker 7: and all that, just knowing that your guy doesn't have.
Speaker 8: It that night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the good news about Austin Barnes from what I've
Speaker 2: been told from other pitchers, is if something's not working,
Speaker 2: he doesn't give up on that pitch. He comes back
Speaker 2: to it. Maybe they should have came out with the
Speaker 2: changeup more than what they did to start the game.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, Bobby Miller cannot
Speaker 2: get behind in counts. He's got to command his pitches
Speaker 2: and throw pitches ahead in the count. I can't tell
Speaker 2: you how many times I've heard from Mike Sosia and others.
Speaker 2: When you're throwing pitches behind in the count, it makes
Speaker 2: life a lot harder for you, no matter or who
Speaker 2: you are. And that's why you see the really good
Speaker 2: ones like Kershaw talk about strike one because they don't
Speaker 2: want to have to make pitches behind.
Speaker 3: In the count.
Speaker 6: Awesome thanks Dave.
Speaker 3: All right, Tim, thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Let's go out to Mark who is
Speaker 2: at Angel Stadium tonight. Hi, Mark, You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 5: Hye, Dave, Yeah, pretty disappointing.
Speaker 3: You know, you should have been here.
Speaker 9: Look it was.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, yeah, right, you should have been here last night. Well,
Speaker 10: you know, I always, I always, I've been a fan
Speaker 10: of the Dodgers since fifty nine, and I always kind
Speaker 10: of feel like there's there's two Dodger teams, one that
Speaker 10: shows up and one that doesn't.
Speaker 5: Because it's not all Miller. I mean Miller just I mean,
Speaker 5: he looked terrible out there, but all of our hitting
Speaker 5: just I mean it didn't hardly go anywhere.
Speaker 10: When when Pius came up, he hit that that I.
Speaker 5: Thought it was going to be a home run or something,
Speaker 5: and it just, you know, it just wasn't there, you know, And.
Speaker 2: I know tonight's game, or can I just put it
Speaker 2: into hold on for a second, Can I just put
Speaker 2: it into perspective, Mark, who was at Angel Stadium tonight,
Speaker 2: came here to see the Dodgers that have the best
Speaker 2: record in baseball. They did not play that way, so
Speaker 2: that's why you're even more upset. But if you were
Speaker 2: at last night's game, you would be ecstatic. And also
Speaker 2: keep in mind the Dodgers just came off an emotional
Speaker 2: series against the Diamondbacks and were able to rally last night.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's an excuse, but here they are
Speaker 2: at the end of six in a row and playing basically.
Speaker 3: For the division before they got here.
Speaker 2: So I know it's disappointing when you pay for tickets
Speaker 2: and the team doesn't perform to that level.
Speaker 3: But I think all in all, the Dodgers had a
Speaker 3: pretty good six game stretch here.
Speaker 5: Actually, I'm not feeling sorry about the Dodgers. I watched
Speaker 5: the game yesterday on the television. I was acstatic. I
Speaker 5: was jumping up and down and Movie hits.
Speaker 8: That home run.
Speaker 5: It sounds just when you first sometimes.
Speaker 7: Sometimes sometimes yes, sometimes.
Speaker 5: That they just for instance, the offense tonight was flawed.
Speaker 3: That's base they can't score six or seven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: You stated a fact.
Speaker 2: Yes, the offense wasn't great and they were down six
Speaker 2: to nothing early. And Griffin Canning can pitch a lot
Speaker 2: differently when he has a five to nothing lead.
Speaker 5: I just have one last question for you. So in
Speaker 5: July of last year, you said that you thought that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers would win one hundred games, and it turns
Speaker 5: out they won one hundred and ten. And so the
Speaker 5: question today is how many how many games do you
Speaker 5: think are gonna win before the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, it doesn't seem like they're on pace for
Speaker 2: one hundred wins. In fact, they may have a worst
Speaker 2: regular season record with sho Heyo Tani on the team.
Speaker 2: But all that matters is what they do in October. Mark,
Speaker 2: As you know, winning one hundred games, winning ninety five
Speaker 2: games doesn't really matter at this point. All these guys
Speaker 2: in that clubhouse know they're going to be judged by
Speaker 2: whether or not they're able to be the last team
Speaker 2: standing in October.
Speaker 5: Correct. I agree completely. And by the way, I saw
Speaker 5: Kofax fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Granted, I bet that must have been amazing. Thank you
Speaker 2: for the phone call. Not sure how that relates to
Speaker 2: what happened tonight. Eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. I do appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call, and I love the longtime Dodger fans, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Look, it's not gonna be there every night,
Speaker 2: even with this Dodger team, and the complexion of this
Speaker 2: game completely changed after that five run first inning. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers were in an uphill climb. Griffin Canning was able
Speaker 2: to throw strikes and not put too much pressure on
Speaker 2: each and every pitch, So that was part of all
Speaker 2: of this. So that's the reason why things did not
Speaker 2: go the Dodgers way offensively tonight. And Dave Roberts took
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman out after the sixth inning,
Speaker 2: and I like that. I thought that was the right
Speaker 2: move by Dave Roberts to preserve those guys to avoid
Speaker 2: any injury in a blowout, but also give the sellout crowd,
Speaker 2: a lot of Dodger fans here the opportunity to see
Speaker 2: Freddie and Mookie Betts take three at bats. I thought
Speaker 2: that was the perfect move by Dave Roberts in a
Speaker 2: blowout game. Speaking of the Dodgers three MVPs, there's all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, this underswell from the East coast of
Speaker 2: all places. For some sort of argument that Francisco Lindor
Speaker 2: should win the National League MVP instead of show Hey Otani,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, now from the East Coast,
Speaker 2: they're all trying to discount the stolen base After last year,
Speaker 2: when Mooki Betts was having a better all around season
Speaker 2: than Ronald o'cunya Junior, who was a forty and seventy
Speaker 2: stolen based player, everybody was saying how remarkable it was
Speaker 2: that Ronald o'cunya Junior could steal seventy bases and it
Speaker 2: didn't matter what Mooki Betts was doing on an all
Speaker 2: around basis. Fast forward to the last two weeks. Now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, people are saying, well, the stolen
Speaker 2: bases they don't mean as much. You know, the bases
Speaker 2: are bigger, the rules are different. Fifty stolen bases doesn't
Speaker 2: mean what it used to mean. Okay, okay, you can't
Speaker 2: have it both ways, all right, Francisco lindor Or, I
Speaker 2: see the argument. He's playing shortstop, he's leading off for
Speaker 2: the Mets, and he's had a great year. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying he has not had a great year, but because
Speaker 2: of the final wildcard spot and the expanded playoffs. Now
Speaker 2: everybody's saying, well, if he leads the Mets into the postseason,
Speaker 2: that says a lot.
Speaker 3: He's so valuable.
Speaker 2: Oh really, if there wasn't an expanded postseason, the Mets
Speaker 2: would have no shot at the playoffs. And Shoho Tani,
Speaker 2: I know he's a DH, but the facts are he's
Speaker 2: a very dynamic player on the bases when he's out there,
Speaker 2: and he's going to do something that nobody else has
Speaker 2: ever done. In fact, right now, he has done something
Speaker 2: no other player has done.
Speaker 3: Nobody else in baseball.
Speaker 2: History has ever hit forty four home runs and stolen
Speaker 2: forty six bases. And it's not like he's hitting two twenty.
Speaker 2: He's hitting two ninety on the year with an ops
Speaker 2: of nine to ninety. So he's had a really good year.
Speaker 2: And I know he doesn't play the field, and I'm
Speaker 2: not a huge fan of the DH, and I would
Speaker 2: normally give it give more to a position player, but
Speaker 2: there really hasn't been one. The two best hitters and
Speaker 2: players in the National League this year have been Marcelo
Speaker 2: Zuna of the Braves and show Hey Otani of the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Lindor is fantastic. He is if you want to say
Speaker 2: Lindor should be the runner up to Otani, that's fine,
Speaker 2: But Otani is the MVP, all right. Just saw Fernando
Speaker 2: Tatist Junior rip off his jersey, so that obviously means
Speaker 2: the Padres walked it off against the Tigers. So the
Speaker 2: Padres are gaining a game on the Dodgers tonight with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers losing. Arizona beat the Giants tonight, so both
Speaker 2: those teams gain a game on the Dodgers, and they
Speaker 2: are both now five games back in the standings in
Speaker 2: the NLS to the Dodgers. But going back to Otani,
Speaker 2: he should be the MVP. And if Francisco Lindor was
Speaker 2: playing in Cleveland, nobody would be beating the drum for him.
Speaker 2: But because he plays for the Mets in New York,
Speaker 2: then everybody is on board with the Francisco Lindor MVP train.
Speaker 3: Give me a break.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number we are going to take a time
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Speaker 2: have had the most success against the Angels ever since
Speaker 2: interleague play started.
Speaker 3: Can you guess who they are? The top three?
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two. Five seventy is
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Speaker 1: This is Dodger Talk with David Bassi.
Speaker 2: We are live at Angels Stadium after the Halos beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in a big way tonight ten to one
Speaker 2: the final score. We're with you until ten thirty tonight
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. The Dodgers win four out of
Speaker 2: six on this road trip and win the most important
Speaker 2: series on this six game road trip, taking three out
Speaker 2: of four from the Diamondbacks. So the Dodgers not only
Speaker 2: left Arizona with a six game lead, they actually won
Speaker 2: the season series. So if there is a tie in
Speaker 2: the standings between the Dodgers and Diamondbacks, the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: have the edge. So whatever the standing, show add a
Speaker 2: game to that because the Dodgers own the tiebreaker, and
Speaker 2: with both Arizona and San Diego winning with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: losing tonight, the Dodgers are five games ahead both of
Speaker 2: those teams, and if you're looking ahead to the postseason brackets,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers right now are the number one seed in
Speaker 2: the National League and if the postseason started today, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers would play the winner of a Diamondbacks Padres wild
Speaker 2: card series. Eight six six nine seven two five seventy
Speaker 2: is the phone number. Let's go out to Redondo Beach. Steve,
Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hi, Steve, Hey Dave, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Just last man standing out here at the Big A.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Hey, I was wondering, dude, you know, I was.
Speaker 8: I know, Bobby Miller's struggling, you know.
Speaker 6: But.
Speaker 8: I was noticing, you know, you know, he he was
Speaker 8: getting his fastball is getting hit, and I wanted to
Speaker 8: know if you could kind of take me, maybe give
Speaker 8: me some insight, maybe what that conversation was that last
Speaker 8: Mountam visit or that the only mound visit with prior
Speaker 8: in him before they took him out, because it seemed
Speaker 8: to me that as soon as after the mound visit,
Speaker 8: he goes right back to the curveball first pitch, and
Speaker 8: he's getting that over for a strike and he's going
Speaker 8: back to the changeup and uh and not going to the.
Speaker 3: I bet that's what he was telling him, Steve.
Speaker 2: I bet he was telling him to don't forget about
Speaker 2: those pitches. Make those pitches, don't try to chase velocity,
Speaker 2: don't try to overthrow with the fastball. And that seems
Speaker 2: to be something that Bobby needs to be reminded of
Speaker 2: quite often.
Speaker 8: Okay, here's another question. So with the pitch calm, right,
Speaker 8: who essentially, like who is calling the pitches because I
Speaker 8: don't see him taking pitches off the catcher.
Speaker 2: No, the catcher's calling those pitches. They have a game
Speaker 2: plan and the catcher's calling those pitches. And I the
Speaker 2: one pitcher I know that calls his own pitches is
Speaker 2: Blake Snell. He has the pitch calm on his waist.
Speaker 2: He's the one calling the pitches to the catcher. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's the catcher Austin Barnes that's punching in which pitch
Speaker 2: to throw, and he does that with a Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer like Kershaw, but obviously Kershaw's calling his own game
Speaker 2: in a different way as well.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, dude, all right, hopefully hopefully we get
Speaker 8: Glad now and Yamamoto back and when we get some
Speaker 8: more depths in the lineup and and we finished strong. Dude, Yeah, keeping.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Steve appreciated. Be safe out there with
Speaker 2: Dondo Beach. Speaking of Yamamoto, even though he only went
Speaker 2: two innings last night in his second rehab start, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said, Yamamoto will pitch Tuesday against the Cubs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Yama Moto is making his return on Tuesday night at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium against the Cubs. And if Shota ima Naga
Speaker 2: stays on six days rest or on that six day schedule,
Speaker 2: we may have a Yamamoto Ima Naga showdown at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium on Tuesday night.
Speaker 3: Let's go out to Bob in Malibu. You're on Dodger Talk, Hi.
Speaker 8: Bob, Uncle, David Dodger.
Speaker 9: Bob out here Nowiby buddy, how you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing all right? What's up?
Speaker 9: That's it?
Speaker 6: Much? Bet?
Speaker 9: We're gonna need a giant sized Navvian tankless water heater
Speaker 9: to wash this one off day, by right.
Speaker 3: I guess so.
Speaker 2: But if they went on Friday, everybody, we'll forget about tonight.
Speaker 9: Listen, Let's just hope we all get a free jumbo
Speaker 9: jack anyway, Dave, My question is, Buddy okay? With the
Speaker 9: way that Miller's pitching and the way the changeup seem
Speaker 9: to be working a little later on in his game,
Speaker 9: any chance we move him to more of a relief
Speaker 9: position as we get further into the season and into
Speaker 9: the postseason.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't rule it out, But if you can't throw
Speaker 2: strikes as a starter, if he can't get strike one
Speaker 2: as a starter, do you really want that coming out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen?
Speaker 9: No? In fact, the guy should have been singing. He
Speaker 9: was throwing pitches right down Broadway so hard tonight man.
Speaker 2: All right, Bob, thank you for the phone call. Very impressive.
Speaker 2: You got two sponsors in there as well. In one
Speaker 2: phone call. Let's go out to Marco, who is at
Speaker 2: Angel Stadium tonight. Hi, Marco, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey day.
Speaker 6: Thanks for taking my call, my pleasure.
Speaker 3: What do you got so well?
Speaker 11: What are your thoughts on LAT and NAC being on
Speaker 11: the you know, on the postseason roster. I think it's
Speaker 11: a pore guns conclusion that you know. I think there's
Speaker 11: been a lot more negative talk on Bobby Miller and
Speaker 11: his issues that I don't think they'll be resolved throughout
Speaker 11: the month of September. And I think before.
Speaker 2: You go any further, you want to put landon Nack
Speaker 2: on the postseason roster? Who is landon Nax starting over?
Speaker 2: And by the way, for the record, I'm a big
Speaker 2: landon Nac fan, and I feel like he has earned
Speaker 2: more opportunities to start because he has done pretty well.
Speaker 3: But go ahead, who would.
Speaker 2: You want to take out of the postseason roster if
Speaker 2: glass Now and Yamamoto are healthy?
Speaker 11: Well, I just think Yamamoto, you know, with him coming back,
Speaker 11: that's still a big question.
Speaker 5: Mark two.
Speaker 8: And Land and that I.
Speaker 11: Could see him piggybacking on the start. You know that
Speaker 11: Yamamoto you know, starts maybe Game four, game three, because
Speaker 11: I don't know, you know, he that's not.
Speaker 2: A really great game plan, Mark Marco, I don't like
Speaker 2: that game plan. If that's what the Dodgers have to
Speaker 2: do to win a playoff series, I'm not feeling them
Speaker 2: going too far.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 11: One other quick question, the last you know on Sunday
Speaker 11: save Roberts Bulls. You know the main guys after three
Speaker 11: and ins and today they yeah pulled, you know, Minkie
Speaker 11: Beds and three mean after six, you know the Padres.
Speaker 8: They're they're hot.
Speaker 11: Is the Arizona haven't lost yet and they're not even healthy.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? The Dodgers beat Arizona three out of.
Speaker 11: Four exactly, but they're not one hundred percent Arizona the right,
Speaker 11: so they're not I think Dave Roberts is kind of
Speaker 11: you know, and they're only a fight now.
Speaker 2: He was, so he was managing to fight another day
Speaker 2: and it paid off because the Dodgers won the last
Speaker 2: game in Arizona, and tonight he left him in for
Speaker 2: six innings. The Dodgers were not coming back tonight, Marco
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts to me, I loved him leaving those
Speaker 2: guys in for six innings.
Speaker 3: Taking them out after three a little early for my liking.
Speaker 3: So I like what he did tonight.
Speaker 2: And obviously he's aware a lot of Dodger fans were
Speaker 2: here sell out crowd, so he understands fans paid to
Speaker 2: come see those guys, and that's the reason why he
Speaker 2: left him in there until the sixth inning, because if
Speaker 2: they would have got hurt, Marco, if they would have
Speaker 2: got hit by a pitch in the eighth inning, you
Speaker 2: would be calling right now saying, why did Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: leave Mookie Bets and Freddie Freeman in there? And Freddie,
Speaker 2: by the way, still has a micro frack sure in
Speaker 2: his right middle finger.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, right, I can see it.
Speaker 2: I feel like I set you straight for tomorrow, Marco.
Speaker 2: I set you straight for the weekend, the rest of
Speaker 2: the week. You now have great Dodger knowledge.
Speaker 11: I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Day.
Speaker 11: Thank you all.
Speaker 2: Right, Marco, thank you for the phone call. Yeah see,
Speaker 2: that's a catch twenty two. That's Monday morning quarterbacking. Why
Speaker 2: ain't you leave Freddy and Mooki in there all nine innings? Okay,
Speaker 2: let's say Dave Roberts does the Dodgers lose ten to one,
Speaker 2: and let's say one of those two guys gets hit
Speaker 2: by a pitch or they turn an ankle. I bet
Speaker 2: I have a full boarder calls until midnight tonight, wanting
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts fired for leaving those guys in in a blowout.
Speaker 2: I think he straddled the line pretty well tonight. Eight
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Speaker 2: To give a couple of shout outs to former Dodgers
Speaker 2: that now play for the Angels. My guy Kevin Polar
Speaker 2: from the Grade one eight in West Hill Shamanad High School.
Speaker 2: He has said that he is retiring at the end
Speaker 2: of this year.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: He's still crushing left handed pitching. He has almost a
Speaker 2: one thousand oh ps against left handed pitching this year.
Speaker 2: But Kevin Pillar, like Kevin Kiermeier, is saying they are
Speaker 2: going to retire at the end of the year. And
Speaker 2: Polar has had a great career and certainly was one
Speaker 2: of the best center fielders in his prime and is
Speaker 2: still robbing a lot of hitters out there in the outfield.
Speaker 2: It was also great to see former Dodger Tyler Anderson,
Speaker 2: who is with the Angels. He certainly was a great
Speaker 2: guy to be around, and it was great to see
Speaker 2: him yesterday as well. I did not see Polar. Polar
Speaker 2: is a tough guy to see around at Angel Stadium.
Speaker 2: I feel like I have to get Mark Gubazza to
Speaker 2: get me the golden ticket to see Kevin Palar around here.
Speaker 2: It was great to see those guys too, Mark Gubazza,
Speaker 2: Tim Salmon, Terry Smith and Mark Lynston all out here.
Speaker 2: And Wayne ran Dazzo. Good to see him as well.
Speaker 2: But we see him with those Apple games. It was
Speaker 2: cool to see the Halos out here at Angel Stadium.
Speaker 2: Dodgers fall to the Halos tonight ten to one. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to speaking of West Hills, Sasan in West Hills,
Speaker 2: how you doing. Did I get your name right?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, Thank you so much, Dave. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 12: I just had a quick question just about Tyler Glass
Speaker 12: now in his rehab. When do you think we might
Speaker 12: see him in action for the Dodgers. Do you think
Speaker 12: that he may see action up against the Marlins in
Speaker 12: that series or up against the Rockies later in the month. Anyway,
Speaker 12: Thank you so much for taking my call, and good.
Speaker 5: Rest of your day.
Speaker 3: Thank you you too. Hey.
Speaker 2: I'll say this, I really hope Tyler glassw is pitching
Speaker 2: on the next road. We're seeing a lot of Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now working on mechanics with Connor McGinnis, doing a
Speaker 2: lot of talking out there with Connor McGinnis off a
Speaker 2: flat round, I feel like, yeah, Tyler glass Now should
Speaker 2: be back on that next road trip to Atlanta or Miami.
Speaker 2: It feels like he should be on what I'm saying
Speaker 2: tells me he should be. No pitcher is ever one
Speaker 2: hundred percent healthy or one hundred percent with their mechanics,
Speaker 2: So if he wants to be ready for the postseason,
Speaker 2: you gotta start pitching. You don't want Game one to
Speaker 2: be your first game back, And it seems like last
Speaker 2: Now is on track to pitch, hopefully on the next
Speaker 2: road trip after the Dodgers close out this upcoming six
Speaker 2: game homestand against the Guardians and Chicago Cubs. I also
Speaker 2: want to mention before we took our break that we
Speaker 2: did some research and when I say we are magic
Speaker 2: producer Dwayne McDonald found all this for me. I was
Speaker 2: wondering which Dodger hitters since interleague play started have the
Speaker 2: best numbers against the Angels at Dodger Stadium in here
Speaker 2: in Anaheim and by far and away. Gary Sheffield, who
Speaker 2: should be in the Hall of Fame, played twenty two
Speaker 2: games with the Dodgers against the Angels and had a
Speaker 2: three to twenty nine batting average, eleven home runs, twenty
Speaker 2: two RBIs, and an OPS of twelve sixty five. The
Speaker 2: eleven home runs by Sheffield in a Dodger uniform against
Speaker 2: the Angels is the most hit by a Dodger against
Speaker 2: the team here in Anaheim. Eric Carros, who is here,
Speaker 2: he owned Troy Percival. He had a couple of hits
Speaker 2: off of Perceval. And you know when you say that
Speaker 2: Caros was not clutch. If you're hitting, if you're getting
Speaker 2: hits against Perceval, it means that it's late in the game, right, Okay.
Speaker 2: Eric Carros twenty nine games against the Angels in his
Speaker 2: Dodge Your career, batt at three sixteen, with eight home
Speaker 2: runs and seventeen RBIs. He had a nine to fourteen OPS.
Speaker 2: And my guy Andre Ethier played more games than any
Speaker 2: one of those two guys, fifty four games played against
Speaker 2: the Angels, more than any other Dodger. He had a
Speaker 2: three fourteen batting average with seven home runs, including of course,
Speaker 2: a walk off home run against the Halos on August
Speaker 2: Tecod twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3: So those are the.
Speaker 2: Three top Dodgers to perform against the Angels and Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets obviously has done great, but a lot of that
Speaker 2: was with the Red Sox. Let's take more phone calls,
Speaker 2: shall we. Let's go out to Newport Beach. Ken, Who's
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 6: Ken?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 3: Okay, what you think about those three names? Ken? I
Speaker 3: bet you called to complain about them during your time?
Speaker 6: Never, I would never happen.
Speaker 3: I could see you being the guy. Saint Eric Harross
Speaker 3: was never clubed much.
Speaker 6: I don't even remember him being clutched or not being clutched.
Speaker 6: And speaking of memory, I've been a Dodger fan since
Speaker 6: fifty eight, and I'm trying to think about.
Speaker 2: Are you trying to one up the caller from earlier
Speaker 2: that said he was a Dodger fan since fifty nine? No, no, okay,
Speaker 2: just for the record, it's sounded like a Steve Hartman
Speaker 2: one up right there?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I'm just trying to remember. I'm thinking
Speaker 6: of all so I'm thinking of the sorta in a
Speaker 6: game that means something. There are only four and a
Speaker 6: half games ahead. Now, I don't remember leaving the guy
Speaker 6: in that had a six to fifty ERA and a
Speaker 6: minors now is a seven to seventy nine ERA. To
Speaker 6: give up seven runs and not pull up it just
Speaker 6: confused me. It's not a spring training game. This game
Speaker 6: had meaning. And sure the Dodgers didn't score and then
Speaker 6: we're going to no doubt lose anyway, But why would
Speaker 6: you leave it in that long?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Number one, he's not just thinking about today. He's thinking
Speaker 2: about the three game series or the six in a
Speaker 2: row coming up after this day off. And you know,
Speaker 2: after that first inning, Ken, he seemed to be better
Speaker 2: than what he was in that first inning. I know
Speaker 2: he gave up two solo home runs, but he had
Speaker 2: the game better managed than he did in the first inning.
Speaker 2: So that's the reason why he let him ride. If
Speaker 2: he gives up another three or four runs, he's out
Speaker 2: of there.
Speaker 3: But he did not do that.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think if I was the manager and you're the manager,
Speaker 6: you would have pulled him in the third inning because
Speaker 6: he just didn't have it. And this is a last
Speaker 6: place Angel Dean. This isn't like a contender. And it
Speaker 6: kind of made me scratch my head so hard I
Speaker 6: almost started bleeding.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, by the time you wanted to take Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller out. The game was out of hand? All did
Speaker 2: you think the Dodgers were coming back?
Speaker 10: What it was?
Speaker 9: For nothing?
Speaker 6: After the first I thought there was the possibility.
Speaker 2: And by the way, can you you channeling Tommy Lasorda's
Speaker 2: name here? I love Tommy Lasorda, but he was not
Speaker 2: known as the best tactician.
Speaker 6: That's true. But you know, a lot of changes, a
Speaker 6: lot more stats, there's a lot more information, and a
Speaker 6: lot has changed.
Speaker 2: You're right, and this was the right move, Like I said,
Speaker 2: if you're watching the game, yeah, the first inning was ugly,
Speaker 2: but he was able to only give up two runs
Speaker 2: the rest of the way, and the game was out
Speaker 2: of hand by that point.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the picture for the Angels has a five to
Speaker 6: sixty eer, right, So it's not like he was some
Speaker 6: type of wonderful picture and they could have come back,
Speaker 6: but not when you were left.
Speaker 2: Somebody to come on, Ken, you can't you can't play
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty. I think we can agree upon this, Ken.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have mastered how to navigate a regular season?
Speaker 3: Can we agree on that?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, so they're navigating one sixty two, right, here, and
Speaker 2: I guarantee you, Ken, by the time the last day
Speaker 2: of the regular season comes around, the Dodgers will win
Speaker 2: this division by at least five games because they have
Speaker 2: mastered how to win the regular season by navigating their
Speaker 2: pitching and having more pitching than any other team in
Speaker 2: the division. Now, if you want to argue about how
Speaker 2: that translates to October, that's a different debate. But as
Speaker 2: far as the regular season goes, I think we have
Speaker 2: to acknowledge Andrew Friedman Dave Roberts have kind of figured
Speaker 2: out that plan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with all that, but I just can't
Speaker 6: imagine leaving the guy in that law. There was no
Speaker 6: purpose to do it.
Speaker 5: You could have pulled them.
Speaker 3: There, there was a purpose.
Speaker 2: You don't want to burn your relievers that have been
Speaker 2: used a lot. Okay, all right, Ken, thank you for
Speaker 2: the phone call. We could argue about that all night
Speaker 2: and you still would not acknowledge it. That's the reason why,
Speaker 2: by the way, it pretty with the two losses the
Speaker 2: Dodgers took on this road trip. They lost fourteen to
Speaker 2: three in Arizona. Justin Robleski also did not have a
Speaker 2: great first inning. He put the Dodgers in a big
Speaker 2: hole and tonight ten to one. So the two losses
Speaker 2: on this road trip, the Dodgers were outscored twenty four
Speaker 2: to four because of bad first innings by their young
Speaker 2: starting pitching. And the one thing I will agree with
Speaker 2: Ken on is the Dodgers have to look at Bobby
Speaker 2: Miller's performance. Whether it's injury based or performance based, it
Speaker 2: just hasn't been good this year. There's no ways around that.
Speaker 2: And I feel like next Wednesday it's a crossroad start.
Speaker 2: He's got to show that he cannot get into a
Speaker 2: deep hole and he's got a pitch well. Whether it's
Speaker 2: his knees, whether it's his shoulders, all of that is
Speaker 2: part of the performance and the results. At some point
Speaker 2: that's got to matter, all right. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: us on Dodger Talk tonight. A day off tomorrow, not
Speaker 2: only for the Dodgers but for yours truly.
Speaker 3: We all have.
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Speaker 2: and then on Friday night, the Dodgers will be back
Speaker 2: in action, starting a six game homestand against the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 2: Landon Knack will be on the mound for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and in eight starts, Nack has an ERA of two
Speaker 2: to seventy two. He's going up against left hander Matthew Boyd,
Speaker 2: who in four games this year is one and one
Speaker 2: with an ERA of two thirty eight. Morongo Casino Dodgers
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Speaker 2: pitch from Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and tim Nebritt
Speaker 2: Hex seven ten.
Speaker 3: After the three.
Speaker 2: Games with Cleveland, then the Cubs come to town. Cody
Speaker 2: Bellinger back at Dodgers Stadium for the second time in
Speaker 2: as many years, so look forward to.
Speaker 3: Seeing Cody again.
Speaker 2: He had a big part and a lot of Dodgers' success,
Speaker 2: including going to back to back World Series in seventeen
Speaker 2: and eighteen and winning the World Series in twenty. Thanks
Speaker 2: to Colin Yee back at our Burbanks Studios. Thanks to
Speaker 2: Dwayne McDonald for hanging out late night here at the
Speaker 2: Big A with me, and thanks to you for hanging
Speaker 2: out as well.
Speaker 3: Hope we got your home safe once again.
Speaker 2: The final sport tonight from Angel Stadium the Angels beat the.
Speaker 3: Dodgers from ten to one. Have a great rest of
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