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Speaker 2: Cats, blame it on the Ghosts. Gotta blame it on
Speaker 2: something or somebody. The Dodgers with three airs leading to
Speaker 2: four unearned runs tonight in Milwaukee, lose to the Brewers
Speaker 2: five to four. Tim Kates with you here on postgame
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. Thanks for being with us here until the
Speaker 2: bottom of the hour. Eight six six nine eighty seven
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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight gave the ball to Walker Bueller for the
Speaker 2: first time since June eighteenth. He was back up on
Speaker 2: the bump. He had been on the injured list since
Speaker 2: then with a hip discomfort. He went to get right.
Speaker 2: He went to the manor leagues to get some rehabits.
Speaker 2: Starts in there. Last time out, felt pretty good in
Speaker 2: his final outing for OKC comes back tonight for the
Speaker 2: first time since June eighteenth, and walked the first three
Speaker 2: batters that he faced, got out of the first any
Speaker 2: thanks to Kevin Kiermeyer great throw from center field and
Speaker 2: nail the runner at the plate. He then gave up
Speaker 2: three runs in the second, the Dodgers would give up
Speaker 2: one more in the fourth, The Dodgers would blow a
Speaker 2: three to nothing lead and then go on and lose
Speaker 2: by a final of five to four. Lots to digest
Speaker 2: with this Walker re Bueller start tonight, we kind of
Speaker 2: had a feel in the last twenty four hours this
Speaker 2: would be a big one for Walker and this is
Speaker 2: just not the same Walker Bueller that we are accustomed
Speaker 2: to seeing. His second Tommy John surgery, missed all of
Speaker 2: last year, comes back this year late, did not look
Speaker 2: like the same Walker Bueller, did not have his command
Speaker 2: or consistency as far as throwing strikes, and went to
Speaker 2: the injured list. And it's been there since June eighteenth,
Speaker 2: and here we are, almost two months later, and he
Speaker 2: comes back in his first start, and he even admits
Speaker 2: he needs to keep plugging away. He's hoping it comes together.
Speaker 2: Feels like the mechanics are still not right, says. He
Speaker 2: feels closer than he did back in June now, but
Speaker 2: still nowhere near the walker Bueller of old. And I
Speaker 2: don't think quite, frankly, we're gonna see the walker Bueler
Speaker 2: of old, pumping ninety seven, ninety eight, hitting the corners,
Speaker 2: not afraid to throw inside on the hitters, devastating off
Speaker 2: speed pitches to go along with that electric fastball. This
Speaker 2: is a different walker Bueller. And you can say the
Speaker 2: mechanics aren't there. I'm not smart enough to figure out
Speaker 2: what he's doing wrong. Certainly they've had two months now
Speaker 2: to try to figure out what his issue is with
Speaker 2: his mechanics and his wind up and his delivery and
Speaker 2: throwing the ball and not throwing strikes consistently or no more.
Speaker 2: Garcia Para set it on TV. Jose Mota talked about it.
Speaker 2: It's no secret, you know, the former players see it.
Speaker 2: He's not throwing strikes early in the count. He's struggling
Speaker 2: to throw strikes period. And tonight he failed to get
Speaker 2: a first pick strike on nine of the eighteen batters
Speaker 2: that he faced. So he needs to do a lot
Speaker 2: better job of getting ahead in the strikes as far
Speaker 2: as the count is concerned, because tonight he just did
Speaker 2: not do that, and he needs to be a guy
Speaker 2: that can throw strikes consistently when he falls behind an account,
Speaker 2: be able to have a pitch to get him back
Speaker 2: into account, whether he gets a swing of miss or
Speaker 2: is able to get contact and get an out. Dave Roberts,
Speaker 2: we've talked and heard from him in the postgame show
Speaker 2: the clubouts show there is that he's still searching, he's inconsistent,
Speaker 2: he's out of sync, he's trying to find his way
Speaker 2: and admitted that he is going way deep into counts
Speaker 2: and he's falling behind in too many accounts. And that's
Speaker 2: what happened tonight. You spot him a three to nothing lead,
Speaker 2: go out and be aggressive, Go out and challenge hitters.
Speaker 2: The first inning after a three spot is put up
Speaker 2: on the board in the top half of the first walker,
Speaker 2: Bueler needs to go out there and just go out
Speaker 2: there and try to get contact. Go out there and
Speaker 2: see if you can get guys to swing and miss.
Speaker 2: He walked the first three batters that he faced to
Speaker 2: load the bases. He got out of that Jim because
Speaker 2: of a fly ball to center field and Kevin Kiermeier
Speaker 2: throws a dart ninety nine miles an hour from center
Speaker 2: field to Austin Barnes behind the plate to tag the
Speaker 2: runner at home for a double play, throw him out
Speaker 2: at home and the next batter flew out to in
Speaker 2: the inning. No damage to Walker Buehler after that, you
Speaker 2: got to come back out in the second inning and
Speaker 2: be aggressive again with a three to Nzhing lead. Instead,
Speaker 2: he gives up a home run to the first batter
Speaker 2: in the second Jake Bowers get to strikeout, a ground out, air,
Speaker 2: a groundout, and a triple and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden it to a three to three game after an
Speaker 2: infield single. Scores terrang That is not aggressive pitching from
Speaker 2: Walker Feler. And when you don't have control, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be hard to find the strike zone and a heart
Speaker 2: to attack hitters when you're just not close. And tonight
Speaker 2: he struggled to get ahead of the counts, and he
Speaker 2: struggled with hitters at the plate in general. He battled
Speaker 2: to go at one two three third inning. I give
Speaker 2: him credit for that. After a thirty five pitch second
Speaker 2: inning in which he gave up the three to Ninheing lead,
Speaker 2: he comes back and has a one two three third
Speaker 2: good job. The fourth inning, though a leadoff walk, a
Speaker 2: leadoff walk, and that runner would come around and score
Speaker 2: on an air at third base. Too many heirs, too
Speaker 2: many opportunities extended to the Milwaukee Brewers tonight, giving them
Speaker 2: extra outs, extra at bats, leading to runs. Four unearned
Speaker 2: runs scored by the Brewers. They scored five, four of
Speaker 2: which were unearned defense giving up runs for the Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 2: You out hit a team in Milwaukee, like the Dodgers
Speaker 2: did nine to four. You put up a three spot
Speaker 2: in the top half of the first inning, your bullpen
Speaker 2: has to come in and pitch four and two third
Speaker 2: innings combined. And what did Bonda, Honeywell, Phillips, and Grove do.
Speaker 2: One earned run, one hit, six punch outs. The game
Speaker 2: was a mess that they had to inherit and go
Speaker 2: for the final four and two third innings, but they
Speaker 2: continued to pass the baton to the next reliever, put
Speaker 2: up Zeros. One unearned run in the seventh inning was
Speaker 2: the difference a single to right from Jackson Cherio. Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts misplays, the ball goes past him, and Joey Ortiz
Speaker 2: scores the go ahead run and what would be the
Speaker 2: winning run for Milwaukee. I don't know if it's the
Speaker 2: ghost at the Fister Hotel in Milwaukee where the team
Speaker 2: is staying. Mookie Betts is staying at an Airbnb, so
Speaker 2: can't blame the ghosts on the mis Q and right field.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers collectively three errors tonight. As great as
Speaker 2: the Kevin Kuermeyer play was, and Freddie Freeman had a
Speaker 2: great play at first as well, three airs cost the
Speaker 2: Dodgers tonight. And yes, somebody tweeted at me and said,
Speaker 2: ninth inning, heart of the order, where are they at?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Devin Williams, who's been one of the better closers in
Speaker 2: baseball healthy, now comes in and faces Otani, Betts and Freeman,
Speaker 2: three former MVP candidates. Dodgers need the ball in play,
Speaker 2: runners on base or a home run to tie it.
Speaker 2: Otani flies out to left, Mookie Betts strikes out, and
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman grounds out. Ballgame over a disappointing night for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. As great as the first two games have been,
Speaker 2: tonight was equally disappointing to see how they played on
Speaker 2: defense to out hit the Brewers tonight, to have the
Speaker 2: bullpen do the job they did when asked last night,
Speaker 2: Land and Neck picked them up, pitched fourth innings in relief,
Speaker 2: didn't need to go to the bullpen. All those arms saved,
Speaker 2: and four of them had to come out of the
Speaker 2: bullpen tonight and save Walker Buehler and keep the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in the game by putting up zeros and then an
Speaker 2: unearned run because of an air, and then a zero
Speaker 2: in the eighth to keep it a one run game.
Speaker 2: Dodgers lose five to four. On top of all this,
Speaker 2: the leads now down to two and a half. The
Speaker 2: Padres just won't lose. The Diamondbacks won't lose. They're the
Speaker 2: two hottest teams in baseball the last twenty games. They
Speaker 2: won't lose. They have absolutely closed the gap in the
Speaker 2: division race. What was a nine and a half game
Speaker 2: lead has shrunk to two and a half games. And
Speaker 2: the Dodgers tonight did not help themselves out with their defense.
Speaker 2: Maybe you want to blame the ghosts, the haunting of
Speaker 2: the hotel. I don't know what happened, but the Dodgers
Speaker 2: defense was sloppy tonight and that led to four unearned
Speaker 2: runs and led to the Dodgers' first loss and snapping
Speaker 2: their five game winning streak as they fall five to four.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones. We'll here from Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets in just a couple of minutes. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to the phones. Let's go to Eric and Buyna Park
Speaker 2: starting things off here on this Wednesday night Dodger Talk, Eric,
Speaker 2: disappointing night. Let's hope we never see three airs again
Speaker 2: by a Dodgers team in a game.
Speaker 3: So you know, Tim, I called you last year when
Speaker 3: we had that really rough playoff series with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: And for me, it's not about tonight. It's about what's
Speaker 3: going to happen in the playoffs. So we have more pitching.
Speaker 3: We have essentially some of the same position players plus Otani,
Speaker 3: which is a big get and I get that, but really,
Speaker 3: where do we go from here in the playoffs? If
Speaker 3: our bats cold? Do we have enough pitching to move on?
Speaker 2: But tonight nine hits, they scored three runs in the first,
Speaker 2: they were able to manufacture a run to tie it
Speaker 2: in the seventh inning. Defense was a huge problem tonight.
Speaker 2: You cannot gift a team four un earned runs.
Speaker 4: Eric.
Speaker 3: But the other thing, too, Tim, is you know that
Speaker 3: in the playoffs things are tight. Sure, pitching's better, the
Speaker 3: bullpen is better. So really, what we're talking about here
Speaker 3: is Otani. We've added Otani and we've added pitchers, but
Speaker 3: is that going to be enough to get us out
Speaker 3: of that proverbial you know, regular season championship? And I
Speaker 3: have no doubt we're gonna we're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to the wild card. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 3: win the division. That's that's gonna happen, even though the
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks and the Tatters on our heels. But do we
Speaker 3: have enough in a short series, in the longer series
Speaker 3: to really contend? And really, that's that's the big question,
Speaker 3: right because it enough.
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out, Eric, and I'm brought glad you
Speaker 2: brought up Otani.
Speaker 3: Shoey.
Speaker 2: Otani goes over for for tonight with a walk and
Speaker 2: scored run in the first any part of that three run? First,
Speaker 2: you bring up postseason play in games getting tight? Well,
Speaker 2: first off, Walker Bueller, let's put all the cards on
Speaker 2: the table right now, Dodger fans, All right, let's be
Speaker 2: completely truthful, and let's see what we're working with. Walker
Speaker 2: Buehler is not starting the postseason game. He's not unless
Speaker 2: things dramatically change from this start tonight to October first.
Speaker 2: I don't see Walker Buehler a part of this rotation,
Speaker 2: and quite frankly, I love Walker Bueler the guy, but
Speaker 2: I don't think he's a part of this postseason roster. Okay,
Speaker 2: with that being said, show he O Tani. I love
Speaker 2: show Hey, He's he's a unicorn. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: possible fifty to fifty guy this year. Certainly he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a forty to forty player, the sixth all time
Speaker 2: in baseball history. But think about tight games, clutch hits.
Speaker 2: A time in this season where the Dodgers needed a
Speaker 2: walkoff hit or a big hit in the ninth inning
Speaker 2: or late in the game, He's got one walk off
Speaker 2: hit for the Dodgers. We talked about his numbers with
Speaker 2: runners in scoring position the second half of the season
Speaker 2: not being very good. Yeah, he's putting up numbers with
Speaker 2: the home runs. It's gonna go. He's gonna be a
Speaker 2: forty to forty guy, forty selling to bestolen bases, had
Speaker 2: two more tonight, but when the Dodgers needed him to
Speaker 2: get on base in the ninth inning, he flut. They
Speaker 2: need a show Altani to rise to the occasion in October.
Speaker 2: And I'm saying this now in August because watching this
Speaker 2: Padre series a couple weeks ago in which the Dodgers
Speaker 2: struggled in San Diego, the Philadelphia series, both of them
Speaker 2: at home and in Philadelphia before the All Star break.
Speaker 2: These are playoff atmospheres. These are playoff teams. Certainly, the
Speaker 2: Brewers are gonna be a playoff team. Good pitching, good closer,
Speaker 2: and Devin Williams's gotten healthy. Now we need show Heotani
Speaker 2: to deliver in October. He's gonna have to deliver with
Speaker 2: some big hits late in the season here as well.
Speaker 2: I love that he's a forty to forty player. I
Speaker 2: love it, and he is a superstar, no doubt. But
Speaker 2: the numbers are are great, and the individual accolades are
Speaker 2: awesome and so well deserved because he's so good. But
Speaker 2: on this team and getting wins, and more importantly getting
Speaker 2: wins in October, they need show Heyo Tani the clutch player.
Speaker 2: They need sho Heo Tani with the big hit late.
Speaker 2: They need sho Heo Tani able to get on base
Speaker 2: late in the game, cost him havoc and let the
Speaker 2: Dodgers potentially win a game that way. So I love
Speaker 2: the individual numbers I do, and what he's doing is
Speaker 2: is historic. He'll be one of these six players in
Speaker 2: the history of the game to be forty forty, forty
Speaker 2: home runs, forty stolen bases. That is impressive, But you know,
Speaker 2: it's also impressive being there in October, being clutch for
Speaker 2: your team, coming up with bas it, starting rallies, continuing rallies,
Speaker 2: being that guy in the lineup. Pitchers fear, teams fear,
Speaker 2: and when you get on base, you cost havoc. The
Speaker 2: numbers individually are great, but show hey to me, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be what you do in October. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: what you do here now. With a two and a
Speaker 2: half game lead into Division mid August eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven, two five seven, let's hear from Mookie Betts,
Speaker 2: who tonight Mokie two for five at the plate. Mookie
Speaker 2: Bets struck out three times, including the ninth inning. Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts had a costly air in the seventh thing he
Speaker 2: missplaying a ball in right field that led the go
Speaker 2: ahead run and now eventually winning runs score for the
Speaker 2: Brewers as they went at five to four let's go
Speaker 2: back to Milwaukee. David Vasse in the media with Mookie, Oh.
Speaker 5: Sort of what sort of happened on that play in
Speaker 5: right field?
Speaker 6: I was coming in. I know that guy's fast and
Speaker 6: trying to make a play. No, I just missed it.
Speaker 7: I think he was going to gym and I unhitdled third.
Speaker 6: I mean I would I just assumed with the base
Speaker 6: a base right there, and he's really fast, so yeah,
Speaker 6: I thought he was going, but I just missed it.
Speaker 2: How frustrating was the strike zone for you in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning?
Speaker 6: Ah, it is what it is, man. You just got
Speaker 6: to play the game, and uh know, and giant got
Speaker 6: to protect and I tried and missed it.
Speaker 2: All right, Not a lot there for Mookie. Betts had
Speaker 2: a missque in the seventh inning. Dodgers heart of the
Speaker 2: lineup won two to three hitters. Three former MVPs go
Speaker 2: down and order. In the ninth inning as the Dodgers
Speaker 2: lose five to four, Colin, he brought a great point.
Speaker 2: We're anxious to see what shoey Otani does for this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team in the postseason.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Colin just reminded me choey Otan has never played in
Speaker 2: the postseason in the major leagues. He's played in big
Speaker 2: games in the World Baseball Classics, certainly, but we've never
Speaker 2: seen him in October. And also the point is Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman and Mookie Betts had great regular seasons last year,
Speaker 2: put up historic numbers, career numbers for both those guys,
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman with the doubles setting a franchise record. What
Speaker 2: happened in October? Where was their offense? Then? Where was
Speaker 2: their elevated play in the NLDS. Go back to the
Speaker 2: year before against the Padres in the NLDS and the
Speaker 2: lack of offense and the poor playing by the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and the losing that series to the Padres. I just
Speaker 2: don't want to see the same horror movie again come October.
Speaker 2: I mean, they make Halloween movies and now they're like
Speaker 2: at Halloween nine. They make Fight, the Fight the Thirteenth movies,
Speaker 2: and they've got like ninety thousand different sequels of this movie.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see Dodger postseason four. I don't
Speaker 2: want to see it. I've seen it the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. I don't want to see it again. I
Speaker 2: want to see guys elevate their play in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I want to see guys deliver in October. Great individual
Speaker 2: regular seasons, fantastic And it's not a point the finger
Speaker 2: at show hey thing, but you know what, he is
Speaker 2: a superstar. He's paid to be a superstar, just like Freddy,
Speaker 2: just like Mookie. We didn't see them last year in
Speaker 2: October deliver for the Dodgers. Nobody did quite frankly, but
Speaker 2: come down the stretch come October. We need more on
Speaker 2: of show, hey Tani. As far as getting this team
Speaker 2: to wins, helping this team win games. Late, Rick Monday
Speaker 2: had the stat. Gosh, I wish I wrote it down.
Speaker 2: He had the stat on TV and I Rick was
Speaker 2: doing TV because Oral Herscheiser's under the weather, so Jose
Speaker 2: Mota squeezed over and did the radio with Tim Netreck
Speaker 2: did a fantastic job. Rick moved over to TV along
Speaker 2: with David Vasse and Steven Nelson and he had a
Speaker 2: great number. Gosh I wish I would have was the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are three and forty in games after the eighth
Speaker 2: inning in which they're losing. Not a lot of walkoff wins.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, Show, he's got one walk off
Speaker 2: hit for the Dodgers this year. And sure he's gonna
Speaker 2: hit forty home runs and steal forty bases, but I
Speaker 2: want memorable moments from show. Hey, O Tani, I do.
Speaker 2: That's what I want down the stretch here. That's what
Speaker 2: we need to see come October. And I don't think
Speaker 2: it's overreacting to a game here on August fourteenth. It's
Speaker 2: just the realization that the Dodgers now are in a race.
Speaker 2: It is two and a half games, folks. The Padres
Speaker 2: and Diamondbacks aren't going away. Last year we kept saying
Speaker 2: Arizona's gonna go away. They don't have the pitching, They
Speaker 2: don't have enough guns down there on that roster to
Speaker 2: get Oh yeah they went to the World Series. Oh
Speaker 2: the Padres, the little brothers down south, can't get over
Speaker 2: the hump. Well we owned them in the regular season.
Speaker 2: What happened two years ago in the NLDS. It can't
Speaker 2: think that way anymore. Here come the Padres, Here come
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks. Dodgers better get ready and get ready for
Speaker 2: a stretch run here. That's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 2: fun if you're a baseball fan, But it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a little really nerve racking if you're a Dodgers fan.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Brian and Guardina before we take a break. Brian,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. Thanks for checking in on this
Speaker 2: Wednesday night.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Brian, Hey, Ken, how's a guy?
Speaker 2: I'm all right, I'll get a little fired up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I like it, though I feel like this
Speaker 5: postseason will be different. I don't feel like they'll have
Speaker 5: that same groove that they were in the last couple
Speaker 5: of seasons. But I just want to get your take
Speaker 5: on how I think Charlie did talk about it. They
Speaker 5: score I think it was like thirty or six runs
Speaker 5: in the first five innings, but they had like three
Speaker 5: runs in the six innings on I just that was
Speaker 5: I saw that earlier today watching the game, and that
Speaker 5: didn't really stick well because that's not a good stat
Speaker 5: you know. You see the Padres lately in the Diamondbacks,
Speaker 5: they score late late in the game and that's what
Speaker 5: theyen keeping them on the win streak. And it's hard
Speaker 5: because we only scored one I guess in the late
Speaker 5: anything three early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they throw the three runs of the first sitting,
Speaker 2: Brian appreciate it, and then they scored that run. In
Speaker 2: the seventh thinning, Miguel Rojas, a clutch two out RBI
Speaker 2: single tied the game at four, gave the Dodgers the momentum,
Speaker 2: and then an air in the bottom half of the
Speaker 2: seventh inning gave it right back and the lead to
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Brewers. Eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seven. We'll take a break, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 2: get to more of your phone calls. Tough night for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I'm not sure who you blame the airs on,
Speaker 2: but the Dodgers need to clean up that defense. Three
Speaker 2: airs tonight, leading to four unearned runs. Dodgers out hit
Speaker 2: the Brewers, but just three for ten with runners in
Speaker 2: scoring position. Today, bullpen did their job four and two
Speaker 2: third innings, one earned run, one hit, six punch outs.
Speaker 2: The Brewers, though, get the win five to four, snapping
Speaker 2: the Dodgers five game winning streak and the Dodgers leading
Speaker 2: the division down to two and a half. We'll come
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Speaker 2: Dodger Nation is represented everywhere, and the Dodgers tonight needed
Speaker 2: some representation. In Milwaukee, three airs leading to four undern runs,
Speaker 2: Dodgers out hit the Brewers, but the Brewers come back
Speaker 2: and win it five to four as Walker Buehler got
Speaker 2: to start his first since June eighteenth, when three and
Speaker 2: thirty eight gave up four runs, one earn, three hits,
Speaker 2: three strikeouts, four walks. Yeah, one of the four runs
Speaker 2: he gave up was earned, So three unearned runs that
Speaker 2: Walker Buehler gave up. But you can't sit there and
Speaker 2: point the finger and say, oh, he pitched really well,
Speaker 2: but the defense cost him. He struggled tonight with his command.
Speaker 2: He struggled tonight to finish off hitters. I mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 2: his first pitch strike. He struggled only seven of the
Speaker 2: eighteen batters that he faced he got a first pitch strike.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts afterwards was pretty critical, saying that he's still
Speaker 2: searching inconsistent out of sink and is backing himself into
Speaker 2: counts too much as far as falling behind. So a
Speaker 2: lot of work to do for Walker Bueller moving forward
Speaker 2: here at the rest of this season. Some injury update news.
Speaker 2: Ryan Brasier pitched in Oklahoma City and pitched well. He
Speaker 2: went out there and back to back nights, and according
Speaker 2: to Dave Roberts, he's going to be activated this weekend
Speaker 2: when the Dodgers head to Saint Louis going to Roy
Speaker 2: in Santa Monica's next up here on Dodge Talk. Dodgers
Speaker 2: lose to the Brewers five to four.
Speaker 4: I Roy, Hey, damn, that's great. Shouts tonight sounds great.
Speaker 4: I got a couple of things, Tim. Do you think
Speaker 4: it would make that much of a difference. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I think a lot of people probably question
Speaker 4: him in first or second when he's like, you know,
Speaker 4: this may be old skoo, but he would be the
Speaker 4: ideal clean up pay there. And then also James Autman.
Speaker 4: I mean, uh, that guy's a power hitter. He had
Speaker 4: twenty three as a rookie. And I don't get it. Well,
Speaker 4: I mean, Dodgers seem like they you know, he's just
Speaker 4: out of the picture. And I mean, uh, Pie has
Speaker 4: not been bad, but out then you know he may
Speaker 4: not be hitting. But I just I guarantee you if
Speaker 4: you give him as a bats, he's gonna pop twenty
Speaker 4: five thirty home run all.
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Roy.
Speaker 2: I think right now the head to head battle is
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiermeyer and anybody else in center field until Tommy
Speaker 2: Edmonds get there. And Edmond's gonna be activated next homestand
Speaker 2: and we'll see what he adds to this Dodgers team
Speaker 2: in the outfield and at the plate. But Kevin Kiermeyer
Speaker 2: tonight had some really good at bats. Kevin Kiermeyer tonight
Speaker 2: played really good defense, and that's what he hangs his
Speaker 2: hat on, is really good defense. And we saw that
Speaker 2: tonight with his throw from center field to nail the
Speaker 2: runner at the plates in the first inning. So I
Speaker 2: think Kevin kier Meyer right now is the center field there,
Speaker 2: especially against the right handers, and they're going to see
Speaker 2: another one tomorrow. The Dodgers when they wrap up this
Speaker 2: series against the Milwaukee Bros. Jack Flaherty on the Mount
Speaker 2: against Tobias Myers will have first pitch at eleven ten.
Speaker 2: Brad and Mission Baho is next up here on Dodgers
Speaker 2: Offics one on.
Speaker 7: Brad, thanks for taking my call. Yeah, just a couple
Speaker 7: of points. The honey wasn't help matters by hitting or
Speaker 7: teased to lead off that inning, you know, that was
Speaker 7: one of the one of my points. And then of
Speaker 7: course the throw after that, the misplayed ball, And then
Speaker 7: my other point is, yeah, San Diego is eighteen and
Speaker 7: three in the last twenty one game and Arizona all
Speaker 7: they've done is put up like a two twelve spots
Speaker 7: in an eleven spot in the last four days, twice
Speaker 7: against Philly and then tonight against the Rockies. So they're
Speaker 7: scoring a lot of runs.
Speaker 2: Yeap, they are scoring a rawal of runs. It doesn't
Speaker 2: to me. I don't look at that. I don't look
Speaker 2: at a team that's scoring eleven, ten, twelve runs. And
Speaker 2: you know they won tonight eleven to four of the Rockies.
Speaker 2: That's great. It's a w whether you win five to
Speaker 2: four or eleven to four. You know, it's not like
Speaker 2: you get style points or Brownie points for winning by more.
Speaker 2: You know, the Rockies, you know, got boat raced tonight.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean the Diamondbacks get two wins because they won
Speaker 2: eleven to four. A win is a win whether you
Speaker 2: win by one or you win by seven. So to me,
Speaker 2: that doesn't matter. Yeah, they're they're scoring runs, certainly, but
Speaker 2: you're not gonna score the numbers will even out. They're
Speaker 2: not going to score that many runs every single night.
Speaker 2: So I don't put that much stock into the fact
Speaker 2: that they've scored eleven runs, ten runs, whatever they has
Speaker 2: been over the last week or so. They're winning games.
Speaker 2: That's all that matters. And so is a Padres. They
Speaker 2: got to win today over the Pittsburgh Pirates. And the
Speaker 2: fact is the Dodgers have themselves a race. Now, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have themselves a fight. How are they gonna react?
Speaker 2: How is this Dodgers team gonna come out now moving
Speaker 2: forward ready to fight? Are they gonna lay them up
Speaker 2: and go out there and get ready to fight against
Speaker 2: the Padres and against the Diamondbacks the rest of the way,
Speaker 2: You know, they're very limited in their head to head battles.
Speaker 2: They get the Arizona Diamonbacks at the end of the
Speaker 2: month for three over in the Desert. They'll get the Padres,
Speaker 2: what three more times at the end of September. That's
Speaker 2: it on the twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty sixth
Speaker 2: the Dodgers Stadium. That's it. The Dodgers got four in
Speaker 2: Arizona at the end of the month and three at
Speaker 2: home against the Padres.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: As far as head to head, it's not like the
Speaker 2: old days where you face the team nineteen times in
Speaker 2: your division and in the month of September it's all
Speaker 2: divisional games and sometimes you can face the same team
Speaker 2: six times in a week and a half. It's just
Speaker 2: not the case anymore. So the head to head meetings
Speaker 2: are going to be huge. Four in Arizona at the
Speaker 2: end of the month, and then they've got three at
Speaker 2: home against the Padres the final two weeks of this season.
Speaker 2: Let's think about it. Is he hopefully she's not sleeping.
Speaker 2: Let's see if she's sleeping? Is he?
Speaker 7: Hi? Hi?
Speaker 8: Is he?
Speaker 2: How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 8: I did jabs take on tatoos? Now never mind anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm okay, I'm kind of bummed, but you know what,
Speaker 8: it's happy having three three every stating if to win
Speaker 8: tonight Perier.
Speaker 3: So I mean so anyway, but yeah, why is so
Speaker 3: like it's gonna be okay?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're being fine. Yeah, calling in I told you
Speaker 8: the Yeah, I know, I say I told you that.
Speaker 8: So I never tad in the Chayoffs.
Speaker 3: So any I think I.
Speaker 2: Think these are gonna change is Yeah, I'm confident this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team guys will rise to the occasion and the
Speaker 2: stars will be stars come October. That's what this Dodgers
Speaker 2: team is needs. Easy. I'm gonna I'm gonna use that
Speaker 2: slogan we need the stars to be stars in October.
Speaker 2: How about that. Let's make a T shirt out of that.
Speaker 2: How you want to do that is you'll make a
Speaker 2: T shirt says stars need to be stars in October?
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right. Launching Pad to morning.
Speaker 2: Launching Pad tomorrow. Yeah, I have your phone in your
Speaker 2: radio on tomorrow? Is he We'll check in with you, okay?
Speaker 2: All right, all right? Is he great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with you tomorrow. In the Launching Pad
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Speaker 2: I appreciate the follow I love engaging on social media,
Speaker 2: especially talking some Dodgers baseball. Tough one tonight for the
Speaker 2: boys in Blue. Three runs in the top of the first,
Speaker 2: feeling so good, and then it was given back in
Speaker 2: the second. They fell behind. They tied it in the seventh,
Speaker 2: only to see the winning run come across in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the seventh. On an air from Thank You Bets.
Speaker 2: Dodgers need to clean it up. They need to figure
Speaker 2: it out and figure it out fast as they get
Speaker 2: ready for the series finale tomorrow Milwaukee. While wrong with Casino,
Speaker 2: Dodgers on deck at ten am, Jack Flaherty Tobias Myers
Speaker 2: the pitching matchup, first pitch at eleven ten. Until then,
Speaker 2: have a great, safe rest of your Wednesday night. Sold
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